The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-04 00:00:00

RENOVATED HEALTH.

IT has b:42n too frequently the subject of just
and general reprobation, that men, destitute of the ele-
ments of the medical art, ave offered thernielves its candi-
dates for public patronage in the profession of physic. For
the purpose of doing justice to the result of our ;ludic' and
experience, and to prevent as from being classed among those
emptrics, whose impudent pretensions have, unfortunately
for society, been too favourably received, we beg leave to
submit, to the liberal and enlightened, a faithful statement
of our pursuits and acquirenienn. After having received a
regular medical education, as the pupils of Messrs. (iriadal
grid Wizard, whose lectures and practices we carefully at-
tended, as Professors and Surgeons of the London Hospital,
we entered ourselves US students in that justly-celebrated
school for medical acquirements, the Royal Collegeof Edin-
burgh, and were instructed in the different brooches of
Anatomy, Surgery, the theory and practice of Physic, Che-
mistry, blidivifery, Botany, atc. &c. ite. by those eminent
pmfessors Drs. Homo, Gregory; Black, Ilatnilton
and Rutherford. We trust we shall not he deemed pre-
sumptuous in saying, that aur proficiency and acquirement,
are not inconsiderable. Having, for a long series of years,'
made certain complaints, and —the various disease! of. DE
BILITY, the particular object of our studies and practice,
it will, we hope, be allowederhat we have aequired superior
knowledge of their treatment and cure. In slight and recent
Mrs of itifection, a perfect re-establishment is completed in
the short period of too dap; and in those of the utmost in-
veteracy, where other practitioners have failed of success, a
proper perseverance in our plan of treatment insures to the
patient a safe and radical cute.
Amidst the melancholy society of disorders which are the
effects of a habit long and most unhappily pursued by the
youth of both sexes, there are none more vdarmsng or more
distressing than those deicieocies and debilities which fre-
quently prevent or embitter the matrimonial state. To such
person; it must be a consoling reflection to know, that they
'say oust., by a new and infallible mode of treatment, be re-
stored to that greatest of all human blessint--a sirottg, man-
ly, and vigorous enrimitutino. In all cases of debility, from
whatever came arising, as well as in every species of a cer-
tain infection' we may he consulted by patients of either
sex, with the greatest secrecy and honour. Hours of con-
sultation at home, from ten to thtee,and from six in the even-
Inc till ten at night.
Patients in the country are requested to state the particu-
lars of their ease, age, and poem, habit of living, Ace. &c.
inches* a remittance for advice and medicines, when the
same will be given or sent to any part of the kingdom. To
insare that secrecy so eusrnial so our imdertakiag, the post-
lige of letters may be added to the account for medicines.
CLISRLE and CO. Surgeons, Nu. 107, Hatton-garden.

ACTION ON THE STH.
" Meier siczeezmz SIR—At half after five, in
the afternoon of the 4th, I received a dispatch
from Captain-General Doti Gregorio de la Cucsta,
in which he communicated to me his determiliation
to break lip that night, to follow the English army,
which had marched that morning to meet Souk,
who was advancing by Plasencia. As I foresaw
that the army under my censmand would be at.
tacked, as soon as Joseph Napoleon and Victor,
who were at Illeseas and Marqueda, the former:
with 13,000 men, and the latter with 10,000,
should have notice of that movement, I proceeded,
on the morning of the sth, to Aranjuez, accompa.
nied by the Commandant-General of the Artillery,
and other officers of the staff, to examine the 'Kai.
lions of the different corps, and point out those
which they ought to occupy, in order to avail
themselves properly of the advantage of the ground.
" Brigadier Lacy, who, with his division,
formed the vanguard on the bridge of Largo, had
two leagues to march to repass the Tagus, by the
bridge de la Reyna, the only one in proper condi.
(ion ; and it being very easy for the enemy to cat
off that division, I ordered that, leaving there a
party of cavalry, it should retreat and take post in
Lasdore Callas; I afterwards resolved, that in case
of an attack, the Curdellera de Germ, immediate-
ly adjoining to Antegola, should be occupied, and
that tide passage of the river should be obstinately
r defended. Raving taken these precautiunary
measures, the only ones which circumstances then
permitted, I retiTed to my head-quarters ; but
scarcely had I been there three hours, when I re.
ceived advitm from Brigadier Don Nth.° Au.
gustiue Giron, who, un account of his seniority,
commanded tie three divisions, that several co.
lutnns of the enemy's infantry, cavalry, and artil.
lery, appeared on the bridge of Largo, and that a
part of them had already passed it. I successively
received other advices that the enemy's force con.
tinued increasing ; and, from every appearance, I
was convinced that the enemy intended a serious
attack, and I believed that the. alight bring forces
upon our rear from Toledo, or from the ford of
Anovrc. To meet these dangers, I ordered Girun
immediately to repass the Tags; at Lace, that he
might take the position in the Cerros d. dinleguld,
which I had pointed out, and defend the passage or
the river, and the other positions, inch by inch ;
and if he should be ol)liged to retreat, to retire