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London, England, 1824-07-14 00:00:00

FLOODS ON THE CONTINENT.

DRESDEN, JUNE 29.
After long continued rains, in consequence of cir.
cumsrances that have taken.place in Upper Bohei:
but which are not yet known, the Elbe has risen slsce
the 24th in a terrible manner, and is now 16 feet above
the uanal level of the stream : the water is still rising.
The immense magazines of Bohemian timber on the
left bank were reached by the waters, and notwithstand-
ing every exertion to save them, were this morning car.
tied down the stream under the bridge in large piles.
The Elbe is now covered with wood, entire stems and
rafts. Other things of all kinds are brought down the
river from distant parts. A floating mill, with several
persons, was happily saved near Missen. The damage
done by this inundation just before the harvest, which
looked so well, is immense. In several parts of the city
and suburbs there is no passing except in boats.

LORD BYRON.

We have received a series of the Tdegrafo Greco,
published at Miuolonghi, to the 16th of May.
MISSOLONGHI, MAY 2.
The Clergy proceeded in a body this day to the house
*here the remains of Lord Byron lay, in order to take
into their keeping, and remove to the Church of San
Spiridion, the heart, bminsr&c. of the deceased, which
had been left to the care of the city of Missolonghi.
The city made a solemn request to Count Gamba (the
friend of Lord Byron) for permission to erect a moon•
ment to the memory of their benefactor and illustrious
fellow-citizen. His Lordship had already accepted the
freedom of the City. Count Gamba felt it his duty to
deposit his Noble Friend's remains in the care of the
City until they might be Yeclaimed by his relatives.
Two chests were prepared for the occasion, and after
being examined, were sealed by the Magistrates. In
one of them was contained the body, and in the other
the heart and brains-of the Noble defunct. They Were re-
moved by four Officers to the bark which transported
them to Basiladi, and thence into a larger vessel, to be
conveyed to Zante. The whole of the Noble Lord's
brigade was drawn out in front of his late residence,
and along the shore of the sea. The convoy was ac-
companied by Prince A. Maurocordato, the Primates;
the Military Commandants, and an immense concourse
of people. whose countenances and manner bore testi-
mony to their sorrow at taking this last farewell of
their benefactor and fellow-citizen. As soon as the
corpse was removed to the bark, it was saluted by
discharges of musketry and artillery. The cannon of
his brigade, drawn up along the coast, saluted with 25
minute guns: nine were discharged from the battery, and
three from the fort of Basiladi, making in all thirty-
seven, the number' of years the Noble defunct had lived ,
Whit a melancholy contrast to the joyous salutes
which four months previous had hailed his arrival in
Missolonghi. One consolation, however, remains ; the
good he has effected will not be lost ; the seeds he has
sown with such alacrity and industry for the benefit t 4
Greece, will yet produce a noble harvest. The most
glorious monument which can be raised to him, will be
the feelings of gratitude and love which remain stamped
in the heart of every Greek. In the bark which trans-
ported the Noble Lord's remains to Zante were his
friend Count Gamba, two other Officers of his brigade,
Captain and Adjutant Hesketh, Lieutenant Winter, his
private physician Dr. Brown, his faithful valet Fletcher,
who had served him more than twenty years, and his
domestic Batista Fulcciere. In two other barks fol-
lowed his horses and all his effects, under the care of
his Secretary, Signor Lega Zambelli. The Government
sent likewise two gun-boats to accompany them.
The following account of the opening of Lord By-
ron's body, and the.appearances it exhibited, is given
by the professional Gentlemen to whom that office
was intrusted:

1. The bones of the bead were found to be excessively bard, and
the skull was without the slightest sign of suture, like that of an
octogenarian. It might have been said to consist of a single bone
without depict%
2. The dura owning was so firmly attached to the internal sar-
' face of the cranium, that it requited the repeated exertions of two
strong men to separate the outer bones from it. The vessels of
this membrane were greatly distended and completely full, and it
was united to the pia mater in different parts, by some membra-
neous filaments.
3. Between the pia ',satiate and the furrows of the brain, a great
many bubbles of air were found with drops of lymph adhering in
several places to the pia menhir-
4. The grand fele of the brain was cro-sed with membraneous
filaments, which attached it firmly to both the hemispheres ; it was
likewise extremely full of blood.
5. The cerebral medulla was full of minute blood-vessels of a bright
red colour, and very much swoin. Under the pone taroks at the
base of the hemispheres, in the two superior or lateral ventricles,
there was found an extravasation of about two ounces of bloody
serum ; and at the bottom of the eerasellum there was a similar ex-
pansion, the effects of a severe inflammation of the brain.
6. The medullary substance was in much greater proportion than
is common in the carless, and was very firm and consistent. The
eentommt and cerebellum, without any of the integuments, weighed
about six medical pounds.
7. The impressions or furrows of the blood-vessels, In the in-
ternal part of the skull bones, though small, were much more nu-
tiferous than usual.
B. The lungs were very fine, perfectly sound, but large, to a size
almost gigantic.
9. Between the pericardium and the heart there was an ounce of
lymphatic water. The heart was mote ample and voluminous than
ordinary, but its muscular substance was very relaxed and fibreless.•
10. The liver was smaller than the natural size, as were likewise
the biliary vessels, which, instead of bile, contained air. The intes-
tines were distended with air, and of a deep yellow colour.
The reins were very large and healthy, and the urinary vessels
zemparatively small.

From this examination it was unanimously concluded,
by the Medical Gentlemen who attended it, that if
Lord Byron, from the commencement cf his illness had
consented to any loss of blood, as his private physician
repeatedly advised, or even if,at amore advanced stage of
the disorder, he had yielded to the pressing solicitations
of his medical advisers, to allow a copious bleeding, his •
Lordship would not have fallen a victim to this attack.
From the statements marked 1,8, 9, it may be confi-
dently asserted, that his Lordship could not have lived •
many years, from his extreme susceptibility of disease,
either through the strength of his passions, his excessive
occupations, or even through his utter disregard of all
the necessary means to prevent the effects of constipation. •

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