The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
He who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthfu I channs,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man !" •
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SELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders, originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating In Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration.
By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
14 BEDFORD-STREET, REDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecary's Hall, London,&c.

" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, ai e frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of ne appeal even
to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.

The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title,
and we cordially recommend the author and kis book to all who are
suffering frost nervous debility and general weakness."—Wakefield
Journal. . -

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UNPARALLELED ACTIVITY IN THE BOOR TRADE.—
About a fortnight since, a. young man neatly dressed,
with something of the air of a Dissenting minister or
country schoolmaster, called at the shop of Messrs. Light
and Ridler, the well-known booksellers and librarians in
High-street, Bristol, and inquired how often they were
in the habit of writing to London for books. The answi r
was " every evening." In that case he would trouble
them to order for him six dozen of a sixpenny pamphlet,
entitled the "Biter Bit," the parcel, when received, to be
sent to Mr. John Duncan, No. —, Stoke's Croft. In the
course of the same day, a young bookseller, who gets his
parcels through Messrs. Light and Ridler, sent to re-
quest they would get 100 copies of the " Biter Bit."
On receiving this additional order they concluded that
this, to them unknown publication, was some religious
tract of surpassing interest. The next day Mr. C., who
carries on the same business• in Clare-street, called, and
after a few remarks in his usual facetious style, as to the
state of trade, &c., asked if they had any orders for the
" Biter Bit." " Why, yes;" and so on comparing notes
it appeared that Mr. C. had been favoured by Mr. Dun-
can, of Kingsdown House, with an order for six dozen.
An adjournment was then moved and carried unanimously
to the house of Mr. 11., a brother chip, whose private
residence is on Kingsdown, and he, on examination,
while professing utter ignorance of any Mr. John Dun-
can, of Kingsdown, owned a slight acquaintance with a
gentleman of that name, resident in Stoke's Croft, for
whom he had the previous evening ordered too copies of
a pamphlet called the "Biter Bit." Mr. C., who had
not dispatched his order, indulged in a loud guffaw ; the
countenance of Mr. Light grew dark and heavy, while
Mr. Ridler seemed in all the painful throes of solving a
most difficult conundrum. In a few minutes investiga-
tion was the order of the day ; domiciliary visits were
paid all the bihliopolists of Bristol, and an inquiry con-
ducted with a celerity, minuteness, and acattuness, which
a Home Secretary or an Assistant Poor-law Commis-
sioner would have envied, concluded in ascertaining the
gratify ing fact that Mr. John Duncan had been per •
fectly impartial in the distribution of his favours. None
in the trade were too high or too humble -to escape, his
patronage. About 3,000 copies of the " Biter Bit " have
been obtained at, his request. By some mistake he has
up to the present moment neglected to call, pay, and
take away the interesting pamphlet, which, so far from
being of either a religious or political character, is an
unmitigated farrago of
.nonsense, detailing the quarrels
of two itinerant lecturers.—Great Western Advertiser.

Lime spots on woollen cloths may be completely
removed by strong vinegar.

