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DR. BATE:IJAN ON CONTAGIOUS FEVER.
This Day «as published, in Bvo. price 6s. in boards,.
ASUCCINCT ACCOUNT of the CONTA-
GIOUS FEVER of this; Country, as exemplified in
the Epidemic now prevailing in London, with the appropriate
Method of Treatment, as practised in the House of Recovery.
To which are added,
OBSERVATIONS on the NATURE and PROPERTIES of.
CONTAGION, tending to-correct the popular notions on
this subject, and pointing out the means of :prevention.
By THOMAS BATEMAN, M.D. F.L.S.
Physician to the Public Dispensary, athitonstating Physician
to the Fever Institution in London, &c. &c.
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London.
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the Arrangement of Dr. Willaii, exhibiting a concise View of
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Milt QUA RTERLY REVIEW, Number
XXXVIL will be published on SATURDAY, the 46th.

CONTENTS.
• T. Erelyll.—Nlemoirs, illustrative of the Life and Writings
of Joh❑ Evelyn, Esq. F.A.S. Author of.thti " Sylra.' State
of France and Italy in his time; of England during the as-
cendancy of the Puritans; Funeral of Cromwell ; Restora.
tion of Charles II.; Plague and Fire of London.

H. Birkbeek's Notes on America. View of the Country,
the People,. their Manners and Habits, Emigration from Old
America, and Mode of settling in•the Illinois. .

HI. Improvement of the People. I. Courteney on the Poor
Laws. 2. Myers's Education.—NicolPs View of
the Report of the Pour Laws. S. Hon. H. G. Kennet's Let-
ter on the State of Newgate.

•-iv:-Hon. Horace Walpole's. Letters to Mr. Montazu—
Character of Walpole and his ‘Vorks.—Attecdotes Of Selwyn,
th-e Duke of Newcastle and Fielding—Funeral of George the
Second.

V. Sir R. Wilson—Military and Political Power of Russia
in 1817.

VI. Nubia, Egypt, Pyramid of Cephrenes.—Travels in
Egypt, Nubia, &c. by Henry Light, Capt. It. A.—Account
of Mr.. Belzooi's opening of the Pyramid of Cephreties, and
of his Discoveries at Thebes, &c.—Addenduni on the Bones
found in the Sarcophagus of the central Uheasher of the Py-
ramid.
VII. Endymion, by John Keats: 7

VIII. Voyage to Gres niane. 6°.
IX. Childe Ilero ": 7

X.
Mernoiri;q7:lTorkry, 1,- lA. State
lbectiptioo
of
Aofittitea.
'Main4;

XI. Woiuun, a Poem.
XLI. kTo;y
.1 i,e
AntiquiV of the Old Ttst;..:i.el;,., r ,„
Execution- of um- Authar.k:, ; ;;
Septuagint,4nd t...;tattment 1,, :;,.; ~•,,
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and Lain.
Printed for JOHN MURK ~ , Loodoil ; and
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD; E.
*** New Editions of th. 1,,,rs twee teen
re-printed, and any nal a_l;. ;), !sud
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We have this week the pleasing duty of stating,
that a happy change has ar last taken place
among the manufacturing classes of Manchester
and its vicinity. This is a subject connected with
the best interests of the country, with its pros-
perity, with its very existence as a nation ; and
is of more vital arid permanent interest to the
commtmity at large than any foreign intelli-
gence, however important. For the re-establish-
ment of order and tranquillity, and the certain
pledge of their continuance in other quarters, the
country is unquestionably indebted to the firmness
of ahtsprincipal masters, and to the vigilance and
activity of the civil- authorities. Large and tu-
multuous meetings are no longer permitted, and
the'-processions through the heart of the town
with flags and music have completed ceased.—
Among the factories to which the workmen have
returned in very considerable numbers, are those
of Mr. David Holt, of Holt-town; of Mr.Hotads-
worth, in Port-street; and of Mr. Smith, in But-
ter-lane. We feel peculiar pleasure in remark-
ing, that in the accomplishment of this desirable
object, no conditions were held out by the mas-
ters to the working classes. It is, however, but
common justice, if these deluded men have any
reasonable causes of complaint, that they should
be speedily attended •o, and fairly redressed ; but
had the master-spinners, in the late instances of
turbulence and riot, yielded to the demands of the
workmen, a precedent of a very injurious ten-
dency would have been established, and workmen
in every brand' would have constituted them-
selves the judges of what was fitting for tnasters
to allow for their labour ; and the concerns of
trade, like those of a nation on the principle of
Univetsal Suffrage, must in that case have been
beaceforward managed by a mob. It would be
but a slight progress in such a system, for the
hotly of workmen to meet and appoint a Depu-
tation to examine the accounts of their masters,
to ascertain the cost of the article manufactured
by him, to determine what would be a reasonable
profit for him, and, deducting what they pleased
front his actual profits, to appropriate the differ-
ence as an additional remuneration for their own
labour.—The advocates for Universal Suffrage
may possibly conceive that the affairs of a na-
tion would be most pleasantly and skilfully ma-
naged on their system ; and the operative cotton-
spinners may think that the scheme we have
alluded to would be a great improvement, but we
feel at a great loss to conceive how either poli-
tics or trade could be so conducted, and, indeed,
how either the State or commercial system could
remain in existence.
We object not only to the combination among
the cotton-spinners, where, indeed, no case of
oppression appears to be made out against their
masters, no proof, as in the case of the weavers,
that the earnings of the workman are not adequate
to his comfortable support ; but to combinations
among workmen in general, and we do it on the
principle that it is for the benefit of trade, of
every description, for it to be as unfettered as
possible.' Demand and supply are the great prin-
ciples which regulate the market price of goods
and of labour. These principles operate with ab,
solute power and unceasing certainty ; and all
attempts, by artificial means, to curb or to force
the activity of their operation, returns with in-
jury or ruin upon the heads of those who
make the experiment.' There is a brisk de

