The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-08 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

Committee had done their best, others, he hoped,would
do better, and make the property, not only a great,
but a yielding concern. In the three years since the
Theatre had been built, it had been completely stocked,
and the expellee which had hems incurred in bring-
in,"; forward so many plays with appropriate
splendour, was an increase of the general property,
and ;,t the same time quite necessary for the purpose
of supporting a competition with the other Theatre.
It would be in the power of the new Sub-Committee
to reduce the pay-list lower than at any former period
• was possible, while at the same time they could ex-
ercise their judgment as to the continuance of the
former servants of the Theatre; but he thought it
would be also advisable to add six-pence to the price
of the Pit, which was a-measure which had been long
in contemplation.
I The Thanks of the Proprietors were unanimously
voted to the Chairman; after which the Meeting
broke up.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT 01 KNo's BENCH, Jess 7.
THE KING V. GILBERT BURNETT.
The AITORNEY-GENFRAL prayed the judgment of
the Court upon this Defendant, an Apothecary, in
Great Mary-le-honne-street, who had suffered it to
pass against him by default, upon an indictment at
the prosecution of the National Vaccine Establish-
ment, which charged, that having inoculated two
children with the small-pox, he unlawfully and in-
juriously caused and procured them to be conveyed
through a public street, called Great Mary-le-bonne-
street, whilst they were dangerously ill and sick of
the aforesaid dangerous and infectious disease, to the
great danger of infecting aJI his Majesty's liege
subjects who were passing or abiding in the same
street.
Mr. OWEN moved in arrest of judgment upon this
indictment, which was materially different from that
under which Sophie Vantandillo was lately punished,
and would (if held good) be tantamount to declaring
inoculation for small-pox unlawful, for it would be

impossible to practise it under terror of this indict.
ment. In the former 'case the Court expressly held,
that it was not unlawful to inoculate for the small-
pox, and the offence at present indicted was nothing
more than desiring a child to be brought to the apo.
thecary for that lawful purpose. He cited the case
_ _

take to swear, that he ever once before the present
indictment desired his patients' parents or nurses to
cover the faces of the children when they went to
the fields, he would give him time to amend his affi-
davit. _

Lord ELLtyvtortoriGn said it did not signify. The
effluvia would penetrate as strongly through the hand.
kerchief : that might hide, but would not diminish
its malignity.
The Azzoutscv-GENERAL continued, that the ob-
ject of the present prosecution had beep obtained,
which was for the purpose of correcting mistaken
notions respecting the right to expose infection. If
the Prosecutors had had the controul of the affidavits,
they would have struck out their objectionable pas-
sages; but it was excusable in parents who felt the
leis of their children through the Defendant's ad-
vice to give way to passion : and if they bad observed
the Defendant's conduct before the Court to-dav,
they might have made the same affidavit as to his in-
toxication ; for the Attorney-General could at-
tribute his present behavisour, which seemed to con-
sider the occasion as one of festivity and merriment,
to no other cause. The affidavits showed, that the
Defendant encouraged patients eo come to his shop to
be inoculated, and ministered to the prejudices of
parents by ordering them port wine and brandy, and
took money for his medicines. It was for the Coort
to teach him that he could not continue this trade in
contagion for the sake of his own private emolument
at the hazard of the lives of the public.
Mr. OWEN then addressed the Court in mitigation
of punishment. He said, this case was entitled to
the same lenity (as a novel offence) as that of So.
phia Vantaudillo ; for the date of committing it was
in July last, long antecedent to the promulgation of
the Law by the judgment upon that Defendant last
term. The present Defendant's patients were poor
children, who could not afford the expense of a me-
dical attendant at their parents' houses; and it was
rather harsh in the Prosecutors to select the two
children who had died, upon the exposure of which.
to found the present indictment. He trusted the
Court would no more visit the Defendant with any
punishment for the death of those children, than they
would a Barrister or Attorney with the death of a
criminal, who might professionally employ them in
his defence, but who should nevertheless be con-
victed. This was not so heavy a case as that of Sor
phia Vautandillo,
.who (it appeared) persisted in ex- j
posing her child after being cautioned against it, and
who hod canned the death of eight people. He con.
citified by thinking that it would be politically wiser
to trust to. the effect of time for the extinction of the
small pox, than to call in aid the sword of the law,
and exert it to the ruin of a roan, who described
himself to be n!rnost as poor as the Apothecary in
Romeo and .bdiet.

