Star.
London, England, 1810-12-05 00:00:00

CHALI.ENGE.

MESSRS. CUR R 1 E and Co. Surgeons, late in hie
Majesty' challenge the mink world to prove a
single Jim:inc.: where their Medtc,ne and method of core have
Wed o: the &sired eft. cr. Time practice of many year. in this
particular branch of their protession hat not given rise to ono
unsuccessrud case.

They continue to direct their studies to the treatment and sure
of Venereal tontplaitits, and that derangement of the system,
which is the consequence of the pernicious and wasteful effects at
habit lung and most tinhay& ly ;limed by the youths of both serest
in the one it will be foonif to be the unfailing source of barren..
nes.s ; the other have its ravages fatally d.:veloped to them by a alas
tressing state of elehility, which, if cix timely rem-die-I, terminus'
in intporeuce. These ate its remote and ultimate elf:cis, while co 1.•
lumptions, iO4l of tusiecular power, and various nervous oomplain.a
usually characterise the earlier stages of tins solitary vice. Of per.
sons languishing under the disorders incident tassels a habit, their
treatment is sisitple and has never proved tinsucasestul, in at
colorer of a long, Leitnnotie, and much extended practice. In the
most 4flsinin-te and conmhcated Cast's of venereal hdection, anah
as obstructions in the urethra, spurgy escrescencrs, bard eti•
mours,cail•aus ukers, eruptions., senshial weakness, slots, as also
S f ICI UfttS,
_ _ _

Whether recent or of long duration, an.l which have baffled tie
skin amber Practitioners ; are by their pre,eut insproved plan of
molten t, effectually and permant.utly cured, without Outpatient
suffering the excrucia. lag pain and alarming hemorrhage which.
often follows the application of tit.: lunar magic. In the course of
20 years extensive practice in this metropolis, numerous cases of
Stricveres have been and are daily ti ~.er their are, the total
eradication of which are effected by a .afe, certain, and exiled'.
Cons mode of practice, superior to any otter yet adopted. The
wealutess' relaxation, acrd debility proceeding :roan this complaint,
is speedily removed, and the pa teLt re;,..wrd to sound and vi.
gnaws health. not where the debility has for years existe.l a
proper perseverance in their restorative remedies, after tin .41♦
cure has beets destroyed, is indispensably requisite to relics the *
slumbering sparks of lite' and to reatilmitte the Constitution.
Several Nol.leinen unel t;entlemen, of the flrr rcspec!ability,
have been under rite care of Messrs. Currie and Co. to the ge
moval at complain:s of the Urethra, Strictures, ate. and, having
received a radical and pintua.ient cure, request that refute Cell
may be made to them as satisfactory evidet:ces of the decided sea
periority of Messrs. Curve and plan of treatment. ItAnay
of these Gentlemen have had Stricture. front ten to twenty years,
end had been under the care of Messrs. Horne 'and Heaviside%
and other surgeons of equal animate, who attempted the mice
by the application of the lunar gaustic, without success.
Messts. Currie sod Co. may be !coughed by either sex with die
grew.* delicacy, secrecy, and honour, at their house, No. 107,
Hattoit-Garden. Patients in the country are requested to as.. .t
the particulars of,thowesse, age, and general Want of ilviag, aca
teaming a remlusioce ler advice had medicines. was& es genie
lOU be given tar ascot to any pan of the 'dark's& •

LISBON PAPERS.

LISBON, NOVEMBER if:.

CONSIDERATIONS ON THE WAR fl PORTLIGAG.

gg What could have convinced Massena, that with
an army of 72,000 men he could not force the posi-ion
of Bus.co, where the Anglo-Portuguese army had
only 52,000 ? Only hi; own experience, which is the
best teacher for undeceiving haughty men. But after
that battle, confiding in the superiority of his force,
particularly in cavalry, he thought, that by turning
the fl .tiks ()law allied army, he would oblige it to
fir-ht in the plains of Coimbra, where he expected to
mike up for his disaster on the 27th of September ;
Luc Lord Wellington, having foreseen this movement,
Nv,!hi rew, with as much rapidity as regularity, the
C,n,bined Army to the left of the Mondego, leaving
n tl.e other side only a few cavalry and light troops,
to allow more time for the evacuation of Coimbra. • •

