tiis urine always apptars of a deep yellow
coloiir; in the f?a sickness it is the fame, and
ar.d even after it is over, on every occasion
of a fqyall, when the agitation of the ves
sel becomes greater than ufiial, die fame
yellowness returns. In very hot weather,
especially if violent exercifeis used; a fiinl-
ISr yellowness will beobferved, which shows
,t'nat mere heat and iricreafed motion of the
blood is capable of producing a partial dif
fufion of the bile, which would in all pro
bability become visible on did it
not get off by the urine. If, in such a (late
any person happens to be infeSled with a vi
olent fever, k is not improbable that he
might become yellow; though perhaps to
form the disease, a certain disposition of the
liver is nrcefTary, owing not to Anhnaiculx,
or imaginary ifflivia, but to ;he more e
vident eaufes of heat, relaxation, and increas
ed motion of the blood.
Thus, the diffufion- of the bile being a
symptom in itfelf accidental and not to be
dreided, but in conjunction with the fever,
it follows that whatever remedies have been
found to cure the fynochus may like wife be
fuccefsfully employed in the cure of they el
low fever; always regarding the accidental
cifeumftances which arise from the moderate
q*aantity of bile secreted, which, when
thrown in a large quantity rftto the stomach
is known to produce extreme ficknsfs, and
therefore mufl inere'fe and in a manner dou
ble the fiver with which the person is in
fe&ed, aftd make it more dangerous than it
otberwife would be; and mull likewise re
quire a difference of treatment.
If then the highest degree of fever, called
the plague, hss been cured by blood letting,
why should not the fame remedy cure an in
ferior degree of fever, though attended with
a diffufion of pile throughout the body ?
Here is neither quackery nor conjuration ;
for we may easily fee why it can do so. In
all pestilential diseases, fomcof the humours
of the ix'Hy, nr perhaps the whole mass of
blocd, is mfefted. By taking away a.large
tjiiantitity, the infeftign of course is dimio
ifhed ; the blood is soon recruited, and the
quantity newly made being prepared from
Uninfected materials, the general mass is of
a better quality than before. A second
bleeding diminifhe* the N infe&ion Hill more,
and to on. Thus may any person be con
vinced that when a phyfioian orders him to
be blooded in the yellow fever, hr proceeds
on rational principles, and hemay fafely trult
himfelf in his hands. As to the quantity of
blood to betaken away ; it mull be deter
wined by circumstances of which the phyfi- ;
„ cian only c?n judge, and the patient'or 'his :
attendants, ought by no means to interfere. 1
To this may be added, that when once a
physician has been allowed to begin with
any mode of effre, the fame ought to be
persevered in, as running from one thing to
another in such cases mull certainly be at
tended with extreme dang«r Dr. Syden
ham gives a remarkable instance of the bad
effects of this, in a young man infe&ed with
the ylague. He had proscribed his usual
remedy of blood-letting, and the patient had
submitted to it several times, with manifift
advantage. The doftor had infilled that it
fhdWia be repeated once more, and h« would '
be out of danger ; but his friends obstinate- 1
t ly refufed ; the doftor allured them his pa
tient would die ; theydifregarded his words, '
and the young man died as had been fore- <
told. In a late paper we fee i( remarked, <
that though some have recovered who have !
