The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-08 00:00:00

This Day was published,
11DOETICA-I.V.A.G ARIES:-
A., By GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER:

.Comprisin.• •
•An Ode to We,• a Hackneyed'etitic. • •
Low Ambition; . or, The Life and Death of Mr. Dow; in
which is introduced, a Reckoning with Time.
The Lady of the Wreck; or; Castle Biarneygig; inscribed
tithe Author of the Lady of the Lake.
And, Two Parsons; 'or, The "I:ale of 'a Shirt
In Quarto, price One Guinea, in boards,
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- • A CHALLENGE.
Air ESSIZS. CU-Rini-4...11ml Co. Surgeons, late in
his Majesty's service, challenge the ..+,be!e World to
vove u angle instance where their. medicine ..n ,lethod of
cure have tailed of the desired died. The praelice of many
years in this particular branch of their profession, has not
given rise to our unsuccessful , • -
They continue to dirett their studies to the treatment Ad
cure of venereal complaints, andthat derangement of the sys-
tem, which is the consequence oft he pernieiOus and.oeasterul
elletts ot a habit long and most unhappily pursued by the
youth of both sexes. In the one it will he found-to be the
unfailing source of barrenness; the other have its ravages
tally developed to them by a distressing state of debility.,
width it not, timely remedied, ternunates its irnpotentcy,
these are. its remote and intimate-effects, while consumed
tion, loss ofmuseular power, arid varioui riervouscotoplaints,
usually charatterise the earlier stages or this solitary. vice..-.
Or persons languishing'unrter the disorders incid-nt so such a
habit, their treatment is simple,. and has never proved unsue-
cessfill in:. the course of a long, laborious, and notch extended
practice. In the most obstinate anti c•miplicated L•ases.ot ve-
nereal infeetienOnch ai obstructions" in the urethra, spongy.
excrescences, hard tumors, callous ulcers, eruptionsoeini.:
nal weakness, gleets, as also
STIZICTURLS,
Whether recent or ot long duration, and which have hat::
tied the skilt of other Practitinners, are by their present ini.
proved plan of treatment, etfectnally and permanently cored,
without the Patient .sutfering the excruciating pall and
alarming hemorrhage which frequently tOows the applica-
tion of the lunar caustic In the course of twenty years
extensive practice in ibis Metropolis, -numerous cases ot
Strictures hale been and are daily sunder their care, the; total
eradication lit which is effected by a sate,..eertain, and expe.
ditious mode of.practice, superior -to any other yet adopted.
The weakness, relaxation, and debility proceeding, ; from this
complaint are speedily removed, and the Patient restored to
soUnd and vigorous health. That where the debility has far
years existed, a proper, perseverance in their restorative re.
medics, after the Stridure has been destroyel, is indispensa-
bly requisite to re'ive the slumbering sparks of life and to
reanimate the constitution.

Several Noblemen, and Gentlemen of the first respeBa-
bility, have been under the care of Messrs: l urrie, and CO.
for the removal of complaints of the Urethp. Strictures, Bcc.
and having received a radical and permanent Cure, request
that reterences may be given ti them, as satisfactory evi•
dencea of the decisive superiority of Messrs. Currie and
plan of rreatMent. Many of these Gentlemen have had stric-
tures from to to lo' years; and had been under the care of
Mews. Home, Heaviside, and other Surgeons of equal cmi
who attempted the cure by the application of the
Lunar Caustic, without success..,

Messrs. Currie and Co. may be consulted by either sex
with the greatest delicacy; secrecy,. and"honour, at their
house, Nb. to 7, Hatton-garden. .
Patients in the country are requested to state the particu-
lars of their case, age, and general habit of living, &C. 8:c.
inclosing a remittance fur advice and medicines, whet „he
name will be given or sent to any part of the kingdom: 'l-9
ensure that secrecy so essential to their undertaking, the post-
age of letters may be added to the account for rnidicinqs.
9th lune, 1809,---147, Hatton-ga:den.

'ARTY I;IigSetENCE AND CC:SSISTEN'CY.

Ttre- Of. the'2oth Ult..• says
et seeing relleN(A from the ap.:.
prehension, of the near ttrrival of that 4,expeditio4
(front Sicily); would no longer hesitate to sill
(4, letachinents to fil.Vour the eSeepe of the Itt-,1--
tsereil remains-of Maritiont'sarmy; aoii we -neAv
hear that he has ventured cin these (lvt4chllent%
_.!nd that -15,000 of his troops 1i,;(1 already reat4-ie,i
Madrid. Surh are the bliniders to which
ing minthAnballasted by any principle of actiou,
and unhottomed (i.e. not -brobi.d,bottorned), on any
fixed-system, must ever expose th^ execution of
the be-st c.oncertedand best matured Oilof mili.
tart' opennioas do we hesitate to !,rognosti-
rate aspropheey'vVbieh we entertain -ivith reluet;

mice, tißtt for, the present none of the great ob-
kilts will ht.. ati'ained of which the Br;l'',li public
have been 'so studion'ily deluded in the flattering
blitfiil-Ce hope of speedily seeing realized."
The same. Journal goes on to ask-- •
" if it, were to be supp.osed, that, with Lnrd

