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Lit IV INTELLIC,ENG'E.

COURT OE CHANCERY,NOV.H.
- THR WARDIN AND MINOR CANONS OF IT. PAUL'S,
IL MORRIS AND witsrla.
The Loan CHANCELLOR this day gave his judg-
ment on the motion made for a new trial in this very
important caufe.
His Lordihip began by obferving, that one reafon
why he had permitted fo much time to pafs over be-
fore he gave his final judgment in a caufe fo per-
leafy novel, and of fo much intereft to the parties,
arofe from a with that it might come to the general
refult of fuch cafes ; viz. a compromife between the
parties. " I have reafon to believe," faid his Lord-
(hip, " that the cattle will not end here ; and I have
great fatisfaaion in reconciling, that my opinion is
open to review by an appeal to the Houfe of Lords.
I have read, and confidcred over and over again, the
voluminous papers which have been left with me,
and I have weighed the arguments which come from
the bar with that attention which they well de.
(creed."

This is a bill filed by the Warden and Minor
Canons of St. Paul's, againft feveral defendants,
who are occupiers of honks in the parifh of &.
Mary Magdalen, and St. Gregory, in the city of
'London. It Rates the incorporation of the Warden
and Minor Canons, the AEI of Parliament of the
25th of Henry VIII. for payment of tithes in Lon-
-1 don ; and it contends, that under that aft, and a
idecree of this Court, the plaintiffs are entitled to the
rum of 2c. 9d. for every twenty (billings rent paid
by the defendants ; and the prayer of the bill is,
that an account may be taken of the arrears of tithes
at the rate of as. 9d. in the pound, from the year
1772 to the prefent time.
This was the fubflance of the original bill, which
has been twice amended, and now ftands in a very
diffetent nape. The anfwer of the defendants is
peculiar. Morris and all the other defendants far,
that they have, from time whereof the memory of
man runneth not toi the contrary, paid to the plain-
tiffs different funs of money, of which it is obferv-
'able that they pay no proportion to each other, and
the defendants infift that tltofe payments Should not
be difturbed, and they deny that the inhabitants of
thefe parifhes have ever paid tythes at the rate now
claimed. They Rate alfo the terms on which the
minor canons make their leafes, and they coatend
that the decree Rated in the hill wai never put in
operation ; that at that very time there parifhes paid
the fame films which they have lately paid, and
they fubmit that the plaintiffs have no right to elk
any more.
It is neceffary here to obferve, that in the At of
Parliament of the 35th Henry VIII. there is this
remarkable protifo, that the as. gd. diretted by that
aft to be payable as tithes, fhould attach on thole
only whore rate had not been immemorially fixed.
There defendants next filed a crofs bill againft
the minor canons, in which they Rate the fame cafe
as in their anfwer, and pray that tilde accuflomed
payments may be eflabliflied by the decree of this
Court. I believe I may venture to fay, that this is
the Frit indance.in which loch a bill was ever filed.
by mete occupiers, nut props ietors, praying for Inch
a decree. Upon this crofs bill being filed, the minor
canons amended their original bill, and they produce
an old regider book, in whikli an atfkliment is made
according to the decree Slated in their original bill.
which was pronounced by Lord Chancellor Shard-
bury, in the year t 672. The anfwer of the minor
canons to the crofs bill alfo (Westin contents of this
regincr honk.
The defendants, in anfwer to Ole amended hull of
the minor canons, vary their def.:nee, and they con
tend that the payments had not • .rs.:d (-wee the year
1745. They alto amend their clot's bill, in which
they ftrike out the payments they had mentioned to
have been immemorially paid, and they avail them
felves of an erns y found in the old regale,. book,
toed:iced by the Plaintiffs, entitled, .• i.ncient Rate,"
and t!.cv now dcfire that that ancieat rate may be
ca.X.thed, in li-u of the is..)lrants c,h.ch they had
fir ft ila:td. Thi is in fa:: a cuinplkte at...nsionment
of their lit .1 dclence.