lofhblood in the yellow fever, we ought to 1
have been told how many have died under *
this practice. Agreed! but even this is not : r
fufficient. We ought also to be told how j
~ many nave disobeyed their physicians ; how f
many have deceived them ; how many have 1
teized them with injudicious remondranees,
and prevented them from afting according 1
to the best of their judgment. \y«re all h
these things laid open to pubh'c view, it in r
not improbable that we»fliould find numbers d
of patients, or rather of their friends and
relations, mose justly chargeable with their
, deaths than the physicians they emjdfljxjL *
By this day's Mail. J
*
NEW-YORK, O&ober 16. * j
Yederday arrived here, his Britannic Ma- ol
jelly's Packet, Swallow, Capt. Taylor, in ti
58 days from Falmouth. Her accounts are m
no later than the 9th of Auguft—confe- er
quently no news. The report o"f her hav- aj
ing been captured by the Freneb is not oj
Jrue. of
Ira Allen writes from England, that he ci
had received the letters from our govern- pa
ment to lay before Lord Grenville, request- re
ing it is supposed, the releafc of the Olive fti
Branch and her cargo of arms, tents, field ce
pieces and camp equipage. Ncvv, he f«js, sic
the people of Verniont will be supplied with ab
arms. ' lai
We rejoice that our brave fellow-citizens ha
of Vermont are likely to be supplied—but be
as the fighting men in that Hate can not much ou
exceed the number of 20,000, and it is to be Ui
presumed that mod of them have excellent or
guns already, as they are huntert, where fir;
wjll Ira Allen find purchasers for 20,000 to
muskets, with bayonets and cartridge box— is ;
es i Who in Vermont will buy brass field am
pieces, tents and camp kettles ? ex]
When) Mr. Allen, wrote his letter frftm wh
England, he could not have known of nie in :
conviiflion and execution of M'Lcan in CV otl
nada—much less could he hav6 known that in
it was proved on his trial, that the infur- pre
gents deflined to take Quebec by storm, mo
if*re to be supplied with arms from Ver- of
ment. But if our Vermont brethren should he;
n*t want Allen's arms and C3mp equipage, par
poflfibly he may find a market for them in er,
olher Rates. The loiv price and long credit po\
by the French government will enable by
bimto fell them cheap, and the speculation to 1
may yet prove a profitable one. tioi
pie
Communication. vile
A correspondent is for*y to fee the fatal pov
influence which the publication of fev'eral mei
ellow letters, said to be received From France, is
, and likely to have upon the just indignation the
lafion pqeple of the United States had felt from
vef- the depredations on our commerce by a ban
fame dttti of the French oation, afting under an 1
ther, infamous decree of the dire&ory of the 2d i
fiim- refpefting the newly-invented form ;
hows of a thing called a role d'equipage. Those 1
f the perfous who handed said letters for publics- 1
1 dif- tion, have been instrumental in doing tnore 1
pro injury to the United States than they are 1
lid it aware of; what their views were, it is im- 1
Hate possible to tell—certain it is, that their 1
a vi- publicity is injurious to the honor and inte- 1
it he reds of our cpuntry. The only way for us ;
ps to to get reparation for the incalculable sums 1
>f the of which we have been robbed by French (
leu/x, privateers, is to be unanimous among our- 1
ire e- selves in expressing in a dignified manner, <
:reaf- the high, sense we to a man entertain of the 1
" n j"ries and wrongs we have fuffered \
ing a from an UN-authorised decree of the v
to be French direaory, independent of, and coir- | (
ever, trary to the concurrence and opinion of the
been legislative body. With extreme pain do I
fe be f«e attempts induflrioufiy making, by inte
:y el- reded and avaricious men, to injure their
ental country from felfifh motives, whose efforts, r
erate in conjutiftion with those of that class of I
tfhen men among us, whoaffea to think that the I
nach French government, or even any part of it, c
and can do no wrong, tend to weaken the exer- n
dou- tiong x)f our real patriots for the wrongs d
in- and they daily receive from France. I
an it I find, from a pemfal of all the Jacobin I .
e re- prints throughout the continent, that a cer- |
tain been gladly laid hold of, and ' r<
ailed has been republifhed with so much avidity, C
ing, as to make it more evident that «ur Gallic- a,
n in- Americans eagprly seize on every pretext, Ic
with to j-rtd/Fy the depredations and robberies in
dy ? exercised towards this country by the aban- h,
on ; doned part of the French nation. Our ft
In veflels have, till lately, been fully and pro- 'it
ours p'rly documented, in the opinion of all ti
'% of the world ; the French "nation itfelf has," ft.
>rge for f"vetal la'ft pad, entered our vef
nin- fels, and cleared them out of all the ports, A
the merely on prefeiiting them with a lift of the St
rom crew, or, in other words, a role d'equipage.
s of This form of a role d'equipage has - been
ond necessary,, and thought fufficient for all our
ore, veflels the whole of this war, ahd goes fur
:on- ther than what is alluded to in the twenty
-1 to fifth article of our treaty with France, which 1 c:
;f ds does not even mention the necefiity of a lift hi
mil of the crew, but only of the captain, vef-
Y of fel, carge, &c. It alludes to a form of a
ter- | certificate, which ought not, by said arti- P
yfi. j cle twenty-five, to contain the names of the
his ' crew; so that the form of the certificate, (I
ere. [ w 'th refpeft to the. crew, is at variance with
e a the article on which it is founded. Ought !
rith Ilot the body of the treaty to be held more ' ti(
'be sacred, and be more to than any b)
rto extraneous matter annexed thereto ?——— It of
at- certainly ought, and I am sure will, by a
en- every honest and patriotic man. Is a mere ha
bad r »/ e d'equipage to have more force and vali- 01
r ith dity than the numberless papers with which
ual a vefTel is furnifhed from higher authorities ?
