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the antiquities, natural history, manners, 
and arts, of one of the most interesting 
countries in the world. We have felt 
warmly in regard to the tyrant, whose 
vanity has given, and is giving, such pro¬ 
fitable employment to artists, because 
the blood of the Tarrogonese not yet 
cold, calls loudly on mankind for ven¬ 
geance, against the assassin and his sa¬ 
tellites. 
There has been commenced in London 
a politico-literary journal in the German 
language, under the title of the Vei'k'un- 
diger. It appears twice a month, and 
three numbers have already been pub¬ 
lished. At a time when all ordinary 
channels of communication are cut off 
with Germany, this work will afford us 
an opportunity to introduce in our next 
Magazine some interesting views of Ger¬ 
man literature. 
We learn, from the newWestmoreland 
paper that a sister of the late Capt. 
Cooke has resided many years in Pack- 
horse yard, Stramongate, Kendal, Her 
name is Agnes Harker; she is the widow 
of Simon Harker, and is now at the 
advanced age of eighty-eight. She dis¬ 
plays a quick discernment, has a good 
flow of spirits, and a retentive memory. 
She has had ten children, but they iiave 
ail left her except the youngest daughter. 
Their manual employment is spinning and 
knitting w-orsted stockings, which affords 
thetr) but a scanty subsistence. As this 
relative of our great circumnavigator 
survives in poverty, owing to the virtue 
of her brother, in prefering glory to 
wealth, we conceive she is a worthy ob¬ 
ject of public benevolence, and take it 
upon ourselves to state, that donations 
will reach her safely through the hands of 
Messrs, Steele and Co. printers, at 
Kendal. It would be an imputation on 
the age and country, that the surviving 
sister of so illustrious a character as 
Captain Cooke, should be suffered to 
earn her own subsistence by manual la¬ 
bour, after she is turned of eighty-eight ! 
Something is due from the wealthy and 
public-spirited inhabitants of Kendal. 
Dr. Sims, in a letter to Sir Richard 
Phillips, remarks, that it is probable 
be was misinformed with regard to 
the particular species of Datura^ used in 
India for the relief of the paroxysms of 
spasmodic asthma; and that the remedy 
he received from General Gent, was the 
root of Datura fastiiosa, and not of 
Datura jfcrojf. He finds, he says, by ail 
extract of a letter from Thomas Christie, 
MoWTilLY MaCIo 
esq. to Dr. William Hunter, dated Fe¬ 
bruary 3, 1810, and published by Dr. 
Fleming, in his very useful work on the 
medicinal plants of India, that the root 
of the former species is successfully used 
for the same purpose, and in the same 
way, in the island of Ceylon. But it is 
observed by Dr. Fleming, tliat Datura 
Metel has similar v irtues, which are pro¬ 
bably common to all the spepies of Da^ 
turUf except arhorea, wliich scarcely be., 
longs to tiie genus. 
Dr. Titford lias in the press, and 
proposes to publish, in six nurnbeis 
royal quarto, by subscription, (the first 
number to appear on the first of October 
next) “ Sketches towards a Ilortus Rota- 
nicus Americanus, or Coloured Plates of 
Plants of the West Indies and North and 
South America, with concise and fami¬ 
liar descriptions, noticing also many 
plants of Africa and the East Indies 
which might .be introduced into the West 
Indian colonies with advantage. 
Dr. Reid’s next course of lectures on 
the Theory and Practice of Medicine^ 
will commence at nine o’clock in the 
morning, on Monday, 14th of October, 
at his house, Grenville-street, Bruns- 
wick-square. 
The winter course of lectures at St^ 
Thomafs and Gayh Hospitals, wall be¬ 
gin the first week in October, viz. 
At St. Anatomy and the Ope¬ 
rations of Surgery, by Mr. Cline and Mr. 
Astley Cooper.— Principles and Practice 
of Surgery, by Mr. A. Cooper. 
jdt Practice of Medicine, by Dr, 
Ba BING TON and Dr. Curry. —Chemistry, 
by Dr. Baeington, Dr. Marcet, and 
Mr. Allen.— ’•Experimental Philosophy, by 
Mr. Allen.— Theory of Medicine, and Ma¬ 
teria Medica, by Dr. Curry and Dr. 
Cholmeley.— Midwifery, and Diseases of 
Women and Children, by Dr. Haighton. 
—Physiology, or Laws of the Animal CEco- 
nomy, by Dr. Haighton.— Structure and 
Diseases of the Teeth, by Mr. Fox. 
N.B. These several lectures are so ar¬ 
ranged, that no two of them interfere in the 
hours of attendance } and the v/hole is calcu¬ 
lated to forrfi a Complete Course of Medical 
and Chirurgical Instruction. 
Dr. Clarke’s and Mr. Clarke’s 
winter course of lectures on Midwifery 
and the diseases of Women and Chil¬ 
dren, will begin on Friday, October 
the 4th. The lectures are read eveiy 
day, from a quarter past ten o’clock in 
tlie morning, till a quarter past eleven, 
for the convenience of students attend'^ 
ing the hospitals. The students will be 
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