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At a Meeting of a General Committee of the LONDON INFIRMARY for CURING DisEASES of the EYE, held the 11th of March, 1818, specially convened to receive the Report of a Committee appointed at a special and numerous Meeting of the General Committee, on the 21st of November, 1817, to take into consideration a Pamphlet, entitled "A Letter to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital, containing an exposure of the measures resorted to by the Medical Officers of the London Eye Infirmary, for the purpose of retarding the adoption and execu tion of plans for the extermination of the Egyptian Ophthalmia from the Army and from the Kingdom, submitted for the approval of Government."-By Sir WILLIAM ADAMS.

The following Resolutions were passed unanimously

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That the Report of the Special Committee, and the Letters of Dr. FARRE, of the 3d and 10th instant, which have now been read, be published, and that a copy be delivered to every Governor of the Infirmary.

That this Committee entertain the highest sense of the talents, integrity, and zeal, of Dr. FARRE, which, whether called into exertion by motives of public benevolence, of private friendship, or of professional duty, have alike advanced the interests of this institution.

That this Committee acknowledge with great satisfaction the important services derived to this Charity, from the able and upright professional conduct of BENJAMIN TRAVERS, Esq. F.R.S. and WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Esq. F.R.S.

That the acknowledgments of this Committee are also eminently due to RICHARD BATTLEY, Esq. Honorary Secretary, who, during the course of Thirteen Years, has, on every occasion, manifested an anxious zeal for, and has contributed extensively to the advancement of, the interest of this institution.

That this Committee cannot conclude the subject which has recently engaged their attention, without the deep and pointed expression of their regret, that the duty of a public appeal in explanation of the manage

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ment of the Infirmary, and of the conduct of the Officers of the Charity, should have become necessary; nor without expressing a hope, that a plain and simple regard to truth, will prevent the necessity of any further similar proceeding.

The affairs of India, according to the last accounts received from Bengal and Madras, are pregnant with interest, and it is admitted in the ministerial papers that they are not wholly free from grounds of fear. There appears a system of co-operation among the native princes, that will require all the force we have in the East to subdue. -The Marquis of Hastings evidently perceives the approaching storm, and is making active preparations to meet every contingency, and we are assured is perfectly confident of success. In October, the whole of the army was in the field at Madras, and the army of Bombay was similarly situ ated. Considerable reinforcements have been ordered, and every necessary arrangement has been made for carrying into effect ulterior objects of the greatest importance, as the governor-general was moving up the country with a large staff. One great object of his Excellency, it is understood, is to insist that a subsidiary force shall be placed on each of the Mahratta chiefs ;-that is, an English force is to occupy the bead-quarters, and hold the person of the Indian Prince, having a district of country assigned for their maintenance, and an English Ambassador at the Court to take care of their interests. This is already partially the case, but according to the projected plan it is to be now general. The Indian army is to be considerably strengthened, and the Directors have each had the nomination of nine Cadets, the present winter, though their usual number has been two. The state of affairs in India is such, that we expect to have important intelligence from that quarter by the next arrivals from Bengal or Madras.

Accounts from Germany state, that the Emperor of Austria is about to resume the title of Emperor of Germany; that his eldest son will be called King of Germany, and his brother, the Archduke Charles, be ap•* pointed Grand-Marshal of the Empire.

HE Rev. P. S. Fisher, A. M. to the vicarage of Barbage, Wilts, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. J. Russell; patron, the Rev. Fisher, Prebendary of the cathedral chur h Sarum.

The Rev. W. Do aster, B.D. to the rectory of Winterborn Bassett, Wilts, vacant by the death of Dr. Chester; patrons, the President and Scholars of St. Mary Magdalen College, in Oxford.

The Rev. T. Davis, rector of St. Martin, Sarum, to hold by dispensation of the vicarage of Idmiston.

James F. Saunders, Esq. agent for Lloyd's Coffee House at the Mauritius, has been appointed by the Honourable East India Company, their agent at that island.

The Rev. J. Brett, M.A. to the rectory of Mount Bures, Essex.

Rev. Robert Eyres Landor, B.D. vicar of Hughendon, Bucks, to be chaplain to H.R. H. the Prince Regent.