The catr:e cam: on to he beard before the Earl cf.
itur.blyn, al ;IC Guth ut N0,C1315C1 17,1, wilea

tTiAI it Lir bc;',!c. Copt r i B,ficL, WAS
ltrie6l.o.‘i.rpon thr foltrming vi/.:

" Whi-ther, at thi.• time of t'o'.; wade. :11 1672,3 n put-
foance of au 'VI of the 3.3 th Henry V any. rr,J what kis
f11:11 than 2, 9.1. fur vet ry W. front ti:
the ucciipi.7r, a . uf St. P.". Lry
Il.Tl7,dalini, and St, zo the
11111,,r Canon, of it. Paul's?"

Upon the trial t.t ti is ifrw,, a verdin was found for
the Minor Canons. A motion for a new II ial at bit,
in the Court ,•f E':ch.,gr•rr, was altti ward, made
,pon the ground ct the Coot 13.2r.711 hav-
ing reftifrd to admit MA triial evidence ; and as the
Court of King's P....nch had rcf.:f•..l to :Omit the evi-
dence, beeattle the order f.r tring the 'agile had not
direited it, it was prayed, that the boot; of the vef-
try of St. Gregory, London, might be produced and
read at the trial. _ _

A new trial was accordingly direned, before the
Court of Exchequer, in order to try the effat of the
evidence, which had been rejeaed on the firmer
and the Jury a fecond time found that the Defen-
dants had failed in proving that any invariable fum
had been immemorially p..id to thsTlaintiffs, as the
tythes of this.parifh.
• A motion for a third tri il is now made, upon the
ground that there is further evidtirce which was not
before the Jury, and upon this motion I am now to
give my judgment. The iffue in this caie was direa-
ed, agreeably to that which was tried the caufe of
Bennett v. Trefpafs, which bears no analogy to this
cafe, nor furnifhes any authority for dit eeting fuch
an iffue. The Defendants in this cattle do not put
their cafe upon the fame grounds. In Bennett v. Tref-
pafs, there .vas a variation of the.fems paid at diffe-
rent times, which, it was contended, might arise
from their being aliquot parts of the whole atf:ffment,
and the iffue was therefore direi.fed to try, whether
and what lefs him was payahle, in order to lee whe-
ther any thing more was die cr not; but fuch an
iffue was never direted where the record contradias
itfelf, and different defences are fet up ; a peculiar
difficulty alfo antes here, for the iffae is dire led in
the conjoined caufes.

With refpe.!t to the Crofs exilic, I deny that a bill
can be maintained in this Court by mere occupiers to
eflablifh a cullomary payment, and this Court cannot,
in any cafe, where any rat: is Rated as the cuftornary
.payment, permit the party to avail himfelf of any
other payment than that which hehad liimfelf let up.
I have looked through evcri cafe up.Flrthe fitbjed,
and I find they all concur, that if a man puts himfelf
upon one main, and proves another, that there is a
decree againfl him ; but that was nut the cafe in Ben-
net and Trefpafs, for there they put it upon the point,
whether any other payment was due, than the one
claimed? The molt material exception to this pi in-
ciple is, where the Plaintiff, feeking for tythes in kind,
introduces a doubt as to his right, whether, in WI
a cafe, he is intided to a decree ?
This motion is made under very peculiar circuit,.
fiances, for a Court of Equity. On the trial, in the
King's Bench, it was found very difficult, but need-
fary, to eflabliffi two propofitions ; ttt, That a lea
furn than as. gd. was accuftomed to be paid ; and
fecondly, that thole who maintain the firft Ft-Tokio%
mutt alto prove what that lefs Com was. I will ad-
mit that it was not fufficiently difctiad in the King's
Bench, what is the meaning of the words arca/boa
to le bold ?" For in the firtl anfwer, the Defendants
add to thofe words "from time gotercof the manor, of
"tan rtantth not to the (contrary." But in the fecond
anfwer, the Defendants wifely adopted the words of
the Aft of 35 Henry VIII. and leave out the
words laft quoted. The words 1, acrafPomrd to Itopoid"
need not mean an invariable furn immemorially paid.
Bennet and Trefpat's goes to that length, though it
does not finally ellabhfh
The next point is, that the parill books were re.
fufed in evidence. It is clear that thofe who main-
tain that as. gd. is not payable, mull prove what is
payable, and the Defendants have failed in that proof.
There is no doubt but that this Court can grant a
new trial after a trial at Bar, though it was doubted
by the Courts of Law, whether they could or not.
In my opinion, if it had le n Rated that thc Defen-
dants meant to give up whit they Rated m th:ir
eflablifhed bill, that, inßead of an iffue, it mull have
been difmilled, and pro Lac via, the account prayed
for the minor Canons mull have been decreed, leav-
ing the Defendants at liberty to try to make a new
cafe. But it is now fated, that new evidence has
been dircovered between the two trials, which wa.
rejefted by the Court of Exchequer, and the point in
confideration is, whether I am to order a new trial,
and direet that evidence to be admitted ?

