"Seo ic i nt a. * THP. Poor v. ho may find fc inconvenient, froih J ma'tc use of Mr Htfuyen's truly me*' ritnrioKs oC-i\ w'fi he s;ppU«;t with ItleAiciues — f.»o, barley, &c. Ivy as>-lyir>B ac the p, ftobf'.'tMwSr'S ftorc, No. -,i; riTflrkcMltcet. R.OBEK 1' S. STAFFORD. The Ileitlth-OffiriT ~ l*-r*re<rwd so the City-H£H, a>ud. S* kept open r.ifht aAd-day, where person* having bufin f»l«ay . W.M. ALLE>J,Health-Officer. 7 11 'f ( .r,,j 4 . dtf It TOTI c k. e of Vhe DepritWntgf VTar arc tV.c pr ft > t r :~: ov<?u near to iHri Fal.s of the Scuyl- U\\l, Ml . r r.n K iv.oc £o*A» - r a' . _ • - : I \NroRMS her frrflida,#nJ the public id general, a { t' -. 1 u r Honte; N*. Matket-lireet, con til-Hie o(.<:n during the fieknef*. Lodging in 5 fepa-ate room, ten C( -r ' in a double room, eigkt dollars. tt For tW convenience ol thctfe gentleman who ha<c nsf (lv-ir kiTmiies in totvn, Mrs. ©rattan > will rec.-ivc i entlemen to dine at half a pOtUR « '«y. . * f; ij': ra nt#Compafts'df^scri.b A mer ica. r ~j ""filE 'Stoekholdert ill this eompfcfy are here- X try informed, tint, pursuant to the fifth tllauCcnf their Charter. and >t the request ol a f< " pronator* of Six Thousand SJians, and up wares," a fTenet-al meeting of '.h? Stockholders 'will lie held at che Company's OlJ.ee, on Mon- . ti.iy tiifc 25th day ot September next, at 11 o'clock, A. m. fAr the purpose of filling up a vacancy in their Direction ; and taking into conilijt rati/»b ftfch fteenlatiors or Bye Lavs as c luiy be prt'l'ented in conformity witfy the Char- ( t«i of Incorporation. c 'EBEN. HAZARD, Sefry. f July 10. W&ftSa j j ~ Rofs & Sim fort, , HAVE tOK SALE \ r Eicellent Coffee in < Tierces, and t. Psrrel«. A irr -.-11-arcel of nice tccoa in bai'3 ' \ few puncheon- jafr.nica spirits, fourth pract ' ?uperi#r Teneriffee wine,*old and in ■ An invoice of jewellery and hosiery t» be fold by the package a few liampefs bell EnglMh chetfe. July 27. j_ 1 Imported iiTthe latcfl arrivals from Afiilfcrdam and Mamburp, 'and torfale by B. J. Bohlen, A large ajforttoent of fine* French Cambrics, Platjllas KuflEa mid Dutchlailcloth Brittannias , Wiitirg, post, and priht» Rotianes ing paper Brbwn Holland I)n f ch calf (k!n« ChecksVnd llrij>es Prim? madder Tickle'ihurgs SbellM 3arley Cznaburge Looking'g'affes XVhite Iheetings Hollow glafc wire reaper Slates Brown rolls Coffee mills ■ Ijmbrcllas Brass kettles H vr ribbons Scythes and straw knives JBlack and white laces Toys afTorted in boxes Bell Ilollind Gill in pipes London partifurar Madeira Wine July 14. Higgins* Specific FOR TH» PREVENTION AND CURE 9F THE YELLOW f EVER. 17* VER since this difcjfe m:.de such ravages in (his j -J city and New- v ork; the author has turned his 1 attention to its cause' and cure —The result of his enquiries has convinced him that the reafor why so Jew persons recover f om its attack", are {rum its not being well undet.lood, and the confcquerit v.rong method taken so cure it. He is.perfuadcd ' that the exceflive bin digns and mercurial reatmer.t of the Faculty is irjurious, and that the on ly rationahnode oftreatment ishy ufe of prop :i < acids. CoTvince '</ this he offers his Specif' as a certain rsmetiyjif used according to the d're<slions. To be had in bottle.', at one dollar each, of the invcntfcr Cjov Cherry street, two doors a t)6*e Kiwtli ftre'er, (lat» manager of JacUoh and Co's Medicine V'Wc+TOfiß, London); by J. Le- Hauc, No. 2' ft W. Griffith, No* 77, T. Purer, No. ii. SoiS'fh Third street, T. Stiff, No. ftrfct, near Vir e £lreet> and j• No. 36, Race street. Aug. 25. tuths COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, and CONSUMPTIONS. Jutl received, by Wm. ORirFrrus,N«. I?7,South .Seeond-ftreet, f. frefli supply of Genuine Bal/atn of Honey, A Medicine invented by the late Sir John Hill jTi. (wko knowledge as a Botandt procured him the