The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-20 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1819.

:rll BISH has already given his Friends the
• Public, the Particulars of the New Scheme of the
present Lotteryt which will be found highly ingenious and
pleasing, whether regarding the magnitude and number of
the Prizes, or the novel mode in which the Lottery will be
drawn. T. BISH feels no hesitation, therefore, in advising
every person to purchase a Ticket or a Share ; and he is per-
suaded that all those who had so many well grounded objec-
tion's to former Schemes, will purchase in this Lottery, as they
are now entirely removed.
There is no Prize less than 161. though there are
EIGHT TWENTY THOUSAND POUND PRIZES,
(Money and Consols.)
The chances of the Prizes of Two Lotteries are secured to the
Purchasers of One; and the whole Lottery will be drawn on

an entirely novel and approved 'System.
Begins 9th NOVEMBER, LORD MAYOR'S DAY, when
TWO PRIZES of 20,0001. must be drawn in the FIRST
FIVE MINUTES.

TICKETS and SHARES are selling by FISH, 4, Corn-
hill, and 9, Charing• Cross.
it,. Five Thousand Tickets will be drawn each Day.
t4-t The Plices of Stocks are affixed, hourly, against
BISH'S Office, in Corolla], by which the Public can see the
fluctuations.

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per bottle, with Dissertatiom on the Teeth inclosed.

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Sold, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation, by the sole
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and Medicine Venders.

From the LONDON GAZETTE of Oct. 19.

This Gazette contains loya,l Addresses, trans-
mitted to Viscount Sidmouth,'and have been pre-
sented by his Lordship to his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent, who was pleased to receive
the same very graciously, viz :
From the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of Merchant
Venturers of the City of Bristol ; the Ministers and Elders
of the Provincial Synod of Fife and the Magistrates, Clergy,
Citizens, and Inhabitants of the City and County of Norwich.

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INTERESTING MEDICAL ARTICLE.

(Fronz.the Halifax N. S. frcehly Chronicle.)
We have-been politely favoured by D. James
M. Henderson of this city, with a coriy of the
following highly interesting letter from Profes-,
sor Smith, of Columbia College, S. C. The Lai-
portance of the information received, indubes:Dr.
H. to permit this publication, without his Vav-
ing previously asked the consent of his valuable
correspondent. So interesting to humanity, is
the extension of knowledge on the best mode of
treating consumptive cases, that we shall feel in-
finitely obliged by further communications re-
specting the powerful medicine treated of in the
following :
COLUMBIA, S. C. JUNE 15, 1819.
SlR—This communication will evince that you
have not made an erroneous calculation of pro-
fessional liberality in your letter, addressed to Dr.
Davis and myself, and received yesterday. I re-
collect that when Mr. Silliman gave me a call,
Dr. Davis and myself were conversing upon the
encouraging prospects of relieving Plithisis Pul-
monalis, by the use of the Prussic Acid, and no
doubt front this Mr. S. was led to make the ob-
servation to you.
We are both desirous to extend the honour and
benefit of the Medical Profession, and for this
purpose, by the desire of Dr. Davis, 1 now:un-
dertake to comply with your trquest in its sa-
tisfactory a manner as the limits of a letter will