Mr. Justice Le BLANC delivered the judgment of
the Court, which he said did not bit to weigh the
comparative merits of Small Pox Inoculation with
Vaccination. It was sufficient to say that the intro-
duction of the latter had not rendered the former il-
legal, and that it stood on the same ground ns it did
before the adoption of the modern practice ; for at
all periods of the law, it hail been au offence to ex-
pose peramis afflicted with a contagions disease. The
Court did not advert to the affidavits of the Defend-
ant's misconduct, nr want of skill or caution in ad-
ministering remedies; but look,ed to nothing hut the
fact of his having confessed judgment upon the pre-
sent indictment, and the affidavits which related to
the of indicted. Hence it appeared that the De-
fendant encouraged persons to bring their children
to him for inoculation, and inspection during the dis-
ease, and to receive advice and medicines at his shop.
l ; This necessarily caused a collection of children there,
and that they should be carried through the public
i streets. The Court could not agree with the De-
fendant's Counsel that this case appeared in a more
favourable light than that of last Term : that was the
case of a mother who imprudently exposed her own
child : her conduct was improper, and betrayed a
knowledge that she was doing wrong. But this was
the case of a medical man lho must have known he
was improperly spreading the small-pox infection for
the sake of deriving profit from the sale of medicines.
for the cure of that disorder. His affidavit left the
Court out, one means of punishing him (for it stated
that he was not able to pay any fine), and that was
lithe imprisonment of his person. This . punishment.
the Court must administer in such a proportion that
• the public might take security from him that there
could arise no profit from the propagation of small.
; pox equal to the penalty . which the offence (if pro-
: secuted) would thaw down.
1 The sentence of the Court was six caleadar months'.
imprisonment in the Marslealsea.

COnortta':: Ingittcge.—Wedne.dny PH lilptiAilion was taken -
at the K mg% !lead, St. James's-street, Pimlico, upon tie bud.:
of William Thrall., aged 13 vents, who met 1,;.4 death during !•
the firmg•of the gum. in St. Jame '4 Park oil Monday
Ldinitt.d l.egg deposed, that he sea: '45 veais helwoging to the'
Artillet,. nnd• Wag Crilpit.veti m tine he gum in She
P rk. On Mood:•y, when'he 'rut ,shout to discharge them, in ;
honour of the K birds-day, he it:.serred :. moodier of boys -
get over the pilling. Olio I lir, green, n any ot• it hoot a-rended
the tree: in front of the guns. The,e Me iept....tedly warned In
keep out of the war, hot they uh..tipatels refu,ed, raying.
6• Int:re wa, no danger, it wan only powder." Upon the wit-
ne-P., h.," ever, fining.-ff one of Inc guest, he heard a stream, and
sow tee demised Intl from a tree.
Mr. Wood, Surgeon of the.Wesimitoter fidirmary, deposed
to the body of the decra-rd heing• Itionght 1.. the horpital..
hrli upon es ltalivittiito he found that n pirCC ..f V, nod heti ell.
04%4 hi- at.domen. and passed into Cite puts is, whirh roused hit
death. It iippeared tiorther in evidence, that he-ide the paper
wadding, a piece of wood is uotolly put into the gun when
loaded.

