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Married.] The Rev. Benj. Davies, rector of Stalisfield, to Mrs. Sarah Dobrce.

A. Thresher, esq. of Cliffe, to Miss Barn, of Boughton.

Robt. Buchanan, esq. of Canterbury, to Miss S. T. Wharrey, of Selby.

Mr. Hammerden Major, of Park House, to Miss S. A. Moore, of Langley.

Mr. H. Loud, of Herne, to Miss Finnis, of Dover.

Richard Edmeads, esq. of Wrotham, to Miss Taylor, of Plaxtol.

John Dudlow, esq. of West Malling, to Miss H. Simmons, of Yalding.

At Sandwich, Mr. C. Basden, to Miss E. Burtenshaw.

Died.] At Canterbury, 22, Mr. Edward Holness. 70, Mr. Cave.-38, Mr. Walter Mond. Mrs. E. Stapley.-Mrs. Mary Thweng.-70, Mr. Jolin Collard.-Mr. J.

W. Drew.

At Chatham, 72, Mr. W. Meers.-Mrs. Dodd.

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At Maidstone, Mrs. Mary Leary.-Mr. Neale, baker.-Mrs. Mitchell.-Mrs. Pine, of Ivy Hill. Suddenly, Mrs. Carless, wife of the late Jos. C. esq. a well known magistrate near Birmingham.

At Folkestone, Mr. John May.-Mr. Galloway.-49, Mr. Jolm Major.

At Margate, 82, Mrs. Chapman.-64, Mrs. Mary Dickens.*

At Ramsgate, 56, Mr. Foat. At Whitstable, 82, Mr. Carden. At Rochester, 77, Mrs. Busbridge, and two days after, 81, her husband.

At Dover, Mrs. Pilcher.-Mr. Johm Molland.

At Brompton, 63, Rear-Adm. Sandys. At Strond, 56, Thos. Hawkins, esq.-At Barham, 81, Jacob Sharp, esq.-Drowned at sea, 27, Mr. J. Surflen, of Margate.-At Sanding, of a malignant fever, three children of one family.-At Middle Dean, 95, John Cannon, esq.-At Wrotham Platt, Mr. John Burnett.-At Hoath, 65, Mr. T. Percival. At Dunchurch, 69, Mr. Richard Francis, of a broken heart, occasioned by legal oppression.-At Bodding, 26, Mr. John Luck. At Barnjet, 59, Stephen Amherst, esq. much lamented.--At Ashford, Mrs. Godfrey.-At Dandelion, Mrs. Staines. At Charing, 68, Mrs. S. Tutty.

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At Sydenham, Geo. Prior, esq. many years an inhabitant of that village. The deceased (who was greatly attached to horti cultural pursuits and to the training of ornamental trees,) had ascended a pair of high steps for the purpose of pruning a tree which hung over a deep fish-pond in his garden, when one of the branches, only half cut through, suddenly breaking, he was precipitated into the pond, and lost his life before he could be got out. He was about 75 years of age, a gentleman of considerable fortune and great respectability; and the neighbourhood have lost in him a valuable member of society, his family a

cheerful and affectionate friend, and the poor a generous and constant benefactor.

SUSSEX.

Married.] Mr. Gilbert, to Mrs. Read, both of Chichester.

At Brighton, T. G. Babington, esq. son' of T. Babington, esq. M. P. for Leicester, to the Honourable Augusta Julia, fourth daughter of Sir G. N. Noel, bart. of Exton Park, and Baroness Barham.

Died.] At Arundel, Mrs. Haynes, occa sioned by fright at St. George's-fair fire. works.-Mrs. Morley.

HAMPSHIRE.

The Portsmouth Telegraph abounds in nctices which indicate the speedy return of the navy to a peace establishment. To curtail the public expences by every possi ble means ought now to be the unremitting endeavour of patriotic ministers. The last great expense will, we trast, be the proposed naval gala or royal review at Spithead, of fifty sail of the line, in presence of the foreign potentates who are about to visit England.

Married.] Major-general Sir Thomas R. Dyer, bart. to Elizabeth, daughter of the late James Standerwick, esq. of Ovington House.

W. Paxton Tervis, esq. to Sophia, only daughter of the late J. Kneller, esq. of Donhead-Hall.

Mr. T. F. Gilbert, artist, of Portsmouth, to Miss Snelling.

At Sopley, Mr. Edward Sabine, to Mrs. Daman.

Mr. J. Beck, of Gordleton Mill, to Mrs. Ann Dale, of Passford Farm, near Lymington.

