The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-02 00:00:00

WSDIISSDAY.

A Handicap Stakes of Five Guineas each, and Forty Gui.
• peas added by the Stewards. On ;Annie heat,
Mr. Price`S br. •m. Elmira
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\ Ir. Mostyn's b. u. by Mr. Teazle
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fir. FlCtcher's b. t. forest Less • . 2
3
A Sweepstakes of sgs. each, with logs:added by the Fund.
One.mile heats.
E. 1.. Loyd, Esq.'s br. Teazle
31 L Sir WW. W. Wynne, liart.'s c. h. Vestris .T. ‘Vhitmore, Esq.'s ch. h. l'Armas.in z 2
a 3
These heats. Incre so well contcstca as to be only got 3 by
hall a head.

CHIPPNHAND kACrs.

• WIDNESDAY, SEPT. 26.
A Sol. Plate—a-tnile
Mr. Bouverie's Barbara . .
Sir J. Hawkins's Martha . .
Mr. Prior's Wooilwell Elead
Mr. M. Dilly's Conquestador
Mr. Coatsworth's c. colt ".

A Sweepstakes of 2:,gs. each-2 milzs.
Mr. I. Shepihrd's b. t. . . . .
Mr. Calley's br. 1. . . .
Mr. 1. Tuckney's b f.
All by Sir Isaac, dam by Hugh Caper.

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4 z
5 3

:Oa Wednesday the Royal Hunt corntrlitnced for
the first time this season, by order of the Marquis.
CORNWALLIS, his MAJESTY'S, Master of the Stag
Hounds. .Toe Noble Marquis, with •a nittnercus
field, of Noblemen and Gentlemen, assembleS at art..
early hour, on Tower-hill, near Swinley, where a
deer was turned out 'for the day's diversion, at
starting he spewed great sport, taking VCr',i3 tl.e
bogs towards the Race-ground, keeping to the left
of the • Forest;. through the inclosures towards the
'New Lodge and Craubourn, ruiming with great
swiftness towards 'Windsor, where he took into the
Thames, near the Bridge, and afterwards got upon
one of the heights to rest himself. The sportsmen
were obliged to go through Windsor and Eton ; se.
veral of them got into a boat, and startcd the-deer
from, his resting place, when he took to the Wind-
sor side -Of the Thames, and the chase was imme•-
diately. renewed, the deer pursuing his course with
great* swiftness back towards the Forest, and was
taken near Virginia Water, after a run of -near
three, hours.—The second- Hunt took' place on Sa‘.
turday.

FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.—Take leaves of
rue, picked from the stalks, and bruised, six ounces;
garlic, picked from the stalks, and bruised, Venice
treacle, or Mithridate, and strapingi( pe‘Vier; of
each four ounces. Boil all these over a slow fire
in two quarts of strong ale, till One pint is consurn-
tcd ; then keep it in bottles, close stopped, and give
of it, nine spoonsful to a man, or woman, warm,
every - seven mornings together, fisting.—Tilis, if
.given within nine days after the biting of the ring,
will prevent the hydrophobia. • .App:y some ci
ingredients florp.which the liquor was strained to
iii
bitten place. This recipe was",' some years ago, taken
Out of CalthrOp Church, Lincolnshire, the whole
town being bitten by a mad dOg,, and all that tot*
this medicine did well, while-all the rest duct! mad.
In a P.'S. it is added :,—many: )ears experience has
proved that this is an effectual cure. • -
There is now an apple tree in gall bloom in trat
garden of Mr. Sharman, at Rennington.

We understand that a new and enlarged edition of
" Ball-room. Votaries, or Canter bury and its,Vici-
nity,''' a work that has of lase been the chief topic
of conversation among the gay circles in. that neigh-
bourhood, v. ill in a few days appear;in which the
author intends to give a vindicatory preface and to
extend his satirical eye-to some of the most con-
spictious, characters in the Isle ot.Thanet.
The Clubs have been remarkably successful at
Elottigso and Co's. One hundred Clubs have re-
ceived, in the last five Lotteries, Shares of 20,0001.
10,0001. 5,0001. .),;0001. 1,0001. and 5001. prizes;
and, in the ,saMe'period, five of the Clubs receivod
Shares twice.of Nizes of Twenty*ThOusandPounci‘

I,IILURA ,OF CUIP-PDX lADCULATION,

AT WIDFORD, HER TS.

a TO THE Eiwroit OF THE SUN.

