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SMALL-POX.

Bill, as amended by a Committee of the Hon. House of Commons, to prevent the Spreading of the Infection of the Small-Pox.

WHEREAS the inoculation of persons for the disorder called the Small-Pox, according to the old or Suttonian method, cannot be practised without the utmost danger of communicating and diffusing the infection, and thereby endangering, in a great degree, the lives of His Majesty's subjects; therefore, from and after the first day of August next, no medical practitioner or other persons shall inoculate patients for the small pox within the distance of three statute miles, from the utmost boundary of houses adjoining to each other, of any city, town, hamlet or village of the United Kingdom in which there are ten houses adjoining to each other, under the penalty of forfeiting fifty pounds for every such offence, to be recovered before two magistrates, upon the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, to be levied, in case of conviction, upon the goods and chattels of the offender; and half of such penalty shall go and be paid to the informer, and half towards the establishment of a fund for the relief of any poor person or persons who may happen to be taken ill of the infectious smailpox, in the parish in which such offence shall have been committed; and which fund shall be at the disposal of the clergyman and churchwardens or overseers of the poor of the said parish for the purposes aforesaid. And further, the words "small-pox hospital" or "pesthouse" shall be written or printed in large and legible characters, to be affixed upon some conspicuous part of the house or houses so employed in or occupied for that purpose, under the penalty of fifty pounds, to be levied and applied in like manner as herein before directed, for his, her or their neglect in doing

the same.

In case any person or persons shall be taken ill of the infectious small-pox in any city, town, hamlet or village in which there shall be ten houses adjoining to each other, then and in such case the person or persons so taken ill shall be removed by their family or télations as soon as he, she or they shall be deemed fit by a medical person so to be removed, at their own expence, or in case they are deemed incapable of bearing the same by two magistrates of the district, at the immediate expence of the parish in which they are

so taken ill; and which expence, together with all other reasonable charges, at the dis cretion of two magistrates of the district, shall afterwards be reimbursed by the parish or parishes to which such persons shall re spectively belong, to some convenient and proper distance, such distance to be settled and the district in which such case shall occur, appointed by a magistrate or magistrates of and there be taken proper medical care of, on pain of forfeiting, by the occupier of the house in which such person shall be taken ill, the sum of five pounds for every such offence, such penalty or penalties to be levied and applied in the same manner as hereinbefore directed by this act; and the master, mistress, or principal occupier of any house or houses where such infected person or persons shall be taken ill, or to which he, she or they shall be removed by virtue of this act, and all persons whatever in the United Kingdom having at any time the infectious small-pox in his, her or their house or houses shall cause the words " small-pox here," written or printed in large and legible characters, to be fixed on some conspicuous part of his, her or their. house or houses for so long as the infected person or persons shall actually continue within the same in an infectious state as a small-pox patient or patients, under the penalty of twenty pounds.

Every master or mistress or principal occupier of any house or houses situated within any city, town, hamlet or village in which there are ten houses adjoining to each other,, shall within twenty-four hours after the same shall have come to his, her or their knowledge, inform the churchwarden or churchwardens, or overseer or overseers of the poor of the parish in which such house or houses shall be situated, of such infectious small-pox being in his, her or their house or houses, under the penalty of ten pounds.

that no penalty or penalties contained in this Provided always, and be it further enacted, calendar months from the time of the party act shall be levied within the space of two which such penalty shall be incurred; and if or parties being convicted of the offence for the infect ous small-pox shall not have spread it shall appear to two or more magistrates that in consequence of any such offence, or neglect of any of the provisions or regulations contained in this act, but on the contrary that the communication of such infection shall have been effectually prevented by proper and sufficient means, then and in such case it shall be lawful for such justice of the peace remit the whole of any such penalty or peor magistrates and they are hereby directed to nalties, any thing in this act contained to the' contrary notwithstanding.

