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OMISSIONS. Cffj 5 y he • fcHowitig dflicks hare in me not altogether unlntercfting.'^ been tut although old, thy ■ ■ From (he New York. Ewcmng Pofl. Sin—It appears from .an article in your p- r-r nf i;4:i cvc ing. rrni! a.: enquiry into the .-infes of the fpotted fever i^ about to Jake p'ace : uo iubject of more micrcil has *v-.-,- engaged the attention of the Medical pr ,feiTionJ If I am com&ly informed by fcv r£. iiitdiigent medical ftadents from the T.- i'v n ^aas of this (late, ir is a general 01. inion among the Phyiicians theie, that the fitted f<wer i3 cao» d by the ufe of Irend 01 whifkey made of ergot or fpurrcd rye. The evil effects of thtf mi/.-bolefome ab'n-ent have long been k..owu on the contr¬ ol France and In Gcrma- nent of Europe. tij particularly, dMiru-£live epi Ernies have ften • c'.v dtiUnctly haced to this f.nirce.— iii „., the }:;•.' 177" Tv'r T-.frer, or:e of the iscmber* of the Royal Society of Medicine in Pr.ri-, war deputed to trav%1 through the province of Sologne, in order fo acquire in¬ formation cm thi*t<i\j.-&- It appears from iu's enquiries, that the ergot is found in othei i_.1a.it> bolide rye, viz barley, o-ts and wheat, "but in fmailer quantity. Schmeider attn- b:i» d the format! n of ergot ton villous iubftaUce that pene'rat--d 'he grain with the •Jew, and then oc tinned a fort of f^rmen- tati iri. by which a fungus fhot forth that hardened into ergots Other phyfician*, and e.oeeinlly Tillet, finding ftaiu inkers in the difcafcd g:a:n.=, attributed to them the for¬ mation of ergot- and all are agreed that this dife-afe of the i-tain was gre:t-y favoured by fteviiiry, a moift and (leiile foil, and wet fea- fyns. In order to prevent the difenfe in tire grain, Dr Read, Phyfician of the Military Hofj ttal of Mcntz, advifes that all the dif- eafed fts'ks fbould be carefully gleaned afur the harveft and horned, and that no grain fhou'.d be railed from feci which i> not per¬ fectly healihv. or if this cannot be done, th:t the gram be writhed in Km'*-water, in order to dcilroy any infects that may be lodged in it. In 1596, the Faculty of Me¬ dici e of Marbourg, published a treat;!e on a convulfive epidemic, which they declared arofe from the life of ergot. Many patients remained Hispid until death ; thofe "who efcoped, recovered imperfectly, and were particularly ill during the month* of Janu¬ ary 3?d February. The diftafe appeared contar loaf, and affec^^d armfes, many of w!v - (%d in a fl-.te of lefh,a^,=-Jfl }6<j*, throughout fereral cantons of Germany, many lerfotvj were h'V.ed with a kind ct in- tox'ca*'on. head ache, vertigo, con (Ian t nau- fea. and confiderabl^ fweliinr of the face, fymptom? which were attributed to the ufe of br.ad made of ereoty grain. The dif:afe wrv fero-.e-' ergotifra.— About the beginning ©f 'he Jail century, a convnlfive ejiidemic ra¬ vaged feveral c.intons (.f Saxony and Sweden. At 01 e '.f the feafons in which it prevailed wit1, the preate't violence, the rye contained one third of er£ >t. Tlie villages firua^d in rrr«;f]:y ground fared word, and there wa3 con-;.ar?.tiv\lv little ficknefs in laroe towns. The patients were attacked with fpafms, convnhions, rnd inexprefTible pain, fnch as v.'ouhd be produced by atcempts to difl.cate a bone, which came on by paroxyfms ; in the i'lterva'.-, they con id atrend to their bu- finefs. Atter the paroxyfm, fome had a voracious appetite, which led to acts of in- tempera'ce that were quickly fata? ; others fell into a lethargy, which, if it d\,\ not prove fatal, was fucceeded by vertigo, ex¬ treme veaknefs and flirTncfs in the Kmbs. On i'lTecrion, blood was found extravafoted on 'the chert, and there were traces of in- fkmmat'on of the lungs ; the heart was re- maikably flaccid, and it^ ventricles empty ; the blood-vclTcls appeared to be filled with bile; fome gangrenous fpota were ken on the liver and fpleen. The tfftimony of Dr3. Th'n'^ier and Doda't fufficiently eitablifhes the fr6r, that the erj;ct is capable of pro- d'^rmjr malignant typings fever and gangrene cf the extremities. Upon the whole, there en » be no doubt rhrit it is a very deleterious £i•' (lance, and that it«; effects upon the hu¬ man fy(r>m are modified by varion? circom. fiances, which perhaps the prefent (fate "f our knnv led>;e dc?