GLOBE.—The bombardment of Tangiers—even
though the active intelligence should lack confirma-
tion—would be sufficiently threatening to the dura-
tion of peace, with which the essential interests of
England and France are identified. There is, how-
ever, hope that war yet will be averted. The forbear-
ance of Lord Aberdeen is proverbial. The lamb-like
patience that has hitherto shown itself invulnerable,
still promises to be proof against this additional in-
stance of French aggression. The Herald—which,
in all the qualities that separates our Foreign Minister
from the sympathies that have been roused
throughout the nation against the reiterated inso-
lence and injuries of France, bears a striking resem-
blance to its patron and prompter—bestows a reproof
upon us for our remarks on this now all-absorbing
event. Tangiers is not, it seems, of sufficient im-
portance to warrant a moment's regard from a nation so
great and glorious as England ! France may, accord-
ing to the Herald, be permitted to play what pranks
she pleases on the entire line of the African coast ;
bombard what towns she pleases, and occupy what ter-
ritory she pleases, without calling forth any expression
from England, beyond, perhaps, an expostulation uttered
with " bated-breath," against what cannot be altogether
approved. If a remark, prompted by surprise and
indignation at the indifference or pusillanimity which
characterises the Ministers of this, country, be
uttered, the complaint is met by the ready excla-
mation, " England is great; and Sir Robert
Peel is Minister ! " What necessity can exist for
uneasiness ; even though one event after another,
each indicative of the aggressive policy of France,
tread each other's heel ? " Who a afraid ?" The
Herald assigns a long string of reasons—some of
them very strange ones; which are adduced for the pur-
pose of snaking out a justification for ministerial for-
bearance :—" England has nothing to fear, in the vul-
gar sense of the word, from a war. At this moment
the surplus revenue of the country, beyond its expen-
diture, represents a capital of nearly one hundred
millions sterling, which might be doubled or trebled
if necessary, and true economy would dictate to engage
in war ' cum lota corpore regni,' should the cruel
necessity of war be forced upon us. - And not
only are -the pecuniary resources, but all the
other elements of military power at hand. We have
an ample, if not a redundant, population. We, too,
have a bold and high-spirited youth, whom we do not
always find it easy to provide for in peaceful occupa-
tions. We have an enormous amount of capital (the
Three per Cents. have been hovering about par), the
possessors of which would not be sorry for a more active
demand for it. We have manufacturers who do not
forget. _the prodigious fortunes acquired between
1793 and 1815; and agriculturists not unacquainted
with the prices of that period—even our labourers
sometimes think of war wages." What is this but a
repetition of the old story of the countryman, who
sought improvement of a good state of health, and be-
took himself to a quack ? To the questions, "Do
you eat well ?—Drink well ? —Sleep well ? "—the
answers were " Yes." "Oh !" said the quack, " I
will give you something which shall speedily cure you
of all that." The nation's " surplus revenue," derived
from the income-tax, will give place to formi-
dable deficiency. " A redundant population"
will be readily got rid of by the wholesale
destruction of life that is occasioned by war.
" The bold and high-spirited youth, for whom it
is not easy to find employment in peaceful occupa-
tions," will be provided for by commissions in the sud-
denly-raised fleets and armies that will be required in
the war, on a grand scale, which England is suffi-
ciently wealthy and powerful to undertake. " The
Three per Cents., which have been hovering about
par," will rapidly sink to 60 ; and the fundholders
" will not be sorry for a more active demand for their
capital," in the loans which the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer will be compelled to raise to provide the sinews
of war. " Our manufacturers," continues this profound
lecturer on the commercial advantages of war, " do
not forget the prodigious fortunes acquired between
1793 and 1815." The manufacturers who profited
by Clio war were chiefly those who fabricated the
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Government with the money raised by means of
enormous taxes imposed upon every imaginable article
consumed by the people. There are " agricultu-
rists who still remember the prices of that period.
Even our labourers," adds this approved Govern-
ment guide, " sometimes think of war-wages !"
Yes ; and these different classes, whom the Herald
represents as desirous of war, have also a salutary
recollection of the widely-spread ruin caused by a
return to peace, and to peace-prices. The immense
increase to the National Debt, and the perpetuity of
the immense load of annual taxation imposed on the
country to pay the interest of that sum ; with
the other numerous calamities which were entailed
upon the nation by the " just and necessary war," in
which England was engaged from 1793 to 1815 ; are,
we trust, sufficiently impressed upon the memories, and
seen and felt in the daily privations of the community,
to cause a renewal of war to be deprecated as a fearful
visitation, and an aversion of its threatened curse to be
anxiously hoped for, as a deliverance from the worst
of national evils. As to the insignificance of Tangiers,
on which the Herald expatiates, as a reason for
allowing the French to occupy it, and the
whole territory of Morocco, if they please,
without the remonstrance or interference of
England—we are happy to find that at present
there is no response to the disgraceful hint. It
would be a shorter and a less troublesome
course to surrender Gibraltar to the French, without
further question, than to allow England's power to be
frittered away by the occupancy of Tangiers by a
French army. Could not the dispute be arranged by
a French " Protectorate" being established on the old
rock, in order to keep the EngliSh in order, and as a
retaliation for some fancied affront to thegreat nation,
in not allowing them to do as they please upon it ?
STANDARD.--Whoever has had .the misfortune
to be intimately acquainted with an hypochondriac
(and it is a plague that few escape thratsgh life) must
be aware that there is nothing more unac-
ceptable to the sufferer from imaginary ma-
ladies than the plain, and what ought to be
the consolatory truth, that there is nothing
really the matter. Flatter his delusion, assure him
that he is in a dying state, and if friend'you will
be welcome, if physician well fed, and if relation
duly considered in the ready will : but dare to tell
the truth, promise length of days, recommend beef
stakes, port, and an excursion on the moors,
and you are sure to lose friend, patient, orin-
heritance, according to the relation in which . you
stand. Nor is it only in respect to bodily ail-
ments that this unreasonable hypochondria pre-
vails, though doubtless the high and palmy state of
medical quackery in' Our- day demonstrates its preva-
lence in that department. There are hypochondriacs
upon all subjects —every one remembers the doleful
gentleman in Goldsmith's pleasant comedy, who
always visited with his bitterest resentment, those
who told him that his fears and his resentments were
groundless. We are tempted to quote a passage for
the benefit of our Contemporary alarmists. "My dear
Honeywood—Look at this, it will freeze you with
terror—and yet my wife can read it—can read it,
and laughs." The friend appealed to gives no en-
couragement to fear, and our disappointed hypochon-
driac proceeds, " How, sir, do you maintain that
I should lie down under such an injury, and
show neither by my tears nor complaints that
I have something of the spirit of a man in
me ?" Whoever will compare this last touch-
ing appeal with some recent articles of the
Morning Chronicle, Times, &c., and, comparing,
will observe the community not only of principle,
but almost of phrase, between the apostrophe
of Goldsmith's humourist and the remonstrances of
our public instructors, will, we think, agree with us
that all nervous fancies are not limited to corporal
ailments, and that there is much quackery which has
no concern with pills, draughts, or lotions. The public,
in fact, always has been, and always will be a
complex giant hypochondriac. And the press, we
must say it to our shame, lives in a great
measure b 7 exciting the absurd fears of this
patient. fake the history of Great Britain for
the last fifty years—that history is, certainly,
one in which prosperity predominates. But be-
lieve the predictions of the press, and the coun-
try must have perished at least twenty years ago,
and had the suggestions of the press been adopted
twenty years ago or more, the country would,
in fart, have sunk to a third-rate power. It is
a remarkable fact, too, and one which must go
far to excuse the quacks of our order to worldly
judges, that the most persevering alarmists and
fault finders, and the most Uniformly bad advisers,
have always been and are, in a, commercial view,
pretty generally the most prosperous. If the ground
were not already occupied, it would be an ex-
cellent speculation to set up a journal with some
such motto as this—" How- art we ruined ?" and
to conduct the organ of woe upon a principle
of indiscriminate abuse, sneering and snarling at
every measure that did not emanate from the im-

