The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-28 00:00:00

Resist the rage of BLJONAPARTE

! whndrons potence of 'EfIREE STICKS,
To baffle all the Tyrant', tricks !
And allvays will he dread the stroke,
When dealt by TIiiSTLF., SHAMROCK, OAKS

SOUTI-1 AMERICA.

TRINIDAD, MAY 3.—The remainder of the un-
fortunate expedition from the Revolutionary cip-'
yerninc.dt of Caraccas, or Venezuela, after, suiter27
ing-the miseries of famine, .have , surrendered to
the Royalists 2t Guiana,'at discretion. ,Miranda,
it appears, had nothing to do with this expedition.
He was all the while at Caraccas,. in a_ state of
retirement, . •

a felucca, arrived from I'oi-to:Rice, we are
happy to learn that the insurgents in Mexico have-
been completely dispersed. They had succeeded
in cutting off the co►nmunicatiou between-the c%-
pital and Vera Cruz, for some time, and even
nien?.ced the latter city. The Viceroy; Venegas,
sent against therii an army' of nine thousand men
from the city of Mexico. . This, force had attack-
ed the insurgents just .at the time when -the'news.
was received of the arrival at Vera. Cruz
.of the-
troops from OW Spain. The insurgent army
were so panic-struck, that they made scarcely any
resistance, but dispersed in every dircetiOn, leav-
ilig the whole of their artillery and ammunition
in the hands of the Royalists.

Yesterday 'accounts'.were received from Cura-
Coa to the 211th of May. By these we learn, that
a Government foITV from Coro, ba-Cing obtained
pOs'session of NTlencia, :General MIRANDA,. was
proceeding .-against that city with all; the troops
could collect, in. order, if posible, to re-
take it.

Lettei:s. from Buenos Ayres were received yes-
terday to the 28th Of April. .TheJtinta, it ap-
pears,
•entertained apprehensions, thafthe British
GoVernment intended to join their opponents at
Monte Video. In -the thean time, trade was
quite at a stand, and ships cotild not get loaded ;
eta the Monte Videans, 'having the command_ of
the river, prevented any cfaft passing to and froth
Buenos Ayres with hides and tallow.
Advices from. Vera Cruz to "the 17th of. May,
enableus to state,Aliat there is no longer any ap-
prehension for the_security of that part e South
America. The Insurgents' had been defeated on
every dc6asion ; and ultimately so reduced, that
there was little probability of their-being able
again to make head to any extent. A town had
recently been taken by the- Government forces,
in which they found six millions of dollars ; the-
only strong place left the Ins.utents was-.expect-
ed to fiat every day. lit was known to,contain
upwards of eight millions of.dollars.
Though nn official account has been received of
the destruction which the dreadful convulsions of
nature have occasioned in the Caraccas, yet from,,
private letters we learn, ,that the melancholy
events have not -been exaggerated in the reports
hitherto given. It has.been already stated that.,,
at the time when this fatal occurrence happened,'
the people were at mass, it being Holy Thursday,
and the anniversary of the day on which they
published their declaration of independence, Be-
sides the vnst havoc of public buildings &c. up
wards of eight thousand inhabitants, _according to
a general estimate, fell a sacrifice on the occasion.
At St. Vincents, the noise, eruptions, and flames,
that issued from the crater of the mountain, gave
an alarm to the people, and enable,' them to eva."
cCate their plantations, and retire with their Ne-
groes and cattle from its neighbourhood to
town, where no apprehension. of farther danger:
prevailed. The Botanic Garden was not materi-
allyi»jured -by tile ashes, which not only over-
spread St. \Tincents, but, as has been. mentioned,
Barbadoes, Martinique, St. Lucia, and Doininica,
the vegetation of which has severely sutfered,--
We are also inforMed, by private letters, that the
report of the Diamond Rock having been in flame.;
is not well founded.. The hot springs of 7.\-larti-
nique, Doininiea, andMontserrathavebeen much
agitated. Mount Soutfrier; at Guadaloupe, has a
crater, at the top from smoke has continu-
ally issued for some time, and hence it is thought
as there is a vent there and at Montserrat, no for-
midable eruption need be apprehended; bdt a hur-
ricane generally is expected-, from these circum-
stances, in the course of the year,
YORK, JULY 26.—The 'business on the Crown
side finished yesterday afternoon. Only one pri-•
soner received' sentence of death, aitd that' sen-
tence will be Commuted to imprisonment. • Mr.
Justice BAXLEY said, he should nut filially dis-
charge either the Grand or Petit Juries, as their -
services might possibly be wanted again,. It was
the intention of the Judges to continue the As-
sizes by adjournment, that, • if the state of the
county should require it; they might resume the
Assizes, and try such pCrsons as shotild be cnin-
mitted ; but he misted there would be no occa-
siOn for this. Several' of the rioters have been
tried, and some of them found The York
herald, to a report of the trial, has-subjoined the,
folloavir paragraph :—" It may be proper here•
to add, that the most perfect order and decorum
prevailed in the. Court during the whole of the
trials for -rioting ; and there is in the City no •
tare parade, nor any thing to indicate that the
county is not in a state of the most profound tan-
quility and security."
At the Hay market Theatre .last night, a Gen-
• ,
tleman sitting cause to the Or 'thestra in the Pit,
fell down in an apoplectic fit, and in an instant
expired. Medical assistance was imme:liaiely pro-
cured, but in vain. lie was recognised to be V.
\VARNER, Esq: one' of the Gentlemen U.ihers or
the King's Privy Chamber. Notice was sent to
his'house in Poland-street, but the body remaius
at the Theatre for the view of the Curmer's. in-
quest. .

