The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

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MEDICAL REMORSE.—The balance of account between
satisfaction and remorse was jocosely stated by Dr. Warren
to Lady Spencer, who had said, she thought the frequent re-
flection, that a different treatment might have saved their
patients, must embitter the lives of medical men : he told
her that the balance was greatly in favour of satisfaction, for
he hoped to cure her forty times before he killed her once.—
Physic and Physicians.
PORTRAIT OF WHITEFIELD.—He was something above
the middle stature, well proportioned, though at that time
slender, and remarkable for a native gracefulness of manner.
His complexion very fair, his features regular, his eyes small
and lively, of a dark blue colour—in recovering from the.
measles he had contracted a squint in one of them : but this
peculiarity in no way lessened the expressive sweetness of
his countenance. His voice excelled both in melody and
compass, and its fine modulations were happily accompanied
by that grace of action which he possessed in an eminent de-
gree, and which has been said to be the chief requisite of an
orator.—Countess of Huntingdon's Life and Times, Vol. 11.
BEAU NASH AND JOHN WESLEY.—When Mr. Wesley
was preaching at Bath, Beau Nash entered the room, and
approaching the preacher, demanded by what authority he
was acting ? Mr. Wesley answered, " By that of Jesus Christ,
conveyed to me by the present Archbishop of Canterbury,
when he laid his hands on me and said—Take thou authority
to preach the Gospel!" Nash then affirmed that he was
acting contrary to law. " Besides, (said he) your preaching
frightens people out of their wits." "Sir, (replied Mr. Wes-
ley) did you ever bear me preach ?" "No," said the master
of the Ceremonies. " How then can you judge of what you
have never heard ? " "By common report," repled the
Beau. " Sir, (said Mr. Wesley) is not your name Nash ? I
dare not judge of you by common report." Nash finding
himself a different person in the meeting house from what he
was in the pump room, thought it best to withdraw.—
Countess of Huntingdon's Life and Times, 2 Vols.
DEATH OF DR. WOODVILLE.—MedicaI men are said to
meet their end with composure. When Dr. Woodville was
supposed to be dangerously ill, his friends called upon him
and endeavoured to excite his hopes of recovery : " I am
not so silly," said the doctor, " as to mind what they say; I
know my own case too well, and that I am dying : a younger
person, with a better stamina, might think it hard to die, but
why-should I regret to leave such a diseased worn-out carcase
as mine ?" The carpenter with whom he lodged had not been
always on the best terms with Woodville. The physician said
he should wish to let the man see that he died in peace with
him ; and as he had never much occasion to employ him, de-
sired he might be sent for to measure him for his coffin.
This was accordingly done; the carpenter came,. and took
the measure of the doctor, who begged him not to be more
than two days about it, " for," said he, " I shall not live
beyond that time ;" and he did actually die just before the
end of the next day.—Physic and Physicians.
THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN DRS. RADCLIFFE AND
MEAD.—When Dr. Mead was young, and just beginning to
be talked of, he was asked to Carshalton ; the object was to
make him drunk, and to see the man : this design he sus-
pected, and carefully avoided to fill a bumper when the sign
was given. And he so managed as to see all the company re-
tire under the table, except Radcliffe and himself; and the
former was so far gone as to talk fast, and .to show himself
affected by the potations. "Mead," said he, " will you suc-
ceed me." "It is impossible," replied the polite Mead ;
" you are Alexander the Great, and no man can succeed
Radcliffe : to succeed to one of his kingdoms is the utmost
of my ambition." Radcliffe, with all his bluntness, was sus-
ceptible of flattery when delicately dressed hp, and this reply
won his heart. "I will recommend you, Mead, to my pa-
tients," said he ; and the next day he did Mead the honour
to visit him in town, when he found him reading Hippocra-
tes. Radcliffe with surprise asked, "Do you read Hippocra-
tes in the original Greek ? " Yes," answered Mead res-
pectfully. "I never read it in my life," said the great Rad-
cliffe. "No ?" replied Mead, " you have no oceasion, you
are Hippocrates himself." This did the business for Mead,
and it completely gained the blunt Radcliffe ; and when he
did not choose to attend patients, he recommended Mead,
who from that moment rapidly rose in his profession.—Phy-
sic and Physicians.
THE PLAYER AND THE PREACHER.—The Rev. J. Kins-
man one day meeting Shuter, the actor, in Portsmouth, said
he had been preaching so often. and to such large congrega-
tions, that Dr. Fothergill advised a change of air to avert a
threatened illness. " And I," said Shuter, t' have been
acting till ready to die ; but, oh, how different our conditions !
Had you fallen it would have been in the service of God ;
but in whose service have my powers been wasted ! I dread
to think of it. I certainly had a call once, while studying
my part in the park, and had Mr. Whitefield received me at
the Lord's Table, I never should have gone back ; but the
caresses of the great, who, when unhappy, want Shuter to
make them laugh, are too seducing. There is a good and a
moral play to night, but no sooner is it over, than I come in
with my farce of A Dish of all Sorts, and knock all the
moral on the head."—Countess of Huntingdon's Life and
Times, Vol. 11.
THE POPULAR MAN AND THE MAN OF ORIGINALITY.— ;
The popular man, and the man of true, or at least of great 1
originality, are seldom one and the same ; we suspect that,
till after a strong struggle on the part of the latter, they are
never so. Reasons are obvious enough. The popular man
stands on our own level, or a hair's breadth higher ; he shows
us a truth which we cannot see without shifting our present
intellectual position. This is a highly convenient arrange-
ment. The original man, again, stands above us ; he wishes
to wrench us from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher
and clearer level ; but to quit our old fixtures, especially if
we have sat in them with moderate comfort for some score or
two of years, is no such easy business ; accordingly we demur,
we resist, we even give battle ; we still suspect that he is
above us, but try to persuade ourselves (laziness and vanity
earnestly assenting)' that he is below. For is it not the very
essence of such a man that he be new? And who will war-
rant us, that, at the same time, he shall only be an intensa-
tion and continuation of the old, which, in general, is what
we long and look for ? No one can warrant us. And, grant-
ing him to be a man of real genius, real depth, and that
speaks not till after earnest meditation, what sort of a philo-
sophy were his, could we estimate the length, breadth, arid
thickness of it at a single glance ? And when did criticism
give two glances ? Criticism, therefore, opens on such a
man its greater and lesser batteries on every side ; he has no
security but to go on disregarding it; and " in the end,"
says Goethe, "criticism itself comes to relish that method."
But now let a speaker of the other class come forward—one
of those men that " have, more than any one, time opinion
which all men have!" No sooner does he speak, than all
and sundry of us feel as if we had been wishing to speak that
very thing as if we ourselves might have spoken it ; and
forthwith resounds from the united universe a celebration of
that surprising feat. What clearness, brilliancy, justness,
penetration ! Who can doubt that this man is right, when
so many thousand votes are ready to back him ? Doubtless,
he is right ; doubtless, he is a clever man ; and his praise will
long be in all the magazines.—Carlyle. •

