The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-21 00:00:00

ON HEAL rH.

UNDER the denotninatioa of NERVOUS
DISORDERS, in its full extent, are included several
Diseases of the most dangerous kind, and arc so various, that
a volume would hardly snilice to complete a description of
them. The most common symptoms are weakness, flatu-
lency, palpitations, watchfulness, drowsiness after eating,
timidity, flashes of heat and cold, numbness, rigours of dif-
ferent parts, giddiness, pains (especially of the head, baCk,
and loins), hiccup, difficulty of respiration and deglutition,
anxiety, dry cough, &c. -
One symptom is distinguished by no name, and of which it
is impossible to form any adequate conception. It is'de-
scribed as making its attacks by violent paroxysms, which
are, however, usually preceded by portentous indications like
the blooding of a furious storm. It pervades with its baleful
influence the whole nervous system, writhing the hea:t with
ineApressible anguish, and exciting the most 'dreadful sug-
gestionS of horror and despair ! To this demon. have thou-
sands fallen a sacrifice in the direful transports of its rage.
Nothing, therefore, can be more important to the com-
munity, than a diligent perusal of those Authors who have'so
ably treated on this most alarming, most distressing, and less
pitied complaint incident to the human frame. It certainly
requires " A Guide to Health," to lead from such scenes of
calamity and woe to those of happiness and felicity -
A Publication under that title, " The Guide to Health,"
was lately published hy.Dr. Solomon, of Liverpool, and its
unprecedented sale of upwards of 100,000 copies has suffi-
ciently proved its vast utility to the public; most of the va-
rious diseases incident to either sex are plainly treated on
with that candour and liberality which are conspicuouS traits
in the character of the Author. Most Booksellers in Town
and Country sell this book, price 35., or can procure it for
their customers at the same price, free of carriage. It there-
fore behoves every individual to become possessed of so va-
luable a jewel, a faithful " 6uide," which will lead them
from the paths of affliction to the road where health, peace,
and happiness are to be attained.
A Saving of One Bottle in Four:
Sold in Bottles,, price 11s. each ; or the gnaw ity of four in
one Family Bottle for.as., on which one lls. bottle is saved,
duty included; the stamp of which hears the proprietor's
name and address in the engraving, " Sarni. Solomon, Liver-
pool," to imitate which is felony. •
Sold by Bacon and Co. 150, Oxford-street ; Ward, 324, Hol-
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Sold also by every reputable Vender in all Market Towns
throughout the Kingdom, and all other Medicine Venders.
I',6* Patients corresponding with Dr. Solomon will please to
observe, that the usual compliment of One Pound is expect-
ed, addressed, " Money Letter—Dr. Solomon, Gilead-House,
near Liverpool. Paid double postage."

TO THOMAS TAYLOR., ESQ.
No. 9, New Bridge-street, London

HONOURED SIR,
IBEG leave to inform you, that ever since the
year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venerea ;
which, from its obstinately resisting every course 91 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 most inveterate nature. In the spring of last year
my. disorder had got to such a head, as nearly to put a period
to my e-;:tence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my bead,
one on each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful
manner; 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 warns in isea,
as nearly to deprive me of rest •, in this lamentable state, I
was recommended by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so
great a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills,
which I began to doors the 213th of Jay; in the course of a
fortnight I began to receive benefit -in little inure than a
month the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed—
wan after, the sores on my legs -healed also ; leaving-, how-
ever, considerable diseoleuration in the skin, and pain in the
bone of the left, which, by the blessing of God, .and a little
longer perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, silk:soled ;
the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural hue, and
the noctursial pains -gradually going thus became,. by
your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my
former complaints—have recovered my former spirits avid
strength, and ani become jolly and fat, in which state hav
ng
continued many months, to the astonishment of all whok new
me, I am at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude,but
beg you, for the good of other suffering mortals,. to make
this my case as public as possible, as I shall on every occa-
ion; in so doing you will greatly oblige,
Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humble servant,'
ALEX. MURKER
Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh.
Witnesses to the above Cure:—
John Thompson, No. s, New Poultry Market, Eilinhargh;
John Mgatosh, Old Assembly close, Edinburgh.
Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY-
LOR, Member of the Royal College of hurgesns, at his
house, No. 9, New 73ridga-street, London; where, after a
constant residence of more than 40 years, in a practice parti-
cularly 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-
gratuitously administers to per'soni taking this Medicine, will
he esteemed, by a discerning Public, as an advantage seldom
attainable, android of all ambiguity.
Also sold, by his appointment, for the convenience of those
living at a distanee,at the Toyshop, Na. 103, Oxford-street;
Mr. Disborough's,- No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. ILixters,
South-bridge, Edinburgh ; Nlt. Callwell's, Dublin ; and by
one person in every considerable town in Great Britain and
Ireland, in boxes of only-as. 9d. each, stamped, and sealed up
with frill and plain directions, whereby persons, of eilln r
sex may cure themselves with case, treed, secrecy, add safety.

