The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-25 00:00:00

DR. DAUN'S STATEMENT.

Dr. Dann having been examined by the Magistrates
assembled at Durham, Nov. 21, 1831, states—

I. That he is of opinion that, if there is contagion,
there has been PO much intercourse already by land and
otherwise, that any coercive measures or restrictions are
unavailing.
2. Dr. Daun is surprised that the disease now pre-
vailing at Sunderland, considering it to be the same as the
continental cholera, has not spread more extensively than
it has done, since it first made its appearance in Sunder-
land, taking in connection with the progress of this disease
in towns of the Continent.

This document, you will probably agree with me, is
extremely vague and unsatisfactory. The object still ap.
pears to be to keep up the delusion which has so long been
practised upon the public in reference to the true character
of the complaint which prevails at Sunderland. The
disease not spreading to the extent it has done on the Con-
tinent, is sufficiently accounted for by the climate, the
food, and habits of the people. But let not too much
emphasis be laid on its spreading to a slight extent. I
know that the number of deaths has been represented as
trifling, considering that the population is 40,000. But,
Sir, this is in itself a deception. Sunderland, Bishop
Wearmouth, and Monkwearmouth, together, I believe,
afford a population of between 30,000 and 40,000. But
the cholera has, till within a day or two,—l had almost
said till within a few hours,—been confined exclusively to
Sunderland properly so called, which, I suppose, will con-
tain 15,000, or possibly 16,000 inhabitants. Bishop-
wearmouth and Sunderland join each other, like Lon-
don and Westminster, so that a stranger cannot tell
precisely where the one ends or the other begins.—
Nlonkwearmouth is separated from them by the river
Wear. Now, Sir, from the 11 th to the 2-2 d of No-
vember, there have been forty-four cases of malignant
or Asiatic cholera, out of which twenty-eight have died,
and only six hare recovered, the remainder being still un-
der treatment. This proportion, if the amount of the
Sun,:erland population strictly so called, be considered, ap-
pears to me by no means very widely different from what has
occurred in the very populous large towns in which the
complaint has raged abroad. If the Government should
be induced to take off the restrictions imposed on the
shipping of Sunderland, I hope they will not be prevailed
on to take off the quarantine from vessels coming from
Hamburg, Dantzic, and other foreign ports. We have
enough of the disease without adding to it from abroad.
You have, doubtless, by this time, received the official
reports in London. We got both that of the 21st and 22d
of November in Newcastle to-day. By the former, which
was signed by Dr. Gibson, it appeared there were two new
cases, and four deaths, of malignant cholera ; nine new
cases of diarrhoea and seven recoveries; four new cases of
common cholera, and two deaths. By the latter, which
is signed by Dr. Dann, it appears there are seven bad eases,
one death, of malignant cholera ; six new cases of com-
mon cholera, five recoveries, and no deaths. The diar-
rhwa column is in future to be omitted. There remains
under treatment, sixteen cases of common, and thirteen
cases of malignant cholera. When the diarrhea column
was discontinued there were thirty cases.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A MEMBER OF THE NEWCASTLE
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Wednesday Night, Nov. 23.

