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vegetable ; ami (lie manner*, tho iiutiuch, the
uroiterties, whether noxious or useful, of (he an
imal kingdoms, can give to ever/ subsUncc,
which it possesses, or can obtuiu, every appro
priate use ; can procure for them their ultimate
value j can convcrt them, at will* into instru
ment* of pleasure, of lichen, of grandeur or of
power.
No people have ever yet attained this high
point oV nntional improvement, none, |*rhaps,
wilf ever attain it} but exactly in proportion to
the progress of iu improvements, compared to
its extent and local situatiun? will he the rela
tive station, which ea.h country will occupy in
the scales of nations. Ilow important then noes
it become to give to the pursuits of science eve
ry encouragement which they require and can
receive. That wo endeavor to stimulate the
rising generation, by example, by commendu
tion, by the prisj'ect of literury reputation, to
lubors nud inquiries, which may ndJ still more
to national than to individual benefit. He who
makes an important discovery in art or science,
frequently adds to tho wealth and reputation of
his country, lie who elevates her literary cha
racter becomes* its benefactor.
It in not ca?y to determine how far each sci
ence contributes to the general mass, or '?. esti
mate its relative value. Forming one rnJiant
circle they mutually support, they mutually en
lighten each other. The proud fabric of tumlem
tricnce is composed of materials extracted from
every quarry, and has been constructed by the
labors of hundreds and of thousands co-operat
ing iu one common design. Every ascertained
fact, every new discovery in any department,
adds to the general mass of knowledge, and en
large* the circle of human observation and im
provement. No inquiry should be abandoned
as abstruse and uninteresting, none rejected as
obscure or insignificant. No tribute sliould be
withheld as ton humble or unimportant. Tho
mighty streams that gladden the earth, and dif
fuse wealth and enjoyment along their extended
borders, are formed l?y the union of small and
unnoticed springs. It is not the magnitude of
the fountain head, hut the number of tributary
streams that determine their size. and their im
portance. Some branches of knowledge, from
the sublimity of their views, from the certainty
of their result-, or from their extensive applica-j
tion to all the occupations of lil?>, may have the j
higher claims to our notice } hut those uhich on-j
!y serve to imlish or to decorate, merit also at
tention. Ave should no more wish to deface the
Corinthian capital of science, than to sap its
deep foundations.
1 o you, gentlemen, who have formed this as
sociation, it will he superfluous to extend these
reflections. You have borne your testimony to
the importance of its views ; it will remain with
vou, by exertion, to give reality to expectation.
V e arc component parts ol a nation rising into
importance and power. We find ourselves sur
rounded by rivals,jealous of their lights, pow
erful in their resources, strong in arms, yet per
haps depending less on the simple operation of
physical force, than on the combined influence
of commerce, arts and science. To contend
with theso nations successfully, we must be, in
all things, their equals. ? Wc must give know
ledge to enthusiasm, means to ente?pri/.e, ami
skill to courage. We find our naval and mili
tary reputation rising with the dangers and dif
ficulties that surround us j the energy of free
dom will ultimately surmount the errors of ne
gligence or fully ! but our literary character is
tttiU unknown,' or unacknowledged. Amidst
the convulsions of the civilized world, wc have
beheld nations contending as strenuously iu let
ters, as in arms ; extending to their citizens the
Laurel and the Hay with equal enthusiasm.?
Shall we feel no impulse of national emulation r
Shall we not profit by their grrat examples r
Khali we not witness, iu the splendid career of
Mcieuce, their successes, and their triumphs, and
make no effort <o give to our country, on the
page of literary history, a %* habitation and a
name.'' In the distribution of talents to na
tioi:s and individuals, nature has been lilieral
ulidjust. If she elevates but few to pre-emi
Jient greatness, she condemns but few to incvi
table obscurity 5 to most she gives the power
and the opportunity of being useful 1 hut while
she gives us talents, she leaves their employ
ment to our own discretion.