appcliVton ef the Linnieus of Britain) and is •onfidered in England a,? a certain cure for the above cpmplaints ) it is aLso of singular cfficaay in th« Hooping Cough, It mayalfobe had retail of W. A. StoSHs.No. 61, South Second street, and T. STitr,' jJ. New ilreet, in bottles at 7 j cents each. Wm. Griffiths having observed the happy et fedl of the medicine, (several cases of etires hav-. jag come within his own knowledge) and the greaft demand Y for it has induced him to order a fupp'y, a part of which he has just. received. \ Augufij,. " iawjw At" a Meeting of the Board o£ ■ , Property, Ju;ie/i, 1797, PrefcrU John Hall, Sce'ry. Francis Johnfton, It. O. >oflandoffice * Din. Brodhead, S. G- J Nicholas Bcttinger, ■vcrfus V Ssmuel Cunningham.) : Il»th« rafettie proof of fervjee of notice be ing i liuficießt, It isordtred that notice be giv en jn one of the Philadelphia and York newfya pcrs weekly, for at least eight weelts to the heirs or aflignees of Samuel Cunningham «le ccif'.d, to atttend the board on thefii ft iWqnday ' in November next, to (hew caulc why a patent fhouid not iffne to Nleholas Bettingei for the land in qiieftion. ( A true Copy,) • JOHN H4T.T,. . Secratary of the Land Office. Aug. 15- * lawgw. Chocolate and Mustard Manufa£l'ure4 as ufnill, and S t-pper ground Shelled or Peril.Barley Boiladelphia Porter, Beer, Ale an'd Cyder f.nn'lon I'orrer a "tauntin an.l Button Me Ufcd Port and other Wines,, eithe bottled, In :he pipe, tlaartfr-.caflt or '(rallor,—fuitillle for ixportatien «r hotiip toiifimtption — > For S.i'r l.y Job. 2 Hjpfiortb. No. 93 fouih Front ftrt*^ %f)t It V —ft or PHILADELPHIA, hou MONDAY EVENING-, SfPTi MREK 18. '. lav A letter from theXgtfl of Sep- l" or teftjber, to a gentleman in tliis rily, m«ntions any <tliat the yellow fever has again appeared in der ihat town, and that it is attended with much P at more malio-nant symptoms than it was when the it prevailed in the year 1795. an( Extraft of a letter from a gcrtllernSn in Ral- :ts tirnore, to hi? friend in this city, dated de September \ :o>. eni " The calamity which now afflifb your city i>i about to be extended to this town.-*. an I wrttte yon in niy Lit that Ft IPs Point was bli affeft'ed with the yellow and the wea- t' l ther which has succeeded cannot have indu- <?< ced a tjelfef that it is checked. At this «d moment they are fuffering the evils attached to that dreadful scourge 01 our cities." t^J " I S' Tothe Iksprctprs of the Hkal'th Office na for the Port of Philadelphia. fa GENTLEMEN, Agreeable to yoiir request we now lay be- fore you the following brief relation offsets, , Hate of the City Hospital. Since the commencement of this inftitu- t j ' tion, 169 patients have been admitted into j it. Of this humber, 69 have died, 31 have ! been discharged cured, 8 have eloped, and 1 Si remain in the Hqfpital :of whom 14 are > convalefcenta. Unfortunately the difeaf«s - of many of these patients were so far advan- ced previous to their admission, and the in formation we r&ceived concerning them so £ - imperfeft, that it was impossible either to c render them any effedfual medical relief, or t to form an accurite opinion of the real na- ( ture of their complaints, at the firft attack. L Several of these had received some medical affiftan'ce before they came under our care, j while o{hers were totally jnejlefted during 8 the whole course of their illuefs. Of tiiefe r 1 many died from 2 to 24 hours after their . admission into the Hospital. In thfc present j return 17 are of that description. ( J" A great number of the cases which came under our observation are billious remittent j • fevers. A few have aflumed the appearance i of th'e Typhus ISero'idts attended veith fymp- J , toms which indicate a cdnfiderable degree of ( . malignity. One was the natural Small . Pox, another the Hooping