DURHAM, Nov. 23.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR, —We are indebted to your wonted priority in infor-
mation for the gratifying announcement, contained in your
Paper of Alonday, of the summoning of Parliament for the
6th of December—a piece of intelligence which has served
to re-animate our drooping spirits, and to raise as high as
ever our hopes in the cause of Reform. I know I speak the
sentiment sof every sincere and liberal Reformer in this part
of the kingdom, when I assure you that public confidence
amongst us, in the integrity and zeal of Earl Grey and his
illustrious colleagues, has never been impaired. But though
our conviction of their honesty has remained unshaken, it
were useless to deny that the circumstances which have,
during the last few days more particularly, been so much
discussed in the London Journals, have excited apprehen-
sions as to the stability of the Ministry. These have at
length been removed ; and those disastrous con-equences
which we were gradually making up our minds to meet, no
longer distract our senses, or appal our im 4gination. It
is impossible to represent in sufficiently impressive terms
the satisfaction which the proclamation for calling Parlia-
ment together, at the comparatively early period which it
it appoints for the opening of the Session, has afforded.
But we may judge of the vast importance, the unchal-
lengeable propriety, of the decision of Ministers, from the
fact that the vermin of corruption, who for the last few
days were " grinning ghastly smiles" at the prospect of
the retirement of Earl Grey, and of their own return to
the plunder and oppression of the people, have now as-
sumed
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been aroused from the revels of heavenly anticipation, to he
sunk lower than ever in the hell of disappointments and
despair. There is no doubting the fact : the last ray of
hope has departed from their house, and their enjoyments
now, after a week of exultation and bright forebodings, are
the miseries of the damned—" Weeping, wailing, and
gnashing of teeth."
As was wittily observed by that talented and rising
young man, Mr. Granger, at one of our late county
meetings, the moles of corruption have lately been busily
employed in throwing up dirt in the dark—in other words,
that rara avis, an Anti-Reform petition, has been in the
course of gestation amongst the order of " conserve- '
lives" in this city—a small and holy band, of which it
would be difficult to say whether it most deserves admi-
ration for the loyalty or for the piety of those who form
it. It consists of one or two bi iefless barristers, two or
three attorneys (one of whom is his Majesty's distributor
of stamps for this district), some half-dozen parsons, a
small sprinkling of renegade Whigs, a slave-owner from
Tortola, and the debased herd of corrupt, drunken, slavish,
and prostituted freemen—the instruments of the will, the
minions of the power, of the immaculate 1..-)rd London-
derry, the said Noble Lord himself, his hangers-on, and,
"though last not least" in public " hatred and contempt,"
11 our revered and Reverend Bishop ! Much has been done
towards getting a good string of names to the document ;
bnt, with the exception of a few senseless, unprincipled,
and worthless men, it will turn up, if it should ever meet
the light at all, a most miserable display of the utter rot-
tenness and decay into which the enemies of public liberty
have fallen in this once priest-ridden and degraded, but
new emancipated and intelligent county. They were ac-
customed not long ago to " lord it uncontrolled
above their betters"--to glory in their unhallowed
deeds in the open face of day—insulting those
whom they oppressed, and scoffing at all who were
abler and purer than themselves. But at present they
skulk in holes and corners, shunning the light of the day,
and courting only that darkness and obscurity which serves
to hide their delinquency and shame from the gaze of the
virtuous and the just. They dare not meet their antago-
nists in fair and Open conflict. They boast, like so many
Bbad
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et,htehyey s choselinktaowsahyowa t itth;e but
firstlike
danger, and submit to the imputation of " discre-
tion,"talk even of their "dignity" (Heaven save the
mo
svh ofaia tnid worthy
mark !) when the current of their chivalry turns away,
and they lose their love for action.

Public feeling in this neighbourhoodis in a most healthy
atate, The people Are, resolved upon hayipg3 thorough-

going Reform. Neither lordly influence nor priestly ty-
ranny, can deter them from the pursuit of that great and
glorious object. In a neighbouring county the game of
intimidation and vengeance has been played, by one whom
it is disgraceful to see continued in the high office which he
holds at the will of Government. But the exercise of
these attributes of boroughmongery has had a suicidal ef-
fect. The " noble" individual to whom I allude has long
been considered weak-minded and imbecile. As such he
has been heretofore regarded as an object of pity.
Henceforward he must be content to rank as one, not
merely of public indignation, but of public disgust. These
men' affect to be afraid of revolution, but it is a pretence
—a lie. Their conduct disproves their professions ; for
surely if they dreaded popular fury, they would not so
diligently exert themselves to draw it down upon their
heads. I am, Sir,
AN OLD WHIG.