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Nun rst mere sed ratere vita.— MARTIAL.

"its only Life, wren blest with llealth."
THE fine,t Syv.ein of Ethics is to confine within
due bounds, and thus to regulate the Passions ;unre-
strained and instawdinate they impetuously destroy those bar-
riers which Religion and Morality have rulde sacred ; to curb,
but not to annihilate them, appears the I.:asen of prudence, beat
calculated to limit their effervescence.

Every disorganize d:ma of the human frame requires great me-
dical knowledge to remedy, and the public welfare is promoted
when pref.e.eior,el men (disregarding the suggestions of the envi-
ous aed interested) jevote their studies to the treatment of those
complaint: generated by imprudence, and the ebullition of the
passioits at an unguaried moment. " '[he strength of a Nation
consists in Cie healt.:l cf the People;" but it is melancholy to re-
feet on the daily sacrifice ro the ignorance of unfeeling empyri-
cism, and to menteract, as far as possible, its further ravages, we
offer to st.fiering humanity, the result of our own experience in
the various diseases of Debility. The unwary victim of solitary
vice (early acqUired at echool, before reason has asserted her right
over the mind), will, in contemplating his powerless state, be-
come suceeptible of enlivening sensations, in knowing that the
most complicated state of exhaustion may be roused into maul)
energy.
!pease study—immoderate anxiety—long residence in tropical
Climes, and many other causes, will frequently derange the Ner-
vous Sr:tern ; in such cases we can hold out an assurance of re-
animation, by remedies which have lung answered the unpin
lopes of Patients of both Sexes.
That bane to human happiness, LUES VENERICA, can now
be treated fearlessly, the improved state of Medical Science.
having divested its antidote of these distressing properties that
so ion rentitred its exhibition uncertain and harassing. We.best
explain Our method by observing to Patients labouring under this
nubile, that a few days only are required for the removal of early
symptoms; that the most inveterate case will yield to our reme-
dies within a month ; and that in a person who only suspects him-
self injured, the disease Marke prevented altogether from appear-
ing t—a similar remark applies to many other derangements of the.
generative system, as weakness, ulcerations, ace. especially stric-
tures, obstinate cases of which are daily removed without the use
of caustic or stiinu!ants. Some peculiarities incidental to the
softer sex have not escaped our attention ; iit width mildness,
oombined with efficacy, have superseded the means usually
adopted. In fine, our system is unique, peculiarly energetic,
and eminently successful.
Educated in dais our native city ; schooled in our professional
attainment by its splendid Medical characters; and having been
:Ode, peisonelly. to compare with admiration the British Sur-
gical practice with the Continental, oar pretensiens to superiority
(in a breneir we have selected) are matt:tea by experiente, which
.is evinced by the daily applications we receive, even from distant
countries. GOSS and Co. M. R. C. Surgeons.

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AMERICA.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MARCH 10.,
RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.

Mr. LowNDas, from. the Committee on Foreign
Relations, delivered in the following Report:
The Committee t-) whom has been referred so much
of the President's Message, at the commencement of
the Session, as relates, to Foreign Affairs, respect-
fully report—
That their attention was directed, immediately
upon their appointment, to the state of the relations
of the United States with Spain, and that their
de-
lay in making a Report upon them must be attri-
buted to their wish " to afford an opportunity for
such friendly oommunicatious, during- the present
Session of Congress," as the Government of Spain
had authorized us to expect. They thought ft bet-
ter that Congress should postpone its determination
until events might enable it to make that determina-
tion definitive, than that it should pass a Contingent
Act for- authorizing measures which it was not pro-
posed immediately to Acsig ; that it should found
its determination upon re tuns ascertained to exist,
rather than upon a calculatiOn of events which might
be expected to occur during its Sitting.
But more than a year has passed since the signa-
ture of she Treaty by which it was proposed to ter-
minate the long differences between the United States
and Spain—more than six months since the appoint-
ment of anew Minister from Spain, who was "forth-
with"-to make known to the United States the inten-
, Lions of hit Government; and we have advanced so
far in the Session as to make it necessary to propose,
without further delay, any measures on which it is,
expected that Congress shall act before its rising.
The Commiikee will not attenlp,t to add anything
to the exposition of the rights of the United States
and the obligations of Spain, which is coutain:A in
the correspondence between the two Governments.
We can hardly expect, from continued negociation,
the redress which harbzen. claimed for twenty years,
and premised fey eighteen—which has been a second
time promised, and a second time withheld. In such
a negociation, the signature of a Treaty seems to be
a mere incident, and not its term. _ _