The Jury, niter requestint the Coroner to interpoms with the
Secretary of Stalc. in order in rvent recurrences of a similar
aware. monied a verdict of- rcidemst Death. : •
klbw-sCREICT.-.-Wednestt,y, Robert .Harrison, a chimney.
sweetie.. of Old lionnd•cou.t, Chatol,.3 street. wag bought to
this Otter. charged Willi uillawftills •rdiscing Alex. hi' Bride, n
boy'lo the .on of Mr. M•firide.•ft res'peetable
IrAroinan of Shoe-lane. The boy diaappeored fetish hi. father's
house nu klonday Iwo. On his bring tr.iced to the Frimorer's
hoe-e, it was said lie had tan fleas. and it was supposcdke had
?Me 5., some .44..1. ehratnev-fAlreep..r'.. The Prisoner was or-
d.•red to he detained in ("candy t• 11 he found the child. whica he
and ;its wife pritini:ed to exert themselves to do. accompanied
by Don.ilds.in. the encsinht...
- BREAD OF SHORT WI:MUT. •
QtrcEN-•Q1/ ?lE.-Wednesday Orel. bakers wee fined for
quantities or oread on their premise*, snort nt the weight
required its t trainet; J. Beale, igmore-mrret I
Turner, sldt.,tok-street t _awl P. Garde..., %V t ehrelreet. Beale
wa, fined '2- tid. per ounce for 69 ounce. tleflOency. swum's) and
co=ts 91. Ns.; Turner also 2.. 6d. per emote f..r ne lAN the !awe
di &leafy.: and Gardvar3*. per ounce for tilltionees deficitinc3.
penalty and costs 101. The isisaiteris and half quartern loaves
wanted from one to five and six ()tillers each of their proper
weight. The Magl*tristes espressed their awn. i,hisseat that the
bakers. after to much e't p,.rore and fining. would still espy.-e
heasselve* so the pessilties of the law. eitacr by their own --- - -•— - -- -
neglect. or something wont. The cundemted bread was giver LONDON t Printed sad Perdrime%
to the poor. krAtEssou Orsico, Pi,

WILLIAM R. MOUNTAIN, Saracen's Iteaci
INN, SNOW-HILL, LONDON.
The best ikeemmodat foe Travellers, good Bed!, choice
Liquors, nod mod v r Cnorges.

The foll..wine t"•ast Centehev, Mnil Conches, Pee. set ont from
the Sarneen:4l Fiend Imi, Sn..w•hill :
TRAVELLING FROM LONDON TO LIVERPOOL,
IN TWENTY NINE lICWRS.
The UM PI It an •w Liverpool Post C own, one night
Oh the mud, earri v Fon. I .rid•• and Voir Oni.i le I sett nut
from the Sat. weli's II di Inn. Shoo hill. Lototoo.
One-o'Clock, to rives sit Liverp sil oat t • fiernoon it Si s n'Clork,
through hiss sift le, Woobirrn, Leinleoi impt.,n, Wel.
ford, Lutiervintlialtocklry, AWe. .one. Stmt..,
Itugely, Newcastle, Bruceton-green, Kantsford, Warrington,
and Pavel.