_ .
By an aft in the reign of Charles the Second.
when new rates were made, copies of thiraffelfment
are direEted to be depollted in Come office belonging
to the Lord Mayor, and in the regiftry of the Bilhop
of London. A rate made in purlimnce of Lord
Shaftfbury's decree, is found in the latter office. It
is dated in 16d t, and nearly correfponds with the
rate made in 1672, the date of Lord Shaftfbury's de-
cree ; hut no copy of the old book produced by the
plaintiffs is to be found in the Bithop's regidry. or
elfewhere. The affeffinent in that book, which is
dated in t 676, va•ies totally from both thole made
in 1672 and t6fit. By the latter, :oh is allotted to
the Minor Canons in lieu of tythes. On the trial in
the Court of Exchequer, the Defendants propor:d to
prove that the accuilomed payments were thole dated
in the book of the year 1676 ; hot the evidence of
that book was tejeffed. It was therefore neccffary
to confider, whether that evidence ought to have
been received; particularly as their. really is v:ry
little evidence of what was paid in lieu of tythes at
this catly period. The other evidence, which was
rejelled, confided in a leak in the time of the COM.
monwealth from the Minor Canons. Their Icffee in
that cafe 6led a bill in the Coot of Exchequer, pray-
ing that the tythes might he paid at the rate of as. i).l
in the pound, as direeled by the Ilatute. The
cattle was never decided, being referred to the then
Attorney-General, who made no award. The blinor
Canons mull certainly he conftdetcd as patties to this
fuit,atid the evidence would base been very material
it an award had been made ; but yet it may be (rime
evidence, and as far as it Saxe it certainly ought to
have been admitted, to thew that a demand of this
as. yd. had been made at G• early a period ; and it i►
material, as affeCtirg the qucaism, whether no), and
what legs Eons was pavab'e ?
The couifisleiatioo i•, Giciefore, whether that Lao,
and the evil-nce of the nook of t 6-6. becaufe. thes
are m iterial, and base hcen reit-Red. are ItsX.:::ot to
call upon me to glrAllt a new t, I The mere date
nuns of the rejection cit eviileace, more or leis mate-

7:41, 1, no p:7 c•ph. 'll,e Ceot”-•
the any .4i y 1 if 1 h. i we-
ii.ie.l in tier (jonr: • :'..:l:anc:ry th. I V • .11
have ,I;lected the i this cc": upon the t ,y.
rmnt.. I.leiel.hin!s in th..-r •.i1
and th !t. in ti.. Olt C!•11t: : V r I
have %cry eat daii;-ts wit;:ler the eflah"thin.! I 1.1
cart be maii,taine.i at all. Etit I th .111 d et.:7-lin!y-
have telmed any upon any oth:r q th
than tha. put iii:rat the record in the hi it .I”fwe; of
the Dctn.lan:s ; ana I f,:,;.1 have d.me it op,in
this gromid, that where a party locks tn ell„111:th a
cßitimiry paym:lit, he ti:!iit either pr..ve th,ir very
puynnrt., Cl' fail in ;al. In t'. %rj, :;:r there
was a doubt what •particular finis to inliit up, at, be-
cattle dude liated might be aliquot parts if a whole,
which is not the tale here. It is not horn-lent to lay,
that is fume le hr Cum payable, but it is to be
known what.

