The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-10 00:00:00

TYPHUS FEVER.

Dr. JorIN BINGHAN/, of Leixlip, loss published
in the Irish Papers the following, as a successful
mode of treating the malignant lever now so pre-
valent in that country. Ile observes that his own
expel ience of its efficacy enables him to promul-
gate it with confidence. The remedy, in fact,
consists in the exhibition of mustard. '' From the
favourable effect," olvierves lir. B. " I have inva-
riably found it to produce on he patient, I place a
great relianceon it, especially when administered in
the early stage of the complaint, by giving the pa-
tient, if an adult, a tea-spoon hill, or'? drachms,
of common mustard, mixed in a (limbic)• of tepid
water, which, in less than Inuif an hour, will pro-
duce a gentle, free, and salutaty vomiting, merely
disburthening the stomach of its contents ; and
during its operating, I give the patient about
a quart of tepid water, as used it the ordi-
nary vomits. luime.liately on the mustard be-
ing taken into the stomach, it produces a
glow of warmth which pervades the entire sys-
tem, together with a singular sensation scarcely
to he described, unless by the patients who have
used it, that soon changes the skin from that hot,
due, and uncomfortable feel, always to be met in
incipient fever, into a sole, moist, and cool state,
which is succeeded by a gentle perspiration, and
the re-establishment of the Innetions of the digcs
tiveorgaus. In about eight hours after the stomach
has been emptied in the above manner, I give the
patient (if full grown) four grains of calomel ;
and in the course of too hours alter the admini-
stering of the calomel, I give a gentle saline pur-
gative. NVith this prompt treatment, I have, in
the majority of cases where the patients mat!e ap-
plication to toe, dm ing the first two or three days
of their complaining, rescued them from a com-
plaint setting in with all its malignant features ;
and, in a few instances in which I have not sup-
pressed the Epidemic in this way, I have found,
that by having recourse to mustard, with oth,li
auxiliaries, in the future Stages of the complaint,
enabled me almost invariably to announce the
certain recovery of the patient."

Mr. WALLACK, kte of Druiy-Lane Theatre,
made his first appearance at New Yolk in the dm-
lacier of Macbeth on the 7th tilt. Ilis reception
was flattering, and the receipts of the house
amounted to nearly 1-100 dollars.
NEW ONDE It op KNIGIITIIOOD.—We believe we
are the first, by the,e presents," to announce,
that a New Order of Knighthood is on the lapis,
and waits only the completion of their Majesties
at Arms, to be officially proclaimed.—lts
we understand, is, " Ihe Order of Civil
of which 'he REGLNT will no doubt
be the Sovereign.—The badge will be a cross
pendant front a black and red ribbon—we have
not heard that the motto is fixed upon. Institu-
tions of this description have existed sonic time
in several of the other great States of Eur,pe, and
such a one has been long wanting here. It will be
graced by the Companionship of the hist charac-
ters in the country, including the Ministers, and
others eminent for their high qualifications.—kVe
oily be enabled probably to give some further
pat ticalari in a week or two.—(Chester Chronicle,)

THE COLONIES.

[Continued from Yesterday's Striv.3

;From The Royal Ga:ettc aTal Bahama Advertiser, July 23.]

TO THE EDITORS OF THE ROYAL GAZETTE.
St RS ,—Allow me, through you, to trouble the
Public with a few remarks on the late Publication
of Mr. %Vylly in your Paper of the 18th lust.
One of the most important features of that
curious production is one, perhaps, not calculated
to strike the reader at 'first sight, at least when
read on this Island, where it is universally known
that Mr. Wyllv has never yet been brought before
the Hoose of Assembly on any charges, and con-
sequently had no opportunity of answ ening any.
For whether intended or not, the charges Anil
answers, as published at the request of Mr. Welly,
would certainly lead any person, ignorant of farts,
to conclude- that such were the Answers of Mr.
‘Vylly, as actually delivered in at the Bar of tl.e
House. The Publication begins with a written
request front Mr. IVylly that an enclosed paper
(night be published. Then follow " Charges,"
&c.—As contained in " tour several Resolutions
made by the House of Assembly," &c. and " Mr.
IVylly's Answers to those Chat ges." The Reso-
lutions are then given, with technical precision,
in the very language, or nearly so, as they appear
on the minutes of the House ; each Resolutioo
being followed up by a paragraph, headed in Stm.ll
Capitals, with the word " Answer." Now who, in
any part of the world beyond the precincts of tli s
one little Island, could understand this otherwise,
than that the poblication contained the proceed
ings before the House on the matter in question
Observe also, tho4e Answers are dated the 14th
instant, the very day on which Mr. Wylly was to
have appeared at the Bar of the House, had not
the Assembly been previously prorogued. In the
" Answers" too, Mr. IV's expressions are " the
present House of Assembly."—" the late House
of Assembly " when speaking of the former House
which had been dissolved 'in January 181 7—(thia
latter expression occurs twice in his " Answers,-)
and finally, the words " this House " in his last
Answer ; all admirably calculated to help out the
deception ! li'or these Charges and Answers,
though dated tlie 14th inst. are not sent to the
Press until the day afterwards, as appears by the
date of Mr. Wylly's note to you, enclosing thent
for publication ; on which last day the Assembly
was dissolved.
The diss'olution indeed had virtually taken
place the (lay before. And as your Paper was not
published until the 18th, there was quite suffi-
cient time to correct the errors in question, had
there been any disposition to do so. There
ap-
pears, on the whole, therefore, strong reason to
' suspect that Mr. IV's publication Was not intend-
ed merely for the meridian of the Bahama Islands.
And we may possibly find Mr. James Stephen, in
an Appendix to his next Pamphlet, publishing,
on the authority of your Gazette, '' the spirited
and highly argumentative Answers of his esteem-
ed friend Mr. Wylly, to certain audacious charges
of the Bahama House of Assembly ; which he -im-
pressively delivered, with his usual manliness, at
the Bar of the House ; and thereby posted all his
enemies, so completely, that it does not appear
the House ventured to proceed farther against
them."

