"Yes, it has been imported. "Yes, I repeat it a thousand times, it is contagion. Let it be hoped that the facts which we have accumulated will enable us to master the partizans of a contrary system. "Yes; the fever is a hundred times more pernicious to commerce than the most rigorous quarantine would possibly be. With only five. days' good police and firmness, both Barcelona and its commerce might, humanly speaking, have been preserved, even on the avowal of the anti-contagionists of this country. But what has been the fact? They wrangled, they disputed; the scourge entered, raged, proved fatal, and nobody knew how to remedy it. Hence all labour, all industry, all prosperity, is extinct for a long time. The heart itself has partaken of this depravity. The father shuns the presence of his children, and there is an adieu to every feeling of humanity! Oh, that the administration were unceasingly vigilant, and did not tamper in this amalgamation of follies and iniquities! "The other day it was announced to the municipal junta, that in the Calle Romada there was a shut. up house, whence there issued an of fensive stench, and where an infant was heard crying time after time. The Alcaldes at length repaired to the dwelling; and, when the door was opened, there was found the body of a man disfigured greatly by the yellow fever, who appeared to have been dead about four or five days. Near the deceased lay the body of a dying woman, in a like manner disfigured by the disease; and upon her was found an infant at the breast, who, tormented by hunger, was feeding, as it cried, upon the body of the mother! "An inn, which had fifteen travellers, lost eleven by the fever; while the adjoining house lost twenty-four out of twenty-seven. "At Tortosa, the bishop and his family are all dead, and the episcopal palace remains empty. "Whole congregations and fraternities in convents are dead; houses are swept of their inhabitants, and the streets are nearly deserted. "All the secretaries of the municipality are dead. "All the physicians, with a single exception, are also dead. "All the apothecaries, too, excepting one gentleman, have died.” More particulars of the fever.-Dr. DALLY, Physician to the Princess of CONDE, writes from Barcelona, the 10th instant, as follows: "The fever continues its ravages. The weather is delightful, and it is difficult to reconcile the prevalent disease with so serene a sky and an atmosphere apparently so pure. Though the town is invested, the healthy and convalescent have permission to walk in a circuit of two leagues. The number of deaths cannot be correctly ascertained. They are reckoned by some at 12, and by others at 15,000. The calls upon us to attend the sick are incessant, and increase every hour."-Moniteur of the 15th November. Fever in Minorca.-The yellow fever rages in the island and in the Lazaretto, with increased violence; the mortality in consequence is very great; this must account for my not answering your last letter. We have had no packets from Spiin for upwards of two months, owing to this cruel disorder. Upwards of eighty vessels of different nations are now under quarantine at this port; not one but has lost some of its crew, and a few without a single person remaining on-board. A family, within a few doors of my house, has been attacked with this dreadful malady, one of the members of which was carried off in twenty-four hours, the remainder sent to the infirmary, and the door of the infected house walled up. Several other places are surrounded by a cordon of soldiers to prevent, as much as possible, the disorder from spreading, although I much fear this will not have the desired effect. I leave you to judge what must be our feelings in such a criti cal situation, more particularly after having escaped the terrible plague which raged in Tunis, in the years 1785 and 1786, which was calcu lated to have carried off 150,000 souls, where I had also the plague in my own house.-Extract of a letter dated Mahon, Oct. 3, 1821. Cholera Morbus in the Island of Java. - From accounts officially communicated it appears, that in general the Cholera Morbus, in the Island of Java was diminishing very considerably. From the Reports received from some of the Residencies it is to be observed, that many persons have been recovered by a timely use of what is called the Cholera Mixture, consisting of brandy, laudanum, and oil of peppermint; and, in consequence, thousands of the natives have eagerly applied to the local authorities for this remedy. Our papers contain the detailed reports for the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22d, and 29th June, and 21st July. The following extracts will shew the decrease of the number of deaths daily in the principal places: - THE Bantan not known ditto 74 59 38 155 137 280 not many 80 not many 24 . The total numbers stated in the several Reports are as follow; but it must be observed in each of the Reports the number of deaths in some places are stated not to be returned, in others to be inconsi derable. Progress of the Contagion in Spain.-Letters were received in town on the 17th of November from Gibraltar, Barcelona, Cadiz, &c. to a late date. The accounts of the fever are as distressing as ever. The city of Barcelona, as well as Barcelonetta, continued to be in a most dreadful state. The cordon of troops between those places had received a fresh reinforcement, and the severest punishment was denounced on persons attempting to evade the restrictions imposed by the Civil Authorities and Medical Boards. The ravages of fever at Tortosa were equally extensive. Up to the 11th of the last month there had been upwards of 400 deaths in that city numbers were lin. gering in a doubtful state, and the great bulk of the population had left their homes and sought refuge in the interior. We regret to find it confirmed by the present advices, that the Balearic Islands had also been visited by the fever, and were now suffering beneath that awful Scourge. Cholera Morbus in Bavaria.-By the arrival of the ship Middleburg, off Plymouth, from China and Batavia, which latter place she left on the 27th of July, letters have been received in town of the most melancholy description. They state that no less than seventeen thousand of the inhabitants had been carried off by the cholera morbus. The rice crop had failed, and in consequence the government had prohibited all exportation. Its price on-board-ship was 27, and on shore 244. The coffee crop was very abundant, but from the dreadful malady now raging, a want of hands was experienced to pick it. New Barometer.-Mr. BARTH, of Strasburgh, has published his discovery of a barometer, which is to announce every change of the weather thirty hours before it happens, and to give notice of thunder storms twelve hours before they occur. Fasting for three Days in an Infant.