For the spoliations which have been committed
upon the property of our citizens, for the invasion of
our soil, for the weakness or partiality which has
made a Spanish territory the place of rendezvous and
encampment of an enemy, and which has still more
lately permitted the Indian inhabitants of that terri-
tory (whom Spain was bound by Treaty to restrain)
to engage in savage hostilities again.t us; for all
these acts of war, 'a people less attached to peace
would seek redress only by war. To capture and
confiscate the ships and property of the wrong-doer
would be admitted to be a policy of mildness and
forbearance; but, by such reprisals, the Government
that does the wrong suffers less than the unoffending
subject. It seems a more just reprisal to occupy the
province which has been made an instrument of in-
jury, which has been designated by Spain herself as
the fund of our indemnity, and whose.eccupation by
the United States will stop the accumulation of those
claims for compensation and redress, which the Mis-
government of that neglected colony continually pro-
duces. The Committee submit to use House a 11i111
to authorize the President of the United States to
take possession of the East and West Floridas, and
establish a temporary Government therein.
There appears too much reason to believe, from the
mistake of the Spanish negociator, as to the dates of
the'Spanish grants, which it was intended to annul, if
the projected Treaty had beets ratified, that the (frown
lands in Florida may be insufficient to provide the
expected indemnity for our losses. But these may
be applied, as far as they will go, to the compensa-
tion of our citizens ; and for the excess of our claim,
Spain, by whose act the doinain of Florida has been
rendered inadequate, must expect us to look west-
ward. Perhaps, when our attention is thus forced
to a direction more interesting to Spain, her-Govern-
ment may at last admit that it is as much her in-
terest as ours that the just claims of the United States
should be provided for by friendly convention, and
we may hope that the next. Treaty between the two
Nations may be executed as well as signed. •
The Bill, accompanying the Report, provides t
Sect. 1. That die President of the.thitted States is thereby au-
tisoriztd to take possetaion, arid occupy the territotits of East
and WeA Florida, and to employ any part of the Arrry and
Navy of the enited•States, rind the -Militia or any State, which
ke may deem urcessary.
Sect. 5. That, uutil the end of the neat Session of Congress, all
tht: Mitita:y, Civil, and Judicial Powers shall be vested in such
Rertex:4 is the Pre.ata.t of the United States shall direct, for

PRICE SEVEN-PENC4

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maintaining the inhabitants of the said terrheries in the free en-
joyment of their libc.rty, property, and religion. The impost
laws, and the laws relative to the importation of persons of co-
lour, shall be extended to tie said tenitories.
Sett. 5. Makes 'the appropriation necessary to carry the law
into effect.

WEVCYORIC, MAITCH is.
Upwards of 4.00 United States' troops sailed from
the Delaware on Saturday, deqined to East Florida.
FnoNt HAVA NN.lll.—Captain Fitch, of the schooner
Patty and Sally, who arrived yesterday morning, in
ten days from }favannah, informs us, that the ship
Manchester Packet, ands a large Boston ship, were to
sail from that port in a few days,- full of troops, for the
FloridaseCommercial Advertiier.

