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London, England, 1827-06-26 00:00:00

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A Common Hall was held yesterday for the Election
of Sheriffs, and the City Officers for the year ensuing.
The choice of the Livery was declared ro have fallen on
EDWARD WALLIR RUNDRLL, Esq. citizen and Gold.
smith; and HENRY Lannaort. Esq the banker.
The Sheriffs then retired- to the Lord Mayor and Al-
dermen, who we:e sitting is the Council Chamber, and
reported the several Elections in the nsnal form ; upon
which they all came down into the 11:411, when the Re-
corder declared the names of Vie several parties on
whom the choice of the Livery had fallen.
The Sheriffs Elect were then called upon to declare
their assent to t are upon themselves that office.
Mr. Hurt addressed the Livery previous to the Elec-
tion of Auditors. He would request them not to make
in-re puppets of themselves, in holding up their hands
f r any men who would not, althoughtepearedly called
on by the Lively, submit to them the accounts they
audited. Let them nominate the officers themselves.
Mr. STRYINS thought the best way to convince Mr.
Hunt there was nothing wrong in the accounts, was to
have bim elected Auditor. He. therefore, proposed Mr.
Hunt as a candidate for one of the vacant offices.
The election then proceeded, and Mr. Hunt and Mr.
W. Hall were declared duly elected.
Mr. Hunt addressed the Livery on his election. I
am, said be. according to your wish and desire, at last
a man in office. I am, it appears, one** the new ,Ad-
ministration--,(Laughter.) I totally differ from my
propmorias I 'always thought the accounts of the fends
ought to he printed for your use. If, when we meet
on this occasion nut year. the City cannot afford funds
to publish them, please GOD, and if the blacking trade
continues good. I shall publish them at my own es-
pence—(Loud cheers.)
The Auditors having delivered in a Report of their
labours, the Hall was dissolved. -
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COURT OF ALDERMEN.
The Loan MAYOR held a Court of Aldermen, after
the COMMOD H ail, at which the Chamberlain and Bridge
Masters were severally sworn into office.
Mr. EDWARD TYRREL, who was at the last Common
Council appointed Deputy to the Remembrancer, at
and took the oath of office.
Pi tempts for a Common Hall. OD Michaelmas DAY
text, for the Election of a Lord Mayor for the ensuing
year, were directed to he blued to the several Livery
Companies.
A Petition from EDWARD A anrea WILD& Esq. pray-
ing obit sworn into the office of Alderman for the Ward
of Vintry, was read, and adjourned to the next Court.
The Court heatd complaints againt two of the La-
bouring Land Coal Meters of this City, and dismissed
them front their situations.
The thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to
the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, for his Srrmon preached
at St, Paul's, on the first Sunday in Easter Term, and
he was requested to print the same.

