The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-23 00:00:00

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The Subscriptions now in apace;*and those'Whielk
are late ire nbt lessliberal than the first. Yestettay
were forwarded the contributions of Sir It. Herne,'
Bin., M. P., R. H. Gurney, Esq. M. P., Sir Marks
Monck, Bart., J. Hector, E 9. and J. 11. Lewis, Esq.'
amounting together to 100/. Besides these was the
munificent addition of the Earl of Darlington's snincri
Lion, which has been intimated to the Secretary in
following letter :

Raby Castle, Oct. 19, 1821.
Sta-1 have derived much satisfaction in finding so
desirable a mode has been adopted for an indemnity to
Sir Robert Wilson, which I eagerly embrace, to 1441
my Subscription to the Fund, and have directed my,,
Bankers, Messrs. Drummonds, to remit Five Hundrcet,
Gffimeas on that account.
1 beg to remain, Sir, your very obedient Servant
DARLINGTON.
R. Hall, Esq. Secretary to the Committee,
'Three Tuns Taverns, Southwark.
We have the pleasure of stating that James names.
Esq. has accepted the Treasnrcrship to Sir It. Wilson's
Fund, and signified his intention of atteading the
public meeting on Thursday.

OUTRAGES IN iiiicouNri OF LIMERICK.

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By further accounts which have been received from
Limerick, it ai.pears that the outrages we stated yester-
day fall short of the melancholy truth. Besides the
murders of ►lr. Going, and one of the Adair yeomanry
of the name of Walsh, and the murderous a:-
tack on Mr. Spading, a man of the name of Ivis, a
tithe proctor, wl.o had lived near Askeaton, and another
named Fitzgerald, have fallen victims to the assaults
of the banditti. Mr. Sperling, according to the last
accounts, was not then dead ; and bad so far recovered
from the first effects of the attack, that he was able to
swear in formations and give a minute description of
some of the assassins. The house of Mr. Morgan.
who lives near Slianagolden, was attacked, but that
gentleman, with a spirit which we lament not to see
►sore general, bravely resisted the banditti, who de-
manded his arms, and souu wade them take to flight
fur safety.
The measures taken by the Government for the dis-
covery of the murderers of Mr. Going, had not time to
operate ; for the account of the Proclamation issued by
the Lord Lietenant and Privy Council, bad nut been
known in Limerick till Friday evening.
In the mean time, the Local Authorities are! on the
alert. Major Stewart, Commandant of the Poict,, has
issued an Advertisement, offering a reward of 200!. for
any information that may lead to the detection of the
assassins. No meeting of the Magistrate► has been
yet convened.
In the county of Mayo, a meeting of the Magis-
trates has been advertised—a strong disposition to se-
cret Associations, and even some outrages have been
already committed in that county. There are some
accounts from the county of Kildare relative to the
prevalence of the Ribbon syste►n ; but particulars are
not given. These disturbances, it is said, have not
the slightest political aspect.

