although not uniformly successful, are more likely than any other ultimately to prove so. The cold bath and steel seem to have an invigorating faculty, almost peculiar to themselves in most, at the same time that they are by no ineans admissible in all, cases of debility or relaxation.

It is well worthy of remark, that the particular virtues of these invaluable remedies were known to practitioners of the most distant antiquity. Melampus, á Greek, one of the earliest who attempted to treat diseases, is said, by the employment of the cold bath, with the help only of an aperient medicine, to have restored the daughter of Poetus king of Argos; and afterwards he is related to have cured Iphiclus, one of the heroes who attended Jason on his Argo 'nautic expedition, of a most deplorable species of debility, by giving him the rust of iron in wine.

The most hopeful circumstance attend ing the case of chorea above alluded to, is the youth of the patient. In chorea, epilepsy, and mania, the early or ad vanced life of the subject of them is the circumstance upon which we principally

rest our opinion with regard to the ulti mate result. This remark more especi ally applies to the last and worst of these diseases. In the evening twilight of life it is especially difficult, even if it be póssible, to heal a wounded or reduce a dislocated understanding, in a manner that will ensure for any length of time its soundness or stability: like the fragments of broken porcelain, which may be so carefully put together as to assume the appearance of integrity, but which will fall to pieces again upon the slightest touch, or even a vibration of the surrounding atmosphere.

A cure that is radical has scarcely ever been effected in the instance of a greyheaded maniac. The combination of insanity with old age seems to be almost indissoluble. The disorder of the faculties is not likely in such a case to be remedied, except by their total extinction. The agitation of mind can be expected to subside only in the calm of death, or in the inoffensive quiet of idiocy, or idealess superannuation.

J. REID

Grenville-street; Brunswick-square. November 21, 1810.

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Bant.

FRANCE.

HE Empress (the Princess Louisa of
Austria) has been declared preg-

In order to annihilate the trade of England with the continent, an imperial decree has been passed, by which it is ordered that all articles of English merchandise and manufacture found in France, or its dependencies, in future, shall be burnt, and severe personal punishments are also to attach to persons concerned in the traffic. The following is the decree. Its operation has since been extended to Germany, Prussia, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, &c.

Palace of Fontainbleau, Oct. 19, 1810. NAPOLEON, &c.-Having considered the fourth and fifth articles of our Berlin Decree, of the 21st of November, 1806, we have decreed, and do decree as follows:

Article 1. All merchandize, of whatever sort, proceeding from English manufacture, and which is prohibited, existing at this moment either in the real entrepots, or in the warehouses of our customs, of whatever description it may be, shall be publicly burnt.

2. In future, all prohibited merchandize

of English manufacture, proceeding either, from our customs, or from seizures that may be made, shall be burnt.

3.

All prohibited merchandize of English manufacture, which shall be found in Holland, in the Grand Duchy of Berg, in the Hansea tic Towns, and, generally, from the Mein to the sea, shall be seized and burnt.

4.

found in our kingdom of Italy, under whatAll the English merchandize to be ever description it may come, shall be seized and burnt.

5. All the English merchandize which shall be found in our Illyrian provinces, shall be seized and burnt.

6. All the English merchandize which shall be found in the kingdom of Naples, shall be seized and burnt.

7. All the English merchandize which shall be found in the provinces of Spain occupied by our troops, shall be seized and burnt.

8. All the English merchandize which shall be found in the towns, and within the reach of places occupied by our troops, shall be seized and burnt. (Signed) (Attested)

NAPOLEON.

The Duke of PLACENTIA, Prince Arch-Treasurer, and LieutenantGeneral of the Emperor and King.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. These countries appear to be overrun with detachments of the French ar mies, but with little permanent effect; as they are equally covered by armed bodies of the Spaniards and Portuguese. Of course it is a murderous contest, and vast numbers are assassinated or put to death on each side. Cadiz, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Oporto, and Corunna, are the only places in the Peninsula accessible to the English.

The following are the last dispatches, addressed to the Earl of Liverpool, from General Lord Wellington, who had then retreated within fifteen miles of Lisbon:

Pero Negro, 20th Oct. 1810.

MY LORD. Since I addressed you, the enemy have been employed principally in reconnoitring the positions occupied by our troops, and in strengthening their own. In effecting the former object they have skirnished with the troops on our out-posts, who have always conducted themselves well. On the 14th, they attacked with infantry, supported by artillery, a small detachment of the 71st regiment, which formed the advanced guard of Lieutenant-general Sir Brent Spencer's division, near Sobral de Montagaree, in order to cover one of their reconnoitring parties. This detachment hav. ing the Hon. Lieutenant-colonel Cadogan and Lieutenant-colonel Reynell at their head, charged the enemy in a most gallant style, and drove them into the town.

