Star.
London, England, 1802-03-18 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.

The floopa Hound and Jaloufe will be paid fox the Rover
cutter on Saturday, the 27th init. thofc for the Hounti, at No. 6,
Stanhope-Rreet, Strand ; and for the Jaloufe on board at Yar-
mouth.

The brig Mote, for the following captures and re-captures,
viz. French privateer le Juftine Atl4. !side ; DaniCh Ihip Jonge
Emilie, and re-captured Chip Amity, will be paid at Ne. 7, Beau-
fort -buildings, on Friday, the 19th init.

[For the remainder of the Nautical Intelligence, fce the lit
Pages]

On Monday and Tuefday lafi, a Court Martial
was held on board his Majefly's Ihip BESCHER.
MFR, lying at the Nore, on Lieutenant THOMAS
GABORIAN MARSHAL., of the laid (hip, on charges
exhibited againfl him by Captain FRAZER, of that
Ihip, for drunkennefs, fleeping when on watch, dif-
obedicnce of orders, and negle& of duty. The
charges of drunkennefs and negle& of duty were
proved ; the other charge; were in part proved,
but, in confideration of circumflanccs, the Court
only adjudged the raid Lieutenant T. G. MAR-
SHAL to be difmiffed his Majefly's (hip BECHER.
MIR.

As the power of mineral acid vapours to defiroy
or corral contagion, has lately become a fubjeft
of great intereft and Inquiry, we (hall infert two
extrafts, one from an Inimical Differtatlon on
Fever, by Dr. JOHNSTONE, of Worceller, publifhed
1758: the other from a Treatife on Putrid Sore
Throat, by Dr. JAMES JOHNSTONE, who fell a
viftim to humanity in attending the prifimers of
Worce(ler jail, in 1783, which was then infedted
with jail fever.
t. From an Hiftorical Differtation on the Ma-
lignant Epidemical Fever in 1756, by Jamas
JOHNSTON!, M. D.

P. so.—" The nceellity of changing the air in a Fick room
by fucceifive ventilations, arifes from the deftrudion of a cer-
tain property in that fluid by breathing, which renders it after.
wards noxious. Likewife, from the atmorphere being filled
with the excrementitious Reams which fly off from the patient's
body continually, and which putrify in a ftagnant unrenewed
air, and render it truly poifonous, a pabulum morbe, rather
than of life.

P. 3 z.—" The Reams of vinegar will preferve the air free
from putrefaftion, &c. There are the molt commodious, if
not the molt ufeful methods of medicating the air ; thofe, how-
ever, who prefer the mineral adds, may order brim (tone to
be burnt, or may raifc the marine acid very rafily, by putting
a certain quantity of common falt into a veffel kept heated; if
to this a (mall quantity of oil of vitriol is added from time to
time, the air will be filled with a thick white acid Ream,' &c
2. From a Treatife on the Malignant Angina,
by JAMES JOHNSTONE, jun. M. D. printed in 1779:
" As it is impoffible too cautioully to guard againft the el-
feds of fo puttid a contagion, the arid air, or fpirit of falt should
be kept siting continually in the room, by pouring oil of vitriol,
once or twice a day, on fea fah, placed in a convenient vcffel.
This method of rorreailiz vitiated air was recommended long
ago by my father," &e. p. tto, tit.
It is fingular that this fame method was after-
wards ufed by the celebrated Gurrotr DE Mott-
vsau, for correeing the putrid exhalations of
dead bodies that infelled one of the cburches of
Dijon.—Vid. Mem. de l'Acad. R. des Sc.—And
it Rill remains undecided, whether the diffitfed
vapour of muriatic acid be not equal in efficacy,
and equally convenient in application, with the
nitrous acid vapour, for correEting vitiated air in
prifons, and hofpitah.