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PRACTICAL 0 I.3Sgil VATIONSonSTRIC-
TURE, and other DISE ASE. 4 of the URETHRA,
describing an effectual Mode of Cure by Hn Internal Nledi-
clue, and proring the application of instruments unneces-
sary, anti generally nroduet;ve of injury. Illustrated by
Cases; and on the Origin, Symptom'. and Treatment of Dis-
etise in the rteLl

By WILLIAM RENO[',
I,:;:the•r of the Royal Coliege of Surgeons, London.
rtuiu the difficulty of the Chemical Process in the Campo•
sition of the• Iteu►edy (the effects of %%hid) are delelibed in
the cases contained in the Work), it cannot be dispensed by
prescription, or in the usual course of business.

For the accommodation of the Faculty and of persons
residing abroad or in the country, the NTedicine is sold in
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The immense wealth of Mr. Bowes, father of
the late Countess of Strathmore, arose in great
part from his mines in Durham. Ile paid in tithe
to the rector of one parish an equitable modus
of 7001. per annum. The living, exclusive of this,
was worth only 100/. The rector became co-
vetous of a larger modus, and demanded
1,0001. per annum. Mr. Bowes desired a few
days to consider tho matter. In the interim he
sent for his head miner, and gave him orders to
shut up the shaft then in use, and to open one in
the next parish, where was a very poor living.—
Ile then sent word to the covetous man that the
shaft was shut up, and should never be opened
while the living was held by him.

A man of the name of Charles Callaghan, re-
siding at Mountshannon, was returning fron► the
fair of Tomgreany, on Saturday
,week. When
passing through the village of Scariff, county
of Clare, a number of people were assembled in
the streets, and the man, being somewhat
inebriated, said that he was an •Orangeman.
Immediately a ruffian from the crowd rushed
forward, and struck him with a two-handed club,
twice over the ear, which fractured his skull,
and the poor man instantly expired. An in-
quest was taken on the body by Thomas Samp-
son, Esq., which was adjourned three times, to
produce evidence, and afford every facility to
the fullest investigation. On examining a
number of witnesses, the Jury agreed to the
following verdict—" That the deceased came by
his death in consequence of two blows of a two-
banded club, which he received on the head, and
broke his skull ; and that James Moron'', of
Clonesker, is, the man suspected of the murder."
A duel has been fought in New Orleans be-
tween a sexton and a grave-digger, in conse-
quence of a dispute on the subject of grave
making. The grave-digger was twice wounded
before the combat ended; but not so dangerously
as to make him an immediate tenant of one of his
own houses.

BIOGRAPHICAL sKETcn
OF AN OLD INDIAN CHAPLAIN.

O THE F!DITOR OF TIM ORIENTAL HERALD.

MAY 14, 1824.

Sr n,—l beg leave to offer you some account, such as can now
be recovered, of a scholar, who cultivated science in British
India several years before Sir William Jones introduced to that
injured, ill-governed, but now growingly.interesting portion of
the globe, what may be not improperly termed a new intellec-
tual era. Nor can one contemplate the tendency of liberal pur-
suits to form those minds which shall successfully advocate
human rights and promote a practical kriowledge of human
duties, without being ready to apostrophize a retarder of human
improvement, an
,Atiamite Governor of any country, one of
those who " meanly seek the blessing to confine," in the glow-
ing and indignant language of the bard—.

Fond impious man, think'st thou yoteitinguine cloud
Rais'd by thy breath has quench'd-thgewb of day ?
To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,
- •
And warms the nations with redoubled ray.
Some of your readers, who, like myself, have seen many a
summer's sun, may recollect the public interest excited by the
as
loss of the Aurora frigate, which wee carrying out to India
, in
1760, Mr. Vansitt.art and his colleaguits supervisors of the
Company's affairs. In that vessel, " navete.atusis et virtue:"
inimica,t' sailed William Falcone:. author of tneetahipiereck,
the story of where utc teas deservedly engaged the attention of
several biographers. Of another voyager, to whom I hare re.
ferret!, who at the same time unconsciously embarked for
" that bourn from which no traveller returns," I stn not
aware of any biographical notices, except a few in the third
volume of Mr. Duneombe's '" Letters by several Eminent
Persons deceased," published in 1773. There arc live letters
from the Rev. W. Mine, F.R.S. ; to these, with the editor's
notes-. and the Philosophical Transactions, I am indebted for
the following account.
William Hirst was " the eldest son of the Rev. Die Hirst,"
chaplain to the Earl er Halifax, who, in 1740, was presented
to the rectory of Bengeo and Sacombe, near Hertford. where
he died in 1760. The son " was educated at St. Peter's Col-
lege, Cambridge," and there took his Master's degree.' In
1754, he was probably residing at Romney, near London, as
his first communication to the Royal Society', of which he
became a Fellow in 1755, is dated from that village. lie was
now a chaplain in the navy, and in that capacity he tifled, im-
mediately after the earthquake in 1755, to Lisbon, the ruins of
which he described in a drawing executed on the spot. In
1739, he embarked for India, as chaplain of the Lenox, in the
squadron under Admiral Cornish, .to whom he was secretary.
The squadron anchoring at Madeira, May 2, Mr. Hirst
found that island to be " a very fertile spot, but the generality
of the inhabitants poor," because " lammed with swarms of
idle priests and monks, mere drones, who Hve upon the honey
of the hive." Here he observed, and described to a friend in
England, " a comet in the constellation Crater, from its great
southern latitude," probably '! not visible in England, as it dis-
appeared before it made any considerable progress to the north-
ward." The " next rendezvous was St. A.ufzustine's Bay, on
the west side of the island of Madagascar," where he spent
more titan a fortnight. It appeared to be " a very line island,
productive not only of the necessaries but even of the deliceteiee
of life." The following conclusion of Mr. Khrss lettll'fli-h"
Lenox, Off' Madagascar
friend, Mr. Thencombe, dated
Sept. 6, 1759," may deserve to be quoted entire, as the re-
marks of an intelligent observer on a country which has been
lately-brought to the notice of your readers.
Madagascar is divided into a number of petty kingdoms er
states, the largest of which is that of Breams, which (as the na-
tives informed me) abounds with gold mines, as does the .king-
dom of Volambo with those of silver:- And there is great rea-
son to credit this assertion • for the teeth of many of the sheep
and other cattle, killed on board our ship, were so much cover-
ed with a metalline scale as to resemble teeth of brass. This
the miners are said to look upon as an infallible indication of a
mine being under the surface, on which such cattle grase.
will not answer for the infidithility or this trial, but ant sure it
is more consistent with reason than the idle tales of the diein.
ing rods.