Let ine hope, gentlemen, that this society,
small and hemble as may have been its origiii,
may yet render soino service to our country 1
that it may awaken a spirit of philosophic in
quiry j that it may recal some of our youths
from idle and unworthy pursnitH, to the labors
and pleasures of literature, that it may give to
science some popularity. The small seed scat
tered iu the wilderness may become a tree, un
der whose branches the birds of the air bhall
find food and shelter. The nameless rivulet
may emerge to splendor and to usefulness't but
to obtain our objects, or justify our views, it will
lie necessary that we advance in our career with
n zeal that shall not lie extinguished by occa
sional failures, ami a perseverance uuconquered
by temporary disappointments.
MH1HCAL
IIVDUOI'IIOIIIA, OH CANINK MADNKBS.
Art over jr? means which afford* a prospect ci
flier of mitigating or preventing tlie Hyoiploinn
of thin terrible disenKc in entitled to our consi*
deration and respect, wo communicate the fol
lowing information, for the benefit of suffering
humunitn in hoprt that by tliem; means the
-knowledge may be inoro generally diffused.
Dr. Mosely, an English physician of unbonnd
eil'learning and great respectability, hai* pub
Tished u work upon thin subject, which in a few
} fears ban "one through six editions. The means
to employs as a preventive, we are informed,
has proved infallible in hundreds of instances
in which he has used them \ and even some cas
es whero the symptoms of hydrophobia had al*
ready ap|*are<l, have been cured by the same
treatment.
In the first plane he cauterises the bitten part
?lceply anil extensively wili* lapis infurnslii,
then applies a poultice to abate tho infiammr
tion and promote suppuration. 2dly, ho cilii
bits mercury to the extent of eft'octing the gumi
usinc calomel internally, and in urgent case
employs mercurial friction*. For relieving tli
spasm he gives the ammoniatcd tincture of va
lerian anu campho.
Such in a nummary of tlio treatment, fror
which, he informs us," that for upwards of 3<
Tears, and in many hundred ca*cx, lie ha* neve
had one failure." lie condemn* the practice <1
excision and amputation of tho bitten part, anno
only unnecessary, but prejudicial & barbarous
'l his information is the more valuable, as tii
work referred to iH very scarce in this country
Dr. Mosely has had the politeness to forwari
two copics' to the editor* of the Medical Uepq
sitoiy, ?Urs. Mitchill and I'ascali*,) which, thro
their friendship, we havo had an opportunity 0
perusing.
INTP.KE8TIXO CASK OF SICKNK.S8. ]
Miss ? f about six yvarn old, 1 found vf
ry ill in the evening?she labored under a f>oi
feet degree of idiotism ; she alternately mutte
ed, groaned and laughed. livery limb and ?
partaof her body were in ince**ant motion t hI
wo dd pull or snatch at lite bed clothes, her 0*
clothes, or any tiling else that came in hor waf
she seemed to know no person, and if rhc tu<
notice ot any, it appeareii to be accidental j to
would attempt to climb the walls of the hoiv?
approach the fire as if she would go into i' if
permitted) she would go against any oltjeclor
person, and fall over him, as if she were bli?l}
she was perfectly listless, nud, therefore, unn'a
sun improvidi ,mi\it; she would neither eanmr
drink, und she imagined pins bturk in herhaid*
and thnt she saw many things that were iu*pte<
sent, as snakes, &c. In fact I thought every
object ap|>earcd to her in a disguised and in a
terrifying form. m
tier pulse was little disordered, but her skit]
was dry, and the pupils of her eyes were con* |
derably abated. .<
All the information that the family could giv
me was, that4i she appeared well when she
at the table to dine} but, while eating, she
came very sick, puked, her face became "
ted, white and red, that she soon grow Vi
and out of her senses."
'I'he family demanded of me, in a fow m
after my anivnl, what I thought was the matt
with her r 1 candidly replied, 1 believed sh
hud eaten some poisonous uerries.
