The National Register.
London, England, 1809-09-03 00:00:00

SEPT. 3.

Diet the following message, relative to the pension which the
Slates are to allow to the late King Gustavus Adolphus, his
Queen, and children :
" The period is now fast approaching, when a Prince, who
lately governed Swedett, but whose claim to the Swedish crown
has been solemnly cancelled by the unanimous resolution of the
States wf the realm, must absent himself from his country. II is
own spontaneous wish agrees on this point with w hat the public
tranquillity and security require. His Royal Nlajesty has taken
the advice of the Secret Committee on a subject of so much im-
portance; which, how ever, the state of publ;c affairs dries not
yet permit his Majesty to communicate to the Diet,
therefore confines himself at present to the question---' What
pension or yearly allowance are the States of tile realm
to grant to their late King, his Queen, and childreo ? whica
question being answered, another will occur relative to the
country, w hick it w ill be most proper to assign for the residence
of Gustavus Adolphus and his 1;1144\
" His Majesty doe!-; not deem ;t superfluous to add some obser-
vations which the States are to bear in mind in their deliberatio!:
on this subject. The States cannot but be aware, that their de-
cision must bear the sialop of dignified generosity which becomes
a noble-Minded nation : that misfortune craves respect ; and that
humanity itself coMmands forgiveness and oblivion of the pa-t.—
His Royal Majesty is anxiously desirous that the States of the
Realm, by dividing the subject under discussion on these princi-
ples, should m. ,t his wishes, and, thus give a pledge to Europe
of the purity of the motives which in.tuced Sweden to revive her
System of Government, and renew the structure of the State.
(Gazette (pile Did.) CUARLES."

IRELAND.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
FROST THE DUBLIN PAPERS OF THE 22D INSTANT.

Oa Thursday last at seven o'clock in the evcoing, as a man
was passing by the lime kiln of I). Gosson, near ringias, he
saw, in a hollow below the wall of the kiln, a person in a grey
coat lying on his face on the ground. At first he supposvd him
to he asleep or intoxicated, but after some time perceiving be did
not stir was induced to examine more closely, when be found
him apparently dead. Oit turning him on his hack to aseerlaio
who he might he, a sight most awful and horrid presented
to his view. The person was not dead, but on moving his coat,
the whole surface of his body seemed a moving inws of worms;
his face was much disfigured, apparently from some bruises in-
flicted either by blows or by a fall ; and from every aperture of
.his head, his eyes, cars, mouth, and nose, poured innumerable
worms, as if the interior of the skull were entirely filled with
them. His eyes were dissolved, and the cavities, as well as
these of his ears, mouth, and nose, were tilled with a white
moving mass, more horrible and digusting than it is possible for
imagination to conceive,. without oceular inspection. After some
time, the miserable being recoverflstOlicient strength to walk,
and so far recovered his recoilectioMatud voice, that he distinct-
ly answered several questions put to him ; he told who he w7::4,
where he lived, &c. ; that he was returning home on a car the
evening before, and having drank too lunch he fell oil', and lay
Conned with the fall till he was discovered. He could not ac-
count for the wounds in his head, nor for his being so far
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the road; bet it is probable he had received the contusion on
his face from the fall. or perhaps the car had gone over him,
and he had insen,ibly crawled to the place where he jay. The
humidity of the air, and the heat of the weather, had rapidly
brought on a solution of the solids in those braised parts alteady
predisposed to putresceney, and now lying in contact with the
moist earth. In this was speedily deposited the eggs of the
iunumeiable insects, whose generation was as rapid as the pre-
disposing causes were favourable ; and thus, while the vitai
powers rallied at the centre, and the • blood, yet circulating
round the heart, preserved the vital principle, the es tremities,
in which all pulsation had cea,:ed, were dissolving into their pri-
mitive elements, and the whole surface of the body exhibited a
mass of animated corruption. lie was brought into as Out-
house, and laid on some hay ; the loathsome objects were re-
imovedt as far as that could be done; he was washed with spirits
and vinegar, had cordials poured•down his throat, which he
swallowed, though with some difficulty. In fact, every pre-
caution was taken by the worthy people by whom he was dis-
covered, but without effect; the putrescency rapidly increirted ;
in a very short tune the •spasms in his throat prevented his
*Allowing; he gradually became insewibles and at twelto