The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-03 00:00:00

FUNIG.I.I'IOIV.

WE have every reasOn to believe, that the
node of fumigating now adopted in the British
Navy, the Royal Hospitals, Scc! -vt;o4,ll,.iprove
cffeaual in the preventionand care Plague or
Yellow Fever, as, it is in T:fplitis, Gaort'ever,and
every specks of that destrudive class of disease,
`in which it has already so' uccessfally 1b: ell em-
ployed; and that, were thest-salubriorli-vapours
intimately disseminated %vhcrever cOitr4on of
any..kind is suspeCted to . lurk, the 'necessity' of a
qbarantine might be 'dispensed with,' .ant{, by a
few hours of complete.;..frunigation,,'We.inight
probably obtain more safety, than by any length
of .time or other, means hitherto adcninistered..--
'The 'nitrous vapour, or the purt 'acid of nitre,
rendered by a moderate, heat- miscible with the at-
mosphere, was souls' years ago discovered .to pos-
ess these very samttivc))owers by Doctor
ra ctiA E t, Satl"r ;a od coin the experiments.sug-
gested by him, anti made on 1)04111 the tixti“: Hos-
pital Ship, and other inlet:lca. vessels then at the
Nore, such indisputable evidence of -its,-superior
.ePiettcY,i'Vas obtained, as to ha\ e inch e—"eit its unit
versal and continued application ever since, not
only in' the Navy, but in the Hospitals, ,Frisont;,
&e. The result of these very successful trials
las already been laid before the Public,. in , the
I)oEtor's letters to the First Lord of .the
raltY. The dreadful' ravages lately, made in
inany parts of our Glohe,,,.where. whole .Cities
have been nearly, depopulate'd lly those, direful
enemies to mankind, the Plague and Yellow Fe.
vet, inchice take evei•y, -r
mitigate whatever can be deemed, ,itriequit;.; .to
stCM this tieltcrions. torrent. We, `thcrefore,
be.bg, fully wayranted by our inquiries into. this
'
:litb;tAlL do lint.tesitate, to. inculcate the ur,,ent
tryi:6 tile effects of this
whslyvei• contagion cxists, and an.ler wh;i:ever
shape 1, t4l'',Yapear. The .114)St convenient.and
9E:01104.0,1 method
pour etppears.to.be ;hat Wbich was, first,,.p.p.iposed
by Mr. ihe—ChYmist, and which is s;yll
continued in the .szveral, dep3rmienfs of
is,' initeird. of. ernployitng
ready,,rorrnAl, rti take proper .propprtiori of .the
two injed froin which the acid is 01.1
male, 5 i r,. purified n Powder,
.I,:id'; the quantity of the inlxture to Ix,'
:t r May be.proportioned.to thee:rtent of
the pi;:ce to be fatingtted ; the rntiiture,may be
exposed, in a c.P:p),43PCert or otlic.r convenient
and proper vessel, ci'‘•er,.:r portable I.tinp, or, heated
sand, and, in that state, carried to and fro during
the emission of the eopicouThfunies which wiP.,tlicti
arise. Ali is,' simple process is s 0 very pr a (t, icable;
that no.priyate family should he ignorant of
nor without the means
„of rlocomplistkink &och a
useful effca; it is a resource at once powerful
and innoectit—fbr, if putrid lever,malign.int stye
throat, or, in short, any other pestiferous disease,
whatever,. be not benefited by a moderte
cation. of this salutary remedy, the disease will
be at all events prevented from Fpre:aling. ;11
France they, have lately used other acids tor the
SairklC purposes; but their plan lallours, under very
weighty obj.e6tions,
.for, beside beipg,obliged to
remove the Patients, while their cure is diffuscd.
~
in the atmospnere, the 'items employed ligve•not
Droved equally successful with our nitrous va,.
pour.

The following is said to be the progress of the
rise of the PltrticE o, PEAO:—A man of the
name of CoDOIO urn, about, 25 years.. ago, a
private soldier in the:Walloon Guards, and, mount_
ea guard one day its the Oarclens of. the Esoatial,
near the Quevo's Her I‘l....:l4atity thought
him very ilandsorner and ordered him ta be alt.
v.weed-..t0 tile' rank of 14itItClIAZA ; after w`hich
he was desired to .art end in her apartments,
when, he saw and converted with Her Ma-
jesty;', After Willa, time, this Lieutenant one
t(11d his benefartr4:si, time he had a bro.
thee he requested might be admitted into the
ranks of the re.gitnent. The Queen itnmediately
0r,1„,,,,i that the Brother should he-made Lieute.
'mot, and he a Portege, or Captain. Untiorto.
nately for the Captain, he requested the' honour
of introdLtoing his brOthdr ;to thq Queen, who
found him handsomer than himself; from which
time the Captain disappeared, and the Lieutenant,
now Prince of Peace, rose rapidly to his' present"
situation., The old. and. haughty Nobility of
Spain are amazingly triortifi.4,..d and displeased by
this sudden and great rise; to a rank superior to
any of their order.; and the more so, that th,,
abilities of the matt have net -v,arranteti to
traordinary a promotion:.