Star.
London, England, 1822-01-17 00:00:00

BARCELONA, DECEMBER 19.

Upon entering the city ten days ago, first after the
cordon was raised, it was most affecting to see those
few who were entering at the same time, embraced
by their friends and acquaintance, who had not seen
them for four months, as if they had come from a
far distant country, after an absence of many years.
—The streets lonely, the public walks covered with
mourners, the ringing of bells, the passing of reli-
gions processions, arid numerous other indications,
all pressed upon the mind the recollection of the
recent sufferings of this fine city. The number of
the dead is given in by the Junta at between
and 10,000, but it is thought that newly double that
number have perished. The Medical Commissioners
of the French Government, before they were here
three days, pronounced the fever to be contagious,
and attributed it to the air, and did more mischief
in that short space of time than their cures could
have compensated in a century. In fact, they cured
none. The people here are confounded to hear that
their Government is bespattering them with honours.
As strangers, the people abstained from laying violent
hands upon them, and the well-informed part of the
community only laughed at their vain-glorious pro-
ceedings ; but the case was different with respect to
a contagionist enragee, settled in the town as a botani-
cal protessor, of the name of Bahi. The enraged
'people, who found themselves separated, unnecessarily
as they thought, from their nearest and dearest friends,
sought him out, in order to overturn his declamation
by a summary mode of conviction. He first hid him-
self in his botanical garden, amidst some of his cab-
bage-leaves, and finally fled the city ; and he now
employs himself in composing furious declamations
against the wickedness (lit sceleratesse) of the non-
contagionista, and in toasting, as it is said, with the
Cat thagena commissioners—" Success to contagion."
We have had here quite a conclave of physicians.
Betides the resident practitioners, who are numerous,
we have had five Commissioners from the French Go-
vernment ; one from the French Secretary of War;
one (Mr. Lassis) the author of a respectable work
against contagion, on his own account, or on account
of the French Academy ; four Commissioners from
Carthageha, sent -by the Spanish Government; one
from Madrid (Mr. Leymerie), attached to the
French or American Legation there; and two vo-
lunteers from London (I)cctors Maclean and O'Hal-
loran.) . The two latter Gentlemen were called in to
visit one of the physicians of Barcelona, a very pro-
mising young man of the name of Duran, who had
been attended by all his colleagues of the city, had
been despaired of, and, as is customary in such cases,
had. received the sacrament and extreme .
He is now in an advanced state of conva
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17. ISM.
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