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BILIOUS AND NERVOUS AFFECTIONS.

The Essence of Ginger and Chamomile.—The peculiar Sto-
machic properties of the Chamomile Flowers, combined with
the aromatic Virtues of the Jamaica Girger, form the most a-
cacions and cafe tnedleine that can he employed in the above
diseases, and has succeeded after the Peruvian Bask, and other
tonic medicines, had proved of no avail.—lt corrects acidly, ex-
pels flatuleace, promotes digestion. allays spasms, and obviates
costiveness; hence it Is a very certain remedy for nervous com-
plaints, head-ach, palsy, and other complaints, arising from Judi.
geviosit and tiro lar actin& of the bowels, &c.—Sold is bottles
of Sa. Gd. and Gs. each.

FOR THE TEETH AND GUMS.
Prepared Art ca Charcoal.—The Charcoal prepared from the
Areca Nut (improperly termed Betel), is held in high estimation
in the East ladies, and is the only Tooth-powder employed by
the nwivei, who are admired for beautiful and sound Teeth.—
It hat been lately adopted by the Royal Family, and is much
r:cemmentled by the first Dentists In this kingdom, as decidedly
superior to any other article.—Dr. Lynd has employed it for
fifty years, and at the age of seventy-eight, now enjoys a complete
set of Teeth, free from disease, and firm in the socket.—Mr.
Iterts, an eminent Dentist of Berlin, highly extols it, and recom-
mends the gums to be sponged with the Tincture of ithatany,
instead of Tincture of Myrrh or Arquebusatie, which corrects
that spongy state attributed to Scurvy.—These preparations have
the great recommendation of being free front any injurious qua-
lity.—Sold in boxes of 3s. ed. each; and the Tincture of Rhatany
in bottles of 2s. 6d. each.
THE TRUE CHELTENHAM SALT.
This Sa!t, obtained from the Cheltenham Spa, by acting plea-
santly on the bowels, and at the same time correcting any vitiated
state of the constitution, is deservedly classed at the mow alias
-
dons alterative purgative known in this asuntry.—ln eruptions
of thi skin, and scorhwic complaints, pile% &c. it is a moat in-
valuable medicine ; an ounce di,solved in a quart of water,
readily makes the Cheltenham Water.
Sold also by ri.con, 150, Oxford-mad; Butts, 10, Cratere-
greet, Oxford.road ; Lynch, Manchester; Barry, Bristol; Knott
and Lloyd, Birmingham; Turner and Cgs Nesvcaatte; Binus,
Bath; Billinge, Liverpool; Eildowes, Shrewsbury ; Poole, Ches-
ter; loner, Oxford; Walker, Gloucester; Tyra', Worcester;
Hornby,