Cough, and in two the molt firiking fyftiptom was dyfei)-* tcry. The malignity in many inftauces has probably been much increased by the unheal thinefs of the places where the sick hare re sided, fueh as small crouded houses in nar row, confined, and badly ventilated alleys, as well as other circumstances frequcnt ■s ly attending those who dwell in such places. These circumstances have been rendered still more unfavorable by the general desertion of the sick, which has been a confequenee of - the present alarm. Not having been yet called oh by the at tending phyiicians in the city and suburbs, to-vifit the sick now under their care, we cannot give a decided opinion respecting the ,; s contagious or pestilential nature of the difeaf i!s !es in those parts. We can only fay, at pre -1 s sent, that though the Hospital has been al !" readyMrened 4 weeks, no ioftanc6 has oc ltf curredot its being communicated to tl>c nu c(j merous attendants whose duty obliges them r.t to be among the sick both day and night, n- in all Situations and jn all stages of tbe Fe r j ter. Nor have any ot the grave-diggers, or ' 3 those employed in removing or burying the he dead, been in the least affefted. We are, a- extr*mely happy that we have it in our pow ud ertocommunicatethispleafinginformation, as it may in some measure, contribute to lefTon the dread of receiving the coßtagion of the t.' disease by attending the sick, and prevent that general desertion which we have nft doubt has eonfiderably encreafed the mor id tality. We are, Gentlemen, , Your most obedient servants, SAMUEL DUFFIELD, i» EDWARD STEVENS, Phyjicians to the City Hospital, Published by order of the Board, ; h ; , Wm. MONTGOMERY, Chairman, pro tem.\ to, / / V w " '/Mk. Frnno, /The following observations were written IV . a gentleman at the westward, on the oc -'jf cafion of the Yellow Fever in 1793, andde '/e signed for publication in the Pittsburgh Ga zette. As they have never appeared in _ print, i» may not be improper to give them a place in the Gazette at this time ; several hints are thrown out of which an ufeful im provement may be made% ; cc A"Subsc(iiber. Tothe Printer of the PittsbOghGazette. " It appears that from the 1 ft of August, be- when the contagion firft appeared, to the iv- x ith Oftober inelufiye, there have died in 7a- Philadelphia ef all ages, sexes and disorders, lhe 1,247!. Of these 217 died in August, 12 21 |' lc " m Septembef, and 809 iii Oftober to the „ Hth. The mortality seems to have been the progressive, though not regularly/ being much greater on sultry, than on cool days. On. the lit of August there died 8 ; on the s}h 1; on the Bth 10 ;on the 30th which is the highest number in that month, and on the 31ft, 15 ; in September there ~ died from so to 87 daily; 011 the 4th of .1 October, 'there died 56 ;on the 9th, 94 ; on the 10th, 72 ; on the l Ith, 101 ; which is the highest number that died in any one day before thflt. It is probable that in this der ftatemeiat the deaths of the ci:y alone are in cluded ; forin another statement in the fame pamphlet, the burials in the C ity and Li- Ijij bcrtieip thofameptn'odamount L 02737. The real condition of the city on the 16th Oftcber is ilnted to 'oe this, that since this mortality raged, 300 c perfone have died, a " bout 25'jCOO haveTfft the city 5 and abovt 4 3e,«ooremaw Ijeha-.0.i fhat rnaAets are chn plentiful, beef, 7U. mutton, sd. veal ft. Ing butter from ic>d. to if. per lb. that many J>ru ft ores are jHU open ; not more than half the ] houses are dt ferted ; and that the Banks cip have not ceased difcountinga fingh day call lince the commencement of tae disorder ; ert for above two mouths they had hardly 1 had tin any rain, and .not above ttrt ur twelve mo- bet derately cool days ; but a fall of rain accom- am panied with cold weather on the night of