It may be proper to premise that Dr. Davis's
opinions, on any medical subject, are entitled to
much weight—as to myself, front my situation as
Professor. of Chemistry, &c. in the S. Carolina
College, although once a practitioner of Physic,
1 am riory debarred from
.any regular exercise of
the Profession, and therefore,have not the oppor-
tunity of Making much eXpetimental investigation
of medical subjects. •,
Having found in the silt or 9th Number of the
Journal of the Royal Institution (London) an in-
terestiog article upon the Prussic Acid by Doctor
Magendie, of Paris, I pOiitted it out to my friend
Dr. Davis, and requested him to make trial of
this new remedy. A small portion was procured
from Charleston, having; been manufactured there
by Mr. L'llerminier, an excellent. French Che-
mist who has since returned to the West Indies.;
but this being soon exhausted, no further supply
could be obtained from thence, and I undertook
to make it myself, which 1 have now several times
accomplished, according to the process of Scheele,
recorded in Cooper's edition of Thompson's Che-
mistry, Vol. 2, p. 224, &c, observing this dif-
ference, that instead of distilling one-fourth of the
whole quantity of water used, I permitted but
one-sixth to pass over into the receiver. This
process is somewhat tedious and complicated, but
with the requisite Chemical knowledge, and suit-
able apparatus it may be .conducted with accuracy
and success.—Thus much for the mode of supply.
As to the nature of this substance, it is a most
virulent poison, and in this respect you will re-
cognize its analogy to some of our most effectual
remedfts.—lt would therefore require to be care-
fully kept from common handling, and also from
the action of light, .which is said to decompose it.
'flue same result ensues front long keeping ; for
then it exhibits a darkish blue. 011 its pollloliollB
qualities, the symptoms, &c., consult °ulna on
poisons, a valuable work lately translated and
published in Philadelphia. An adult, in using it,
should continence with three drops of (Ike Acid,
diluted with as many minces of water and taken
in the course of twenty-four hours—a gradual
increase may be made to eight or ten drops,
which is the largest dose that has yet been used in
this place. Our experience here is not; more than
of two months standing, and during that time
Dr. Davis has prescribed the Acid in 8 or 9 cases,
all of which, as yet, (with the exception of one)
have been greatly benefited. The unfortunate
case was that in which it was first used, and was
almost hopeless at the time ; but even iu this, the
distressing cough, copious expectoration, and
wasting beetles were for weeks kept at bay, and
the patient so much re-animated as to induce a
hope of recovery ; but this finally proved delusive.
At any rate, however, it was the best palliative
that had been used, and greatly abated the suffer-
ings of dissolving nature. Front the other cases
it may probably be interred that, in proportion
to the recent occurrence of the disease, has been
the apparent benefit ; and in no one case has the
remedy podueed injurious consequences. After
some continuance, it appears to affect the breast
with a sense of stricture, which is relieved by the
disuse for a few days, or by some discharge of
blood from the lungs : or it affects the brain in a
slight degree, soon removed, however by a disuse
of medicine.

Dr. Davis has 'kept a regular account of some
of the most remarkable cases, which I suppose
way be published at some future period. The
auxiliary treatment is much the same as with the
use of other medicines—to keep the stomach and
bowels clear (although the Acid in some degree
performs the functions of a Cathartic), to avoid
alterations of temperature and exposures, &c.—
If the preceding information can be useful to you,
I shall be gratified in having imparted it, and will
endeavour to forward to you, by some person tra-
velling in the stage, an ounce vial of the Acid.

Should you wish to make any further enquiries
upon this subject, you will please to ad►lress your
letters to Dr. Davis, as 1 expect to leave this
place on the 28th inst. for the Missouri Territory,
and to be absent until October next. lam re-
spectfully your obedient, &c.

EDWARD D. SMITH,

Boxens.—Joshua Hudson, who last fought
Scroggins, has challenged Burke, of Niroolwicli,
who fought Randal, for 50 or 100 guineas., Rey-
nolds will, fight Cyrus Davis for his own sum.

IPRICE SEY Nip
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THE COLONIES: ."
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.KINGSTON, (UPPER CANADA),4'SEPT. I.—This
Session of Parliament ~will be immortalized as
comroencing,fvnew, era in the ,Legislative provi-
sions for improVing this fine country. The two
measures so wisely recommended from the throne
by his Excellency have been acted upon, and bills,
on the principles suggested, have passed both
Houses, and. will no doubt become laws.
'[lie road Lill recognizes the true principles of
taxation;'Nri-i. that. the rich shall pay more than
the poor.
assessment all lands granted in fee or in
lease are declared rateable, so that all absentees