On entering the baggage-room I found a landing-
waiter at a desk writing into a book the numbers
which had been affixed indiscriminately to each article
of luggage. There was only one man to search out
my things from the confused heap, which he could
only do with my assistance ; for the affixed numbers
did not follow each other in any sequence, and were,
therefore, no guide whatever. He then called out
my name with the numbers aforesaid, and the landing-
waiter entered them. The same man -had to open
and examine the trunks; I was not permitted even
to unlock them, still less to --.7..". 'le
w..
exaliination was ne-
cessarily very imperfect, although a good deal
of fussy and rather annoying roughness was dis-
played in pulling the clothes out of their pl ice and
crushing them down again without the slightest re-
gard to their smoothness, &c. This done, the trunk
was stamped by another landing-waiter, and when
all had gone through this process, they were taken to
another table to be again stamped and delivered.
There was a great deal of pretension made at " open-
ing everything," even down to a little parcel of a
dozen apricots. The whole process seemed as badly
arranged as possible. Nothing could be more use-
less than affixing random numbers to each article of
luggage, and then entering them into a book—a pro-
cess which alone took as much time as the whole
examination would have done in a Belgian, and still
more a Prussian, Custom-house. There being only one
man to search out the luggage of each person, open and
examine, it is perfectly absurd when we consider that
he has to perform the same duty for 80 or 100 pas-
sengers. There was no incivility shown beyond an
unavoidable degree of rough haste in going through
the examination, although the half surly silence of the
chief landing-waiter—a stout mlidle-aged man, who
did not vouchsafe a word beyond a monosyllable
or two to his sub—struck me as very different to
the 'cheerfol civility particularly of the Prussian
officers. , With them the business is much more
simple and short, and the baggage of a couple of
hundred railway Passengers is dispatched in the
same time that is required for a dozen by the mud-
dling and feeble arrangements of the London Cus-
tom-house. A circle of tables is formed round the
room, within which at least a dozen officers stand with
the baggage ; the passengers range themselves on the
outside with some more officers for stiltfurther expe-
dition ; the whole is done much more agreeably, and
with fifty times the dispatch ;
each article receives its
mark of having been examined, which is inspected by
two more officers at the doors ; and lam sure that
.1
speak within bounds when I say, that from the mo-
ment of my arriving at the station to my leaving it I
was not detained twenty minutes. E• R•
August 14, 1844.

