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LPOC* SEVOIPENbE.

41 pined n, ascended the tbtosie of PA in' IS
Tliii ince, a !dei to the journey_ of the 'KW&
to St. Petetsburgh, gives rise pa many coujecture..-- •
The Poles, in particular, Onsider all tHis as a fivoutab:a
ptesAgt.

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Tbs./141,11;in Slate Gazette says, that the Mara it •
Constar Wimple was engaged, after the depitture of a. -
three Ambassadors, in drawing up a manifesto. - +
Accounts from Watlai hi A, bf the 19th Dec
;ay every thing announces war; the Russian anumhartiiirt
ready to march. M..Aquena, the Austrian Agsaeolleim •
lent orders to the shepherds of Transylvania, whew Mmies..
their flocks to graze in the plains of Wallachia, to quit
litre banks of the Danube, and to Nail's to=their crah
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country.

Milit.ary duty is done at Becharea by the armed inw
hahitants, and the•posts are every where doubled. -
Fifty Ilang,nrian water carriers have been transformed
into Austri.M soldiers, to prntect the houses and_ shops
of the suhjectsdf the Emperor.
We- hear from Hermacutadt, that the number of
Austrian.uoops in Transylvania and ibtl &meat is daily .
'lnc' easing, . .
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VEW ISLANDS.'

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Captain iodine Coffin. of the ship cane% of Nnon
:QC ket, in his last cruise in the Pacific Ocean, discovered
fourislindt not laid down on hit thalts. The firstl.h
Which he named Gardner's;lsland, in honont OT his
Owned. is in lat. 4. SO. S. long. 174. 22. W. The lend
of this island was low and well wooded,- 'il second.
Which he called Coffin's Island, is in lat. 31. 13. &
tong 178.54. 13. W. About twelve miles W. by N.
froth this island is a very dangerons reef. The_twn
otheri which Captifn Coffin discovered he named Gan-
ges Islands. One lies in lat. 10. 25. S. long. 180.45.
W. the other is in lat. 10. S. long. 161. W. They were
Inhabited,ltnd the natives came alongside with canoes-
oaded with cocoa nuts, &c. One of the natives stoles
atchet front the Ganges, and after he gat into' his
Canoe, and having manifested .an unwillingness to •
return it, Captain Coffin discharged a pistol at
some distance Over the beads of the -natives in their
Canoes, when they all fell as instantly as if they had
teceived an electric shock; and after lying apparen ly
lifeless for a short time, they all started up, seized their
peddles, and rowed off with an.astOnishiog velocitr,.
The natives probably had no knowledge of.#re arma• ,

NEEDLES EXTRACTED FROM VARIOU&
. PARTS OF THE BODY. '

COMMUNICATED IT MR. BRODIE.
Mrs. H. a middle aged woman, had been for a eon.
ilickzable time placed under circumstances which made
it necessary for her to make exertions beyond those to
which she was well equal, and which also occasioned
her to undergo a great deal of anxiety anJ affliction.—
When at last these circumstances had ceased to exist,

the was left in a state of great nervousness, languor, and.
depression of spirits, aid subject to fits, apparently con.
nected with hysteria, in which she was for a time in a

state approaching to that of insensibility. Her corn-
plea-ion was pale; she hid little or no desire for food ;
and illetomplained of a constant pain, which the re-
ferred to a spot on the left :side ; about three or four
inches*in diamiter, in the situation of the sh• rt ribs.
One evening she rung for her maid servant; anJ told
her that she had.dropiell a paper containing fifty small
needier on a low sto,l on which she rested her foot, and
that she thought some of them had stuck her leg. It •
was supposed that previous to her tinging the bell she
bad been seized with one of the hysterical fits already
mentioned. The servant sent to a medical practitioner
in the neighbourhood, by whom she was usually at-
tended. This Gentleman discoveled the ends of two

small needles projecting through the skin a little above
the ankle, and he extracted them with the assistance of
a pair of forceps. On looking n the paper of needles
which had been dropped, eight of the needles only were
found left out of the fifty which it was said to have
contained. The footstool was then examined, and at a
subsequent period it was broken to pieces, and two or
three broken pieces of needles were discovered in it, bot
nothing mote.
A few da)s after this, Mrs. H. said that she had dis.

covered another needle in her leg. I was now sent for
to see her; I found her very nervous and hysterical,
and complaining of a great deal of pain in her side and
leg. I examined the latter, and felt distinctly the ex-
tremities of two needles a little below the skin. I made
a puncttrie over each of them with a lancet, and ex-
tracted them with a pair of forceps. A few days after-
wards I Was sent I,r again to see her,'and I removed
two more needles from the leg. At different periods
after this, in the course of the ensuing.six or eight weeks,
several more needles were discovered, which I also
extracted. I removed in all as many as ta enty•six
needles; two had been taken a" ay before I was
called in, so .that the whole number amounted to
twentpeight. DUring the whole Of this time, Mts.
H. sufeied exceedingly with pain in the leg, which
became edematous, and much swollen; she - took
scarcely any food; had very little sleep; became still
more enfeebled than she had been before; and none of
the remedies which her physician prescribed seemed
either to increase ber strength or lessen her sufferings.
The pain in the left tide continued, although she spoke
01 it Ina than formally, on accuuct (as it appeared) of
her attention being occupied by the greater degree of ,
pain in the leg.
Towards the end of June, she was observed one after...
noon to be weaker and more depressed than she bad
been before. During the evening the symptonis of ex-
haustion
she gradually fell into a state of
the pulse '
became imperceptible, and the
insensibility, increasedt l
extremities cold, and at two o'clock on the following
morning she expired. • . .
I examined ti.e body in the presents of ber other me.
dical attendants. No morbid appearances could be
discovered in any part, except the leg from which the
needles had been extracted,- the cellular membrane of
'which was loaded w ith. lymph and serum.
- Several needles were found to have been left imbed-
ded in the cellular membrane.,. Tbe.exact number was
not ascertained, but there was reason to believe tbst
they were sufficient, with those formerly extracted, to
account'for the whole number which had been Missing.
The side, which had been the seat of the pain was
very carefully examined, but nothing was discovered in
, it to account fa .the uneasiness which had been referred

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