1804. ] 
ral Lake, at Caffowly, by a detachment 
of the 22d regiment, with a proportion of 
Sepoys or native Indian troops. The vic- 
tory was obftinately difputed. At laft 
the Mahrattas were entirely broken and 
{cattered. The number of our officers 
and foldiers killed and wounded in this 
action, was not lefs than 824. The fort 
of Burhampore was furrendered without 
refiftance. That of Affoonghur was ea- 
fily taken. ‘The confequence of this vic- 
tory was the unconditional fubmiffion of 
the Mahrattas, touch terms of truce as 
General Lake chofe to digtate. The cam- 
paign and the war feem to be thus nearly 
at an end, in the entire humiiviation of 
the only nativeIndian powerthat had main- 
tained its independence ; and the whole 
Peninfula of India may now be faid to be 
fubject to Great Britain ! 
hs number of French officers, of whom 
Lift of Difeafs. 
378 
the chief was a M. Louis, were found 
dire&ting the operations of the Mahrattas, 
and have been made prifoners. The ne- 
ceffity of the war has been evinced by the 
fact, that the Mahrattas were to have 
been the inftruments of the French ia 
overthrowing the Britifh power in India. 
‘The reprefeniative of the Mogul Empe- 
ror has been delivered by the fuccels of 
our arms from captivity, under the power 
of the Mahrattas. A great number of 
gallant Britifh officers have, however, 
been killed in the different aétions, a- 
mong whom were Major Generals Ware 
and Vandeleur, Lieut. Colonel Maxwell, 
Major Griffith, Wm. Campbell, and Cap- 
tains Duncan Grant, T. B. Humberftone, 
Rod. Maccleod, D. Ayton, And. Dyce, 
J. Maxwell, Wm. Simple, and George 
Story, befides many others of inferior 
rank,. 
LIST or DISEASES 1n LONDON, 
From the 20th of March to the 20th of April. 
Admitted under the Care of the Phyficians of the Finfbury Difpenfary. 
No. of Cafes 
CCATARRHUS ........-.2----+-- 57 
UNAS oes eum ly ink 19 
NS hel lel i er tlt al age 5 
DET rer ea eneae Tea pee ea mene ma | 
en mx ei em hd 
eo Nan i a 3 
RMRMEEE TS ones Os wel in von = nie Gee eee = 22 
Seerteeeir ee ere er ee 
PRN Re ee eR Oe ia hie a om, oe 21 
SCOT ETNA oh ie oie igi ie mice, eins = 32 
POSHOrtIMPs Ls OW coe SSeS 5 
Hypochondriafis & Dyf{pepfia-....-..-. 17 
ET RE BIS NG DACP, pea eo 2 3 
© SE REE EAGER ar 97 4 
BOTS Seg teller SRE a oA RC et a) 
Een Nea 9 a RUE ay aa i 25 
MMOLOC TRTABENES 2)o ro oti 2 widiwnen a oats e 39 
Meiphenes.Chronica ... 0.2 5. - - oye, cre o'n 238 
It is unneceffary to inform the public, 
that catarrh has beech the prevailing dif- 
eafe of the laft month, fince to few, in any 
rank of life, have altogether efcaped from 
its influence: a circumftance which is 
obvioufly explained by the late frequent 
changes of the weather. 
Tt is neither cold nor heat, neither 
moilture nor drynefs, but an abrupt alter- 
nation from one of thefe conditions of the 
atmoiphere to its oppofite, which is apt to 
produce diforders of the above-mentioned 
defcription. 
On that account, the more delicate in- 
habitants of this fluctuating climate 
fhould alike, at every feafon of the year, 
be covered with woollen clothing.* This 
fubftance, by flowly conduéting heat from 
the furface of the body, prevents in a 
great degree thofe fudden viciffitudes of 
temperature, to which it would otherwife 
be expoled. 
_ A prefervative,. perhaps equally effec- 
tual, againtt colds, is the ufe of the cold. 
bath ; which, by fortifying, in a degree 
and manner peculiar to itfelf, the fibies 
of the frame, renders it lefs liable to be 
injurioufly influenced by the variations 
that fo frequently occur in the ftate of the 
clrcumambient air. 5 
It is highly incumbent uponall thofe who 
enjoy an opportunity of trying this cheap, 
although invaluable corroborant, to have 
recourie to it at due and regular intervals, 
at leaft during ‘he months between the be- 
ginning of {pring and the conclufion of 
autumn, 
In the lower claffes, that contagious fe- 
ver, which at prefent is fo generaily cured 
by cold ablution, might, it is reafonable to 
believe, be as generally prevented by the 
habitual application of the fame means. 
For confumption properly {o called, 
* It isa remarkable inftance of the care of 
Providence, that the flaple commodity of this 
country fhould confitt of a material that is 
peculiarly requifite for counteraéting the in- 
jurious and inconvenient qualities of its cli- 
mate, 
that 
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