made known.
The lives of thousands then In every part of the world where
this disease hu found its way, were trifled away with a great
variety of sucu Weide Medicines, l will not heis trouble the reader
with an enumeration of them. The name of Panictisus wIU
live so long u the hearts of men can receive an impression, or
their heads keep in recollection, the benefits he has cook reed on
the whole human race. He was, it seems, of royl Jett n:t, and
the only foible lie possessed, was an extrenie deg:er of vauity s
sad who can wonder at tr, when we consider th. great cures he
accomplished, particularly In this complaint. Yet this infirmity,
and the a...AM.:Wag success of his practice, subjected him, during
the whole course of his lite, to the inns: scurrilous ievective. of
Medical Men; but this enlightened Doctor lived iu a dark age
of iguorance, and the Faculty felt themselves wounded in thu-e
parts where pride and self-interest ate always to be fount If
this great man was sow living, how gratifying would it be to
him, to see one of his greatest predictions substantially realized,
in the establishment or improvement of his chynited discoveries ;
and on the contrary, with what horror and dtsgest, would he
have viewed the method adopted in all our hospitals, of intro-
dicing it to the si stem in a crude state, and an unnecessary de-
gree of Salivation kept up, to cure a disorder that would me-
tabaly yield to a mush mere gentle and safe neeiner of ad-
ministering this poisonous remedy; or could he explore the
Streets of London, and see the great number at wanting barome-
tUs, who, crawling along a stail-like pace, rove tin: deadly
effects of Oa. poisonous liquid nutlet al, and that all those tortures
.with which they arc Allard, are the natural consequences of
this new mode of practice; or, could he pay a visit to Nu. 9, Great
Surf ry-street, Biackfrar's-road, lie would there we the moat tie.
rumble victims of this mode of Salivation, which Las subjected
them to such pains and extreme debility, as beggars all descrip-
tion; and he surely would have bete petrified with amass:neat,
to observe that this desperate Medicine is resorted to, in utmost
every di, 3rdcr that afflicts mankind, of which hundreds are an-
' uutilly cured by the C.:memos:nail Medicities after being discharged
the different Hospitals as incurable: so that it wool seem, these
are the only remedies yet discovered, that, can be depeuded on
for the cure of Mercurial itheumalism. From long experience,
the hist of ell possible proofs, we sometimes fled, that Lltyrnicet
Preparations oh Mercury do not succeed in the cure of Lues ; but
this defect can always be traced to a cause, either that it liae bee*
Improperly admillistered, or what is more frequently the case,
the carelessness of the patient: for it is of little consequence, i.eo
salutary the medicines are, if their powers are interrupted by
negligence or mai-practice ; but where ltheurnatism has been the
consequence, 1 have always found it much more easily cured, than
where it has succeeded a salivation brought on by crude Mercury.
It is now between fifteen and sixteen years since I professed to
curt Mercurial Rheumatism, and to prove how far I have sue- •
ceeded, references may be kad to many hundred Hospital pa-
dents of this description. Such were the laraeutatious of some of
these patients, that the bare recital of their pans made me shed.
der; ft therefore follows, that although I consider maitkind at
greatly indebted to Parace6us, for one of the greaust Medical
discoveries that ever was made, it is much to be 'wished, that
some more sate, Inoffensive, abeeffectual cure could be obtained
for tills complaint, and render unnecessary this valuable, though
tremendous medicine. For 46 years I have paid very parncular
attention to the good and bad Alms of mercury, and I recollect,
that during my apprenticeship to the Jai Mr. Rein Cope, chyrnist
and apothecary, in Birmingham, it was usual for mental men to
prescribe large doses of calomel, as a violent cathartic; but I am
happy to observe, it Is cow given with much greater success as
an alterative In small doses, and I am yet of opinion, that sera
this reduced quantity should be laid aside for a time, as soon as
the emetkie symptoms et salvation appear, which should always
be avoided, luasmuch as the Physician values his own reputation
or the future happiness of his pitient—not only fee the reasons
already assigned, bet because its most desperate effects eery u ten
tail in curing a confirmed I.ues ; and there are a variety of chy •
mical preparations of mem:tett) be resorted to, that will accom-
pish a cure if carefully administered in moderate quantities.--.
Then surely salivation should be exploded as unnecessary, distres-
sing, and tormenting; at all times dangerous, and often Mares-
tesb—lt may perhaps be suspected, that my medicines are partly
compoied oh mercury : I theteh /se pledge the reputation of my
practice to prove, that there is not in any one of them, the man
lest particle of it—and I solemnly declare that humanity alwas ine
duced nut to Make try rensuks thereon.
lObsei various on Medicines is a future paper.;

RELIEF OF THE BRITISH PRISONERS
IN FRANCE.
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A Collection at Huggate, Yorkshire, by Rev. Mr.
Wilkinson 1 11 0

Rev. A. Macauley, for Parish of Roiley,Leieevershire 7 0 S
Rev. Dr. C. B. Troyte, of Huntsham, Devorshire 5 S 0
• Borough of Kidwell., hy Rev. C. W. Bowen, Vicar 13 14 1
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Rev. William Morgan - . • 8 13 0
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Thomas Benyon :
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From the Parishioners - - - .S 0 •
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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
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Yesterday the Silvia cutter, Lieutenant CRAWFORD,
strived at Portsmouth, with dispatches from the East
Indies ; she left Madras on the 12th of March. The
expedition under Sir S. ACIIMUTY was t• sail the
next day for Java. Admiral DRURY died on the 6th
March, and Admiral STOPFORD has proceeded from
the Cape to succeed him, pre tempore. Sir SAMUEL
Hoot► was, however, appointed to the East India sta-
tion by the Lords of the Admiralty this morning,
and be will, nts doubt, proceed to India immediately.

