their souls, and inviting their companions to come to Christ for salvation.

"I have been informed, that there is, also, a very considerable attention in the town of Hartford, state of New York."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED LONDON, JULY 15, 1813, FROM J. ROBERTS, ESQ. TO HIS FRIEND IN PHILADELPHIA.

"Is the midst of the distractions of nations, we may surely perceive the dawning of a brighter day, and indulge the expectation that they shall eventually issue in the introduction of the millennial car of the Prince of Peace. It is a remarkable fact, at the present period, that in many instances the Roman Catholic Teachers, who formerly deprecated putting the Scriptures into the hands of the laity and forbid the perusal, are now actively employed in their distribution; particularly on the Continent, where the sufferings of the wretched inhabitants may prepare their minds to receive its rich consolations, and all-important truths, as the gifts of heaven. The Bible Society is still extending its views to distant lands, desiring that the whole earth may be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. An edition of the Scriptures in the modern Arabic is serionsly thought of, a language spoken along the east and north coast of Africa, in Egypt, and Abyssinia, or the ancient Ethiopia; and from encouraging circumstances connected with the prospects of two suitable individuals, there is a probability of their proceeding to this latter quarter, as agents of the Society in this great work.

"The efforts made to procure in the new East India charter a clause for the protection of missionary labors have been crowned with success; and it is to be observed with gratitude, that, in a division on the question in the House of Commons, the majority in favor of such endeavors for the promotion of Christianity, was as two to one; which was far bevond the most sanguine expectation. Thus the Most High is protecting his own cause in the earth."

ORDAINED, (on the 26th of Aug. last) to the work of the ministry in Sharon, (Con.) (Ellsworth Society,) the Rev. ORANGK LYMAN. Sermon by the Rev. David Porter, D. D. of Catskill, (N. Y.)

On the 25th of August last, the Rev. HUMPHREY M. PERRINE, as colleague pastor over the First Church in Cheshire, (Conn.) Sermon by the Rev. Nathan Perkins, D. D. from 1 Tim. iv, 16.

On the 6th ult. at Cornwall, (Ver.) the Rev. OLIVER HULBURD, to the work of the ministry. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Weeks of Pittsford.

At Greenfield. (Mass.) the Rev. GAMALIRL S. OLDS, as colleague with the Rev. Roger Newton. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Austin, of Worcester, from 1 Cor. i, 23, 24.

HYDROPHOBIA.

THERE is none among the multitude of our diseases so fearful as that which arises from the bite of a mad dog; none that seems to put the sufferer to such overpowering torture; and none of which there have been so few instances of eure. The following cases, which have both lately reached Europe from the same country, deserve to excite considerable at tention among the Faculty. The results are unfortunately different; the proper inquiry will therefore be, how far the circumstances of the latter differ from those of the former; and how far its result may justify us in doubting that a specific has been found for at least certain states of this most afflicting malady.

The first case is given by Dr. Shoolbred of Calcutta. On Tuesday, May 5, 1812, Ameir, an Indian, of between 25 and 26 years of age, was brought to him under hydrophobia. The following is an admirable statement of the diagnostics of the disease:

His body, arms, and throat, were affected with constant and uncontrolable spasmodic starting. The muscles of his face were thrown into quick and convulsive action at each inspiration, drawing back the angles of the mouth, and depressing the lower jaw so as to communicate the most hideous expression to the countenance. His eyes appeared starting from their sockets, and suffused with blood; sometimes fixed in a terrific stare, at oth ers, rolling about, as if they followed some ideal object of terror from which he apprehended immediate danger. A viscid saliva flowed from his mouth, which was always open, except when the lips were momentarily brought together for the purpose of forcibly expelling the offensive secretion that adhered to them, and which he, effected with that peculiar kind ef noise which has been often compared

to the barking of a dog. His temples and throat were bedewed with clammy mois ture. His respiration was exceedingly hurried, and might more properly be cal ed panting than breathing; or, it stil more nearly resembled that short and interrupted kind of sobbing that takes place when a person gradually descends into the cold bath. He was exceedingly impatient of restraint, and whenever he could get a hand disengaged, he immediately struck the pit of his stomach with it -pointing out that part as the seat of some indescribable uneasiness. From the constant agitation of his whole frame, and the startings of his arms, it was impossible to count his pulse with exactness; it was, however, very unequal, both in strength and frequency: at times scarcely perceptible, and then rising again under the finger; sometimes moderately slow and regular for a few pulsations, and immediately after, so quick as not to be counted; but conveying upon the whole, an idea of the greatly oppressed and impeded circulation. His skin was not hot; and though his head was in incessant motion, accompanied with such savage expression and contortion of counte nance as might easily have alarmed those unaccustomed to such appearances, he made no attempt to bite, which is far from being a frequent symptom of the disease; and when it does occur, must be considered merely as an act of impatience at being held, and no more than the peculiar noise, above noticed, as indicating any thing of the canine nature imparted by the bite, an opinion which has been sometimes fancifully but absurdly entertained.

