The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-10 00:00:00

A CHALLENGE.

ES:SIIiS. CURRIE and, Co. Surgeons, late in
1111. his Majesty's service, challenge' the whole world to
prove a-single instance where their Medicine and method of .
cure have failed of the desired efe'Set. The practice of many
years in this particular branch of their-profession, has nut
given rise to one unsuccessful ca-.e.
They continue to direct their qudies to the treatment and
cure of Venereal Complaints, and that derangement of the
system, which is the conseqtience of thepernicious and waste-
ful effects of a habit long and most unhappily pursued by the
yositli of both sexes. in His I.,te it will be found to be the
unfailing souree at' barrenness; the other have its ravages
'fatally developed to them By •a distressing state of debility,
whicli it not -timely remedied, terminatesrn impotency, these
are its remote and ultimate effects, while consumption, I,ess of
muscular power, and various nervous complaints., usually
characterise the earlier. stages of .this solitary vice.-01 per-
sons laNnishisig under thediaorders incident to such a habit,
their treatment is simple,.astd has never proved unsuccessful
in the (waist of a lung, laborious, and munch extended
practice.- .
Lt the most obstinate and ,complicated cases of Venereal
Infection, such as obstructions in, the urethra, spitn7v ex-
crescenceS, hard tumors, callous ulcers, eruptions, seminal
weakness, gleets, as also Strictures, whether recent or of
long duration, 'and which have baffled the skill of other Prac-
titioners, arc by their present improved plan of treatment,
effectually.and permanently cured, -without the patient snller-
ing-thwexcruciating pain and alarming hemorrhage which
freqttentiv follows the application of the luttar,cauitic. fn
the course of twenty :yea's extensive ptactice in this Metro-
polis, numerous cases of Strictures have 'been' and aye daily
under their care, the total eradication of which is effected by-
a safe, certain, and expeditious mode of practice, superior to
any other yet adopted. The weakness, relaxation, and debt=
lity proceeding from this complaint are speedily rtniaoveds and
the patient restored to sound•and Vigorous health. But where
the debility has for years existed, a proper..perseverance ut
their restorative,remedies, after the Stricture has Bien de-
stroyed, is indispensably-requisite • to revive the slunsherisig
sparks of life and to reanimate theconstitntion.
•
Several Noblemen and Gentlemen of the first respectability,
havp been under the care of .Messrs. Currie and Co. fm-the re-
moval of .complaints of the Urethra, Strictures, &c..and hav-
ing received a radical and permanent cure, request that re-
ferences may be given -.to them, as -satisfactory evidences of
the decisive superiority of Messrs. Currie and Co.'s plan of
treatrnen,t. Nlany of these Gentlemen have had strictures
fran 10 to 20 years, and had been under the care of Messrs.
liiime;lleAciside, and other Surgeons of equal eminence', who
attempted the cure by the application of the Lunar Caustic,
' without suecess7 •

-Messrs-:Currie and Co. may he consulted by either sex with
the greatest delicacy, secrecy, -and honour, at their house,
No. 107, Hatton-garden.
Paticats in the country are requested to state the particu-
lars of their case, age, and general habit of living, &c.
inclosing a remittance
,for advice and medicines, when the
name will be given or seat to:any part of the kinkdom. To
ensure that secrecy so essential to, their undertaking, the
po-itage of letto:s may be added to the account fer Me-
dicines. •
Pat el ituf., filV,--.1071 Hattou-gardtn.

NziroLtox'g coN-Dilur toreard,

, from ark ii4terestlng Pamphlet, just hntitle
" Ncpolcn's Cloarigct /ozcara-3. P4:it's,sta since the Peace (1/-

" it is ihtc-esting enoug. h to consider th.
conduct of the. different French GOVernors iviid
-
havew.entered Berlin. Although evert nets
one gave assurances of his desire tint to.
,be
burthen to the towns, vet each or them mach •
-and iniusted pretensions. The first, Geaeral
Clarke and General fiiilin, were the best ; al=
!bough .daring the continuance of the svar, they
behaved, if'. not al,vays with mildness, yet gene-:.,
.rally with justice. For one act of cruelty Gene-
ral Clarke comniitted, in causing the horgo-mass
ter of Kyritz, to be executed, for having tavouyeal
Prussian partisans, he excused 'tut: elf by sayihi!;•4
that he had been reprimanded for his *Aro great
mildness. Perhaps it ig true be was really, with
.the exception of this act, a good. tempered
These-were followed by Marshal Victor and Gene.; u
ral St. Hilaire. The. former brought his lady
with him : in this he ,was imitated by several
other einiiloyes
,5 and dinners, suppers; balls, and
French plays, succeeded each other, as a sort of
carnival ; to which only those few families went,
who, partly from the circumstance of having
estates,both in the French and Prussian territory,
or from the head of the family being in an office;
which rendered his attendance necessary, were ih
oontiimal intercourse with the French. Thoi
Prussian ladies 'particularly ,behaved with great
firmness towards them. in spite of their etigag--
ing manners, and of their residence of twenty-six
months in the country, the instances of marriage
or other connection
,are very few. They were
polite towards those French who were billeted
their houses, and nothing- more. To the small
private parties -which, were arranged .in that time
of misery, no. Frenchman had admission ; those.
who were not asked to tLe French parties,
were. obliged to spend their evenings either at
home. ok in public places. -.•—
The entertainments of the French
.carnivalk
above alladed•to, were, with very few•exceptiotis,
at the ..expenee of theitown. ;Fite Marshal, let
length; not satisfied \with his town-hou!se,. do.
beautiful palace of Prince Radzivil, desired that
of Baron Eckarstein at Charlottenburg for iris
country-house, • which, of •course, could not be.:
refused him 3: but •he was so parsimonious,
to quote an instance, begave.the e.,,anfener
t'he fine flowers he brought him every mornlaffg,.—
for thea4ace of six week,, only ten thalers• in liacl;
groschen, which at the highest rate :uight be va-t: ,
hied ht one pound steel;n7-4; • Marshal' Victor and
Goteral St Illaire did not care in what manner
their inferiors behaved. The Marsha's. :orbs,
about thirty thousand men, in Berlin and its
nighbourhood, gave rise to many complaints,
which were generally :disregarded..