Died.] At Portsmouth, in King's-Terrace, Mrs. Ferguson, wife of Capt. George Ferguson, R. N.-84, Mr. W. Grey, of Lake-lane, many years a resident of Gos port. Mrs. J. Cuzens, of Cumberlandstreet, Portsea.-87, Mrs. Pearce, relict of the late W. P. esq, of Marlborough House.

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Somerset-Dorset-Devon-Cornwall.

John, second son of J. Goodman, esq.
of Oare, to Sarah, second daughter of Ed-
ward Austin, esq. of Clapton.

W. Washbourne, esq. of Maningford, to
Miss Pinneger, second daughter of the late
B. P. esq. of Woodhill Park.

Mr. Walter Flower, son of Mr. John F.
to Miss Eliza Harris, of Salisbury.

Died.] At Devises, Mrs. Vaizey.-Mr.
John Lewis.-Mr. Rob. Whitchurch, young-
est son of John W. esq. of Salisbury.
Mrs. Phillips, wife of Mr. Hemy P. of
Bayton.

At Salisbury, Mr. R. Catehouse, auc-
tioneer, and many years first serjeant of
mace to the corporation. Miss Eliza P.
Fisher, second daughter of S. F. esq.

At Westbury, 82, Mrs. Jane Gibbs, the only surviving sister of the late Gainsford Gibbs, esq. of Heywood-house.-At Devizes, Mrs. Vince, wife of J. B. Vince, esq. Bellevue-house.--At Kingston Russell, Wm. Walter Raleigh, son of Sir Wm. Walter Yea, bart.-At Woodford, 37, Mr. Short, late of Allington.

At Mere Park, Wilts. Mrs. Collins, 28, R wife of Mr. H. Collins, jun. of Yeovil.

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The prices of the necessary articles of
life have materially declined in the western
counties. Veal, in Chard market, lately
sold for 4d. per pound. Beef and mutton
from 7d. to 74d. Pork 61d. Potatoes 2s.
a bag of three bushels; and best wheat 9s.
inferior samples 7s. 6d. and 6s. Butter 8d.
per pound.

Married.] At Bathwick Church, Major
Macan, of the Bengal establishment, to
Mrs. Oldfield.

Died.] At Keynsham, 62, Mr. Whippie.
Mrs. Acres, near Walcot church. At an
advanced age, Mrs. Ann Lacy, of Frome.
Her benefices were numerous, having be-
queathed the dividends of 20001. stock, for
the better provision of some poor women
in the alms-house in that town; and also
the dividends of 20001. stock to the other
poor
of the parish, payable on St. Thomas'
day for ever.-The Rev. John Palmer, of
Compton Pauncefoot.-Mr. Jas. Bence,
of the Crown Inn, at Kelston. He was ri-
ding home from Bath market, when the
horse threw him, and either trampled on
him, or kicked him.

At Kelston, 70, the Rev. Wm. Friend,
30 years a preacher in connexion with the
Independents.

At Bagborough, near Taunton, 88, Edward Jeffries, esq. formerly an eminent Blackwell-Hall factor, and some years treasurer of St. Thomas's Hospital, in the Borough. He was the respected chairman of the committee of protestant dissenters 'for obtaining the repeal of the Test Laws, from 1782 to 1792, during which period his name and labours were honourably associated with those of Priestley, Price, Kip

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pis, Lindsey, Towers, Russel, Dodson, and others.

At Bath, Edw. Sheppard, esq. formerly a clothier, of Frome.-Tho. Brooks, esq.J. Franks, esq. of West Harling Park, Nor folk, and of Isleworth, Middlesex.-In Sydney-buildings, 64, Mr. Barnard. In the Vineyards, the widow of Mr. Chas. Russell; grief for the loss of an only child accelerated the death of this amiable woman.-Mrs. Mary Collier, widow of the late T. B. C. esq.-65, Lieut.-Gen. Bonsou,

DORSETSHIRE.

Married.] At Broad Chalk, Mr. Edward Godwin, of East Stower, to Miss Sarah Randall, of Gurston Farm.

Died.] At Sherborne, greatly lamented, Mrs. Hilliar.-Mrs. Phillips, of Boyton, near Warminster.-Mrs. Tucker, wife of the Rev. J. T.-Deservedly lamented, Mrs. King, wife of Mr. J. K. of Leigh.

DEVONSHIRE.

The mayor, corporation, and principal inhabitants of Plymouth, have done themselves infinite credit by raising a fund, by subscription, for the relief of such English subjects, late prisoners of war in France, as may be landed at that port.

The annual sermon against cruelty to the brute creation, instituted by the Rev. HENRY BRINDLEY, was preached at the Cathedral this year by the Rev. Wm. Oxham.

