Star.
London, England, 1828-10-06 00:00:00

Just Published,
AN ESSAY ON POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Peri-the Eint—Pries
Showing in what •way thiquatilms in the Nag of Cats may
be rieveated, and the means by wbieb all the advantages of a
Free Trade in COrn may be attained; an ample remunerating
Price secured to the Sntisb Grower, and Permanent Rents to the
Land Owners.

Part the Second—Price 4s.
Showing the means by which the Distresses of the Labouring
Poor may he relieved ; the several Classes of Community hawked;
the Resources of the Country increased; and a Permanent Value
given to a Paper Currency.
By Capt. W. It. A. PRTTMAN, R.N.
" A very clever Pawphkt on Political Economy has been pub.
fished, in which most of the Doctrines that have been disputed In
that very disputable Science are very ingeniously treated. The
Author is Cspt Irsrzmall, S.N. He IS we believes the Ants 'or
among the first of the-gallant profession to which be below, that
has approached such a thorny subject. We shall give some copings'
extracts, as we consider the a►gutnents of Cape► PITTMAN well de-
serving of amyl.. space in our colunuts."—New Tint.., Sept.27.lh2d.
I'ublWzed by Q. B. Whittaker, Ave-Alhria•latae.

" Domes tt ewers iwor.".--Hoa.
Thy ',ousel and (in the cup of lite
TEM homy-drop) thy pleasing wife!
iPPINESS, " the gay to-merfew of the mind,"
li-insured by marriage; " the yrictest tie of perpetual Frieod-
ship," • is a &Helton( Heaven, cementing pleasure with reason, by
which; Says &Amon, " we approach in some degree of association
with celestial intelligence."
J'rrvioes, however, to entering into this hallowed obligation, it
becomes an imperativr duty, not only to regulate the passions, but
to chimer the grower nature from .thow impurities which the free.
don of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the
melt:et or suck attention are attributable many of those hapless
instacee. which, while they excite the Collllll6lleitioll of the be-
holder, ebould also impress him with the fear of self-reproach.
Luitirious habits will effeminize the body—a residence in the
tropics- will relax the elastic fibre—hut mere especially does the
premature infatuation of youth too froweently compromise the not
viral dignity into a start of inanities), from whence she *seabed,
sufferer more than doubt. the chance of Md. To all such then
we address °melees, offering hope, energy, moscidar strength,
felicity; at advances appear questienable, sanctioned as
they are by the.mohiplied pleas of 20 yews' successful experience.
The opy cares of married ilfe ere iiensetimes disturbed by the
milpehdors of those blessings which concentrate the etaftlil wreath
...tor the female bask is °fun( onside k can be
strengthened. sod deficient energy impreita"ediratwols=al power.'
le every case of syphilitic introsierhas well as Jamey relasaties
thi generative asortomy. we pledge for ability to epee orally,
and with. effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the wiafeellag evopyric
from the position so presumptuously taken up, we deviate from
general principles with less hesitation; and ambient is our own
hilennotable Integrity as Members of the College of burgeons, we
refer the suffering community of either Sex (especially these en-
tering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily
attel.dance is Oral for personal consultation ; and letters from the'
country are immediately answered; these must contain a remit-
tence for Advice and Medirine, whisk can be forwarded to any
part of the
,weed, however distant.
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THE NEW LUNATIC ACT.

• • •••••r
The new distinguishing•.a feature of this Act are the
Ovrers of refusing and 'evoking licenses—tbe obliga-
tion throws upon friends to visit the afflicted cibjeets—
and the estended visitation, with power of liberation, de-
puted to the official Commission's. aid a partialjuris-.
diction over all lunatics. 'The tevisites of litessecispd^
certificates are retained as in the old law. The powem
of.executisig the Act are vested, in Consmissiouers and
visitors of a mined character..-Medical. magisterial, and.
gentry; the teiin Gormeistionets being given to an use.
cutive body, whose jurisdiction extends throughout the,
cities of London and Westminster, and within seirea
miles athe same, and throughout the county of Mid-
diesel, for the purpose of granting licenses, it they shall
think fa, to persons residing or keeping houses within
those limits, to keep houses for the reception of two Or
mote insane persons, and to inspect vie state of such
hones, sad Visit the patients confined therein. The
-number of Commissioners is limited to fifteen, five of
whom are to be physicians. In all other parts of Eng-
land the. duty of ranting licenses is delekated to Jus-
tices of the Peace, assembled in General Quarter Sat-
einns; and that of visiting and iospectint is imposed
upon two magistrates and one medical practiuoner,
visitors constituted by such Justices.
Medicinal as well as moral improvement in the treat-
ment, of the. Wine seem to.be the great objects contem-
plated by the Legislature in this. Act; and accordingly
pro.fisiops nee made fora regulated medical attendance
--tire eisitiag of *paterttesby -Triends--and availing theta
of the
~1 bops mtss anisolations of religion, as likely to
soothe and compose: disk minds. and thereby tend to
subdue their malady: In IMMO' contain ng ens hos.
dyed patients. Om is to be a resident medical atm.
dotntl. and basses cent:unify less than that number, if
kept by a inedieal an, are to be visited twice a week
by a physician, surgeon, or Upothecary ; and the resi-
dent attendant, et visitor. is to report the iiOndition of
tbe house and the state of the health of thapatients.—.
The Act am, the visitation of insane persons by the
immediate person consigning them to an asyluns,Oxby
an appointed visitor, ogee in six smiths. The omission
of this duty is punishable as a suiedemeanour, though
the offence is not mentioned specifically in the Act..
This provision, which has been a good deal commented
no as likely to produce incOnvenimas arid hardship. is,
it seems, sanctioned by the opinion of tbe'distinguished
President of the Royal College of Physicians, Sir Henry
natal.