1806.] 
received at Gibraltar from Madrid that, 
in confequesce of the Prince of Brazils 
being pronounced to be completely de- 
ranged, without any hope of recovery, the 
Walloon Guards and feveral other Spa- 
nifh regiments, were ordered to be in rea- 
dinefs to march to Lifbon. 
On the 31ft were received letters from 
Spain, ftating, that a war between that 
country and Portugal is certain, and alfo 
that 50,000 French troops are on their 
march to Portugal. 
ALGIERS. 
On the roth of March a cry of horror 
reflounded from every quarter of this 
wretched city. The firft Minifter, the 
Matter of the Horfe, the Secretary of 
State, the Infpector of the Slaves, and 
four other perfons of diftinGion, have 
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459° 
been ftrangled, and other executions are 
expectede 
NORTH AMERICA, 
Miranda’s expedition which lately failed 
from New York, where it had been fitted 
out, occupies, almoft exclufively, the pub- 
lic attention in America. His object is 
generally believed to be to revolutionize 
South America; a project for which he is 
eminently qualifed, The American Go» 
vernment were not, itis afferted, acquaint- 
ed with Miranda’s intentions. His fail- 
ing is known at the Havannah, and mea- 
fures have been taken to fruftrate his 
defigns. Colonel William Smith, Sur- 
veyor of the Port of New York, has been 
removed from office, in confequence of his 
fecret connection with Miranda. 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
In the public and private Pradtice of one of the Phyfcians of the Finfbury Difpenfary, 
From the 20th of April to the 20th of May. | 
me, 
A POPLEXIA ONES ANE a Va eer hero era 
EES ERIS RL: SU PR ae I 
Vira eee i oe pais 13 
Hypochondriafis-->....-..2.-.- ee 4 
Be SUT iC We Ei SRR SG SL 
PGMA rao te a ental co wei’, > 2% 
PATA S cota Gis Siete wide gS > ne ree ge 3 
RR a a oe as Konic neha 5 
Pibnile pee oy os CES ISNE eG ant baw 
Hemoptyfis 1... ... ET SS en ERE eet a I 
WENGE a ee nico ale eee ew oe feted 
Mirena? seis a a (0 
OGRE ike oe esl cris: 0s ct nim 8 
Glucerna Lo cee oe on se Rei ees a 2 
Morb) Gotaner:. gota. tS sn ate aia ies ae 
Morbi intagtites. gcc co4 ke wee = ciate pee 
May, in the country, the moft falubri- 
ous perhaps, as well as the moft delight- 
ful menth in the circle of the year, fo far 
from being wholefome or agreeable in the | 
metropolis, is in general found here to 
be unfavourable to health, and particu- 
larly prolific of difeafe. 
That increafe of heat, which, from the 
bloffoms of rural vegetation extracts an enli- 
vening and delicious fragrance, when acting 
upon the depraved and motly atmofpbere 
of an unwholefomely condenfed popula- 
tion, cannot fail to generate, and of courle 
- to inveft the bodies of its anhabitants with 
an accumulation of noxious efluvia, which, 
after having been emitied from the lungs 
and cutaneous furfacé of one, individual, 
is inhaled by another, in almott an endlefs 
and immediate fucceffion. Thus a vo- 
lame of air, like that of a circulating li- 
brary, often does not reach one, until it 
has been fo much fpoiled by the multitude 
of perfons who have already received it, 
‘as to be altogether unfit for contact or any 
further ufe. Y 
A dangerous cafe of apoplexy, to which 
the reporter has been recently fummoned, 
although it occurred in a perfon conftu- 
tionally inclined to the difeafe, was, there 
could be no doubt, immediately occafion- 
ed by the effects of a gluttonous debauch. 
This peculiar modification of paralytic 
diforder, it may be remarked, is not fo 
often produced by exceffive drinking, as 
by a licentious indulgence in the more 
folid luxuries of the table. The former 
fpecies of intemperance is flow in its ope- 
ration, and, for the moft part, gives warn. 
ing of its ultimate fatality by inflicting, 
in the firft inftance, a torpor or inability 
upon the nerves of ihe extremities: the 
latter feizes, in general, abruptly and un- 
expectedly upon the citadel itfelf of the 
fenforial power. It may likewife be not 
unworthy of attention, that an undue 
gratification of appetite for animal, is 
more likely than an excefs in vegetable 
food, to produce, in one predifpofed to-it, 
the perilous attack of an apoplectic pa. 
roxyim.* 
The 
* Mr. Ifrael Worfley, in an interefting 
account of his travels and fufterings recently 
publifked, remarks that apoplexies and fud- 
den éeaths are rarely beard of on the conti- 
nent, where, as he obferves, vegetable food 
3Nz2 conitituter 