^ not ptrnu't us to apore- crat^. If is an c-bjecl of v terefling enqn.iry b^'w far rhe powers of ergot may be modi¬ fied by oifli'llation and ccrr.bimtion with al- C'b.o'ic liquor^., and whether this or any Cthcr ranfe, fufTkicr'tly explain why the ufe of ogor in Europe produces a convnlfive ertd^mtc termirating in typhus, ard, in o'hr inftar.GfS, the dry gangrene d^fcribed bv P.aron Boycr. while in America it caufe9 a ci'f.a e m many refpecis unlike either. \t U iind^rdood that the Medical Infritu- t'ori or" this c'ty are alv>nt to rfff-r a prize for tv. bell differtation on this fubjecl. S. <pire, of this village, the Coroner who tot>k the inqnifition of the dead bodies, and U,-, M'Chefney. who was one of the Jurors-^ Their knowledge is derived from their c:i. animation of the bodies—the coufefTion gf the murderer, and the evidence adduced be¬ fore thejn-y. On Sunday the 18th inrtant, Mr Michael Scarborouirh, of Louisville, cr. (Ted the Si. La;wrence river to Cornwall, whence he was to proceed on Monday to Montreal—leaving at home, his wife aged twenty four years—a lovely girl of two years an infant of three month?, and lean Baptise Macuc a French fervent boy of fourteen yea; s old. y/b mt 12 o'clock on the fame djVs jean Baptifte Gi-iteau, a little, blxc.k looking- Canadian Freixhman, left MafT-; >a village under pretence of going to Quebec, but went immediately t*^ Mr. Scarborough's boufe, about two mile;-)'where he Maid f/xing his plac of operations for tlie ni^h.; ; from the ho ufe he went to the wood-—tlaid till dark, went into the barn of Mr. Scarbotou^h, fi.pt till 401-5 o'clock in the morning—went to the h. ule—entered a back door into an en¬ try wny— pafied into a cellar—ate a harty bicikfall—came up—took an axe from thf entry way—went into a large ro-m where the ferv: i.t boy was fl;eping by a Hove— warmed himfclf—went into the adjoining room where Mrs. S. with the infuit on her arm and iuile ghi by her 6de, were afleep— ib)od feveral minwtea, locking at Mrs. S. and then at the trunk which contained the c-/fh—at length he determined, for Ids own fecurity, to add murder to roobery—He levelled the axe twice at the neck of Mrs. S. which fevered the bone and artenis and altr-o't fevered the head from the body — She died without a ftrnggle. The head of tin- axe wa^ let into the infant's head from the fore¬ head to 'lie crown—the child lived about four hours. The little girl has three moka of the axe on her head and one on her (boul¬ der—her head is much fw«Hea~~it u not \\i ascertained whether the fTcull is fractured—- fomr ho;v.:c of fisr rcooveiy. From the btrfiroorn hs* rdiirncd to the (erven? boy, gave him a blow and cut hi- throat (h< wa-i brother to the murdirers wile) tin n re- turned to the bedroom, opened a trim!: tool! out a bar.kercbief containing; tweity-two dollars and eighty iitf cents in (pecie—li? expeclcd ftve-hundre<l dollars. A quantity of gold remained in-the trunk u idifc -vr-red.