Rev. A. E. Hobart succeeds the Rev. P. Thornton, as prebendary of the collegiate church of Wolverhampton.

yet received any particulars relatting to the precise time, or to the particular disease, which deprived the world of so bright an example of military virtue as the late Hetman Platoff. But we know, from unquestionable authority, that he was in a declining state so early in the last year as September. About that time we were informed from Teherkash, that his Excellency was then far from well. The fatigues of the campaign of the year 1812 began to manifest their effects after the stimulus of martial ardour and that of travelling had subsided; the state of exhaustion was, in proportion, extreme; and he laid himself upon his bed of thickly-gatherd laurels, to rest, and to find refreshment; but the attempt was in vain. Nature had been over-tasked, and he sleeps in death.

We must all remember this hero of the Don, pursuing the enemies of his country like "the blast of the desert." We must all remember him in his visit to England, mild of aspect, and gentle in manners-more like the Patriarch of his people than the Champion of nations, winged with the energy of youth in its primest vigour. Only a few months have intervened between the death of this venerable Chief of the Cossacks; venerable in years and in honours; and the death of Alexander Prince Scherbattoff, his Second in command, a man in the meridian of his days, and of his comprehensive services to Russia, who had also to date the germs of his fatal illness from the victorious fields of 1812. These two illustrious warriors had the satisfac

tion of sharing, side by side, the dangers and the glories of that campaign. They have both died victims to its severity, and both will have a tomb in every brave heart, a memorial that must exist when marble monuments are no more.

But the reputation of a consummate General was not the only excellence in the character of the Hetman of the Cossacks. During the investment of the invader's territory by the allied troops, and their consequent inroads upon the French country, he heard that, near one of the spots destined for pillage, might be found the residence of Thaddeus Kosciusko, late General of the Poles, who lived there in the occupation and seclusion of a peasant. Platoff dispatched a party of his Cossacks to protect the person and the property of that great man, once the adversary of three invading Sovereigns, but now, even more illustrious in his obscurity and helplessness, than when at the head of his Sarmatian troops. Kosciusko and Platoff met; it was the embrace of two brave hearts, as honest as brave. Such hearts are well un derstood in England. When Platoff related the incident to the narrator of this paragraph, it was with more than one tear in his eye; and precious are the tears which are drawn by the admiration of virtue. He knew how to value Kusciusko; for he knew

that he had not only defended his country against a press of foreign usurpation, but had refused wealth from the late Emperor Paul, and twice rejected the throne of Poland, from Napolean Buonaparte. Rather than receive a pension from the enemy of his country, or be the crowned satellite of any emperor upon earth, he retired to a miserable village in France, and fed himself on bread and water by the labour of his hands. If this be not honest patriotism, where is it to be found? He, too, is in his grave. Nay, let us, as Christians, hope that he has rejoined the heroes who were his personal friends, if his political enemies, in another and a better world.

Lately, on board the Honourable Company's ship the Thomas Grenville, on her passage from the Cape to Calcutta, Joseph, son of E. Johu Collett, Esq. M.P. Southwark.

Lately, the Rev. Charles Marshall, vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire, aged 74.

Captain Fitzclarence, eldest son to the Duke of Clarence. He was a young man of uncommon energy of character, and of talents and acquirements. He was an admirable linguist, and, as we understand, was about to return to England, with the view of being employed in the Diplomacy, for which he was peculiarly qualified.

Lately, Lieutenant-Colonel Erskine, Lord Erskine's youngest son, on his passage to Ceylon.

SEPT. 24, 1817. At Cambay, East Indies, the Rev. John Rawlins, son of John Raw. lins, Esq. and a chaplain on the Bombay

establishment.

JAN. 24. At Edinburgh, Robert Beatson, LL.D. F.R.S. Edin, late barrack master at Aberdeen. He was born in 1742, at Dysart, in the county of Fife, and bred to the military profession. In 1756 he obtained an ensigney, and the following year accompanied the expedition to the coast of France. He afterwards served as lieutenant at the attack on Martinique and Guadaloupe, and, about 1766, retired on half pay. On the commencement of the American war, he endeavoured to obtain employment in a situation suitable to his former services, but without success, and since that time chiefly devoted himself to literary pursuits. His publications are-" A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland," 8vo. 1786; of which a third edition, in 3 vols. appeared a few years ago." Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to the present Time," 3 vols. 8vo. 1790; 2d edit. 6 vols. 1804.-" View of the memorable Action of the 27th July, 1778," 8vo. 1791.-" Essay on the Comparative Advantages of Vertical and Horizontal Windmills," 8vo. 1798.. -"Chronological Register of both Houses of Parliament, from 1708 to 1807," 3 vols. 8vo. 1807.-Dr. Beatson contributed several papers to the "Communica

tions to the Board of Agriculture,” of which he was an honorary member.