-ON Tuesday morning, the 30th November, a child about eighteen months old was left standing at its parent's door, at Four-mile-house, near Newry, while the mo. ther was employed in some domestic matters. In a short time the anxious parent returned for the infant, but she could not find it, after a most diligent search. The alarm being then given, the people in the neighbourhood commenced a wider and stricter search on the days of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, without success. It was then supposed that the infant had been stolen, and the distracted parents were on the eve of advertising it, but late on the evening of Thursday, the 1st inst. the child was accidentally discovered lying in the furrow of a potatoe-field, a short distance from the house, alive, and apparently little the worse for lying out without food, and scarcely any clothes, for nearly three days, and two most inclement nights. -Newry Telegraph, Aerolite.-THE Paris papers mention, that the stone which fell from the clouds on the 23d of June, at Javinas, in the department of Ardeche, is now exhibiting to the public. Several amateurs have made proposals for purchasing this wonderful stone, which has excited great speculation among naturalists. An English mineralogist has, we understand, offered a considerable sum for it. Organic Remains.—THE petrified remains of a very large marine animal have been found in a quarry on the top of a hill near Bromyard. They were unfortunately removed from the quarry by the workmen, broken to pieces, and carried upon the roads in the neighbourhood. Only a part of them have, in consequence, been preserved, yet sufficient to show that the animal to which they once belonged must have been one of no common kind or size. It appears to have lain on the surface of a free-stone rock, and was covered by a thick stratum of yellowish-coloured marle. Never was the petrifying process more complete: the different pieces are literally masses of stone, only distin guishable as the parts of an animal by their exterior form. Antiepileptic Powder.-A Dutch Baron, residing at the Hague, has of late years enjoyed no mean degree of celebrity from the invention of a powder, the composition of which is kept a secret, said to be an infallible cure for epilepsy. Not only are the Dutch, and people from other parts of the Continent, said to have experienced the wonderful effects of this nostrum ; but a British nobleman of high rank, who has resided in that country, acknowledges to have been completely cured by the said powders, within the last year or two: and another nobleman, of more tender years, has since journeyed to Brussels, for the express purpose of putting himself under the care of the Baron, and of giving a trial to the antiepileptic powders. We have obtained possession of one of the powders, and intend analyzing it. The public shall have the benefit of our inquiry, should it lead to any satisfactory result. The Baron is certainly thus far different from other venders of secret medicines, that his powder is totally bereft of all those alluring adjuvantia to puffing-the pink and green ornaments which shine so conspicuously in the shops, even of the regular chemists of this metropolis. For the antiepileptic powder is, tout bonnement, put up in a piece of coarse brown paper. A new Gum-Resin.-Mr. LAMBERT, of Lower Grosvenor-street, the well-known botanist, and one of the vice-presidents of the Linnean Society, has committed to our charge for examination, a new gum from Guiana, sent to him by a medical gentleman in the island of St. Vincent, who states, that the native Indians of that part of the new Continent use it in fumigations for coughs and other pulmonic complaints, with success. The gum is the produce of a large tree growing on the mountains of the inland parts of Guiana, and is probably a species of amyris. The gum itself is called by the natives, akyari; it has a resinous appearance externally, and is electric. The mass we have, and which we purpose to submit to chemical examination at our earliest convenience, is neatly enveloped in leaves of a species of musa. Juridical Medicine.-A countryman and his wife, near Perth, who were in the habit of dipping the eggs intended for market in a solution of vitriol, to whiten them, and give them a fresh appearance, had a dispute a few days since, when the husband attempted to throw a bottle of vitriol at his wife. She intercepted it with her hands, by which the bottle was broken, and the contents thrown back in the face of the husband, who has been blind ever since, and will never, in all probability, recover the use of his eyes.-Glasgow Chronicle. Infanticide. Recently an inquisition was taken at the Unicorn, in Covent-Garden, before THOMAS HIGGS, esq. on the body of a fine male child, who was found murdered in Covent-Garden market. Henry Hunt deposed that he lived with Mrs. Grimley, herborist, in the market. On Wednesday evening a man, who was a stranger, came to the shop, saying, there was an infant lying dead on the ground at the back of Mr. Cook's room, in the market, and requested him to get a light; he did so and went to the spot, where the child was disco. vered wrapped up in a cloth, suffused with blood. It appeared to have been dead about three days. Information was given to the parish officers, and the body was conveyed to the watch-house. Dr. Morris, of Chandos-street, described the situation of the child. It had received six blows; three were on the temple and three on the breast, and had, in his opinion, been inflicted by a red-hot poker, which caused its death. He had no doubt it was born alive, and was a remarkably full grown child. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. A coroner's inquest was taken at Old Hurst, Hunts, on a cottager's child two years of age, who had been accidentally killed by a pocket. knife, which it held in its hand. The child was running across the sitting-room, when a projecting brick caught its foot, and in falling, the knife entered its throat under the auricular glands. -Lincoln Gazette. DR. BANCROFT.-Lately died at Margate, aged 76, Dr. EDWARD BARTHOLOMEW BANCROFT. This gentleman was bred to physic, and being admitted to his degrees, was, when young, physician to the army. In this capacity he resided for some time in the West Indies, and was afterwards a member of the College of Physicians. He was the author of several useful works, among which is "An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, in South America," 8vo. 1769. He did not confine himself to books on his own profession; but, in 1770, he pub lished "The History of Charles Wentworth," a novel, 3 vols. In 1794, "Experimental Researches concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours, and the best way of producing them by Dyeing, Calico-printing, &c." of which an enlarged edition was published in 1813, and it is a work held in high estimation by manufacturers and experimental philosophers; also "An Essay on the Yellow-Fever." Dr. B. entered into the dispute respecting the military inquiry, and |