REMARlCARtildffilirllF ENORMOUS OBESITY.
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The.following is an abstract of the history of a case
of enormous obesity, which affords some carious and in.
teresting physiological facts, and may serve to warn
folks of the dadger of excessive eating:
][tucker (of Beriln)...for that was the fellow's name—did not,
like Bright. Ahrens. Clay ,and other trulygroat personages, 'liana
himself mach in his youth, but was content to eat and drink the
same quantity of food as his neighbours. About the age of thirty
be began to give way toe disposition to devour inseam maimed
meat, and the mere be eat the more his appetite increased, Dan
bib time was consumed to little else than eating and sleeping. His
Deception was that of a butcher. and animal food was his favorite
repast, contrary to the usual habits of such peoples &ocher, hew.
ever, would devour from eight to ten anode of tripe at a meal, or
from ds to seven pounds of beef and sausage& :He motioned in all
way to stuff himairgradually becoming lamer.oestil it required slam
pounds ofbeef daily to satisfy his hunger! For a baba has devoured
the botledilak 4* an entire essfia a day, setwonal only with salt, ht
the pretests of many penmen; and on one madden be
himself ready to stuck a Weak but could get. abodydebealt
agaiat hint. He could ea tasst himself in dioramas* maniac-
tety, as be would eat the asisead mist by the posed, spreadlog it
over bread with as little eenwassr as the people spread treacle.
Byway of breakfast, or sapper. be would clean from two to three
dozen of the pmtitoes of pigs; and it appears, at last. to have puss
sled his friends to know how to supply him. His usual drink was
beer. of which he daily drank from two to three quarts. In ibis
way he continued to feed himself, gradually increasing in hulk, his
breathing becoming more difficult, and his power of locomotion
daily diminishing, until he was at last obliged 10 confine himself to
his large chair and his bed. Every now and then be was in great
danger of suffocation, and it was on one of those occasions that
Grade. who has related the ease in one of his recent Numbers of
his Journal, was called to bins.
He foetid the man stretched ant upon a bed, complaining of a
very difficult respiration, to such an eaten,. as to express his tear of
being absolutely choked. Hie lips were of a doll violet colour, his
eyes appearing to start from his head, the conjunctival lining being
of a bright red colour; the entire countenance was of a dark aim-
son ; and the pulse wan tremulous, irregular, and frequently inter-
mittent. He complained also of great palpitation of the heart ; al-
thank from the immense projection olds, abdomen, and the huge
pendulous breasts. it was in/pomade to bring the band upon the part
of the chest covering it. He could ashy speak at intervals, and that
with great difficulty. The abdomen protruded, so as to cover the
upper half of the thighs; and on several parts of its Immense
distended surface were round reddish *pots, at about the
4th of an lath in diameter, bard and painful to the touch, somewhat
resembling small lipase or fatty tumours. 'Crocker was 5 feet 4
Inches high; the circumference of his abdomen was five feet five
inches; the circumference of his thigh. two feet four inches; of
the calf of his leg, one foot seven inches; his breasts measured one
foot eight Inches in circumference at their bases, and were eight
inches long, bring almost as pendulous as those of the Hottentot
women. HI. weight, at the time he was put under Gracie's tare,
wee about 41.0 pounds; but immense as this weight may appear,
other instances are on record of those who bays exceeded It. The
fat man of Leenwarden, who was eabibired before the medical
faculty of Leyden, sod taken about from place to plate In Holland
in a boat as a show, weighed SOS pounds • the woman, whose his-
tory is given by Guns, weighed 492 pounds; Ahrent, 450; and
out countryman, Edward Bright, the fat man of Essex, as he was
commonly called, weighed 616 pounds.
This patient (Krocker) was rescued from his immediate danger
by copious and frequent bleedings, by large doses of calomel, and
the substitution of fasting far his enormous stuffing. Purgative
medicines were frequently gives, a stfictly vegetable diet, and vege-
table acids, were ordered; and, in about four weeks, he was re-
duced to about 516 pounds. In the space of four months, during
the half of which time be mot large doses of lodine, with occa-
sional purgatives, the iodine being found very much to accelerate
absorption, he was reduced to about 261 pounds and enjoyed good
• health—was active, cheerful, and able to resume his former bua-
tiesa. At the time the history of the case was concluded (August
10, Vico), he was reduced to 2c9 pound.; his health being good,
and his appetite moderate.—Loose.

We learn by a private account, that all was w• 11 on
board his Majesty's ship Gismos", 50, Honourable Captain
bistme, at Alexandria, in Egypt, about the middle of April lase.
Scene t•f her Officer. had been on a vide to Grand Cairo. The
~ounces bad got up a race with nearly one hundred dimities at the
foot of Pompey's Pillar. which they succaifelvaly mounted
almost to a roan, leaving an English flag lying on the summit of
that relic of antiquity. The Turks feeling tither indignant at the
tight of this object, vainly attempted to shoot it away, ind were
• ultimately obliged to amend the pillar as our tars had done, by
flying le kite, &c. The •hip's name, however, in tremendous
capitals round the shah, the Almulnicn failed in ancntoelng to
fCIIISVe. 'P+-zx ircidents abew the eccentricity of the brlttsh
ra.lor to be as eems►kable as ever.—Arunpx