FEB. 17. At Gibraltar, in the 54th year of his age, (and was buried with military honours,) Joseph Larcom, Esq. late captain in his majesty's navy, and naval commissioner at Malta.

24. Mr. Benjamin Halls, of Harlow, Essex, aged 66.

25. At Hampstead, Mrs. Key, widow of the late John Key, Esq.

At Pentonville, Mrs. Jane Jones, wife of Mr. Samuel Jones, of Barnard's Inn, Holborn.

In South Audley-street, the Hon. Sir George Berkeley, G.C.B. This gallant Admiral was the first person who gave the popalar toast, "A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether."

Joseph Towle, Esq. of Woolwich,

Catherine Maria Cotton, widow of the very Rev. George Cotton, LL.S. Dean of Chester.

26. Mrs. Roberts, of Montague-square, widow of John William Roberts, Esq, formerly chief of the Honourable East India Company's China establishment.

At Knightsbridge, Mr. William Bates, of Putney.

Of a typhus fever, Mr. John Firmin, of Hatfield Broad Oak, aged 42; and, on the following morning, Miss Grange, aged 27. Miss Grange was to have been married to Mr. Firmin, on the 17th inst. but, after an illness of only fourteen days, they patiently resigned themselves to the Divine Will.

27. At Hammersmith, aged 73, Mrs. Ann Wilson, upholder, Strand.

28. Wr. W. L. White, son of Mr. White, chemist, Haymarket.

At Lewes, in the 80th year of his age, William Campion, Esq.

In Upper Seymour-street, at an advanced age, General Edmund Fannin.

MAR. 1. At Richmond, Henry Tillard, son of Major Purvis, 1st, or Royal Dragoons, aged eight years.

At Rochester, Mary, wife of the Rev. Francis Barrow.

2. In the 46th year of his age, at BromJey, Kent, John Cowell, Esq. of Bygrave, Herts, and formerly of Margate, in the Isle of Thanet.

At the Rev. John Rush's, Chelsea, Miss Eliza Chambers, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

3. At Haydon Wells, in the 70th year of his age, Richard Tuckey, Esq.

4. At Windsor, in the 87th year of her age, Mrs. Henley, widow of the Rev. Phocion Henley.

The Dowager Viscountess of Arbuthnot. 6. In Parsonage-row, Newington, Mr. Mark Haddock, aged 81.

Emma Georgiana Elizabeth, daughter of the late Erasmus Darwin, M.D. of the Priory, near Derby, aged 33.

In Lower Grosvenor-street, the Hon. J. A. Stuart Wortley Mackenzie.

At Bromley, Kent, aged 60, John Gifford, Esq. many years one of the police magistrates

at the office in Worship-street, and Marlbo rough-street. The remains of this sound scholar, powerful writer, genuine patriot, upright and sagacious magistrate, were interred at Bromley, in Kent. The funeral was simple, attended only by a very few intimate friends, among whom were some of the committee of the Pitt Club, of which the departed Gentleman was honorary secretary, a due tribute to his memory, as the impartial biographer of our immortal statesman. Mr Gifford has left a widow and seven children; and, therefore, as his works in defence of loyalty and the true principles of our unri valled constitution are well known and much admired, we trust that government will not neglect the family of so able an advocate, and so strenuous a supporter.

7. In Upper Brook-street, the Lady Caroline Wrottesley, of Wrottesley, Staffordshire, and eldest daughter of the Earl of Tankerville.

At Kentish Town, aged 76, William Wilmot, Esq.

In Bothel-place, Camberwell, Dr. Henry High, late deputy inspector of hospitals in the island of Ceylon.

13. In Oxford-street, Mr. Robert Bradberry, patent spectacle maker, in the 69th year of his age.

14. At Cheltenham, the Rev. Jos. Wells, D.D. of Cowle-place, Devon.

At Leyton, Mr. Joseph Hibbert, of Jewrystreet, wine merchant, aged 78.

15. At Purse Cross, Fulham, John Druce, Esq. navy agent, and one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex.

In Bath, Marianne Juliana Watson, daugh ter of the late Lieutenant-colonel Watson, and grand-daughter of the late Bishop of Llandaff.

John Nixon, Esq. late of Basinghall

streat.

Miss Dodd, daughter of the late Rev. Richard Dodd, of Camberwell.