pel the 1 ;th Oftobcr, gave flattering profpefts i'ev and introduced t fie favorable-change. I co On the firit appearance of,the disorder, tin its dangerous nature wasnot fufpe£led. The me deaths were received with the ufuai eo ence. Had that f«r, which afterwards be- Ti came so enceffive, been timely awakened ; 10 and a Hufpit-il, which afterwards was ufta- mi blifhed at Bu.li-Hill, for the reception of ot the lnTefted, been provided iu the tirll ilage j m of the disease, and dtjeifive measures adopt- I ex ed to prevent indifcriminale communication at between the sick and the healthy, and Hop the fprtadifig of the malady, its fatal pro- fn grtfs might probably have been soon termi- ti nated, and the calamity assuaged. tl Though terrible, it has not been generally m fatal. Vast numbers of the sick jfrom four t< to fcver.ty years old, have recovered perfeft h health, one, two Qr three persons in a fami- h ' lv have been infected, a#id the remainder, al- h though tliey have unremittingly attended the sick, and put them in the coffin, have u 1 escaped the contagion, all the, attendants in a , the Hospital at Bftih Hillaresn good health; si many persons infefted it Philadtlphia, have f< died ih different parts of the neighbouring ii s states, and'yet, notwithstanding, they were n well attended in their sickness. There is si no authenticated inftanae of their communi- fl ' eating it to any who have died, or been very t 0 dangerously infefted. Yetfogreat has been f 1 the apprehension of this dreadful fc«urge, i that social conneftions have been torn afun- 1 ' der, the feelings of humanity foppreffed, and r precautions praftifed, which even the strong s ' Ipw of felf-prefervation hardly juftified. ; p The defcrtion gf the Philadelphia market j threatened to add famine to pestilence, the ( ir alarm spread over the continent; Public 1 11 fafts were proclaimed. Proclamations of 1 quarantine were ilTued by the Governors of 1 IC Maffachufctts. New-York, Maryland and 1 Virginia; Persons and goods coming from 1 " e ! Philadelphia, were excluded from many of I the neighbouring towns ; and the mife i rable people, driven by a pestilence at home, . were refufed reception abroad. Some paf ln fengers in the New-York Stage, becoming sick on the road, were turned out, and a- j bandoned by all, and denied shelter, or nou rilhment, periihed of hunger and fickntfs. e " Instances of the like nature Occurred on r ' the Laricafter road. Even in Philadelphia, s » there have been many cases, and some of persons in great affluence, where the infeft •n ed person has been deserted by his friends, and resigned to the cart of a single negro. °* Some have been so entirely destitute as to want any humane beingto hand them adrink of water, and have died in an empty house without any to perform to them the last offi )8 ' ces of mortality, and remove their bodies to ve a grave. Parents have deserted their chil 'l>: drcu, children their parents, husbands their 1 wives, and wives their husbands. Perhaps re " a fourth of the dead have been facrificed to a '~ the consternation of the living. When the ,c " early terrors were dilpelled, these defertiwns IU " became rare. »rn " , , t As a traveller, who wandering through a r e ' barren waste, or the desolation of a tempest, fees, at the end, a fertile field, a-verdant j wood, a refrefliing ftreare, and & fair dwell re ' n g 5 your readers, will turn with pleasure, w ' from this melancholy jlifture of human na aJ ture and human misery, to what juftifies the - n maker of the heart of man, and does honor jj,, to thtfs organs of divine mercy. While , n j phy(icianß, magistrates and people were fly-. no fr° m the devoted city. A generou^ ol band aiTociated to check the progress of thij disease, by the uniound from the\ ' found, to adiniuifter tomfort, aourifliment, and cure to