Mach firers has been laid noon the enormity r r the
film, uhieh theft: Minor Canons nowtrrk toett,d,iill,;
but that is no real n why I can rehire a decree in
their fa vour,fin I an) clearly of npit it i, the no;hr.7,
but a rermitreillbmary payment, rre% i its to the fl.t.
tote of Henry VIII, run exempt the dtLitdants }tom
this rate. This cafe is era.ftly fintilar to that of the
parilh of St. Dude's, which is ftate I in a note in the
fecond-volarrac of Mr. Gwillim's hook. The Court of
i;_xci!tgiter there decreed is favour of the cl ire, and
upon its coming into the Houle of Lords, by :trpeal,
it was Isft to the arbitration of Land Somers, then
Lard Chanctihr, the Arclibiflion cf Ginteibury,
and Lord:Halifax, who, juflly and wifciy, I th
confideting that the fum wkich had been lately paid
was toed. and that the claim made was for 9col. per
annnm, adopted a jutl medium, and fixed future
payment tit }(dol.
the only remaining confidcrati ,n is, whet!, 7r„
fuppnfing it competent for the defendants to contend
that the defence now flood on different ttr.,tinds from
the recent discovery of evidence whish irid been re.
jelled on the IA trial, the Count i. bound to grant a
new ti ial, where it is fati::fied the right conclution is
come tn, upon 7noltang into the materiality of that
rejcined evidence. The Court has always a right to
exercife its difcretion, and alle ilelf—Has this cattle
been tried in a way fa:Waelnry to the Court? The
Court has a right to ark—Would this evidence have
produced a different refult ? It is certainly a flrnng
feature. in this moll important cafe, that thefe Minor
Canons have now for two centuries been (lumbering
over this dormant claim, during all the time content
with a very (mall traetion of what they now demand.
And if there had been nothing more in the cafe, than
whether the Minor Canons have ever received a leffer
fum than 25.9 d. I fhould have no difficulty in fay.
ing, that it never was paid at all. I leave nothing to
do with the injuftice of the LegiCature in offing this,
now obfolete, all, nor with the enormity of the de-
mand. Thefe parties had a right to try to eitablifis
what was the invariable payment, but mere conjec-
tural evidence of fluetuating rates will not do againtt
a clear legiflative right. It was dittinetly dated to
the Jury, that the defendants relied their cafe on the
payments of 1676 I and if the Jury, with what they
had before them, refuted to fay that the defendants
had made out a clear invariable payment of thole
rates, I do not think that all the evidence which can
now be laid before them would produce a different
verdift.

With refptft to the evidence of the !cafes, they
prove that neither the rents or the fines are invariable;
they; therefore, cannot eftablith a rate of payment
which is to latt for ever. Befides the quellion is Isere
put upon the different individual payments made by
etch occupier. Very great difficulties have hung•
round this cafe. I have given it the matt minute in-
vetligation, and, upon the whole, I think that no
evidence propoled to be adduced can fatisfy any Jury
what is the accuitomed invariable payment which the
defendants with to eftablith. At the tame time, I
folemnly declare, that I do not believe that as. od. its
the pound was tver payable ; but if I cannot ekes.-
tain to certainty what was payable, mach as I may
lament. and ftrongly as I think that thefe defendants
are eni•led in juflice to expert that the plaintiffs will
recede Isom the extent of their demands, I am bound
to fay, that there ought not to be a new trial. Ns♦
trial refuted.

COURT OF EXCHECUTFR, NOV. n.
CHULCH if IS.

WORRILL V. PICOT ft.ted, that
this was a bill filed by the Plaintiff, who is Imprupri-
ate Lay Rector of the Parifh of Clifton, in Gloucef-
terfhire, for the purpofe of obtaining from the De-
fendant, who is Curate of the fnid Parifb, an account
of all the fees he had received for pi ving permiiiion to
dig vaults, plant iron palifades, and turn up the full.
-dm in the church and church yard ; the laid fees.be•
longing properly to the Plaintiff. It appeared that
the rectory of this parifh had been it, the poffeflion of,
a perfon of the name of Hodges, who, in the year
t 733,s•devifed. the right of farplics fees to the peck-
ceiffir of the Defendant, by two deeds, which were
read in Court. On thefe he founded his title to the
fees of the pal ifts. The Plaintiff had purchafed the
rectory of this pa:WI from Mr. Hodges, with all
its appurtenance., and contended in the &II piaci%
that the fees for burials, &r. &c. and the right to the
church and church-yard, were vofted in him prime
fair, as Rector of the I'arilh. This right, he further
ccritens'ed, was unimpeached by the deeds produced
by the Difenslant, which refreCted only the furplice
fees on marriages, burials, and chi iftenings, and had
no reference to the ordinary fees. Ihe Plaintiff'
therefore prayed the Court to order the Defin.laut
to give an account of themoney which he had received
and applied to his own ule, inttead of rendering it up
to its proper owner, the Plaintiff. The inhabitants
of this pain were accnflomed to pay fo moth for
every grave dug in the churchyard ; fo that the loin
was cot:fide:able, the Defendant having exa&ed the
money for feveral years.
Mr. RICHARUS. alto, in addition to Mr. none,
was Couniel for the Plaintiff, obfet ved, that this was
a very grave matter, and deferved the ferrous atten-
tion of the Court.