" Massena, whose rale it has been in Portugal to
do every thing under mistaken ideas, seeing the com-
bined army in fill retreat and Coimbra abandoned,
is rmed the flattering ncticn that the English were
Jiving to embai kat Lisbon. He lett 3300 xr.?n to
gairison Coimbra, not so much to keep up his corn
municatims, il,c that seemed unnecessary when he al-
ready looked upon himself as master of Lisbon, as to
serve 1!-r a glut:A to 1.500 sick and wounded whom
Le had left there. By this incomprehensible conduct,
he seemed to mike no account of an army of 20,000
which we had in the provinces of the North ;
but in a few days a single division of these militia
surprised his garrison in C.,:irnbra, and completely cut
otr his communications on that side. This affair only
vexed, but did not dismay him ; for he learned ;t on
the f-sith or 10th, at a time when he still made sure of,
the conquest of Lisbon. It was on the 14th that he
reconnoitred our lines in person, and when his troops
were hoping that a battle in awo or three days would
ensure their entrance into Lisbon, it was soon disco-1
vered that Massena contented himself with the con-.
quest of Serra dc Ilona .Tunto, and the possession of ,
the Indian corn and grapes in the low :.*rounds of
Alemquer, where he has hitherto remained.' There
let us leave him, and turn our eyes to this terrible
invasion of barbarous and criminal men, who respect
neither. the laws of civilization nor humanity.
" Two provinces of the North and two of the
south have hid the good fortune to escape those
Vandals ; but it has been the fate of Beira and Estre-
inadura to euth:re the d;?structive scourve. The
Traater part el the inl:abitants escaped from their vi-
olence and rapacity ; but through what toils and dif-
ficulties ! Numbers of delicate ladies were obliged
t) travel on foot many leagues of road ; leavin:; their
moveables to chance, some of which were saved, and
others fell into the hands of those masters in the art,
of rol,hcry. Some unfortunate families, who for want
of resolution or of time were unable to pursue their
route to the capital, fled to the mountains, where the
enemy chased them Eke wolves, and robbed and in-
sulted them alter the aezustomed manner of this bar-
barous and unbridled soldiery.

04 And shall there be round men wicked enough to
assert, that these atrocities are a consequence of the
rights of war ? When did they authorise the viola-
tion of warm', the slanlit-ering of the aged and other
defenceless inhabitants of d.st:':cts which made no re-
sistance ; Oa ? assassination men, accounted rich.
only becans. they did fa:nish that quantity of
money which, it was said, they possessed' Of all
these, however, and still more execrable atrocities,
examples were given in the City o; Con:4lra ai,ine ;
:old the same was done in other districts, with little
distinction. Let net, therefore. strangers wonder, if
the Portuguese cannot treat with kindness or urbanity
the French soldiers ; let them not. call the Spaniards
barbarous, the Portuguese vindictive ; the fault is
their's who have excited eternal hatred between the
two natio:-.s, and have raised an insurmountable wall
of separati,a,. .I.eiing of vengeance is not, it is
true, a generous fec:ing ; but it cannot he condemned
'n nations vho h.tvc '.'en themselves invaded without
reason, witheut :-aotive, and in a way that shews a l
design rather to exterminate and ckstroy than to con-1
quer or i•nbalite Bonapaite and . his satellites'
appear abortions of hell, meters of death,whose great-
cSt pleasure is ruin, blood, and death : the unhappy
soidicr is L culpable ;he fogows the example,
of his dapi dyed c!acts.
as Let it not be imagined from what we have said,
that we are of the opinion of thoze gloomy persons
who think these two provinces (Beira and Estrema-
dura) ruined for many years, and that it will be dif-
tieult to restore them : such men have as little con-
r age as they :tie barren in resources and in under-
standing.

riches of a nation, or of a prov4nee, may be,
cl;v;d,,l into popillati.in, buildings, moveables, money,
aad Liids. Iu Fa/Alin:ion our 1013 has been smatl-;

hi this respect the-system of evacuation has had happy
effects. .In Coimbra and its suburbs, for example, 40'
persons were assassinated ; but had ell the inhabitants
remained,the slaughter would probably have exceeded
3or 4'lo. Our loss in population, then, has been but
trifling ; aad the same way be said with regard to
buildings,

" Tn moveables, the loss of the inhabitants has been
prodigious ; from the want of transports and of time,
it became necessary to leave almost all the furniture,
and money and plate were scarcely saved ; even these
valuables were left in a few instances. Articles of
furniture in wood, because they could not be carried
off, were burnt or destroyed by this barbarous and
lexterminating race.