'lad have hada role d'equipage all this
feft which ev«n tSjjH'rench, till lately, thought tei
tit was in form ; now, the direftory have tak- in
uld en into their heads to rob us, merely be- va
ite- cause they cannot find any more plunder in fai
pa- I'ranee,-or in Italy; and the only pretext ed
ds, they offer is, a mere difference in the fcfftai wj
ire- of a simple lift of the crew, which, by their PI
decree of the 2d of March, has a meaning (u
IV e and forin very opposite to the intentibn of ms
to the 25th article of the treaty of 1778, on th<
ler ; which it was founded. f hope my country- ag
lot ; men will not degrade themselves by juftify- co
"w ; ln R robbery against the property of their mi
3w fellow citizens, and will carefully and fcru- an
ive puloufly avoid advocating a principle which, gii
es, hy the next arrival from Europe, may, and cit
ng I think will, be established by the legislative
all body of France, to be a mere flimfy, pitiful by
is pretext of the diredtory, for plunder and or
•rs depredation. of
"d da
fir hen a nation is iofulted and injured by nit
a foreign power, it is a duty incumbent on wil
m the patriotic printer of. a public paper, to bla
pUblish every fentimejit that may tend to er
promote unanimity among the people at Bri
, large, in execrating the coriduft oi the pow- Gr
er with whom our government may have any Jol
difputc. Howeverinherent itis in the nature Cit
a- of republican governments to generate sac- Jof
in tions, dill, it is possible for them to avoid rily
re making partisans of foreign powers, or lift- con
e- ening to the plausibly fatal tales of their but
v- agents among 11s. Whatever diversity of the
>t opinion may prevail refpedling the principles fliip
of our conflitution, the beneficial or prejudi- Caj
ic cial effefts of certain laws, or the talents or Gr;
1- patriotism of the be cjiofcn for our Mr,
I- representatives ;we cannot too carefully and Ed\
re studiously avoid fuffering our minds to rt- Cha
d ceive any bias from the anti-patriotic con- two
s, fideration of its being agreeable or disagree- of t
h aole to the wishes or intereds ofany particu- Cap
lar foreign power, when the welfare and blac
is happiness of our own country is intended to Sch
it be promoted by any measure adopted by the
h our government. But unfortunately for the and
e United States, whenever a^law ispropofed, at N
t or a candidate held up for public office, the num
e firft question aflced is, whether he is friendly and
0 to France or Great Britain, not whether he froir
- is a man who loves his country, who is able the
d and willing to/promote hur interests at the ter (
expense of his own, or any *foreign power take
1 whatever. The fatal effe£ts of this partiality char
e in favor of one nation to the exclusion of all, V
1- others, has unhappily taken too deep root Chai
t in the United States, and will continue to„j»fhip
- prove a source of evils pregnant with the this
, mod: alarming consequences. The history 'of th
- of pad ages abounds with examples of the ther
1 hc'rid eftefts of the blind attachment of one of a
1 part of the fame nation to one foreign pow- capt.
1 er, and another part to another "foreign ufc o
f power. The iriterpofition of foreigners is, Mori
: by such divisions invited, and they never fail at St
1 to avail themselves, by intrigue and corrup
tion of the passions and prejudices of a peo- 1
pie who are a prey to those diffentions. The II
vile machinations of the agijnts of European been j
powers paralize the energy of our gov err- releaj
ment, whose strength depends on the unani- on «/
V
I
e» is arid support of the p?op!e—thiy fo
-1 the ment discord—prevent the operation of mea
rrom fures evidently calculated to promote the
ban- public good—and finally keep us from rising
'r an t0 that independence, powernnd'profperity
■ t0 w hich we are entitled from onr resources
orm and situation. I sincerely hope the prihters
hose throughout the United States, will religi
lica- oufiy and feriotifiy consider the iimportant
nore rank they hold in society as the of
are public inftruftion, an! thtt they will refufe
im- the admission of sentiments into their papers
heir whose aim is to advjftie the interests and
nte- reputation of any foreign- nation wljjtcver,
t us at the expence of the honor «Ind happiness of
ums their own. Every American should exe-
crate that printer who fnake3 his paper the
aur- vehicle for promoting the wicktd intrigues :
ner, of foreign ngentt i; ly, we
the ! have men among ds bfthatbfack stamp, who
.-red when necefilty requires, shall be charged
the with their guilt, proofs of which exist, and
:on- fliall, at a proper time, be brought forward,
the
I ALBAN7, October 9.