- On Monday morning, Mr. Field, of Muffennj went to the ho ufe on an errand *>*d mndc tb-> difenvery—he immediately gave the alarm^ the firfl who arrived were the father, mother^ and brother of the fervant boy. It fnowecJ during the nr<d»t—Mr. Ovvis, and other' gentlemen of MafTena, on horfeback, took iheffa'cko/ the nnifderer arid puriocd him about twelve nu'les, when they came up and took him, within two- miles of St. Rett's village—He afferted \\in innocence, while his blood Rained hands and clothes declared his guilt, until brought into the room where the bodies were, when he confeffedthe whole; and rco^uefted that his pricft{a Catholic)might be fent for to pardon him. He is now in the county gaol, V/eIl feeured in Irons. He hfroffi St Anne, Lower Canada, (as he fays) where his father, brother, and filter livs. Mr S. was immediately informed of the fit nation of his family and returned. It is not in the power of language to defcribe his diftrefs, it would be mockery to attempt it. m y ap- Fr'-m the Pats flow GfZfffe of February 24. ate :;<jii !' \r^ Jre indtLtecl to Caleb Hough, llf- ' 'it ;rjc a ui.uifirri Kv/r-znie uj rcur nary 24. fr. 'u 'Jcr and Bofdcry !—■ F r the folic wing Jcu t <r Mm dzr* hoxrid bvyi nd ^e'erip- / DIED, At his refidence near Oneida Castle* on Monday the i ith olt. Skfnanbon, the eel- ebrated Oneida Chief, aged i io years. In his youth he was a brave and intrepid warrior, and in his riper years one of the a- blest counfellors among the North American tribes. He poffeiTed a strong- and vigorous mind and thouoh terrible as the tornado in war, he was bland and mild a.; the zephyr in peace. With the cunning of the fox, the hungry perfeverancc of the wolf, and the a- gility of the mountain cat, he watched and repelled Canadian invafions. His vigilance once preferven from maffacre the inhabitants of the infant fettlement of Germanfl ;t3. Kis influence brought his tribe to our afhstance it the war of the RevohuiOn. The number of the living, and the dead that have been fa- ved from the tomahawk and leal ping knife by his friendly aid is not known ; but indi¬ viduals and villages have expreTed gratkude for his bent volent interpolations, and among the Indian tribes he was distinguished by the appellation of the " White man's fiiend." Although he could fpeak but little Eng lihh. and in his extreme old age was blind" yet his company was fought Jn cnveifati' on he was highly decorous, evincing tint h" had profited by feeing civilized and poli(hede fociety, and by mingling with good company in his better day*. To a friend who called on him a fhort time fince. he thus exprciTed himfclf by an interpreter .• " 1 am an aged hemlock : the winds of an hundred winters has whirled through my branches ; I am dead at the top. The gen¬ eration to which I belonged have run away and left me ; why I live the Great good Spirit only knows% Tuy to my Jefis^ that a I may have the patience to wait tor pointed time to die." . From a London Paper. The following are fome further particu¬ lars refpe&ing the lad moments of Msrfhal Nev:— When the judgment was announced to him, he faid, * it would have /- a more mi- litary to have Jd'uU you nre to bite the drift At the execution, he endeavoured to protcll igainft the iniquity of the I'entence, and ap¬ pealed to God and poflerity.—The officer commanding the veterans attempting to give the word, appeared ft ruck dumb. I/Efpi- nofs (the commander of the military divi- fion; then faid, " officer, if you cannot com¬ mand, I wili;'* the latter remaining fiUnt, the Mar thai himfelf faid, " foldicrs, do your duty," upon which the platoon ordered for the purpofe, tired at random ; only five out orfixceen balls fired, (truck the Marfhal, who fell upon his knees and died inftantly.—The officer recovering himfelf, faid, ic there h fc\\ a platoon, let them foot me alfo." The ciheer is put under an arreft. Marfhal Ney was vefterdav buried at the cimetery of La Chalfe. Madame Ney was accompanied to the 1 nuilleries bv her four children and fif- tcr ; (he remained in the Salon de la fiaix fome time before the Due de Dtlras came to inform her that me could not be received by the King, and leading her down the grand ftaircafe, acquainted her with the mournful execution ; (he fainted, and with difficulty removed to her carriage, a mid ft the cries of her children and the lamentations of the fpe&ators of the diftreiiing fcene___She had feveral times endeavoured to fee the Duchefs d'Angooleme, near whofe perfon fhe had bee > brought up when a child ; the Duchefs, ho-vver, as well as the Princes, conftamly rsfufed to fee her. Mnlame Auguie, Madame Mev's mother, was in the femce of Marie Antoinette, her grier at whofe death wis fo fevere, that in a moment of diftrd&i -n Civ: threw lierfelf out of a window, a»id died upon the fpot. When the titles of Ney were enumerated in his fentence, he obnrved, t4 What is the ufe of all this ? Now Michel Ney ; prtfent- }y a handful of dull—-that's all !" BONAPARTE. A letterfiom St. Helena fay?