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zance to proseente vagrants at sessions, 
wit power of sessions to order payment 
of expences to prosecutors and witnesses. 
A power of sessions to detain and keep 
to hard labowr and ponish by whipping 
rogues and vagabonds and incorrigible 
rogues. 
Justices may order a portion of earn- 
ings to be paid to offenders wien dis- 
charged, 
A penalty on ‘officers neglecting their 
duties, &c. and, on conviction of officers, 
&e. justices to make order for payment of 
expences of prosecution 
It shat! and may be lawfal for any jus- 
tice of the peace, upon information on 
oath before him made, that any persons 
herein-before described to be idle and 
disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, 
or incorrigible rogues, are or aré reason- 
ably suspected to be harboured or con- 
cealed in any house or houses kent or pitr- 
porting to be kept for the reception, lodg- 
ing, or entertainment, of any poor traveller 
or travellers, by warrant under his hand 
and seal, to authorize any constable or 
other person or persons to enter at any 
time into such honse or honses, and to ap- 
prehend and bring before him, or any 
other justice or justices, all persons fonnd 
therein, and so suspected as aforesaid ; and 
if, on examining such persen or persons so 
apprehended and brought as aforesaid, it 
shall appear to such justice or justices 
that they, or any or either of them, can- 
not give a satisfactory account of them- 
selves, it shall and may be lawful for such 
justice or justices to commit him, her, or 
them, to the common gaol or House of Cor- 
Medical Report. 
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rection, there to be dealt with in the same 
manner as rogues and vagabonds, or incor- 
yigible rogues, are herein-before directed 
to be dealt with by this act. 
Whereas women, herein-before de- 
scribed to be idle and disorderly persons, 
rognes and vagabonds, or incorrigible 
rogues, are often @elivered of bastard 
children in parishes and places to whiclk 
they do not belong, whereby the said chil- 
dren become chargeable to the same; be 
it therefore enacted, that where any snch 
woman shall be so delivered, the ehild of 
which she is delivered shall not be settled 
in the place where so born, but the set- 
tlement of such woman shall be deemed 
the settlement of such child; any law to 
the contrary notwithstanding. 
Persons aggrieved may appeal to the 
next sessions. 
Justices not to grant certificates ena- 
bling persons to ask relief on route, except 
to soidiers and sailors. 43 G. Til. c. 61. 
Persous asking alms under certificates, 
&e. (except scldiers or sailors,) to be 
deemed vagrants. 
Names of constables, &c. to be affixed 
on door of churches, chapels, market- 
house, &c. 
Penalty for defacing such notice, 40s. 
Justices may defray expences under 
this act out of the county rates, 
Justices, &c. to have treble costs, 
Persons ordered to be punished, &e. 
nnder any act now in force, to be punished, 
&e. under this act. 
Act pot to repeal 10 G. IL. c. 28. or any” 
act relating to players, &c. 
MEDICAL REPORT. 
Report of Diseases and Casvatties ecenrring inthe puclie and private Practice 
of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary. 
—aae + 
“ Pride, when wit fails, steps in to our de- 
F fence, 
And fills ap all the mighty void of sense.” 
NSANITY is often principally charac- 
terized by high conceptions of personal 
consequence. Two cases of mental aber- 
ration that have fallen within the writer's 
sphere of practice during the last month, 
have strikingly exemplified this particular 
feature. One of the individuals now al- 
lauded to, learning that he was ordered to 
be cupped, immediately exclaimed, that 
unless the precess were performed by the 
king’s eupper, he wonld not submit to the 
operation; and the other was busily en- 
gaged; during the first few days of his hal- 
lncination, in penning epistles to his ma- 
jesty George the Fourth, 
A modern author remarks, that the 
French revolution dethroned only one mo- 
narch, but created many others, ‘* Nay,” 
he adds, ‘‘ the mad-houses of France were 
peopled during this turbulent time sith 
gods as well as with kings, Three Louis 
XVL’s were seen together disputing cach 
other’s pretensions. ‘There were besides 
several kings of France, of Corsica, and 
other countries; there were sovereigns of 
the world, a Jesus Christ, a Mahomet, so 
many deities as to render it necessary to 
distinguish them by the place they came 
from, as the god cf Lyons, the god of Gi- 
ronde,” 
Individuals who are deprived of the 
blessings connected with sane and social 
existence, seem in this manner to be mer- 
cifully provided with sources of dreaming 
and abstract delight—tley live ina differ- 
ent world; a world of shadowy existences 
—and thus “ the moody madman laughing 
wild amidst severest woe” is in one sense 
a less pitiable object than he who knows 
and feels the pressure of reat distress. 
Will the reporter be excused the com- 
mou 