nte- A paper was lately read before the Royal,
heir Society of London, proving from nice and accu- J
irts, rate experiments that diamonds (■which- are
s of known (0 be entirely consumable by sirs) oh com
_the bufiion are completely resolved in's unmixed
it, carbonic gas ; or, in ether luordi, that dia
<er- monds are nothing more tr left than pure con
tigs denfed charcoal,
ice. . ..
bin CONCORD, (N. H.) Sept. 26.
cer- M'uhael Sutton, of Canterbury, -who -was '
ind committed to Exeter jail for flouting a horse o/' .
ity, Capt. Curry's, and there cat his own throat J
lie- about a fortnight ago in a dfp.-rate manner, inas
•xt, last weeh brought to Mr. James Stevens's,'.
ries inW.'is iown, where he died on Friday last : 1
an- having received no nourijhment Into hisJlonmch ,
)ur for 14 days. He had never fpoken,{thtpipe ]
ro- being entirely cut ojf)but communicated ly wri
all ting He appeared tq be greatly diflrejfed for •
as,' f,rue time before his death.
'ei- Died, on Sunday eveni'ij, at the house of
r ts, Mr. J'/illiam Pdrtrirfge, in this town, Cuth
tjie bert Hutch'mfon, a neitive of England, aged 51.
feu BALTIMORE, Oflpber 13.
>ur BOARD of H/tLTH.
ur- BURIALS
iy- Ih the weft part of Baltimore, heretofore ,
ich called the town—for the last twenty-four
lift hours—ending morning at fun-rife :
ef- 3 Adults, O Children.
r a Burials in the east part, called Feil's
■ti- Point, Bcc. including the Potter's Field :
he 3 Adults, • 1 Child.
te, (Signed) '.Joseph Townfend, tlerk.
!th Odtober 13.
ht j We are happy to fay that the corpora
ire ' tion of the city of Anaapplis, convinced
ny by the daily report of our health committee
■lt of the little danger to be apprehended from
by a regular communication with this port, c
:re have repealed their bye-law, published in y
li- our paper of the 9th instant.
ch -
s? * SAVANNAH, September 29.
ir,- On Tuesday the 18th fnft. was eommit
ht ted by the City Council, to the Federal jail
k- in this city, Robert of the pri
.e- vateer brig Campbell, capt. Wilson of Naf
in fan, (N. P.) mounting 18 guns, andown
xr ed by Richard Coppinger of that place he
was put on board the schooner Nancy of
;ir Philadelphia, commanded by capt. Burnet,
ig (which was retaken captain and his
of mate, as mentioned before, and brought by
mi them in here) as prize master. The charge
y- against him is that lie bad no copy of a
y- commiflion, which all privateers legally corn
er mifiioned, give—that he lately commanded
1- an American veflel fron Alexandria in Vir
h, ginia, to the Weft-Indies, and that be is a
id citizen of the United States.
re On Monday the 25th inft. were arrested
ill by a warrant from John Glen, Esq. May
d or of this City, Joseph Moffay, of the state
of Maryland, and William Cowell, of the
state of North Carolina, Citizens of ibe U
y nited States, (who were picked 'up at r ea
m with three other whites, ai>d thirty-five
o blacks, by Capt. Callaghan, of the Schoon
-0 er Exuma) and having: been oij board the
it British armed Ship, General:' of
r- Grenada, they were brought before Doctor
y John Love, one of the Aldermen of this
c City, f.rr examination, when,it appearing
> Joseph Moffay, Ifad lliipped himfelf volunta- ..