the sick, leflen the honors of the bed of death/-remove the bodies of those who. had none to bury them, aud take to their bosoms the orphans, whom Providence, callipg off their parents, consigned to their cfcre. They formed themselves into various committees ; and borrowed ®oncy of' the \ bank North America for the relief of the \ diftrefles of the afflifted, and the benevolent objefts of their association, Stephen Girard, ten I with hi® co-adjutor Peter Helm, undertook oc the management of an bofpital at Bulh-hill, ( | e _ for the reception of the infefted ; and, like j a _ a father watching over his children, eon- J j n ftantly attended the tick, wiped off their cm sweat, and performed offices of kindness, at , ra j which nice feelings, in any other circuraftan |m ces, would have revolted. Mathew Clark fon, the mayor, Caleb Lownes, who so highly contributed to the improvements in the city Jprifon, Israel Israel, Thomas Wif- TF tar, James Ker, Samuel Benge, James Sharfwood, Henry de Forest, Thomas Save ry, and others, whom Providence felefted as 1 . the instruments of its mercy, have retrieved in the charafter of humanity, acqiiired the gra er *' titude and bleflings of their fellow-citizens, 221 and if, as the Author of our religion repre l'ie fents,in the procedure of the last day, it be a ? en criterion of virtue,, thus to vififc the sick, l "g have, like good and faithful ftrrants, secured l y s " the approbation of their God. Four of ; these generous men, Andrew Adgate, Jo "7" ' nathanjtD. Setjeant; Daniel Offley, and Jo -1 ' feph Ihflieep, failing a facrifice to their bene icy,i volent o crtinns, have been taken oway to 1 0 receive their reward ; and I trull have left, W' ia the memory of the living, a legacy to their nch 1 . one .f [Fr .m the Marjhal's return, mails 19th this Auguji, 1791., there were tnthe City of Phi ■ in- Iqtlilphia, 28,522 persons 7 and in the Suburbs ame 13,998; in all 42,520'; It has letn lowpu- Li- ted that London contains 800,000, .or 137. i,000,0c0. From one of the weekly bills oj 6th mortality, that Ihtipptn to have, the burials it. this that -week were 378, <wd in the preceding 1, a- week had ben: 434, wki;h u rather more flat ,'QYt 73 each day. i . " Y.• i .■< ■■ ■■ chudren ami frtentlj, Jitbri yaU«j3e and lall- 1 "powe ing, than all the wealth cf the feliifh and to o\i prudent man. nine It is not to be fuppoftd that these prin- fhou! ciples of benevolence, though most strongly the c called for, and therefore most strongly ex- inch, erted, on the scene of d'tlrefs, ihould Vie en- than tirtly confined to, Philadelphia. At Elici- quae beth-town, and Springfield in New-Jerky, one : and at Elk, afyhim,'. have been opened for lty t< persons from Philadelphia infected with the two fever. The New-York common council have rant, contributed 5,000 dollars for the relief of latte the poor of Philadelphia, under the manage- auiri ment of the At G'oucefter by p county in NW-Je-rfey, at Sale in, Darby, to i; Trenton, Burlington, Laricafter, Germati ; town, KingfefTnig, Providence, Montgo- / - mery, Wilmington, Pottfgrove, and various/ F other places, liberal fubforiptioris have beaf V ■ made for the fame humane purpofe,and il/is ' fwci - 1 expefted the fubferiptions may eventuailytoe ; beer ) adequate to the necefilties. • j blee 3 Would it not become the people on this 1 whe - 'fide of the rilauntains, to throw in their mite j alor - to assist our futferir.g lir-thren in the day of. lar 1 their calamity. Let thctai&ft heedless but a the ) moment refleft on the vr.vious and complica- j»van r ted evils which thjs fearful visitation must | pro it have brought with it, and left" behind it, and j any i- his reflection will unfold a tale, that will j and [- harrow up his foul, and freeze his blood. fuel d Biit thtrc is also another way in which per: re we may