The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

being coming in" as they call It chat
is, running WESTWARD, he reached the
land not till he came about the Falcon
stairs. where, landing and finding no peo-
pie there, it being in the night, he ran
about the streets there. naked as he was,
for good while, when, it being by that
time high water, he takes the river again
and swan back to the Still yard, landed,
ran up the streets to his own house,
knocking at the door, went up the stairs
and into his bed again; and that this ter
rIble experiment cured him of the plague
that is to say that the violent motion of
his arms and legs stretched the parts
where the swellings he had upon him were
chat is to say, under his arms and in his
groin), and caused them to ripen and
break; and that the cold of the water
abated the fever in his blood.
have only to add that / do not relate
this, any more than some of the other, as
a fact within my own knowledge, so as
that l can vouch the truth of them; and
especially that of the man being cured by
the eXtravagant adventure, which l con-
TESS l do not think very possible, but it
may serve to confirm the many desperate
things which the distressed people falling
into deliriums and what we call light-head-
edness, We're frequently run upon at that
time, and how infinitely more such there
would have been if such people had not
been confined by the shutting up of houses;
the only good thing. which was performed
by that severe method.
on the other hand, the complaints and
the murmurings We're very bitter against
the thing itself.
1t would pierce the hearts of all that
came by to hear the piteous cries of those
infected people, who, being thus out of
their understandings by the violence of
their pain or the heat of their blood, were
either shut in, or perhaps tied in their
beds and chairs to prevent their doing
themselves hurt, and who would make a
dreadful goutcry at their being confined,
and at their being not permitted to die
at large" as they called it, and as they
would have done before.
This running of distempered people
about the streets was very dismal, and
the magistrates did their utmost to pre-
vent it: but as it was generally in the
night, and always sudden, when such at
tempts were made, the officers could not
be at hand to prevent it; and even when
they got in the day the officers appointed
did not care to NEEDLE with them, be-
cause, as they were all grievously infect
ed, TO be sure, when they were come 10
that hight, so they were mort than ord-
narily infectious, and it was one of The
most dangerous things that could be to
touch them On the other hand, they
generally ran on, not knowing what they
did, till they dropped down stark dead or
till they had exhausted their spirits so as
that they would fall and then die in per-
maps half an hour or an hour; and, which
was most piteous to hear, they were sure
TO come TO themselves entirely in that half
hour or hour and then to make most
grievous and piercing cries and lamenia-
tions, in the deep affecting sense of the
condition they We're in. There was much
of 1t before the order for shutting up of
houses was strictly put into eXecuti IN;
W9fphmpn
rigorous and severe as they were after
ward in the keeping the people in; that is
to say before they were q mean some of
them) severely punished for their neglect.
failing in their duty, and letting people
who were under their care slip away or
conniving at their going abroad, whether
sick or well. But after they saw the off,
GERS appointed to examine into their con-
duct were resolved to have them do their
duty, or be punished for the omission,
they were more exact, and the people were
strictly restrained: which was a thing
they took so ill., and bore so impatieutly,
that their discontents can hardly be de-
Scrtbed; but there was an absolute neces-
sity for IL, that must be confessed, unless
some other measures had been timely en-
tered upon, and it was too late for that.
Had not this particular of the sick be-
ing restrained as above been our case al
that time. London would have been the
most dreadful place that ever was in the
world. There would for aught l know
have as many people died in the streets
as died in their houses; for when the lis
temper was at its hight it generally made
them raVing and delirious; and when they
were so they would never be persuaded
to keep in their beds but by force; and
many who were not tied threw them
selves out of windows when they found
they could not get leave to go out of their
doors.
But WIN am speaking of the plague
as distemper arising from natural
causes, we must consider it as it was re-
ally propagated by natural means. Nor is
it at all the less a judgment for it's being
under the conduct of human causes and
effects; fer as the divine power has form
ed the whole scheme of nature and main
tains nature in its course, so the same
power thinks it fit to let his own actings
with men, whether of mercy or judgment
to go ON in the ordinary course of natu-
raj causes, and he is pleased to act by
those natural causes as the ordinary
means, excepting and reserving to him
self, nevertheless. power to act in "A SUI
pernatural way when he sees occasion.
Now 1t is evident that. in the case of an
Infection there is no apparent extraordi-
nary occasion for supernatural operations
but the ordinary course of things appears
sufficiently armed and made capable of all
the effects that heaven usually directs by
contaglon Among these causes and ef-
fects, this of the secret conveyance of
infection, imperceptible and unavoidable,
is more than sufficient to execute the
fierceness of divine vengeance, without
putting it upon supernaturals and mira
Giles.
The acute, penetrating nature of the dis
ease itself was such, and the infection
was received so imperceptibly, that the
most exact caution could not secure us
while in the place. but 1 must be allowed
to believe-and l have so many examples
fresh in my memory to convince me of it
that think none can resist their evidence
4 say, / must be allowed to believe that
no one In this whole nation ever received /
the sickness or infection but who received
It in the ordinary way of infection from
somebody, or the clothes or touch, or
stencil of somebody, that was infected be-
fore.
The manner Of its first coming to Lon
don proves this also. viz. by goods
brought over from Holland, and brought
thither from the Levant; the first breaking
of Il out in a house in Longscre where
these goods were carried and first opened;