Married.] Mr. Geo. Fitz, of Totnes, to Miss Michelmore, of Ashburton.

Mr. Jas. Palmer, of Martock, to Miss Ann Gifford, of West Lambrook.

The Rev. Edw. Edgell, of West Alvington, to Elizabeth, daughter of Robt. Wilson, esq. of Purton.

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W. Law, esq. solicitor, of Barnstaple, to Harriet, second daughter of the late John Bartlett. esq. of Whipton.

Jas. Williams, esq. capt. in the 11th regt. of foot, to Frances, youngest daughter of John Bartlett, esq.

At Plymouth, T. W. Fox, esq. to Eliza, daughter of the late Grigg, esq. of Plymouth..

Died.] At Exeter, Mr. Sansom, chinaman.-91, Mrs. Snell.-In the Close, Mrs. Eliott, widow of the late Ald. E.-At an advanced age, Mr. Wm. Floyde.

At Exmouth, 94, Mrs. Vasiter.—Susan, daughter of Sam. White, esq. of Plymouth. In St. Thomas's, Mrs. Mary Stoney.

At Dawlish, the Rev. Geo. Chapman, vi car of Michel Dever, in Hampshire.-Mrs. Lowe, post-office. Suddenly, at Tiverton, much lamented, Miss Eliz. Sweet.--At Honiton, 51, deeply regretted, Peter Gonllet, esq. late of Summerland-place.

At Sidmouth, 25, Miss Bucknell.-98, Mrs. Ann Stone.-76, Mr.Jas. Pixel, many years organist of Barnstaple.

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Henry Rundle, occupiers of mills near that town, were convicted of mixing their flour with white china clay, which it was proved they ground down for the purpose, and were fined 101. each. Upwards of a ton of this clay was found in one room in the mill, besides 12 bags of flour, adulterated with it. It is ascertained that, within the last two years, upwards of 200 tons of clay have been vended to the public, mixed with flour, and certainly nothing could be better calculated for their purpose; for when properly dried and pulverized, it equals in appearance the finest hair-powder, is quite soft to the touch, and not in the smallest degree gritty; neither has it any ill taste, but on the contrary improves the appear ance of the flour with which it is mixed. Finding the imposition pass so readily, they gradually increased the quantity which they mixed with the flour they sold, until at length-one-fifth, and sometimes one-fourth of the whole was clay.

The highly respected baronet, Sir J. Call, has announced his intention to reduce his rents to his tenants, in proportion to the decline in the prices of farming produce; and, on the same principle, the wages of his numerous workmen, by the fair and equitable ratio of the price of provisions.

Married.] At Helston, Humphry Grylls, esq. alderman of Helston, to Miss Mary Trevenen, daughter of John Trevenen, esq. mayor of that town.

Robert W. Fox, esq. of Falmouth, to Maria, daughter of Robert Barclay, esq. of Bury Hill.

At Helston, the Rev. C. Bryan, rector of Wollaston, to Ellen, only daughter of the late Admiral Kempthorne.

Died.] The Rev. Thomas Robinson, vicar of Saint Hilary, and rector of Meno. At Truro, John Messer, esq. 74, leaving 20,000l. to his relatives.

WALES.

Married] At Selattyn, J. W. Eaton, esq. of Lee-wood, Denbighshire, to Miss Lloyd, of Swan-hill, Oswestry.

At Llandewy, Radnorshire, Herbert Beavan, esq. of Clyro, to Miss Anu Jones, of Llowes.

At Llansanan, George Canning, M.D. of Denbigh, to Lucy Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Phillip Yorke, esq. of Erthig.

Died.] 52, Mr. Thomas Shaw, many years keeper of the hotel, Tenby.

At Brecon, the Rev. John Wilkins, rector of Disserth, vicar of Broyntliss, and one of the magistrates of that county..

Suddenly, 74, the Rev. James Donne, of Irelongoed, Radnorshire.

At Maes, Caio, 75, John Bowen, esq. His loss is sincerely regretted, and will long

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be severely felt by the neighbouring poor, to whom he was a constant and liberal benefactor.

The lady of William Ford Protheroe, esq. of Ely-place, London, and of Stone-hall, in the county of Pembroke.

At Aberystwith, 62, Miss Cotten, for merly of Tottenham; she had just arrived from France, after a confinement of eleven years, from which she was liberated by the Cossacks.

SCOTLAND.

Died.] At Glasnakilly, Isle of Sky, at the advanced age of 127 years, Mary Innes, formerly a servant in the family of Glasnakilly. She lived to see the sixth generation, and retained the use of her faculties to the last.

IRELAND.

