The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-04 00:00:00

MEDICAL.

Mr. ArtintoEtnt read his introductory Lecture on Monday to
his winter course of Anatomical Lectures. It having been sup-
posed that he would not lecture again, he was most enthusiasti-
cally received by an immense number of students. In the course
of this lecture, he :lamented that the public mind wag so
incensed 'against dissecting. The disinterthent of bodies was
certainly an outrage against society ; and this, at one time,
he would not have acknowledged; hut that outrage was alone
made by the publicity that Wu given to the act. The act itself
could do no harm, if not made public, In Paris, in London, and
in every thickly populated place, there were, unfortunately per•
eons who died without a relative or friend to close their eyes ;
in the former place, all such perstu.s were sewed up in
a matting, and sent to the hospitals for dissection, after which-
they were again sewed up, and returned for interment ;. and if
the Governors and Managers of poor houses, and certain public
asylums in this town, could be perstuuled to let the same
practice be adopted here, much of the offence complained of
would be - done away with, and great good would be the re-
sult. When, in the course of last war, a man was convicted
of raising a body, a Member of Parliament was induced to !Jay,
he would bring in a bill to Make the net felonious. On that
occasion he (Mr. A.) and several of the first medical men in
town had audience repeatedly with that Member, and with
various other personage of the greatest wealth, the most
enlightened minds, of the best talents, and of the highest
rank in this kingdom,--when it was • stated, that an
immense number of young men were • then just • going
to he sent abroad to join different regiments; and unless
those individuals had the previous opportunity of dissecting and
of learning what man was, Government would only send them out
to 'torture, to mutilate, and to kill their valiant country-
men ; and besides this, that there were annually upwards of
two hundred young men, who came from the country to London,
to get such a stock of knowledge as that they were to carry with
them for life into society, which, with that knowledge, they were
either to benefit or injure. The result of all these conferences,
therefore, was, that anatomy mtact be taught;' and Mr. A. had
great reason to believe that society would, by and by, view
this subject as he did, for he had the utmost reliance
on the good feelings and conduct of a British public.
He trusted that Magistrates, and Reporters fur the public papers,
would consider the vital injury they would do to themselves and
their fellow-creatures, if they persisted in raising every obstacle in
their power to the acquiring of that knowledge; without which,
sending a man into society as a medical man, he would he the
most mischievous weapon imaginable.

ACCOUNT of the LATE BURMESE COM-
-11AN1)ER-IN-CHIEF, MAHA BUNDOOLAII.

Mengee Maha Bundoolah was of low extraction, and
first distinguished himself in Assam, some years back,
which he subdued. He was, by all reports, a very able man
for a Burman, and, from his roughly decisive measures,
well calculated to keep an army of barbarians in order.
His sway over the public mind, and over the King him-
self, is said to have been most powerful. He knew well
how to conciliate, and his own soldiery are said to have
been sincerely attached to him : where that tie did not
exist, he substituted terror, and never allowed humanity
or feeling to interfere with the least of his arrangements.
An instance in point occurred when our flotilla► was pas-
sing up under the tire of Donabew. The °nicer com-
manding the artillery in the fort was killed at his gun, and
no man would step forward to take his plate. Bundoolah
was standing by, and chopped off several beads before
he brought his people to a sense of shame, or rather a
sense of fear, and re-manned the deserted gun. Peter
the Great succeeded in making a gallant army by these
means, and why should not Mahn Bundoolah have also in
time succeeded ?

The death of Bundoolah took place at Donabew, en the
Ist of April, 1825. It was occasioned by the explosion
of a shell under his cot, which had been placed upon the
north-west angle of the stockade, under a matted canopy,
for the purpose of enabling him to view the operations
of the British force. He. was struck between eight and
nine o'clock in the morning, and he expired in a few
hours. In the course of the evening the body was
taken outside the stockade by his attendants, and con-
sumed. by fire. The people of Ava, when they heard of
his death, were thrown into the greatest eonsternation,and
the King is stated to have exclamied, that he had lost half
his own body.
In giving an account of Bundoolah's last actions, his
answer to a summons to surrender should not be omitted.
On reaching. Donabew, the naval and military chiefs (Cap-
tain Alexander and General Cotto9 summoned the place,
and Bundoolah sent the following civil, but firm and manly
reply :
" We are each fighting for his country! and you will find me
as steady in defending the liberties of mine, as you are forward in
asserting the rights of yours. If you wish to see Donabew, coma
as friends, and 1 will show it to you! If you come as enemies,
land ! ! These are not the men you were wont to fight and
beat ! You will find us ready, and we will See which are the better

men ! !"

The name of Bundoolah will not soon be forgotten by,
the British army employed in Avis, as that of a General
who served his Sovereign with zeal and devotion, and whose
resistance to our invasion displayed a knowledge of the
resources at his command, highly creditable to him as the
leader of his country's 'armies. A higher compliment to
his military talents cannot be required, than is found in the
dispatches of Sir Archibald Campbell ; and it were to be-
tray a want of that generosity for which the British soldier
is distinguished, to suppose that our gallant troops can
have seen the full'of such a foe without a feeling of respect
for military talent and prowess, which under more fortunate
circumstances, and with better materials,might have given
the name of Bundoolah a place amongst the foremost
heroes of the age.--Dunifries Journal.

When Napoleon Buonaparte visited the manufac-
turing City of Lyons, he asked the Magistracy if he
could confer any favour upon the place ; after some
time spent, in conference, the worthy, and certainly,
considerate public functionaries, returned him for an-
swer, that the greatest benefit he could confer upon
the citizens, was to leave them alone. Had our Mi-
nisters profited by such advice, the Silk Trade in this
district would now be a prosperous one ; every thing
Legislature could do for the crantpi»g of the manu-
facture has been done ; but notwithstanding all this,
such is the innate enterprise in our English manufac-
turers, that the Trade cannot be altogether extin-
guished, and will to a certain extent exist. it is now
in a state of progress, though not of aosperity. Ad-
miring as we, do, certain acts of his Maiesty's Minis-
ters, and believing that they are actuated by a Sincere
desire to benefit thenation, we must, nevertheless, nation, be
excused in totally differing from them in their policy
of commercial regulations. It is not in their power
to, remedy the evils their measures have occasioned.
The sufferings of respectable families, the pangs of
hunger endured by our artizans, and the hope deferred,
which makes the heart sick, must occasion them, k'
the moment of reflection, unpleasant sensations.
They can never undo the evil they have brought upon
the silk district ; and may perhaps learn, in future, to
profit by the advice given by the authorities of Lyons,
to the greatest enemy which the trade and commerce
of this country ever had to encounter, but whose mea-
sures were inimical to the trade and commerce of the
realm which he governed.—Macclesfield Herald.