39? 
fliust, Pezoldus§, Lifter, Hoffman* 
Behrent+, Werlhof tt, and by aif. 
ferent writers in the Aéta Nature 
Curioforum|||. In the ninth volume of 
this work, there is a complete hiftory of 
this difeafe, under the eeseeee Bi on! . Of: 
petechia mendaces. General apary ations 
upon it have 2lfo been made by Riverius’ 
‘Sydenham, Cuffon+, , Sauvaget, re 
ferius||, Strack§, and many other re- 
am rere es 
pO a7 < Hibi.6. 
§ Obf Ch. Sele. 6. 
| pg Scorbuto, anno 1680; fee cafes 
Fe 57 O57 4105/95: 10s TIT 2: 
** De Purp. Scorb. tom. iv. and Supplem. 
Part I, & IJ. 
++ De Affe@. a Mitylis. 
ti De Variol. & Anthrac. cap. iii. § 15, 
{If} Tom. i. obf. 35 & 79. Tom. in. 
Tom. iv. p. 4638. Tom. v. obf. 30. Tom. vii. 
obf, 110, %31, &c. &c. Compare Phil. 
‘Tranf, vol. lili. Commerc. Literar. Norimberg, 
3735-, Hebd, 2 & 7. Acta Hafnens;-vol. 11. 
Dr, Duncan’s Medical Cafes, ae Med. Com- 
“ment. Medical Faéts, vol. ii. and a cafe by 
Dr. Aikin, in the Mem. of a Medical Society 
of London, vol. ili. 
* Prac. Med. 1. xvii. cap. 3. and obf. 18, 
Cent. 2. obi. 21. Cent: 1. 
+ De Purpura, fine febre. 
+ De Phenigmo Petechiali. 
}| Inftit. Med. vol. ii. 10. 
§ Obf. Med. de Morbum Petechiis. 
79+ 
State of Public sa in May.—Great Britain. 
[ M ays 
{peétable authors, to which fearcely any 
thing of importance can now be added. 
The bills of mortality from the 18th 
of April to the r6th of May, report 134% 
deaths; from lague)2 3 apoplexy 145 
afthma and confumption 466 ; cancer 8; 
puerpe eral cafes. 193; convulfions 395 ; 
croup 13 dropfy 67; fever 1193; gout - 
123 hemorrhagy 1; head-ach 2; hoop- 
ing-cough 233 jaundice 6; locked-jaw 
13 lues venerea 43 lunatic ro; inflam. 
mation, abicele: and mortification, 423 
old age 111; palfy 63; piles 13 pleurify 
45 rupture 2; fearlet fever 1; {mall- 
pox20; fiil- pore and abortive 45 3 fione 
na teething 34; thrufm 2; waterin the 
head 6. 
From this flatement it will appear, 
that more than one-third of the deaths 
were produced by pulmonic difeafes. Of 
infants, under two years of age, 383. 
(above 1-4th of the whole numbe:) have 
died within the time above foecified : 
as only one hundred and twenty a thirty 
cafes are referred, by the bills, to difeafes 
peculiar to Ali 2 abortive births being 
included; the remaining number (about 
260) mu be. made up “from the indefi- 
nite articles of fever and convulfions. 
Laftly, it may be remarked, that 122 
perfons died Between the ages ‘of 7o-and 
90. 

Sebel or 
PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In May, 17097- 
Great BRiraAin. 
af ane DuKE cof GRAFTON, in the 
Houfe of Lords, on the 24th of 
April, called the attention . ofa their 
lordfhips to the ftate of public affairs, 
which appeared to him to be alarming, 
and the more fo, becanie his majefty’s 
minifters did not make ‘any communi- 
cation to parliament that day. There 
were three points on which his Grace 
wifhed to be informed, in an authentic 
manner, on which he had hitherto no 
information, except from new/papers 
and the rumours of the day. The firft 
was, that the Emperor had negociated, 
or was negociating, a feparate peace; 
~the next was, that Ireland was in a fiate 
of infurreGtion in many parts of the 
kingdom; and the. laft was, that the 
fleet at Portfmouth was,in a ftate in 
which no obedience was paid to the 
commands of the officers. Thefe were 
points of the moft ferious importance to 
this country; and he lamented moft 
fincerely, that there was not in the 
Houle that day, after fo sonfiderable a 
‘ 
tecefs, one minifter, to give their lord- 
fhips information. He had entertained 
hopes that, after what had happened, 
minjlters would have advifed his majefty 
to make a communication on all, or fome, 
of thofe important_ points. His Grace 
farther planes that minifters, “by 
neglecting to give the neceflary informa- 
tidn on thefe ae culars, in this critical 
time, fanctioned the afperiion which had 
been caft upon that Houfe, that their 
lordihips met merely for the purpofe of 
forming a court as it were, “ to enregif fier 
the ee or edi€ts of the Executive 
Government.” It was ta refute fuch 
fiander that he wifhed for the informa- 
tion which he was then feeking. 
The Lorp CHANCELLOR replied, 
that with ref{peét to Ireland he could 
ftate, that nothing important had occur- 
red fince the laft authentic accounts with 
which their lordihips were already ac- 
quainted. With refpeét to affairs on the 
continent, a mail had, within a few hours 
of the moment he was {peaking, arrived, 
the contents of which he could not heh: 
be 
