The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-25 00:00:00

FOR Tilt SUN.

VAcCri`kLITION.

_ .
EDITOR,
1 do not mean to make your Paper the peifect
re,riste'r of all the Cow-rox failures which happen
in the metropolis this, indeed, would occupy too
much cif it ; but allow me now and• then to keep
aline the attention of the Vaccine Board to such
cases, as I mean, :if possible, to bring before
Parliament, sliould the Board pretend to nuke any
more Reports of the security from Cow-pox expe-
riments. '

The. daughter of Mr. Brown, surgeon, in Black-'
friars-road, aged about seven years, now- lies most
dangerously ill of Connuent Small-pox at her fa-
ther's bowie, after having been most genuinely.
Cow-poxed by Dr. Walker, formerly' Secretary to
the once celebrated Jennerian Society: She has
been- visited by Dr. Babington and Dr. Adams,
both of whom 'have been called to a sufficient
number of very had cases to be produced -as wit-
nesses, that Vaccination is not to be depended on
for mitigating-natural Small-pox, as the Vaccine.
Board assert.

Mr. Adams, apothecary, of Charlotte-street,
Fitzroy-square, has another case of failure, which
he does nat wish to conceal, and ;Mr. !larding of
Kentish Town, has a second" case in that vil-
lage. _ •

I mention 'these practitioners, that the Board
.may send their Agent to register the facts.
The prevalence of ,sn-iall-pox is notorious at
pi esent ; but permit nie to observe, that this serves
to prove either that Vaccinatiou has not been so
extensively employed as •the Board lids reported,
or that Vaccination 'Will not prevent the. Small-
pox ; for at onetime they assured us it had al-
most annihilated the disease.; and, if that was
true,a great many who reckoned themselves se-•
cure, must- have caught Small-pox,_ otherwise it
could not now be so prevalent.
It, is therefore expected that the worthy Presi-
dent, Sir I:riliiam Blizard, and other competent
Judges, will give us this year a Report which may
be understood and relied upon.
I am, Sir,
Your very humble servant, • Z.
P. S. The daughter of ----- Itobeits, carp'en-
ter, Maiisfield-place, Kentish Town, Cow'-poxed
ten years since, now lies dangerously ill of Small-
pox. Many more' about Oxford-street Market.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

MID LOTHIAN.

The weather this monthihas been such as in ordi-
nary yearS would have been considered tolerably
good. But the crops being so late, and different .
weather wanted-this season, of course it has been
very-backward and distressing, at the, same time.
very expensive to. the farmer, who has been ob-
structed by frosty night damps, from finish-.
ing the important work of harveft
The firt.three weeks was of this description,
the last ten days have been more favourable, and
a grc:lt quantity of grain has been carried home in
the Middle and npland parts of the county, tho'
a large portiOnof the pease, and also some oats,
are yet in the 'fields. •
Wheat sowing is bchindtbv reason 'of .the wet
state of the ground and the pptatpes being s 6 late
inrgetting up, they being the ordinary preparatory •
crop for wheat iii this district.

Grain of the different kinds 'has gradually ad-
vanced in value since the first of the month, and
is Dow,Ss. to 10s.. per boll dearer; what appears
in the market is cold and light `in the grains, be-
ing brought from the fields where it *naS been ex-
posed to the
.weather bygone. There is no doubt
that the best and heaviest kinds are stooked, and
will appear afterwards, and that whenever -the
weather clears ,up, there will be a reduction in
price.
The potatoes Was 21 full crop, but from the ex-
cessive consumption of them these two months
it is doubtful whether the stock lie 'greater
at present-for future use than last.year at this pe-
riot though time crop was much inferior to this.
Lean stock is still on the decline, but upon fat
inconsiderable.—Oct. I.