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London, England, 1822-10-18 00:00:00

CATON ON DEBILITY, ILLUSTRATED WITH
CASES.

This day was published, price 3s. 61. a New F.sittion of .
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the DEN-
LIT I ES, natural and contracted, of the GEN ERATI VE
ORGANS of both Sexes • including Remarks on Onanism, Se.
minal Weakness, Nocturnal Rmission, Gleet, raises Dorsalis,
Fluor Albin. &c. &c. with the Theory of Generation.
By T. M. CATON, Surgeon,
No. 6, Norfolk-street, Strand;
Late of the United Hospitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's. -
Suitt by W. Neely, 22, 'Change-alley; and C. Chapple, 59,
; Bowen, 315, Oxford-street ; or by the Author, u
above. Where may be had.

Caton on the Venereal Disease and its Consequences, a New
Edition, price .ss. illustrated with Cases A Practical Treatise
on the Prevention and Cure of the Venereal Disease exhibiting
the character, symptoms, and treatment of the diseases imme.
sliately or remotely connected with it; containing Observations
on Glee, Stricture, iNlucal Discharges, the use of the Caustic
and•common Bougie, Cutaneous Eruptions, Imaginary Venereal
Di;e.:ses, &c. &c. comprising an 'elementary Work for Students,
and a Guide to the general Reader; interspersed with select
Prescriptions applicable to each division of the Disease.

Lasterros-vreser.----Wednesday, Debora's Hill. alias "Jana
Jews," a miserable looking woman, very lame of one leg, end
having ber head and face Indented by many aid wounds, was
charged by two officers of the Mendieity Society with begging in
the streets.—The officers said they apprehended the prisoner sit-
ting on the steps of a door in Mile-end, with a crowd of persons
round her, to whom she was relating her adventures in battle,in
order to crrate their charity, and stated that she had only just
come from Buckinghamshire, when, in fact, she had been just
discharged from Brixton House of Correction.—The prisoner
said, her husband was a private in the 7th Light Dragoons, and
dint she accompanied him to France. The regireent was thew
ordered abroad, and in order to follow him she enlisted in tbe
47th, and became a drummer, and fought at the battle of Water-
loo, where her hifsband was slain by her aide on the 18th June..
She received the wounds she now exhibited on that day. Hen
lani:tnesa was occasioned by a musket ball she received in the
thigh. She was allowed a pension of Gd. per day from Govern-
ment for her Services, but that was not-sufficient to-support her..
and she Was therefore neeesskated to beg at intervals. She blew
longed to the parish of Whitechapel, and was willing to giss tbss
parish up her pension, if they took her iota tise workhouse. .
Magistrate.—What name does yourpensioh stand in 4 • '
Prisons-I%—f enlisted in the nameof my husband, wslolin
Jones," but receive the pension in my own name.
Maglstrate...:;-,-. Was your sex ever discovered white you--were
in the army?

Prisoner,--Yes, Sir, by two drummers, one slay, I was
bathing, and they 'told my Colonel, which caused Int ttElsvais-
charged with a poision.

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The woman was handed over to the parish bffiters of' White-
chapel, who took her to the workhouse.
Yesterday.Sanuaef Duncan, a fellow with one leg. was charged
with attempting to rob N. Harkin,apatrol of the Tower district.
The prosecutor, while on duty, was passing through an obscure
alley on Tower-hill, when the prisoner demanded his money,
threatening to blow out his brains if he refused. The prosecutor,
however, contrived to knack him down and securchim.—He
was remanded.

Roger Rice, a cobler, at Limehouse, was fined Ss. for working
on the Sabbath day, and annoying the congregation at Church,
near which he resides, by his hammering.
QUSIMSQUAZIL—Yesterday Susannah Perry was cfairged with
robbing her master, Mr. Byers, of Trevor-square, Pimlico. A
few nights since the prisoner alarm;d the family by saying there
were thieves in the house; the watchman was called In, and the
house searched, but no symptoms of thieves appeared ; at length
the prisoner observed that she missed some app .rel off the clothes
horse, and Mrs. Byers said there were three gowns and some
caps missing. A search then took place In the prisoner's room,
and the articles were found under her bed.—Fully committed.

1%1 m.solotyou-saurr.—E. EldKige, aged 70, was re-exa-
mined And fully committed, charged with violating the person
of his daughter-in-law, aged 14, while her mother was dying; in
an adjoining room. It appeared that the object of his brutal
lust was sleeping when the wretch stole into her bed and perpe-
trated the diabolical act.

EXTRAORDINARY DlALOOnDE.—Yeaterday a person of gentle-
manly appearance, who gave his name Norman Thempsan, was
charged by a watchman with having knocked at the door of
No. 1, King's-place, St. James's, at four o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, thereby making a great disturbance.

The case being stated; the Magistrate (J. FL CONAW; Esq.)
asked the prisoner what he had to say in his defence?
Prisoner—O, es all right.
Magistrate—No, I think it's all wrong.
Prisoner—Well, it's all correct, then.
hiagistrAte—Then, I'll fine you five shillings for being drunk.
Prisoner—Fine away ; but how will you get it?
Magistrate—Then, if you don't pay it, you shall go to prison.
Prisoner—D—n you and the prison too !
Magistrate—How do you get your living?
Prisoner—flow I can.
Magistrate—Will you refuse to give an account of yourself?
Prisoner—Yes, unless you draw it out of me.
The Magistrate ordered him to be locked up, thinking him to
be of unsound mind.

