588 Alphabetical List of Bankruptcies and Dividends. [Jan. i, 
tainly, for the most part acknowledge, 
_as their immediate or proximate cause, 
an exposure to an abrupt variation of ex- 
ternal temperature ;. but at the same 
time, a susceptibility to be acted upon, 
by this or almost any other agent of 
disease, 1s likely to be encreased by 
what has previously debilitated or de- 
-Yanged the frame. 
A number of diseases, that are called 
nervous, continually pass under the eye 
and cognizance of the Reporter, but of 
- this class of inalady he has already said 
so much, grounded upon long and crow- 
ded experience, that he has scarcely any 
thing left to observe, which is calculated 
to interest_or to instruct. He can only 
repeat, what he has often expressed, that 
a due attention to the mental part and 
moral conduct of our frame is, in his 
opinion, the greatest desideratum in 
the application of medical science. 
Feelings and ideas are either the most. 
powerful sedatives, or’ the most efficient 
stimuli. Mind is the sun of the human 
system. Manis not a chemical retort, 
or a galvanic apparatus; not only his 
health, but his living existence depends 
apon the operation of intellectual causes, 
with which unanimated nature is alto- 
gether unacquainted. 
Cases of prematurely exhausted vita- 
lity, or where the faculties of pleasurable 
sensation, as well as useful exertion, have 
been impaired by habits of indiscretion, 
or the occurrence of external and adven- 
titicus circumstances have occurred in 
this ‘as in almost every other preliminary 
month. Brown, although in his personal 
habits a marty: to intemperance, was, 
in his medical speculations, the most 
zealous advocate for its antipode virtue, 
He taught more distinctly, perhaps, than 
any former physiologist, that muscular 
and nervous energy must be unseasonably 
exhausted, in proportion to the excessive 
degree of its exertion and excitement. 
This equally applics to sentimental, as 
well as to material incentives to indul- 
gence or exhilaration. A spasm of plea- 
sure, a convulsive enjoyment, an byste- 
rical felicity, abridges the permanence 
of the frame, which only for an instant 
it is calculated to enliven and inspire. 
In consequence of an accidental dis- 
covery of the fatal influence of the ope- 
ration of an empirical compound alluded 
to in the last report, the writer has been > 
induced to scrutinize more minutely into 
that subject, as its operation is connected 
with the production of mental as well 
as physical disease; in consequence of 
of which, he has detected several subse- 
quent instances, in which, the mercantile 
productions of quackery have rapidly led 
to irremediable disorder or distress. It 
is a traftic which more than even the 
slave trade ought to be speedily abolished, 
Dee. 26, 1807. Joun Reip. 
Grenville-street, Brunswick-square. 
AtpwaseticaL List of Banxruprcies and DivipEeNps announced between the 
20th of November and the 20th of December, extratied from the London Gazettes. 
DANKRUPTCIES. 
(The Solicitors’ wames are between Parentheses. ) 
ARMITAGE John, Leeds, cloth merchant. (Wilsons 
Greville street 
Aller George. Fenchurch Street, upholdsterer, (Kearsyy 
Bishopeate street 
Amondale John, and Edmund facktyn, Dowgate hill, rag- 
merchants. (Scott, Furnival’s inn : 
Albatiy John, Ware, bargemaster- (Boyill, New Eridge 
street 
Arblaster James, Stafford, 
loamsbury square 
Ainsworth Thomas, Blackburn, Jchn Watson, John Wat- 
son the younger, and Joseph watfon, Preston, cotton 
manufacturers. (Miine and Parry, Old Jewry 
Appleton John, Castleton, woollenmanufacturers. (Leigh 
and Mason, New Bridge street 
Abbatt Isaac, Liverpool, slopseller. 
garden 
Benfield James, 
Frith street 
Bentley Lance, Lambeth, cheesemonger. 
tars’ Commons 
fiour dealer. (Turner, 
(Lambert, Hatton 
Covent garden, fruiterer. (Rogers, 
(Latkow, Duc- 
Battershall James, Portsmouth, ship chandler. (Mes- 
sum, Portsea 
Barnett John, Finchley Lodge, cowkeeper. (Hodgson 
and Son, St. James’s square 
Bain Archibald, Birchin lave, merchant. 
Co. Swithin’s lane 
Barry Redmond, Birmingham, factor. 
. Gray’s inn 
Bride Edward, 
Cook’s court 
Bewers, Nathaniel Ward, and William Bowers, Cannon 
gireet, comb makerse (Kirkman, Cluak lane 
(Pearce and 
(Duon and Co. 
Fashion street, victualler. (Williams, 
Birchall Wm. 
street 
Stoke, victualler. (Berridge, Woed - 
Bradshaw James, Hungerford, mealman, (King, Took's 
court : 
Bujl Sarah, Brewer street, tallow chandler. (Miils, 
Vine street ‘ 
Croston Wr, Liverpool, ship chandler. (Battye, 
Chavcery lane 
Crosley James, Halifax, merchant. (Swaine and Co, 
Old Jewry 
Cross Christopher. and John Cross, Liverpool, curriers. 
(Windle, John street - 
Cross James, Liverpool, milliner. (Windle, John street 
Clarke John, Hoxton, lint manufacturer. (Cruickshank, 
Great St. Helen’s ; 
Chilcoc Thomas, Birmingham, iron founder. 
Lincoln"s inn 
Callender Wm. Romain, WNewcastle-upon- Tyne, mere 
chant- (Atkinson, Chancery iane 
Chester Wm. Chesterfield, mercer. 
Co Lincoln’s inn 
(Chilton, 
(Maddock and 
Copping James. Cherrington, yarn maker. (Wilson, 
Greville street 
Deacon John Eden, Manchester, linen draper-. (Ellis, 
Cursitor street 
Dolby Richard, Colchester, bricklayere (Miloeand Parry, 
Oia Jewry- 
Dowell Yhomas, jun. Rodney court, hawkere (Feild, 
Friday street : 
Denison James, William Andrew Phelps, and George Wil- 
liams. Friday street warehovsemene (Eaton and 
_ Hardy, Birchin lane . : ree : 
Dicks Wm. Fiome Selwood, clothiers. (Williams; 
Red Lion square : 
Disney Wemys, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, porter merchant. 
(Flexney, Chancery lane : (aie ; 
bodson George, Northourane, Borse dealer. (Wigles< ~ 
worth, Gray’s ing : 
Davis , 
