1807.} 
brated comparative anatomift of France, 
M. Cuvier, in illuttration of the modern 
animo-chemical dottrine of life, fuppofes 
a virgin blooming with health and beauty 
one day, and on the fucceeding a recum- 
bent corpfe. 
ee “ but an alteration of the ar> 
rangement of the particles which enter 
into the compolition of her body?” Such 
alteration is not, however, the ‘occalion, 
but the confequence, of lofing the prin- 
ciple of excitability. The mutcles are 
become relaxed, the countexance is funk, 
the power ot motion is departed, ae 
the atfinities of inanimate matter now 
bevin to exhibit their operation, on the 
minute particles of which the lifelefs fa- 
bric is compofed. 
The Reporter was, a few days ago, 
called to a patient whofe cafe was con- 
fidered as an inflammation of the intel- 
tines. The fymptoms appearin fact to have 
originated from what in nofology is deno- 
minated Iéterus calculofus. The excui- 
fite degree of pain which is occafioned 
by the ‘difficult and obftructed pattage of 
a gall-{ tone through the bihary duct to 
the inteitine, is often equally, or perhaps 
more, violent than that produced by vit- 
ceral inflammation. From the former, 
however, it may be difcriminated by the 
‘abfence of that general difturbance in 
the pulfe and faculties of life, which in- 
‘Yariably charaéterize the latter: * 
Infanity ftill prevails and predominates 
-over the ordinary multitude of difeafes. 
The incipiency of morbid irritation is not 
* This circumftance the Reporter hos 
feen particularly induced to ftate, as it has 
been overlooked by Dr. Saunders, whofe 
Treatife-on the Liver is, beyond all doubt, 
the moft refpe€table work that has been r a 
cently publifhed on that fubjeet, 
. Alphabetical List of Bankrupis and Dividends. — i) 
“What is this effect, ehie 
‘reign of fancy is confirmed : 
fufficiently nurfed and corrected. ‘The 
approach of melancholy, like the com- 
ing-on of evening darknefs, is fcarcely 
perceptible in its progrefs. In the firit 
ftage of this, as in that of confurmptive 
alfection, the diforder may perhaps ia 
almoit every inttance be arrefted; but 
afterwards, we can have little more aa- 
fluence upon the fhadgw growing over 
the mind, than that which advances over 
a dial, i he fun points out, without re- 
tarding, its almolt imfent ble encreach- 
ment. 
What is of gradual grewth, is in ge- 
neral of permanent continuance. A 
plant or an animal that is tardy in afcend- 
mg to maturity, is equally to in declining 
to death or diffolution. 
A fudden and unprepared explofion 
does not deferve terror; it is the flew, 
filent, and fubterranean train of inflam= 
matory ingredients, thag is calculated 
moti e fectiually to aydermine the mental, 
as well as phylical, conftitution, 
The progrefs and ettablithment ef in- 
tellectual hallucination, is traced with 
fidelity and feeling in the following deli- 
neation of Dr. Johnfon: “Some parti- 
cular train of ideas fixes uper the mind, 
all other intellectual gratifications are 
rejected; the mind, in wearinels ar lei- 
thes recurs Ponttya tly to the favourite 
oe and featts on the lufcieus 
falfchood whenever it is offended with 
the bitternefs of truth. By degrees, the 
‘the orows 
firle imperious, and in time deipotic, 
Thefe fictions begin to operate as reali 
ties, falfe opinions faiten upon the mind, 
and life paltes i in dreams of rapture of 
of anguifh.” 
Joun Rem, 
Grenuille-freet, Br ne feeae le -/quare, 
Jan. 27, 
1806. 
ArprapeticaL List of Bankruptcies 
nd Divipexps announced between the 
20th of December and the 20th of Junuary, extracted from the London Gazettes. 
SST 
BANKRUPTCIES. 
The Solicitors’ Names are between Parenthefes. 
BERRIDGE William, Maiden-lane, hofier. (Baxter and 
Co. Furnival’s ina 
Bailey Thomas. Liverpool, timber-merchant. 
and Co, Southampton- buildings 
Branwhite William, Gracechurch-ftreet, warehoufeman. 
(Reardon, Corbit-court . 
(Cooper 
Bates Benjamin, Sherringhatn, shopkeeper. (Harmer, 
Nofwich 
Butt William, Bermondfey, hair merchant, (Ledwich, 
Baldwin’s-court 
Blindell William, Wilwyx, malfer. (Taylor, Old Street 
Road 
Boorne George, Norwich, draper. (Lambert, Hatton Gare 
den 
Child cores Auguftus, Briftol, hicexine (Wm. Thomas, 
Bra 
* Goodyer Thomas, Market-ftreet, grocer. 
Cooke Thomas, Gloucefter, merchant. 
fin Square 
Curtis John Fletcher, Minories, linen-draper. (Dobin and 
Co. Crane court s 
Clarke Charles, Britto], corn-factor. 
Inner Temp'e. 
Cundill Robert, the younger, York, brewer, 
ner Temple 
Chard Charles, High Holborn, chemif, 
Garden 
Cox Jofeph Lancafter, Lambeth, victualler, 
Chaslotte-ftreet, Blackfriar’s road’ 
Dixon john Wood, Minories, thip broker. (Hillyard, Cop- 
~- thil-court 
Epworth Jimes, Spalding, 
coln’s inn 
Gillies Maclaurln, Southampton-place, merchant. (Shawe 
~ and Co, Tudor-ftreet 
(Egerton, Gray’s 
(Blandford and Co. 
(Edge, Ins 
(Smith, Hatton 
(Meyenott, 
grocer. (iiarvey and Co. Line 
(Fielder, Dukes 
ftreet 
Green Henry, Southgate, farmer. (Bromridge, Temple 
Godwia 
