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Flandrin, on different fubjeéts of the yete- 
rinary art and rural economy. 
~- Affociated with citizens Chabert and 
Huzard, in the editing a colleétioa of 
: inftruétions and memoirs on the veterinary 
art, he inferted in it many interefting 
articles, which have contributed to give 
to that work the reputation it has-ac- 
quired with veterinarians and cultivators, 
of whom it is.become, in fome fort, the 
manual. . 
No art,is more liable to fhorten life, 
than that of contemplating organization 
in animals deprived of it. lunged conti- 
nually in an atmofphere loaded with putrid 
vapours, Flandrin early faw his health 
decaying, without lofing his inclination 
for the labours which deftroyed it. At- 
tacked, about @ year before, with a fever 
which had refitted all rhe means employed 
to get the bétter of it, his exhaufted 
firength could not fupport the violence of 
avery acute peripneumony, which, ina 
few days, took him away froma beloved 
wife, from children in tender age, from 
an uncle who had for him the fentuments 
of a father, from his friends, from the 
National Jnititute, which had jult admitted 
him an affociate ; in a word, from the 
veterinary art, the regrets of which itis 
the more incumbent on me to exprefs, as ] 
am called, in fome meafure, to perpetuate 
its fentiments, by my infuficiency in the 
exercife of the funétions which he dif- 
charged with fo much diftinction. 
——— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE extraordinary and affecting manulcript 
“writing of the unfortunate ftranger found 
drowned, in Sea-Miil Dock, which I tranf- 
mitted to you laft month, having very probabiy 
excited the attention and fympathy of many of 
your numerous readers; I feel ita duty incum- 
bent upon me, to lay before. them (through the 
channel of your ufeful Publication) fome in- 
faxmation which I have fince been énablea to 
procure of this unhappy and extraordinary 
perfon. gum 
A few days previous to. the publication of 
your Magazine, 1 caufed a paragraph to be 
again inferted in the Briftol newipapers, re- 
quefting the attention of the readers to the per- 
-fonal defcription of the fwranger: found drowned 
at Sea-Mill Doclt, and inviting the two women, 
who had made ‘enguiries after a’ ftranger that 
was mifling, and anfwering the fame. defcrip- 
tion, .to come forward with _ their .. inform- 
ation, as.the only probable means left of tracing 
out the name and connections of this unforta- 
nate ftranger. 1 was foon after waited on by 
two gentlemen, of Briltol, of the name of 
_ Ring, the proprietors of a large pottery, whofe 
information and defcription of a ‘perfon lately 
come to Briftol, and who worked in theit mae 
Rake mets 
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Account of the Briftal Suicide. 
[Sure 
nufattory, in the art of painting China, & eX< | 
actly correfponded with the clothing and perfon 
of the man found drowned at Sea-Mills, that 
there remained not a doubt of -his being the 
perfon, the fubjeé of their enquiry. Through 
their polite affiftance, I obtained the name of the 
deceafed, which is James Doe, and I alfo got 
an interview with the. K—f——m acquaintance, 
who having vifited the tenement, and viewed 
the manufcript writing there upon the wall, re- 
‘cognized the hand-writing of his friend ; he 
gave me likewife a defcitption of, his perfoa~. 
and drefs, which correfponded with that alrea- 
dy publifhed, For particulars of the deceafed’s 
family and friends, I was referred to feveral 
perfons in London, one of whom, a refpeétable 
proprietor of a pottery there, writes thus : 
CSTR’, : agin Spalie 
© I received yours, and was much affeéted 
at its-contents. I fhould have written foon- 
has informed me of the following particulars : 
“© Jaraes. Doe was. born at Lambeth, in 
Surrey, of very re{pectable parents, and was 
educated in the fame place. He ferved aw 
apprenticefhip, at Lambeth, to a patnter in 
the China and earthen-ware line, and he 
painted in the bifcuit before it«was glazed. 
In this line he was efteemed a good work- 
man, and, to my pwn -knowledge, he 
worked fome years at Mr.: Weagwood’s 
¢ manufaftory, in Staffordfhire.. Ele was there 
very much refpeéted by -his employer, his 
fellow workmen, and by all who knew hint, 
He was fond of company, but-I do not re- 
member him to neglect bufinefs when urgent. 
Having a tolerahly good education, he was 
fond of reading. He was particularly gene- 
rous, and always frit to relieve any of the 
trade out of employ, or in ficknefs. He 
worked at Mr, Baddely’s, im Staffordfhire, 
for fix or feven years, and was, at that place, 
very much refpected. 
him to be generally. beloved and refpected 
wherefoever he worked. “About three vears 
ago, he came to Londoa, and finding little or 
¢ no employment in-the line in which he was 
brought up, he- was’ obliged to leave town, 
and, being afifted by his, friends, he em- 
(barked on. board,a thip for Newcaftle, and 
from thence went on te Glafgow, in Scot- 
land, where he was a fellow workman with 
one of my prefent jouraeymen, and fupport- 
ed an excellent character there. From this 
time, I believe, be m*t with many difap- 
pointments. “He then went to Treland, and 
after ftepping there a:fhort time, he embark 
ed ot boatd:a veel bound for Swanfea, in 
South Wales,. where he worked fome time, 
and then went on to the Worcetterfhire China 
“ce 
Jaft place he worked at.” ~_») 
Another of the deccafed’s . friends. writes 
thus: - . re eh Seige 
ORT 9: a Be eae He, ery 
© Yours I'received, and am forry to hear of 
‘ the melancholy account of James Doe. I 
(© have known hine and his relations for feveral 
‘i & yale 
er, but I withed firftto fee his uncle, whe 
In fat, I believe - 
Manufaétory, which was, -I bélieve, the 
