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No. 17,563.] LONDON TUESDAY E v _ •

Th)NTRACTS for RUM, SUGAR, COCOA

HORIZONTAL WATCHES, VERY FLAT.
A. B. SAVORY. and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 0, Cornhill,
London, opposite the Bank. Price in Silver Cates, 31. 10s. each; or
in Gold Cases, Six Guineas each. TheSe watches are accurate and:
durable, the Horizontal escapement being peculiarly stilted t• com-,
bine these important requisites. They are jewelled in four holes, and'
continue going whilst being wound A twelvemOnth's warranty given
with each.

TIE
.TREATMENT

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PERSONS.

tk_) and TOBACCO.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, Jan. 6,1849.
The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give
notice, that on TunasnAv, the 18th instant, at One o'clock, they
will ';c ready' to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Con-
tract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores, at Deptford, the undermentioned articles, viz. :
When to be
delivered. •
The produce of the British Pos- Gallons.)
sessions and not less than half Half in 3weeks
RUM 50,000
to be the produce of the British and the re-
Possessions in the West Indies, mainder in 3
SUGAR (the produce of the British Pos-1 Tons. weeks after-
sessions) . . ........ ••• • 5 50 wards.
COCOA• • • • • ...... ............• .. • • • . 50
[
Half in a fort-
night, & the
TOBACCO (Virginslz) ...• ...• • . ..... • 20 S remainder in
I a fortnight
l afterwards.,

All the articles to be exempted from the Customs' Duties.
Samples of the Cocoa (not less than 21bs.) must be produced by the
parties tendering, and samples of the Sugar and Tobacco, together
with the Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at the said office.
No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty,
nor any noticed, miles:, the party attends, or as agent for him,
duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for
and [mist also be delivered at Somerset-place, and those for Rum,
Sugar, and Cocoa must be accompanied by a letter, signed by two
responsible persons, engaging t become bound with the person ten-
dering in the sum of 251. per cent. on the 'value, for the due perform-
ance of the Contracts.

EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.
A certain remedy for disorders of the pulmonary orgais—in
difficulty of breathing—in redundencY of phlegm—in incipient con-
sumption (of which cough is the most positive indication) they are of
unerring efficacy. In asthma, and in winter cough, they have never
been known to fail.
Prepared and sold in boxes, Is. 1%d., and tins, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and
10s. 6d. each, by TROMAS BEATING, Chemist, &c., No. 79, St.
Paul's Churchyard, Landon.

-
IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL.
Copy of a Letter from Colonel Hawker, the well-known Author on
" Gans and Shooting."
" Longparish House, near Whltehurch, Hants.,
getOber 21, 1846.
"Sir,—icAintot roW. informing, yein. of the estraordinarretfo4
that I have expeiTeneerey-i~anly a -few of3%6lllragAlN..-6,J
had a cough for several weeks that defied all that ha been pie-
scribed for me, and yet I got completely rid of it by taking aboat half
a small box of your lozenges, which I find are the only ones that re-
lieve the cough without deranging the stomach or digestive organs.
" I am, Sir, your humble servant,
HAWKER.
" To Dir. Keating, 7), St. Paul's Churchyard."

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p
Waxed-svick Moulds, 63.6 d.; Composite, 834 d., 10d., and 10%d;
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645. per Il2lbs. ; Yellow, 485., 545., and 60s. ; Windsor Soap, Is. 4d.
per packet ; Brows Windsor, 18. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ;
Sealing Wax, 4s. Gd. per lb. ; Sperm Oil, 78. 6d. per gallon; Solar
35.3 d. Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. Gd.
For 'Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane. Export or Grocers' and Oil•shop Goods at lower
prices.

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Illustrated by 25 Anatomical Coloured Engraving: on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENF.It ATIVN INCAPA-
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with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage.
When union does not take place, however, this passion, this
fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly
poison in the heart, which how darkens, as it before bright-
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It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early
habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been
instituted by Divine Law for the fulfllmeat of important
ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently be
beyond measure deplorable! Loving and beloved, he entails the
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himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession of
natural attributes would change the scene, and yield to both a life of
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SELF-PRESERVATION,
illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology,
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Solitary habits, excesses, or infection.
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ment of these diseases.