The whole of the 8th Corps d'Armée, however, and part of the 6th, arrived on the ground near Sobral on that evening; and I therefore thought it proper to withdraw Lieutenant-general Sir Brent Spencer's division from the advanced situation which it had occupied, and these troops marched to Zibreira, about one mile in the rear, on the 15th in the morning.

The gun-boats on the Tagus, under Lieutenant Berkeley, with which Admiral Berkeley has supported the right of the army, Dear Albandra, have likewise been engaged with the enemy's reconnoitring parties, and have been of great service to us.

I have the pleasure to inform your lordship, that the report which I communicated to you in my last dispatch, regarding the march of the detachment of troops under the command of General Barcellar, has been confirmed.

Colonel Trant arrived near Coimbra on the 7th, and immediately attacked the enemy's out-posts, which he cut off from the town, and he then pushed into it and took possesion of it. The resistance made by the enemy aid not last long, and he took eighty officers and five thousand men (principally sick and wounded), prisonera.

A detachment from the garrison of Peniché, sent out by Brigadier-general Blunt, under Captain Fenwick, has been successful in a similar manner, and has brought ia forty-eight prisoners made in the rear of the enemy's army, having killed nine; and Lieutenant-colonel Waters, who has been employed by me with small detachments of cavalry and infantry, also in the enemy's rear, has taken many prisoners.

The difficulties which the enemy experience in procuring subsistence, owing to their having invaded this country without magazines, and having adopted no measures for the security of their rear, or of their communication with Spain, has rendered it necessary for the soldiers to straggle in search of food; and not a day passes that prisoners and deserters are not sent in.

All remained quiet in the north of Portugal, according to the last accounts. Marshal Mortier retired from Zafra and Los Santos on the 8th; and, according to the last accounts, he had arrived at Seville with the troops under his command. General Ballasteros had followed him to the neighbourhood of Castillo de las Guardias, and the Portu guese and Spanish cavalry had moved on from the Guadiana towards the Sierra Mo rena.

In the mean time, the infantry of the Marquis de la Romana's corps was puttin motion for this quarter on the 8th instant, and the head of it (the division under the command of General O'Donnell) arrived at Cabeça de Montechique yesterday, having crossed the Tagus in the morning.

WELLINGTON.

Pero Negro, 27th Oct. 1810. MY LORD.-The enemy still occupy the same positions in front of this army, which they held when I addressed you on the 20th instant. They have detached some troops towards Santarem, and on the 23d, General Loison marched towards that place with the. division under his command; and it appears, from accounts from the commanding officer at Abrantes, of the 24th, that a body of the enemy's infantry and cavalry entered Tho mar on that day.

the prisoners and deserters which have been The reports which I have received from brought in, concur in the accounts of the

distress

distress felt by the enemy for the want of provisions of all descriptions.

They state, that they are collecting and preparing materials to construct a bridge over the Tagus; but although we have a good view of that river from different parts of the ground occupied by the army, and have offieers and others employed on the left of the Tagus, to observe the motions of the ene my, I have not been able to discover either where this work is carrying on, or where the bridge is to be placed on the river, if it should be constructed.

The enemy appears to be very anxious to collect boats; and on the 24th, endeavoured to drive a party of the Ordenanza from Cha. musca, by the fire of artillery, in order to obtain possession of some which were under that place.

Colonel Wilson had been at Leyria, with the cavalry attached to General Barcellar's division, and had proceeded to Ourem. The advance of the infantry was at Pombal.

On the side of Obidos and Ramalhal, the British cavalry and a battalion of Spanish light infantry, and the troops of the garrison of Peniché, confine the enemy's detach ments; and they really possess no part of the country, excepting that on which their army stands.

By the last accounts from General Silveira of the 17th instant, it appears that all was quiet in the North; and he had not received any accounts of the march of troops in

Castille.

The parties of Guerillas had been more daring than usual; and they had united in the neighbourhood of Valladolid, early in the month of October, to the amount of fifteen hundred, in order to carry off a convoy of money which had been raised in contributions from the country, in which attempt, however, they failed.

According to the accounts of the 21st, from Estremadura, it appears that Marshal Mortier's corps was still at Seville; and General Ballasteros was observing it from Aracena.

The second division of the Marquis de la Romana's corps, under General Carrera, arrived at Lisbon on the 25th, and will be with the army this day. My last accounts from Cadiz are of the 4th instant.

division have certainly remained in the camps in front of this army.

The enemy have pushed some troops across the Zezere, above Punhete, principally cavalry, apparently to reconnoitre the roads in that direction and the fort at Abrantes; but I conclude that the rains which have fallen within these few days will have swelled that river, and that these troops will have retired again.

They are still reported to be at work upon materials for a bridge both at Santarem and Barquinha; but I have detached Major-general Fane with a body of cavalry and infantry to the left of the Tagus, from whom I hope to receive accurate accounts of what is passing opposite to him on this side; and he will endeavour to destroy these materials, if it should be practicable.

