The Sun. — 1814-11-14 (London, England)

POISON.  lst,—NVlen the preparations of arsenic, mer' cury, antimony, or of any metal, or When any unknown substance or matter has been swallowed, and there have speedily.ensued heat of the mouth and throat; violent pain of the stomach; retching and vomiting—immediately drink plentifully of warm water; ivith common soap dissolved, or scraped_ in it. Two -or three quarts of warm.. water, with from three or four ounces to half-a-, pound of soap., will not be too nmb. 24,-.-When any of the preparations of opium, henbane, nightshade, hemlock; ntobacco, fox glovv, stramonitun-, or any poisonons fungus,. mistaken•for mushrooms, or spiritoos liquors in ,excess, or any other unknown matters have been swallowed, exciting,siekness without, pain of the, stomach, or produciug-giddiness, drowsiness, or sleep—give instantly one table7spoonful of flour, .of mustard in water,, and repeat it in. copious. draughts of wa,rm water. constantly, until vomit-. ing takes place. If the person becomes so insensible ds not to be easily roused.--”give the mustard. in vinegar instead of water, and rub and shake* the body actively and incessantly. 3d.,--;-When oil of vitriol, .spirits of salt, or aquafortis,- have been swallowed, or spilt upon; ,the skin—immediately-drink, or. wash the part witk:large:quantities of water, and as soon as they can procured, 'add soap, 'or potash, or chalk, to the water. •  On the morning of the 9th, part of the 13th Light Dragoons disembarked at Cork and proceeded for 'Fermny, -where they are to be ta...-.tioned. The Derby militia marched into Pl7mouth to do garrison duty•on Thursday last. 'On Wednesday last, an English family or dig tinction passed through Exeter from Lisbon, ontheir way to London ; it was their original intention to have returned ' through Spain and France, but they were inforned' that it was intpossible to take that route, without incurring the most imminent danger of being assassinatd on the road; as the part of Spain they most: have travelled in was every where infested with banditti, disbanded soldiery, and various despera. does, disaffected to the new Government ; who not only robbed, but murdered every stranger the met with. They represent FERDINAND as very unpopular, and that numerous armed bodies were collecting in every direction,' which indicated that civil insurrections were premeditating,—(Salisbury Journal.)  A person of the name of WILKINSON, belonging to the Custom-house, undertook, on Saturday morning, for a considerable wager, to run 8i— miles within the hour. The ground he chose was on Blackheath. He started about eight o'clock, andootwithstanding the unfavourable weather,he performed the distance in fifty-six minutes and forty seconds.  following anecdote is quoted as a proof of the gaiety and harmony, which prevails among the Sovereigns at Vienna :—No sooner had the Emperor of RUSSIA, Kings of RaussiA and BAVARIA, obtained Austrian regiments, than they transmit , ted to the Emperor a petition for the prolongation of their leave of absence. The King of DENMARK presented the request. The Emperor of AUSTRIA, smiling at this pleasantry, wrote at the bottom of the paper—Placeat. A Member of the' Common Council of Dublin having asserted that some of the brewers used poisonous and deleterious drugs in their beer, all the brewers of that city have come forward -with affidavits before the Lord Mayor, in Which they swear that they Lse nothing but malt and hops, without any poisonous or deletereous ingredients whatever. Similar insinuations have been often thrown out against the London brewers, but they have never repelled the accusation in this way.