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,

I fin 1, by your -Paper of Thursday last, that
more Anti-vaccinists begin to wince ; even Mr.
BIRCH, Surgeon Extraordinary to the PRINCE
REGEN r, has started for.th.
As this Gentleman chooses to dwell a little
longer on the case of Mr. Moaal.s's daughter, he
shall be indulged. He has tried to correct my
statement, and insists that the child had actually
fever during three days, and that the eruption
turne:l on the seventh instead of the sixth day:—
This e ‹aggeration of the -symptoms is of no act-
va.nta to. him in the argument; for I shewed, and
Mn Birch cannot contradict me, that the child
was ant vaccinated according to the established
rules-of •ound practice : and consequently what-
ever degree of fever or of variolous eruption
might afterwards take place, ought to be
puted to the mistake of the, practitioner, and not
to Vaccination. I shall illustrate this by what too
frequently_occurs to_ another class of patients )vitli
whom Mr. Birch is probably more conversant-PT-.
must have seen cases where mercury had-be-en
injudiciously employed, and in which the malady'
recurred : and yet Mr. Birch' never laid the fault
of these failures upon mercury, which he knows to
be a specific : this charge is only made by adver-
tising quacks, who are unworthy of his imitation.
I therefore hope-that he will not again bring for.
ward a child imperfectly vaccinated as an example
of the inefficacy of Vaccination. And if he is se-
riously anxious to know whether those who are
properly vaccinated are secured from Small-pox,
he has ample opportunities. He need only go to
any of the. nine Vaccine Stations whicli are ap-
pointed by Government, and where some thousand
children are annually vaccinated ; thkir names and
places of. abode are all registered, and I defy him
to detect a single individual of the whole,, who
ever contracted the Small-pox. I assertthis upon
pretty sure grounds; because- it :was stated by the
Board of the;chief Officers of the-Royal Collges of
Physicians and Surgeons of London, in their re-
port to Parliament.
Idle rumours cannot be alleged iniopposition to
authentic documents, published by authority; and
this leadslne to take notice of one paSsage in Mr.
Birch's-Letter 'ivhich surprised me. He asserts,
that." at Ringyvood, Missenden, Widfordi Brigh-
ton, Cambridge, and Grantham, so Many -have
died of Small-pox after Vaccination, that in some
of those -places the funerals have been performed
during the night." This.,assertion ought certainly
not to have been made but on substantial grounds.
It is a strange tale, nod Mr. Birch must excuse
me if I cannot credit it without proof. It too
much resembles the gross invention of the Ox-
faced Boy, the detection of which covered some
of the principal An ti-vaceinists•With'
graze- I therefore call upon him to produce
credible evidence of the facts he has asserted,
which he has no excuse for eluding, as he has vo-
lanLirily thrust himself. forward on this occa-
don.

I regret that I have unintentionally hurt his
pride 't)y promulgating, that no eminent surgeon
now vrac.tised. Small-pox inoculation. This he
ec.lnnlains of, and says, " I Must consider it as
applied to myself." This- exclusive assumption
chews that Air. Birch considers himself as the only
eminent surgeon of that class. I know not how
his coadjutors will relish the admission ; but on
this occasion, with a trifling exception, I am pre-
cisely of Mr. Birch's mind.

To know ourselves has been considered as no easy
matter, and others must judge Whether Mr. Birch
has accomplished the difficulty. ills pretensions
are certainly lofty, for he boasts of ‘‘ having uni-
formly aM steadily maintained an opinion against
all the Colleges of Medicine in these United King,
doms." He who does this, must be completely.
satisfied that he enjoys •a pre-eminent capa-
tity. Let him:display this. superiority of men-
tal powers by proving that " all the Medical
Colleges of Great Britain, and all those in Christ-
endom are in the wrong. Let him produce evi-
dence that such -numbers of children, died of the
Sma,ll-pox, after regular • Vaccination that day-
light did not suffice for their burial ; and, finally,
let him F..liew clearly that all he writes is.the ge-
nuine dictates of his

CONSCIENCE:

In the Edinburgh Court of Session, Henry
Spiess, Jesx - traveliing merchant, brought his
action against the Proprietors 'of the Dumfries
Mail, for, 6mages sustained by the overturning
the coach, by which be was confinectin his room
four months. The Proprietors contended, if there
was any blame,, it was attributable to the guard,.
_ who was not their servant, but the servant of the
Post Office,
.whose commands the driver was
boand to obey. Judgment against the Proprie-
tors---Damages 1001.
,On Wednesday night last, about twelve o'clock,
Hincheliffe, of ilolmfirth, near Huddersfield,
wts roused from ,his sleep by a loud knoeking at
the door. Oa inquiring what was the cause of
this, a person, without, asked if Hinelieliffe
lived there % He dresseu himself, and opened
the (low-, when he was desired by two men to
lead them to a certain place ; 'they then escorted
hint down a neighbouring lane. He desired
to know their motive for conveying him that
road ; .one .of the men told him, he heard he
had been giving information resi„eting the
Luddites; this he denied. The convertiation was
interrupted by a horse (which .%Vas, loose in the
lane) galloping near them, which alarmed the ruf-
fian's, and gave Hinchliff'e an opportunity of es-
caping ; one of the men fired at him, and lodged
. -
a piece.of lead in his-eye ; the eye is entipely lost,
and his head much bruised ; he, however, had the
good fortune to reach a friend's house. About
ten weeks ago, . Hinehliffee had a conversation
with a person of the name of Scholefield, who en-
deavoured to persuade him to be twisted in as one
of General Ludd's men„, threatening, that if he
made any discovery of the matter, be would be
put to death. Suspicion of course fell on Schole-
'field, as one of the persons, and on inquiry' it
was found he had absconded.