Medical Electricity, was to announce the improvements the lately made in the administration of this new and singular medicine. The Treatise on Air is a very userul performance, especially when considered in reference to the state of this interesting branch of philosophy at the time of its publication. The great number and variety, as well as the importance, of the discoveries then lately made by Dr. Priestley, and other philoso hers here and on the Continent, upon this subject, and in various other branches of experimental philosophy connected with it, rendered a collection of the most important facts and observations, methodically arranged under distinct heads, peculiarly useful to those wishing to cultivate this extensive and interesting part of experimental knowledge. A somewhat similar, but smaller compilation, has been before executed by the ingenious author of the Treatise on Cases; as likewise by M. Macquer, in the last edition of his Dicti formed the task in a much more comprehen sive and particular manner, his object having been to instruct those possessed of little or no previous knowledge of the subject. The judicious and entertaining volume on Aerostation is divided into two parts; one cogtining the history, and the other the prac tice, of the art. The first experiments on this subject appear to have been made, by Mr. Cavallo himself, early in the year 1782; and an account of them was read to the Royal Society on the 20th of June, in that year. They were not indeed successful, because they were made on too small a scale; and it is well known that the Montgolfiers succeeded in France, by happily making the trial in large, on a principie by them misunderstood. the study of nature displaying superior at. tractions, he was seduced from the accompting-house, to embrace the leisure of a philosophical retreat; and acquired a well merited reputation as a digester and elucidator of philosophical discoveries In the year 1779, he was admitted a member of the Neapolitan Academy of Sciences, as well as of the Royal Society of London. The publications of Mr. Cavallo have been as follows:-A Complete Treatise of Electricity in Theory and Practice, with Original Experiments; one volume, octavo, 1777, (enlarged to three volumes in 1795.)-An Essay on the Theory and Prac tice of Medical Ele tricity; one volume, octavo, 1760-A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Air, and other Permanently Elastic Fluids, (with an Introduction to Chemistry) one volume, quarto, 1781-The History and Practice of Aerostation; one volume, octavo, 1785,-Mineralogical Tables; folio, (accompanied with an octavo explana tory pamphlet,) 1785.-A Treatise on Mag-onary of Chemistry; but Mr. Cavallɔ pernetisni, in Theory and Practice, with Original Experiments; one volume, octavo, 1787. -Description and Use of the Telescopical Mother-of-Pearl Micrometer, invented by T. C. a pamphlet, octavo, 1793-An Essay on the Medicinal Properties of Factitious Airs, with an Appendix on the Nature of Blood; one volume, octavo, 1798-For the progress and diffusion of science, we are indebted not more to the happy efforts of ori ginal genius, than to the judicious industry of those authors, who from time to time, employ their talents in digesting and elucidating successive discoveries. The distinguished rank which Mr. Cavallo held in this useful class of pheophic labourers, is suficiently known. His treatises on popular and interesting branches of physics, may be justly esteemed the best elementary works which are extant in our language. They possess every requisite of such performances, perspicuity of style, proper selection of materials, and clear arrangement. The merit of Mr. Cavallo is not, however, the merit of a merely judicious compiler. He never aspires indeed to form new and comprehensive views; yet he generally improves, in some degree, the stock of valuable facts, by his own occasional experiments. More than thirty years have elapsed since the Treatise of Electricity was first presented to the public. During the interval.it has passed through repeated impres sions, and the recent discoveries in electricity affording large additions of curious and useful matter, the work was successively augmented from one volume to three. It is unquestionably the neatest, the clearest, and the most sensible, elementary treatise to be found on this popular science; and it is excellently adapted to furnish the mind with Borse brilliant images and facts, which proyoke inquisitive genius to closer and more profound researches. The principal intention of the Essay on the Theory and Practice of is publication, however, laid the public under considerable obligations to Mr. Cavallo, as no one in this country had yet written scientifically upon this new and philosophic art. In the mineralogical tables the excellent system, sketched by Cronstedt, corrected and improved by Lerginan, and