The Letters from Gibraltar by the Mail of yester-
day were not tielivered from the Post-Office till this

morning.
We are concerned to find that the brave but unfor-
tunate garrison of Tarragona has at length been obli-
ged to surrender to the enemy. The following letter
contains all the particulars that have reached us on
this subject :

Gibraltar, July IS, IRII.

We yesterday received the account of Tarragona
having been taken by storm, after a most desperate
defence, on the 28th of June, a few hours before
the 9th and 47th regiments, which were sent from
this to its relief, arrived off the town. The enemy
had been repulsed in three different attempts to storm
the place before they were successful. Two thou.
sand of the garrison made their escape after the
Trench had entered the town. Several hundred
French deserters arrived here. this morning from
Alicant.
JULY 15.—We have had several shocks of an earth-
quake here lately. There was one last night. The
only building which has sustained any damage is the
South Pavilion, which was cracked from top to bot-
tom by the shock in the morning of the 11th.
The 9:11 and 47th regiments, which were intended
for Tarr.igona, have been ordered to land at Minorca.

Cadiz Papers to the 19th of July, were received
this morning, and we regret to say, that their con-
tent: are of a dispiriting nature. Tarragona has at
length finally fallen, as will be seen by our Gibraltar
letter ; and BLAKE has returned to Cadiz, without
effecting any thing, and, as we fear, without adding
any laurels to his brow. He is said to have fled be-
fore 900 Frenchmen I The Official account of this
onsuccessful entervrize is subjoined. Gen. FREIRE,
with the army of Murci t, amounting to 16,000 men,
of which tow are cavalry, does not appear to have
'won abl to cio any thing against SEBASTIANIIS corps,
now commanded by General I,Avan.o, althoughthat
corps did not exceed .45001) men. Want of provisions
is assigned as the cause of this otherwise unaccoun-
table inactivity,

OFFMIAL ARTICr E.
" Movements mad.: !,y the ccrps under the corn.
mud of 1.1,1, J. BI t!.. to pas:. the Guadiana, and
iiterwards continue ulterior ni.,erations :
" It being deteruiir,cd that the divisions, cantoned
on the 13th :..iartha, Zafra, Feria, And
I,,yarra, the o;tvalry ;r1 I.i2s Peubla de Sancho pereze
And the I:(.?tt.i-rioattt.-.,. in Noagales, should pass the
rinadiana, the infantry were put in motion to unity
lam!' f1;;;e1 WiliiSt OP ;wiry toll back by the

royal road of St. Martha, and tae English infantry
to Pelaos.
" The enemy on the said day of the 13th, on which
they hid joined a division of the 9th corps, under
the command of General Drouet, and 3,000 men
from different other points of Andalusia, occupied
with strong columns Zafta and Los Santos.

" On the 14th and 15th the troops continued their
march, they having joined in Almindral, and the
English infantry in Albuera.
" On the 16th the three divisions of the army, with
six pieces of artillery from the fifth army, passed to
Valverdo de Leganes, and the Spanish horse to Al-
buera ; on the 17th the whole of the army, including
the first division of the fifth army, which with 300
artillerymen who assisted at the siege of Badajos,
marched to Juramenha, and the headquarters of the
same army, with twelve cannon, took a similar route.
The Anglo Portuguese army remained this day on
the right of the Guadiana, and our troops crossed it
with the greatest order and expedition, preserving
even in fording it, their order of columns and were, at
five in the afternoon, on the right bank of the said
river. The vanguard remained at the head of the
bridge constructed by the English for the purpose of
supporting the operation.
" On the 18th the troops continued their march,
and the head-quarters of the fifth army, with some
corps and the dismounted cavalry, were at Villa-
viciosa.

gt March of the troops—The 18th, to 011edondo,
five leagues ; 19th, to Portila, seven ; 20th, to Beca,
six ; 21st, through a desert, one ; 22d, to Mertola,
eight. Total, 27 extraordinary lung Portuguese
leagues.