All the fuinilv, both white and black, assure
inc 1 was mistaken, and that the child had uoj
had any chance to eat any thing of the kind, aiu
one person present, who partially practises me
dicine, mentioned four complaints, with one o!
which both he and tho family thought she most
bo affected.
1 persisted in my opinion, and the ease watt
confided to mo. 1 freely administered Ipecac,
and Tartar Bmrtic. She was resolutely <?|?|>os
cd to take medicine; hut I succeeded to give ho
much as to vomit repeatedly. No poisonous
berries came up. I therefore inferred they must
he too far advanced in the common |Wttsago to
be evaruated by puking; hence I gav? purgative
medicines, and directed clysters to ?!??.???
<>l>or??iuu.i. K??uuuttona succeeded, lint no
berries. She seemed to grow better, but tin; a
membnent was transitory. More purgative me
dicine was given, and at lout twenty-five ber
ries of the Jamestowr (Datinu Stramonum) were
discharged in one passage. These satisfied the
family I was right in respect to tlie nature of the
Complaint. More medicine wa* given* and nin
ny more of the berries were evacuated?the
child appeared hourly to mend, though with
some appearances of occasional relapse*. She
got perfectly well in a few day*.
Perhaps the preceding statement contain!* in
formation that may be useful. The substance
of it was penned down by the side of the pa
tient ; it is therefore more worthy of attention.
It is now abstracted from a work called Medical
Philosophy, once announced to the public, tho'
not yet quite ready for the press.?Ewjuirer.
OF RUDDKNIMBATII.
When any one in cut off by sudden death,
premature interment ought always carefully t??
be avoided, and no one under such circumstances
ought to be interred until incipient putrefaction
taken place : to the living \ keeping the Imily a
day or two longer than iihouI can bo of Ii111? - or
no additional inconvenience, and it may be the
mean* of prolonging many a valuable life. In.
specting a body within a very few bourn alt'-r
death also deserves to be severely condemned.
Examples arc not wanting in Kii|?land,whcrc the
body ha* been opened so hastily after sudden
death, that the internal parU have felt warm to
the hand : at an instance of thin kind I was
unfortunately a spectator. In Heotland there i?
a custom if not a law, lot bidding the opening of
thebmly within twenty four hour* after the death,
and it is much to be regretted that the Maine pre
caution id not taken in this country.
Fainting, when it arises from an immoderntc
!o*? of blood, will present uh with every symptom
of death, but putridity, and in such a cane the
appcaranco of death nan been no great, and the
loss of sensation continued ho long, that the |
patient ha* entirely been given over, even by
d* medical attendant* j but after allowing the
liody to remain at rest for a cosidernble interval
of time, it ha* again revived, and thn patient
eventually recovered. If, under these circum
stances, the body be too hastily given over to
the rough treatment of those whose melancholy
office it into attend the dead, the feeble spark of
life will certainly be extinguished.
In several case* of hysteria the patient hn#
frequently been supposed dead, ami afterwards
recovered ? there is a horrid instance of this
kin<i related by Lam-isms. A woman, seized
with a violent lit of hysteria, was supposed to
have died, and her fi lends desired her medi*
cal attendant to open the body | as soon as the
surgeon made an incision, she shrunk from the
knife with a dreadful shriek, which hnd such an
effect on thobye^tandem, that the operator was
forced to 0/ for hit lift*
I
i.ijt once attended a cftso of thU nature, where
i- |*rc wan every nppearanco of tlcatli \ tlie body
i,lit cold, and mux oven rigid ; but, upon being
(?lit into bed, mid proper meaiM applied, the
ontieni in the am run of a few hour* recov
ered.
I li.avn Keen an account of atUuunital, noine
.vhere on the Continent, ill winch it ih Mated,
hut when a body \*u* deposited in the dead
room, the handle of a boll tli.it would ring on tlx*
diglitent motion, hah fastened in the liaml ol ft.o
leceaHed, and tliut in one instance it had given
^thu aignal of returning lift-.
*
J MISCKLI, VN Y.