In the first volume of the learned Bocrhaave's Elements of
Chemistry (part ii. p. 22), I met with the followinv obseiva.
tion ; the author, treating of gold, ssys, "In Madagascar
there is a very soft sort, which runs like lead with a gentle
fire," for the truth of this he refers to Placourt's History of the
Island of Madagascar (0.49). I have not this book, yet have
often observed a large button of a yellow cast, like those which
the Dutch wear on their breeches, tied by way of ornament, to
the crown-of the Madagascar princes' heads. This I found
was remarkably soft, whiekmade me think it was base metal,
but they all affirmed it wax fine gold. •
I shall pention•but one circumstance more to corroborate the
above opinion; not far from Tent Ro,:k in St. Augustine's
Bay, in the King of Baubau's dominions, is a mineral spring,
which also affords reason to suspect that there are tunics of
sortie sort or other in its neighbourhood, However, our Eu-
ropean Mammon has not yet set foot on this rich soil ; for Ile,
according to Milton, first taught men to value gold :
By him first
Men also, and by his suggestion taught,
• Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands
Rifled the bowels of their mother earth,
Fur treasures better hid. t
In a letter to Mr. Fazakerly, dated " off Cape Comorin,
Nov. 18," Mr. Hirst thus further describes Madagascar:-
1I e found the shore, for some miles near the sea, surrounded
by some mountains of sand, and saw not a foot of earth all the
time we were there ; but the natives say there is a very tine
rich soil in the inland countries." There were alligatms, and
" tigers, who often leave the print of their feet on the sandy
beach ;" also " many bats, so large that some of them measured
more than three feet from the extremities of the wings." These
were seen " towards the evening, flying over the valleys in great
flocks." Our voyager procured. slats a chumelion, " and a crea-
ture called a macawk, of a very harmless nature, and easily
tamed. Its shape was between a monkey and a squirrel, but
not at all mischievous ; its tail very long and beautiful, and
diversified with rings of black and white."
Mr. Hirst found at Aladagascar 4, no priests, the chiefs dim-
charging the offices of religion themselves." When these
great personages, he remarks, " are at variance, they come to
• a reconciliation by drinking together seven spoonfuls of bAllock'e
blood, and for differences of long continuance they drink seven
drops of their own blood." The editor adds, that " the cere-
mony which . Drury meutions as the usual ratification of treaties,
is the roasting the liver of an ox, which is put on lances, and
eaten with-imprecations by the princes, or their ambassadors."
Joined Admiral Pocock," now
protmededfral"CotorTiislllichheartviyuf' Mr. Hirst was afterwards present
at the sieges of Vellore, and Pondicherry, in 1760 and 1761. In
the early part of the latter year, he appears to have resided at
Madras, front whence he dates his second communication to the
Royal Society.
The philosophers of Europe Were now preparing to advance
the great objeets of astronomical science, by observations on the
expected transit of Venus; which according to the calculations
of Kepler in 1626, and the later cAlentatio,, or Dr. Haney,
would appear in 1761.
This phenomenon was first observed, Nov. 24, 1639, at Hool,
a village about fifteen miles to the north, of Liverpool, by Jere-
miah Horn); a native of Toxteth, near that town, educated at
2
Emanuel College, Cambridge. Ile was a young astronoster of
extraordinary attainments, who died in 1641, at the age of 2,
just as he had finished his " Venus in Sole visit," published by
flevelius in 1662. Mr. Ilorrox, relying on the tables of Kep-
ler and L.ansbergius, had exactly calculated the clay on which
this transit would be visible. These calculations he communi-
cated to his friend, Win. Crabtree, of Broughton, near Man-
chester, another early accomplished but too short lived astro-
nuttier. Mr. Crabtree, invited to his Urancan banquet, very

• An account of a Fire Ball seen at liornsey, communicated
in a letter to Samuel head, Esq. F.H.S. See Phil. Trans.
p. 11. 773; No. 91.
t This View of Madagascar, as possessing the precious metals,
the Editor, Mr. Duncombe, confirms from an " account pub.
fished in 1729, by Hobert Drury, who being shipwrecked on
the south side of that island, lived there a slave fifteen years."
CrutweU, in his Gazetteer, says, that " there are in Madagas-
car three sorts of gold ;" though he instances only " the coun-
try gold, 6114 nutlacassa, pale, anti as easy to be cast as lead:
an ounce of which is worth no more that 20 florins."