" After h.n► came Marshal Soult. He assured
the town of the discipline he would observe with
his troops, and that he, would give occasion to
the least possible expense. Nit, ilas ! he brought
So inany:horses,, and. such quantities of hohnds,
that .he. caused the same expense-ks the torn►er
Marshals with their suulptuous dinners. He lett
Berlin, however, very soon, and was succeciled by
Marshal Davoust.

" This Marshal's entrance. appeared at first to
be. the return of good, or at least of tolerable
times. The good character for discipline which
his soldiers had acquired in Poland, prepared the
way for him, lie assured the magistrates of his
attachment to the King and the Royal Family,
made his visits to those Princes and Princesses who
hilt( remained, and seemed all softness and good
humour ; but this good huinour one day suddenly
changed. He caused from twenty to thirty peo-
ple, mostly public functionaries or literary men,
to be brought before him, and harangued them its
a most violent manner for their acobinism, their
hatred to the French, &c. They knew not what
to answer ; some of them did not even understand
Fretich.;' some, by a mistake of names, had been
sent for instead of others, and were dismissed
quite confounded by this violent ,'addres. Mar.,
shut. Davonst, from that moment, saw nothing
but Jacobinism at Berlin; his spies were sent hi
every direction ; several arrestations took place ;
and he left Berlin full of
,apprehension of revoiu7
tionary proceodin,;s, for flamburgh, where he
began to act m the sa!ne. manner:
Marshal Davonst, \yhile commanding Prus-
sia, before the commencement of hostilities be•
tween that kingdom and France, sotuetimes'ex.
hibsted the most sudden and extraordinary tran-
sitions from mildness to the utmost violence. In

Silesia he one day assembled several Noblemen (;t:
the first rank ; he gave them assurances of hi 3
perfect good-will for the welfare of the country,.
and of his regret atheing' obliged to he burthen•
some to it, and so forth ; then suddenly address—
ing himself to Count M--, an old dignifiea
Noblernan,•he assured hini that he would blow his
brains dot as a traitor, laying something at the
Same time to. his charge, either •untrtiti or insigni-
ficant. . The Count turned slowly round, looking
first at 10m, then, at all his colleagueF,4, and askipg,
Ai-je done Voir traitic-.9'—‘ Do I look like a
traitor i'—‘ Vous des,. Mons. illureschol., le pre-,
mier qui ose :Die dire chose pareille—failes mpg
1;ous voulez, inais epargnez moi vos injures, 7)00
lesquels volts seriez oblige, de me reiondre (rune cia.•
ire nioniere.'—‘ You are the first person, Mr:
Marshal, who has dared to address me thus--do
what you please, but spare your abuse, for which
-you would be- obliged to answer me in another
manner." Marshal Davoust was quiet, and
there was no question about shooting the Count.
" A along -so many useless oppressions (hiring.
the time of the occupation of I'rusia, the citi-
zens of Berlin will never forget, that',

proteirol rat# *l6 #rayra)fiveyvirere titA *llO v
'ed to ,t,e,.v pl,ni'cly their joy 'en the birth-days of
'their be;cp,ed .So.-ereigns. Forced by the French
-to illinni;iate taeir. houses fhr• the unhappy peace
of Tilsit, they were forbidden to do the same on
the' hittliday their King. Many arrestations
to Dlact for infringing this ordinance, and the
Di-•-ector of the Thiaire was confined .several
'ays for bavi arranged an indistinct allusion, in
a ballet, to the happy day.
'these %were,ns,,lenees committed by Erench
ofii, ers in t!,cir p;Lbtic character : the insolence:l)f
Many,- as individuals, was equally disgusting. It
world lead too' to.mention instance of
insolence, public and -domestic; bdt two ludi-
tro,,,, instances of the latter will give an udequ'ate
Idea them although truth obli,,es• ti)
ts
that there were many who behaved in a crcik--
able manner, and were sensible of the unple,4alit
office they had to perforth.
Gen. Dot senile, who.died some time ago at Pa-
ris, whilst.at Berlin, desired from the lady of the
house, every day, amongst other things, six bot-
tles of eau de Cologne, to be used after his bath.
He demanded also a large sheet to wrap himself
in 5 and as none in the house were large enough,
two were sewed together. But this did not please
the geniaal ; the seam, he said, injured his skin,
Mid he complained that no French general had
ever been 59,i11-treated as he was.

Geo. Verges, who was billeted at the.botise of
a geutleman of the first distinction, was often
upon. the point of fighting his host, upon the sub-
ject of some dish or another at table. Ho,one
day asked.to this gentleman's.table,several Save-.
dish calkers, who were returning from their cap-
tivity in France ; and he took au opportunity of
assuring them, in the ,preSence of the master of
the house atuhof his..lady, that they did tioA;dine
with them, but with him, as lie was now master
tie house by right of conquest.
.rinding hotter wine in-some other gentlemen's
houses, where he was asked to dinner with his
host, he told the latter, in his Gascon•diidect,
before fill! whole company, that this was to he
called-
wine, " mais que le sien eloit oi,zre, trouble"
" that his was sour and cloudy"--and that he
ought to take example-from his friends."