I:
UXBRIDGE.. Hayes, Southall, and Hanseell New Post
Coat h. every . nt Four o'CI irk.
WEY MOUTH Union Coach. F n.hit.e...r,t.
the Packets
nkaert
cheater, B or, lindford, Salishar.. and An l•er, every After .non,
arrives at Weymouth next day, 3.1 ; w
sail on Wednesday and Saturday 11(1,rittietil. at Five, to Guern-
sey and Jerse., from whence there conveyance to
Cherhuro and St. Mains. The road f.••,.. Chet-burgh to Paris,
i the ..,•,st delionful and the cneapest in France.
BRIGHTON New Eleg.int Post Coach, Four Insides only,
every mot ni neat Niue o'Clnek, throngli Cray. ley. Rvegate, Sze.
The WEY MOH PH. Dorcheter, and Rianrifiad Union
Post-coach., every Afternoon. Carries Four Insides.
LIVERPOOL Post Coach, to carry four (tulle,, sets nu;
even Morning, titroisgh Ititterwor3b. flign Crios. Hist. kle.,
A therstnne, Tasitwortli, Litchfield. Vilest .sorp, Northampton,
nod Dunstahle. Arrives at Ltverporil next Afternoon.
EXETER, Plymouth, Weymouth, Dorchester. Falmouth,
Dartmouth, tird Salisbury, New Pmt Coach, e.ery Morning
at half-paq Six o'Clock, with a Guard. throtic,h Honit .n, Ax.
muster, Briciport, Blandford, Basingstoke, and Bagshnt.
BOSTON, Spalding, Peteibitrough, Stilton. and Hunting.
dew. New Royal Mail Coach, sets oat every Evening. Coaches
from Boston to Spilshy, Lath, Orlm,by„ and Hall.
LIVERPOOL, Warrington, Knutsford, Slone, and Liteh.
field, Past Coach, called, The Expedition. every Evening a;
Five o'Clock, to the Saracen's Head ion, Dale-street, Liver-
pool. Guarded'ihroughout.
BATH and BRISTOL Flying •Pnat Conches, through Chips
penham, Caine, and Marlborough, every Afternoon; 3.rrive at
Mr. May's, the Greyhound Inn, Bath, and the Lon ion Tavern,
Thomas-street, and the Swan Bristol, next Morning.—Coiches
to 11 ells, Bridgewater, Taunton, Ace.
LEEDS New Light Coach, called, The Rockingham, seta
out every-Morning nt half-past Seven o'Cl••ck t carries Four
imides only, and cogs remarkably eas), with a Guari thrnegh-
aut. Passes through Stamford. Newark, Retford. Doncaster.
and Feet.% bridge,to the Golden Leeds, next D•ty at Noon.
Nola ithstanding the tateomnion expedition of this Coach, it is
allowed to he the most agreeable and complete Public Convey-
ance tm the North Road, being unequalled in Accommodation
by any ether.
KENDAL, Lancaster, ' Preston lc irhy- Lonsdale, Solt;.°;
Chorley, Orinskirk, and Garsiang Post Coaches, emery After-
town, at Five o'Clock. Guarded.
GLASGOW, Longtown, Gretna-Green. Annum, Dumfries,
Rrawnhill, Thornhill, Sanquhar-Kiln, Comstock. Kingswell,
and rill parts of Scotland, Camperdown Catch (Daily).
YORK, Newcastle, and Edinburgh, new Conch, performed
w;th a Guard throughout, sets out every Morning art half•paa
Six o'Clock, b. way of Newark, Itetfor.l, Tattertwer, Dar
liagtoo, Nonhallerom. Dui ham, Monied', ate. Berwick.—
Passengen. finding themselyes fatigued from the lep.ah of illto
journey, may rest what time they please, stud then proceed no
without any additional fare. J. Clark, the Mark -Swan, Co-
ney-street, York, rens Coaches t.. Swilled:teed, Hull. Scarbo.
rough, Whitby, and other Place..
BR! DGENORTH and Wale& new Post Coach, every
Evetimg.
CA R LISLE. Penrith. and Whitehaven. Post Coach, goal
with Four Horses, and armard nil the way. Notes through
Applelsy, Greatahrtd,gei Richmond, Cattetiek.
rnughhridge, Wetherbv. A herford, o.inenster. nod Grantham
(the nearest wny by eighteen milesl. .ets out every *Homing,
mid performs the jounal with the create., facility. Pas.eneers
detained on the Road by hu-iloss or pie •tre, have the peculiar
advantage of their seat,• being secuied in the nest Coach.
WA K EFIEI.D Post Coac.i, every Morning, at half-past
Six o'Clock.
SUN ERLAND, Stockton, and Yarns, New Coach,
Morning, to the 133..0rge Lin, Sunderland.
M A NCI4ESTER, N 1341.. w.„ Coogiettm, Newcastle. Witivlllv
and Wolverhampton, Post Cm!ch. etc ry Vim-noon. guarded.
••• For the 4-commie-ace of peroins re.l.lii4; at the west end
of the town. Paporogeis tool .Pateets are hooked for all the
ah.oe Coarhet, at liatehord's Coach Otfit.x. New Whites
liorim Cellar, Piccadilly.