nand for a certain kind of goods, and the demand
advances the price. It is now the interest of the
masters to crowd as many goods as possible into
the market, and to fabricate as many more than
usual as, his capital or his credit will allow. He
has, therefore, a larger demand for labour, 'and
the increased demand advances its value, and
raises the rate of wages. This, no combination
of masters, even if it existed, can long prevent.
It may do so in a mere temporary push of trade,
but not in its gradual and settled increase. -And
• cannot do it for this reason, that it is not their
Without increase of wages, the master
cannot increase the quantum of 'his manufacture,
and he would lose much more by not supplying
his demands for goods, than he would gain by
keeping prices at their old rate; On the con-
trary, a dull market lessens the demand and the
price together. It lowers at the same time - the
price of labour, because it diminishes the demand
for it. As, in the former case, a combination of
Masters would be ineffectual to prevent the ad-
vance of the rare of labour ; so, in this, a com-
binatiOn of lflorkmen would be utterly unable to
prevent its iedoction. . Fewer goods must be
made, and at a lower price,. Thi's reduction can-
not take place wholly in the profits of the masters ;
for the competition-of trade prevents them from
being so enormous as to allow of that. It most
affect the profits•of the master, the wages of the
artisan, and the price of the raw material ; all
must feel it, and all, in practice, have ever been
found to feel it. What then would a combina-
tion Of workmen to keep up Is-ages to their old
rate issue in, were it successful ? The burthen
of the reduction in the price of the article would
be ternoved from themselves upon the raw mate-
rial on. the one -hand, and upon the profits of the
master on the other ; but how would this operate ?
T Ise reduction of a master's profits, beyond a rea-
sonable compensation for his labour, his capital,
his risks, would ultimately weary him our,
would seek employment for his capital in
,iod more profitable enterprizes ; and the
withdrawing of great capitalists would
the manufactorer, and throw the workmen
fot, 0, employ, Liltr .1.. ralntrit•P

nterest.

The Consul said, he would most willingly assist
him, but he bad no proof that he was an Ameri-
can subject, and he had moreover fought in the
Loyalist army, which excluded him from the be-
nefits of citizenship.
The LORD MAYOR said, a Gentleman had been
with him who knew Osgood to be an American-
born subject. Under these circumstances he
thought the Consul was bound to assist him, and
wondered he should refuse to do so.

The Consul.-1 ant willing, but I have not tbei
power : the laws forbid it.

• The LORD MAYOR.7.--Toll might step a little
out of the usual line in this case, 1 think.
The Consul replied, that he tilt much hurt at
having his public :conduct arraigned witlinut any
cause. It was not in his,power officially to assist
Mr. Osgood, but,:ts an individual, lie would do.
every thing he could for him and that, if sub-
scription was set on foot, he would, trOm his own.
,purse, subscribe double the htnottnt of any other
individual. He could prove that, in 1817, he had
sent 1300 distress?d subjects of America to their
homes at the expellee of that Government.
The LORD MANott said, he meant no-attack
upon the public character of the Consul ; Osgood
already possessed ten guineas, and about double
that sum would enable hit» to reach home.
' The Consul again expressed his willingness to
afford every aid, and here the matter for the pre-
sent rests.

v
ROBBING 11HE HOLYHEAD MAIL .—denrgrarris,
Guard .to the Holyhead and Birmingham Mail,
was brought up, and charged with stealing a
parcel, .containing 101. the property of Motes
Joel.—This. mail, of which Mr. IV4terhouse, of
the Swan .with Two Necks, Lad-lane, is the pro-
prietor, has for along time past been repeatedly
robbed, and Mr. W. has been a sufferer to a
considerable amount. Suspicion at length falling
upon Harris, he was apprehended. Harris de-
clined saying any thing, and he was fully com-
mitted to Newgute fur trial.