SIR,

• In your piper of the 1 4th in-t. a correspondent
under the s gnature of Verax, has preseited the
pobli!• mithseveral instances of the failure of cow-
pox inoculation at \\fiction!: ll,•rts,, even the as-
tonishing number of liven!:/-nitre cases out of
-sixty-nitie, of which number nine arc said to have
diet dt-small-p:~x'ahter vaccitia ion, t‘ from ',lan&
Obtained from Dr. Walker's Society, and carefully
inserted by an e►ninent Surgeon of Fladliarn.", The
name.; of 'those -who died are given, with•an assur-
ance, that " you may depend on the authenticity of
the fail."

It is a well known maxim in ,rl etorie, that

"Wl it prove. too much pr,ves ootbint." In no
case ci,nlo tt‘is maxim I think more strongly apply
than the iresent ; of the niil;ions vaccniated, no
such authenticated proportion of fallutes as.ll;ose in
' ques,ion, ha--1 bilieve been heard of, for so, vab-
rination (ould. not Isave.stood its ground a moment,.

but would haVe been cut-up root and branch Jong
ago —When I first read this letter; it appeared to
me ettrerndy, improbable that twenty-nine cite,
should f,sil but of six,y-nine, and that nine of these
should proveidttil.. 'ls there. any instance on record
:of so,decided a'taiture of viiceinanon ? or indeed; of
.so many
,as nine persoi.s dying of natural small-pox
out of s:venty-nine, under any treattnefit of late
years, .ind espvcially in a country village with the
adv,ntages of free air and cool cottages ? In Order
to alceitain the tiuth of this extraordinary relation,
I - took 'an early opportunity to visit Widford, and
•ni,ke an investigation oti the spot.. hadonly time

to ~.xantitie ..tile first five cases named in yourcor-

resppnJetot's lettcr, ;be evening -shut in before I
rocee.l fur her ;' I OA therefore,state what
I learnt concerning thee, and leave the remaining
fonl for a fiiture examination. , .

• As the fAttilly of Catmore appeared the most
fatal on the list, I lirst,went to a respettable !antler's'
'where the roan worked, and took-an examination of
Inns and his wife apart from each other; and I shall
give the account as I received it from their united
testimony, and as it was cortoborated 'by, the lady of
the
.norise, and also b) another very intelligent and
respectable la' mer, -anti v‘ ho is overseer of the
parish, know s the parties well, and had made himself
Aitintely acquainted with alt the particulars respect-
, ingthis'business. My _information, makes four to
have 'dial in this fafnily,.. Verax mentions but

three. • .
. - To elucidate the•cass'in the clearest manner,' I
.shmil- chsftgl %ai si.d+c and, give them according to
.ag(7i, for, as they-aii. died in the course of a. few
weeks dates-are immaterial.

ist. Sarah Catinore, aged sixteen year, was in•
occiati.d with small-pox about fourteen years ago,
withhri fahrt- a:A cldest- sister ; she was taken ill
on the Monday ; and,died on the Saturday with the'
small-pox lull our; she was never vaccinated. This
case your correspondent Vcrax: was doubtless [lever
inlorMed or he would not have omitted it in his
true, account.

2.1 t. Mary Catmore, aged thirteen, vaccinated by
the. Surgeon mentioned in Verax's tter. The
arni i. described to nave risen writ, an.' to have
dried off with a,small blackish scab. In about five
weeks ativr, she -was taken suddenly on the 'Atm-
day will' %loleht pain all. ovei her, and continued
nt arly iii tLe .artie state state mill Friday, when she
died, and no eruption appeared.