It is not designed to employ many
,words upon
the enormity of the offence committed on the
person of the Sovereign. • It was but the natth•al
and ordinary illustration of the effects of those
desperate principles, by means of which igno-
rance and indigence had been debauched out of
all patience and *subordination ; disqualified for
the practice of resignation, or of fortitude under
the general pressure ; and depraved out of that
respectable humility, which al vays affects and in-
terests the more enlightened and prosp'erous orders
of the community. They became intoxicated
with a poisonous sophistry, and they were conse-
quently inflamed with a rage fob ~commotion--a
phrenzy for uproar, violence, anarchy, and--*--
they acted accordingly : they raised their hands
in fury against the person of the Sovereign, Aile
employed in one of his greatest public functions,
the calling together of the Legislative co-estates.
Upon this occasion, Parliament were not wanting
in their duty to the country. They were not
much influenced by the sneers -which a party en-
deavoured to cast upon the testimony of Lord •
James Murray—the eye-witness of this diabolical
outrage, and the personal informant of the House
of Commons of its circumstances. ' They. were
not overawed by the ridicule which was indeco-
rously directed against the details: of that occur-
rence ; nor were they dissuaded from a firm and a
faithful discharge of their duty, by the pettifog-
ging dexterity which sou ght to deprive what had
taken place of a large portion of its scandal, as
well as of its criminality, by maintaining that
no air-gun had been employed—that, as there
were no bullets to be found, none were employed
—and that, as no bullets were employed, no ex-
treme injury coati be intended to the person of
his Royal HighnesS the Regent ! The laborious
subtlety with which the Anti-Ministerial, Party.
(Rad their Alliek, the Reforotri•el,- •ed to
palliate this heinous offence, had not all the in-
fluence that they hoped, or that they desired,
Tither upon the Parliament or the Nation. The
reasoning could not he wholly ineffective, it is
true. They who were the promoters of the Spa-
fields democratic levities—who favoured, openly,
the stationary anti established sedition of Notting-
ham—who clamoured against every ordinary act
of the Government, as the open evidence of its
corruption—who declared for Annual Parliaments
as the birth-right of mile people, anti Universal
Suffrage as their natural privilege-7-all those sup 7
ported what bad been said, in mitigation of the
crime attempted by the populadefor all those
reckoned upon the co-operation of 'the populace,
as a necessary engine of the political regeneratiost
which they were preaching tip; The Opposition
laboured with indefatigable zeal, to soften down
the attempt : because it denoted no advantage to
their politics, to their scheme of displacing the
Ministers, and succeeding to their offices, that a
strong and general sensation should be made upon
the mind of the nation, by what had taken place.
It boded them little service, that men's minds
should be brought to reflect seriously upon, the
events of the times, ,or to contemplate the despe-
rate effects of a systematic and a selfish hostility
to the measures of the Governmentifor it was
impossible to expect, with any reason, that the
public reflection could take a turn of this sort,
without a universal persuasion prevailing, 05 a
consequence, that the spirit of the times was li-
cAntious, daring, hazardous, and enamoured of
novelty—that the lower orders of society had been
tainted with a pernicious longing after change;
and that much of this formidable mischief was
imputable to that undo': and unjust opposition,
which is obstinate in reviling all the measures of
the Government with equal virulence, if they be
good, as-if they were bad—if they be wise, as if
they were foolish ;—whiCh pursues its own parti-
cular schemes, whilst it is accusing every man in
pike of depravity and corruption ; which has no
exceptions in its invective, no qualifications in its
reproach—which assumes that all the Members of
the rival party in .office are weak and bad—all
their designs absurd and oppressive—and all their
inclinations bottomed upon hostility to the inte-
rests of the people. It could not have served the
designs of the Opposition, to have a'grre and a
serious opinion roused in the nation, respecting
the awful aspect of affairs, when the sovereign
could not call his Parliament together, except at
the risk of being assassinated; when the mobs of
several cities and towns were clamouring for a
Change in the most fundamental parts of the Con-
stitution ; when the lust for outrage was spread-
ing far and wide; when it became a way to af-
fluence and-popularity, to harangue the populace
concerning the national ruin—or to write to their
passions and their prejudices, in favour of the
necessity of revolt, and the virtue 'of open re-
sistance to the Governtueut. The clectrick shock

