252, 
phthisical propensity is apt to shew itself 
for the first timé after the cessation of 
measles. In which case, particular at- 
tention ought to be paid, to what may be 
considered as only catarrhal attec- 
tions, but which clandestinely undermine 
the constitution without awakening ap- 
prehension or alarm. The consumptive 
are in general condemned to death, be- 
fore they are alive to,danger. Persons 
have, at different times, called upon the 
Reporter to consult him withregard to the 
condition of their lungs, who, by family 
er quackery remedies, have reduced 
themselves to that state, which renders a 
visit to a physician little more than cere- 
monious,and not more advantageous than 
the fashivnable folly of only leaving a 
card. . 
It is not am ordinary source of disease, 
but one or two instances have recently 
occurred, in which a languor and insuffi- 
ciency for exertion seem to hav® arisen 
from a superstitious, and more than her- 
mit abstinence from any species of solid 
er fluid aliment, that was ealculated to 
support, or exhilarate the frame. 
Although an excess im wine must ul- 
timately, and too often rapidly, induce a 
deficiency ir constitutional vigour, a dis- 
ereet and seasonable use of it may, more 
especiaily in a feeble and imperfectly 
eemented fabric, be almost necessary, or 
subservient at Jeast, to 1ts consolidation 
and continuance. Man is not a imull that 
eap go merely by water. 
Cold and tepid ablution, the Reporter 
State of Public. Affairs in March. 
[April 1, 
has found of more medicinal efficacy than 
any article of the Pharmacopeia. Clear- 
liness, the most accurate, ought to be 
placed in the group of the cardinal vir= 
tues, both as it relates to health, and the 
comfortable feeling of existence. But as 
for watering-places in general, they ought 
to be considered merely as museums of 
folly and impositions upon hypochondri- 
acal credulity. 
Bath, for instance, towards which, to 
employ the technical language ofthe pro= 
fession, there is about this time of the 
year a particular determination, can only 
afford health, in so far as it may afford 
amusement, and an alienation from dos 
mestic or other cares. A warm. bath im 
London is as efficient as a warm bath in 
Somersetshire; the drinking of its water 
can fave no other effect than what may 
be produced by artificial compounds. 
The authority of such a man as Heber- 
den, who was noslave of Hypothesis, and 
has perhaps been justly regarded as one 
of the apostles in medicine, confirms, and 
ina certain degree establishes, the doc- 
trine of the Reporter. 
“ Quapropter hujusmodi e@groti ite- 
rum iterumgue monendisunt, Bathonian’ 
fuyere longe, nise se velint, in summo 
semper periculo versatos, réeddi deplora- 
tos, et prope depositos.”* 
Joun Rep. 
Grenville-street, Brunswick-square. 
March 27. y 
* Heberden’s Contmentaries. 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN MARCH. 
Containing official and authentic Documents. 
HE following State Papers will best 
explain the political complexion 
of the North of Eurcpe:— 
RUSSIA. 
Declaration of the Emperor of Russia against 
Sweden. 
<¢ Justly indignant at the violence which 
England has displayed towards the King of 
Denmark, the Emperor of Russia, faithful 
to his character and to his system of uncea- 
sing care for the interests of his empire, no- 
tified tothe King of Great Britain, that he 
could not remain insensible of so unjust and 
unexampled an aggression on a sovereign con- 
nected with him by the ties of bleod and 
friendship, and who was the most ancient 
ally of Russia. : 
His imperial Majesty informed the King ot 
Sweden of this determination by a notes 
dated the 24th of September last, and*pre-. 
sented to the Swedish ambassador. 
»* 
An article in the treaty concluded in 1783, 
between the Empress Catherine and Gustavus 
III. and another in the treaty of 1800, be- 
tween the late Emperor Paul and the present 
King of Sweden, contain the reciprocal and 
stipulated ag'eement to maintain the principle, 
that the Baltic is 2 close sea, with the 
guarantee of its coasts against all acts of hos- 
tility, violence, or vexations: whatsoever; 
and farther to employ for this purpose all the 
means in the power of the respective con- 
tracting parties. His Imperial Majesty, re- 
ferring to these treaties, considered himseif 
not merely authorised, but bound, to call 
upon the King of Sweden for his co-operation 
against England. 
His Swedish Majesty did not disavow the 
obligations imposed upon him by the treaties 
referred to, but refused all co-operation until: 
the French troops should be removed from the 
coast, and the ports of Germany opened to 
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