or persons living out of the Province who posses
large tracts of laud, and which are becoming daily
more valuable by the industry of the resident land
owners and cultivators, will now be forced to con•
tribute their share to the common good.
The enemies of tranquillity and good order are
enraged at these salutary measures which deprite
them of all pretence for clamour. They sec the
distinguished character at the head of the Govern-
ment conscientiously applying all his abilities,
excellent as they are, to the promotion of the pro-
sperity and well-being of the Colony; and they
have thegriefol beholding his weritoi ions exertions
:•econded by ,both .Houses, who, forgetting their
little differences, seen wholly engrossed in ma-
turing such measures as shall spread contentment
anal happiness. through the whole Province. -
Already vve hear the praises of the Lieutenant.
Governor and his Parliament re-echoed in all di-
rections. The disaffected shrinking back into
their beloved darkness and feeding upon their own
ven•m—never will they be able again to impose
upon the good sense of the inhabitants of this
Province, who now see clearly that the object of
the Government is exactly the same with their
own, the good of the country, nor swill it ever be
possible for any incendiary to induce them to
withdraw their confidence from an administration,
so Anxious to promote their prosperity.
Government is about contracting for the sur-
vey of six new townships, containing about
1 0 , ( 0 acres each, 10 the Western and London
Districts, " bOunded southerly by the River
Thames, and the Tomnship of Orford, Camden
and Chatham, and northwesterly by a line ex-
tending from the north west angle of the Shaw.
anete Township."

(From the Baplo Patriot.)

TRIAL FOR LIBEL.—On Thursday last, at the
Court of King's Bench, at Niagara, United
Congress, held by lion. Chief Justice Powell,
came on the trial of the King v. Bartemeus Fer-
guson, Editor of the Nirigara Spectator, for pub-
lishing a Libel in his Paper, about the Ist of July
last ; when, atter hearing Counsel, the Judge
committed !he cause to a Special Jury, who found
Mr. Ferguson guilty, Ile will receive his sen-
tence at the Court of King's Bench, at York,
in November next ; in the mean time be will be
kept in close confinement.

On Friday, came on before the same Court,
the trial of Robert Gourlay, Esq. for a misde-
meanour, in not obeying the order of the Ma-
gistrates, at Niagara, in December last. Mr.
G. was found guilty, and banished the Province.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

TIMBER DUTY.

St. John's, Aug. SI.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London, to a Mir-
cantile House in this City, dated the Bth July.

" The Customs Consolidation Act has passed, a
copy of which 1 will send you as noon as 'tis
fished. By it a Duty of 2s. 6,1. per load is to be
paid on the import of Timber from our American
Colonies. From this, however, we are exempted
by former Acts till March, 1820 ; and by great
exertions a promise has been obtained that the be-
nefit of such exemptions shall be extended to the
period of March, 1821. Little or no opposition
has been made to this Duty from its apparent in-
sigoificance. The Ship-owners are silent, insist.
ing only that the Importers, not they, must pay
it ; and to my great astonishment the Liverpool ".
lientlemen say they can afford to pay it, and ab-
solutely instructed their Members aecordingly.
" The Foreigners, however, hare been foiled ;
they had the assurance to demand a deduction of
10s, from their ditty, and an addition of 10s. to
outs : but in consequence of some successful re.

presentations on the increasing trade and import-
ance of our Colonies, whatever might have been
Ore former intentions of Government, the result

has been the Duty of 2s. Gd. only."
Extract of another Letter.—'' A Duty of 2s. Gd.
per load (40 fcet) which is agreed to be laid on
Timber front the Colonies, with the expectation
that this is only a beginning, and that it is in-
tended to be increased, will tend to discourage the
importation.

" There is no expectation of any reduction of
the Duty on Foreign Timber."
'file great numher of ships employed in the
Limber Trade of British North America this year,
will convince the Lords of the Admiralty of the
impolicy of depressing it by further taxation,
whatever effect it may have on other branches of
the Administration.

An Inquisition was yesterday morning taken
before R. GUDE, Esq., in the Borough-road,
Southwark, on view of the body of William Gray.
Ile reprobated the conduct of the parties in not
giving hint earlier intimation of the death, which
took place on Thursday last, observing, that it is
at all times and in all cases desirable, for many
reasons, that Inquests should be taken with as
little delay as possible after accidents, and he
hoped the circumstance would not again occur.