Ttio subject which uncage* notice nt prcHcut
is tho conuuctof Algiers. It in now mix centu
rii'H since little mver nmcnt* liuvc been estab
lit?he<l uii the nurthern shore* of Africa ( ami
for linlf that time have been incesnnnt practisers
of piracy upon tho commerce of Kurope. Of
ten have propositions been made to put an end
to them ; but no caucus have yet combined to
pijduce a common consent in so generous a de
?i^n. Much ?n? expected from tlie ambition of
Charles II. but eventually nothing wan done.
Ki ?om Tripoli, great depredations were made on]
the Knglish trade, ho tliat a fleet wan sent in
l6r.l,to demand satisfaction. .Sir John Nar
borough blockaded up the port, and sent all Iiin
boats into the. harbor, under tho command of the
afterwards* justly celebrated Sir John Cloudesl y
Hhovel, ami burnt all their vessel*. The Tripo
litans, uitdef the alarm, made an instant peace.
Hut when a negotiation ensued for the losses tho
Knglish sustained, they refused any uc'>n???v
ledgmeot. A cannonading of Tri|?oli ensued,
but without success { and the event made the
Tripolitans more insolent. Whatever could
be destroyed by the English wan destroyed,
but the people were not more yielding. The
)kl}i-iti?h licet withdrew to Malta, and, returning
suddenly, so far intinddated the Tripolituiin an
to get peace upon their own terms. Hut soon
after, some of the vessel* of Tripoli canio back
from their piratical expeditions, expressed their
dissatisfaction, deposed the lley, and began to
lake every Kn gli>h vessel tliey met. Tho Kng
jlish a^ain ap|ieured and made a furious attack
jbn Tripoli. Tliu peace was renewed, and tlie
^persons who had violated the treaty were deli
vered op to vengeance. In a few years after
wards the same admiral was sent pg.iio*t Al
giers, who had violated Knglish property. Hy
force a peace warn obtained, but for a short time
only. Another expedition was necessary, and
three years li.nl nut elapsed hut ore it hccauie 111
dispensable. The Knglish hail coiiceivwl tlmt
bv other means thev might over-awe the Itarha
ry states. They determined to fortify on IJm
coast. The immctbP works of Tangier* were
the result of i hi a policy. The difficulty ol the
etecution did indeed rctanl. hut coultl not pie.
irnt thin work. ami the expeuM* wan intalrula.
lie. It was lininheil. and ??< a monument a>1
national energy. Hut the nation wan hooii op.
posed to a work from wl.lt h it seemed to deiive
no serious benefit, anil 1ai.iI l)art*ooutb w??
notitjiu iiuiimllHh il.c wiiikt. iiiiiI tlwVwne of the
ibility of Charles II. for maritime alVairs was
insufficient to gain public favor to thin vast ui.?
.lertuking. In the same manner have the M;i? ?
>ary states conducted in the past centn>\.?
Powerful fleets threatened destruction, anil pro
mised an end to their depredation*. Hut (he
?xpeditions. great as lliev neemeil in some few
?vent* have lol't nothing favorable to them in the
general sentiment of Kurope. The work is
just an it has been for three centurics. The
|H>aco they make whenever their policy seems
to require it, and they disregard it at the fin?t
opportunity to violate it. They have ho often
renewed their peace and violated it, tlmt it is
the system of their nfTiirs, and no nation has
any presumption bat from its power. The late
lets of the Algerines Hp?in the result of the
most desjwrat^ resolution ? hut a* lliey have no
.Inaction in tlteir measures, their violation of
pprperty and life mi'^ht an readily follow the
first burst of passion ?it tl?r* most deliberate pur -,
poses of revenge. The account* from Sardinia
ippcar to have every circumstance of pr<ibuhili?|
ty re*|iecting the fate of the Kuropeans in Ilona.l
which i* within one of the governments of AI -1
giers. Ah the life of the lley may he offered 1
upon every change of measures, it in not to he
supposed that Knroneans ran calculate upon
any knowledge they nave of the country. It i?
the force they can command, ami that only, tip.
on which they can depend. And that nation
which run display the greatest naval skill, the
most enterprise, and the most pi\?e\ering cour
age, will roiuiiiaml the best and tic* longest
peace. It can he easily understood, that wlmt
ovui obedience such a people might profess (h
any power, it must be doubtful what obedience
they would nay. It is because the court ol
Constantinople leave* them iiimh to themselves
that they seem to hold an allegiance to that
power. Nothing is real and any attempt to as.