16. At Bath, the Rev. John Burgess, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.

Walter Ruding, Esq. of Westcotes, near Leicester. Mr. R. had retired to rest at his accustomed hour, in his usual good state of health, after attending divine service twice in the course of the day; but, about four o'clock the following morning, he was sud denly seized with an apoplectic fit, and expired before his physician (Dr. Arnold) arrived, aged 70.

17. At Bath, the Rev. Edward Lambert, rector of East Horsley, Surrey.

At Walworth, Mr. Gavin Glennie, in the 59th year of his age.

William Allies, sen. Esq. of the Upper House, Alfrick, in the county of Worcester, aged 81.

Aged 67, at Harlow, Mr. Stephen Barber, formerly of Camberwell, sincerely regretted by his family and friends.

At Sydenham, Kent, aged 82, Hugh French, M.D. one of his majesty's justices

the peace, and a deputy Lieutenant for that County.

18. Much regretted, Mrs. Mary Carr, aged 66, wife of Mr. Thos. Carr, of Crookedlane, Cannon-street.

At Paddington, Mr. Robert Gardner, aged 78.

Mrs. Wood, widow of Benjamin Wood, Esq. formerly of Bishopsgate-street, in the 734 year of her age.

19. At Stoke Newington, Mrs. Parker, widow of the late Henry Parker, Esq.

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James Alleyne Hendy, M.D. sou of the late Dr. Hendy, of Barbadoes. In the death of whom we are led to contemplate the sad vicissitudes of life, and to say with the poet "There's nothing here but what as nothing weighs;

The more our joy, the more we know it vain, And by success are tutor'd to despair"

as well as to acknowledge that his early removal from a life marked with many trying domestic afflictions, and much bodily sufferings, that, "though to him to die was gain," yet that those who knew him, most lament, in his loss, that of a man endowed with the most brilliant talents, added to a perspicuity beyond that generally allotted to man; with which was blended, an education of the most cultivated, as a private gentleman, and the most extensive as a physician, in which cha racter he shone so eminently conspicuous, that we may give unto him that honour which the scriptures enjoin, as, "Honour a physician with the honour due unto him, for the uses which you may have of him, for the Lord hath created him." And, though it pleased the Almighty to summons him in the prime of life from the prosecution of a profession in which he gloried, and to the discharge of the duties of which he added the most endearing, the most consolatory qualifications, of the friend, the soother, not only of the sufferer, in whose behalf he exerted the most unremitted energy of practice, chastened with the soundest judgment, but also of the surrounding relatives and friends, to whose feelings he was most peculiarly

alive; yet had he lived long enough to verify that "the skill of the physician shalf lift up his head, and in the sight of men he shall be in admiration." For many years he struggled under the mortifying pressure, to, a mind like is, of talents, as it were, lying dormant, though early calculated to have shone forth; yet did those talents and superior qualifications, notwithstanding every disadvantageous circumstance, within the last few years, rise superior to every barrier that was opposed to their progress; and he has died rich in the estimation and respect of a large and extensive circle of friends and connexions, by whom he is considered as a public loss, as well as to that science in which he delighted to communicate his extensive knowledge. The sad task of attending the sick and dying beds of many of his dearest connexions, independent of the loss of his only son and eldest daughter, whose peculiarity of early perfection can only be marked by saying she seemed heaven-born from her cradle; added to excessive fagging in his profession, with a mind fraught with too keen sensibility, for a frame at all times delicate, brought him into a most dangerous state of health, in the autumn of 1816, which obliged him to recede from business for some time; but the kind and skilful exertions of some of the most eminent of the profession, who honoured him with their sincere regard and friendship, restored him to that degree of health which enabled him to' resume his arduous duties in the end of December, 1816, and which he pursued, though soon after again attacked by disease, in a most formidable aspect (which he bore with unparralleled fortitude), till within three weeks of the termination of all his earthly sufferings, all his earthly solicitudes; which were greatly aggravated by the reflection, that after struggling for 14 years, and beginning to reap the rewards of his arduous toils, he was cut off from the bright prospects which awaited him, and denied the fond delight of providing for his wife and family; who, by his death, add to the daily distressing examples of the instability of all human expecta

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HE Traveller's Guide down the Rhine, by A. Schreiber, Historiographer to the Grand Duke of Baden,

A small Pocket Volume, on the Police of the Metropolis.

The publication of the "Regent's Edition" of the Latin Classtes (somewhat re