The Court, however, were of opinion, that an
iirue with verve& to the rights of the yarties ought
in thi, talc to he j-ined in a Conn et Law ; and if the
right of the Pi. 411. ;41 lhoid t be then a
J ivy wonld give • con.,.inf•ti•in in damages fir live
inf. of his feet awing t time they had been receives
by the Defend tut. Ibe appitcation was on this ay.
ct•urit refuted.

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L UNTEERS.

AMR. Etdi:es .131S7RUCTleONS TO THE Va.

We latzly announced to our Readers that Mr.
lILAtIC defigned to give a Gratuitous Leeture to the
Voltt..•cers, every Friday evening, on the means of
si bleeding. and nn tithe, fuhjeas which
might ht. pxtiliarly towelling to Military Gentle-
men. Mr. Bt. AIR, we are informed, is about to pub-
lifh the fubfliince of his Ledures on thefe different
fubjeds, in a volume to be entitled THe Sotniaa's
IiND. But, in the mean time, we take the oppor-
tunity of offering. to our Readers the following ex-
(rocs, which will thew in what manner the Author
irolro.O. the Volunteers to ad in the event of reedt
ing a wound, ice.
Every Regimental Surgeon has been ordered by
his !t,,yal Highnef. the Commander inChief to fupply
himfelfwithatlealftwofcrewtourniquetsand foot-field
tourniquets, at his own expence,: as forming a part
of hi. private fet of chirurgical inaruments. Each
! regiment, of too men or upwards. is provided with
one principal furgeon and two affißant furgeons :
now, if in addition to their privatefets of tow niquets,
the furgeons be moreover required, not leis than two
days in every month, to teach all the non commit-
fioned officers, band, and drummers of their regi-
ments, the mode ofemploying this inftrument i • and
if, to facilitate inch an arrangemeot.his Royal ki ighnefs
has forther'comrnanded the arm y rued ic aboard to pro-
vide two tourniquets for every regiment. as a pattern.
only, from which more are to be made (in the pro
portion of one to each perfon who flail have learnt
to site it, and likewife four to each hundred foldiers
in the corps) ; it furely cannot be lets e: anent that
the Volunteers and Yeomanry fhould alto poffell the
means of acquiring this valuable piece of informa-
tion. To aflill them in In ncceifary a matter, I
therefore take the liberty of thus familiarly addreffing
that numerous and loyal body of my countrymen.
" There is nothing more apprehended in the t;me
of a.flion, among military men, than a fudden flow of
blood, which might pour out the life of a wounded
perfon before effeaual aid-could be procured. This
is an event, that has too often occurred both in the
navy and army. During the confufion of a battle,
whether by fea or land, immediate afliftance cannot
always be obtained: and in fuch moments of fuf.
pence, a wounded perfon would give a kingdom for
the knowledge which a furgeoa's mate poffelfes. On
board a Chip, the:medical officers are Rationed below,
in the cockpit; and in an army, they are very judi.
cinufly placed in the rear. Some little time mull
unavoidably be loft in conveying a patient to the fur.
woo ; and he may even then be fo much occupied
as to be incapable of affording the neceffary attention
to every wounded man. In order, therefore, to en-
able the non consiniffionecl officers, private foldiers,
and common attendants to perform a moll weighty
duty, that of faring the life of an half dead fellow.
creature, under the circumftances juR deferibed ; I
&all now thew how the mollprofufe bleeding, from
a wounded veirel in dither of the limbs, may alexia
immediately and certainly be retrained. But, it