farther enlarged by Kirwan, is disposed in two very useful tables, each filling one side of a large sheet. One of them contains the four classes of minerals, divided into orders and genera, with the principal properties of each: the other, all the particular species and varieties, ranged under the respective divisions; those which are compounded of two or more ingre dients, being placed in that class or order to which their prin- pal ingredient belongs. The treatise on magnetism exhibits a cojuprehensive view of our knowledge on that subject. The ingenious author has collected from former wrers whatever was useful or curious. and adued many new observations. He has disposed the various part culars in that order, which naturally lead the reader froin the simplest to the most intricate part of the subject, by the paths which are plainest and shortest. It is not quite forty years since since the artificial aërial fluids began to be administered as remedies to the human body. The uncertainty, and the errors of the early applications, rendered the progress of the practice slow and doubtful; nor has the expeience, or the success, of recent and more numerous practitioners, been sufficient to determine the precise pover of the aërial fluids, or to dissipate the doubts which are still entertained concerning their use. A desire of extricating the subject from the conflicts of contrary opinions established prejudices, and opposite interests, induced Mr. Cavallo to his last publication; and his principal aim in its compilation has been, to exhibit a concise view of ascert ined facts, to separate them from suppositions and hypotheses, and to point out the ways of inves tigating the farther uses of factitious airs. Mr. Cavallo was also the author of several papers, published at different times in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal So-ciety of London. In St. Martin's-street, Leicester-fields, Mrs. Jenes, but who had for some time resumed her maiden-name of Mirs Paris. She was the daughter of Monsieur Paris, a French emigrant of rank, who, together with his wife and child, was protected by the benevolence and liberality of Mr. Pearce, member for Northallerton. Her father has been dead sumie years: her mother died lately. Miss Paris was placed by this gentleman in a respectable school, near Brunswick square, and one even ing at the foundling Hospital formed an acquaintance with a gentleman of the name of Jones, a very respectable young man, serving in the navy. Having found out his lodgings, without invitation on his part, she eloped to him in the dead of night.-He received her, but respecting her situation, and with a tenderness which is creditable to him, restored her to her governess. Shortly afterwards he visited in the family, made proposals of marriage; was accepted by Mr. Pearce, and, in his presence, and by his consent as her guardian, he was married to Miss Paris. Some trifling settlement, not exceeding sixty pounds per annum, was made by Mr. Pearce upon this young lady, and we believe that Mr. Jones received scarcely any pecuniary advan. tage by the marriage. He was in the navy, and the son of a wealthy and respectable tradesman, we believe an army clothier. He took his wife to his father's house, who received her with parental attention, and offered to contribute every thing to her happiness. But such was the perverseness and unhappy indiscretion of this young woman, that she soon quarrelled with her husband's' family, and obliged him to remove,her to lodgings, either in Camden Town, or Edgeware road. They lived here about a month, when, having reason to be dissatisfied with her extravagance and conduct, he procured her to be watched, one evening, out of the house, and she was traced, in company with a young officer, whese arm she appears t have seized casually in the street, to a notorious brathel. In th se circumstances, Mr. Jones proceed d with remarkable tenderness? but, upon taxing his wife with her infidelity, she made noj:ification, acknowledged it without reserve or hesitation; protested her insuperable hatred and contempt of her husbant; lighted his proffered conditional forgiveness; eloped from his house, and immediately "ent upon the low. Her prostitution was uncisguised and promiscuous; she became, with respect to personal virtue, wholly abandoned; and the consequence was, that she was compelled, very lat ly, to take refuge in a hospital-the asylum of criminal disease, and indigent indiscretion. Upon being restored to health, she disdained all invitation to repentance, which the kindness of her friends induced them to make. She again broke out into her profligate courses; and it is to be feared, that mortification and violence of passion, concurring with intemperance, upon a mind wholly vacant and unimpressed with moral and religious principles, induced her to shorten her course, and ter minate