It is reported by all the deserters that the enemy's troops continue to suffer great dis tress from the want of provisions.

It is impossible to form an estimate of the quantity of provisions which they found in the villages on the ground which they occupy; but it is certain that they can draw none from any other part of the country, the whole being in the possession of our troops.

The garrison of Peniché, and the garrison of Obidos, which place Captain Fenwick, of the Portuguese service, has lately occupied, under the direction of Brigadier-general Blunt, and the British cavalry, continue to carry on a destructive warfare in the rear of the enemy's right, while the high road from Coimbra by Leyria is in the possession of Colonel Wilson's detachment.

I have received no letter from General Silveira of a later date than the 19th of October. He had not, at that time, heard of the march of any of the enemy's troops in Castille.

He occupied with his detachment the roads from Almeida to Trancoso, Celerico, and Guarda. He had heard that General Bonnet had evacuated the Asturias; and, it is supposed, had moved into Biscay.

I have letters from Estremadura and Castromarin, of as late a date as the 27th of October, stating that Mortier's corps was still at Seville in a very efficient state, and having many sick.

My last accounts from Cadiz are of the 22d ult.

ITALY.

WELLINGTON.

18th instant, our attention was occupied by the opposite movements of General Murat, who, by the embarkation of the principal body of his army, in the whole of his long range of boats at Scylla and the Punta del Pizzo, and the disposition of these vessels after being cast off from the shore, seemed to indicate a conclusive design upon the part of our line extending towards the Faro,

While the attention of our left was engaged by the above operation, information was brought to me, that a division of the enemy, having embarked at Reggio during the preceding night, had been perceived completing a landing upon our right, just before dawn, at about seven miles to the southward of Messina.

Reinforcements, which were held in reserve in this garrison to move according to circumstances, marched to sustain our posts at the invaded point upon the first signal of alarm; but the active vigilance of the troops stationed at that extremity of our defences, and their prompt and spirited behaviour, under the conduct of Major-general Campbell, had already happily rendered the presence of these succours unnecessary.

The repulse of the enemy in this partial enterprize, and the equally disgraceful and precipitate fight of the French general who commanded it, with the sacrifice of so considerable a part of his equipment, are more fully detailed in the report from Majorgeneral Campbell to myself, on the proceed ings of this fortunate day; and, I hope his Majesty will be graciously pleased to draw an augur from the relation of this officer of the future conduct of this army at large, in any emergency of service which it may become their duty to encounter.

The zeal, the warmth, exemplified by the neighbouring peasantry in our behalf, and which were not manifested without a loss, and the judgment, as well as alacrity, with which I have since learnt that those in remoter districts made immediate dispositions to obstruct the progress of the enemy in their possible attempt to penetrate into the country, were far beyond what I could have hoped or expected from their peaceful habits; and so strongly was their animosity marked towards their invaders, that the interposition of our escorts was frequently necessary to protect our prisoners from their fury in conducting them, after their surrender, to the citadel of

Messina.

A colour inscribed, as a gift from Gioachino Napoleone to the Royal Corsican corps, said to be new for the occasion of the expedi

tion, fell among other captures of the morning into our hands; and I hope his Majesty will be graciously pleased to approve my transmittal of this trophy to be respectfully laid at the feet of his Sicilian Majesty, as a token of our zeal in the support of his royal cause, and as a record that the first effort of a daring enemy to plant the standard of usurpation in this his second kingdom, and which still owns his rightful dominion, was repulsed by a British army.

I cannot close this communication to your lordship without expressing my official acknowledgments to the great assistance I have derived from Lieut.-general Lord Forbes, as well as the other general officers, and indeed every department and rank of this army, during a long period of four months, in which the contiguity and constant menaces of an enterpri sing enemy have demanded from us a system of unabating vigilance, to which query mind has submitted with cheerfulness, but which your lordship will believe has not been without its fatigue,

This habitual, cordial, and friendly, cooperation, which I have received from Admiral Martin, and the naval force under his orders, during this interval of anxiety, I have before had occasion to mention to your lordship.

J. STUART, Count of Maida.

GREAT BRITAIN.

At home the public attention has been deeply occupied by the commercial and pecuniary distresses of the country; and, by the return of that malady, which on two former occasions, rendered the king unable to exercise the executive functions. This disorder became evident on the 24th of September, the day on which his majesty completed the fiftieth year of his reign; and, it has continued with slight variations of violence during the month. In the mean time, parliament has been twice assembled and twice adjourned, without effecting any thing towards the appointment of a Regent. On a motion of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, against the adjournment of the Com mons, a division took place of 58 against 363.

Another domestic event, deserving of record, has been the death of the king's youngest daughter, the Princess Amelia, in her 28th year, after a long and severe illness.

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