We lament to learn, by authentic letters from Cadiz, that the epidemic disorder which prevails there, carried off three thousand six hundred persons, between the 18th of August and 5th of September, on which day two hundred and seven persons died. The disorder generally carries off those whom it attacks on the third or fourth day. The first symptoms are a pain in the limbs and bones, and violent vomiting. About thirty thousand inhabitants have fled the city, and about forty thousand remain in it. No person is now suffered to leave Cadiz, and a cordon of troops is drawn along the peninsula, to prevent any intercourse with the country. The French papers, without giving a name to this horrible malady, deny that it is either the yellow fever or the plague.

POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN.-On this interesting subject much ignorance has hitherto prevailed. The useful and patriotic researches of the Agricultural Society have, however, made much progress in ascertaining the fact, and have already established the gratifying position, that the population of the country exceeds at least two millions any estimate heretofore.-The following table is, in some instances, formed from actual enumeration, and in others from estimates of births, of houses, &c, and includes cities, towns, &c.

[tants.

The cultivated land in England exceeds thirty-nine millions of acres, which, at the foregoing rate of 4 3-10th acres to each person, makes the total number of inhabitants 8,960,141. to which adding 643,833, the excess of Middlesex beyond the above proportion, gives a population of 9,603,974, exclusive of sailors, soldiers, and the inhabitants of the British Islands.

On an average of twenty-nine years, there is, within the bills of mortality, an annual decrease of interments to the number of 3130; the averaged number of baptisms is 18704; of burials 19,826; but it is computed that there are more than a thousand births a year, where the children are either not christened or not registered.

A physician of Lyons, named Martin, relates, that being lately called by the officers of justice to the apartment of a young pregnant woman, who had been murdered, he perceived a spaniel, in a state of extreme distress, close to the body, and a large white cat with its eyes fixed upon it, seated at the end of the room. In the same state he found them all on the following morning, both animals apparently insensible to the numerous persons about them, till the supposed murderer appeared, when the eyes of the cat darted fury, and, with her hair erect, she flew to the body of her mistress.

Soundings have been for weeks taking along the Welch coast, as a chain of shipping is to be established, for the purpose of a complete communication between England and France. By this means the enemy will find it difficult to escape from Brest without our fleets having immediate intelligence.

In consequence of the scarcity of corn in England, in the year 1596-7, Burleigh, minister of Elizabeth, expended two millions sterling on the importation of that article.

A plant of Egyptian wheat, on a rough corner of a hill near Whitehaven, yielded 15 heads, containing 720 grains.

Amongst the charges preferred by the new Emperor of China against his late prime minister, the principal were, that he had divulged the secrets of his late master, as to his choice of a successor; that he had intrigued with the wives of the emperor, rode through the gate allotted solely to the use of his master, possessed a richer pearl than was consistent with the state of a subject, with near an hundred of lesser delinquency.

Dr. S. Perry, of New Bedford, has communicated to the public the successful result of two experiments in curing the locked-jaw by means of electricity. Previous to the application of the electrical fluid, recourse had been had to bleeding, catharthics, antispasmodics, the warm bath, and opium applied internally and externally, without the least effect on either case. But a small receiver being filled and discharged through the jaws of the persons affected, they flew open instantaneously. In one case the complaint was entirely removed by three shocks, in the other by an occasional shock for a few days. Both the patients were strong and healthy persons, the one a man, and the other a woman, and the mode of treating them had heen similar.

There are in Middlesex, within ten miles of the metropolis, not less than 17,000 acres of waste ground, capable of cultivation, but which, in their present state, do not produce to the community, including every advantage that can be derived from them in pasturage, locality of situation, and the barbarous custom of Turbery, more than 41. per acre, at the highest valuation; yet some parts of those commons which have been enclosed about Twickenham, Teddington, Hanworth, Finchley, &c. now produce upwards of 101. per acre.

A story is mentioned in one of the Paris Journals, of a horrible catastrophe that happened lately to the celebrated author of Cleveland. (The name is not mentioned.) It states, that being laid out for dead, the surgeons began to perform the operation of opening the body. On making an incision, the unfortunate man uttered a most piteous cry, and opened his eyes; but the wound had been made so deep as to prove mortal.

Berwick, by some oversight, was omitted to be mentioned in the Income-bill of last year; in consequence of which, for that period, it escaped the operation of

the tax.

The following anecdote, which tends to shew the extraordinary credulity and simplicity of the Asiatics, was communicated to Mr. Duncan, of Bombay, by one of the rambling fakeers, or fanatics, on his return from a journey into the in terior:-In the vicinity of Ghizni, he fell in with the army of Amed Shaw Abdalli, and that prince having an ulcer in his nose, consulted the fakeer, to know if he, being an Indian, and a person of science, could prescribe a remedy for it. The fakeer, conscious of his deficiency in the knowledge of surgery or medicine, yet fearful that, by a profession of his ignorance, he should excite the chieftain's displeasure and resentment, ingeniously insinuated that there subsisted a connexion between the ulcer on Amed's nose and his sovereignty, so that it might not be adviseable to get rid of the one, lest he should thereby risk the loss of the other. The suggestion met with the approbation of the prince and his ministers, and the fakeer was treated with every mark of distinction and reverence, and forwarded on his journey.