Of this nature abd effect was the attack on the
person of his Royal Highnes the Prince Regent.
The uncertainty of speculation was disavowed in
this=—the temerity of inference was Out of the
question. It was a rank, positive act, full of o
rible adMonition, abounding in an awful wan -
ing--kertain, criminal, and alarming. It Must
have a cause, and that, in theuniverse of circum-
stances; it would be impossible to discover, ‘vittf-
out going to search in the predispositions of-those,
by whom it has been committed.. There was no-
thing in the going to rarliathent, or in the return-
ing from it, which could stimulate crowds to st-•
(tido!), and individuals to treason and murder.
The cause must lie deeper—in some 'settled and
overruling excitement—and that excitement must
be sought after, in the immense variety of at-
teMpts made by the professors of doctrines of all
sorts and descriptions, to gain the populace over
to their side ; in the particular nature of those
doctrines and their influence, and in the collective
effect of them all ;—and, in an inquiry upon this
subject, if carefully and impartially made, it will
appear ultiznatelyllemonstrated, that the collec-
tive effect of the speeches which aimed at •the
greatest share of popularity, and the writings
which aspired to the largest portion of authority
over the pliblic understanding, was to alienate
the.people from their Government ; to indispose
them against their establishments and institutions;
and to mature in them an inclination in favour of
the wildest political experiments.
It is not extraordinary in point of .policy, that
the Oppositidn should desire to see a convincing
event, like this attack upon the person of the Re•
gent, undervalued and cried down, into some-
thing as near an ordinary ebullition of turbulence
as possible. By concealing the dangerous nature
of its cause, the good sense of the public, might
possibly remain unexcited, or but partially slirect-
ed to a contemplation of the signs and chasacters
of the new scheme of things,. which has scr'snany
advocates ; and the less reflection exercised, the
more advantageous to the Opposition—because re-
flection would -necessarily turn the thoughtful
prudence,, and the circumspect good. sense of the
country, against all descriptions of persons whose
common system it is, to calumniate the Govern-
ment and disquiet the people ; and this effect
could not be brought about, without deep and
c.rinne dvtriment In the oppoeition themselves.
for very obvious reasons. Besides this disposition
of mind in the nation could not he emsiloyed,
without•inducing a certain advantage to the Mi-
nistry—for, as delusion became dissipated, by re-
flecting upon the true state of affairs, the obliga-
tions due to the Ministers must become plainer
and more impressive ; and there must follow an
earnest desire to place in the hands of such men,
every confidence requisite for preserving the whole
frame of the Constitution, from the hostilities
which threatened it upon so many sides. The
public opiniiin could not agitate a resolution of so
much importance, without adverting to the ser-
, vices which the Administration had already
ren-
tiered the country, in delivering it from the evils
of a long and bloody conflict,- in which its very
existence was implicitly end distinctly iuvolved—
in delivering it nutsof this struggle with a greater
acquisition, as to conquest-, than England ever
had obtained before—with greater lustre -and re-
nown. than ever nation before had acquired—amid
the shouts, and applause and thanks, of an, ad-
miring world. It would be impossible to reflect
upon. matter of such profound importance's with-
out two things unavoidably following—one, that
the Opposition had invariably disputed every sin-
gle step, which had been taken towards this
splendid and advantageous conclusion of the war—,
had condemned the.puldie resources as inadequate
to the maintaining of the contest—had decried,
the nation's credit, power; and ability, while the
credit, power, and ability of the enemy—the enes
my that is now prostra:e—that only breathes by
our generosity—exists by our permission—were
extolled in exaggerated strains, and with-prepos-
terous admiration ; and the other, that as the Op,
position were radically mistaken in many mighty
affairs, told the Ministers so eminently and nobly
in the right, it is not a matter of hesitation now,
whose counsel is the better upon anew crisis—a
new era, springing up in the political difficulties
of the country. .Therecannot be an alternative
between the two, recommended by experience, or
sanctioned by the evidence of facts.
All those considerations, -and with them the
conclusions adverted to, naturally followed a due
estimate of the cause's which excited the populace
to an attempt upon the life of the Regent : and it
was, therefore, the-policy of the Opposition, and
not only of them, but of all- the more ferocious
opposers of the Government, •by whatever names
they are called, to obtrude any other than the
right cause fOr this' atrocious attempt. But, as
has been already said, they were unsuccessful in
their policy—their craft was unavailing—the Par-
liament and the pedple saw the necessity of
strengthening the hands of the Executive : and,
on the terms of an enhanced responsibility in the
advisers of the Crown, of lodging in the hands
of the Sovereign extraordinary powers fur the
common-preservation.

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