The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-27 00:00:00

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IGHT Superfine BEAVER HATS, at only
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public notice.-415, STRAND.
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TO T. TAYLOR, Esq. N0..9, New Bridge-stret, London.
HONOURED
IBEG leave to inform you, that ever since the
year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal,
which, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine
prescribed by the most eminent of -the faculty here, and un-
dergoing severalsevere courses of salivation, and 'twice dis-
charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to
be of the mast inveterate nature. In tbc spring of last year
my -disorder had got to such a head, as nearly tol3rit a period
to my existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head,
one on each arm, and my legs were broke Out in a frightful
wanner; my right was dreadfully -painful, and had been in a
state of ulceration for the last seven years; my left had also
two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave
me such excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed,
as nearly to deprive me of rest; io this lamentable state, I
was recommended by Mr. .1. Thompson, (who received so
great a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills,
which- I began to do on the 2Gth 0. May; in the coarse of'a
fortnight I began to receive benefit -in little more than a
month t be ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed—
soon after, the sores OM my legs healed also ; leaving, how-
ever, considerabladiscolouration in the skin, and pain in the
bone of the left, which, by the blcs;:ing, of God, awl a little
longer perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided ;
the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural hue,, and
the nocturnal pains gradually going olf.—l thus became, by
your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free front all my
former complaints—have recovered my former spirits a nd
strength, and am become jolly and fat, in which state having
continued many months, to the astonishment of c,ll who knew
me, I am at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, lint
beg you, for the good of other suffering mortals, to make
this my case as public asyossible, as I shall on every occa-
sion; in so doing-yon will greatly oblige,
Sirs your grateful, obedient , very humble servant,
ALEX. NI IJRKER
Swan's; Close,- High-street, Edinbuigh.
Witneses to the above Cure:—

John 3, New Poultrplarket; Edinburgh,

'John Mgotosh, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. -
Prepared'and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY.
LOR, Member of the .loyal College • of . Surgeons, at his
house, N0..9, New Bridge-street, 'London; whine, after a
constant residence of more than 40 years, in a practice parti-
culathy directed to the cure of Venereal Complaints and those
incidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable
secrecy which men of his profession should always observe in
such cases, he flatters himself the advice and assistance he
gratuitonOv administers to persons taking this Medicine, will
be sestet bid, by a discerning Public, as an advaetage seldom
attainable, android of alt ambiguity.
Also sold, by his appointment, tor the convenience of those
li'Ving at a distance, at the Toysbop, No. 103, Oxford-street;
Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. Baxters,
SOuth-ht idge, Edinburgh • Mt. CatlwelPs, Dublin; and on
one pert an in every considerable town in Great Britain wad
Ireland, in boxes of only 4s. yd. each, stamped, and sealed up
with full. anti plain directions, whereby persons, of either
sex inal cure themselves with eases Epeed,seokey, tsad safety.

In the course of his lively narrative, Captain
Korzesue details many particulars respecting the
social condition ut the Persians, which had either
escaped the.tiotice of former travellers, or had been'
'dismissed by them as not of sufficient importance
to merit attention. It but too tierpiently happens
that such particulars, though they COHSlhute the
principal charm in works ottbis kind, are omitted,
from an erroneous notion of their insignificance.
Many things which strong!Tattract the attention
of a stranger at hisfirst entrance into a foreign
country, soon become familiar by their daily re-
currence ; and he is but too apt to exclude ail
Mention of them in his recital, as mere matters
of course, which, as they have ceased to interest
him, will be regarded with indifference by otheri.
T 0 avoid this error the present writer has wisely
adopted the plan of a Journal, to which he seems
to have committed every remarkable incident, or
change of scene at the instant when it presented
itself;. and by thus commemorating his first im-
pressions he has not o,ply enriched his portraiture
by a multitude of fresh object**, but 'hart-placed
others, which were already known, in a new and
more strltiOg point of view.
From a work so replete with anecdote and de-
scription, it would not be difficult to select a va-
riety of entertaining passages which would not
safer by being. given in a detached form. For the
present, however, we shall content ourselves with
single extract ; and, as our 'Fair 'ReaderS, no
dol4,bt, feel much interest respecting the beautiful
Stranger who races the suite of his Excellency;
AaUL HASSAN KHAN, and maybe curious to know
something of her general mode of life, we shall
offer to theM the following particulars relative to
the Ladies of Persia. On perusing them they will
find additional re .son for congratulating thetn-
selves on being natives of England :
" The costume of women (some of whom we
saw during our journey, notwithstanding the stern
Asiatic jealousy with which they are watched) is
very ugly: they wear pantaloons of enormous
width, hanging down to their heels, and i short
dress, reaching to the krie: ; their whole figure is
shrouded in a black veil, :Ltd their faces are
thickly bedaubed with paint, The higher classes
wear stuffs and shawls, and the rest calicoes.
" The whole arf and endeavour of a Persian

