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“4st. For the best picture in historical 
“or poetical composition, 300 guineas. 
‘2d. Por the next best picture in histo- 
rical or poetical composition, 200 gui- 
neas, Sd, For the next best picture in 
historical or poetical composition, 100 
‘guineas. Vor farther information, the 
-reader-is referred to the proposals at full, 
- in the [nstitution. 
On Monday, the 18th, Mr. Flaxman 
*besan a course of lectures on Sculpture, 
ia the Royal Academy; -and on the 
Thursday tollowing, Mr. Fuseli began 
his course on Painting, in.the same place, 
,and_ both.will continue them on Mon- - 
days and ‘Thursdays, till completed. 
Report of Diseasess 
(Match 1, 
“They will be noticed more ‘at length in 
our next; as will the third Number of 
«© The Fine Arts of the English School,” 
which is just pubiished. — 
The two Hunting Prints, of the Fox 
breaking Cover, and the Death. of the 
Fox, from the celebrated original paint. 
rings by S. Gilpin, R.A. and PL Reine 
ale, A.R.A. will speedily make their 
‘appearance. ‘They bave been six years 
~in the-hands of Mr. Scott, the engraver, 
and are calculated to meet the expec- 
‘tation of ‘the public, and ‘gratify. the 
taste and’ judgment of all true: sports- 
men; as well as the amateurs of the fine 
“arts in generals 
ee 
wT apc: REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finistuby Dispensary; fram the 
20th of January to the 20th of Febraary. 
a i/ra 
HEUMATISMS, coughs, and ca- ' 
tarrhal fevers, have een so pre- 
_ valent, that it would seem an oversight - 
At * 
*“ not to notice a fact so remarkable. 
the ‘same time nothing has occurred 
* relative to these complaints, 
" ford matter of instruction. It may how- 
‘ever be not unworthy of remark, that 
‘ in the above-mentioned cases of morbid 
affection, it is evident that we cannot, 
like our more robust and plethoric an- 
cestors, bear with impunity, or even 
without a certain degree of risk, what is 
* called the liberal, but what might more 
strictly be regarded as the licentious, 
application of the lancet. 
Of the diseases of the desk, which the 
Reporter has noticed more than once « 
before, he has recently met with several. 
striking instances, in which there was a 
fixed pain in the chest, arising from the 
habitually-constrained posture of it. This 
pain is generally attended with at least 
‘an occasional difficulty of breathing, and 
most frequently with a cough, unaccom- 
panied by expectoration. In counting- 
houses, those commercial cloisters, the 
seeds of disease are often sown at a very 
early age, which seldom fail, in the au- 
tumn of life; to produce an abundant 
harvest... The late Dr. George Fordyce 
used to say, in his Lectures, that avarice 
occasioned more disease than all the 
other vices put together. In this remark 
the lecturer was-certainly seduced, by 
his hatred to avarice, ‘to advance a doc- 
trine unwarranted by experience, It is 
at least ‘ 
_ within the experience of the Reporter, ‘ 
, which from its novelty, singularity, or ' 
_ importance, could excite interest, or af-- 
at least as distant from truth as the very 
different opmion of the celebrated Dr. 
Johnson, who: asserted that a'man wag 
seldom so innocently employed, as when 
occupied in the getting of money. ‘Phere 
aire certain exceptions ; but avarice will 
perhaps upon the whole be found, im the 
ordinary career of its gratification, to 
interfere less essentially with our bodily 
‘well-being, than any of the othér pas- 
sions, which are either acquired by habit, 
or are implanted in our nature. 
A passion much more baneful to health 
is an hypochondriacal excess of ‘solici- 
tude about it.: A person who. is always 
feeling bis pulse, can never have a good 
one. In like manner, one whois in con- 
stant apprehension of sickness, ‘labours 
under a heavier malady than any which 
he fears. A man cannot take too much 
care of his health, but he may think too 
much about-it. He should lay down 
certain rules of living, which are ascer- 
tained to begenerally salutary, or which 
he has ‘found adapted to his particular 
constitution, and should never deviate 
from them, except perhaps upon some 
extraordinary occasion. But these rales, 
although they should be the guides of his 
conduct, need not therefore be the sub- 
jects of his perpetual, or even frequent, 
meditation. Lord Chesterfield some- 
where observes, that a gentleman will 
always make a point of being well- 
dressed, but will never think of his dress 
after it has been once adjusted, - In like 
manner, a wise man, after having once 
adjusted his habits of life in a manner 
best adapted to promote the permanent 
enjoyment of it, will cease to feel any 
other 
