The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-28

ioi hfs'i .o oo ao5 VT desouHi oI HIS great disrepute with the existing cabinet. lie had gone such lengths against them that there was no room for retfeating. But this could not apply to an anony- nous writer except iiiia iiiia the pfeeileeassen.. ot John Horne; and no other man in the kingdom could probably be point ed out whose situation would exactly meet the case but him. Mir. Horne had in great measure sacrificed lis char aeter with both parties, and he had for ieited the esteem, by the part he had taken, of some his best friends, iani- ly connexions, particularly that of his brother-n-law, Dr. Demainbray. a man of considerable influence at court. The condition of .Junius, therefore, as given by himself, accurately describes that of John Horne Tooke.
 We have with much hesitance come to believe in the reality of the awful and astonishing phenomenon, of the sponta- neous combustion oi tic tiiei iiu1zi;iii- iiiu1zii bud r, But itisequally unphilosophical to doubt against evidence, as to believe without it; and cases of it have now been so well established, as no longer 10 permit the existence of them to he denied. ln- temperance in the use of ardent spirits is supposed universally 10 be the predis- posing cause; the evolution of iniiama- ble gases, and probably of oxygen, the great supporter of combustion, into tic cavities of the body, is probably the proximate cause. The true nature of tie disease is yet to be settled. The following case is from the Kingston, Ga nada Gazette.-Kentuehsan.
 Spontaneous combustion, of Drunl- ard.~-Dr. Peter Sehoheld, in late ad- dress delivered at the formation Of q Temperance Society ii the toWhship Of Bastard, in the District oi Johnstown, in the province of Upper Canada, states 2 case of spontaneous combustion, which occurred in his practice. !" It is we'll authenticated, says the Doctor, that ma ny habituated drinkers of ardent spirit are brought to their end by what is called spontaneous combustion" By spontaneous combustion, l mean when person takes fire, as by an electric shock, and burns up without any cxter- nal application. Trotter mentions sev- eral such instances. One happenedun- der my own observation. 1t WAS the case of q young man, about twenty-five years old. He had been an habituai thinker for many years. l saw him a. bout nineo 'clockin the evening which it happened. He ewas them as usual, not drunk, but full of liquor. About elev- en the same evening was called to see him. found him literally roasted from the crown of his head to the soles oi his feet. He was found in blacksmith's shop, just across the way from where he had been. The owner all of a sudden, discovered an extensive light in hia shop, as though the whole building was in one general flame. He ran with the greatest precipitancy, ard on flinging open the door, discovered q man standing erect in the midst of widely extended silver coloured blaze, bearing as ne described it, exactly tine appearance of the wick of a burning candle in the midst of it's own flame. He seized him by the shoulder, and ]erked him to the door; upon which, the flame was instantly extinguished. There was no fire in the shop, neither was there any possibility of fire having been com municated to him from any external source. It was purely case ofsponta- neous ignition. A general sloughing soon came on. and his flesh was con suned Or removed iii iii tic tic dressing, siags, leaving the bones, and few of the larger blood vessels standing. The blood nevertheless, rallied around the l heart, and maintained the vital spark, until the thirteenth day, when he died, not only the most noisome, ill-featured, and dreadful picture that was ever pre- sentcd to human view; but his silrieks, his cries and lamentations were enough to rend the heart of adamant. He com plained of no pain of body--his flesh was gone. lie said , s.;sss the torments of henii; that he was just upon its threshold, and should soon enter it's dismal caverns; and in this frame of mind, gave up the ghost. o the death of drunkard! Well may it be said to beggar all description. l have seen otherdrunkards die, but never in moss- ner so awful and affecting. They usu- 1 ally go off as senseless and stupid as