The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-24 00:00:00

leather breeches maker by trade, had for about forty years
yraetiset! at No. 52, Kingtland Road, near the Crook
Billet, in the art and mystery of a sttrgeon. This scie
• was the.gift of tiod, and inspiration. He professed to care
sure legs, wil;ch other practitioners deemed incurable,
fcenla.. enncers, dropsy without tapping, the stone with-
out rotting. mortification. and *arts. In one instasewhis
pristed card •Ite4riloel a mlraculnes col'. of a young wottro•
Obit had been fibres', tisuovurnei out of dm hospital as in-
curable. In January !Set the defendants epekestter by
being 'a little lame in one of his lege ver g
. 1.4 the reins, Oa( i Muer! to 'place himself under the care of
llte plaintiffs, whe attrdderl latel for ten months, during
*bids time the-unhappy mos had his legs blistered.. with
rantharidee. hone a ith caustic, and scraped with a knife,
in *fiftr to effort a foie. 'A • might reasonably be expected
after sitCering the must excrociating pain, his leg got worse,
and in the remit he was ohlltged to apply to a regular bred
sitege..n twitted Wicsn, wl o, after a few &maim% restored
the liroli to its wsiited st•entrth, by asimpl+ ',Oration of
a benfiage.--The plaintiff pow hail _the modesty to bring
the pre., tir action to reroter his bill for 221.
file ”nsis. a serzcoo, f Prescot Street, had known the
ylsintilTdd yrilig a. a pi artitioner in tuedicineasd surgery,
anal hr thought Lis bill reasonable.
It was admitted that the plaintiff was neither ulicensed
apothecary; nora Aleualter of 'he College of Surgeons.
Mr. thttoter mad* some sensible remarks to the Jury,
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nov, tho impositions prartierl by ignorant enmities, upon
the. lower dairies of societrand. contended, first, that as
floc viaintiff dkl not rlaim, by his ileclarielenKasy suer fur
mreligirw sob!,. he mall recover nothing ; and second,. as
-.the plaintiff was :tot, a Member of the College of Snr-
pens, larretthl not maintain this action. Rot at all errata,
is the plaintiffhad undertaken tore the defendant, Sori
,!r'`, ',tut failed so to Ai°, the latter was Pot liable.
• The (;pier JUSTICK told the Jury, that if the plaintiff
• bill not performei the cure Remediable his positive under.
talsing,•tbe defendant was anti led to a verdict. No regular
practitioner ever nrdertook, at all events, to cure his
.poiont ; and the tb fondant was bound by his contract.
. - The Jury instantly found x verdict for the defendant.
Mr. DeNMAN "aid he hoped it was IlOrt to be laid dawn as
a maxim, that unless a turgeon cured, he was to be entitled
to no remuneration. Such a rule would be alarming to the
faculty.
The CarateJinmea—"Oh, certainly wot."—(Laugliing.)

PARIS' 'PAPERS (W TUESDAY
• D monswo--
ave brought no intelfi— g.nre o f any importance. Non*
efhPn) contain Madrid intelligence of so late • date a
• that which, we have given below, except the Jortraid de*
Dash. hi which there is a trausLotion of that Convention
between (PDounell and the Governor of Ciudad E
By the letters from Catalonia. it appears t
are wearing to attack Barcelona. Mina age
164* a mule from that' City on the 9th in considerable
• force. The Journal des Debate has the following ohne.
vitions on the removal of the late War Miniver : '• • •
For a few days the retirement of the Duke of Benin%
•
Was &topic of eonversatirm. Some fey, others hope to
are a- change of si•getu in thy Administration. The event
has di‘sipated both the hopes and the fears. It will not he
said tint the successor of the Duke of Belluno, that the
companion of the Duke of Augonleme during the kindred
days, that the (tarsi' de Daocas is not a Royalist. Nothing
therefore is changed in the avocet of the Government.--
Tiorre is a :hange of nom (a thing which happens oftei in
England), hot to citing. of principles. The Duke of 11
Belles° is about to exhibit whit joveittitY of character,
sincerity of sentiment-, and bin fidelity to his duties ems
perform in another situation for the benefit *(the state.
Ile will he every where followtil by the esteem of the geed,
the gratitude of the country, the confidence of the King.'
atul the glory of having created that faithful army
• a the supi.ort of the throne, the lopping. ot
/Pr larfigion of Enrope." • .- •
Foroce• FUNDS, PARIS OCT. 21.:•41vie per Cent.
Consols

