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decision with which he could direct 

 and stimulate men of every class to a 

 degree of enthusiasm, and which made 

 its way to the lieart with a sort of rage 

 or fatality. He began to dictate his 

 proclamations, and all'ord proof of his 

 political talents, not unfrequently ac- 

 companied with, and surrounded by, 

 the far greater number of his officers 

 and men. The facility with which he 

 could successfully circulate his ideas 

 among us was so great, that his deter- 

 minations became the unalterable 

 principle of our conduct, his enter- 

 prise our own. 



No sooner had we disembarked, 

 than he issued his last instructions, 

 the most formal article of which pur- 

 ported that wc were not to have re- 

 course to arms in any case. ' I quitted 

 France,' said he, ' to a^oid the scourge 

 of civil war ; where you meet with re- 

 sistance, acquaint me with the particu- 

 lars, and I will answ er for the event.' 

 (To he continued.) 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magasine. 



SIR, 



IN your last number, is an account 

 of the sums expended in the 

 support of the poor, and sums ex- 

 pended for other purposes raised by 

 parochial rates; where the former is 

 stated at 6,358,702/. and the latter, 

 1,336,532/. 



Now, in the report of the Lord's 

 Committee on this subject, it appears, 

 that the sura spent on support of the 

 poor in 1815, was 5,072 028/., '^nd for 

 other purposes, 1,996,971/. ; so that, if 

 your paper be correct, there has been 

 an increase of 1,286,674/. for maintairr- 

 ing paupers, which would be a fact 

 truly alarming. 



I suppose, however, there is a mis- 

 take, and that the head of one of the 

 columns is wrong marked ; and, instead 

 of being stated ar. the money expended 

 in relief of the poor, should have been 

 the gross amount of all the money 

 raised by parochial rates, and deduct- 

 ing from this 1,336,532/. expended on 

 other purposes, will leave 5,022,170/. 

 for support of the poor. If this be tlie 

 case, there is a small reduction in the 

 expense of 'paupers, and an immense 

 deduction in the sums spent in litiga- 

 tions about settlements, removals, and 

 county purposes. 



I trust the importance of this sub- 

 ject will induce you to bring it again 

 under the notice of the piiblic, for the 

 purpose of confirming or confuting 



On Scrofula and Cancer. [Feb, }, 



this view of it; and, I am inclined to 

 tljink, the amount raised for tlic relief 

 of the poor must have decreased, from 

 the number of paupers in this and the 

 neighbouring parishes being less than 

 in the year 1817, and ending 1822. 

 A. Lee. 

 St. James, Westminster. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



A MEDICINE, that has a specific 

 effect in dispersing scrofulous, 

 cancerous, and other unsightly and 

 malignant, tumours, has long been 

 earnestly desired and sought for in 

 vain. The general practice has been, 

 to attempt to reduce strumous swel- 

 lings by the use of mercurial ointment, 

 sea bathing, a pure air, and a generous 

 diet; while tumours of every other 

 description have uniformly been con- 

 demned to the knife. But even the 

 knife, though always exceedingly 

 painful, is by no means invariably 

 successful in the latter cases ; and the 

 very frequent failures in our attempts 

 to remove scrofulous enlargements, by 

 the comuion means, will render the 

 period when an article is found capable 

 of removing these different kinds of 

 tumours with a tolerable degree of 

 certainty and success, an important 

 aera in the history of medicine. Lately 

 a German physician has called the 

 attention of the profession to the re- 

 markable effects of a medicine called 

 iodine, in swellings of the thyroid 

 gland, technically termed broncho- 

 cele, and in scrofula; and so great is 

 my confidence in its curative powers, 

 that I shall be disappointed if tliat aera 

 is not now arrived. The discoverer 

 has administered it in upwards of 200 

 cases of glandular anil other enlarge- 

 ments, with success ; and the result of 

 the trials that have been made with it 

 in this country and in France corres- 

 ponds with the representations of the 

 author, and quite equals our expecta- 

 tions. Tumours of a large size, 

 morbid thickenings, and indurated 

 lymphatic glands, which frequently 

 resist every other remedy, have been 

 perfectly cured by its use. Its action 

 proves, that it possesses an extraordi- 

 nary influence of a salutary nature over 

 the glandular and arterial systems, 

 equal to that of mercury in certain 

 diseased ulcerations, in which that 

 mineral is prescribed by every surgeon 

 as a never-failing remedy. 



All the above cases were of a scro- 

 fulous or other indolent nature ; but 

 even 



