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Hcpori of Diseases^ 
[Oct. 1, 
their province as wisdom and justice should 
direct. But that, on the question as it re¬ 
lated to Fiance or any other nation, the 
United States would not interfere but in con¬ 
cerns of the United States alone. That the 
United States had given to Great Britain, in 
common with France, a fair and liberal op¬ 
portunity to obtain not only an uninterrupted 
commercial intercourse with the United 
States, but, if she had accepted the terms, an 
exclusion of France in her favour 5 that Great 
Britain had not chosen to pursue that path, 
consistent with justice and her commercial 
interests, by leaving the flag of the United 
States with free possession of the neutral 
rights of an independent nation.—That France 
had embraced the proposition, and that it had 
cow become an engagement for which the 
rational faith of. the United States was 
pledged, so long as Great Britain chose to 
persist in her aggressions on neutral com¬ 
merce ; that, as it related to France, she had 
complied with the engagement, and the 
United State’s flag, was, as to her, unre¬ 
strained and uninterrupted on the high seas— 
»nd the United States had no right to inter¬ 
fere in any matters of dispute between the 
two belligerents, in which she was not con- 
terned, and could not, and would not, make 
sny representation on the subject. 
“This is the substance of the information 
we have obtained, and it is the substance 
only that vve take upon us to give; the phra¬ 
seology is our own. The conduct and me¬ 
naces held forth by Mr. Foster on this oc¬ 
casion, we cannot give in expressions sutS- 
ciently forcible or characteristic ; but to Mr. 
Monroe personally, he is represented as 
having demanded, as we have above stated j 
and upon the mild and tempered answer of 
Mr. Monroe, he assumed a tone of arrogance 
and insult; and declared, that if the non¬ 
importation law was not hnmediaiely set 
aside, a force beyond any thing Mr. Monroe 
might expect, would appear on our coasts, 
and not only annihilate our foreign but our 
coasting trade. 
“ It is stated, that Mr. Monroe treated 
these menaces with dignity and temper, and 
chid the ycung gentleman with the equani¬ 
mity of a sage, for the rudeness of his man¬ 
ner and expressions. This unexpected oc¬ 
currence delayed the departure of Mr. Mon¬ 
roe for Virginia, for three days, and Mr. 
Barlow was also delayed for a like period. 
Such is the state of affairs with Great Britain. 
The President, before his departure, is said 
to have given directions to have every vessel 
belonging to the United States put in a state 
of complete equipment; and that all military 
works on the sea-board be completed without 
delay.” 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
^Oth of August, to the HOth of September, 
A T this season of the year, what 
fx are called bilious complaints are 
apt more especially to prevail. The 
Keportcr has, within tb.ese few days, 
met with several individuals who had 
jnst returned from the coast, with an 
aggravation, rather than a removal or 
alleviation, of such symptoms; ibis may 
in great measure have been owing to the 
unusually hot weather, which we have 
recently experienced, but, likewise, per- 
fiapsiii some degree, to that very change 
of situation which was had recourse to 
jis medicinal. The sea air does not seem 
to have a corrective influence upon the 
deiangcd state of the liver, and bathing 
not unfrequently proves, under such 
circumstances, positively injurious. It 
IS at least doubtful, whether the atmos¬ 
phere of the ocean be so congenial to the 
hnman constitution in general, as that 
which is inhaled in an inland country, 
where it is impregnated with the fragrant 
effluvia of an abundant and Inxuiiant 
vegetation. In cases of peculiar lym- 
jshaii« debility indeed^ the marine air, 
but more particularly the marine bath, 
is a kind of specific. The sea is the 
eau medicinale for scropula; it is the- 
best tonic for the relaxation, as well a#- 
the most efficacious deobstruent for the 
obstructions which usually attend that 
modification of disease. 
After ail, we are not so dependent upon 
atmosphere, as it is customary to imagine. 
Let the mind and body be but properly ex¬ 
ercised, and it is comparatively perhaps 
of little consequence, in what external 
medium their operations are performed. 
It is not from a stagnation of air, but 
from a want of a free circulation and 
ventilation of tliought, that complaints of 
which we most heavily complain, and are 
least able to bear, are apt to originate. 
He w ho indulges in a lazy recumbency of 
the intellectual faculties, cannot preserve 
their vigor, and even endangers their in¬ 
tegrity. And the body never fails to suf¬ 
fer from the absence of mental excite* 
jnent, as well as from its own inactivity. 
The importance of bodily activity might 
b« evinced by a vast mieiy of e^tamples- 