will be impoffible to make this fubjed clearly under-
Rood (to any other than medical men) without first
briefly explaining and illuttrating the circulation of
the blood in the human body.
" The apparatus by means of which the blood is
circulated, confiffit of the heart, the arteries, and
the veins. The heart is a hollow flefhy con-
flated with the tubular arteries and veins, in the
fame manner as the water-works on Londoh-bridge
are co nneded with the pipes which fepply that quar-
ter of the city. When the forcing pumps are in ac-
tion, the water is conveyed along the pipes to its
place of deftination Co, when the heart contraffs
. or pulfates, we feel a beating at the wrifts and the
blood at that moment is propelled along the arteries
which are branched out into innumerable little tubes,
going to the extremett parts of the body. But, fince
there was a neciffity for the blood coming back again
to its original fource, the veins (another fet of flexi-
ble pipes) are continued in a reverfed direßion,
from the extremities of the arteries ; and finally,
they communicate by large trunks with the oppnfite
cavities of the heart. lhus is the whole mars of
blood circulated, in a wonderful manner, during
every inftant of our exigence I
"I do not here puzzle my readers with a minute ac-
count of the circulation, nor of the blood's paffage
through the lungs: this myilerious procefs of nature
is more largely detailed in my little volume of An.
THROPOLOGV, jut publifhed. " The reader who is
defirous of enlarging his mind with the principal
troths of anatomy and phyfiology, will be amply
gratified in his inquiries. It is to be lamented," my
friend Sir WILLIAM BLIZARD obferves, " that this
kind of knowledge is not generally purfued as a part
or liberal education. The Rudy of the animal Teo-
]) .roy afrtird the mull beautiful and l'atisfatleiry ideas,
and is cafe:dated to prove highly beneficial to focie
ty ; for it enables men to dillingnifh between igno-
e ince and knowledge, and, confequently, to encou-
rage deferring pylons, fhpprefs tpackery. and ad-
vance true medical fcienee. I—Profefor Grocery,
alto, has very julily remarked, that, "if men were
to claim their right of enquiry into a fubjed which
In nearly concerns them, the good tibias on medi-
cine would loon appear: they would have no•fepa-
rate interelt from that of the art : they would doe°
and expole atfuming ignorance, and be the judges
or the patron, of niodeit merit."
"The brar.chingoot of the one, its, from air great
trunk which begins at the heart, is fo estenfiee and
minute, that not even the point of a needle can pe-
netrate through the Min, without puncturing fnme
of there fine ramifications and cooling an effution of
blond. When a (mall longitudinal wound is received.
with a knife or any cutting iii;iniment, perhaps there
are many hundred little branc:ies of there blood-
/rads divided; and, if the wionini be made in a very
'Arcola. part. there will be a confiderable flow of
blood. But. if a pretty large branch or trunk of an
artery be cut, the flowing of the blood will be by
jera+, at levier intervals of time. correfponding
with the poll:aims at the sena, and with the throb-
bing of the heart. While the blood is thus discharg-
ing, if a perfon compreffes the wounded pan, or
rrthrr ahoire it, Co tightly se to bring together the
11-.'es of tie bleeding :uteri., no more blood will then
flow. And what has been fa;,l of thcai vetrels. will
apilc in general to die : except, that, as they
are much more ten.ote from the proj.aile force of
I,cart, the Wood outer through %Lep very es9W.