" During this rapid march, in which there was
never sufficient provisions to give complete rations,
the troops manifested the utmost patience and order.
It is certain that on very few occasions has a corps
made so long and painful marches, in consequence
of the excessive heat—The third part of it, at least,
being without shoes. On the 23d, it repassed the
Guadiana, by a temporary bridge formed of boats,
and the horse effected it on the 23d and 24th by
swimming ; on the latter day the artillery was em-
barked for Ayamonte. On the 25th, the divisions
remained in S. Silvestre, Castellegos, and Catanas.—
The cavalry belonging to the sth army, commanded
by Count Penne, with two pieces of artillery, was to
arrive at Mertola on the 24th.

66 The order of march was as follows :—The ar-
tillery, escorted by a company of miners, formed the
bead of the column, and was followed by the Com-
missariat, and all that belonged to it ; after which
marched the 4th division, the Ist of the sth, and the
LI, the whole protected by the cavalry, which followed
at two leagues distance.
" It would not have been possible for the divisions
to have arrived more quickly by different routes.—
After refreshing the corps two days after the rapid
march from Portugal, to the County Niebla, it was
again put in motion.
66 On the 28th the cavalry of the sth army, the
vanguard, and almost all the artillery entered Gib-
raleon.

" On the 29th these same troops took the direction
of Trigueros, and their place was occupied by those
which had remained in Cartaxa and South Bartolome.
The division of General Ballasteros was cantoned in
el Cerro and Calanas, and covered the left and rear
of the army. Upon the arrival of this General at Ca-
bezas-Rubas, on the 25th, he disposed that three
companies of Barbastro, those of the Tiradores, of all
the corps and the battalions of Pravia and Lena,
should hold themselves in readiness to march and at-
tack a moveable column, consisting Of 600 infantry
and cavalry, which had arrived in the Cerro. These
troops marched all night, the rest of the division re-
maining in Cabeza-Rubas, under the orders of Fran-
cisco Merino, which were to follow at day-break.--
At day-light on the 26th our Guerillas met the enemy,
formed at the end of the village on the road from
Alerno.

el Our troops attacked them by the road of the
Cerra ; but the moveable column commenced its re-
treat, continually charged by our guerrillas and light
troops. The loss of the enemy consisted of four offi-
cers, and from 35 to 40 men killed and wounded—
ours of three killed, and four wounded."

The Commandant General of the camp at Gi-
braltar, under date of the 12th instant, gives the
Chief of the Staff the agreeable information that Ge-
neral Villat having on the morning of the 11th at-
tacked the castle of Alcula de los Gazules (defended
by only 200 men) with 2000 troops of every descrip-
tion, was comrletely driven back by the valliant gar-
rison, and even pursued by a detachment, which
sallied from the castle, and took some prisoners.

The following is the reply of General Blake to Lord
Wellington, in answer to a letter communicating to
him the Vote of Thanks passed in both Houses of the
British Parliament :
Ex( r.i.t.rxr SlR—The unanimous thanks of the
Houses of Peers and Commons of Great Britain and
Ireland, voted on the 7th of June last, which express
their opinion with respect to the conduct of the Spa.
nish army I had the honour to command in the
battle fought on the fields of Albuera, on the 16th
of May, inclosed to me in your Excellency's letter
of the '2llth of June, fulfil the wishes of all military
men, and are calculated to convince our common
enemies of the mutual esteem and strict union which
will always subsist between the armies of the three
ia►icyi pations, smile time the high honow

dispensed in So illustrious in Assembly to the Spa-'
nish troops, will be received by them with gratitude
and enthusiasm equal to the heroism all displayed on
that day, to merit the sincere and noble approbation
of the good.
" Your Excellency knows the great value in which
these honorary documents are held by military men,
and f will therefore confine myself to entreating you
to make to both Houses our gratitude, and to renew,
in the name of the Spanish Nation, their wish for the
continuance of an union which has been productive
of so much glory, and introduces an epoch which will
be memorable for ages to come.
gg Allow me to express to your Excellency, that it
augments our satisfaction to receive the Thanks of
both Houses, through the instrumentality of him who
holds so distinguished a place in military annals, and
particularly in those of the Peninsula.
46 GOD preserve your Excellency many years.
(Signed) 44 J. BLALC."

A Gentleman who has arrived in town from Co-
runna, states, that the army in Gallicia, under SAN•
TOCILDES, consists of 20,000 men, all of whom arc
armed. The only deficiencies now complained of
are horses, clothing, and artillery.

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