Star.
London, England, 1808-03-31 00:00:00

.roirtcri INTXLLIGENCE.

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'hlishment of Officeis, tlerlise.ite. d gerdatite entploye44- I
at the General Fnreign ilospital,.. from December.
IgOli to tedeehbers le''ale. given in the Appendix, it
appears that alert it at Wee. nt a Genera; Hospitea at
Elutg, for the invalitit of - ill Ott fore**
.totps $ arid
a small establishment at Lymington, of a Surgeon..
and two Hospital Mates, conducted on the footing
of a Regimental 'Hospital; for the service of tlie re-
cruits belonging to the foreign corps, the number of
which is said to be regularly from 500 to 800 men,
together with from 40 to 60 officers. The Genes'al
Hospital Establishment at Eling has varied, aewe
learn from Doctor Verstutme, according to the state
of the foreign corps in entr service. In 1798 it wail
reduced ; in 1799, en the arrival of the Dutch brie,
gade, it was increased ; and daring the last peace,
it Was again redticed, But in October 1805, when the
Hanoverian legion was ordered on duty in Germany,
the Medical Staff under Doctor Versturme's superin-
teudance was again considerably augmented ; more •
with the view, however, as it appears, of being at-
tached
to the legion, than for the purpose of the Hosel
pital Establishment at Eling. 1
The statenient to which we have before refereed,
,;hews, that the establishment of Medical Officers at
Eling, from December 1803 to December 1806, has
heed low, compared with that of the British General
Hospitals; yet, from the same statement, it appears
that the number of patients admitted during this pe-
riod of three years was 11101, whilst we find that only
112`2 were admitted into-the York hospital eluritig the
same period. It is a singularity in the establishment
of servants at Eling, as elven in the statement, that
no Matron, head Nurse, Nurses, or Sempstresses, are
employed in this General Hospital. This has been a
saving to the Public, as Dector Versturme calculates,
front December 1796 to December 1806, of above
two thousand four hundred pounds.
The pay of the officers on the Hospital Establish-
ments at Eling and Lythington, including that of
Doctor Versturme, as appears from the different
quarterly accounts furnished to us fur the year 1804
and 1805, was somewhat under two thousand five
hundred pounds. For the present year, IW7, it will
he less ; for, on the 21th of April last, the establish-
ment at Fling consisted of only a Deputy Purveyor,
ate Apothecary doing the duty of a Staff Surgeon,
an Hospital Maw, and a4.7lerk or Storekeeper.
The view which we have given of this Hospital
Establishment certainly entitles the management of it
to much cornmeadation, in comparison with the ere
temporary management of the British General Hos-
pital: ; as does also the controul over the expences of
the hospital ; notwithstanding, we consider Doctor
Versturme's statement as an incomplete representa-
tion of those expences. Doctor Versturme infers from
the returns and accounts for the years 1805 and 1806,
transmitted to us, that the petients, during this period
of two years, were subsisted at about ninepcnce three
farthings per diem each ; but it does not appear - in
• what mode he has formed his calculation. Our
statement, prepared from the same documents, shows,
that if the whole cost of the subeistence during this
period be divided by the total number of servants fnd
patients subsieted, the expence of each servant Ind
patient per diem would be about eight-pence farthing;
and that, if the sante sum was divided by the number
of patients only, the expence of each would be eleven
pence three farthings per diem ; but if the charge for
the servants wages, their subsistence, and the con-_
tingencies, were added, ae they ought to he, to the.
cost of the patients subsistence, the expence then of
each patient in the Eling Hospital Would be about
seventeen pence per deem, during the years 1803 and
1806. It ought not to be overlooked, also, that in
these two years, a considerable supply of porter,
wine, sugar, vinegar, soap, barley, rice, &c. were
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received at the Eling Hospital from the Porchestee
Castle deeot, the cost of which is not included in
the trims; nitted account's. From our statement; a
conclusion also may be drawn respecting the number
1 of servants and orderlies employed at the Fling Hos-
pital during the above two years, whieb is deserving
of consider ation. The number actually employed.,
during this period may be ascertained by dividing the
entente of days subsistence by 7;l0; the number of
days in those years, and the number of patients being
ascertainett in the same way, the result gives the
average number of attendants and orderlies to .have
been 161, end of patients 37t, or nearly one servant.l
to two ea tients. . .
We have before stated, that the pav of the Foreignl
Hospital Etablishnient, including that of Doctor;
Versturnte, was nearly two thousand five hundred',
pounds ii aring the years 1804 and 1805. These
views, therefore, of the actual expence of the main-
tenance of the patients in the Fling Hospital, and of''
the great , lisproportion of the establishment ,of sere
smuts to the number of patients, notwithstanding that
no women were empineed, will sufficiently support
our recommendation that the Eling General Hospi-
tal, as well as the remaining British General Hospi-
tal:, should be managed on the regimental plan.—
For we hall shew hereafter, that the patients so ma-
naged may be maintaine,d, including the expences of.
servants and the contingencies, under ten-pence per
diem each ; and that although it is frequently found
the number of patients in a Regimental Hospital
equals the average of those for the last two years in
the Fling Hospital, yet the usual attendants are only
a Serjeant, a Nurse,.and an orderly man. But at all DUBLIN POLICE.
events, the recommendation contained in Doctor Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY moved the second
Versturtne's letter is certainly deserving of much_ at- reading of the Dublin Police Bill.
tention. At present, there are two Medical Este- Mr. SHAWE and Mr. J. BERESFORD opposed
hlishments belonging to the foreign corps ; that at the Bill, inasmuch as it trenched upon the Charter of
Fling, which we have been noticing, and another at the City of ,Dublin. . ~ .
Lymington, which is conducted on the regimental, Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY only requested
plan.. Doctor Versturme proposes that the establish- Gentlemen would not oppose the second reading. of
Intent at Eling should be removed to Lymington t the Bill now, but suffer it to go to a Committee, in or-
[ this, he.says, would be a saving of above one thou- j der to have it. put into a definitive shape, for the par-
sand pounds per annum, in the pay of the persons et- 1 pose of being transmitted to Dublin for*the consider
tached to that hospital. It would be necessary, he I ation of the parties concerned. ' There would be time
admits, to erect some new buildings for the purpose enough to discuss the Bill in its future stages. •
at Lvmington : but. he thinks, that if a temporary The CHANCELLOR of the *EXCHEQUER
• building were erected, the expence of it would be co,-and Mr. GRATTAN both spoke to the same effect.
vered by the saving in the esteblislament, added to Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, it was on all hands
that in the rent of the present hospital huildings sat I agreed, that a Police Bill for Dublin was necessary ;
Fling and Lyritingtnn. If What Doctor Versturine .1 and-however highly he might be disposed to respect
hes proposed in the letter alluded tonvere adopted, $ charters in general, he protested against the idea that
there would be a farther saving in the establishments :rile Legislature should be bound up by the terms of
(as we have since learnt from Doctor Versturme) of. any charter to decline all interference in matters of
ti!e salaries of
.one Barrack Master and a Barrack :Police, where it appeared that every thing done un-
Serjeant. The propriety, however, of this recom- • der a charter was totally inefficacious. If the Magis-
reendationemust depend on the intentions of Govern- • trates of Dublin, appointed under a charter, neglected
neat, in respect of the continuance of the foreign their duty for a long series of years, were the citi-
corps in our service.-01 b, continued.) . zens of Dublin for ever to suEer under a bad Police,