d rily on board the said armed Ship, he was
:- committed to the Federal Jail for his trial; 8 -
r but it appearing that William Cowell, 011
f the oath of twrs of the crew of said armed
s fliip, was pitfked up at sea in a boat with
■ Capt. Ewing, latf Master of the Schooner € ' s
r Grace, of Washington, North Carolifta, ar "
r Mr.» Armour the owner, an apprentice boy,
1 Edward Potter, of North-Carolina, and P Ol
- Chaijes Langley, a boy "of Boston, with
- two blacks. That Capt. Michael Morrifon,
- of the said armed ship, had permitted the
- Captain, owner, apprentice, and the two V
1 blacks to go on board of an American
i Schooner, but had detained by compulsion# j
r the said William Cowell, Edward Pottifr
: and Charles Langley, on board; and that fert
, at Nassau, <.4i his arrival there, be placep a mei
■ number of blacks to guard the said Cowell rer
and Langley, to prevent them gfcttingaway is v
i from his Ship, (for Potter hstdjumped into cefl
the boat of the Quebec Frigate at Sea, as. eati
ter exchanging a ihot firft with Jver mif- pa^
take at night)—be whs in conftquencc dif- tor
charged by Alderman Love. » ivat
We hear that oath isalfo made, that said afe
Charles Langley, of Boston, periflicd in the to 1
,j»fhip when (he foundered at feb, a,id also, that oth'
this was the ship that took capt. Conklin, fror
of the brig Two Siuers, of Niw-York, put fed
the mate in irons, and plujidsred the veflel the
of a spy glass and other articles, and that tipr
capt. had the spy glass after, in /rot
use on board his ship. We learn that capt. fecr
Morrifon, and Mr. Morris, super-cargo are. pre)
at St. Augustine. of o
at e
QUEBEC, sept. 28. in 'a
His Excellency the Go vert: or in Chief hct fery
been pleafcd to cause a warrant to issue, for the roed
releafc of Daniel George, underfentenc; of dealt f'evi
on condition of his leaving the Freziice- that
1
£ Xf;c (3a?.e»?.
hf PHILADELPHIA,
ces TUESDAY EVENING, Octobfr j 7 .
crs '
gi- Interments since our lajl report.
int Grown Persons. Chiidr-n.
0 £ First Pre(bytma/i o ' O
, Sec n«l Prefbyt~rian ' o j
Th.ir-! Prefhyterian i o
ers Chriil Church o o
lid St Paul's o o
er, St - Peer's o 0
, 0 f St. Mary's Church 4 o
Uriivcifjlnh I 0
{e ". , Friencis o o
he Free Quakers' O O
les ' German I.utlieran o g j
ws German CalvaniiU O o
ho Method I (Is a q
Nw.ides j q
ca Potter's Field o 0
nd City Hospital 6 o
rd. _ __
'4 1
„/ CITY HOSPITAL REPORT,
:u- j From 16th to I,7th Odl. in the oStrning.
Ire Admitted, since last report,
m- Robert Bayne, Half moon, Chefnut-ftreet.
Ed Discharged, since last report.
■a-' Su f all Graham, admitted 17th ult.
n . William Shields, 2 Sth
i°hn Coakly, 29th
John Pennington, 28th
Andrew Burchall, 3d inft.
as • William Gamble, yth
John Davis, ,3th
at Died since last Report.
as I how long flrprevi
's, ' j ous to admittance.
_ ! Catharine Cooky, 46 hoars, unknown.
c h \ Daniel Rofs, 47 do. 1 day.
f" 'T> ■ ■
•/'. j Remaining last report 54
■ 9r Admitted fine* 1 j
Discharged y
I. Died 2 g
Remain in Hospital. j 46
Four of whom are dangeroua.
In erred since last report.
■ e , From city and fufcurbs 4. '
lr Hospital 2
Total 6
'a Stephen Girard. j
(Signed) ' Caleb Lownes.
John Connelly. j
Published by order of the Bq?i i,
Wm. MONTGOMERY,
i- _ Chairman pro tem.
J ——
e The commiflioners for alleviating the dif- .
n tresses of the citizens have, since last publi- (
:, cation, received the following donations,
n Tlz- _ Dels. tts. |
From certain inhabitants of
Cheltenham 61 «c 1
H. LeufFer » 2? 1
. Ca(h
il Robert Coleman (Laneafter
county) 100
Inhabitants of Trenton (per
James Ewing) »^ 0
e Adam Lechler, fuperintendant, and several ,
f labourers o*the roads under him, viz.