Wellington's acknowledged prudence, cii•cntn-
,spection-, and foresight, be will rushy penetrAtB
into the ,:cart of the country," and, co.nlng
\length to this prOfound 8n d poitive conclusir;n,

these " iirogilosileators of propheciel" pro:iounce
—" !Toler svch circumstv.nces, we it vi=ould

be wise in-the British Publieto incident: their ex-
pectations of much farther successes ; and rather
to let themselves down to the. idea of Seeing the
Allied Army retreat upon Portugal, than advance
farther into the interior of Spain."
Again, on the 3.oth—
" The benefits of having an army in the Penin-
sula have never been fairly tried, nor are likely to
be so, whilst Lord Castlereagh's opinions prepon
derate- in the Cabinet : " and if Lord Welling-
ton's' §I.ICCeeS do not produce the evacuation
at least of the South and of the Eastern coast of
Spain, and of Madrid, the fault is not imputable
tai our arms,- but to our counsels. And surely it
becomes necessary, rigidly to inquire into a sys•
tem, of :.which the most brilliant success' is nn-
accomraiicd by the same consequences vhicb.
haVefollokWd the success of the eneiny on all oc=
casions of similar importance." . ,

These are onlya small part bf the Talent prog-
nosticated propheh:es, by which, since the battle
they have endeavoured to subdue
the public mind to q 41,rner tone of gloom and
dclpon,tency. Kind souls ! they will not suffer us
to he too much ehted N•itit victory. Like Philip
of Macedon. they deem it ner-ssary to remind us
every mol'ning cif our morta'ity. saving, " Re-
member, Britain, thou hist-bad Ministers." Their
conduct is. indeed; inconceivably riclicAous and
absurd.- Having doubted every success to our
arms as long as there is a' peg to bang a doubt
on, they at last, when the Tower guns fire, and
the streets are illuminated, condescend to believe
it possible that the British may have beat the
French.
,But this fit does not last long. In two
days the victory of Salamanca is shown - to he
utterly unproductiVe, and a mere empty achieves
meat Unfortunately, however, " more glorious
news"• arc
_rurnourcd, which is readily proved to
he utterly• unworthy`
of credit, till-the disputches,
'dated from Madrid, render it unsafe to dispute the
truth of some favourable consequences having re.,
stilted from the defeat of the enemy. This :s the

miiod in which the Party Organ is at this-moment,
and that very Paper, which for the last ten days
has been labouring to depress our spirits, to damp
our hopes; and to deaden Our expectations—to
she Mit from " ivan of co-operation from
Sicily,-Lord Wellington copld pin nothing by hic
splendid victory,-to prepare us for - accounts of
inability to- sustain the ground he had 'won, and
to let us-" down to the idea of seeing the Allied
Army retreat upon. Party dal, rather than advance
further into 'the interior of Spain." This very
Paper, which has:taught us to-look at the field of
Salamanca as utterly barren, now that it dare
brazen-out such despicable insinuations no longer,
seems to forget all it has advanced, and on Batur-
clay, with incredible countenance, gravely tells
that the Extraordinary Gazette
" Will he rec6ved with the most joyful hearts,
by .the public. It is an unanswerable demonstra-
tion of the complete nature by the victory of the
22d 3.11 y, as. well 115 the ir•omptitu(le, vigoar,

h which Lord Wellingtgn ~has pro-

fited from its effects. .It is impossible. to con-
template any thing more snendid than this rapid
advance of .the Allies ; and surely if any thing
can arouse the Spanish people from theirtorpot,
it is this vivacity and success of the British."
Why ? whattbings do they make themselves !
Struggles between inclination and compulsory
credence of good- tidings, so barefaced and noto-
rious, are scarcely to he equalled in the annals pf
literary and political tergiversation. But Mark
the result, and we for once will venture to pro-

gnosticate a prophecy,", which is, that in I` few
days they will take as much pains to shew that the
possession of Madrid is of no importance, as they
did to demonstrate that no benefit could accrue
from the affair of Salamanca. They will say that
nothing can rouse Spain, and calculating the
expences of our armies, will recur to their wishes
of 1809, 10, and '2l, namely that every Briton
were safe at home from the hopeless contest
against the all-mighty Napoleon on the Penin-
sula.

Countrymen, bald these men, these Talent-
boasters", been entrusted with the GoVernment of
the country, our armies Ntould have been at home,
and Spain and Portugal a province of France,
with Spanish armies, under the command of
Buonaparte, in the North—with Spanish fleets
to fight for him on the seas—and with nil the
resources of that powerful country turned to the
s9uOyatice, if not the destruction of Britain ! !