ly, and in an even itteam ; on which actonnt
flight degree of preflnre will arra the lizmorrhage,
as appears from the common effect of tying a per-
fon'b atm after the operation of blood•letting.—
Hence, then, it mad be obvious, that our attention
ought chiefly (or I may fay, wholly) to be directed
to wounds of the erteriei.

" All the purple-coloured blood-veffels which may
be leen externally, running over the limbs and fur-
face of the body, are veins. The arteries lie deeper,
and are providentiallttaeoneealed from the fight ;
confequently arc batter proteaed from accidental
injuries : they arife in large branches, front the
main trunks yishin the body, and are thence conti-
nued through*the limbs in the following manner.
"At the groin, efpecially in thin perfons, yoa may
feel the great inguinal trunk beating arongly, as it
emerges from the belly and panes over the (hare•
bone, when it it eptrally eetereprelldle ; then running
downwards and inwards, at the fore part of the
thigh, it foon gives off an important branch to va-
rious rnufcles, and advances towards the centre of
the limb, where it creeps along the infide of the
thigh-bone, fa elofi at to admit of eafy comprdion. After
this, the artery goes obliquely underneath the thigh
and backwards, till it arrives .near the flat part of
the hain, where it say grin be complid ; and, hav-
ing palled over this joint, the ve)iel is prefently fub-
divided into three more branches, which fupply the
leg and foot with blood.
"Near the arm-pit, this is the manneriin which the
artery is diftributed : it firft comes out of the theft
obliquely forwards, over the two upper ribs and
under the collar-bone, juft below the little hollow
which is obfervable at that part of the neck. Here
it lies fo near the ribs, as to be astirely within our
power by a ferns degree of prrfmre with the thumb
and any perfon may by that means flop his pulfe at
the wrilt. The artery then goes onwards to the
arm-pit, and proceeds along the inner and under
tide of the arm, where it again nearly touches the
bone, and may therefore be evmpr.:#;d with great facility.
Advancing 'till, to the bending of the elbow, it
goes over the fore part of that joint, and is divided
into three principal branches like the artery of the
leg; and it is one of thefe three which gives the pal-
ration at the swift, fo important to medical men in
forming their opinion of internal difeafes."
The above,, bfervations are of very great confe-
quence to be remembered, and indeed they mould
be got perfeetly by heart.—(To lie maimed)

On Tuefday one LANGLEY, many years a cheefe-
porter in Salifbury market, was defrauded of 301.
the accumulated favings of his labour, by two
(harpers, who prattited the (kale trick of the one pre-
tending to find a parcel in the market, and admitting
the old man to a partnerfhip in his good lack : and
on their adjourning to a public-boufe to examine the
parcel, which contained a thining buckle, they acci-
dentally met the other 'harper, who, from a bill on
the Right Honourable Lady —, wrapped up with
the buckle, declared it to be worth a thoufand
pounds, and that he was certain tool. reward would
be given for finding it. For the poireffion of this
prize the old man parted with his money, his new
friends promifing to meet him in the evening, to ar-
range their further proceedings; but they forgot to
attend their appointment, and the Sawed buckle, on
examination, proved to be intrinfically worth half-a-
Crown.

Fiti.—Tuefday morning one of the workmen em-
ployed in levelling the grounds furrounding Barmon
Cattle, the refidenee of F. S. SirwlLL, Efq. M. P.
received a fevere blow on the cheek, by the falling of
a piece of Rate from the roof of the Cattle, which,
upon examination, he found to be very much heated;
upon looking up, to his aftonifbment, he perceived
an immenfe volume of fmoke burfling through the
roof of the Cagle. The alarming cry of " fire,"
was no fooner heard, than a numerous body of work
men and domellics exerted themfelves fo fuccefsfully,
that in a Runt time the fire was completely extin-
guithed, and we are happy to add, that this noble and
fingularly beautiful edifice fuffered but a trifling da-
mage. The accident originated from a fire in one of
the chimnies, which communicated itfelf to a wooden
can, or funnel, placed on the top, and which had
fallen upun the lead on the roof, and by melting it,
fet fire to the woodwork of the roof, which is cover-
ed with Rate.

In thufc ages when fimplieity of manners and r-•
gularity of living were the refult of mankind's inclif
nation, difeafe had made little progrefs on the race of
men ; perhaps it was from this cattle Scurvy had no-
made its rapid progrefs till about the time of Hippo-
crates, whole aphorifms prove he knew the difeafe.
When DIMES, Amsou, and Coosa extended their
route in unexplore; teas. their hißories prove fuffici-
clitly its fad exitienee. The United Kingdoms of
Great Britain would teflify this fcourge on land with•
out fearching the hiaory of campaigns. When ana•
totny taught that the human body was capable of
ab-
forption. they partially buried the affliaed. The fuc-
eefs of this treatment gave the idea of a complete an
tidote. and vegetable and mineral preparation WAS
to be the remedy appropriated by medical experience.
Onthis principle. Sr tss otT'S Am riseos lyric Dam's
obtained the fanaion of Europe. has gained his Ma.
jeay's Letters Patent, and held Inch an eftiroati.tit in
evet y county of tbe•United Kingdom—For the truth
of the aifertion of its aftion on Scurvy, vide opil-
(bur y's Treatife and Cafes of Scurvy. Berophula,Goot.
Ike. price is. 6d. fold, together with the Dmpg, No.
51, ';oho•iguare, in bottles of ss. 6d. toe. and IL its.
with a black asap afixed to each.