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A stibject of great social importance, and one which
is now and has for some time been exciting profound
interest in the county of Gloucester, was on Tuesday
brought before the Gloucestenhire Court of Quarter
Sessions at the Shire-hall. The chairman of the
court (Mr. P. Burnell) presided, and among the
noblemen and gentlemen of the bench were—the Duke
of Beaufort, Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord Morton, Earl
Ducie, Viscount Combermere, Sir C. Guise, Sir
Martin Crawley Bocoy, the Hon. Craven Berkeley,
&c. About sixty magistrates were on the bench.
The question for discussion was, as to the renewal
of the license to Dr. Bompas to keep a lunatic
asylum at Fishponds, near Bristol, in this county.
At the last quarter sessions a committee was ap-
pointed loinvestigate certain charges of laxity and
mismanagement alleged against Dr. Bompas in refer-
ence to this asylum, he being the proprietor. It- is
alleged that the treatment of the patients has been
marked by coercion and restraint, such as,
in the improved modern system of treatment,
has been generally abandoned; that some
patients have been received into the asylum with-
out due regard to the obtaining of the required certi-
ficate of -two -medical gentlemen; that patients have
been detained in the establishment after the
"visitors" have given their opinion that they were
sufficiently recovered tcabe removed ; that one patient
bad been subjected ha treatment by the keepers;
that he had'been dMed the use of a Prayer-book;
that a letter from him to the visitors had been inter-
cepted-; and that he was forcibly thrust into a strong
room under the pretext that he was violent; that he
vas handcuffed, chained, and kept in the dark ; that
letters written by the wife of another patient to her
husband had been detained, &c.

The committee appointed at the last Quarter Ses-
sions was composed of the visitors to all the county
lunatic asylums, being magistrates of the county of
Gloucester, and the chairman of the committee was
Mr. Purnell Bransby Purnell, the chairman of the'
Court of Quarter Sessions.
It should be stated that the asylum was founded in

1738 by a Dr. Mason, and remains in that family at
this moment, the present manager, Dr. Bornpas (a
great grandson of Mason's) having succeeded his
fathers the late Dr.,Bompas, on his death in 1847.
It is a private asylum for the richer class of patients,
and the expenses of the establishment are paid for by
the friends of the-unfortunate patients. It is licensed
for sixty-five patients, viz., thirty-five male and
thirty female, and is divided into three departments—
one denominated the gentlemen's department; one
the middle class of farmers ; and the third, the sick
and noisy departintnt. The mode of treatment at
this asylum was first called into question at the Mid-
summer Quarter Sessions in the last year, on Dr.
Bompas applying for a renewal of his license, and the
license was then renewed for six months only, at the
expiration of which time it was understood that Dr.
Bompas was to give it up to other bands. At the.
last Michaelmas sessions, however, he applied for -a
renewal of his license, in the usual way, for a year,
and then it was that this official investigation was
ordered. The investigation was conducted near the
asylum, and lasted several days. The evidence taken
on oath before the committee ran to great length.
Some of the patients who had been under treatment
at the asylum, and who were now considered in a fit
state to give their testimony, were examined.
The cases inquired into were numerous. In the
case. of Mr. W. V--- it was alleged, that having
met with an accident by which his ribs were broken,
his case was neglected for two days. The reply was,
that the fracture had not been at first discovered.
This patient had been thirty years in the asylum,
and was in a state of intoxication when the accident
happened.
The most serious allegation against the treatment
adopted at the asylum was developed in the evidence
given in the case of Mr. W. G. E—. This patient
was subject to occasional irritation, he is a graduate
of Oxford, and gave viva voce evidence on the in-
quiry. He had been locked up in a cold cell without
food or light, chair or table, and had been chained in
bed by two chains, one by each leg fastened to the
bedstead. He was also put in a strait-waistcoat, and
was kept chained for some weeks until the visitors
saw him, and ordered the chains to be taken off. He
had broken some windows when irritated, but it was
denied that, he was so violent as to require any such
coercive measures as those adopted in his case. There
was no convenience for warm water in the middle and
third class department.
In the case of Mrs. P—, the wife of a Welsh
clergyman, the patient complained of being removed
to a very gloomy room,,and of being denied free com-
munion with ht r daughter and friends. She declined
in mental and bodily health during her stay in the
asylum, and immediately improved on her removal.
Mr. H. C— was placed at the asylum in Sep-
tember, 1847, and left on the sth of July, 1848. He
wrote three letters—one to his wife, one to his brother,
and the third to a partner in his house of business at
Bristol. His wife replied to his letter on the 26th
of February, 1848, but the letter was not delivered
till the 16th of March, on the day of his wife's visit to
the patient. Dr. Barnpas had told Mrs. C— that
the letter had been duly delivered. His reply to the
case is, that he did not deliver the letter (which con-
tained an account of the illness of the patient's child)
on account of the patient's state of health.
Other cases of a similar nature were brought
forward.

