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thus publicly to undeceive you on 
‘that head.” 
Lord Whitworth. ‘* But, ge- 
neral, the negoeciation_is not yet 
broken; and there is even reason to 
believe Se 
Bonaparte. ‘ Of what negocia- 
tion does your lordship speak? Is 
it necessary to negociate what is 
conceded by treaty—to negociate 
the fulfilment of engagements, and 
the duties of good faith ?—(lord W. 
was about to reply; Bonaparte 
made a signwith his hand, and con- 
tinued in a less elevated tone.) My 
lord, your lady is indisposed. She 
may probably breathe her native air 
rather sooner than you or I expect- 
ed. I wish most ardently for peace; 
but if my just demand be not in- 
stantly complied with, then war 
must follow, and God will decide. 
If treaties are not sufficient to bind 
to peace, then the vanquished must 
not be left in a condition to offer in- 
jury.” 
Here this unexpected conversation 
terminated; if that term can be al- 
_ lowed, where the discourse was al- 
most wholly on one side. 
The following instance of remorse 
of conscience occurred a few days 
since at Croscomb, near Wells: A 
young man in the service of a farmer, 
had been prevailed on, by his {a- 
_ ther, to rob his master of hay, and 
was detected by his mistress in the 
act of putting it on his father’s 
shoulders. He received some re- 
proaches from the matron, but was 
promised forgiveness on the hay be- 
ing returned. The unhappy youth, 
however, ina state of despondency, 
hung himself the same evening in an 
out-house. ‘The coroner’s jury re- 
turned a verdict of felo de se; but 
that part of the sentence which di- 
_ tects the body to be buried in the 
_Aighway was dispensed with. 
At a court of common-council, 
held this day, Mr. Nichols, in an 
animated and impressive speech, il- 
lustrated the benefits which have al- 
ready been obtained from the intro- 
duction of the Jennerian method of 
inoculation from the vaccine pock. 
He felt a peculiar satisfaction in the 
question having been adjourned from 
a preceding court, as it had given 
the members a fortnight’s more time 
for investigating a subject of the ut- 
most moment to themselves, to their 
children, and to their children’s chil- 
dren yet unborn. Investigation was 
universally the friend of truth; and 
the mists of prejudice, he was happy 
to observe, were hourly dispersing, as 
shadows before the mid-day sun. 
Throughout the continent of Europe, 
in the remotest corners of Asia and 
America, in the parching climes of 
Africa, the vaccine inoculation was 
established on the firmest basis. A 
report of the central committee at 
Paris had given it the completest 
sanction. At Geneva, one of the 
most virtuous and enlightened cities 
in the world, by the united exertions 
of the clergy and medical practi- 
tioners, the small-pox was already 
nearly exterminated. It was there 
enjoined, as a religious as well as 
moral duty, to sponsors at the font, 
to see that the infant should be pro. 
tected, by vaccination, from the ha- 
zard of a dangerous infection by the 
small-pox; and the laudable exam. 
ple was now followed in some of the 
great manufacturing towns of the 
British empire, particularly at Dud- 
ley. After adverting to the unpa- 
ralleled patronage the Royal Jenne- 
rian Society had experienced from 
the highest characters in the king- 
dom; he briefly stated the outline 
of the intended plan; the establish. 
ing a house in a central part of the 
metropolis, 