opened itt 90. 60., closed at 90. 50. ; Bank Stork,
; Neapolitan 5 pet Cents., 76. Exchange on London
ode month,2s 70 ; three months, 25.50. •
(From the Spanish Royalist Journal El Restairadorl:—
cotametton . CONCLUDED BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY DON
sobs RrOVTNELL, CAPTAIN-GENERAL Of TUB Alnli
teII•VINCE or. 01.5 CASTILE, AND GENER ‘L DON
Is all JALON, GOVERNOR Of TIM 1011TEEIA Or EUJIDAD
EGO.
thArt..l. Hostilities shall immediately cease between the
blickadiag troops and the garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo.
"II: It is a fundamental and sine qua non tionelition of this
lissapeesion of hostilities, that the Governor and garrison of
. .the said fortress are ready to obey end execute. and will obey
end execute without restriction, the orders whit' his Majesty
may be pleased to dispatch to them.
" 3. The respective lines shall be drawn as follows:—livery
wlthin the range of theguos of the fortress shall beheld
to be under the authority of the Governor, the Captain-Gene-
ra) agreeing to call in his outposts in conformity with this
• coedition ;in such manner that, his present head quarters be-
hg in La Caritad, be will pass his most advanced lino through
th 4 extreme guard of the encempment which is !mated at 1,000
Tars. is frost of the house of Ls Carideo!. and he will caccy
the said moat advanced line through Los*Polvoristes, 5afi,4.11.7
raido. Owe° de berrinios, on the right bank of the Aguedp,.
and respeetieely at equal distances on its left hank. • •
" 4. The effect of the blockade is suspended with respeet-ro
the sommuricntions between the fortress and every ether-town
orroint. The communications of every kind shall he free and
reciprocal, not only between the fortress and the town.,-but
between the garrison and th 4 blockading troops; with respect
ta•tbis last kind of intercourse between the Rarris..n and the
blockading force, it is to be widerstood that it slisll be carried
on-by the Individuals of either side under corresposnlng sate
condgets 01 their respective Generals.
••S, Ige.ftber the fortress nor the blockading troops shall in-
crepse the means of defence or attack after the ratification of
• the present Convention.
" 6. In pursuance of the preceding article, if the fortress
should need aid from without. the Governer will address a re-
presentation, stating fhe grounds of the i,emand, to tne Cent.-
Oeueral. who, on examination, shall grant the same. In like
Matinee. if the blockading troops should be is want of any
assistance which the fortress can supply. the Captain General
end Ilse Governor shall come to an agreement respecting the
same.
.• 7.-Tht, present convention shall last OM the orders con-
veyity his Alsj-sty's royal pleasure shall arrive.
• 8. If any difficulties or doubts relative to tee execution
of The present couvention, or to cireuntsteaces incidental
thetets. Clout t arise, the same shall be tightly construed and
determined with good faith by the yl44' giptain Cieueral ROB
Smash) Goiernor. •
" Head-quarters. Caridad, Oct. 7.
Iklateato, OCT. 13. Upon this convention being 'pre-
seated to the Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, we learnt that
under pretext that the third articie did not afford the
troops of the garrison that just satisfaction to which in hie
opinion they ere entitled. sod on the ground of avoiding
• the disagreeable circumstances which might artse from the
intercourse of the respective troops, he wrote on shriek to
Doti Carlos O'Donnell, proposing to substitute for the
addition to tl* third article. that his Excellency would
raise hist:stop, allf retire to the distance of at kasha day's
search trots' the fortress. The Captaind.haeral replied on
the same day. " that he could not, and eught'not to secede
to the proposition of abandoning the ground on which he
bad arrived. when his fovee in infantry was much inferior,
to that of the garrison; that being now' quidruplT rein:
format be was not lo a situation to do that to which be
before bad not thtioghtfit to submit., and which lohltf 'be
throwing discredit on the•arms of the King, whom he had
the hosaur to serve." With regard to the spptebiottsiuse
which the Qoyernor-littertained of unpleasant eircatn•
statical ocenrring from the into:course of the trtiofs.' ib
Captain-Geneva! replied, " that he bad no,suetolent•3m.
seams, of his soldiers.-.be were accustomed As
mottoo, sod knew that they could -sot with •imptlnlij
dLa►ep any IPuti.callit *mien which he might give theta.'

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