When questioned concerning his own feelings, or the cause of his illness, he wa incapable of making any reply; being prevented, it is probable, either by the hurried state of his respiration, or by his mind being to deeply absorbed in the contemplation of horrible ideas, to admit of his attending to the queries addressed to him.

Dr. Shoolbred, entertaining no doubt of the nature of his disease, which was further proved by his falling into agonies at the sight of water, tried copious bleeding, on the authority of a case given by Mr. Tyman, of the 22d dragoons. After the loss of sixteen or twenty ounces of blood from the right arm, the spasms diminished: after the loss of two pints, he twice drank water with delight, about four ounces each time. During the bleeding

he desired to be fanned, though air in motion is generally as much an object of terFor as water to those patients. At the end of the bleeding, the pulse was 104, He then slept for an hour; awoke, and drank sherbet; slept again, and about 5 awoke, with appearances that indicated a partial relapse. Blood was drawn from the left arm until he fainted; the spasms gradually decaying during the bleeding, and the patient drinking four ounces of water. The pulse at the beginning of the second bleeding was 96, at the end of it 88. No affection remained but head. ache. Dr. Shoolbred here considers that the hydrophobia had been completely overcome; but not thinking himself entitled to leave a man's life to hazard for the sake of experiment, ordered the patient four grains of calomel and one grain of opium, to be given every three hours. The first pill was given at a quarter before 6, and immediately rejected; a second at 5 minutes before 6, which remained. The patient then slept till 7: the pills were given regularly during the night; in the course of it he had three alvine evacuations, a circumstance unheard of in hydrophobia. He passed the night calmly. On Wednesday, the second day, his pulse was at 84. No buff coat was on the blood drawn the day before; the whole quantity was 40 ounces. At half past 9 he ate 30 ounces of sago. He was then able to converse, and gave the subsequent account of his seizure:

That 19 days ago, (including this day,) when returning about 4 in the evening, from his own house at Russapuglah, to his master at Chowringhee, he saw a parish dog seize a fisherman and bite him. Several people were collected at the spothe also approached, when the same dog ran at him, and as he was retreating he fore him, bit him in the back part of the right leg, about six inches above the anele, where he shews two scars at the dis tance of an inch and a half from each other, but without any appearance of inflam mation, or thickening of the integuments. The dog, after biting him, disappeared, and he does not know what became of him or of the fisherman. The wounds bled a good deal, but not being very deep, they soon healed, without any application. He took no remedy, except on the day he was bitten, a small piece of scarlet cloth, (sooltanee baat,) wrapt up in a piece of ripe plaintain, which was recommended to him as an infallible antidote against infection from the bite of a mad dog. He never saw any one in hydrophobia; and though he had heard that persons bitten by a nad dog were liable to such a disease, the apprehension of it never dwelt

on his mind, or scarcely ever occured to him after the day on which he was bitten.

He continued in his usual health till the 4th inst. seventeen days after the bite, when he found himself dull, Leavy and listless, with loss of appetite, and frequent apprehension that dogs, cats, and jackalls were about to scize upon him. He also felt a pricking sensation in the part bitten. When his mother-in-law brought him his breakfast, he was afraid to eat it. He continued his business of taking water from the tank to the house till about noon of that day, after which he could not bear to look on, or to touch the water, being constantly harrassed, whenever he attempted to do so, with the horrible appearance of different animals ready to devour him. He now, for the first time, thought of the disease arising from the bite of a mad dog, was convinced that was the cause of his present distress, and fully believed he would die of it. He ate no supper, nor drank any water, that night, in consequence of the horrible phantoms that incessantly haunted his imagination. Ia the morning, all his horrors were increased, the spasms came on, accompanied by anxiety, oppression, and pain about the præcordia and stomach; and those about him say that he continued to get worse in every respect, until he arrived at the hospital in the state already described. He does not himself distinctly remember any thing that happened during the whole day. He has some faint recollection of his being at his own house; but how he got there when he left it-or by what means he was brought to the hospital, he does not at all know. The first thing he can recal to his mind is drinking the sherbet and he says he has had his senses perfectly since that time-and that all his fears then left him, and havo not since returned. This, however, is not entirely correct, as he acknowledges that he does not recollect the second bleeding, which shows that the disease had then so far returned as again to disorder his mental faculties.