I FIELD OF WATERLOO AT NOON ON THE DAY AFTER THE
BATTLE.—On a surface of two square miles, it was ascer-
tained that fifty thousand men and horses were lying ! The
luxurious crop of ripe grain which had covered the field of
battle was reduced to litter, and beaten into the earth ; and
the surface, trodden down by the cavalry, and furrowed
deeply by the cannon wheels, strewn with many a relict- of
the fight. Helmets and cuirasses, shattered fire-arms and
broken swords ; all the variety of military ornaments ; lancer
caps and highland bonnets ; uniforms of every colour, plume
and pennon-; musical instruments, the apparatus of artillery,
drums, bugles ; but, good God ! why dwell on the harrowing
picture of a foughten field ? each and every. ruinous display
bore mute testimony to the misery of such a battle. * *
Could the melancholy appearance of this scene of death be
heightened, it would be by witnessing the researches of the
living, amidst its desolation, for the objects of their love.
Mothers and wives and children for days were occupied in
that mournful duty ; and the confusion of the corpses, friend
and foe intermingled as they were, often rendered the attempt.
at recognising individuals difficult, and. in some cases inipos-
sible. * * In many places the dead lay four deep upon
each other, marking the spot sonic British square had occu-
pied, when exposed for hours to the murderous fire of a
French battery. Outside, lancer and cuirassier were scattered
thickly on the earth. Madly attempting to force the serried
bayonets of the British, they had fallen, in the bootless essay,
by the musketry of the inner files. Farther on, you traced -
the spot where the cavalry of France and England had en-
countered. Chasseur and hussar were intermingled ; and the
heavy Norman horse of the Imperial Guard were interspersed
with the grey chargers which had carried Albyn's chivalry.
Here the Highlander and trailleur lay, side by side, together ;
and the heavy dragoon. with green Erin's badge upon the
helmet, was grappling in death with the Polish lancer. * *
On the summit of the ridge, where the ground was cumbered
with dead, and trodden fetlock-deep in mud and gore, by the
frequent rush of rival cavalry, the thick-strewn corpses of
the Imperial Guard pointed out the spot where Napoleon
had been defeated. Here, in column, that favoured corps,
on which his last chance rested, had been annihilated ; and
the advance and repulse of the Guard was traceable by a mass
of fallen Frenchmen. In the hollow below, the last struggle
of France had been vainly made • for there the Old Guard,
when the middle battalions had been forced back, attempted
to meet the British, and afford time for their disorganized
companions to rally. Here the British left, which had con-
verged upon the French centre, had come up ; and here the
bayonet closed the contest.—Maxwell's Victories of the
British Army.
SCENE AT THE NOCTES AMBROSIAN.E.—The gradual
' " rise and progress" of Blackwood's' Magazine, however,
became, henceforth, a source of great amusement, and some
profit to Hogg. He contributed prose stories, under the title
of the " Shepherd's Calendar;" continued to write poems ;
and, as all the world knows, was turned to account as enact-
ing the Shepherd at the "Noctes A.rubrosian." These
" Noctes," instead of being merely invented, as may haie
been supposed, were at first adaptations of what actually took
place at tavern-meetings in Gabriel's-road, before the landlord
shifted his quarters to Picardv.-plaCe—meetings which took
place naturally enough, when Iliackiiood, in the joy of his
heart, invited a successful contributor to " bread and cheese"
at the house where he had his own refreshments—the so-
styled bread and cheese soon changing into beef-steaks,
porter and port; and these in time giving way to venison,
claret, and champagne. I will give an instance. One after-
noon, I think it was in the year 1824 or 25, I met Hogg in
Princes-street, and requested that he would come to dinner
at my house. He replied that it was impossible ; " For,"
said he, " I am engaged wi' twa grand American gentlemen
that's travelled a' the way from Philadelphy just to see mei I
(me,) and we are to dine thegither at Awmrose's. I'm gaun
to ask Blackwood, and ye maun come yoursel, and be crow.
peer." In excuse, I pleaded my own party at home ; but he I
insisted that a cawdy might be despatched to each guest, and
that they should also dine at Ambrose's. Eventually this
was arranged ; and, in the course of my walk, I ordered a
hamper of choice wine to be sent to the tavern, with direc-

