The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-28 00:00:00

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NORTH EASTERN DISPENSARY.
TO Tkii EDITOR.
SIFt..-4 have before me a Circular which has been
very generally distributed through the parish of Islington
(of which 1 am an old inhabitant) purporting to be a
Report of what took place " at a numerous and highly
respectable meeting, convened on Thursday, Oct. 11th,
1821, at the Angel Inn, Islington, for the purpose of
considering the best means of establishing a Dispensary
at Islington, for the relief of the sick poor, in that neigh-
bourhood, and in the adjacent district." I cannot but
lament that the notice of an intention to hold such a
meeting was not as extensively circulated as the account of
its proceedings, because, had it been so, 1 do believe that
some of the resident inhabitants, who might have at-
tended, would have prevented the passing of resolutions
which give the whole business the appearance of a gross
job, and which resolutions must be rescinded before pro
bable success can be expected in the attempt to establish
a Dispensary for the parish and immediate neighbourhood
of Islington.—l solicit yew publication of my ob-
jections to the proceedings hitherto had, because I know •
that your Paper is generally taken in the vicinage of the
intended establishment. This meeting was held pro.
lessedly " for the purpose of considering the best means
of establishing a Dispensary at Islington, for the relief of
the sick poor in that neighbourhood, and in the adjacent
district." A man who, in point of respectability, is trot,'
to any inhabitant of the parish, was voted into the chair,
and under the sanction of his name resolutions were
passed, by which the Physicians, Surgeon, and Resi.kuit
Apothecary, were elected, although the meeting, which,
in the Circular before me, is designated as a meeting
" for the purpose of considering the best means of esta-
blishing a Dispensary at Islington, for the relief of the
, sick poor in that neighbourhood, and in the adjacent
district," was, properly, only preliminary to a general
meeting, at which a committee should have been ap.
pointed, and which committee should have published
notices of the intended election, at a future period, of
the officers of the establishment. In order that the vro-
ceeditigs of this first meeting might be consisten,ly
invmsistent, it is notified at the foot of the Address, twat
" a general meeting of the Governors will take Alice at
the Angel Inn, Islington, on Tuesday, the 30th instant,
at seven o'clock in the evening, and it ie earnestly re-
quested that all persons friendly to the institution will be
present." Nuw' Sir, I can find no trace of the apiao fit-
ment of any " Governors," and being anxious for the
successful establishment of a Dispensary in my district
(because I consider it a most unobjectionable means: of
beneficially distributing the donations of the diluent, and
the least of all liable to the impositions of the nude-
sereina), I fervently hope that at the projected meeting
motion will be carried for rescinding the former reselu.
tions—for cancelling the premantre elections, and for
commencing, de novo, upon a plan which, from its appa-
rent fairness and impartiality, shall be above any sort of
suspicion. _

am, Sir, your constant reader,
AN OLD ISLINOTONIA.V.
Llighbury, Oct. Sii,

RAMO/erg, 0111 T. 23.—About eight o'clock this
morning, one of his Majesty's messengers arrived
here on his route from Hanover to London, ttith
" highly important" despatches for the Foreign-
office. He left Hanover on Wednesday, the 17th,
and arrived at Calais on Sunday afternoon, the '2 st •
inst. None of the regular packets were ready to
sail, or likely to leave till the next day, even s;•.;s-
posing the wind should look fair; and as the ur-
gency of the messenger's mission had been iin.
pressed on him, he engaged an open boat, with'
seven men to convey him across the channel. This
boat started from the harbour of Calais about tour
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and made towards
Dover. The weather was then fine. and the sea'
steady, though somewhat contrary; but after being
out at sea about two hours there came a vioielit
storm. To make for Dover was found to be dan-
gerous, as well as useless, to make for Deal.—.
The wind blew uncommonly hard, and the Inca,
began to despair of even getting so near Deal as to to
enabled to raise the customary signals for boats vs
come out, This object, however, was eventua'♦
accomplished, after having been blown about fhr a
long time; but on making the usual signs, they
were answered by the firing of guns, that the boats
could not venture out, owing to the severity of the
gale. The boat kept out at sea, and after be.:ti•ig
about for a considerable time it laid to, and ca
afterwards made for Ramsgate. With great dab-,
culty it was enabled to make Ramsgate pier, and
eventually to get within our harbour about ei;„lit
o'clock this morning. The perilous ►ituation of 'he
boat had been observed for some time, and it gave
great satisfaction to see it at last regularly snaking
for Ramsgate pier. The whole party, who h.al
thus been beating aoout in an open boat for 16 h(4, N,
while the ordinary passage occupies only three r
four, on landing, were, as you may imagine, ;,•rearly
exhausted. The sea had been beating ever them for
hours, three or four of the men occupying therwelves
in bailing out the water. The messenger ►ery soca
afterwards proceeded in a post chaise for Lunde%
wet as he was.