—" Booaparte is at prefent roft narrowly watched, and on parole not to go bey md the limits of the little rarden, Sic. firrnindiuT the cottage he inhibirs He his aKvay-* about his txrfon IB oiLer, aHd at leail fcw8 ttr ihiee (cijehts. N.Uwithftandingal! tills, he is never heard to compl u'n. but feems perfectly calm, and re- figned to hi* fare. He ftill keep^ up his dignity with thofe about him, and £hey nev¬ er approach him covered, nor do they wear their hats in his prefence. I remarked, the day I dined with the Admiral, during our outward bound paflage, that he bad a plate of each dim on the table put before him by his fervant, and fane he pprtodk of, others was removed whhoot his eating any. The fame ceremony was observed in handing round wine ; a glafs Teach fort on a lalvcr was occafionaUy orefented, arid, if inclined, he drank one; if not, the fairer wan remo¬ ved without hi- fpeak fug. He always pro- ferved a greu degree of ftatelinefs. He nev¬ er alked bow he was to be difpofed of, and was perfectly pafiive in every trait'aclion." London, Dec. 9. The fat'lorp of the Northumberland obli- g?d Bonaparte to pay the tribute to Neptune on pam*«g the line for the firfl; time, as well as all the perfons of his fnit. Bonaparte fubmitted to the ceremony with a very good r»race and paid roo Napoleons to old Nep¬ tune. Paris, Dec rrj — A letter from BruiTels announces that on the '1.4th there a-rived from Paris a convoy of precious etTecrs be¬ longing to the king of Spain, which joieph brought away at the time of his retreat.— Th? value of them is incalculable* They are to be conveyed to Antwerp, guarded by a w detachment of Euglifh cavalry, where they ill be embarked for Spain. • • The King of Spain has juft created two new military orders—that of St Ferdinand and St. Hermcnegilde ; and a third order of Knighthood, under the name of ** Royal American Order of lfabella the Catholic." All the Britiih troops have now with¬ drawn from Paris. On Saturday !aft, at live in the morning, Colonel K'Kinnon, com¬ manding the rear guard, delivered up the (heights of Montmartre to the French troops. This was the laft pott delivered up. From the Troy Post of Feb. 6. The Duke of Wellingim has received (from Lnnis XVIII,the order of the Con- tdon Bleu. His Majefty alfo prefentcd his (Grace with the eftate of Groi bois, and con- fferred on him the title of Due de Bra no is, jl- is faid Marfhal MafTena has been arrefted .^t thefronti-vj : hi* health is fo bid that jhis life is defpaired of. Ktnoston, May 25, 1816. I * * * # • * * • * • - * * Fo*' the Kingston Gazette. fuch a niQgilhnefs in enforcing 11 *j Mr. Miles, SIR, It is a fubje6t of deep regret to many that the executive or raagittfacy (houlj Hi-.-.v the hw6 of tiw frovmce, ii is particularly t > bedtpWeil^ for far as thofe laws relate to perfons calliu'r themfclvcs doctors, not only our fortunes but our lives are in the hands of thofe defpica- b'eQroacks. How does if happen tha*a« aft ot the feflion of 1S15 is not acted upon 5 i< it becaufe that a<5l is unvvife ? or is it be- caufe the executive does not thick trof (nf~ ftcient importance to put it in operation > if the firft why not expunge it from the laws of the province I if the latter, what h the?