In the course of the day inquiry was made, and he was ascer-
tained to be a Gentleman connected with some families of dis-
tinction, but unfortunately deranged. in mind.
The Magistrate required an apology for such unbecoming lan.
gunge; which the prisoner made, and was discharged on paying
is. fine fot being Intoxicated, and he quitted the Office witk a
Gentleman who attended to speak to his character, which he did
jn the highest terms, but said he was subject to such fits after
taking his wine.

• The air of Pisa is soft and baiany, to the lint de-
gree. Mr. Forsythe thinks it toe mrtist, and co,unte.!
rianee is given to la opiniMt by tbe lowness and itat-
*as Uf the place, which lies in tpfain (OH of spiings
end river% between rhe AOpennines and the sea.
The inhabithnts else. have a proverb—Pisa pug a
chi posa—which may be translated,
Pisa sits HI
On those who sit still I
To me the air seemed as dry as it is soft'; and most
people will feel oppressed everywhere, if they do not
take exercise. The lower rooms of the housei are
reckoned, however, too damp in winter, at least on
the Lungarno; though the whiter season is counted
delicious, and the Grand Doke always comes here to
spend two months of it. :The nooa-day sun in sum-
ler-tinst is fortnidahle, resembling more the intense
beat struck from burning metal, than anything we
can conceive of it ia England. But a sea-breeze often
blows of an evening, when the inhabitants take their
exercile. A.look upon the Lengarno at noon-day is
.cutious. A Mee sky is overhead—dazzling stone
underneath—the yellow Arno gliding along, gene-
rally with nothing upon it, sometimes a lazy sail;
the houses on the opposite side, sleeping with their
lseen blinds down; and nobody passing but a few
abourers, carmen, or countrywomen in their veils
and handkerchiefs, hastening with bare feet, but never
too fast to forget a certain air of strut and stateliness.
Dante, in one of his love poems, praises his mistress
fiur walking like a peacock, nay even like a crane,
strait above herself:

Sweetly she goes, like the btfght peacock ; strait
Above herself, like to the lady crane.
This is the walk of Italian women, rich or poor. The
step of Mad. Vestris on the stage resembles it. To
an F,nglish eye it seems wanting in a certain modesty
and moral grace; but you see what the grave poet
hai to say for it, and it is not associated in an Italian
mind with. any such deficiency; that it has a beauty
Of its own is certain.

• Solitary as Pisa may appear at noon-day, it is only
by comparison with what you find in very populous
cities. Its desolate aspect is much exaggerated. The
people, for the most part, sit in the shade, at their
doors, in the hottest weather, so that it cannot look
so solitary as many- parts of London at the same
time of the year ; and though it is true that grass
grows in some of the streets, it is only in the remotest.
The streets, for the most part, are kept very neat and
clean, not excepting the poorest alleys, a {ienafit
arising not only from the fine pavement which is
everywhere to be found, but from the wise use to
which criminals are put. The punishment of death
is not kept up in Tuscany. Robbers, and even mur-
derers, are made to atone for the ill they have done,
by the good work of sweeping and keeping clean. A
great murderer, on the English stage, used formerly
to have a regular suit of brick-dust. In Tuscany, .'r
at least in Pisa, robbers are dressed in a red livery,
and murderers in a yello*. A stranger looks with
a feeling more grave than curiosity at these saffron-
coloured mysteries quietly doing their duty in the
open streets, and not seeming to avoid observation.
But they look just like other men. They are either
too healthy by temperance and exercise to exhibit a
conscience, or think they make up very well by their
labour for so trifling an ebullition of their animal
spirits; and they have a good-deal to say for them-
selves, considering their labour is in chains and fc r
life. The inhabitants of Pisa in general are not
reckoned a favourable specimen of Tuscan looks:
you are sure to meet fine faces in any large assembly,
but the common run is certaiely 'bad enough. They
are hard, prematurely aged, and what expression
there is is worldly. Some of them have no expres-
sion whatever, but are as destitute of speculation and
feeling as maskt.
The bad Italian face and the good Italian face are
the extremes of insensibility and the reverse. But it
is rare that the eyes are not fine, and the females have
a profusion of good hair. Lady Morgan has justly
remarked the promising countenances of Italian chil.
dren, compared with what they turn oat to be as' they
grow older; and adds with equal justice, that it is an
evident affair of government and education. You
doubly pity the corruptions of a people, who besides
their natural genius, preserve in the very midst of
their sophistication a frankness distinct from it, and
an entire freedom from affectation. The Italian an-
noys you neither with his pride like-an Englishman,
nor with his vanity, like a Frenchnian. He is quiet
and natural, self-possessed without wrapping himself
up sulkily in a corner, and ready for cheerfulness
without grimace. His frankness sometimes takes the
air of a simplicity, at once singularly misplaced and
touching. A young man who exhibited a taste for
all good and generous sentiments, and who, accord-
ing to the representation of his friends, was a very
worthy as well as ingenious person, did not scruple
to tell me one day, as a matter of course, that be made
a point of getting acquainted with the rich families,
.uiely to be invited to their houses and partake of
their good things. Many an Englishman would un-
doubtedly do this; but he would hardly be so frank
about it to a stranger, nor would an Englishman of
the same tastes in other respects be easily found to
act so. But it is the old story of " following a n;sul•
titude to do evil," and is no .doubt accounted a •
matter of necessity and good sense.
The Titans claim the merit of speaking as pure
Italian, if not purer, as any people in Tuscany ; and,
there is claiin among the poortnorders in this pare
• ofitalyst vilOce has been too hastily credited by EIS.'
reigners,.of speaking o 9Au language te yst;e Ow
educated classes... k is certainly, not. true, whatever:
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