THE "TARTAR
SO ----- I:I -
lER" IN
HYDE PARK.
L
On Saturday last, about five o'clock in the after-
noon, a very large numberof le, . .
peoples prinCi-
pally - military me; were attracted into Hyde
Park to witness the laorsemanship and mili-
tary exercises of a very
_ curious individual, a Tartar
soldier, formerly in a Mahomedan. regiment of cavalry
osi, it
in the Russian service, who, it was understood, would
exhibit himself and his horse in front of the Horse
Guards barracks. Accordingly, at five o'clock, or
adpegpe:ee d
to t o d actire e t a
hiss hism i
shortly
.after, -the Tartar made his appearance, ac-
companied by several gentlemen on horseback, one
rpenrtset, and
interpreter, and
in some h°
m
large space of ground fur his evolutions was cleared
out and kept, as the term is, by
of
w
the privates of the
2d Regiment of Life Guards. The Tartar is a
good-looking man, apparently between twenty-five
and thirty years of age, of an athletic frame, with con-
siderable squareness of limb, but with no superfluous
flesh. He stands about five feet ten inches in
height, and may weigh about 13 stone. He was dressed
in a tight fitting tunic of rose-coloured silk, wadded,
and capable of resisting a bard blow; very loose
trousers, drawn tightly round his legs just below the
knee, and met by tight black boots
almost resembling
long gaiters. On his head was a sheepskin cap of
black wool, similar to those worn by the Persians
who were in the suite of the Persian Ambassador
when in this country a few years ago.
He had
mustachios on the upper lip. Ilis arms consisted
of a pair of pistols, which, in the course of his
performances, lie repeatedly discharged, and a pole
about ten or a dozen feet long, which
he used as
a lance, throwing it with considerable force when
galloping, and with so correct an aim, that had it not
been for the quickness and agility of the gentleman
who volunteered to be the object of his aim, and who
was also on horseback, a broken head or a fractured
bone would probably . have been the result. We
believe 'this part of his practice is what is called
throwing the " djereed." The Tartar also dis-
plays considerable skill in lifting this weapon from
the ground without dismounting, but this he
performed without putting his horse in motion, mak-
ing him stand still whilst he recovered his weapon.
He also threw himself off his horse while at the
top of his speed, and vaulted again into the
saddle with great ease. The performances were
very well in their wav, but nothing that cannot be
done, more especially tlie equestrian feats, by a large
proportion of the men in our cavalry regiments, and
by hundreds of others ; and the spectators did not
seem to be much astonished by what they beheld.
Towards the close
formerly an officer of the Blues, the son of Lord
Maynard, mounted upon a troop horse, VI ith a fencing
ifoil, undertook to encounter the Tartar, who was
armed with a basket-hilted single-stick, and nothing