woman is directed to-the single object of 'pleasing'
her lord ; aird as some fifty or sixty women have
Ti) contend for that honour at once, it is not dif-
ficult to guess what a theatre of intrigue a seraglio
must he. Although a harem may be styled a
terra incognita, since no mortal can know what is
going on there, and the woman who has once
passed its threshold has renounced the world for
ever, yet opportunities now and then occur of
heating somet;ling about its unhappy inmates.
,In
the ,First place, the seraglios are built in such a
manner, that it is impossible to peep into them
from any elevated situation. even at a distance.
The principal entrance is guarded by women, and
the attendance is otherwise performed by females.
The poor women, Who bate each other mortally,
are lodged so closely to each other, that not one
of them can utter a word withont its being heard;
and those who mieht hope to eileviate their grief
by mutually cOnfidiog their woes to each other,
would certainly be overheard by their ever-listen-
ing neighbours, and by-them betrayed to their
master. If, to divert thealallness of solitude, a
woman should chance to sing, sh'e is laughed at
by the others. The woman who bears a son unto
her lord; receives the honourable appellation• of
wife .; and,, presuming not a little upon that dis-
tinction, she strives to place herself abort; the
others, who spurn her assumed superiority, and
claim redress from their lord, by pleadifig greater
youtfii or more beauty. In short, these poor
creatures pass the whole day at iheir toilet, each
sighing and hoping that in the evening she May
be the selected- object of attention. The follow.
ing particulars, relating to the domestic economy
of the harems, have been derived from respectable
sources : A Persian is boomd by religion and.ctia-
tom, not only to maintain and clothe his Women
in the best manner, but also to allow them con-
siderable pin-money: There are women who deny
themselves many-little comforts, and save their
allowances, of which they afterwards secretly
convey the amount by some eunuch to their lord,
and such are then certain of being selected. Thus
the men sell themselves to their own women. It
may easily be conceived what sort of 'Morality
reigns in these harems. Udfortuuately children
remain there with their mothers owll they are
- eight or ten years of age. ‘Vitt do they pat see

and hear there ? They are also not unfrequrn'ly
employed to draw, by innocent solicitations, their
father's attention to their mother. ,Whether it be
possible or not to manage an intrigue its a harem,.
is a point which I .will not undertake to decide ;
but I heard that there have been instances of pith
things, and I even saw. paintings representing
something of that kind. When through. wars, or
other causes, the men are compelled to absent
themselves, it is scarcely possible that the harems
should enjoy a quiet interregnum : it then be-
comes feasible to bribe the eunnch ; and it is said,
in particular, that blind men, cut a figure in these
;intrigues. Unaware of the places 'o which they
are led, they are kept in cellars until opportuni-
ties offer to convey them away. With the con-
sent of the eunuch these matters must be easy to
arrange. The.women are particularly solicitous
about the health of their lord, for when be dire
they are shut up during The remainder of their
lives. A child who hits lived until. its tenth year
rio a harem, witnessing, ifs mother's conduct., can-
not remain attached to its parents, since its af-
fection has not been cemented by respect. A boy
on leaving the harem enters the world, and after-
wards seeks every 'opportunity to seduce his fa.
ther's women, in which he is not unfrerwently as-
sisted by his mother. There are instances of this,
and children are-on that account forbidden -to sec
their mothers. But enough of these enormities,
which I should perhaps have allowed to remain
untold ;on perusing the-m, however„ the reader
may join with me in thanking Providence for hav-
ing been born in a country where the dignity of
woman is respected"

SCOTLAND

GFNERriL

, .
'EDINBURGH, MAY 24.—0 n Saturday the Corn.
mittee appointed to answer the,Prince Regent's
letter presented their rePoir, which was read; and,
after being .dOnsidered and read over paragraph by
Nragrdph, was aKrestl to. The same Committee
presented the tit-aught-of an. address to the Prince
Regent, on thecnliiiiined illness of his 11Ia.frsty
and the'ffitich--laute)ited death Of her Majesty the
Queen, which was-also agreed 10. The answer
to the Royal Letter, and the, address wes,e then
ordered to.be.scined by. 14 Moderafor, and his
Grace the Commissioner liiidt:rtook to transmit
'them ,to the Seeretaty. of.State,for..the Home De-
.part ment, to be hitt before Lis Royal Highness
the Prince Regent.'
The Committee for revising Commissions pre.
sewed their Report, when the Commissions from
the Burghs of Dumfries and Invyrary were re-
jected, on account of cevain informalities, and the
Commissioners' .names were -ordered to be struck
'off
the roll. • •

The Assembly agreed to, t4e- tip 90,5.0rday
(this day) the cause of the Trinity Chapel, 'Abtr.
deco—the cause of Chryston .Chapel—and the
cause of Mr:..: Rohert Burton, choolmaster at

The Assembly, taking into their consideration
that parties are often negligent in ininging\their
causes in due time:before,the Assembly, by which
the business of the Assembly is unnecessarily de-
layed, on the motion of Dr. Inglis, a Committee
was appointed to take under their consideration
the 1718, respecting tbe•dispatch of business
before the Assembly, and to consider what addi-
tional orders and regulations noiy be necessary to
be made in order to bring before the• Assembly,
on the first - Saturday atter their meeting,. a view
of all the business which may aherwards come
under their consideration, and. to report to the
Assembly on same day 'before i's rising.
In consequence of the recommendation in the
letter of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent
to this Assembly, respecting • the increase of
crimes and the education of the poor ; and in
pursuancerorthe pkrige given by the Assembly in,
their answer to the said letter, it was moved by
Dr. M‘Gill, Professor of Divinity in tire Univer-
sity (if Glasgow, -and onanimonsly agreed to, that
a Commit* he appointed to take under their
tonsideratinn the mvst effectual method for pro-
viding the-means of religions instruction for the
unhappy persOns confilied in our prisons and
bridewells, 'and fir the performance of religions
worship in these places, and also for the erinea-
tion of the pour, particularly in large and 'po.
pulorts cities.
After appointing several Committees, the Ass!
•
sembly adjourned till Monday.