Married.] Ralph Ward Reid, esq. of Clare-street, Dublin, to Eliza, second daughter of Joseph Atkinson, esq. of Welfield, and niece to Thomas Honeybourne, esq. of Woodhead, Staffordshire.

Died.] At Dublin, 76, the Earl of Belvidere.

INCIDENT AND DEATHS ABROAD.

The plague has re-appeared at Goza, Damietta, &c.

Died.] At Madras, W. J. White, esq. At Bayonne, Ensign W. H. Pitt, of the Coldstream Guards, eldest son of T. P. esq. of Wimpole-street.

At Arangoul, near Quilon, in the East Indies, Major John Philip Winfield, of the 2d battalion of 11th regt. native infantry. Not less unfeigned than spontaneous will be the sorrow of those to whom this truly excellent and worthy man was known; and while his friends have to lament his premature death, equally must his employers feel the deprivation the service has just sustained, in one of its brightest and most useful members. In testimony of the respect, esteem, and regard, in which his memory was held by the officers of his corps, a monument is to be erected by them at Shencottah, where his remains now rest.

At Canton, in China,32,William Crowder, esq. captain of the Hon. East India Company's ship Lowther Castle, second son of John C. esq. of Brotherton.

In Spain, his Royal Highness the Prince of Conti, at the advanced age of 80, being born on the 1st of September, 1734. The court of France, it is expected, will go into mourning for him.

At Tarbes, in the South of France, 28, Joseph Venable, esq. capt. 83d regt. foot, in consequence of drinking freely of cold water, when much heated.

In Bengal, Charles Mullins, esq. surgeon of the royal navy.

At Gibraltar, General Colin Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor of that fortress.

A pressure of Communications has compelled us to defer several valuable and even some promised Papers till our next. The increase in our circulation, produces an incrcase of Correspondents, without a corresponding increase of our pages,

THE

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. 256.]

JULY 1, 1814.

[6 of Vol. 37.

As long as those who write are ambitious of making Converts, and of giving their Opinions a Maximum of
Influence and Celebrity, the most extensively circulated Miscellany will repay with the greatest Effect the
Curiosity of thuseswho read, whether it be for Amusement or for Instruction.JOHNSON.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, on being questioned in regard to the cause of the inferiority of counterfeits and imitators
answered, that their being copyists was of itself a proof of the inferiority of their power, and that while they continued
to be so, it was impossible for them to attain superiority. "It was like a man's resolving to go behind another, and
whilst that resolution lasted, it would be impossible he should ever be on a par with him.'

Our usual Supplement will appear on the 1st of August.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

NORTHCOTE.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. I shall not however dwell upon this

SIR,

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Two years ago I discovered the comsesses the power of removing the paroxysm of Gout in a degree fully equal to the Eau Medicinale. Since that period, having satisfied myself by various experiments of the identity of the two medicines, I shall now avail myself of your widely cir culating Magazine to communicate to the public an account of this very important preparation.

The value of this information will be sufficiently obvious when it is recollected that many persons, particularly of the la. bouring classes of the community, are suffering from that species of gout to which the Eau Medicinale is applicable, who from its high price are unable to obtain it. Independant of this circumstance its introduction into general practice has been materially impeded by the unwilling ness of the profession to countenance a remedy whose preparation remains a se

cret.

It is foreign to the objects of this paper to investigate the merits or demerits of this principle; but I cannot avoid observing that, as we know nothing of the properties of a remedy, except so far as it produces certain sensible effects on the human body, we are in reality, for all useful purposes, as fully acquainted with the nature and properties of the empirical medicine as with those of the most recognized article in the Materia Medica. I do not assume too much when I say that, if the Eau Medicinale had been imported into this country as the juice of a foreign plant, without the usual appendages of quackery, it would have obtained. more universal confidence than it has bad the fortune to meet with. The profession, who alone are competent to the task, would then have taken more pains than they have hitherto manifested in investigating its real qualities, with a view to ascertain the precise limits of its application, MONTHLY MAG, No. 256.

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less to recommend the reciperienced its
beneficial effects--a cheap and easy way
of preparing it. However highly I may
appreciate its efficacy, when properly ad-
ministered, I am desirous of avoiding, in a
communication not strictly medical, any
detail respecting its application, because
it is too potent to be trusted generally in
the hands of the public. I am acquaint
ed with no substance more unmanageable
or more deleterious. I can affirm, from
much experience, that, if given in too
large a dose, or without attention to the
circumstances of the case, its employment
may be attended with consequences to
the patient of a dangerous nature.