<ert authority would produce as ready resistance
to the Turkish as to anv other gntcmutent.?
|Tha success of the influence of the I'. State
must end where it begun. In the most po*i?i\c
!demands, ami the full power to enforce them,
||>earewill be .sure through fear; but the first
|circumstance which relates fear will create war.
I The history of their treaties at the teutnle pe
i rim I we have noticed, is coofirmcd bv the hi?to
I ry ever .since. While tin v fear its thev will lo
af, peace with us. Hut even the pence will be
|attended with every wish for war, without anv
calculation what tli^ |>eace or war in.iv cost
I them. We are not to Hiip|H)se this chitriM tei of
the llnrlmy powers is common to all tlieir -ob
jects. or hehl by any in an e<jual debtee. Thev
liave the same manners at home h* tiiey have a
j broad. A.? we observed, Tunis secure* its trea
sures by its acknowlodgments to the cities o|
t Algiers and t'ouslailtiiieple. A constant jeal
lotMV exists, and the countries which are subject
i to the cities, have all the iuteickt which the con
, tending interests can give tlicm, and in their di
[vwions '.hey are more surely at the will of their
proud master*. Wo discover from Kr
that the treaty lately made between that
try and Altjie.rn l?a? been a Mubject of im|
v?*n in parliament, and public assurance
?fen given of koiiio lliiniw which arc d<
mil to be in it. 1 tn real character i* v
known. In Kurupo tins events of the
ium1 nut bci'ii agreeable to exprrtution
tlaian power* still find themselves expos
?:il uncommon irnolelicc murks tVis aite o
tical adventure*. Tho various projects 1
le.nr.e iiiunt ultimately depend upuii tin* <
ionci of tl?? maritime stress,lb of Great*
?wemurtt ? lierefore expect, while llntis!
merer i-? invaded, ami Jtritinh -.uhjectn an
ncrt v tlcHtmved, moro serious designs tu r
the llarbary Ht.itco, than f:on all other
put together.?AW.r /frgiftcr.
TIIK PAINTKR DAVID.
Thin celebrated artist, notuithsfnmli
account of his execution, published in t)|.
p?|>crrt, appear* to bo still alive. The Mi
of Jon? 21st iw?yHf that In-1 ha* been nxih
also disappointed ill inn view*. He wi:
tie employed by the kim: of I'rtiMia n* in*
of arts, hut hi* request had been refuse
Home accuiint of this extinordinary chn
\vIk? Iiiih U*(urcm! an much upon th?' politic*
a? ill tlio tiier.-roof art*, may ho interesti
Hive our render* the following particu
hint, from the pen of Sir John Can*.?-V
" During my *tay in l\irin, 1 visited 0
lory of David. Thin eeluhruted artist has
eil a fortune of upward* uf two hundred
and pound*, awl i* |termiited by hi* great
and friend, Bonaparte, to occupy tho
wing of the old paluco, from which over
man uf trcniu* and science, who watt ontl
reside there, lias been removed to other
in order to make ruo.n lor tin* reception
grand nutional lihrary, which the first cot
tend* to have deposited there. Hit assor
:ue vcrv magnificent, and ftirtiinhed i
taste, which In; has. bv the inlhicmtc of hi
ami hi* elegance of design, so widely a'
c.esnfully difliised. \\ ItiUt I \?as seated
mourn I cmild not help fancying myself .<
purary ol the most tasteful tiiu?ot tirecc
nicH and robus were caielennly but Kr:n
thrown over the ;ili<chairs, which we
rounded by elegant ?taloen, ami ancieit1
rii-s no dinponi'd an to perfect the chinnic.