But whether the deception was intended to go
that length or not, it would seem to be at least
insinuated, that the " Answers" were those
which Mr. IVylly intended to uli.ke at the Bar of
the House.
But even this cannot he true. Mr. \Vylly wel!
knew that the fl utist! would never have suffered
him to beard it with impunity, with such a tissue
of evasion, and in so high a tone of recrimina-
tion and contempt. 'Liken, therefore, in any
possible point of view, the pliblication in lilies-.
(ion is, perhaps, as decided an act of disre:;;;ect
to the Assembly, as was ever before offered to it,
even by Mr. ‘Vvlly himself.
But setting those considerations aside for the
present, let us look a little into the substance of
these saute " Answers," as they appear in your
Gazette. Mr. \Vvlly certainly is posse•sed of so-
perior talents. Aitd the first reflection, therefore,
which the occasion here suggests, is that of regret
that a Gentleman ,0 highly endowed with the fa-
culties necessary for his defence before any tribu-
nal in the country, should wage Newspaper battle
only vim h his opponents ; and by some nook or
continually avoid the only test which
would he either conclusive or satisfactory.
It requires but little skill, and still less substan-
tial merits, to conduct a Newspaper DOence asith
plausihiliiy. Printers ate not pi ivileged to cross-
examine those who appear before their Court.
Like Hamlet's Clowns, they must " speak no
more than is set down for them." This, there-
fore, is a most convenient form of trial for those
who have any thing to keep out of view ; or
whose sensibilities are not prepared for thuse sift-
ing and troublesome investigations to which the
ruder Courts of Justice are apt to have re-
course.

For instance, Mr. Wylly denies that he ever
" misrepresented" the proceedings of the House
to Mr. Wilberforce or his party. But this is at
hest equivocal ; and leaves the clues' ion just
where it was before. Does Mr. Wylly mean to
say, that he had no correspondeuce wh,o-
soever with that patty, on the matter in Tits-
tion ? or that he communicated to them only
the truth, and not what Mr. James Stclu,en af-
terwards falsely published almost in his (Wr.
V'''s) name ? or did Mr. Wylly mean to say, that
he did communicate what Mr-Stephen published,
but that it was no misrepresentatioa ? A few
plain questions, fairly answered at the Bar of the
Assembly to these points, would have been much
more acceptable to those who have still any doubt
upon the subject, than all the flourishes that may
be sent to the Press about it.

Again, Ali.. \Vylly affects to consider a note
which he received limn a Committee oldie house
as " an insult ;" and why ? because the Commit-
tee hail the presumption to tell him that he was
accused of the inaccuracies above alluded to, re-
specting the "louse, in his correspondence with
the abolitionists ; and invited hint to exculpate
himself—to exculpate himself ! What an affront
.0 the dignity of an Attorney-Geneial I The
truth is, that the note which the Committee
wrote to hilu was faulty only in being too

