The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-30 00:00:00

FOR THE htiit7.

Mr. EDITOR, . . .
the recent horrible Mtirdero; the public
prints have naturallir aboundea with suggestions for
Variou'S plarii, in- order to prote& the Met rOpolis frnm
sirbilar barbarities, and as it is: the duly as well'as
the interest of every man, to contribtite his aid to
the national wettare, I beg leave to subriait the fol-
lowing hints upon the subjea. The more simple
the plan; the better ; provided it is calctilated to ac-
complistr,,the end in view. In the first place, I
conceive that the number of watchmen should be
doubled ; andl'n the next, that their age should not
-exceed" forty. One half of this number should be
continually walking through the streets, and- the
other remain at their watch-box alternately 'every
hour or halt hour. 'To every 'ten watchmen, there
should be .an overseer, Well armed, who should be
relieved every' two or throe • hours. -The_t remu-•
neration for this cinty should be liberal, that it.
tyity be cheerfully, and effealually executed. The
amount of this charge should be settled by the chief
inhabitants of every distril, and the eioence ,de-
frayed by an additional, parochial rate, .which would
be light upon the individuals in general, and to
which nobody would obje6l who had any 'regard for
his own welfare-as well as the public sakty. •As a
farther encouragement for the d,iligence and fidelity
of the men thus employed,. a reward nf ten pounds
should be held oht to them, to be paid' at the ex-
piration of seven years passed in .thee proper, dis-
charge of such duty.

A t4ItIEND'TO CIVIL. POWEII,

VACCIA ,17'IO N.

As we presented to our Read ors the late Report
of, the Ro}•al vaccine Establishment in this .coun-
try, we deem it'a duty to .hew the progress of this
pradice in the Sister Kingdom: The following is
the substance of the Report of the Cow-Pocx .In-
stil.ution, under the patiouage of the Duke of RICH-
MOND, which has been established in Dublin.

Thd Directors ..f this Instilotion, feel great plea-
sure in laying before .the Public the tesult of tht-ir
practice for the year 1811, which has been uncom-
monly favourable. Nt.) case occurred of Sin All-pox
following perfe','l Vaccination,•ahuough Sipall•pox.
had occasionaiiy:,..rebailed in the city during the
summer and autumn.

In 4,157 pot,ents, the
,Cow-pock preserved its
charaCieristic milnness, not proving fatal in a single
instance, nor rendering the person liable to obstinate
eruptions, or any pertnanent.injury. Considetable
inflatnn►ation, from 'pressure or external nijury,
sotnetitne.: su;.,ervened, which. was soon removed by
a diffited 4okt-ion of acetate of lead.

Samll-pox loocolation is seldom,' if ever, resorted
to in this ciiy, except with a view of ascertaining
the preventive power of Cow-pock, and in these-trials
the vaccinated patients resisted- variotons infection.

Bilis of Mortality have not b4"en regularly kept in
Dublin, but there is. sufficieot reason to believe,
that sine the introduction of Vaccination, the.
fatality from Small-pox has considerably decreased.
And although the friends of humanity have still
to lament the existence of that disease,.the annual
decrease in the number of its victims, affords sanguine
hopes of its rapid decline, and perhaps extermination.
\i');:cinatir.in has been extensively practised in
Dublin for the last-ei.glit years. The number vac-
cinated may fairly be estimated at about 50,000.--,
Thousands of these have been expOse4 in every pos-
sible way to varinlous infection. Many have been
inoculated with Small-p9x, six, eight, and nine'
years after Vaccination. The Institution, however,
has had occasion to record only three cases of failure,
and in these the subsequent Small-pox happened to
be mild and of short duration.

Several cases have been observed during the last
year, of the co-existence of Small-pox and CoW-
pock, i 9 some of which, the former proved very
severe, and in two it terrninat,:d fwally. Small-pox
may appear so late as the twelfth day of Cow-pock,
previous to which period, therefore, patients should
not be considered secure.

Vaccine vesicles have sometimes been injured,
and thereby converted into running' sores, which
soon healed by .the application of dry lint. _

A child of a few niontlA old was inoculated with

recent Cow-pock intecoion, and on the eighth -day
exhibited on the arm two well Marked vesicles.—
On the evening of that day, however, both were
accidentally torn, which: deranged the progress of
the disease, and prevented the antivariolous process
from taking place in the optistitution, as wris prov-
ed by a subsequent inoculation. This case is record-
ed to evince the necessity of strict attention to every
stage of Cow-pock. • -
The test proposed by Mr. BRYCE continues to be.
pratlised, and to afford much satisfae-tion.
The extensive correspondence of the Institution
affords satistaaory evidence of the progressive in-
crease of Vaccination throughout Ireland. Prac-
titioners of the highest respectability •aretnost
ions in the cause, gking the public every proof of
their confidence in the practice, by adopting it in
their own families. In most of the principal towns
the pour have the advantage of gratuitous irfoctila.
tiOn, eater at the hospitals or houses of the medical

gentlemen.. Among the higher ranks of socicty•in
the country,.Cow•pock is almost universally adopted.
Correspondents have complained much of the in-
jury done by itinerant Quacks, who traverse the
Country,•:inoculating with Small•pox the childreh of
Abe -poor. Ut seve►al who were thus inoculated in

a small
.town, eighteen died !.
The Directors have, reprinted and given exten-
sive
,circulation to the Report of the National Vac-
cine, .E,tahlisliment„ op. three cases which lately
occurred in England, of Small-pox following Vac-
cination. The most zealous friends of Cow pock
have admitted the
,pussibility of such occurrences.
In a Report published six years. ago by the Di-
rectors of this Institution, it was admitted (although
they had not then met with a case of Small pox.,
after Vaccination), that, as inoculated 'Small-pox
occasionally failed to protect the constitution against.
a future attack of that disease, Cow-pock might be
liable to a similar contigency. The casts of failure,'
however, which have come before them upon suffi•
dent authority, are so very few, in proportiOn to
the many thousands who have been vaccinated, as
to form no reasonable objection to the pradice...:
They therefore feel themselves warranted frurn their
own experience, and the 'concurring testimony of
the most experienced of the profession, in declsring
their unabated nonlidenc6 in Vaccine Inoculation.

imPERIAL .0.4R.L.1.4111E.2\71,

HOUSE OT PEERS.

.-EtiNE,SbAY-2.3ANUARY

ROXBURGH CAUSE.

The farthei- considerition of this important Ap....
peal being resumed, Sir Samuel Roroilly was heard-
at great length, d leading Counsel tor the liespon...'
dent; Sir James Innes Kerr, Bart. iti.the Feti Brandt.
of .the te: • After the Learned Knight bad con-
cluded;

The LORD CHANCELCOR• briefly observ'F'd, With,
respeti to the next hearing, that' i hp. w(,ukt
not sit to-morrow; and that on Friday It would'be
occupied •wittt the discussion of h very imporant
sobje:it—(thelrish Catirdii'cs),,--he would therefore
prripoe that the farther consideration of the cas,..be'
fixecifor Monday next ; which; being shoved sty his
Lordship, was of eted accordingly.
The Scots. Appeal Caese, Read ii.'Stack, was or.
dereft to be withdrawn, with consent of partieß.
. The Ten Millions, and One..Million.and a.l-141f
Exchequer hills. Bills, were 'brought up from the
Commons•,- by Mr. Ltishington, and other Mem:-
berS, and were read a first time..

The Im
Duty and. Sugar priation Bills se,
verally ,palsed- -through. 'Co,nmrttees of th vvLble,
Lord,Walsingnarn in the .;hair; and were;
reported without any Amendthent.