contribute to raise their funk heads, per !n and, in our measure, assist to lefTen the ef- avi 1; fe&s of that calamity, under whith the un- hie ie fortunate city must long fuffer. Consider, I a g in thft disaster how maßy poor mechauicks onl re must have been deprived of their daily sub- ant is fiftance, and how many young merchants and Le i- shopkeepers must have been cast back in of rf the world. We have it in our power to do P Q; :n fomethirig for them. As soon a* a coneft- the e, ion with Philadelphia is unquestionably fafe, nie n- let onr ihopkeepers prefer Philadelphia ma- hy id nufaftures and goods, and buy nothing from b°' ig ahy other place which may be Lad there ; to and let us encourage our Ihopkeepers to this ver et generous and charitable duty, by dealing bu he only with thoftf, who do so. This is the lie heft kind of charity ; the receiver gains of without any to the giver. While a / of connexion with Philadelphia was dangf- / ad rous, the current of our trade run, or was/ im about to run towards Ealtimore. To thq we of honor of many 6f our Ihopkeepers J"" fe- chose to decline or delay their usual pur- 1-' ie, chafes, rather than desert their old friends j)' as- in the hour of" their distress ; and lam con- 1° ng fident that those whose circumftafices would th a- not permit them to exert this generosity, dc su- will when they find it fafe, turn their custom j* :fs. into its usual eourfe : for it would be aruel ') on to add affliftion to the affiifted, and as it ec lia, were perpetuate their calamity, and make q 1 of its effects lading. ' ft- Our merchants will find it their interest to tl ds, renew their dealings with Philadelphia. The p ro. long stagnation of trade requiring a sudden tl to supply of money to support the credit of the d Ink merchants there, and the death of many of c ' use them throwing all their goods, and the car- j 1 >ffi- goes configncd to them, into the market or " to vendue store at once, wjll make goods cheap- a hil- er there, than in any other place on the d leir continent. And let every mas among us P aps in his tranfaftions in Philadelphia, single out j< :to those for out preference and favor, who in h the this calamitous time, have discovered that ti wns they have hearts of men, that they feel for y the woes of others, and live not to them-! 11 r jj a fclves. And let us all avoid, and have no !'< dealings with those who meanly shrunk from j F | an .' the duties of humanity, and wrapping them- | F selves up in the narrow bounds of their own , ( - y" welfare, left their afflifted neighbours to y ' kjifery, despair and death. 1 \ CHREMES. < jnor Nov. 13th, 1793. hile 1 / MR. FINNO, r ! The doftrine propagated by some of the 1 tht faculty in '93, jnd it ill insisted on, is preg- ■ t j )e \ nant with mifcliref, and more injurious to the t prosperity of the city, and alarming to tht 1 , s citizens than " the ytlow fev?r" itfejf.— ] o j- e This doftrine if Admitted will ruin the city * ,"q more effeftually than the raging of any pef- ' nee tilential fever whatever :—who would wish tjc ; r ' to live in a city, in which such dreadful vail ? I prefunie it is not a Jefirable thing. t L £ If I should be convinced of the truth of this ) ] en '" t doftrine, it would induce me to fell ©ff my aix! efta'e* even at a loss, seek some healthiir spot, and bid an everlasting farewell to Phi- ladelphia. Knowing, however, as I do, that human ingenuity can invent and cosfirm whatever ,j lc .- r .it pleases*—invent arguments even to defend 1 at an error ; lam led to believe the doctrine '^ aH so be falfe and groundless, and has originat lJr], ed in the bewildered imagination of some" 5 f 0 whimsical man or r.umber of men, who in ts in • f° me mcafure possess ability to defend, main ly;" tain and support, by plausible arguments and physical doctrine, however absurd and fright- j av |. ful. ' Their arguments, however, have made ed as no iroprefiion o't my mind to conviiftion, and • e( j tl hope, never will—l am too well acquainted with the Subtle insinuations of shrewd and Rra- r ztns craft 7 men . ' Now, Mr. Printer, conceiving as I do, be a 'njnri.'