her career of profligacy by poison. It is, however, but charitable to conclude that her mind was disordered. Her person was extremely beautiful, her age seventeen; her figure light and delicate, and her manners truly prepossessing. She sung, and understood music well, and possessed many of the customary accomplishments of females; but of real solid education, of mental improvement, of moral and Christian knowledge, she had not the faintest vestige-never was Savage in this respect more unenlightened. This statement is made, from personal knowledge, in justice to those who survive her. With respect to her death, the circumstances are truly dreadful.. She had prepared three phials of opium, two of which she swallowed; and she is said to have died with a spirit of dreadful-we should almost say, diabolical perverseness; for no persuasion nor force could make her, when seized with the nausea of the poison, to take any antidote to the draugh's. She would not suffer the medical men to approach her; and though after stupefaction came on, they administered every known medicine, they all failed of effect. From the concurrent testimony of several witnesses, at the coroner's inquest, held to inquire into the circumstances of her death, the jury, without hesitation, returned a ver dict or insanity. In Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Captain Donald Stewart, of the Lord Nelson Harwich packet. In Cleveland-row, Westminster, after a long illness, the Rev. C. De Guiffardiere, rector of Newington Butts, Middlesex, and of Great Berkhamstead, Herts, one of the French preachers at the chapel at St. James's, and a prebendary in the Cathedral Church of Sarum, 69. PROVINCIAL PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS; Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly authenticated, and sent free of Postage, are always thankfully received. Those are more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of uny Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent or remarkable Characters recently deceased. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. MARRIED.] At Newcastle, Mr. Thomas Chapman, of the Ordnance Office, Tynemouth, to Miss Jessy Martineau James Dixon, esq. lieutenant in the third West York militia, to Miss Dale, late of Doncaster. At Stamfordham, Mr. Riddal Dodd, of Killingworth White House, to Miss Eliz. Charlton, of East Matfen. At Lamberton Toll-bar, Mr. Alexander Moor, of Berwick, to Miss Laing The Rev. Mr. Hayton, curate of Sunderland, to Miss Eliz. Mason. 49. Died.] At Durham, Mr. Matthew Young, At Berwick, Mrs. Nicholson, 39.-Roderic M'Kullock, an out pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, 80. At Wedderburne House, Berwick, General Home, of Wedderburne, 85. At Holy Island, Mrs. Lewins, 83. At Sunderland, Mrs. Wilkinson, 67.Mrs. Nicholson. Mrs. Dickinson, of the Crown inn, 46. 60. At Bolam, Robert Horsley, esq. At Kirkharle, Sir William Loraine, Bart. At Elford, Mary, relict of Mr. Edward Prior, of Killingworth, 85. At Newcastle, Mrs. Hood.-Isabella, wife of Mr. George Montgomery.-Miss Crofton, 62.-Miss Jane Paxton. Mr. William Angas.-Mr. Samuel Arthur, 79. At Nunland's House, near Berwick, Mrs. Wood, relict of James W. esq surgeon, mother of Dr. W. of Newcastle, 79. and At Dukesfield, near Hexham, Mr. Westgarth, agent to T. R. Beaumont, esq. At Morpeth, Mrs. Midford, wife of George M. esq. 66. At Bishopwearmouth, Mr. Robert Smart, 62-Mrs. Ness.-Mrs. Marshall.—Mr. Wil. liam Coxen, 84, CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. On the 4th of December, a school was opened at Rally-green, in the county of Cumberland, solely instituted and supported by the Rev. Mr. Myers, of Shipley-hall, rector of Edenham, in Lincolnshire, for the instrucMONTHAY Mag. No. 195. tion of twenty girls, in succession for ever, in all the necessary and useful branches of female education, whose parents (sober aud industrious labourers) belong to the united parishes of Millom and Thwaits. About a year ago, a few individuals in Kendal established a society, under the name of the Kendal Female Society, for visiting and relieving the sick poor; and by the report of the committee, just published, it appears that the society has distributed, in provisions and clothes, to 145 persons, the value of 671. 5s. 6d. exclusive of three casks of wine, which cost 61. 1s. 6d. and that the general supply of clothing in use, and resumable, consists of blankets, sheets, bolsters, shirts, flannel bed-gowns, &c. The number of christenings, marriages, and deaths, during the year 1809, in the two parishes in Carlisle, independent of christenings at the several dissenting places of public worship, is as follows: ST. MARY'S. ... ST. CUTHBERT'S. Christenings. 238 Christenings.. 176 55 Marriages..... 36 Marriages.. 207 Deaths....... 161 Deaths........ Total-414 christenings, 91 marriages, 368 deaths: being an excess of 46 births above the deaths, in the year 1809. And, since 1808, an increase of 68 births; a decrease in the marriages of 44; and an increase in burials of 53. The school established in Carlisle on the plan of Dr. Bell and Mr Lancaster, opens a prospect of the most extensive utility. Lord Lonsdale, some time ago, very liberally granted for the use of the school, a part of his premises in Fisher-street; where the committee have visited, and expressed themselves highly gratiaed with the rapid progress made by the children. As, however, the institution was in some respect rather deficient as to plan, a master of abilities has been engaged, and Mr. Curwen, who may justly be denominated the father of the establishment, has, with great liberality, sent the master of his own school from Workington, to put it upon a still more respectable footing. It must give the philånthropic mind the sincerest pleasure to ob. serve, that in every place the spirit of illiberality which would deny the great bulk of the people the blessings of education, is nearly, M if if not altogether, extinguished; and that the universal opinion is, that before the poorer classes can practise the duties of Christianity, and become good members of society, it is necessary they should know the precepts of the one, and the obligations which bind them to the other. Married.] At Carlisle, Mr. Isaac Hudson, solicitor, to Miss Lowthian. At Penrith, Mr. Matthew Soulby, bookseller, to Miss Wharton, of Eamont Bridge. At Dacres, Mr. Thomas Dawson, of Stainton, to Miss Garnett. At Whitehaven, Captain J. T. Hodgson, to Miss Harrison. At the late quarterly meeting of the Holderneess Agricultural Society, the question discussed was, "The value of straw for sale, or for manure, and the effect of stubble before and after ploughing being estimated -Is it the best husbandry, to mow, or to shear white corn?" As to the general question, Died.] At Kendal, Mrs. Atkinson, 84, whether it is the best husbandry to mow or Mrs. Harling, 24.-Miss Ann Cornthwaite, daughter of Mr. C. of the Globe, 16.-Mrs. Alice Rooke, wife of Mr. R. of the Nelson tavern. At Cockermouth, Mr. John Johnstone, 65, At Corby Castle, Philip Howard, esq. 79, At Winton, Thomas Munkhouse, esq 79. At Douglas, in the Isle of Man, aged 54, William Hough, esq. This gentleman was a captain upon half-pay, and owed his commission to the favour of their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge, to whom Mr. Hough was recommended by the innoxious hilarity and amusing mirthfulness of his manners. In his early days Mr. Hough made a considerable figure in the circles of fashion. He was cosemporary at the Charter-house, and at Cambridge, with the present Primate of England, and with the Chancellor of Ireland; and in such of his school-mates and companions in more advanced life, as happen to survive him, the mention of his name can hardly fail to excite many interesting recollections. The entanglement, in a twenty-years Chancery litigation, of a large fortune which Mr. Hough inherited from a father, far more thrifty than his son, disarranged the whole system of his domestic life; whilst in the management of -what escaped the protection of the law and the benevolence of the moneylender, it would certainly be more easy to praise the good nature than the discretion of Mr. Hough himself. A few refractory creditors, together with the total destitution of all sympathy, in quarters where the sentiment had been most natural, exiled Mr. Hough from his country for many years. At Carlisle, Mr. James Richardson, 82. He had been 36 years parish-clerk at St. Cuthbert's. Mary, wife of Mr. M'Mullin, to shear white corn, the members present differed in opinion; but the majority of them were in favour of shearing. Some important communications were made by Thomas Grimston, of Grimston Garth, esq. for which, and his active and useful zeal upon many former occasions, to promote the agricultural interest of the country, the society felt themselves highly obliged, and voted him their cordial and unanimous thanks. As some workmen were cutting down an elm belonging to Mr. Jepson, of Conisbrough, they discovered, in the heart of the tree, a horse-shoe, with a nail in it, in excellent preservation. It is supposed that it must have lain in the tree for fifty years. The elm is five feet in circumference. Mr. Green, of High-street, Sheffield, has the shoe in his possession. An appropriate and classically-elegant mo nument, by Westmacot, is just erected in York Cathedral, to the revered memory of the late Dr. Burgh. It is placed in the chapel behind the choir, and exhibits a fulllength emblematical figure of Religion, sustaining with her right hand a cross, and having her left placed on a book, entitled, "On the Holy Trinity," Adjoining, is an altar, with the name BURGH on the upper part, and in the centre, a glory, diverging from the