IMPROVEMENTS IN WESTMINSTER.

tavern, coffee-house, and twenty sets of chambers; the whole ground to be let on

A Report and Memorial of the Com-building leases, for 99 years, with suitable missioners for making Improvements in Covenants for building the houses, according Westminster, near Westminster-hall, and to the prescribed plan. The rent to arise the Houses of Parliament, presented to the from this ground they estimate at £1,066, 10s. Lords of the Treasury, has recently been per annum, deducting from which an equi printed by order of the House of Commons. valent for the interest of the Dean and It states the improvements which have already Chapter, estimated at £466, 10s. in the been made, and those which are proposed. event of a lease from them instead of a purThe former are sufficiently known. The chase, there would remain to the public amount of purchases made for the purpose of a net ground rent of £600. per annum, completing them is £102,314, 2s. 9d. worth, in present money, £15,000. in addition to which the value of old materials is estimated at £4000.

The temaining buildings and grounds which are proposed to be purchased, extend from the office of the Woods and Forests, in Great George-street North, inclusive, along King-street East, and by the Broad Sanctuary South, to the New Court House, and from thence West to Princes-street, with a proportionate depth. The estimated amount of the purchase of these buildings and grounds is £75,250, 2s. exclusive of £13,714. Os. 2d. for the freehold interest of the Dean and Chapter, but this latter sum subject to an arrangement with the Dean and Chapter of a purchase for a terin of years which would reduce the amount.

The total amount of receipts by the Commissioners, including cash from the Treasury, sale of old materials, and the rent of new coffee-houses, isstated at 110,210, 18s. 10d. The payments for purchases, and to trades men, surveyors, clerks, &c. £10,200, 10s. 2d. leaving a balance of £10, 2s 8d. Th outstanding demands for purchases, works, and other services, amount to £25, 068 6s. 3d.

The gothic alterations forming a front to the House of Lords meet with the most decided disapprobation; both in the House of Commous and out; it seems the author of these fantastic ornaments does not come forward to own them: suspicion attributes their origin to some lady's boudoir.

DIDASCALIA.

The Commissioners then proceed to state their plans for further improvement. The first of these is the building a new Exche quer behind the present buildings, and parallel to the River, for which purpose it would be necessary, in the first instance, to make good the line of ground next the River by an embankment. They suggest The two winter theatres have closed, and that if this plan is adopted, a convenient we have this month to notice the retirement opportunity might be found for concentrating from the stage of three actressess, two of whom within the precincts of such a building, we may denominate veterans of the theatric several public offices of importance, now ranks, Mrs. Mattocks and Miss Pope; scattered in different parts of the metropolis. they have been upwards of half a cenThey particularise the offices of the Com-tury on their respective stages, the former missioners for the reduction of the National Debt, Surveyor-General of Crown Lands, Woods and Forests, First Fruits Office, State Paper Office. They also suggest the expediency of transferring thither the College of Arms, and exchanging a new building for that purpose, for the scite on which the present College stands.

With respect to the appropriation of the ground to be purchased, they propose, in the first place, to give such a breadth to that part of King-street which points from the North Transept of the Abbey towards Whitehall, as may correspond with any future considerable enlargement of King-street (to clear the line of approach between the Banqueting-house and the North Transept). Upon the rest of the space between Great George-street, King. street, and the new Court-House, they propose there should be erected twenty-seven dwelling-houses of different rates, a large stable-yard, and a building to contain a

at Covent Garden, the latter at Drury Lane; both of them were excellent actressess, and have not left their equals behind them. The other is Mnie. Storace, who has held the situation of a first buffu, as the Italians call it, for some years; and whose acting on the English stage will not be missed, though her singing was of superior merit. It is said his Majesty has granted a pension of £200 per annum to Mrs. Mattocks.

Some contemptible uovelties have been brought forward for the benefit of several of the performers, which not being either for the benefit of the public or of common decency, we forbear to enumerate. The only favour they can expect from us, is silence.