3d. Anne Cam)Ore, aged ten years, in every re.-
spr ci rite same as Mary, with respeOt to vaccination,
was 'taken iii on :he siime day (Monday) a few hou' s
later, and .died in Friday,. and had- also no appear-
ance of erullion. •So far from the parents think-
ing that the•le Iwo children fell victims to the
pox, tliey were convinced from the, firs', and that
conviction not yet obliterated from their minds,
that their illness was occasioned, by powders which
they. took by way_ot physic, the morning they were
taken i.l, and which were afterwards very satifactorily
rtAed to be only .a moderate dose of jalap and
nvgnesia. •
4th. Willi im Catmore, aged three years, vac-
cinated by the same per Son. The parents state his
arm, to.,:liave risen, but were not, quite agreed as to
the rppearanee of the sc.ib. He, was taken ill with
feceroati the Sunday, and died on the Thursday
han eruption just discovering itself. •
511 w Burton, aged five years.
Oat. -Emma Nor, aged six months. From the
corcurring testimony of the Surgeon employed, and
also the overseer of the parish before mentioned,
.neither of these children were vaccinated, but were'
inoculated.,with small-pox, and 'of that disease they
died.
From the. above representation,- it appears . that
out of_ six cases said to I` have- died vt small-pox
after vaccination."
One died of small-pox, having had-that diseaselby
jUO'nlatiiinfourte'en years before. . .
TWos. .tiled from inocdated small-pox. These three
'ail not been vacinated. . • ,

--7-two died front an un'ascertained cause. -
. . - . . ,
gne died with. an eruption .just coming out, 5up-
..,..,.
• rio-ed . to be small-pox.. Theselliree had been vac-
ciCated. .
.. .

j was represented to me by respectable, persons
on the spot;
,that all those Who were first vaccinated
with matter received from London did well, and re-
sisted the variblous infeelion, but that all the failures
or suppoed failures arose from matter taken.aftet-
wards, acid at a time when the.small pox was spread-
ing from, house to house and the poor were promis-
Coolislitnixing together. Is it then at all surpris-
ing that nearly half the vaccinated patienti should
receive the small pox ? ; And is it nut, fair to infer,
froin what we know of the effeeis of vaccination in
oiher places, and even in the adjoining villages to
\Vidiord, at this very time, and where no accidents
occurred, that the matter was taken from the arm
'at to.o late a period ? and-Which I have' great reason.
16 ve was the case ; or that some might be ino-
culated from a spurious pustule, one instance of which
.1 saW in the parish of Hadhani, during ibis Widfoid

~.businlss, and reinoculated .child myself with
,vaccine virus and it had a perfect di,ease. Or may,2
we not reasonably suppose that7mariflif tlie' bents
• had received tarioluns infection previous to vreci-
nation,* and which the Surgeon tnentioutd by
Verax, a's. being hest concerned, assures tut he
believes to have been the case with. a number of_
them ; but as he • has promi,ed to pia use in posses-
lion of a;I the tats relating io :h.s business, as far as
lie can recollect, them, .1 shall defer making any
further observations (as my letter i I dou,bt already
.too lung for a diurnal publication) till I see by the
answer I may receive to this, how far it is necessary
to prosecute the inquiry.
In a matter of this kind, which is of so much im-
'portance, and in which the welfare of the public is so
nearly' couterned, I hope the invesugation will be
carried on in 'the most fair and impartial manner ;
that nothing of party•or personality will be suffeied
:to shew itself,. and that the utmost publicity w ill be •
given to the inquity ; and in order that the characters
of the %A/Filers may be in some measure responsible for
the representations they may make, I hope Vcrax in
his next communication will, favour me with his .
• name.

I am, Mr. Editor, yours, &c.
W. U. CRIBB.

Bishop's Stortford, Herts, Sept. 28; am.

-• With respect to the P. S. to Verax's letter res-
pecting the foreign Surgeon, &c. it is altogether so
%ague, and its tendency so obvious, I shall abstain
for the present from making any COLIMICIIIS.there-
,
on.

