1805.] Incidents, Morriages and Deaths in and near London, 
tered, near the Bahamas, by the Cleopa- 
tra of 32 guns and 190 men, and; not- 
withitanding her fuperior force, carrying 
46 guns and 350 men, the -Cleopatra 
chafed her, and engaged her for three 
hours. 
However, in three days afterwards, both 
fhips fell in with the Leander, of 50 guns, 
aod were taken and carried into Bermuda. 
EAST INDIES. . 
Inthis quarter of the world new trou- 
At length, owing to accident, 
the Cleopatra was obliged to ftrike.— 
395 
bles have arifen, fromthe energy difplayed 
by a new competitor to the Englith inte- - 
refis, in a native Prince of the name of 
Horxar. Notwithitanding feveral fee 
vere defeats, he fucceeded, in Augutt laft, 
in nearly dettroying a comfiderable detach- 
ment, under the cémmand of Colonel 
Monfon; and great apprehenfions’ have 
been entertained for the fafety of other 
fceattered divifions of the Britifh army.— 
Recent accounts report his total de- 
feat. 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES ano DEATHS in anp near LONDON, 
With Bisgraphical Memoirs of aiftinguifbed Chara&ers recently deceafed, 
LG ee z 
At a late Court of Common Council held 
st Guildhall, a Report from the Committee 
of City Lands, relative to the improvement 
and enlargement of Smithfield-market was 
yead, and it was refolvei to extend the im: 
provement by making a capital ftreet from the 
end of Fleet-market to the grear north road. 
Bloomfbury Square is about to be planted, 
and a cenotaph placed in a pyramidal centre, 
at the expence of the Duke of Bedford, to 
the memory of his illuftrioys ancefter Lord 
William-Ruflel ; and a roftrai column is to 
be ereéted in Tawviftock Square, to the me- 
mory of Admiral Ruffel, who defeated the 
French fleet off La Rogue, in 1692. 
A new bridge is about to be built in the 
place of the old broken one which has fo 
long diigraced Hyde Park. 
An Infirmary for the difeafes of the eye, 
under the care of Mr. Wathen Phipps, has 
been opened in Naffau-ftreet, Soho. and ano- 
ther for difeafes of the eye and ear, has been 
anftituted in the City, under the care of 
Mr. Sanders. : 
‘It is hoped that the following refolutions 
may be at this time particularly acceptable, 
as containing a ftatement of the judgment. 
of a public inftitution on the fubjeét of the 
late unfavourable report refpecting the Cow- 
pock.—Among the Refolutions adopted at 
the Quarterly Court of the Original Vaccine 
Pock Inftitution, in Broad-ftreet, Golden- 
_ fquare, were the following: That it appears, 
from the numerous reports which have been 
tranimitted or attefted by the members of the 
Medical Eftablifament from abroad, from 
©ur Own country, and from their own ex- 
perience, that the proportion of failures in 
the Cow-pock Inoculation to give fecurity 
againft the Smail-pox, which have been 
publifhed, does not amount to more than 
fifty out of 250,000 vaccinated perfons.— 
That it does not appear on examination of | 
the publifhed reports of thefe failures, and 
the inveftigation of many of them by the 
medical eftablifhment of this Inftitution, 
that ten have been fubfantiated by admil- 
fible and adequate evidence.—That it feems ° 
more than probable, thac all or mary even of 
the admitted failures, according to the evi- 
dence produced, are liable to be deceptions, 
on the fame grounds as in the afferted cafes 
of the occurrences of the fmall-pox fubfe- 
-quent to the fmall-pox.—That, confidering 
that the cow-pocic inoculation has been 
the caufe of producing an affe@tion which 
dractitioners in the firft inftances in general 
had not previoufly feen, and the hiftory? of 
which was fo little known, and confidering 
thre greater deceptions than in the {mall pox 
inoculation to which praétitioners are cxpoled, 
it was to have been expeéted that a much 
greater proportion of fuppofed failures would’ 
have occurred —That it does not appear thae 
a fingie inftance has occurred of the {mall- 
pox, fubfequent to the cow-pock, during 
more than five years pra@t'ce at this inftitu- 
tion; for, on enquiry, two inftances which 
were iaid to be fuch were found to be inad- 
miffible cafes: viz. one of them on-account 
of the fuppoled cow-pock preceding being 
Only a local affe&tiion ; and in the other, that 
it was only proved that there was a local af- 
fe€tion from the variolous inoculation. — That 
£he numerous inftances of expofure of vacci- 
mated perfons to the fmall-pox fince the 
<ommencement of ihe practice in January 
4799, and likewife of repeated re-inoculation — 
with fmall- pox matter at this inftitution, 
and which have been communicated, eftablith 
the faé&, that a perfon who has reaily gone 
through the cow-pock is incapadle of the 
{mall-pox, on as firm ground as the faét of 
‘wariolous inoculation giving fecurity againft 
the {mal]-pox.—That confidering the novelty 
of the praétice of vaccine inoculation, and 
that it haS not been performed in many in- 
ftances, after fuch a mode as might give the 
greateft chance of fecurity, it is advilable to 
take precautionary meafures with many who 
have been inoculated, or who {hall undergo 
the pra€tice in future.— That the tefts of pas: 
tie its who have been inoculated being fe- 
cure, are, expofure to effluvia and contact 
be et gone ith 
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