- ufe of a lioofe of affembly at all. Perhaps, Mr. Editor j you and other ref- pecb.blc gentlemen living iri town, wbo- h-»ve accefs to, and knowledge to- value the mciits or thofe praclifmg medicine, may not fee. fo much as I do the miferable fitnation of the country,, but, fir, if the health of the fuhiect is not a matter of fufficient importance to roufe the morbid fallibility of thofe whofe duty it is to adminilter the laws, I fbouM imagine that in a political point of view it would be a matter of great importance to look after thofe quack foi'es who are daily inundating the province, thofe men (mod brutal, generally fpeaking, in their manner?** and in their conduct immoral is the highelt degree,) go from lioufr to honfe like pevl- rars, dealing out their poffonous pi Is and herbs, ami holding ont to the gaping ignor¬ ant, the advantages of a republican govern- ment. But to give you an in fiance of the contemptible conduct of one of thofe anim¬ als nearer yoorfclf. During the laft ieiTion of the peace I had ocenf/ou to be in Kings¬ ton, and althoigh I lodged in a private houfe I had occafion to call one morning at a t iv» era : while fpeaking to the landlady in the bar, in comes a dr>ct >r and called for a gill of brandy. — He drank it—in the coirrfe of which he put a great many qucllio.is to her about the health of her cuftomcrs, and final¬ ly faid he would leave fome fe^cr powders*- a** it wai likely'the country people would be getting drunk (as he termed it,) and would require medicine Tlie lady thanked1 him, and faid, if fhe wanted any medical aid (he knew where to fend for it. To conclude, Mr. Editor, the eonfequen- <&* V-f te \\Kk*{ fjffom \W\ fee. ^ ^he ftri\ place,, to prevent native merit entering inro the profeffion ; fecondly, thole few iefpec~ta- ble and regularly educated meji whom* we. will either leave the pro v. ince or get a miferable fubiiftence if they re¬ main ; and billy, though not the Feaft, ihe province will be in fome decree cevolutloni* zed by thofe emfHaries oi a licentious bt • 11c. VERITAS. ddolphusloivrt, May 14, 18»6. have amorwft us re- ••• London, March 9. Briiijh fhtpi hi the Mediterranean- — We have aiiihorfty for afTeriing that the impor¬ tant fubjedt of the abufes of tlie ^ritifh flig, by beiagaiTumed by all defcriptmns of for¬ eign veAIls, has been taken up by govern¬ ment with a promptitude much to its honor, and with a fpiiit which will be efficacious in its redrefs» Orders have been fent of amoft preempto* ry nature to the Britifh Confuls and Vi.e Confuls in all the ports within the StreiglitS of Gibraltar that no veflels are to be eoniid- ered entitled to the Britifo Meditterranean paiTes, except fuch as are actually built ia the United Kingdom, or in his Majcfty's foreign governments, or which actually be¬ longs to the town of Gibraltar. And that the confuls and vice confuls fliould alfo dif- coiitinue the indif.oimina'egrant of Britifh pioteftions to foreign veflels of all defciip- tions. We cannot forbear teftifying our higlr fat- isfact'on at this decilive ftep ; It is of Biftill* ftamp. and does the government much Ii )nor^ This will authorize the britifh admiral on that llatioa to oblige every vtfTJ which has notaJ5ritifh Meditterranean pats of a date pollerior to the prefent. to ftrike the flagi Malta alone, within the Streights, will be en¬ titled to the privilege ; and we truft tha: his excellency general Maitland, the Governor of that Iflaud, will be fufficiently a friend to his country, to fee with rigid eyes that none but vefFels really owned by native Maltefe, or at lead by con ft ant relidents in i^/a!ta, (ha!] ever have a pafs or ho ill the Biitiih nion The Pniis paper contains the following from Madrid, dated Fe%. 17 ;—" All ihe fubj.-c.1i of his Catholic Maje'ly are invited to arm against theeorfair* of the Infur^ents of America. The depredations of the IVbary corfaii»6 along the cgaft of Italy continue. They lately made a de fee at with a foice of coo men at Marfan*, phmdeied the churches and hoitfc, and carried off a at&X number of captives, I .