During the prevalence, of -a general inoculation
in the parish of Standon, lierts, a fe,wAnonths since,
bothfor,cow-pox and small-pox, but pi incipally the
latter, I am inforrned that no accident. happened to
render the security of caw,-pox doubtful; but. Mr.
Goode, Surgeon, .of Puckeridge, intormsme that be
attended Catherine Whitaker, aged 22, and .Mary.
Robinson, aged 15, servant io a. respectable Person,
both of the parish of Standon, with a full crop at
-distinct small-pox after considerable constitutional
affect.on ; and that both these young women were
inoculated several years ago for the sinall-pox,and re-
fused to be inoctilated at this tune with the rest of the.
family, under the full assurance that they had gone
through that disease. There was also another case
in which a young woman', Susannah Barden, who
came on a visit to.Standon in the monthof July; and
who had the smallpox about a year before at the house
of her master, near Wt close-square;who a few days
alter her ieturn,ickened with the small-Fox and died.
Mr. G. is ready
.to give every information respecting
these cases tu'any person who may apply to lino,
and'l would recommend Verax to satisfy himself by
an immediate application, and when 'he has done.
this I have.some other cases of the same kind which
happened under my own notice, and which stand
on equally good authority, caleris paribus; with any •
cases he may bring. of small-pox after real cow•
which I shah be happy to submit to his con-
sideration.

* Mr. I-I,irrison, the Surgeon; mentioned by Verax as hav-
ing inoculated tiny( persons after Wards with the small pox
sue( es) u I ly, , and who was indeed, cal led in by the parish.
otlicersin consequence of the state the poor were in Irons vtra-
m .nagement, is aibo of 'opinion that the failures arose partly
trout vaccine matter having been taken too late, ai.:l pdrily
from having received small-rm. infection previous to vacci-
nation.

JOSEP# -BLACKT..—=,WC some time ago intro-
duced this person to the notice of our Readers, and
in.p.rted a Poem which, was highly creditable to his
talents. It is with much regret that We have to
inform the public of his recent death. He fell a
'victim to a consumptiom at Seatan, near Sunderland,
where he •had retired for the benefit of his health.
He possessed great original powers, and by applica-•
tion, had acquired more knowledgc than it was
'possible to suppose that he could have attained in
his humble situation,'and with his limited' opportu-'
'niiies. Mr. Ptikrr, whose literary talents are well
known, had the merit,ol drawing this youthtul.Poet
tram obscurity, and with laudable aelivity was able
to raise a'considerable sum for him by the publica-
tion of his works.,
.That gentleman we understand
is still einployed. in the same benevolet office for
the advantage of BLACKET'S family. BLACKET'S
,charader was recommended by moral qualities as
.well as by. intellefitual powers. He was modest,
gentle, and gratetul, and if he had been born under
ihappier auspices, might have proved an honour to
:literature and his country.

• •
Horne Tooke, we understand,' remains in a very
exhausted.Cundition. Aware of his, declining state,.
he has been • particularly anxious, daring some
months past, to complete a vault for his remains,
wider a plot of grass in the garden, near the 'North
wall on Wimbledon Common : it is now ready for
his reception. ' A handbome tomb-Stone of finely
plished black marble about eight feet long and two
wide, with the following engraven epitaph, wag, a
tew days ago, by his own direCtion, hid

1011 N HORNE TOOKE.
Late P►oprietor, and now Occupier
' • Of th►s Spot;• - •
. Was born in June. 1736.
• And died in
Aged - years..
CoNTsicritis,

Upon the subje& of • the:Commcrcial diftl:wnices
.between Russia and'FranCe, the followiti a copy
of a letter received:from Gottenburgh:' 4The_French
Minister at St. Petersuurgh lately Made a long and
strong remonstrance to the Russian Government on
►he subject of three British ships having been allow,
ed to discharge cargoei of colonial produce at the
small port ot. Sackenhausen; in Courland, and to
take in ladihgs of naval stores, although the French
Consul at Liebau had particularly denounced these
vessels, and tendered proofs of their being enemy's.
property. The Russian Minister replied, that the-
system of mercantile' exclusion was 'already carried
to an extent inconsistent with the happiness, and in-
jurious to the interests of the empire; and that, al-
though the Emperor was sincere in his hostility to
the English, he was desirous to mitigate to his peo-
ple the Severities of the war, whenever he could do.'so
consistently with the honest discharge of his other
obligations.'