The Statesman.
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[IM* lime Notts TO A *SW Mow, isilwnt.td
Atiirolnii."] •
Abost the 'middle of summer tM plegewbetesee to
deadly, that the member of its !WNW illerlteilld to do
alarming desree.7—froot Aft to feVedfy•itte ddßy
the.eember felling sick watt igeciP‘iesdeeef greeter.
Sash was the printed report if the Board of Health
'het the real motet of the calamity wee lot known ;
ter people bed each dreadful epprehoesioes of the
,plegne-hospitals, whither every person was serried
eines with the sick front the infected houses, that
they smuttily denied the Worse* of the. disease In
their families, sod buried its victims I. the boom or
garden. All the better feelings of. the heart were
qesesched by this appalling evil. which
Sebdeed the proud—the humble kelt elt:treet-
end thi natives who ',entered to remove the sick and
the deed shared their fete in such numbers, that great
eppfthensinns were entertained, lest, ih • short time;
none would be found to perform this melancholy
elfin—but

&reins tatatb—s death-determined bald. .
Hell in their Ace—and horror is their bawd I
Clod io oiled leather 9 thee daring and &twines
Greeks volunteered their services effacteaNy ; bet
their number was so smell,. Abet recourse was bad se
the prisoners of war for assistance. :: 0,-- r
What will nobasieb fet liberty pedants i - •-a ••
flrase Crews* death—and heave 'be whelitiog stens!
Ki-e, greatly beyond Waite:Pr appal.
Ot, true to fretdasnowyellaing ?al; 1
With s -handsome reward, and the promise of pin.
lug their liberty at Ike eipliation of that plisse, the
Trends and Italian prisoners swept the' streets,
sleeted and arbite.waihed the infected hooses, burn-
iligtbilli (smiler., &c. sill we rim
Nights red with rata—Mplag la Ott Indra I
They did not all escape the evil : but I have seen
-ems of them, when duty led them neer the prison
.where their friends were confined, climb up to the
ciliteney top of the infected hoes., and being
Free from plague, to danger's dread employs
Vase to their &leads is openness of joy ! , !?
. The vassals or villages of Binthircarra, tel/±lOlOl
wnd Garai, soured lamentably; the last most Saw
verely, on account of its moist situation. The wort
of death was familiar to all : sod black covered ye.

hides, to which the number of victims made it ne-
cessary to lime remorse, rendered the evil still MOP!
ghastly. In these vehicles the deed were huddled
together.

trowd Ike stele,
month` chase their-bearers from the green.

"Urge
:pits bed been previously scooped out, end
thither the deed were conveyed at night, and tumbled
•iii from these vehicles, in the same manlier as I. this
country rubbish is throws from carts. They ded
thiroppieech of prorniag, lest the frequency of their
visits should 611-the- itsbabilasis with more slimming
apprmlseseions. The sileisce of day was not len
dreary that, the .r(ark parade of night. That silence
was now and tbeu broke. by the dismal cry for the
.66 Dud!" as the enhtllowed bier passed along the
;,qtrellts.i preceded pad fillowed by guards.- The mi.
4seriee of disease contributed so brine on thoboreets:
.of. famine ! •The island is very populous, and •cass.
not support itself. 'bade was at a stand--the bays,
were forsaken—and •strusgers, appeal's( of the:
harbour, on perceiving the yellow deg of qierasiise,'
pissed and.raised our" espectations only 41
*press osr feelings more bitterly by their departure.
--Sicily Is the parent granary of Malta, bat, 'homer
the Sicilians had provisioas en board their boats
reddy to- come over, on bearing of the plague they
'abioletely refused to pet to sea. •The fkitisb Cow.
enoilini in Syracuse was not to be-trifled with in this
mann*, . and left it to their choke, either to go to
Malta, orbs the bottom of the deep.. They prifer..l
red the former; but, on their arrival at home, nei-
ther solicitation nor threat could Judea their return.