letters J. H. S. On the base or pedestal of the monument, is a brief Latin memorial of the dates and places of Dr. Burgh's nativity and death; and beneath is the rollowing poetic inscription, written by John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, esq. Lost in a jarring world's tumultuous cries, teil How dear he liv'd, and how lamented fell; While gratitude is left, or goodness lov'd, But But list'ning crowds this honour'd tomb attend, And children's children bless their father's friend. Married.] At Skelbrook, the Rev. W. Snowden, of Doncaster, to Miss England. At Hull, Mr. John Featherstone, to Mary, grand-daughter of Thomas Brock, esq. At Burythorp, near Malton, William Preston esq. to Miss Johnson, daughter of Mr. John J. of Welton. At York, Mr. Mather, surgeon, to Miss Clough, daughter of the late John C. esq. At Acomb, John Pearson, esq. of Leeds, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late T. D. Garencieres, esq. of York. At Hedon, the Rev. Joseph Thompson, of Riplingham, to Miss Burstall, daughter of the late John B. esq. At Leeds, Charles Weddall, esq. of Selby, to Miss Motley, daughter of James M. esq. of Osmondthorp House. Died.] At York, Mr. Thomas Surr, 52. At Hull, Mrs. Sarah Stephenson.-Majorgeneral Hewgill, commander of the troops in the garrison at this place, 49.-Mrs. Kemplay, 81.-Mr. Thomas Williamson, 58. Mrs. Benson, wife of Mr. Joseph B. methodist preacher. At Bridlington, Lieutenant J. S. Harrison, of the 1st West York militia, 30. At Wakefield, Mrs. Mann, $7. At Whitby, Mr. George Sanderson, 70. At West Hill, near Sheffield, Mr. J. Williamson, 97. At Holbeck, Mrs. Hague, relict of the Rev. Joseph H. 91. At Cottingham, Mrs. Moxon, mother of William M. esq of that place, 77. At Drypool, Mrs. Langley, relict of Ensign L. At Boroughbridge, Mat. Glenton, esq. 79. At Bedale, Mrs. Caroline Raper, a maiden lady, last surviving child of Thomas R. esq. At Leeds, Maria, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Bolland.-Mrs. Northern.— Mrs. Westwood.-Mrs. Trant, wife of Mr. William Thomas T. of that place, druggist, 74. She was much respected by all who knew her. At Badsworth, Mr. William Milton. At Wetherby, Mr. Thomas Walker, 69. At Great Driffield, Mr. George Conyers, solicitor. At Rotherham, within a few hours of each other, Mr. and Mrs. Carnelly, of the Packhorse inn. At Carlton, in Coverdale, Mr. William. Walker. His death is not more lamented by the neighbourhood where he resided, than by his numerous acquaintance in Skipton, where he formerly lived as a respectable druggist. He was author of " Juvenile Poems," and received a present from the celebrated poet, Mason, on their publication. At Wormersley Hall, near Ferrybridge, Joseph Thompson, esq. Near Cottingham, aged 60, George Knowsley, esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the, Peace for the East-riding. If widely diffused benevolence, an invariable propriety of conduct, and uniform uprightness, deserve the esteem of survivors, his worth will he had in lasting remembrance. At Howroyde, in the 86th year of his age, Mr. William Hirst, who had been a faithful servant for more than fifty years to the late Joshua Horton, esq. and to his son. He had attended York races (from pure attachment to the sport) regularly for upwards of forty years, with the exception of the last, and had the honour to be known, and, from the great propriety of his manners, noticed, by many of the distinguished personages who have patronized those meetings during the above period, particularly by such as were of his own standing. LANCASHIRE. As two sawyers were employed in cutting up an oak tree, about thirteen inches in diameter, for the use of the Earl of Derby's col-. liery, in Rainford, in this county, the man in the pit perceived something move, which, on examination, proved to be a fullgrown toad. The animal was quite alive. when taken up, notwithstanding one of its legs had been cut off by the saw. The ca vity in which it was found, was exactly in the centre of the tree, just large enough to contain the body. In the tree, not the least crack or aperture could be discovered that had a communication with the atmosphere. That part of the oak which contained the toad is ' now in the possession of Mr. John Foster, of Rainford. Married.] At Walton, John, second son of John Hosken esq. of Carines, Cornwall, to Miss Harper, daughter of William H. esq. of Everton. At Liverpool, Captain Youd, to Miss Eliz. Kemp.-R. Pickering, esq. to Miss Ann Downward, daughter of Thomas D: esq. At Birkenhead Priory, Captain Bashord, R. N. to Miss Sophia Lake, daughter of William Charles L. esq. Died.] At Poulton-in the Filde, Mr. Robert Hull. At Oak House, West Derby, Mrs. Whiteside, wife of Mr. Thomas W. 56. At Bootie, Mr. Robert Coulburn, 81. At Rochdale, Mr. John Leech, upwards of thirty years an indefatigable preacher among the methodists, 73 |