MARIAGF smhokuTlßdibeaffitAleir
R foundation of Snail
happiness; which is efteu disturbed throagh the parties
that form the union nut t..king those precautions which would
secure them the enjoyment of that great iloinestse blessing.—
People of evens rank pay adoration to the shrine of wedlock t,
bet, where the constitution has been minted by disease, or dein-
, litated by a certain habit contracted at an earl% age. a reuova-
lino of stability previous to rote tug that state is indispensably
requisite to revive the .lumbering spirits of life, and to reani-
mate the system. For nn disorders have centribetted more
Miceli:illy to destroy Hymeneal happiness than those which are
tow consequence iif 'unguarded ol..assire. It nes this considers-
lino which induced Messrs. CURRI F. and Co., for these last
SO sears, to direct their studies and attenti ffff eXCIUAVeI, to the
treatment and cure of the Venereal I)lsen-4N and the disorders
aeisieg therefrom, a- ales to that deningemeet ..f the system pro-
duced by the destructive habits of the iteunsiderale echoed-boy,
WiliehrlrillgS on thaw distressing debilities and deficiencies that
' prevent or embitter the Mainortoidol stole. The successful re-
salt of their plan gives them additional ardour to oppose the
ravages of taese complain's, wnich are the moist important ia
the catalogue of human infirmities. It be hoses every person
who has indulged in this solitar. vice to seek relic f by enattilte
ing professionnlnee 44 eminence and honour, iss which Messrs.
CURRIE nod Co. claim the sanction of selordawse
as well as the te•dint.sny of uncootrudicted forte. to professing
die cure of thew c plaints, they bold son no loducedsenr to
vice; but, sensible, an all men must be, ash.- es Waste of such
calamities, they offer their ussoilitice as regularly educated
Meusbeia of the Royal Colleges of Sincere.. of tirttdOn told
E linbuigh. Slight and recent cases of S ',Whin' infection are
radically cared in the sbort space of two doss. Those of the
:nose (obstinate duration, such as ObtOrllfilitllN inveterate Sum.
tures, Pains of the Bones, Giros, Ste. are permanently mid
speedily cured. Several Nublemen and Gentlemen of the Gist
respectability have been under Ilse care -1 Messrs. Currie mid
Co. for the removal of comp .cials of the urethra. stricture=,
sc.: and having received a s :elicit' and pirrnament curt, re-
qu?st th or refereuees may be swede to them, as .ate.ractors evi-
• deuces of the decided superiority of Messr. Currie and
plan of treatment. Many of these Gentlemen had son Wes
.from 10 to'.) years, and were ender the core of Misses. florae.
etivis.de, and of her Surgeons of equal r mind. e, wlou attempted
their u ore Is the application of eke lunar caustic, nithro(l,nr'
ces4. 111 e-sis. Curtin and Co. hoar selected th- following letter
from the many they ore deity receiving front Geotiemeo, re-
turning them tbassks for their rod:4.4one' to .ound mid wig-mail
health. It WI'S sent to them, fr•ess the son of a
gohle Earl, who had lahoured under t's.. distres-ing and it
nigsLiay for 11:1 years; he hod been miner the tare of several
Sweeten of professional eminence. se ..f whom afforded cent
permanent relief ; but tram the superior method 4if trsataseat
ai.epted 'rind puneted by Messrs. Currie and CO. he received a
radical cure in the short space of one month
" May eXt, 1810.
" To Dr. CC KM, 107. Hattmi-mirdeu.
" Lord feels great pleasure in comment...ling to 04
Currie the perfect re-establishment of his health. its roteeciaterb
(1:' has mild mid admirable treiement of Sao-noes in the Use.
thee. He may /odd, that he has not for .11111111 V years eojoyed so
snitch comfort arid fro don (loon polio ; Mitt ..e entertain. ph
desibt of his havitig obtained, through his skill and anewu a. a
perfect and radical cure of that horrid complain,. As he was
st.t a stranger to the manlier that others treated the complaints
he has is to Isira jsower. from a fair trial and a jest eoraparivna.
to pay that tribute of applause to Dr. Citirie. which he s thii•
sly !'eel., and shall ever be most reedy buil a illiug to ackmows
hake." . •
Atari ied Women, whet have Item been disappointed In their
eiltretilittille of a fatlttiV., MI, be aemred, shot se meet ito
stances sorts defects ore curable by Mee ical skill t nod although
the removal of soils impediments so- au object of doubt and ua-
terlanote.with other,. yet the cute of seek defects by the gra-
dual progress of removal's)", is the ecquireassent of their ex pe-
riewre. • By nil viols ..pplication to Messrs. Cowrie and Co. the
patient will ',cape toe daireer, and eapesice of a lung "4
tedious at fru lace m leant expo i. need practitioners. Me.srs-
Currie mid Co. may hr consulted by patients of either Sen. n its
the greatest secrecy and !wooer, us their Mouse, No 107 e 14:4-
ton garden. Patients in the eruotry, describing the potion ail
of their ea.!, n: e, and mode of 'trifle. itrrlr..i g a taut .swe for
advice ond medicine-, the emir wilt be given *trate. to 4"' I'3"
of the Ti. e.om. e that severe, firmeptvgi to' ci. oso
dertakine. the postrige ..f letters ratty be added to the act:emit
for medi. Hat garden.

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