The first hint which I obtained on this subject was derived from the writings of Alexander of Tralles, a Greek physician of the sixth century, whose book on Gout is one of the most valuable clinical records of antiquity. In his chapter on anodynes he remarks that some persons take a medicine called Dia Hermodacty lum, which produces an evacuation of watery matter from the bowels, attended with such relief from pain that patients are immediately able to walk. But, says he, it has this bad property, that it disposes them who take it to be more fre quently attacked with the disease.† He speaks also of its producing nausea and loathing

* In one instance it produced a most alarming transfer of gout from the extremities to the stomach, head, and howels, which continued a fortnight, and nearly cost the patient his life.

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loathing of food, and proceeds to describe the manner of counteracting its bad properties. The effects here described are so similar to those resulting from the exhibition of the Eau Medicinale, that I was led to hope it might be the same medicine, or at least that it possessed powers of the same kind. The Hermodactyl, the basis of the composition, was strong. ly recommended by Paulus Egineta as a specific for gout; and such was its reputation, that we are told by Quincy, it had obtained the significant name of Anima Articulorum-the soul of the joints. I was further encouraged to think favourably of this medicine, from its having formed a leading article in the most celebrated gout-specifics of every age. Two of these are, Turner's gout powder, and the Vienna gout decoction, the latter of which is so strongly recommended by Behrens, in the Ephe merides Nature Curiosorum. It is likewise a fact notorious to every practitioner acquainted with the history of his pro fession, that this root has, at different periods, obtained considerable celebrity in the treatment of gout, though its general use has, after a time, been suspended; but that the occasional want of confidence in its powers arose less from its inefficacy than its misapplication, experience enables me to affirm.

The hermodactyl of the shops has been considered by most writers on the Materia Medica, to be the root of the Colchicum Illyricum; but some recorded accounts of the poisonous qualities of the Colchicum autumnale, and the manner in which death had been produced by it, induced me to make my first trials with it, and my uniform success has rendered it unnecessary to make any change.

I directed a tincture to be made by infusing, for two or three days, a quantity of the fresh-sliced root of "Colchicum au

-tumnale, in proof spirits of wine, in the proportion of four ounces of the former, to eight of the latter. This tincture I employed in all my first experiments; but, as the efficacious parts of the plant

σόμαχον ἀηδῶς ἔχειν πρὸς τὰ προσφερόμενα σιτία.

The following is the prescription of the medicine referred to:-

Γραφὴ καθάρσιο το δὲ ἐρμοδακτύλο ἁπλεςατη. -Eppecdantúde deax. a. ViYYIBÉPENS Hε. D. πεπέρεως κε β αὐίσου κε.β ταῦτα πάντα μία δόσις. ει δε θέλεις ἐπι πλέον υπάγειν την γατέρα, προσμίγνυε σκαμμωνίας κε. δ. και ἀνύπως καθαίρει, καὶ ἀνωδηνες ποιες τις πάσχοντας.

Alex. Trallian, cap. xi.-nepi avad-vwv αντιδότων και φαρμακών καθαρτικών,

are soluble in water, or wine, either of these menstrua may be used; and, to produce a medicine more particularly resembling the Eau Medicinale in external circumstances, it is merely necessary to use good Sherry or Lisbon. I purchased the root at Butler's, in Covent Garden, but it may be procured at all the physical herb shops; and under the vulgar name of Meadow Saffron may be found in every part of England."

For medicinal purposes, a recent infusion of the fresh or dried root in water is equally efficacious. I have made extensive trials with this watery infusion, and have never been disappointed in its effects. I was led to employ the dried root, from observing its variable strength when fresh, in which appears to be much influenced by the we. her and the season of the year. After in, it contains a large quantity of water, but, on the contrary, after much sunny weather, the watery parts of the plant are evaporated, and the active qualities more condensed.

The dose of the tincture, whether it be made with water, wine, or spirit, should be the same, and should vary according to the constitution of the patient. Upon an average, we may fix two drams, or twe ordinary tea-spoonfuls, as the proper quantity for an adult.

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The wine of white Hellebore, has been supposed by some to be the French medicine. At a very early period of the promul gation of this opinion, I spared no pains to ascertain how far it was founded in fact. I have employed Hellebore in every possible form. In some cases it appeared to be possessed of efficacy, but a series of disappointments induced me to abandon it as a medicine, on which no dependance can be placed. In its mode of operation, it has some properties

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common with the Colchicum, or Meadow Saffron, but in its power of curing Gout it falls infinitely short of it.

It is proper to state, that my experiments have already been made in at least FORTY cases, followed by results of the most satisfactory nature, the pa. roxysms being always removed, and, in several instances, no return of disease having taken place after an interval of JOHN WANT. Surgeon to the Northern Dispensary, North Crescent, Bedford Square.

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