C HR Nr Cabo; 
am named as having failed in a series 
of vaccinations in the West of Eng- 
jJand, | think it a duty incumbent 
on me now to declare to you, that 
not a single individual there men- 
tioned, and wha is subsequently said 
to have had the small pox, was ever 
vaccinated my me. After this de- 
claration, I leave you to make your 
own comments on the whole of this 
very extraordinary publication.” 
This unaffected and interesting ad- 
dress was received with loud and rei- 
terated plaudits. 
Mr.Murray the secretary, accord- 
ing to the usual custom, read the 
report of the annual general court, 
which stated, that the number of 
persons inoculated at the central 
house, and other stations in the me- 
tropolis, since the last annual re- 
port, is 6,560, making the total, 
since the commencement of the in- 
stitution in 1803, 19,471 persons ; 
and that 19,182 charges of vaccine 
matter had been supplied, free of 
expence from the central house 
alone, since the period of the last 
report; which great supply of vac- 
eine virus much exceeding that of 
former years, affords a strong pre- 
sumption that the Jennerian inecu- 
lation has considerably increased. 
The secretary also read a com- 
‘munication from T. Parry, esq. an 
Fast-India director, informing the 
Society, that the practice of vaccine 
inoculation had been introduced. at 
Macao and Canton in China, under 
the auspices of an English Mandarin, 
sir George Staunton, with such suc- 
tess, as to promise to save the lives 
of millions of people in that exten- 
sive empire. 
Mr. Ring read an English trans. 
lation of a Latin Jetter from Dr. 
John Reyss, of Mackow, in Poland, 
addressed to ** Dr, Jenner, thc il- 
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lustrious exterminator of that pes- 
tilential disorder the small pox ;” in 
which he compliments the doctor 
highly for his discovery ; wishes that 
joy and festivity may prevail on his 
birth-day ; requests to be enrolled 
among the honorary members of the 
society ; and ‘‘ to be favoured with - 
a portrait of Dr. Jenner, and a 
small slip of cloth of the colour he 
most delights in, that Dr. Reyss 
and his friends might be able to 
wear coats of that same colour on 
the 17th of May, the birth-day of 
Dr. Jenner.” 
The earl of Egremont, one of the 
earliestand most ardent supporters 
of vaccination, bore testimony to 
various misrepresentations and false- 
hoods circulated in his neighbeur- 
hood respecting the practice. 
18th. Wrymoutu.—Last night 
was landed at the Custom-house the 
last chest of dollars from the wreck 
of the Abergavenny, which com- 
pleted the 62 chests recovered by 
Mr. Braithwaite, who, with much 
perseverance and ingenuity, has suc- 
ceeded. The total of the 62 chests 
is about 70,0001. value. He is 
going to proceed immediately on the 
cargo. 
This morning, about ten o’clock, 
a boy named Francis was drowned 
off Strand-lane. He was cleaning 
the top of the cabin of a barge, and 
fell over-board. 
20th. A court ofdirectors of the 
Fast-India company was held,at three 
o’clock, which continued to sit un- 
til nine in the evening, to deliberate 
on the propriety of recalling sir G. 
Barlow from the scat of govern. 
ment in India, and the appoint. 
ment of lord Lauderdale in his stead; 
when a division took place, and 
there appeared, for the recal of sir 
G. Barlow and the appointment of 
lord 