Adam Lechler 1
s Ar«hibald Curry X '
r Samuel Shaw ' ' j
: Hugh Roy 050
, James Carr oj o
Philip Ankerman 1
j James Reilly o "
Caspar Shefmeyer o co
, Chrif?Dpher Diel 050
Hilary Baker (Mayor) 20
| Thomas Snowden's wife 10
George Nelson 60 n
Inhabitants of Haddonfield, and v
citizens of Philadelphia now 1 1«
there, (per Thos. Redmari) 409 55
From said Redman, a balance of J C
money fubferibed in 1793,
and not then received, 20 21 C
Inhabitants of Wilmington and
Brandywine, received in a let- C
ler from Joseph Warner and .
John White, - 411 38 c >
From John Haworth, 4 loads of potatoes. ~
Certain inhabitants of Roxborough town-
ship (per Peter Robefon) 3 barrels of flour,
3 quantity of potatoes, turnips and • cab- »»
bages. 1
Inhabitants of Cheltenham, 40 bulhels Sc
of potatoes, Cwt. of ry?flour, 2 bush
els of Indian meal, and 96 lbs. of bacon Pa
and beef.
Jonathan Meredith, a waggon load of er ,
potatoes and turnips.
For Edward Garrigues, Sec'ry
BENJAMIN KITE.
Oct. 17th, 1797.
be:
Jr ' * j e j"
./or the of States. h ;
MR. FENNO,
In one of your late papers it has been as
serted with confidence, that Dr- Rufli used ,'h)
mercury only as a purgative in theyellow fe- tht
verof 1793. To shew that this aflertion 6>e
is wholly without foundation, it is onlynn- w! ,
ceflary to refer to that gentlemsn's publi
cation on the fever of the above year. In t bfc
page 288, " I had observed (fays the doc- wli
torJHhat all fjich of tay patients as were sal- P u:
ivated,by the mercurial purges recovered 111
a few days. This early fnggefted at\ idea k ; R
to me that the calomel might b'e applied to C:
oth?r purposes than the discharging of bile Pre
from the bowels. I ascribed its salutary ef- ' sro
fcfts when it salivated in the firft «f
the difordtr, to the excitement of inflamma
tion and effnfion in the throat diverting them
/roro more vital parts of the body. In the Bri
second ftsge of the disorder I was lei to* Sch
prescribe it as a stimulant, and with a vfew ?,
of obtaining this operation from it, I aimed
at exciting a salivation as speedily as p&flible
in 'allcafes." The docontinues to ob
fcrve that ,he wa; led to the use of this rc- A
medy (mercury) in the cure of the yellow "
fever, f%m his own observation, and from 4-a!
that of ctbe'rs. . c
5?. Ir. the month of Qftober 1789, he etir<;d
a gentleman of i bilious fever by falivatin
h«n, and he had found another precedent
«or a salivation in a fever, in Dr. Haller's
short account of the works of Du. Cramer.
He nweover adds that the propriety of tl e
- praftict received support, from the accomr. s
_ which Dr. Clarke h:id Ijtely given of the
• i illqeefsful use of mercury in the dysentery.
Ir, 1 n a^ertec * ,n your paper that
I -Ur. Kulh did not bleed in the yellow feviS
-of 1793, till after iK? 10th of September.
one > "ho lias read the doftor's pub
'cat,"n on the disease, must be
that this aJTertion is equally ungrounded. He
lied in the disease as early ag the 6th of Au.
gust. See page B._Thus, Mr. Fenno, it
clearly appears, that Dr. Rufli, in the yel
■ t low fever of 1793' not only gave mercury as
a purge, but to produce a salivation ; and
that he bled in that fever on the iixth of
Augtift, instead of about the loth of Sept.
The credit of introducing in our city these
remedies in the cure of the present disease ft
due to him alone. Attempts have been
tpade -to refer their introduction to other
gentlemen of the faculty ; bus these at
t. tempts will prove abortive ; for they have
iprung from a spirit of falfehood Snd calum
ny. And to fay that »his gentleman intro
duced blood-letting and calomel in the cure
oi the yellow fever at Philadelphia, is only
noticing a ftnall portion of his tnedic3l fer-'
vices. By his industry and ingenuity he has
n> ffrly a total revolution in medicine.
His principles appear to be founded on
truth ; and not only embrace new views of
•_ yellow fever, but of diteafes in general.
J In spite df envy and malice, in spite of Eu
ropean books, and universities, these princi
ples are daily gaining groynd.i They.have
been adopted by many eminent physicians in
~ t! ? e United States, by some ih th,-' Weil-In-
| dies, and by some in Europe. And when
| it is coqfidered that-they have condufted
"to 9 more fuccefsful pra&ice, and that they
' have spread with rapidity in different parts
or the world, may we not venture to ep
tertaia the opinion, an opinion not improb
(s a,ble, or extravagant, that their adoption
*yill be finally universal ?
