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all, a large proportion of what are called 
cases of diseased livér, may, perhaps, 
more properly be called cases of broken 
up habits, or exhausted stamina. The con- 
stitution is not'so often, perhaps, affect- 
ed in the first instance by a disease of the 
liver, as the liver by the disease or decay 
of the constitution; on which account it 
1s not altogether by the remedies which 
seem to have a more particular and spe- 
cific, operation upon this organ, that: its 
irregularities are to be corrected; or its- 
obstructions removed, but in a great 
measure. by those medicines and methods 
of treatment which are calculated to re- 
store lost-tone to the general fibte or 
Prop, for a period—the ees pillars 
State of Public Affairs ii September. 
palpable completion of evidence. After 
fOct. Is 
of the framé; There are, no donbt, ars 
ticles of the materia medica, which*d¢ 
not in general rank with tonics or Corros _ 
borants, that have a decidedly aud emi- 
néntly favourable operation on hepatic 
disorders, Of these calomel is the most 
distinguished and conspicuous? but ca 
lomel, powerful and beneficial as this. 
drug unquestionably i is, wiien sedsonably 
and discreetly administered, has perhaps 
of late been extolled with a somewhat ine 
temperate zeal, and appears to thé Re- 
porter at least to have been employed, ix 
certain cases, with too little reserve and 
discrimination. . 
September 25, 1810, ua Rerp. 
Grenville-street, Brunswick-squares 
STATE OF PUBLIC AF FAIRS IN SEPT E MBER, 
Containing official meres and authentic Documents. 
EE es 
SWEDEN. 
N-the 18th of August his Majesty pro- 
~ posed the Prince of Ponte Corvoto the Diet, 
asa propet person to be chosen Crown Prince 
of Sweden, in the following speech: ‘*When 
the last Diet finished a laborious session, the 
fairest prospects presented themselves to Swe- 
den, and lasting tranquillity terminated a long 
series of misfortunes, Three treaties «of 
peace had secured the dominions which re- 
mained to us at the end of a destructive war, . 
and a genefous Prince, placed near the throne, 
: promised powerfully to support that institu- 
tion which the wisdom of the States had form- 
ed, and by future prosperity fo secure an in- 
demnification for past misfortunes, His Ma-— 
jesty, who-shared in the pleasing hopes of his 
people, participated in their grief, when one 
of, those unexpected blows, by which Provi- 
dence manifests to men their weakness and 
their dependence on his will, called the 
Crown Prince Charles Augustus to himself, 
and shrouded the destiny of Sweden ina 
dreadful gloom. ” 
His Majesty continued to observe, ‘* that 
the immediate appointment of a successor to 
the throne was necessary to maintain the tran- 
quillity of the State, and that -he had seen 
with pleasure that the Empire joined with 
him in thinking the Prince of Ponte Corvo 
most worthy of their choice.” After an ani- 
mated panegyric on the military and political 
talents and private virtues of the Prince, he- 
aaded, ‘ that he having ason,"would remove 
in future times that uncertainty of succession 
to the throne, the removal of which some 
late lamentable events have rendered still 
more important to the country.”’ He concluded 
by proposing to the assembled States of the 
Empire, ** his Serene Highness John Baptiste 
Julien Bernadotte, Prince of Ponte Corvo, as 
ble Prince of Sweden, and his Majesty’s 
successor on the Swedish throne, provided i - 
the event of his being chosen by the Statesy” 
he will, pursuant to the fundamental laws of 
the kingdom, before he arrives on Swedish 
ground adopt the tenets of the pure Eyangelic 
Creed, and also sign a declaration similar to 
that proposed by ie States to the no Crown 
Prince.” 
This speech is stated to have been received — 
with general approval, and after half-an-hour’s . 
deliberation, the Diet confirmed the nomina- 
tion. = 
ey TURKEY« 
The report of the Russians having gained > 
decisive advantages over the Turks, and com- 
pelled the jatter to retreat to Adrianople, after 
having interposed a corps between that city 
and the retreating army, appears to be wholly 
unfounded. The Ottoman Empire, though 
greatly declined from its pristine splendour, is _ 
yet capable of efforts, not indeed sufficiently 
- 
vigorous to resuscitate its former grandeur but 
powerful enough to retard its declension and | 
to.inspire even its foes with admiration The 
supplement to the Petersburgh Court Gazette 
of the 17th ult. gives the details of a gallant: - 
attack made on the 8th by 12,000 Turks, un- 
der the Nyzer of Brailow, in front of Schume- » 
la. They were opposed by the main body of 
the Russians under Count Kamenskoi, and 
finally repulsed. It does not appear that the 
former had any other object beyond that of 
beating up the enemy’s quarters. The Grand 
Vizier, the account adds, viewed the progress 
of the battle from a hill at some distance, 
where he was attended by a pumerous re- 
PORTUGAL. 
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Proclamation of the French Commander it vie 
Chief. 
“ Portucuese !—-The armies “of Napo~. 
leon the Great, are om your Gontiers, and we 
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