The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-06 00:00:00

fisture ages, and as an orn,uncnt to the land lie bled
for."

Dr. KetreScit,.a,very able Physician, resident in
' the Danish .Islands of Santa Cruz and Sr. Thomas,
in the West,lndiest,' has lately discoverci a new me-
' thod, and hitherto very successful, of treating the
fevers Of those Islands, so fatal to Europeans. His
process consists in friftions by oils. The:first. idea
of this he has, derived from the theory of DaCtor
Su szt„•,of Copenhagen, on the use of .oil in the
plague—a theory which is.46,he;found printed in
the Work of BALAWYN., Oreight Soldiets that
were entrusted to. the care of. Dr., Kt v"TscEt, six
were happily' delivered from: Os:fever, at the cnd
of 24. hours, by means of these fritlions. They
produced violent sweats, and always put a stop to
vomiting. The Daftor, in some particular cases,
rendered the virtues of the oil still more'efficacious,
by adding camphor. to it. This• disiovery is, of
course, very valuable, aitlielever cured is ',cerise-.
ly the same as that which.has trade such cruel" ra-
vages in St. Domingo.
Messrs. Las and KENNEDY, Botanists
.and 110
flits, of Hammersmith, near
"London, have lately
sent to the Museum of Natural History at. Paris an
assortment of too species,, or varieties, of different
shrubs, almost all foreign to Europe, and 'aborigi.
nals of the Cape of Good Hope. Only eight of these
Species ..were to be found in the National Ciillettioq.
and the major part of the oiheri have now been in-
troduced for the first time. They have arrived
safe, and are in the best state of preservation.—
They are all now, excepting
,two or three, in lull
vegetatiOn, put nut abundance of flowers, and pro..
um; the happiest growth. In return foi. this car-
go, the Directors of the Museum have transmitted.
to Messrs. Las and KENNEDY four chests Of vege.
tables, seleded froni among the novelties brOuglit
from the Antilles, by Captain BAUDIN,''ar4 from
among those of several other foreign countries.

- • • .
On Thursday night as a Gentleman was passing.
through the Mews,-a woman of the ;town forcibly
seized his g
arm,
and on disengagin'himself he miss.,
.ed a bundle of notes of considerable value from his
sidewocket., Believing .she had robbed .him,, he
called the watch, and.was giving her. in charge,,w hen
she begged he would return to tine gate leading to:.
Castle.ttreet,,and examine ,if he.had not dropped the
property. Agreeable to her advice, he .borroWed
. the watchman's, lanthorn, and after searching some'
time,, he- .disoovered the, notes. lying against die'
stables, and.overjoyed at his success, bid the.woutarv,
good night, though. he had` no doubt of her.having,.
placed them in such a situation..,
An Inqueit has been taken beforeMi:Sattrit
one of the Coroners, for Colchester,- infyietv of the
body of Mr:R. SIRJRA'NT,. of grerechutch, who
on Monday; shot himself through the head with a
pistol, and instantly expired. Verditi—Eriung.
On Monday, se'nnight an Inquest was held at
Gornal, in the parish of Sedgley, ,Derbyshire, !
the body of Joseph Maiston, an old ma,n, ‘vho was
knocked down and:gored by a bUll, one of the horhs
of the initital having paised.through his right thigh,
of which wound, after languishing for some daYs., he
expired.—Verdift, Accidental' Death.
On Monday last the following circumstance
took place in the New . Barracks, Hastings:: the.
Major of the 40th Regiment has a large gitasovi.
cious in its nature, with whom the soldiers were in
' the habit of playing. A fine young- man, servant .
of the Colonel, was teazing the anima) for a con-
siderable time, and .was: advised by many of his
`comrades' to desist, but he would not ; at leng
• the enraged animal got the unfortunate young
man against. a wall.. and, gored
..him so; dseadfuliY,
that he died..on .being taken to the .hospital. The
animal's horn • penetrated above the 'left knee, ran
up the thighs and dividing the sointum, passed,
into the abdomen, and tote 'out the bowcils....; The
unfortunate • suiferer was only :eightstetr. yoro of
age.. L 1,1;.; ;.-
On Tuesday last as the Artillery Company ofdlie:;
German Legion,was praaisinkfiring with shot at a I
hill near Weymouth,,sone of the shot took an unex.
peeled side dire Alon, and .triick-6bi of the artil.
lery.men's arms off, and so wounded his side that
his life is deipaired of. ' 't .

The langevity. of PARR and kr!o'vvn to
all ; but the extreme. old ade of Inotsiiss'NOnstNN
has escaped the attention .Of hisvriar:- The
tablet to his memory is in•Trritiliqton Cliurchlard,
with this short inscription

f'i e ~

I ,542.
" ariiol4 AS Ntionttaw, aVd'Js3.'►
This stont WAS re: ficeti in 177 I; to preserve tht
secolleaiun of this rern4tleablc prolongation of hu-
man file.

A few days sieee clic' by jAmes Shtt'z ti,
Ga'rdener, affiarklteWati, near Tideswelf, in Der.
hyshire, three P4.tagonian cucutnt?ers, weighing tb.
gethet iiity".five pounds eight canes; the leat,t 'of
which measured ttiki feel-eleven inches round, the
second three feet one'inchjoana, atul the largest
three eret eleven inches round.

On Saturday the 221 ult. there Was dug. up i,n a
field at Leonard's I L;►Il, near. Perth, a potatoe of the
early Chau►paign kind; weighing no leis tha'n 29
ounces. /\t the same, coot, there, were a great 111)(11.
bet' besides, tio►Tme of them'. not
,less than, otne'or ten
ounces.

Saturday sennight a dextrous Villain stole a gen.
tleman's trunk from. tie hick part of the Bristol
caravan, on the road between Pyle and ..INleath,
which he carried off unpereeivett.. The trunk, how.
ever, being soon missed, .the" robbery wits imme.
diately made known, and after about half an hour's
search, it was. found by a woman in an unfrequented
spot, nearly a quarter of a mile from the road,
wrapped up in a .bag. It had been oper...d, and eight
guineas in cash taken out ; but frotwan anprehen_
sion, probably, of subsequent discovery, the tallow
left -zOl. in notes untouched.