1809.] 
No person, except an apprentices 
shall be linble to be taken out of the 
service, by the warrant of any magistrate, 
for breach of contract to serve any mas- 
ter; and any servant hired for a year, 
inlisting, shall be entitled to such pro- 
portion of his wages, as the magistrate 
shall direct, up to the time of ensstment. 
§ 87, 88. 
When any corps beyond seas shall be 
relieved, in order to return home, such of 
the men as shall choose, may be enlisted ; 
and soldiers entitled to discharge, are to 
be sent home free of expence, and have 
conduct and imarching money home. 
§ 89, 90. 
Officers, storekeepers, commissioners, 
and others in that department, embez- 
zling military stores, may be tried by a 
court-martia! and adjudged, while in 
service out of the United Kingdom, to 
transportation for life, or’ years; or to 
suffer such punishment of pillory, fine, 
imprisonment, or dismissal from his Ma- 
jesty’s service, as the court shall direct ; 
or otherwise be incapable of serving in 
any Office, civil or military, or forfeit two 
hundred pounds ; and make good the loss 
to be ascertained by the court-martial, 
to be levied by distress and sale; and for 
want of distress, the offender to be com- 
mitted: for six months; and after the 
sum shall be levied, the same shall be 
applied as his Majesty shall direct. 
§ 101. 
Non-commissioned officers embezzling 
soldiers’ pay, shali be reduced to serve in 
the ranks, and be put under stoppages 
until the money be made good, and suf- 
fer such corporal punishment, not to life 
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and limb, as the court-martial shall think 
ins 102. 
No paymaster, commissary, or other 
person, shall make reduction out of 
officers or private men’s pay, except di- 
rected by the king’s sign manual. § 113. 
If any paymaster, agent, or clerk, of 
any garrison regiment, corps, or company, 
shall detain for one month officers’ or 
soldiers’ pay, he shall forfeit to the in- 
former before a court-martial, one bun- 
dred pounds, to be levied as aforesaid ; 
and the informer, if a soldier, if he de- 
mands it, shall be discharged. § 105. 
Agents of regiments, independent 
troops and companies, are to observe 
such orders and directions, as shall be 
given under the sign manual. § 106. 
Every person not an authorized agent 
of any troop or company, who shall ne- 
gociate or act as agent for the purchase 
and sale of any commission, and also 
every authorized agent, who shall accept 
any commission, money, or reward, for 
negociating the purchase or sale or 
acting as an agent, shall forfeit one hun- 
dred pounds, and treble the sum given 
above the regulation. § 107. And pay- 
masters, agents, and clerks, are to ace 
count with executors and adininistrators, 
§ 108. f 
By the 49th Geo. III. c. 14, if any 
woman in Scotland conceal her being 
with child, during the whole period of 
her pregnancy, and shall not call for, and 
make up of help or assistance in the 
birth, and if the child be found dead, or 
be missing, the mother, being convicted, 
shall be imprisoned for not exceeding 
two years. | 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the cure of the late senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
20th of March, to the 20th of April, 1809. 
Ee f 
gc a iD ge) ot tsthgeele ll ony : from the too sanguine sufferer the sloping 
pe eee | én SER anny tied rel 4 Passage to the tomb, was, not many 
Bice cist) aoenee wd “Teale ack Evenings ‘Since, presented to the writer 
Se ae a RR pe ae of this article, in the case of a pthysical 
Hypochonariasis et Dyspepsia. ....---- g patient, who, when within only a few 
Moris fick. rig esis ORES e.--- 1 CXpirations of her last, was anxious to 
Amenorrhea .-... wee --eeeeee--ee-- 2 know from her medical attendant, whe- 
Scrophila joss 6s ee ase sees ---- 1 ther she might not venture to take a ride 
Waites Soc8 panier oss eerescveesee- 1 in the Park on the ensuing day. She 
Morbus Cutaneus.----.-------s--+--- 1 survived only a few minutes this unne- 
The present prevalence of pulmegary 
affections, it is unnecessary to notice. 
A remarkable illustration of that flat. 
tering but faithless hope, which conceals 
cessary but affecting enquiry. 
At the same time, that true and estae 
blished pthysis is all but desperate, it 
ought also to be considered, that what 
too 