On the matter coming before the court, it was an
nounced, as a result of the late inquiry, that Dr.
Bompas had relinquished his intention of applying for
a license; and that the present applicants for a license
for the same asylum were Mrs. Bompas, mother to
Dr. Bompas, Mr. C. Smith Bompas, brother of the
doctor, and r. Nathaniel Smith, also a relative of
the family.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Smith Bompas were then
briefly examined as to their qualification, and their
testimonials were produced.

The CHAIRMAN then read the report of the com--
mittee of visitors appointed to make the official in-
quiry. The report stated that the committee met on..
the 19th of November last at Lawford's-gate
prison,
and thence adjourned to Dr. Bompas's establishment,.
where they.inspected the whole capacities antracnom-
modations of the place. On the 22d of November
they commenced taking evidence, and they continued
the inquiry daily up to the 2d :of December in-
clusive, and the evidence having been taken down by
a shorthand-writer had been printed. (A. copy of the
evidence in print was in court. It was a formidable-
looking " blue-book," some two inches in thickness.)
The report then referred to the intended ap-
plication for a -license by Mrs. Bompas, Mr. C.
Smith .Bompas, and Mr. N. Smith, and spoke favour-
ably of the application. Mr. Smith, on whom the
great responsibility of the establishment would rest,.
was represented in the report as consulting surgeon
to the Bristol Infirmery, and it seems he visited the
Fishponds Asylum professionally during the super-
intendence of Dr. Bompas. The committee therefore
had no hesitation in recommending that as Dr. Bom-
pas had withdrawn his application for a renewal of
the -license, the same license be granted to the three
applicants, Mrs. Bompas, Mr. C. S. Bompas, and Mr.
N. Smith, on condition that the latter do keep a
medical journal and case book.
The CHAIRMAN then read some extracts from the
minutes of the journal of the asylum. The visitors
noticed the absence of washing-basins, towels, and
water in some of the departments. The rooms
.were
clean, but not so' the patients. They found a patient
(G. C.) in a " coercion chair," with his arms in a
leathern case, and in a very dirty state (particular-
ised). The keeper said he was cleaned three times a
week. Another_ patient was found with the quarter
of a blanket round his shoulders, and another quarter
round his legs. After reading these minutes, the
chairman moved " Thaethe three applicants' already
named be licensed to keep the Fishponds Lunatic
Asylum for a term not exceeding thirteen months, for
the reception of fifty-one patients.
Mr. SMITH expressed his willingness to undertake
to keep the journal as required.
Rev. J. Were's, in answer to questions put with
reference to the cost of the recent inquiry, entered
into a long statement of the various items of expense
incurred. The total cost of the inquiry, including
counsel and attorneys, for travelling, and other ex-
penses of the -attorneys and witnesses, shorthand-
writers'-bill, and the' cost of printing the evidence is
1,2151. 10s. 6d. •
This announcement excited some surprise.
Some discussion followed on the question whether
Mr. Smith would be required to sleep at the asylum.
He stated that he 'would undertake to visit the estab-
lishment thrice a week, but could not undertake to
make that his residence or to sleep there, having an
extensive practice in Bristol to attend to. On refer-
ence to the Act it was found that clause 25 required
the lessee to reside on the premises; and then arose
the question what was to be considered a residence in-
the eye of the law ? It was observed that Dr.
Conolly was, licensed_ for three asylums, and could
only reside at one. He was licensed, with two others,
one a lady, in respect of an asylum at Kensigton, but
only the lady actually resided on the spot.
The Duke of BEAUFORT wished distinctly to un-
derstand whether Mr. Smith intended to visit the
asylum every day?
Mr. SMlTH—Certainly not.