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safety. Proposals are this month 

 made for rebuilding it in a modern 

 manner. 



Some labouring men lately digging 

 stones in certain quarries near the old 

 family raausion of Earl Fortescue, in 

 the parish ofEbrington, near Camp- 

 den, in Gloucestershire, discovered 

 about twenty skeletons, apparently 

 of warriors, with fragments of ar- 

 mour and several implements of war, 

 of rarious shapes and sizes ; the whole 

 of very remote antiquity. — Many 

 of the bodies were found laid with 

 their faces downward, and not more 

 than a foot in depth from the sur- 

 face of the earth. Among the dis- 

 turbed remains were those of a su- 

 perior officer or chief, at least sup- 

 posed so, as by hLs side m ere found 

 a sword of excellent metaJ, and an 

 iron casque or head piece, the orna- 

 mented top and rivets of which were 

 plated with silver. The skeleton was 

 deposited at the depth of not more 

 than three feet in the ground, and, 

 notwithstanding the number of years 

 it must have lain thus buried, the 

 master bones were perfect and sound, 

 and the teeth in the highest state of 

 preservation. 



A traditionary account prevails 

 in the neighbourhood of Campden, 

 that that village and that of Ebring- 

 ton were once united, that some 

 signal battle was anciently fought in 

 this part of the island, and that the 

 ford at the end of Ebrington brake, 

 which now divides the above pa- 

 rishes, has, from that period, re- 

 tained the name of Battle Bridge. 



The royal Jennerian society held 

 their anniversary dinner this day at 

 the crown and anchor tavern, his 

 grace the Duke of Bedford in the 

 chair. About 300 members were 

 pn^sent. After dinner, Non Xobis 

 Domini, iu good "-tyle, v;is sung. 



After his majesty the patron's 

 health was drank, God save the 

 king was sung by Mr. Hill. Among 

 the toasts were the health of Dr. 

 Jenner (who Mas not present), the 

 Duke of Bedford, &c. &c. Mr. 

 Travers, jun. recited, in a very ex- 

 cellent manner, an extract from a 

 poem lately published, by Mr. 

 R. Bloomfield, called, " Good Ti- 

 dings, or News from the Farm," It 

 was greatly applauded. Mr. Tra- 

 ■vers, sen. one of the trustees, in a 

 very elegant manner, gave an ac- 

 count of the great exertions thathad 

 been made by the society, and the 

 very liberal contributions of many 

 noblemen, gentlemen, and ladies. 

 He, among other facts, stated, that 

 by the influence of vaccination, 

 communicated through the medium 

 of the different societies, the annual 

 deaths from the small-pox had beeu 

 most materially diminished. Through 

 this society, in co-operation with 

 others, the vaccine system had been 

 propagated in Asia and America. 

 At Constantinople the Turks, al- 

 though so much averse from innova- 

 tion, had embraced the system with 

 the greatest eagtrness. In India, 

 the Hindoos, from their religious 

 Teneration of the cow, had most ma- 

 terially benefited by this mode of 

 inoculation ; and he might almost as- 

 sert, that millions had already been 

 saved by vaccination. In America, 

 the Canadian Indians came down the 

 country many hundred miles, to get 

 the matter ; and thus whole tribes 

 escaped the effects of that malignant 

 and fatal distemper. Dr. Walker, 

 the resident physician at the Central- 

 house belonging to the society in 

 Salisbury-Square, read a letter from 

 Lady Louisa Broome, wherein her, 

 ladyship stated, that she had vacci- 

 nated 1 50 childreo in the neighbour- 

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