?iuti. 1 luiiml hut id in hi* j;aiput;
the hack i-?m?itl on a (Minting. Hi: v.ore
ty robe and an old hat. Kit eve* are da
|?euelialiii;r, ami Ih-uui with the luitru ol'i
111* collection of panitin;n ami statue*, ai
ny ?it !?is own -tutue*, afforded a perlet
ijuet. He was then occumud in drawim;
portrait of l)una|>Mrt(!. The presence ol
coveicd the gratification with jrloom.
me. i;i toe bosom of" that art, which ia wii
her divine associates to soften tin* snuls o
I beheld tin* remor?eles* judge of his sov<
lh<-destroyer of liis brethren in art, and <
(lni .last and confidential friend of Kobe*
David** political lilr is too well Known. I
the late scenes of horror lie wan asked by
iiiiuintance, Itow many head* hud lulh-n
the ?catV<>l?l that duy t to which lie is haul
to have replied, " only one liutidied and
ty ! Tin* i.rnds of twenty thousand nmn
tail liefo,e the threat work of |j)iiluso(>hy
accomplished."
" It is related of him, that during; flip
of the Mount.nit, he carried his port folio
front of the scaffold tu catch the hint en
of expiring nature from the victim* of lii>
lutionary rage.
?? lie directed and presided at the up
funeral solemnities of Lepellcticr, who v
ba?suiat? il at I'at is, in which hi* taste a
trniHic knowledge ??l* the ceremonies of t
cient* on similar occasion*, were eminent
played.
" i'he great abilities of thin man alone ci
iiim to survive the revolution, which, stra
relate, linn, throughout its ravages, presv
veneration Ibr science, and in general pro
her distinguished follower*, Ilnnnptute
| possesses great taste, *> that instinct supci
| st'tdv, Hmer tnan reasoning. and more
j than reflection,' entertains the greatest
| ration for the genius of David. aitd alnnv
suits him in the arrangement of his pai
| and statues. All the costume* of govcn
I have been designed by the artist.
u David is not without bin adherent*. 1
many pupils, the moiih of res ectable, ami
ol them noble families, residing in dii
parts of Kurope. They arc paid to be mu
tacheii to him. and have formed themselve
a military cnrp?, for the purpose of occasii
i'oiiijj honor to him, and were latelv at the
ol revenging an insult, which hnd Ih'< !i o
to his peison, in a manner whirl), if pevnet
would have required the interest ol their n
to have saved tiiein from Hie scaffold.
| '? lint neither the |> rations prolp'tion <?l
| tnlar In vol*, nor the splendor of urn 'called
|ti?-s ran restore their polluted
i affection* and endearment* of sm inl mien ?
! flumauitv ha* drawn a ?:;Me circle ronni:
j lie lead* the lift* of a ? ?rmcribed e\ife in t'
t rv centre o* the i:ave*t cty in Kurope. I
I iflooniv ihftile of iiiiv'owcn ?erlu-i-m. Ihm
hi* uti'jladileneil hours, in t'ie hopes of
I In* guilt with his irlory. and of |.'r?i m ?
, posterity. h\ the energies of his ii.j'i?H?
i liiil*, -ome atonement for the l.jv ac ami i
; that political hurt i? ane, of which h<* dne<t<
? ?11 v ami befriended the i'esol.?tioiis a';
| i % t otempurarv object that ualure had etid?
? <nd virtue consecrated/*
Mt 'sir
A IMiibnionher of London, h.i* d *rover?
1 importa t ?!efect in the prevailing theoiy ol
| iiioiiv, ft? ui the evifctenre >>f v?l irh no om
hitherto b en ?b'e to remove nuomroiis in
!fi'(tioti* from keved mu*ical instrument*, v
? have been long a reproach lo t;.; *Jen
Harmonies, ami which lender ?? im|w?*ibl
' a good voire t.# accompany t'lem in *1 ?w m
? such as wined ^ettfilly i*. Vhi? gcntU