We hear, and we shall rejoice to find the rumour true, that the accustomed, feast, on the Lord Mayor's day, is this year to be dispensed with, and that the money hitherto thus wantonly and improvidently disbursed, is to be applied to worthier purposes-the relief of the poor.

It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man in the street going to a feast, he detained him, and carried him to his friends as a lunatic.-What would the philosopher have said, had he witnessed the excesses of one of our city meals. The apothecary now has full employment to countervail the operations of the cook and vintner, and the whole Materia Medica is exhausted in experiments to make luxury consistent with health.

Planting wheat in rows, by the hand, is much practised in Suffolk, Half the usual quantity of seed will, by this practice, be sufficient; and the crop is supposed to be one-fifth greater than if sown by a machine or bread-cart,

It is said that a new loan will be contracted for, immediately on the meeting of parliament, and that the following will be the taxes imposed to pay the interest thereof, viz. additional duties on wines and tea; five per cent. additional duty of customs, commonly called convoy duties; and an increase of the taxes on servants, carriages, and horses.

Vaccinal inoculation has been introduced into America with its accustomed success. Dr. Waterhouse, of Boston, received the matter from England, and immediately inoculated one of his children with it.

A Roman pavement, 22 feet square, and in high preservation, was a few days since discovered near Warminster, on the estate of the Marquis of Bath.

It will not be overlooked amongst the memorabilia of the curious, that by a strange coincidence, when Buonaparte assumed the crown of France, the king of England omitted the title.

A work recently published at Paris, from the pen of J. Bonnaterre, respecting the savage of Aveyron, found in the forests of Tarn, states, that he is the fifteenth person, of similar description, found since the year 1554, in different parts of Europe. Secard, the celebrated instructor of the deaf and dumb, continues to endeavour, by the education of this child, to elucidate the intellectual faculties of man; but his progress, during nine months, has been almost confined to getting the young savage to wear some light cloaths, instead of going naked, taking dressed instead of raw food, and sitting in a chair instead of sitting like an ape; a custom, however, to which he continues partial.

From the substance of the report made to the physical and mathematical class of the national institute of Paris, by the committee appointed to repeat the expe riments of Mr. Achard, of Berlin, the following conclusion has been drawn from the result of the experiments :-That there is reason to presume that the beet-root may one day become a substitute for the sugar cane.

Hamlet, no Song no Supper, and High. Life below Stairs, were some nights since performed in a village in Somersetshire, by two men and two women. One of the gentlemen, by an ingenious kind of stage metamorphosis, personated four characters, and one of the ladies represented both Gertrude and Ophelia. The front seats were 6d. each: those behind were let for 3d.

BIRTHS.

OF SONS: The lady of Lord Charles Somerset. At Copenhagen, the Princess of Augustenburg, baptized by the name of Frederic Augustus Emelius: the Bishop and French Ministers were present at the christening.

MARRIED,

The Marquis of Bute, to the daughter of T. Coutts. Esq. Banker, sister of the Countess of Guildford: the ceremony was performed by the bishop of Winchester, R. Townsend, Esq. of Doctor's Commons, to Miss Gerrard, of Olney, Bucks.At Lutworth Castle, Dorset, the Hon. Mr. Stourton, to Miss C. Weld. At Calcutta, Sir F. Hamilton, Bart. to the daughter of L. Collie, Esq. of that establishment. W. Ward, Esq. to Miss Linley, daughter of the late Mr. Linley, the celebrated composer, of Southampton-street. Sir W. Amcotts, Bart. M. P. to Miss A, daughter of the late D. Campbell, Esq. of Whitley. G. Brietzeke, Esq. of the Secretary of State's Office, to the eldest daughter of Sir J. Isham, Bart. A, Chrichton, M. D, F, R. S. to the only daughter of F. Doderell, Esq. of Molesey.

DIED,

At Laneton-Grange, near Durham, the Countess Dowager of Darlington.At Newmarket, aged 85, W. Vernon, Esq. the father of the turf. At Aylesbury, Mr. R. Wheeler, of a mortification, in consequence of having cut his toe nail too close. At Clapham, J. Davenport, Esq. At Bentworth, the Rev. J. Culland, one of the Prebendaries of Chichester, &c. On the 13th of Sept. at Paris, the celebrated architect, Louis, aged 76. The Prince of Saxe Cobourg.At Margate, H. Wigstead, Esq. one of the sitting magistrates of Bow-street. At Columbo, Dr. Ewart, physician-general to his majesty's forces in the East Indies. At Tetbury, A. Bennet, aged an hundred years and ten months: he had been a private soldier sixty years, and fought in the wars of Queen Ann. At Ensham, Oxfordshire, H. Humphreys, aged an hundred and two: he was last year subpœnad on a trial at Oxford, and gave his evidence with singular precision: his eldest son is seventy-eight years old-his youngest not quite seven. In Devonshire place, Admiral J. C. Allen. At West Hatch, the relict of Admiral Sir E. Hughes. At Venice, the Lady of Count A. Barziza, daughter of the late J. Paradise, Esq.

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