The following extra#, from Dr. Chif
holm's work on the malignant pestilential fe
+ ver which lately prevailed in the Weft-Indies,
will throw light on Dr. Rulh's character as
a physician and a man, and confirm the be
lief, that he is entitled to the credit of in
| troducing mercury in this city in the cure
jof the yellow fever. " Since my arrival in
I England, I have had peculiar fatisfaftion m
, finding that a treatment nearly similar to the
, above * had beeii adopted with great success
in the malignant pestilential fever, which so •
p lately prevailed at Philadelphia during the
autumn of 1793. Dr. Rush's medical tal
ents and merit are too well known and too
' generally acknowledged to require the fee
• ble efforts of my jjen to extol them. If a
_ nv thing, however, could add to the excel
' ' enc e of thit gentlemanls chara&er, it must
be his benevolent exertion, and unwearied
perfererance during the existence of this
dreadful calamity, in relieving his kelplefs
and affljdled feflow-cjtizens, and in pnrfuing
the mercurial mode of treatment, with the
weight of prejudice and malignity in oppofu -
tion to him.v Such fortitude is rarely met
with in the medical profeflion ; and when
j it is, it must secure our admiration and res-
P ? &. Chifhblm on the malignant pefti
leatial fever, &c. page 275.
;■ I A PHVSICIAN.
treated the malignant fever
l in the Ivefi 7 lv Trj l , ....
> At a meeting of the Select and Common
, Councils, this day, the following officers
w re elected :
Hilary Baker, Mayor—unani
mo'jfly.
I I rAncis Prefident of the Se
; left Council. \
Kearney Wharton, President of the
J Common Council.
William H. Tod, Clerk of the Seleft
Council.
Edward J. Coale, Clerk of Common
Council.
Joseph Fry, Meflenger of the two Coun
cils.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
New-York, Oa o beri6.
ARRIVED. DAYS.
British Picket Swallow, I'aylor, Falmouth
via Halifax \ 5
Schr. Lwtle George, Pell, North Carolina
Mary Ami, Everett, < Annapolis Ro/sl 8
Packet George, Brown, Newport, i
His Britannic Mijefty'n frigate Thifiae, anchored
off Governor'* llUnd cn Saturday evening, from a
cruise.
Norfolk, oa. 9.
The fchr. Charles, 13 days fiom the Havanna,
went up to Baltimore 00 Saturday. By her we
!? Vn that Santhonai failed for France a fortnight
befVe, convoyed hy the ,'uno Spagith frigate, who
left ncr oil* the Bahama banks and returned to tt c
Hjvknnsh.
Op Saturday arriv»d the fchr. Eagle, capt. Bil
tardj in , 6 days from Cape Njchola Mole. By
thiyveflel We learn that commodore Barney, with
the French frigates Medusa and 1: fa get t , m :;'e
the '<•"-! ft Caicos on the Ijth Sept. On thf'irpaf
fdge thither thtyhad captured a Brijr fromflrjflol.
when clpymg two large ftips in the ofang they
cast loolVthe hrij-for the of chafing th.-m:
tVrtng was fljortiy after r'efsken and-cJirried into
si* where on admiral Parker, -
with S fail of the line a d 2 frigates, immediately
pu: to sea in'puriuit of them
|We further learn by this arrival, that the fchr.
Tvlfcria, capt. Kattcn. the fchr. Intrepid, capt \Vi'- *
kinfon, hoth from Ndrfolk, jpd a fchr. from N.
Carolina (came unknown) ha.T been taken by the'
French ruw loats I>ut alt.-rwariJs, retaken and
brought lino the Mole. The captain- and crews
ofthe above velfels were all cutandbeat in a dread
ful maimer.
Baltimore, 03. 13.
ARJUVSB.
Brig Three Sioer«, St Croix
Schr. Treaty, Sir.ithwick, C N. Mole
? Eagle. Dalton, Cape Franccis
Lang, Pott-au-Prinre
Wanted, to Hire,
Al.arge and convenient HOUSE, in or near
the centre of the city—for which a gcrereu.
foot will be given; to be taken for a year, or or.
for a longer Jter.it. hi quite of the Piintrr
- «c ;t i