The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-17 00:00:00

wR,AOc; ItOLDER.

Mr. Setjeant SHEPIIE AD moved, that theßule to
ihew CaUSC in ehis case should be enlarged.
,
a,uppott the necessity'of well an application, he read
an Affidavit, stating, the seriooki indisposition of a
Gentleman whose presence in Court was indispen..
81E4 necessary.

Mr, Sesjeant Ilcsr resisted thin application, on
the ground that his Witnesws had been subrcznacci
to come to town from Leatherhead, and the delay
would considerably increase the. expence to which
they would be liable, The Aetion had been for
goods sold and delivered, and the defence '‘,/ as the
beet, in the world, moldy,' that the gond, hart never
been delivered, and that consequently there was
not a farthing owing.—gtat enleAfgeds

hardly
..atEvtoT JaR, i to he. c.reditel
.10'w much this excellent sort' of sheep bo4 bun
'proved by, the various breeders, ‘'‘',ho' have slireeted
their at tenlion to 'Oar ohjett,. both or, the borders
and in the northern parts of Scotland, The excel.
lence of their 'fliseee is 'well known, and • tbi blur
and size of the COMC has'been so much iMproved
as tt) 'ktth, when fully fed, as high a price as '3t.
raCh. 'A wed,ler of the pure Cheviot breed, was
hihited and kiikd, 4r the' show of sheer held it
Comp.tiottsc, nesr Edgerton, on the 4:h of Squeal.
iteniber last, and weighed as follows

SC Lb. St. Lb.
1.11;:! vNigb: c> El-104ils t .11
'1•11,..: tuu (inait- 7 rq,- S.trp r 7
"f:IIICY,i in Skin Ij!
8i01.41.1
This shevp w4s bred at a farm called ,'Langtriall,
in Caithness, and was bought by Mr. Geo. Currie,
of liallruie, near jedburgh,.on the isth Ckt. i Boi,
,at two'years old. The price was at the rate of if..
61. `Ali soonas bought, he wAs laid upon tornipi,
and kept on them for z 6 weeks.; he was afietwards
it on common -pasture with the farmer's stock
,sheep ; again put on turnips about the pit of cNo.
umber, 1803,, and kept on thens till the beginning
tif April ; and then kept with the other stock
sheep. on,.common .parturef: till he .was killed. No
varticukr attention Wai paid to feeding him high ;
bill AS he,throve well, Mr.,CurriithOught it would
right to bring:lnm ,to the show, tiwar it might
lbe seen to what periatinn the breeding of the Che.
viol sheep wait: brought in the North.
Specimens of the 1...eic..4 ter, South Down, the bor.
tier Chtviot, and the black faced or forest breeds
were. exhibited at CaMp-hoose at, the same time,'
none of which .secined to give, greater, satit.faetiorr
than the'one.above desailied.

J!IL
tir 111 Z aU,v.

STR,

Actuated !by a sincere: wish to alleviate the
fcring%, of my fonw.creaturet of ala rriks,,' l have
been induced to offer a few observations,. throtti2s,
the medium of your Paper, on the dreadful ['milady
Which prevails at Gibraltar, and which , has spread
such 'terror and devastation in that Garrison. A
long esidence and extensive prattite in the WeSt
Indies. where a fever somewhat of similar na.
tore, not long since, swept off a vast number of our
brave troops and-seamen, enable me to express my
sentiments with the greater confidence..
The disease in question appears evidently, I
-think, to be the Typhus Gravior or what haslieen
denominated 'the ',jail or Malignant Fever, and is
ascertained to have been conveyed to Gibraltar
by some Spaniards, who broke 'through the-cordon
which was placed round Malaga. From a number.,
of coneurring‘circumstanirsomch asgreat preEeding
heats, occasioning probably a somewhat deranged
state of the atmospliere ; a numerous popti.lation,
erowdedtogether in confined situations and small
houses,- inattentive to proper cleanliness and a free
ventilation ; a negled of separating the infected
from the healthy', and of cutting off all utineeessary
comMtinication -between. rhent ; and the effi6ciiitis.
means not having tieen early resorted to lot subduing
ur eradicating the contagion, this fever has now
accOred a degree of virulence and 'malignancy equal
to the plague 'itself. -
That the dis Order is highly contaginus, fatal ex..
perience has too clearly evinced, and !lOW it could
possibly have been "thought On its first
appearance, by the Medical Staff of the. Garrison,
is truly astonishing ; as all revers of the tyvh,iii
class (to which this es itkntly;belongs} are uni.,
versally admitted to be capabk. of being ptopa.
gated ftem one individual to another,' either, by'
contafi, or by in!ia.lin* the-effinvia 'atising ftom
the body of a diseased .petson ; or from-, linen,
clothes, and other articles strongly -impregnated
with their miasma.
Universal weariness, lassitude, faintness, great
depression of striioll, severe pains in the back
arid head, particular:), in the forehead and 'Sockets
Of the eyes ; titbits, succeeded by universal heat,
thirst, a l arched tongue, 'somewhat coated with
a brown tor.; nausea, with now and then a vomit.
ins of, Inliims matter ; costiveness, laborirens res.
•
piration, accompanied with a deep sighing. ; "a small
but quick pulse (its pulsatiort being from too to
14.0 in a minute), slight wanderings, incoliertoey,
and cOma, are the must usual sympt4msat,tendant-
on this fever; but? in its vcty advanced.stage,
.those,,
o tiuttescency are observable. In some .cases the.,
progress'of
,the disease is so rapid as to destroy the
patient before the fourth day. , .
Having pointed out what Z conceive to be the
true nature; of the,,:,dtiorder,-, anti noticed the.
appeatances most, frequotly, to, be met with, I
proceed to recommend a mode of tr'eatrnent which.
have pursued in all,fea.er.r of a malignant. nat#,p,
With the, most happy. suCcesA ; for I never 164. a.
patient, where my advice is applied for at an'eaily!
period.
If the person is incommoded 'by nausea Or vo.
tithing, Offhis seizure with this fever, 1 would're.
commend the Contents- of hitstoMach robe evacu.,
aced, by directing him to drink a Sew ctOs Of it•
stronginfusion' of camomile flowersi in preference!
to his in emetic, either ippecaenanha or
tartarized antimony ;• which medicines seem load:
visablei 'from the great irritability of this organ,
! which is apt spontaneously .to ensue. If nausea.
does not prevail, then the first step,to he adopted,
should,be to clear the bowels of 'AL feculent mat.
ter, by a sufficient,dose , calomel, :the ,operation.
of. which may be: rendered' mote certain acid qaicke
by an bdditiun of a few grains of the-iextrad et co.
loquinteda, .
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