The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-18 00:00:00

PROCL,MATION:.

The Right TThn.. TqnV.--, irL.AYI3, Governor and Com-
mantler-in-Cliief of of 'Malta and its Dependen-
cies, liottentint-titineral io his Majesty's Artny,&e.B3e.•&c.
" A case of suspicion having yesterday occurred
• within the town yf Valletta, his Excellency the
Governor deemed it prudent to take every pre-
' caution upon the occasion ; and though •he, is'
happy in stating- that the concurrent opinion of
all theMedicaLadvisers of Government is strongly
in fiivonr of its being nc) cage of plague,- or of pes-
tilential -contagion, he still deems it advisable,
as afurthei•.preci.lution, tol direct that the opening
of the cOmmunicatiOn generally betwesen Valletta
and
,Floriana, as ordered the, Proclamation of
.the'zlth inst. be postponed until Tuesday next.—
And his Excellcncy is further pleased to direct,
that should no new case of suspicion occur, the
free communication shall be opened .between the
whole of the towns on either side of the port, in
respect to each other, and the shipping in the
barboor, front the first of the new year.
.." Although his Excellency is strongly prepos-
sessed with the idea that no occurrence will; lead
him to withhold- the granting of Genertl Pratigne'
at theend of the ensuing2j days; and although he
trusts that, under the favour of Divine Pi'oyidence,
no-new case will occur after pratipic
Still, looking at the experience acquired, 77Arr tite
history of Plague in other countries, he'i'vOuld he
,grossly deceiving the people of these Wands,' and
no less negligent of his own duv, -Were he not
to state, that, for many months ‘to conic, a con-
siderable r4k of the -recurrence of the late fatal
calamity is -to be. .apprehended, -and nrovided
against with the rrtir:st anxious and-unremitting
soiicitnde on the part of Government,
" In this view of the subject, it ha's been his
Excellency's duty to
~make such arrangements -as
to hire seem necessary upon the occasion, and lie
flatters Ininself, although no httirtan prudence can
totally avert the chance of-individual cases od,
cuffing, that they are of a nature and character
to arrest, the evil' on its, first appearance, so as to
obviat -the danger: of apycontagion spreading, •
" It is only by promprness, decision, and cele-
rity of action, tiat'this great object can be attain-
ed and as nothing is more calculated to enable
; the Government to act with celerity, than that the
governed should be aware of what`is expected of
them, and fully apprised or the generial line of
proceeding upon all, such 'occasions, his Excel-
lency deems it expedient to publish the following,
as the rule'S which will be adopted, until the' fall
of next year, in Valletta, and, as nearly as may
be., in every other part of the Island, whenever
any case of contagion, or: reported suspicion, may
take: place.
" Upon any such occurrence, Proclatuati9n
...hereof will be made by the Police Officers, at-
ten `led by a Trumpeter or Bugles, in the various
street_`.
‘in order that all persons may retire im-
Mediate:
It within their respective houses—and pa-
troles will be made by the.military, for the duly
enforcing kic,ir Procl4niation.
" On - the tit e being thoroughly investigated
and traced to the' ;Attu-lost extent, the district in
which it may have „\ccurred being shut in, and
the parties,
conveyed.to the, if necassa..l-,-
hi all the other Laza-
retto,dis-
' free communicatit.'l3
tricts (or such as the nattu:S of ;he case may ad-
mit) will be allowed. • .
Proper officers-are named to superintend the
various districts, now formed intt,`•twelV4c-8i•x• A
regular ,establishment will be ma intained 29d
the detailed regulations; specifying al,; the officers,
with their respective duties, as connected with
the health of thei•tOwn, will be forthwith put)-
lisbed for general intOrmation.
" By Command of His Excell;iey,
" I'. LAiNG, Chief Sec. t 6 Government.
" Palace, Valletta, 24th Dec. 1813."

NovEr.Ty.-4 Lady, in a provincial paper,
states, she ha: '--ad stolen a black azs., ,pf , a very
large and beautiful _kind.; .and if any gentleman,
or his groom, should meet any asses on the road,
she requests them to look,. at them, and if any
should answer her description, to inform 'her of
it immediately."
The four children of Mrs. PicKworttu, of Sem-
pringham, whose extraordinary delivery we men-
tioned last weeks are all since dead. Two died
on Tuesday, and the. others, on Thursday and I
day. They had been previously baptized by• the
names. of JAmEs, TtioN.tAs, WiLta4m, and Ito-
BERT. YeSterday their. remains were interred in
a new vault in Billinghorough church-yard.. The
Your bodies were in one coflio, singularly cOntrived
fdr the purpose, straitening in tha..middle; and
widening towards the ends. Two.„ of the bodice
lay at one end, and -two at the' other.--(Baston
Last Monday two girls and a boy, the children
of John Kitching, foreman to Mr. WAker, •of
this place, fell into a vat of boiling dye-liquor,
during the absence of the work-people. The
eldest girl, about seven years old,• is expected to
recover. The-other two died in a.,few hours.—
A girl; of the name of I-hilt:well, four years old, '
was burnt- to death the same day,-in her parents'
house, at the back of St. George's-street.--(Leeds
Intelligencer.) • ,
. Tha French Gazette 1)1-Health for November,
• contains a detailed relation -of the sufferings of a
young girl of eight years old, into whose ear a
spider had crawled. She experienced momentari-
ly a nervous. fit, resembling epilepsy, of which the
strength gradually -increased, impressing those
:around her Itith fear that it would speedily be-
come fatal. The surgeon, unable to extract the
spider, poured'oil of olives -into the ear ; hereupon
she experienced some convulsive moments, longer
and more violent than those, she had before ; and
wliela they terminated she was quite relieved. '