In this forlorn state the Moore generously ;offered
their services, sod supplied the isle with previsions,
which were publicly distributed; bet the extreme in•
solesie and brutality of the ;restores employed In
that office very often tended to make the Mega}
loathe that food which, a moment before, they
craved to eat,
In aotomn the plague unexpectedly declined, and
heels's, began partly to revive. Bat every feee be-
treyeda misgiving lest it shoold retorts as formerly.
People felt as sailors de ors the madders cessation of a
stgron, when the wind champ, to the opposite point
444 compass, only to blow with redoubled fury.
r conjecture was bet too well founded. The
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gas returned a third time, Irma s more melancholy
team titan formerly; two men. who must have knew.
ihypselves to be infected, sold bread in the streets.--
1 the peat starving inhabitants bought it, and caught
the infection, as described in .the Poem. One of these
scoundrels fell a victim to the disease, the other fled;
but his career was short—thOqeetantioe guard shot
him to his endeavour to escape. This guard wee.
IlcomPosed of natives, who paraded She streets, having'
power to lake sp any person feted abroad without
a passport. .
The street of Pose' was entirely depopulated, with
the eaception of one solitary Oil, who remained
about the boom of her misery like one of those spi-
rits that ate supposed to henut mortality in the still-
ness of.the grave ! .
The plague usually attacked.the.autTerer with gid-
dines, and want of appetite--spetby ensued. Au
abscess formed under each arm-pit, and one on the
groin. It was the practice to dissipate these; and
if that could be done, the patient servived ; if not,
the abscesses grew of a livid colour. and suppurated.
Then was the critical moment—of life or dissolution.
The rains of December, and the cool breezes of
January, dispelled the remains of the pique in IA
Valetta; but it existed for seam months longer in the
villages. The disease, which was supposed to have
originated from putrid vegetables, and other matter,
Isecollarly affected the natives. There were only
twelve deaths of British residents during its sauteed
is the Island; end these deaths were ascertained to
have followed, from ether and indubitable closes.
Cleanliness was found to be the best preventive
against the power of the disease, the ravages of which
were greater in the abodes of poverty and weolchtid•
nese. Every precaution was wisely taken by the tstoseri
and by "the moot Grit/moor. The *Wier, le
lo =
morning lifibtly moistened with oil, which
ed in mama sahelatlee from the heat of their hedger ,

lk• j*oekt
log the prolonged qearantino, fell seij enemy id ri
sum _ billeells. Thij beguiled shelf *eyeless by
II
' saltig Ou the tetrad's; lb*, tsp. of the haslet' being
iii, Mt itilitelpelly, Oat. Vale; Month dad latent
eisid 101104 ibe passel* of beholdillg sails oak at
a ditto.., white
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•.. fietieelog losig look sia to
*eh *y rot .
Thij hosed die fate Iltite oarstbil thtoreet nut; -t8 iiiiiii ~
*bee the quarantine ceased, the* bettuitud Migeriftti
tii Wore leo fate of thSli friend's; in dui isseudestelk
as sailors liarry.below lifter bottle, to sue liinelltrejil
of their messetater bate Surtited td *bare I. ati
ilreant or glory t •
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ELKTION PRuCEBDING.I tit ntglijra
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CiT Ir oofDuL
1L11t4.--Tlie preset I.ldosetilluss4htioiliY
bi.net means such Arlerobers as tisa City Of likelfuo.
shield hose In a fregislativerAtulesellty* *My it • • 1
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be retuned withosti oppositiope..; I
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11 TKIINIT* tat.t.sue•-..limb, 4:1014413.126, (
itislaifi
Criskr,r end: Mr. Vlooket)liiii4ippOlit...collatilkieP
be ` INC owooN 14PalicfAu bittle. =, :Meek laiii4e.,
pitayi...en.l4r,:gadleyi the fellorrywho bat ilea jet
declared, sod win, Ie jik pipsgist..4l, iolieetswe 00116'
or fear Or the tchujirs.•• Mr, Orden'. the Fellow;
will, it is said{ f;if .f!Wienl,higidy:Creditattist to Ml
feeling! as a meet iiirltr.b4h ,it is not eletesstry best
to state, not tote ,stl.- .Akait, if the Election
shall not take 'pla..i.sia'stil sly, ociast of tibillbstierti:
'Montt whom Mni Pitinhet
.ss .said .to have rusosider-
abls; littera?, witltis esify mitt thee preprinikeete IN.
stale in favour of bit competitor. ..Af the. Kitlessee •
should occur bete,* shill period, Mi.-Orate teal
decidedly of his soarers. . . t
Clattery DDIBLIII.—Sir C. l'ilosellie• hes gitee ley
bat Cul. Whits it determined to 010 the matter *it.
Cotter* CmtLow will eti comeeted by Sir'
Ulysses Burgh; brt we anticipate no _ elppesition
Amino Colonel Robert Letereche.•
COIINTTGALWAY.-11t. 8.10115 Daly still fine
of standing for this Coital ; bat siie isset tekPlessti
to doubt the detlaratlon.—(DL Mk Smaiteg 'lost.)