.is and dangerous tendency of this 'j- j." doftrire, I move and request', that it be com ,lC. i mitted for discussion, to a committee of the of whole, on ths state of the city. 1 lie fafety "r° and interest of the citizens depeud on a ,1 r difcufiion of this impoitant fubje<2t. After ben" ' c hae been fairly and impartially discussed, every One may judge for himfelf end aft ac 'jef." cord'ingly. If this doctrine is true, let it be their known > 18 P ot tTUf ' ' et 11 be con(^em , n " 611 ed by public authority, and be done with it.. ■1 gth This will ease the minds of the citizens, and 'Phi- restore the cha rafter of the city, which it has lurls kjft by this pernicious and detestable doc 'iWpu- trine. or Shall we, whose interest in the city is lis of great, fufier i?to be riiinsd by the fantafti iii/s in cal assertion of a few doftors, who conceit :eiiing themfehis more wife and knowing than elban they really are ? I hope not. I hope not r I ftiail endeavour to prevent it with iilmy - V V power. i>y «■»/ of c.» K'l'.t*.,;, ji-rrail me 4 to oWcr/e,'that the i>,>vs'of tliisdoc tiine have | jft the I'tjriiMrtice which they fhoold study to preftrw—Tuat In future, the citizen will place nfbie confidence in fiich, whom they in dtrition c'«ll quacEs, than in collge-hred quacks. A «»11« ge'-bred quack is fmne dangerous than a felf-bred one ; the .former, having acquired fomc abil ity to write now and then a or two in a public pa;nr, to d.+c'\\c the igno rant, and "impose on their credulity ; the lattc+, not having had an opportunity to ac quire literary ability, to introduce himfelf by paragraphs to puhlic notice, endeavours to introduce himfelf by fucflsfsin nraftice. \ A CITIZEN. / MR. I What purpafe can any man expeft to attv ! fwer by informing us that 40 men have ; been found, whom it was impracticable to i bleed to death ? Reverse the card, and 5 what figure does this nuznbeV of names make ' along fide the black lift of victims to fimi ! lar wanton experiments on. human life ? Bnt j the bleeding gentry know they have an ad- I.vantage, and have all along fedilloufly im j proved it—They know it would 1 »t do'for j any one to come forward and fay, that such • and such men died bv e&ceffive bleeding : such a would not be borne—and yet perhaps the individual who is capable of perpetrating such atrocities in purfmt of a favorite system, is little better than he who bleeds you for your purie on the highway. I am confklent, nevertheless, that it is the only effectual way to fileace thofc clamorous and prating satellites of this grand parvscea. Let the dilciples of blood publish statements of the number of their cures and the pro portion, that we may contiaft them with those of the other system. What is it to me that any man is earned through a fever by having all the blood drawn out of his body, when I know that three fall victims to a similar practice for every One that reco vers ? I pin my faith 011 no man's sleeve ; but truly fubferibe myfelf ""♦iv _ An Enquirer after Truth. ! / For the Gazette ef the United States. . / MR. FEHNO, j In the Agreeable romance of Gil B!dt, J we have an excellent summary of the rncte- J ria tnedica of certain bloody disciples of Ga . len, so rampant in the revival of the lunatic s system at a more modern period. The sol . lowing is the account given by Gil Bias of i the fuccefsful praftiee of his matter Sangra- t ■ 3 do, in hiis own words A" He had the fatil n faftioa of feeing twenty persons perish dai ;l ly under His treatment, and was so perfuad [t ed of the