" Such losses are certainly to be lamented, but they
are not in general so great as may at first sight appear.
Thesz French left in many places the plunder which
they had made in othors ; in this way some persons
arc totally destitute of effects, while others have got
more than they ever had before. In the fear of the
French armies it is always usual to see some of the '
lciwest class, who plunder what is left by the French.
Much of this property will he restored again to its
owners by the exertions of the magistrates, as happened
last year at Oporto: With regard to the loss of such
furniture as consisted of articles of luxury, we may
perhaps be permitted to observe, that much cannot
be said in favour of luxury in a country where the na-
tional industry has hitherto been small, and where all
such objects are pip-eh:mil with ready money from
the foreign merchant. Tables and chairs may be al-
ways procured of the ordinary or of inferior quality.
" The quantity of money plundered by the French
is inconsiderable ; it is true they found many families
in the woods, whom they robbed of all that they had,
but on the other hand, from the removal of the popu-
lation, they could not impose those pecuniary .contri•
butions which they formerly levied in the North, and
which they now exact in Spain.
" We now come to the great source of our wealth
in nu? territorial property.
" In Beira they have not destroyed the vines and-
olives; but in Estremadura many olive grounds have
been ruined, and this loss will require many years to
repair it. The harvest c,t this year has'also been lost
in many districts of the two provinces; but this loss
will not exceed that of some other rears, if the farmers
have seed-corn, and cattle to continue the cultivation
of the soil. It cannot be drubted that the resources
of many are small, that some are wholly ruined by
the invasion, and that assistance will be necessary to
enable them to continue their labours, so important to
the pnblie good ; but we doubt not that all diligence
will be used to supply such as;istance. Upon the
whole, tt may be ;aid, that the injuries of this inva-
sion, at least the steat,:r part of them, will admit of
Ibeing repaired in the course of ft year.

" On the other Land, la it he recollected that al-
nun.t all public evils bring with them some benefits.
The ea, thipiake of Lisbon was the cause of that city
being rebuilt in a manner more regular and more
perfect. Onr present situation, by increasing our ne-
cessities, will better dcvelope our industry ; and per-
haps the time may arrive when our proprietors shall
divest themselves of those capricious and ruinous
wants which consume so great a part of their stock ;
and we shall begin to pursue with efficacy the besz
means for augmentif,.:t the cultivation of corn in our
cogntry, so as not to be indebted to foreign nations
for that IleCCSiaTy.
" The while nation ,has seen and estimated the
wise provisions of our Government, with regard to
the subsistence of Lisbon, the relief of the indigent,
who have taken refuge there, the public tranquillity,
&c. and its paternal cares will not be less bestowed
on the means of repairing, as much as possible, the
losses of the farmers and proprietors of that part of
the kingdom which has'suffered from the invasion of
the enemy. It is probable, that by means of subscrip-
tions both within and without the kingdom, their un-
fortunate situation may be in part assisted or relieved ;
and we have in the inhabitants of the town of Cuba
and of Evora a recent example of what may be ef-
fected by generous minds."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PEFERSBURGH, NOV. S.

The Court Gazette of this day contains the fol-
lowing intelligence from our army in Moldavia :

OFFICIAL IN TtLLIGENCE.

" Advices have been obtai:wd from the Imperial
armv under Gcnti:l Count Kaminskoi, dated the 20th
of Oztober. No .i:!cisive battle had been
fought, and the two arn,ies remained. on the same
ground. Tne Imperial Russian forces are in the best
condition, an' in want or none of the necessaries
of life. The Ot:: disc `tufted in every at-
tack, and disappointed in all its designs, by the supe-
rior skill of the Russian Commander, is subject to
de,:crtic.os, and evon to rchAion. On the 17th of
Octi,lizr a dispute arose betweca the Janissaries and
some of the auxiliaries, in which above 500 men fell
Ilefore it could be suppressed. 'the universal cry is
Peace. A Flag of Truce artived on the Bth instant
at tl:e head quart•rs, offering terms, which were not
accepted by the Commander in Chid.
" On the 51 of October a battle was fought near
Raborsh, in Scrvia, in which the Turks were defeated,
I leap 550 t) dead on the held, and seven stand:irds
were tbaken. On the same day a body of Turks, corn-
posed Ut .50(M) men, under an Agar and a Paella,
namt::d Dash, surrendered without firing a shot to
General Subaloff.

46 The Black Sea has been deserted entirely by the
Turkish fleet, and the Russian Admiral is completely
master of it, even to the Canal of Constantinople.—
The Turkish flotilla before Ode;sa its been deleated,
And several vessels takeb. It was reported that the
plague had broken ota at Constantinotlgs and that it
raged furiously. The grand Seignior h. thoughts of
retiring bag Asia, and appointing a Council to goyern
his empire. The Grand Viz,ier is very unpopular."