tions that part of it should be carefully cooled. The party
at dinner was not a large one. It consisted of Hogg, pre-
sident ; his " twa grand Americans," young men of re-
spectable demeanour (who personally knew several of the
transatlantic authors, and who wore frills and hand-ruffles, in
the style of 1794 ;) Blackwood ; Timothy Tickler; and my
friends,—to wit, a brother lawyer, and two Leith merchants.
Of the three last, none had been at a " Noctes" before; and

they were, consequently, much amused and surprised, as
were, of course, the " twa grand Americans." Indeed, one
main charm of such jovial meetings depended on the intro-
duction now and then of a fresh Inan, sufficiently intelligent
to enjoy the broad humour of the scene. And the greatest
attraction of all consisted in the complete sans ge'ne and com-
fort of the place, contrasted with , the humility of the apart-
ments. The cheer that day was excellent, and Hogg in enor-
mous glee ; as usual with him on all festive occasions, de-
nouncing the use of wine, and mixing jug after jng of Glenli-
vet punch, in which the Leith merchants willingly joined
him. About half-past ten, when our " mirth and fun" had

begun to "grow fast and furious," arrived Messrs. L -
and G the former glad to escape from the theatre,
where he had been assisting at a benefit ; the latter some-
what tired, having walked all the way from his country house,
near Musselburg. They were received with shouts of wel-
come. I directed their attention to the store of champagne
and claret which had been left in the ice-pail ; and, to their.
great satisfaction, ordered a supper of devilled lobsters and
Welsh rabbit. Blackwood, who for the last hour, had been

fast asleep, tried to awake' on the entrance of supper, and
flopping of champagne corks ; and openinc, half of one eye,
helped himself to an entire finnan haddock.' The conversa-
tion, the songs, the practical jokes, of that night, were all so
extravagant and ridiculous, that it would have been impossi-
ble for any sober man to have invented the like. Within

two days thereafter, the proceedings were fairly written out
by L—, and printed by James Ballantyne. But of all the
" Noctes" hitherto exhibited, this production looked the
most unlike to truth, and yet was nothing more than a faith-
ful sketch from real life.—Frazer'. Magazine for October.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, OcrosEß 5.

AI)IIIrrED

Accidents 9
Medical and Surgical cases
upon recommendation

Total

23 j
Remaining in th,

DISCUARGBH.

Cured
Attending as Out Patients . .
Irregular
Died 3

ie Hospital . . . 81

House Visitors, Rev. T. Hornby, and Mr. G. J. Wainwright.
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq-.
Chaplain, Rev. Mr. Connor.—House Surgeon. Mr. Highmore,

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT.

October 5, lug.

AnII irrEn.
DISCHARGED.
In-patients cured l6 In-patients
Relieved and at own request . 2 Out-patients
Made Out-patients I Casuals during the last week 7
Irregular . 0 Remain in the house ... 203
Dead 3

Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw anti Mr. Dawson.
House Visitors • Mr. Turner and Mr. R. Houghton.
Chaplain
Apothecary, Mr: W. Burgess;
House Surgeon Mr. Nottingham:

Admitted

LOCK HOSPITAL.
5 I Discharged „
Remain in the house • •

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