•
• PARISI MAKCH IS.
By 3111 rittperial decree of the day befOre yesterday/
caree is established, to which is the
of iupervising public Instruction through the
whole French empire.
The following is the oath to be taken by the new
Nobility : •
" I swear to be faithful to the Emperor and his dynasty; to be
obedient to the constitution, laws, and institutiona of the Em-
pire ; to serve his Majesty :it a goal, upright. 2nd faithful sub-
ject ; to educate my children in the same feelings of fidelity and
obedience, and to march in defence of my country as soon as its
territory shall be threatened, or as his Afajaty drall ro to de army."
Further, a Council has been established for the
sealing of titles, consisting of three Senators, two
Counsellors of State, one Attorney-General, and one
Secretary-General. The expences of this Council
are to be discharged out of fees which persons are to
pay. for their patents of Nobility.
KONINGSEER C., MARCH R.
Our Court has published the following de-laration:
" Koningsberg, March 6.
" His [Loyal Majesty the King of Prussia, our most gracious
Sovereign, has been solicited by both imperial Courts of Paris and
St. Petersburgh, consistently with the system of the other powers
bf the Continent, and the declaration .against England, to extend
the same measures against Sweden, which have been taken against
England, on account of her fresh aiEance with that power. In
imitation of the declaration issued by the Emperor of Russia on
the 10th (ithil of February in this year, his Majesty has accor-
dingly P 010144 relations with on'-Jon, and commands all in of
under hint, under the penalty of severe puni4istient, to refrain
from all comMunity. • r intercourse whatever with.Swc den. In
pursuance of this, from the present moment, •and till farther or-
ders, all Prussian harbours shall be utterly closed against Swe-
dish vessels ; Prussian vessels shall no longer be situ into Sweden,
neither shall Swedish or neutral ships or wares; Which.tome frou
Sweden, be admitted Into Prussian harbours:l
A meeting of the States, (viz. Parliament) of East
Prussia: was held on the 2d of February, and dis-
solted on the rth of the same month, in order to
consult on the means of relieving the country from
the consequences of the disasters it had endured.—
The owners of land, not proprietors, were called to
the meeting, so that the diet consisted of 0 Noblo,
and 13 Civic Deputies.

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 14.
Our Court has published in the Courtin: a list of the
foreign troops which arc marching into Denmark.
They consist of two French, one Spanish, and one
Dutch division, constituting a force of 32,870 men,
and 6191 horses. His Serene -Highness the Prince of
Ponte Corvo, who commands this army hi chief, is
expected here to-morrow; his head -quarter.sare to he
on the Fredericksberg. .His Highness receives a
guard of honour, and the military honours given to a
reigning Prince
Yesterday al Elsinenr, by heat of drum, all corn-
, munication with Swedea was forbidden on pain of
death:

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 6.
Intelligence has been received here not only of the
honourable reception of the French Ambassador Ge-
neral Gardanne, at the Court of Persia, but also of
the beneficial effects of his first riet,rociation. It is,
for instance, affirmed, that the ancient treaty between
France and Persia has been renewed. These tidings,
which are confirmed by various letters received here,
have enticed several .French mercantile houses, which
were settled at Constantinople, to establish themselves
in Persia.

:pARLIANENTARr PROCEEDINGS.,

HOLISF or LORDS, MARCH 39.

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Several Bills on the table were forwarded in their respective
stages.
Sir JACOB ASTLrY, Mr. CALCRATT, and several other Mem-
bers of the House of Commons, brought up some private Bills,
which were read .a first time.
The hearing of the Apnea's respecting the Roxburgh Estates
was, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor, fixed fot Friday the
Bth of April.Adpurned till to-morrow (this day).