1817.] 



*CcouKT of WM. nOYSTON, ESQ. an emi- 

 tifot Surgeon, some years <ine of the Eili' 

 ■ jtor$ of the London Medical Journal, and 

 . President uf the London Medical Insti- 

 . tutioH, 



Korthumherland and Dwham. 



f>69 



sider that vast and complicated, yet bar- 

 monious, design, in tlie perfection of which, 

 for a long period, all lii^ industry was 

 consnined, and all his intellis^nce exer. 

 rised, without shrinking, almost in pain, 



Of this gentleman we cannot speak more from another spectacle of the boundless 



appropriately than by extracting some pas- 

 sages from an eloquent discourse subse- 

 <]uently pronounced by Mr. J. U. Smith, 

 the secretary of the society. 



"Of a society, instituted in 18tl, for 

 the promotion of medical enquiry, from 



distance to which the mind of onu man 

 may ran^c. Inecd not say that I allude to 

 the " Bibliographia Me.liciuae i>iitan- 

 nira?," known, as I slioulii not doubt, to 

 all present, and as great a nionunient of 

 research, industi-y, and scientific patrio- 



which tlie organization and the statutes of tisni, as wc could possess; much must every 



t/ie Medical Institution have emanated, one lament that death has broken in upon 



Mr. Ruyston was one of the projectms and our reputation, and left this national work 



founders, and, to use the emphatic Ian- unfiiiislied. 



{Toage of Mr. Brookes, the father. As ihe conductor of a journal which 

 Great has ever been the honour of those has, for a Ions; course cf years, been the 

 men who were the projectors and the organ of improvement and rational in- 

 founders of scientific societies : beyond the quiry m the nif dical profession, as a mem- 

 qua!itie$ of candour and fearnins, they her of the Linuaj-.m Society, aiul of other 

 ij»nst possess, to ensure the success of their scientific bodies, I need not say how Mr. 

 intentions, the most exclusive moderaiiuu, Koysion was esteemed and honoured — 

 patience, and perseverance; wit Inut these, noi can it be unknown to any here that he 

 as all concerned in such uudertakmns wdl was engaged, nearly to the period of his 

 bear witness, designs of the tintst syin- death, m researches cunceining Elcctricitj'; 

 mctry, amidst the proudest hopes of their his observations on this science, valuable a* 

 success, will pass away iuto neglect and ob- they must be, yet afflicting, since they are 

 livion, and their report will sink, like the his last correspondence with mankind, are, 

 voice of the orator, into silence. Sucii a as I have understood, to be shortly pub- 

 man, possessed of such zeal and such vir- lished. To consider the man of science 



tues, was he of whom you have been lately 

 depiived, and whose name it is, this night, 

 my melancholy duty to register among the 

 dead in our memorials ; as though to force 

 US from tlie Muvey of ever increasing sci- 

 e.nce, and remind us of frail and perishing 

 l^uuauity. But it was not only as the in- 



Ihus, in his last redexioiis, labouring for 

 our fame and impiovement, while, as is 

 known to many aroimd mc, his corporeal 

 structure, and tiie energies of his life, were 

 corrupting and decaying within him, would 

 lead us, were we to imlulge in the cou- 

 teuiplation of mind antl -ts gigantic attri« 



sjigatpr of such nu'etings as this that our butes, to an immeasurable listauce beyond 

 cieecased president had to demand our the material world." 



reverence ; his exertions and his hopes 

 Were extended towards undertakings on 

 which none but a mind of the first order 

 i'iouhl deUberale. It is difficult to con- 



[George Hariliiigf, esq. first justice of the 

 c luuties of BrcC'in, Glamorgan, and iiailmir, 

 and altarncy-general to the Queen, in our 

 7iext.] 



PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



With all the 3Ii)>riao-es and Deaths. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND nCRHAM. 



INSTEAD of a surveyor of taxes for 

 each of the four wards of the county 

 of Durham, as formerly, government has 

 reduced the number to two, at a salary of 

 sol. a year each, yet the inspectors-ge- 

 neral of taxes, with salaries of lUOO^ a 

 year «?acli, are continued. 



The magistratcii and principal household- 

 «^r9 of Sunderland und Rishopwearnioutii, 

 have held meetings to propose some me- 

 thods for employing the labouring poor, 

 and have ordered iiome alterations in the 

 adjacent roads. 



■ The warehouse of Mr. Hewett, the bake- 

 house «f Messrs. Coiaforth and Jordeson, 

 North Shields, have been entirely destroy- 

 ed by fire; and it was with extreme Uiifi- 

 ciilty that the entire of that street was 

 *av«d. 



Labourers near Rimsidc-Moor were 

 lately shearing midleg deep in siiovv. 



Marriel.] Mr. Thomiis Stanley, to Miss 

 Sarah IJiackbiirn. — Mr. Jacob Ord, to Miss 

 Isabella Rogers.— Mr. Nicholas Armstrong, 

 to Miss Carolina Campbell. — Mr. J. S, 

 Paget, to iMiss Ellon Pollard.— Mr. Wil- 

 liaui IJoutland, to Miss Mary Jame< : all 

 of Newcastle. — Mr. John Tilley, to Miss 

 Mary Mauglian, both of Dm ham. — At 

 Durliam, Mr. J. Patrick, attorney, to Miss 

 Hannah Rcvely, of Cleypafh. — Mr. Robert 

 Crawford, of Newcastle, to Miss Haiiiiah 

 Erringtoii, of Stanhope.— Mr. John Ridley, 

 to Miss Kabecca Tic wick. — Mr. William 

 Jones, to iMiss Ann Caryill: all of North 

 Shields. — Mr. Thomas Uiillock, of North 

 Shields, to Miss Ei/al»eih Wright, of 

 Whitley. — Mr. J. Watson, of Bishopweai- 

 niouth, tu Miss M. UlBcl^buru, of New- 

 ca.tle. 



