ci 
in two or three days, but without any 
alleviation of the coma, or other febrile 
fymptoms. There was indeed no ma- 
terial alteration till the eighteenth day of 
the difeafe, when the eryfipelatous tu- 
mour-began to fubfide, and exfoliate, 
fo that the eye could be opened. The 
pulfe, at this time, returned to its ufual 
flandard ; the tongue became foft and 
moift, though ulcerated in’ feveral places ; 
the dozing | and infenfibility “were re- 
moved; the child was able to fit up, and 
fought for amufement. On the twentieth 
day there was areturn of the {welling in 
the under eye-lid; but no other fhopbid 
fymptom remained excepting debility and 
great fretfulnefs. 
This child being the desler of an 
eminent and amiable phylician, was at- 
tended with anxious care, and very well 
nurfed, otherwite its chance of recovery 
had. lie en but {mall; there being few 
—inftances of efcape from a diforder fo vi- 
vulent. 
‘From old age s = 
State of Public Affairs in March. 22% 
The deaths reported during the laf 
four weeks in the bills of mortality are 
as follow ;. 
Afthma and confumption = 573 
Hooping cough erie zs at 
Fevers = = = 134 
Small pox - = = = ee age 
Scarlet fever <- - - “ z z 
Meafles “ = = = ra 7 
Puerperal fever - = - - 24 
Croup = oe . 2 é x 
Convuifions = x S 307 
Teething andthrufh —s = - - St 
Water in the head - = = =) 68 
Apoplexy and pally Go Site 
Lunatic - = - = wD 
Jaundice - = = = is a. 
Droply - - - - - Sa 
Inflammation and mortification —  - 589 
Fiftula - = - = = 1% 
Cancer = = = ps ieee we 20 
Gravel = =" ~ - 3 
Co ae eee 

STATE OF 
PUBLIC: AFFAIR S$. 
in Mianth,, 1997. 
Great BRiT ain. 
THE conclufion of the month of Fe- 
bruary was marked by one of the 
moft extraordinary events that ever occur- 
red in the courfe of this, or perhaps any 
other war: the invafion of Great Britain, 
by a force of 1200 men, without artillery, 
and almoft:without accoutrements. ‘Phe 
alarm, at firft, was general and great, 
throughout ae moles Pembrokethire, 
on ihe coaft of which the landing was 
made; but the men furrendered on the 
approach of a very inadequate force,’ 
and without refiftance, as is related in 
another part of our Magavine.--On en- 
quiry, it appeared, ae they confitted 
eel of galley-flaves, and other cri- 
minals from Brett; and the object was 
fuppofed to be at once to create an alarm 
on the Britith coaft, and to rid the French 
Republic of a number of defperate per- 
fons: but, whatever the intentions or 
the enemy might be, they met, on the 
whole, with a complete ¢ eject 
for not only the expedition proved en- 
tirely firuitlefs, but, as two of the thips 
which. difembarked the men were re- 
turning into Breft harbour, en the oth 
of March, they were captured by the 
St.. Fiorenzo and Nymphe frigates. 
thas been faid, that the Minifter of 
Marine in France is to be c 
“ 
Saled tO, ay 
fevere account for this moft d 
and abiurd expedition. 
The apprehenfions excited by this 
circumftance had fcarcelv fubfided, when 
a more ferious caufe of alarm occurred, 
to agitate’ the minds of the public, and 
this was, what has been termed by fomea 
—‘* Stoppage of the Bank of England ,” 
in other words, a difcontinuance of the 
iffue of fpecie in their cuftomary pay- 
ments. This extraordinary event, we 
lave examined in, another part of our 
Magazine. The cauies afligned have 
fon various--fome have attributed the 
circumftance.to the quantity’ of money, 
which, from time to time, has been fenr 
out of the kingdom ; while others shave 
accounted for it, from the alarm of an 
invafion. Both opinions have, probably, 
ifgraceful 
feme foundation in faét—Much bullicn 
or fpecie has unquefionably been ex- 
a and it is equally ¢ ertain, that 
much muft fill remain behind; and as 
ae has difappeared from circulation, 
there can be Intle doubt that a confide- 
rable portion is hoarded by mdividualss 
The run, to {peak in the commercial 
phrafeclogy, commenced upon fome of 
the country banks, and the great demand 
for {pecie from the Bank ot England, to 
fupply thofe deficiencies, induced the 
dire€tors to lay the fate of their com- 
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