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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804 



hood of the family residence in 

 Suffolk, which had been attended in 

 every instance by the happiest ef- 

 fect ; ai;d that they had since been 

 all exposed to the small-pox in (he 

 natural way without the least eft'ect 

 being produced by the experiment. 

 Mr. Travers stated, that 3i persons 

 were now on the establishment of 

 the indigent blind, of whom no less 

 than 14 owed their blindness to the 

 small-pox ; and it was to be hoped 

 that, by the introduction of vacci- 

 nation, that institution would ulti- 

 mately be rendered unnecessary. 

 I.o ds Somerville, Morpeth, and 

 Granville Lcvison Gower, Mr. A. 

 Goldsmid, Dr. Lettsom, &c. «S:c. 

 were present. The society broke 

 up about ten o'clock, with an una- 

 nimous detorminatiou to promote 

 vaccination by every means in their 

 power. 



The Duke of York, with a pa- 

 ternal and becoming regard for the 

 welfare of the soldiery (no less cre- 

 ditable to his feelings as a man, than 

 to his watchfulness of their health 

 as a commander in chief), has cans-, 

 ed to be circulated throughout the 

 army the following letter on the ad- 

 vantages resulting from the cow-pox; 

 which, for the honour of the im- 

 mortal Jenner, are now universally 

 known and acknowledged even in 

 the remotest and most barbarous 

 nations. By so general an adop- 

 tion of this useful and wonderful 

 process, as must necessarily arise 

 from the inoculation of his majesty's 

 troops, the extermination of that 

 dreadful scourge of the human race 

 Lids fair to be materially accele- 

 rated; and the prejudices against 

 '-iich a safe, 



innocent, and efficaci- 



ous remedy, are likely to be consi- 

 derably diminished, if not altogether 

 removed. 



" Sir, Horse Guards. 



" The commander ir( chief hav- 

 ing observed, with inlinite regret, the 

 fatal effects which the small-pox ha.s, 

 in several recent instances, produced 

 in the army — his royal highness ap- 

 prehends that suthcient attention has 

 not been paid to the order respect- 

 ing the L-accine inoculation, issued on 

 the 18th of November last. His 

 royal highness, therefore, requests 

 that you will recal the order to the 

 recollection of officers commanding 

 brigades and regiments ; and that 

 you will enjoin them to give it all 

 possible effect by explaining to the 

 men the beneficial consequences re- 

 sulting from the inoculation of the 

 cow-pox, which has long been prov- 

 ed to the entire conviction and sa- 

 tisfa6lion of those who have had the 

 best opportunities of observing the 

 mild and rapid progress of this im- 

 portant discovery. 



(Signed) Harrt Calvert. 

 Ad. Gen.* 

 18th. Colours were this day 

 presented w ith the utmost pomp and 

 solemnity by the city of London to 

 the loyal London volunteersr. 



This' morning a young man, pri- 

 vate in the coldstream regiment of 

 guards, was tried by a court mar- 

 tial, charged with having committed 

 several acts of vagrancy, by begging 

 in the streets in a disguised dress, 

 pretending to beacripplc, and there- 

 by defrauding passengers of their 

 money. The surgeon of the regi- 

 ment reported him to be in a per- 

 fert state of health, and no ways 

 disabled, and he was adjudged by the 



* For the order alluded to, vide Chronicle iu our vol. for 1803. 

 t A« account of wliitii seaiu the .-^pptniiis. 



court-. 