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TIIE NAVY.
The motion For -the Reduction of theyary, having
been ne:Tative:l by a large•and d.e.cided‘sorjerity, ex-
hibits the determination of *Congress to retain the
naval force of the United States, by cntitNsing the
usual appropriations, • not only for its present sup—
port,7but• gradual enlargemei.t.-.. It was supposed
that, in a spirit of.yetreachment. which has become
necessary by the exigetteys of the times, million
of doltars annually appropriated far the increase of
the Navy, would 'have' been directed into aircesher
and more pressing channel. It 'appears, however,
that Congress is not disposed to check the spirit of
eur maritime .progress and improvement, or damp
that ardour which hitherto has produced • thethap-
piest results to our country. There is no doubt-thnt
this determination will be approved by the American.
people. Recollections of the past, and anticipations
of the future, will always secure to our navy a fos-
tering-and generous protedtion. It is nor, therefore,
to be dotiload but some privations will . be endured,
rather than our naval progress shotild be wrested.
There are no sectional jealousies connected with this
branch of national power ; the navy is regarded
throughout the Union with an equally faveufable
and watchful care, not only as the heralds of success,
but as.a nursery,for seamen and gallant officers, a
protection to our extensive coast and commerce, and
to the rising glories of the country. The late events
on the cohonent of Europe, present an aspect which
threatens to impair that peace on which a strong re-
liance was placed. The diSaffections in Girmany,
and the constant additions to the army which the
Allied Sovereigns have been making; the revolt in
Spain, out & which the most serious consequences
may grow ; and, above all, the preparatidn; which we
are about to make to take possession of the Floridas,
unite to urge the utmost attention to our maritime
force. Great Britain, taking advantage of the con-
tinental troubles, may be disposer to make an attempt
on Cuba. The various independent flags hovering
over the coasts of North and South America, and
the pirates and buccaneers mixing promiscuously
among these nations, may bring in our neighbour-
hood a strong naval force, which may require a vigi-
lant eye.. It is not safe,- therefore, to decrease our
force; we should rather think it prudent to organize
it upon a nitre efficient scale. A very strong force -
In the Mediterranean may not be required, bet a
small squadron in that quarter .ill be found neces-
sary; and if changed often, giving a year ':rely for
each to remain, some of the 'disadvantages of long
cruises on the Lalian coast, and which have beers
complained of, may be thereby- prevented. The
Navy Department and the Board of..Commissionert
are extremely well organized and Conducted. •

A fire Iwo': e out:on Thtrsecy tr.ortinc, about two ()sleek, at
ch.Cemonger's, in RatcliKhiehway, which entirely cer=sumed
the house, and damaged the adjoiLing (me.
Another fir: broke out, on Wed....,sday evening, in.the kitchtu
chimney of the house of Mr. 11u11i. s, a leather breeches-maker,
in 'High Holborn, which, communicating to the s'iop and par-
lour floors, consumed them, but slid no further damage. •
Friday sennigitt, at half-past tea o'cl nk, an alarminglire was •
discovered iu a shop in King-street, G.aFgow: From the exer-
tions of the proprietor, it was kept fro.o encreAsing, till entiray
extinguished.
A melancholy accident occurred at Alr.
Deben-
ham's, a proprietor of a small farm at Ovingtor, in
Norfclk. Round his house he has about two acres
of plantation, is int of it yadjoining the public road
leading from atton to Dereliam, in which he keTs
a spring gun constantly se: Tuesday se'nnight, Ins
brother, who assisted in setting it, unfortunately went
against one of the wires, when it immediately went
off,. and lodged its contents in his legs, which man-
gled them in such a way as to cause his death en the
Saturday following. •
AN UNHEARD-OF Atnoctry.—Letters from An-
gouleme contain the followin account of a horrible
outrage committed near Confoters:—A young couple,
who were on the point.cf being married, went togo
ther to invite their relations to the nuptials. The girl
was mounted upon her lover's horse, followed by him
on foot. On their arrival at a village where theiyoung
man wanted to see some person, he left his destined
bride to wait his return in the road. Immediately
afterwards three ruffians arrived, who, after grossry
insulting the young girl, obliged her to :plight froth
the horse, stripped her naked, committed outrages
on her person, which decency will not permit us to
relate, and threatened to murder her ; they then
killed the horse, cut open his belly, took out the en-
trails, and in their place put the unfortunate young
woman, sewed up the animal's skin, and made ofEJ—
Some children who were passing by afterwards heard
"cries issuing from ti:e bowels of the horse, and im-
mediately rah in great Ir:,ght to tell their parents
that the -devil was in a dead horse lying on the road.
In the meantime the young man arrived, and beard
the groans of his expiring mistress.-She was dragged
out of the horrid situation where the villains hilt' .
placed her, and transported to the nearest barn, where
every atterftion was paid to her. The Police se: di-
rectly about pursuing the horrid monsters who had
committed an offence new* in the annals of crime, and
were fortunate enough to arrest them. They we•e
recovized by the young woman upon confrontation.
The .unfortunate victim could not survive the out- -
rages which had been perpetrated upon her, and ca-
pired five days afv.n.waia.
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