The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-08-20

that this country ever exhibited. On the hsf
alarm, without waiting FIR the evidence OF any
fpecifr contagion, ar any clearer proofthat TIE
diteafe was.likely TO fTrcad and become general.
our lawyers took rr1sa!ures 70 Induce the Supe-
rior Court TO adjourn their fcfiion till Noven-
berthe Preiidcnt of the College took alarm
and difmiilei the Gtuirnts. The teachers of
lchools followed the example while number
of our principai citizens took meafurcs TO re-
move their fuuics to- the country, and fomc OF
them a6 .i;ilIy removed. Thefe PROCEEDING a
harmed the country, and all intcrSourfe with
Newhaven wasinlerdided by New-York, Ph;-
ladeIphia, and Bolton. At the end of about ten
days, or two weeks, the few perfons i'll Of ma
liguant fever die, or recover, ahdthe difeafe be-
comes extinef-Atthis moment rot a Jingle cafe
exits. Here we are without buhnefs, or. COM
pany but with universal heaith--and nothing
to do but procure proviiions for hungry mouths.
"If you with for the fources of this difeaft, it
may be anfwered, that they appear to ne war;
Gus and dif1ntt. The firTt cafes otcurred in a
family remote from the wharf, in married NO.
man, and an elderly lidy, neither Of whom had,
TO their knowledge, been expofed to any ihfec-
tiops caufe. The third cafe WAS in the fame
Family, in young woman who had, Steen
| days before. been with a party on board tie
Coriclia, loop which had been employed rs
a packet, between Char!eaon and Savannah,
and which arrived here the 2otI, June. But the
teftimony of the matter aud mate, who ARE men
Of credit, is, hat no Gek perron had been on
board during the winter aud io,;ng paf, nor I've
fore their arrival. This evidence is corrobora-
ted by this fact, that the Hoop brought II or IS
paileneers from Savannah 70 New-York, and
all in health. 70 that they were admitted to land
without any delay. There appears not the
iIehteit pretence, therefore, to charge the evil
upon the Cordoba. -- ..r- .'s
Three of our citizens, who were m New
York the frtf or feccnd week in Iu,v. were iliz-
ed with the fevernearly at the fame time. Two
Of them went and returned in the Cordelia
with feyeral other patiengers. On the return
| paiiage, a man was taken on board who had
been i'll of fever, hut whether an inf Sfous fe-
Yer ut not, is not kcown. He riid he had been
affected with the fever and asue. and had rode
from Baltimore in the hsge. The ctIseY iiiaii
who had been in New York. went and returned
w another vchel, never fuppoied to he foul; but
he WAS as ievereiy handled by the eiiieafe as any
| OF the three. --..--.t-.'
Sc The cufom houfe officer who died, had
! been on boarh the flip Mohawk aud the Lria
| James, from the Weft-Intlies But his caG. WA.
anomalous-he was equity; and for a remedy
had bathed his feet in cold water, after having
them covered with wooden focks. His phyiiciar
did not fufpect his difeafe - be the malignant
FEVER VII the Gay ne uicd, at ieat 10 an, nfor
med 1t however appeared then to af1ime tn.
character of that diteafe, bui no peIion took
| diteaft from min. - ~ 80 2 ~
I" Three or four perfons who were employed
on the wharf, or near it, in the vicinity OF the
brig James. have been Affected. Two of then
died. This has led to :, iufbicion that the br;a
was rot clean vehel, yet the facts are hardly
fnficent TO decide the cafe with certainty. 'Sev
eral attacks of fever, one Of them fatal ore
arc 10 be traced TO no caufe but executive fatigue
One cafe occurred in gentleman who left n
Carolina or days before his feizurc. Inftc.
ton has appeared to caufs dfeafe in four Or five
cafes; but tLofe patients who have been in open
airy rooms, web attended, have not COMMUNE
Gated the diGeafe to any perfon.
" For feveral days pat, no new cafe has or
Cured, and there is reafon TO believe the dfeaft
extinct.
I" Such are the facts, as they appear from my
perfpna inquiries of the iick, or of their fami
lies, and of Others concerned. have not relic,
on popular rumour. for long ago difcoveret
that not the. fnalleR reliance can be placed OF
common report" d4er. A4v.