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is ever the natural resource of ignorance and weakness) as 

 the completion of all that is vile and deceitful . Thus have 

 we continued a svstem of neglect towards the interests of 

 our native subjects in points the most essential to their every 

 happiness, throughout the whole of our governments in this 

 country. Fain, mv lord, v.ould I see a change in this par- 

 ticular ; and I seize the opportunity which the present mo- 

 ment a.Tords, to press rhc justice and the policy of the mea- 

 sure on the attention of your lordship's government. 

 Having the honour to remain. 



With the highest respect, my lord. 

 Your lordship's faithful and obedient huinble servant, 

 (Signed) R. H. Kerr, 

 Madras, Senior Chaplain of Fort St. George. 



Nov. 3, ISOGi. 



XIII. Report of Surgical Cases in the Finslmnj Dispensary 

 from the Beginning of February to the End of Jpril 1807 ; 

 with the Jppearances, on Dissection, in a Ca^e nf Aneu- 

 rism; and some Observations on that Disease, by Jous 

 Taunton. 



UuRiNG the above three months there were admitted 259 



patients. 



Cured or relieved - - 227 

 Died - . - - 1 



Under cure - * - 31 



259 



In the Philosophical Magazine for December 1806, a case 

 of aneurism is noticed, with the intention of being reported 

 on. 



J. J., set. 55, was admitted a patient of the Finsbury Dis- 

 pensary on the 13th of November last. From his own ac- 

 count his health had been declining for about the space ot 

 three years, and about the beginning of July 1806 he ob- 

 served a swelling on the left side of his neck, immediately 

 F 2 above 



