The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-08-04 00:00:00

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Yesterday his Royal Highuess the Prince ..Rsegenl
accompanied by Major Himartl, Equerry in ..Wait
inn, and Colouel Palmer, of the 10Th Ulmer.,' Aid.
vic-Cnrop to his R0).,1 Highness; left Carbon House
at a quarter t-fore,lt o'clock, for Hounslow Heath,
in order to review his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cumberland's regiment, me loth Light ,Huasars.—
llis Royal Highness arriiesl, on the ground at ti
o'clock, where the regiment was forum-fin One. The
pound was kept by a party of the 10th Hussars, the
Royui Blue., and Life Guards. As soon as the Prince
Regent alighted from hii carriage, he mounted hi
charger, and, attended by his Aides-de-Camp, and
number of General Officers, proceeded to the head of
the line, the hand playing God save the King, ant'
down the front, and up the rear, and then took his
iitation in front. The regiment immediately passed it
tingle files, then formed, and marcherragain in quick
time'in squadrons; after which various evolution,
were executed in *style of military discipline not to
be surmised It/ *ay troops in the world. The regi,
meat hatigtitef4, a most noble appearance. Lieut..
Colonel pie the command. His Royal High.
loess expressed his high satisfaction with the military
Atippearauce of the troops, and the masterly manner
!high their evolutions were performed. After the
Royal Highness inspected a number ofi
young horses, which hate been lately purchased foi
the regiment. There were fttesent their Royal High.
testes the Dukes of York end Cambridge, Lords Hill,
Bereiford; Harrington, Catchcart, &c. together with
a number orGe.tieral Oiicers.

• We andersiand nts-vbuitii whatever is made when
passports are obtained front the French Ambassadi
is this Country.

It does tint appear that any regiments of Militia
belonging to North Britain or Ireland have yet
been disemhonied.

• SlVOUtett RonzitY.—An old man, named Nield,
a jobblnitallor, 'at &strew, had, by parsimonious
Itabitslbi a long aeries of years,. accumulated 37Q,
guineas ; bat, fearful of being robbed, he always
carried It about Ilia person, sewed up between the
lining and back of his coat. Last week.,: 'Conceiving
his toad did not sit quite so easy as usual, he deter-
alined to ease himse f of it : he accordingly stripped,
of his coat, 'and opened a seam, when, to his astos
elehmertit, but fell k leaden weight ! the gold had
gown! but how," or' w hen, ii to poor Nield a wa-
tery.-I{Cheeter Pr.).
CM roe Comm.-4t *pries unnecessary to
apologise for of 'to the notice of the public an
account of some curious and well-authenticated facts
relating to the use of Cliters (called commonly
called Geose.gress, and scientifically Galiorn Ape-
rine), in the cure of that most terrible of all ma.
ladies to which the human frame is subject—the
cancer. The process was recommended hy the
niftier of a Parish in the country to it poor woman,
who had been for many years adicted-with a bloody
cancer, and who etae then thought to be in so hope.
lets, a state as to bate.* &short time to live. After
eying her aperient medicine, advising her to abstain
from salt meats, and 4) live on the most simple diet,
be advised her to take, twice a day, a quarter of a
pint of the juice pf (livers, the plant having been
well pounded and squeezed; he ordered that the
juice should also be boiled, and mixed with hog's
lard, for an ointment to the wound, laying the
bruised elvers over it, and keeping them constantly
applied and renewed. Tije amendment to be ex-
pected is so very gradual, that it requires steady per-
severance in the use of both the internal and ex-
ternal means. In three mouths the poor woman was
cured, and the wounds, perfectly healed ; and she
Bow repeats the regiMen every spring and fall, for
prevention. The same benevolent Clergyman re-
commended the process-, to a Gentleman who had a
troublesome erupting, somewhat like a leprosy ;
and he, in addition to the rest, mixed divers
with his salad. In a few months he was perfectly
well. It was also given to a poor man in Here-
fordshire, who had a cancer in his face to a
diesdful degree, and he was was perfectly restored
by it. It is also said to he frequently beneficial in
consumptive cases, as well as in other scorbutic corn-
plaisits.—Encouraged hy the account of the benefit
derived from the use of this plant, a Lady was in-
duced, bat January, to send the particulars here
related to a person in Kept, who, she understood,
was labouring under the samedisease, and suffering
'exquisite pain from it. She bad persevered in the'
remedy, without intermission, for three mouths,
and writes word now, that she hopes, by the Divine
Itiessing, to be entirely eared of a disorder which
110 afflicted her fourteen sears. The tumours are
healed, except one, which is reduced to the size of a
pin's head : she feels no pain, and says that her
health and spirits are exceiletat. This report may be
istisd.siboa as perfectly authentic.

• FlRE.—Yriterday, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, au alarming fire.Oectirred at the Muse' of
Nessa. Green and Morrie. china, glass, and'eartheb.
ware merchants, in Lower Thames-street:' ft ap.:
peers that a boy, employed to pack up goods in the
ceilkr, had suffered a lighted candle to set fire to the
straw, which immediately produced a flamif he could,.
not suppress. The smoke issuing from the cellar in:
to•the shop, and from thence to the street, occasiontitt
an alarm, and several persons ran in to afforil'as::
distance, but before they could render the lensrubi...
vice the shop was enveloped in flames. The boyhad•
not the means of getting out by the stibp7door, there-
fore made his escape backwards. As the streets and,
avenues near the end of Thantek-stieet; adjoining
Fish-street-hill, are remarkably narrow, add the
houses principally filled with stores, provlsiolu, and
inflammable articles, it was feared that the fire would
be very extensive, but fortunately the activity of the'
iremen soon reduced the dread of further danger.
Six branches were played againskthe house with a ra.
pidity truly' astonishing, while other engines went up
Pudding-lane, and threw wafer-the back way. All
the floors, except the first, in Messrs. Green and
Co.'s-titmice. were saved, but the want of a party
wall occasiot,ed the fire to break through. a partition
info the lint;se of Mr. Gedge, prOiision merchant,
whose whose premises are much damaged. The misehiec
done backwards IF very consideislite. Fortuacily
no lives were lost.