At the meeting of the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley,
Dublin, when the Address of Thanks was voted to the
present Lord Mayor of that city for his consistent con-
duct, particularly in giving as a toast, " The .ilemory
of King William Me Third," it appears that 51r. T.
Ellis, M.P. WAS in the Chair.
DUBLIN, Oc.r. 20.—Yesterd.iy, being Quarter As-
sembly Day, the Corporation met for the transaction
of the usual city business. In the Common Council,
a vote of thanks, on the motion of Sir George Whit-
ford, seconded by Sir Nicholas W. Brady. was unani-
mously passed to Sir A. B. King, Bart., for his official
conduct during the year of his Mayoralty. With the
same unanimity it was resolved, that a handsome piece
of plate, of the value of one hundred guineas, should
be presented to the highly honored and highly re-
spt cted Alderman, as a testimonial of his eminent ser-
vices, and of the estimation in which he is held by his
fellow-citisens, for his public and private virtues. A
vote of thanks was also given to the present Sheriffs.
Asa corollary to an allusion, made some weeks
since in the Morning Chronic*, to the advantages en-
joyed by a gentleman in the office of the War De-
partment, it may be fair, with relation to himself and
his less favoured cotemporaries, to state, that, for the
12001. a-year that he enjoys, be states himself to be
—.a very loyal man! That, for his half-pay of 3001.
a-year, as a Deputy Commissary General, he did the
duties of that employment with only the advantages
of full-pay, lodging-money, office rent, a regular esta-
blishment of clerks, the forage of horses, &c., for
several encampment seasons in the Kent district, under'
the late Sir Charles Grey, with whom, and the present
Lord Grey, be is believed to have formed that close
intimacy which it is supposed afterwards procured his
brother-in-law, the famows Mr. George Robinson, the
agency of the 13th Dragoons, on Sir Charles's son
getting the Colonelcy of that Regiment. Mr. B.
however, enjoying, iu the mean time, not only his
official salary and the comfort of being released from
his War Office duties, but that of acquiring the :tape-
rlority in it, which Iras,.fo some years, placed him in
the situation of principal clerk. For his 3301. a-year,
he has done the duties of agealto retired Chaplains
a situation which is understood (by I.ls iuperior), to
be so lab.wious, as for -theta to have given him an
assistant with a salary of 601. sleet; and for his
1301. a-year, as a retired privaleyeerettery, he did the
arduous duties of that situation under General Fits•
patrick, during the fourteen *oath's that that gallant
officer held the secretaryship at the Horse Guards under
The Talents. There are others in the War Office who
may bate solid inducements for not only being very
loyal, and good collectors of anecdotes for their supe-
riors, but to whom our attention may be drawn during
the vacation of Parliament, and the hoped-for cease-
don of the stormy times which now claim so much of
our attention.
Banssat.s, OCT. 27.—The Asian at Ohetrt have
soateuced M. +louden, the proprietor, amid M. Peseas,
the editor of the Jostles! de GeS4l, the former to a
fine of 1,200 francs, and the Wier of POO trims, for
expressions relative to the Waite of Naples, injurious
to the Allied Sovereigns. The seamed were restored
to liberty as soon as sentence was passed.
Tan SLAMS Taana.—lt is competed that the num-
ber of Staves annually imported into the City of Rio
Jaaeiro 'Slue, is tbs. costa of a year, is from 20 .to
'30,00b, besides what are impeded iota the other parts
of the Bradlee—.Vat Yin* tsper4. -