We have received from a correspondent the following letter on ill-timed plays, and Napoleon's singing and dancing subjects, whom h permits to remain in London, which we insert with pleasure, as coinciding with our opinion.

nctwithstanding the authority of fashion, I cannot help admiring and even preferring "Rule Britannia," "Hearts of Oak," and some of the softer airs in Artaxerxes, and other admired English operas, when sung by a Billington, Dickons, Mountain, Braham, or Incledon, to all the dulcet Arias of a Metastasio, or of the more modern Italian writers. I incline to think too, that his lordship's observa tion has had the effect, in some measure, or checking that infatuated mania for every thing Italian, with which the higher classes had been

To the Editor of the Literary Panorama. Sir, I read with pleasure your last month's observations on theatricals; and indeed I think it of such importance that it cannot be placed in too strong a point of view: for if the grand object of the drama is, as our great bard has emphatically described it, "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, &c." the exhibition you mentioned must have a very sorry effect; and it redounds much to the credit of the sum mer minor theatres that some of their exhibitions, while their object is amusement, tend at the same time effectually to rouse the nation-infected. Perhaps the mischief is not conal spirit. If the sluggishness of our dramatic writers is such, that the managers must have recourse to pageantry and dancing for the entertainment of the public, surely there is matter enough in the Arabian Nights, the Tales of the Genii, &c. to supply the stage with stuff sufficient for pass-time, without having recourse to the selection of such historical facts, which, to say the least of them, evince a want of discretion in the managers; and, what I am more particularly afraid of is, that there is perhaps more in this than meets the eye;" for, although the managers have no other view in these exhibitions than the interest of the

theatre and the amusement of the public, yet may it not, in an indirect way, be the suggestion of some of the emissaries of that arch enemy of Europe (aye, and by his particular orders too), whose object ever was, and is, to sap the very foundation of British energy and British valour,-the only existing obstacles to his unbounded ambition? Indeed, who knows but the revival of that farce of our British Aristophanes," the Mayor of Garratt" owes its origin to some such cause?* I must join also, in deprecating the prevailing taste of such shews and gewgaws in the higher ranks of society, which now descends by gradation to the lower classes: what would our Shakespeare have said, had he seen an Italian scena exhibited among the enter tainments on the boards of a winter theatre? Surely such heterogeneous matter would have disgusted him, and would have given him a very mean opinion both of our taste and character. Indeed, when we see so many private concerts advertised for the benefit of such a number of Signors and Signoros, we cannot help observing, that degeneracy of British manliness, and' that incipient effeminacy, which are imperceptibly the precursors to apathy and ruin. And here I cannot but offer my thanks to a noble and learned lord, for the spirited manner in which he expressed himself in his high official situation against that prevalent false taste and character for the largo, grave, and adagio, so much in unison with my own humble opinion; for,

* The application will be easily made by the discerning.

fined to this; it may also have some influence on the politics of the Thuilleries ;these ladies and gentlemen are eagerly invited into the houses of the first families of rank and consequence in this country, which enables these visitants to behold every man in his true character; for, when John Bull becomes elated with the good things of this world, and speaks with that sincerity and openness of heart so congenial to his disposition, he exhibits himself in his true character, which we may reasonably apprehend these inspectors will on their return fairly or rather foully report to their master, who sition, abilities, and opinions, of the first will thus be made acquainted with the dispopeople in the kingdom. This notion may appear to some as carrying conjecture too far; but, when we consider the gigantic strides madein Europe by the machinations and craft* of our inveterate foe, to which I conceive he is more indebted for his successes than to his soldiery, surely it behoves us to be on our guard against every species of circumvention -Nor let it be forgotten, that the sly insinuations of these people may in some unguarded moment make a deeper impression on the minds of their hearers, vouth especially, than more laboured reasonings, and may issue in prejudices which the demonstrations of sound argument and the inductions of moral and patriotic suasion may fail of effectually removing.

Hoping, Sir, you will still keep a sharp look out after those underminers of our ancient characteristic patriotism,

I remain yours, *&c.

ANGLICUS.

* We know of an instance of his craft in espionnage in the person of a spy who was even protected by this country, while paid by the Corsican for looking after some of our literary characters: although this fellow was known to be a Septembriseur, yet he staid here till the purpose of his master was answered, when he departed, and now rolls in a coach amidst the luxury of Paris: for it is only the espions and the military that are well paid by the emperor and king.-Editor.

MONUMENT TO LOCKE.

MEDICAL REPORT OF ENDEAVOUR SOCIETY.