excellence of venefuftion and fre e quent potions of warm water, calling them his 'tivo Jpectfics for every species of disease, a that instead of attributing the lose of his ie patients to his remedies, he believed that :n the sick never died but for want of having i e drank enough, and of having loft a fuffici -5f cut quantity of blood." Gil Bias, r _ had been his pupil and long praftifed upon 3r his system, observed to his companion with 3. a dolorous tone, as they approached Valla-" le dolid, that " his conference frcretly re* proached him at the memefft ; and that it Jt seemed to hinv as if all the sick whtrm he in had killed, were about to rife from their at tombs to tear hisi in pieces." The reply ur wa# at once natural and apt. " What an 1 n . idea ! really Siguier de Santillane, yciu ar£ 10 to ° gwd. Why do you repent of having m performed your talk ? Look at the oldeit n- physicians : have they any such remorse ? yn Oh no ! they always jog on in their course to with all the tranquillity in the world, lay irfg to the blame of nature all' disastrous eveuts, and arrogating tredit from every thing of fortunate iflue." \ Le Sage, though he long langtrifhed in ihe (hade of poverty- and obfeurity, in a he Aittle cottage on the borders of the Seine, y. and in the neighbourhood of Paris, where he he gave birth to that excellent satire which hi has immortalized his name, was a phyfieian _ of Ml, experience, and great" reading, ity »Those who for mcrre than fifty years have e f. bee./ charmed with his wit, and struck with [fh admiration at his profound knowledge and f u l intimate acquaintance' with the ways of re _ mankind—their arts and schemes—their ,o-. tricks and contrivances—their incaufiften cies and contradictory vagaries and plian cy tafms—little forefaw that the absurd and ; lT murderous system he had so fu<*eefsfully ri 'hi- diculed and exploded, would (o soon be revived, and so foott give rife, to a necessity jan for the exertion of similar talents a gain ft ver -similar folly and wickedness. nic j , Some physicians, while they would avoid ; ne the dangers of this violent and defpenite , a t_ remedy, set up by some for a panacea, ime - would wholly exclude it from the prafti.ee ; n of medicine ; and indeed it has been ad vanctd by I many ingenious physicians, that and venefeftion in conjunftion with emetics" has ht- destroyed more than the sword—so just :s ad e the observation of the great Latin pott : and Homines, dum villa vitant, in icohtrarij ciir tecl runt. But without running in eoniraria an J Humanity loudly calls on the oblh'nate adherents to the violent system, to advert Jo now and then to the manim,—medium thi's ITER VTt TUSIMUS IBIS. - - — ~FAR-\CELSUS, tliC r cty COMMUNICATION. / n a Net'et 0 Mariners StiUtf bit* tie 2V/ i/Sav-iwub. r. A l-.rge Buoy is pi-ce 1 r,n the outliflc of the LV.J f C , in the deepest v, attr, having all the lca-\iajr mir!t» e » Jli, the Ivacoß and light boufc in oue, hearing W. »C- - N. dillant 4 miles. Another Bnoy lt« ill the. tbe fame I'ireSion, btie mile within the Ear, x third mn - wu« mi!< further up, besting W. by N. from the fe •• crfiA, and a fourth one mile N.\V. by W. ix>m the II j' third ; 2fter pafling which there are fafe an frr. a !arpe.fi«et in tour and five fathoms at low has water, the li;;ht hcue. [.earing 8. S. W. ioc- N, l!. I'he Buoys areall placed in the heft wa'cr, having i chaniTel half a mile to tire northward, • and«c:ie fourth the i'mithw-ard, in thsj narroweli y, 1 . 8 jpi-tce-, and nearly the faiwe depth of w*ttr— I !"here a '. are twenty feet on the bar at lowest.tides. '^ elt Ali Printers are recju«fte<3 to give this a place-in than tl,^ r r «,ers as Jotiij, "and at arjr time vhen'ccn r>ot.. v anient. IV.d bO. - ' 1 01L1 Cp, 1 my (G'orjii) v Iry ~•
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