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LpNDoN COI.LEGE 'OP PHYSICIAN& AND
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LETT= 111.
• London. Oct. 20,1821.
Sing With those who have engaged in the discus-
sion respecting the cense of epidemic and pestilential:.
diseases, as a matter of faction, rather than an a.
smatter of science, it has been customary to set out by
taking contagion for granted in those diseases gene-
rally; and, in particular pestilences, the dispute
turned upon its being a contagions, or non-contagious
cpideuric. By adopting such a course, the investigator
immediately involves himself in a labyrinth of error,
from which he can never he extricated, but by com-
mencing his enquiry dc novo. By assuming one side
of the question, if that assumption happen not to be
correct, be vitiates every subsequent step of his rea-
soning. Such a course is a complete inversion of the
received laws of philos..phising. In the present case,
besides the numerous usual effects of error, it is at-
tended with the " trifling inconveniences," as the par-
tizans of contagion consider it, of snperinducing the
maintenance of plague police establishments, at a great
expense, and of putting an end as much as possible to
all human intercourse; and these " trViing. iqcoss•
ceniences" must be equally enforced in every fever.
Mil it can be decided, by the same grave authorities.
whether it be or be not of the class of epidemics, which
ought to be considered contagious, i. e. until its termi-
nation. Thus, we gain nothing by a fever being in the end
pronounced nut to be contagious, since, during its pro-
gress, we have quarantine, lazarettos, seclusion, restric-
' lion, incarceration, forcible removal, desertion, famine,
terror, and demoralization, to encounter. Thus, with-
out its ever having ben ascertained that the fever now
raging at Barcelona, is produced by contagion (I say
nothing, at present, of the impossildlity of its being so)
the very belief has occasioned all these "trijiiog
iu-
couvenience.r." " It is nientionr,l, in an article from Sa-
ragossa, that the miserable inhabitants of Barcelona
and Barcelonetta had suffered extremely from a want
of provisions; and, that, to relieve them, boats had been
sent, unmanned, into port, laden with flour, &c.; the
sails were set, and the helm tied, so as to carry the
vessels, with a favourable wind, into the harbour,
where they were taken possession of by the municipal
officers." Sudi are the tragical, the terrible effects of
a belief, into the validity of which no government has
ever yet instituted a serious and bona fide enquiry ;
and, into which, some governments have shewn a de-
cided aversion to enter. I n this respect, the Turkish
government, so frequently accused of barbarism. have
shewn themselves the least unphilosophical of all their
coternporsries.
But to return to the fever of Barcelona, we shall,
no doubt, be told by the adherents of contagion (all
those must be so deemed who believe that such an
agency can in any case be the cause of an epidemic ; for
a disbelief of it, in particular instances, confirms the
general belief, and is so far inisleailing, and therefore,
injurious), that were it not for all the restrictions im•
posed at Barcelona, were it not for the suspension, as
' far as passible, of all human intercourse, the community
-08aroelona, those of Catalonia generally. and of all
Spain, could not fail to be extinguished. With or without
police restrictions, inch would certainly be the conse-
quence, if the doctrine of contagion were correct. With
the most complete suspension of human intercourse that
could be imposed, no Society, as I have repeatedly de-
monstrated, could survive a contagious epidemic. A
sing'ie pestilence of this nature would be sufficient to
annihilate the inhabitants of a Continent at least ; and
a very few to extinguish all mankind. That nothing
like this follows the ravages of epidemics, reputed con-
tagions would be alone sufficient proof, 'if there were
not others, of the erroneousness of that doctrine. If this
were not the case, how many times would the inhabit-
ants of the Turkish dominions be annihilated in the
course of a twelvemonth? Yet, under their own sys-
tem, we are not aware of its population being materially
diminished; whilst the introduction, among them, of the
plague police establishments of Christian Governments,
would infallibly produce depopulation and an increase
of misery, by occasioning the same mischief's which we
now see, owing to the consequences of the belief in
contagion afflicting the ill fated inhabitants of Bar.
celona.

14:1 THE EDI

CIIIRT.ES MACLEAN, M.D,

MEETING To ADDRESS THE KING.

Yesterday evening an adjourned public Meeting "to
condole trills Isis .11ajest9 on the death of the late
Queen, and to pray that his Majesty would offer a re-
ward for the discovery of the persons who caused the
deaths of Honey and *Francis," was held at the Paul's
Head, Cateaton-street. Dr. Watson took the Chair,
amidst the vociferous applause of between two and three
hundred persons. most of them mechanics. It will be
recollected that the intended meeting in September, at
the Jacob's Well, was prevented in consequence of
the landlord refusing to grant the use of his room.
The requisitionists, however, marshalled by the little
Waddington, determined to hold a meetinu,-, and sub-
sequently applied to the Lord blayor. who promised
his protection.
On the Doctor taking the chair, he read the various
requisitions, and an article from the John Dull. attack-
ing his party. This the Doctor declared, in many re-
spects tube untrue. He next commented on what he
termed the endeavours of Ministers to entrap him in a
plot; but the Doctor observed, that he would not be
caught in any trap this year. He next read a long
paper,which, he observed, was his speech on the present
occasion; he did this so that he might not be brought
to utter any expressions which might be considered
libellous. The Doctor was frequently interrupted in
the course of his edifying harangue by the enthusi-
astic cheers of the Meeting, the barking of a dog, and
an instrumental band in the adjoining assembly-room.
This latter " nuisance," as the enlightened Meeting
considered it, was soon removed, and the dog ejected.
Fur about an boar and a half the Doctor continued
his hsrangue, and at the conclusion of his speech,
proposed to the Meeting that ho should read the Re-
solutions.
Here a young Gentleman rose and, opposed the
reading by the Chairman as irregrlar. He was, how-
ever, clamoured down, and the Chairman, after stet-
lag precedents, read the Reflohnielt, which be after.
wards proposed seriatim t bat the third, (muskeag to
address *citing). was opposed by the before rose-
domed tioatkowia, who was attackekby repeated Met

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