To the Editor of the Literary Panorama. Sir,-Notwithstanding the remarkable vicissitudes of weather which have prevailed during the last month, the general average of disease has continued to lessen. The most prevailing affections may be denominated Fever, affections of the chest, including Coughs, Asthma, Consumption, Inflamed Eyes, Bowel complaints, Water Brash (a very common complaint in Scotland), Rheumatism, Inanition, Insanity, Convulsions, and (in private practice also) Eruptive diseases, particularly of the face, and especially in females, a predilection which would, doubtless, have been readily excused by the fair subjects of attack; accidents, as falls, blows, &c. I proceed, Wounds, Tumours, and Bruises, from extertherefore, to the observations omitted in the last number, and remain, Sir,

To the Editor of the Literary Panorama. Mr. Editor,-With what grateful emotions does the enlightened mind contemplate its vast obligations to the benefactors of mankind? To those philosophers, scholars, and moralists, whose deep and laborious researches have so largely contributed to our mental culture? what secret stores of knowledge have they not unfolded? How many facilities of acquiring wisdom and science have they not furnished? How have they enlarged the faculties of the human mind? Grateful for the labours of such exalted characters, nations have vied with each other in doing them honor. What then is our surprise and regret, that the immortal John Locke, one of the greatest philosophersnal and best of men, that this or any other age or Country ever produced, is in the land of his fathers neglected, unhonoured, distinguished, by any mcnuinental pile. But can his name or his worth be forgotten? Or shall we be satisfied that the name of a Locke, should only be embalmed in our grateful recollections. That he should have been neglected for more than a century is at once matter of regret and astonishinent.

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To do justice to his exalted memory, and as a stimulus to others who labour in the mines of knowledge; and who are anxious for human improvement, to redeem the honour of our country, and prove to the enlightened world, our love of virtue, and sense of national obligations, at length we resolve to raise a monument to his fame. The committee for carrying into effect the above dignified object have through the channel of the newspapers published their intentions. Subscriptions of two guineas and upwards we understand will be received at the Literary Fund Office, the use of which has been generously offered to the committee for the purpose and where a model of the intended monument may be viewed by the public.

I am, Sir, Yours, &c. &c.

June 10, 1608.

AN ADMIRER OF LOCKE.

P.S. The committee have also signified that each subscriber is to have an elegant engraving of the monument, and that subscribers of five guineas shall be presented with a medal executed by the celebrated Mr Bolton of Soho, with the head of Locke, and on the reverse a representation of the monument : subscribers of ten guineas the same in silver.

Your's, &c.

New Kent Road,

C. PEARS

18 June 1808. My last Report (on CONSUMPTION) was concluded with saying that the observations made were founded on nature, and supported by the most accurate observers of her laws; Ishall therefore adduce some authorities to prove my assertion. Hippocrates says, in his 4th Aphorism, a slender and delicate diet is always dangerous in lingering diseases; and diet, reduced to extreme slenderness, is as full' of peril as extreme repletion (1). - Aph. 5. The sick may offend in a slender diet, and thereby grow worse. - Aph. 22. Diseases, which proceed from evacuation, are cured by repletion. Contraries are the remedies of contraries (2).-Celsus says (in his 15th Aph.) Hippocrates said, that he must needs succeed well in cures, that considers and understands such things as are common and proper (3).Aph. 38. Whatever is contrary to custom is hurtful, whether it be hard or no. P. 250.Aph. 24. In blood-letting, (!) the physician should not so much consider the age, as the

* Alternate and successive changes of heat. and cold, fair and cloudy, wet and dry. The thermometer (at a north window) has varied much-from 40 to 60. On the 17th, it was 5.3; on the 19th, 61-a rise of 8 degrees in two days. The barometer hasgenerally varied every three days.

(1) The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, and Sentences of Celsus, by Dr. C. J. Sprengell, 1. p. 4, 5.

We should be happy to receive any§. hints from our correspondents on the subject of the proper places for National Monuments, are our Churches the only places proper for such commemorations ?

(2) Sec. 2. p. 27.

(3) Ibid, p. 237. Aph. of Celsus.