BCO77'IS II POUR.

fa tollnitiffelire at 411. enquiriet look plied,
len year in the [louse of Lardy, redo Ming tree site of
,•the poor is, Engtaiol, a Committee wag appointed by
the lest Meeting of the General it,scinhiy t f the'
Cretin* of Scotland for enquiring into the sittinion'
of the poor id this country: This Committee reat'll
its report in 'hi AmEmbly or, %nudity list. gild it is
Ihrfeeeil that but feel docurnentt ever Were ialtbefont
the House mote replete with tehrabfWinformetion,
solute sense, and liberal thews of all kind& the flll.l
lowing are a few of its statements :—: •
A huudied parishes in Scot laud bele felied,lo
returns to the Cornetist.* ; its statenrenbi• theref‘tbi
relate only to lbe Teisainislg parishes •epoonting teti
'beat 750. • Its tbese if appears the genital
amount of collections made Et ilre,,,chorch doer( if
'21,7301, of volirttart Contributions by hellbent,
36,43 W., and of assessments for the pods 430171.;
that. where there is no assessment, the poor's Nina
arw.managed grataitouslyi though it is hMleyed that
Kis.* business which. eseploys the ectitrOsin /ices of.
not.fewer thia• 4000 indithleals, vi.hife .the tamest
of masageaseat Where there is an assessment has
amounted to 14001. per annum.. It feriltet appears,,
that oaly threes assessments fnt the poor.eaitted prior
to the year 1700 ; that is the course of the last Century .
98 were established ; and that • daring the seventeen .
years of the present century, not fetter than 51 have
been introduced. lit all these cases ofthe'enablish4
meat of assessments, their amount has risen prows-
lively, in some having douttJed. itself in.ten yeare,
others even in four; a bile the collections at that
chinch-doors have diminished, and the opplicatloae
from paupers increased, in a similar proportiow.
In the onassessed parishes, the average isensbar of
poor appears, from a very ingenious table constructed
by the Rev. Convener, Principal Baird, to be twat
and a half in the hundred, and . the eapeoce of their
maintenance 31.65. 9d. while in the assessed peddles
these sums are three and a. half, and 51 14e. •Tho
reluctance to apply for charity is universally stated
as wearing off where there are assessmentsc,nd
total number of the poor stow oßpeurata be &best .
35,000, of whom one.thiiii ere males. Not sose in•
stanceof involuntary or forced
:remota' has etretteken
place in Scotland ; and the'espencnorlitigation bee
been, daring the last ten Yank 1,3401., (this emu in
England having bees-about two Million') of which
1,8301; originated with the Geniis'(' parishes. bleu•
dicky letypiesented as universal ; and it seems to be
a •preveilingepinion, that In each parish the stranger
poor-take awe,. mars than would be.sellleSeat for tbs.
support of all those on the roil • • . • • •
Some.interesting statements art merliesteemi eebjeeti
not imaiediately connected with -the peer; seek se
the number of blind perpoos,•,wiehdr is represented as'
745, mod of deaf and dumb, as 648 ; that there aro
130 Savings! 1i1a,9 *actuate of .Ifalinhurgh and
Glasgow, With 7,000 depositose,. and 30,0001. of
foods ; that there are 600 Sunday Schools, die. •
. Sot one fact is mated in the report, of a most Wism
fel kiod, and which the People of Scotland will loins ,
with astonishment. While io almost every parish 'of
'the low country the means of common and religious
education are fully provided, there is in this respect
hew' lemeatahle deficiency in a great proportion of
-ilitsmetteitaro and western districts. Proud as we aro
'dit general diffusion of knowledge'', our cottony, •
woman now submit to be informed, that In several
Synods of the Church, (in the northern and western
parts of •Scotland,) one-third, one-half, and three-
fourths of the People cannot read, while in one par:
'Weise instance this proportion mouses op tie ekueit-
inielfthe. Inibese quarters. it is gratifying. though..
.very painful, to observe the deep sense *bids esti*
sung the l'aople of the _disadvantages order *bleb
they. "abuse, sad. their.eleellskte (Waal far itarotts°'
meat.
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Yesterday stsewlatt, ibebedy eta respectable look.
log Gifu wee friend drowned in the New River, It
appeared to bare ben is the water moat drys. •

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