Ylnil now he Iseai't himself of ilrfc little anibigui-,
ties of the language of complaisance, to say that
it required nothing " speific" from hint. The
next swum-ruts that lie receives, 1 trust, be
n the more perspicuous style of his familiars,
:John Doe and Richard Roe, who say a great deal
to the point in few words, and with as little
complaisance a% possible. I shall not follow Mr.
ZVylly through the remainder of his defence on
this head; a were farrago of pomp and
Among other absurdities, a Committee vested
with power to !tend for pers,,ns and papers, ate
said to have therehy acquired only the power to
send hack to the House again, to send for pet sons
and paper. for them.
Mr. Wylly next says, be resisted the Alessenger
of the Utilise (.eho certainly on that occasion
tvcrit only to set ve li m wide a warrant in tile 118-
fine of a summons, to appear before the !louse),
'because the said _Messenger,' coming io the night,
8:C.• was a " suspicions person." When Mr.
Wvlly was before the General Court under his
Mafia, Corpus in January last year, it did not
appear, by what Ise then said, that he had " sus-
pected" Mr. Closholin of any thug, but of being
" a lsieltlander." Mr. Wylly's own efildavit on
that occasion in Net admits that be knew Chis-
holm perfectly well, and u'ts as perfectly apprised
of his office and business. Gloss the matter
theieforc it,: he may, the arming of his Negro
Slaves, in at least an unnecessary resistance 01
authority, was an tmpardonable offence, particu-
larly in iltee times. tie has talked of fearing to
be dragged eighteen wiles into town in the middle
of the night, and lunch other stuff of the same
character. But Chisholin'Was alone ,nd
ed. And wbat coil he have eqected contrary to
Wylly's amidst a gang of armed
c.,-roes ? A few of the
.muskets, it is true,
might have been unloaded ;, but even an empty
mnsket, cciih a bayonet at the end of it, in the
athletic hands of an ahle,initlied Negro, is a weal
pou not to be reified with. It 'would haw!' been
rti372 -to Mr Wylly's credit, it, after Chisholm's
long ride, be had givel the wan a little supper
and a bed for the itigto, and rode into town with
hint at his leizure in the morning.
It is said too that Mr. Wyliy is already indict-7
ed in the Central 'Court fur this assault on Chis-
holm ; and therefore that to ptoceed against him,
in the Assembly also, is an extraordinary instance
of two prosecutions pending for the sane offence.
If the Judges of the General Court had notuna-
nimously declated the indictment void in law, in
its only material point, there mi;glit perhapa have
been some little reason in Mr. NVylly's comment.
But as the matter stands, in point of fact, that
comment is a were play on words. It is not title
that the prosecution in the General Court was or-
dered by the House of Assembly.
I come now to Mr. Wylly's last point of de-
fence—on which, though he, does not expressly
admit, he ccitainly does not 'deny, that. he had
calumniated the House, and, in abusive arid
scurrilous langnage, spoken contemptuously of all
the members. But be says he was pi iejleged to use
this language, tt by ? fun sooth, because he used it at
the Bar of the General Court in argument. One
word for. the information of Mr. Wylly and his
friends on this brad. Mr. Wylly was once Chief
Justice of that Court. Arid if he bad, even opt')
the Bench, dared to say wi6t he lately dexlared
at the Bar, that the Howse squandered the, public
money on jobs, and that the Members were a
varetil of numskulls stud blockheads, I ass rather
or opinion that he would not have done sowi;11
impunity then ; however safe be may be now
that he is a I;overnor and Cotrespondent of the
African Institution.

I in, S

Nassau, 21st July, 1818.

LEX PARLIAMENTARIA.

RAHANIA IST.AND, NEW PROVIDENCE.
Tv the late ,tiptitlier Nlemhers of the House of Assembly

tur I lie Bahama Islands.

GENTLENIFN,—We Whose MIIIIVS are hereunto
sithseribed, Inhabitants of the Island of New
Providence, beg leave to express to you our un-
feigned sorrow for the long chain of evils which
have grown out of the unhappy and unprece-
dented interference of the Justices of the General
twit( of thr se Islands with the inherent privi-
leges of the noose of Assembly—privileges which
that hotly has ever been used to exercise, and
without which neither its own dignity, nor the
subjects' right, can be maintained.
We lament sincerely the present dissolution of
the General Assembly, as that unwise and pre-
mature measure has farther removed the period to
%%hick we so anxiously looked for a termination
of the discord and distraction under which the
Colony has heel' unhappily labouring.
We beg leave to assure you of our onerralificd
approval of your conduct as our Representatives
in the late General. Assembly, and tender you our
best thanks for your etF)rts to maintain our rights,
/confidently trusting, whenever a new llouse of
Asseruhly 5!.41l he called, that you will again come
forward and evince the sante determination as
heretofore to protect our just and sacred rights
and privileges as British subjects.
251 h July, ISIS. _

[I lei e Follows a long list of the na►ncs of the
]nhr►bi►nnts 3

It is contemplation to mike a direct com-
monic,ttion hum the County of Norfolk with the
Gointy of Lincoln and the North of England, by
ine,ms of a bridge over the river Nene, at the
Nearest point practicable to the sea.
SWINDLING AND ROBBERY.— On Wednesday
last, a ,A ell-dressed female called at Mr. Ser-
j;eant's, Great St. Thomas the Apostle's, to
look over his bons, which he wished to dispose
ot. Miss Sergeant showed the house to the wo-
man, who expressed herself perfectly satisfied.
Site left the house ; in a few minutes she return-
t' !, and said she had left a parcel up stairs ; Miss
Sergeant went Hp stairs to look for it, and not
being able to find it, site returned, and the wo-
man said she supposed she had left it elsewhere.
She bad not been gone more than a quarter of an
when it was discovered, that while Miss
Sergeant was looking for the parcel, she had en-
tered the counting-house, and carried off 281. in
Bank-notes, which Mr. Sergeant had left for a
gentleman who teas to call upon him that morn-
ing. It has been ascertained that the notes have
here changed at the Bank, and the address writ-
ten upon them proved to be fictitious.

,INTLILIGENCE.