During the day he complained of a severe head-ache, which was relieved by leaches at the temples. On Thursday, the third day, he was distressed by quantities of dark green bile which he passed up and downwards; pulse 110. Apint of camomile infusion brought off much bile. At eleven he took eight grains of calomel: and at half-past twelve, half a drama each of jalap and magnesia: he was much relieved by seuna, manna, and cream of tartar. On Saturday the excessive secretion of bile had ceased, and he became clamorous for food. For some evenings after, some heat of skin and acceleratiqu

of pulse were perceptible, but they went off by cold bathng, and opening medi

cunes.

The case which appears to contradict this fortunate and promising one, is given by Mr. Bele gton, Assistant Surgeon of the 1st Foot, and dated Trich.nopoly, Feb. 26, 1813. On the 23d of that raonth, he was called on to examine the case of a Serjeant Clarke, aged 59, a tall, robust and resolute man. The circumstances are thus deserib. d:

In attempting to swallow his usual dram, previously to going out yesterday morning, he felt a peculiar undescribable reluctance to the liquid, and could not prevail upon himself to take more than one half of it; again, in attempting to wash his face preparatory to evening parade, the approach of the water threw him into a violent state of agitation, and he was obliged to have it removed. Although now distressed with the most urgent thirst, he ernnot be prevailed upon to attempt swallowing any fluid; the approach and even the mention of it, producing violent spasms of the muscles of the neck and throat, which spasms are preceded by a peculiar uneasy sensation about the scrobiculus cordis, and a kind of sobbing, or inclination to sigh, attended also with severe pain in the head; his eye-balls appear turgid and a degree of furor is depicted in his countenance; pulse about 110 in the minute, and rather small; heat natural; tongue white and moist; belly regular.

The surgeon, who was acquainted with the cases of Mr. Tyman and Dr. Schoolbred, immediately opened a large orifice in his arm, and took away about forty ounces of blood. The patient complained of excessive languor during the operation, but he did not faint. The pulse was, after the bleeding, at 88. The near approach or agitation of any fluid still produced a recurrence of e spasms; but he could now bear to look upon water if held at a distance. He shewed no reluctance at the light, or at viewing himself in a mirror; the pulse rose to upwards of 110; the turgidity of the eye-ballsw as diminished. The patient was now visited by some other medical men, and it was determined to try the effect of the bleeding without medicine. The blood was drawn at nine. At eleven he swallowed some water through a tube fixed to an elastic gum-bottle, and expressed great delight in the sensations which it gave to his stomach, but was afraid to take any more; his pulse was at 84. During the next two hours, he had several attacks of the spasms and one particular y violent on seen-g a bason of sago which was offered to him. At two the pulse, which in the intervals of the sparnis always sunk, was non cre

than 74; he had one alvine evacuation, and his skin was covered with a clammy sweat. At four, after seeing a recurrence of the spasms, and the horror with which he rejected liquids, bleeding was tried again: he struggled so much during the operation that the quantity could not be exactly ascertamed, but it might be from sixteen to eighteen ounces. The pube at once fell so low as to be scarcely discernible near the wrist, and towards the close he vomited a quantity of ropy phlegm, mixed with frothy saliva. He continued to struggle violently for some time, then fell quiet for a few minutes, and expired about a quarter before five o'clock. The disease had actually commenced, the morning before, as he then felt the first horror of liquids, but he had gone through the duties of orderly serjeant of the company during that day, and though he felt the dislike of water painful in the evening, did not think of applying for assistance till the next day. The Surgeon, therefore, considers that the bloodletting had a timely trial.

During the rapid progress of the disease no source of infection occurred to the recollection of the patient. It was, however immediately after his death remembered by several of his comrades, and particularly by two of them, corporals Henry and Moore, of the same company, that a small dog (which was destroyed as mad about three weeks ago, and which had previously bit two other men of the regiment) was in the habit of Leking a small sore on his inner aucle, which is hardly yet c.catrized. The animal was encouraged in this practice by the unfortunate man, under the impression of its being useful to the sore.

The appearance on dissection, about 4 hours after death, differed not materially from what has been observed in former cases: theposterior part of thefauces exhibited marks of inflammation, and the papillæ at the root of the tongue were uncommonly prominent; the esophagus was laid open through its whole extent and in several places shewed slight marks of inflammaton; these marks became n.ore conspicuous towards its termination in the cas dia: the inner sua face of the stomach was in several places infian.ed, and in two or three small spots its inner coat abraded: noth ing was contained in it but a small quantity of phiegu: the trachea was laid open, and in the interstices of the cartilaginous rin gs exhibited a slight infi, romatory redness-the heart was quite round, as were all the abdominal viscera, with the excep tion of the stomach The Hood taken from his arms eslíbited no signs of infieras matory crust, and what was last drav appeared unen. He cak scored.

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On these cases the first observation that occurs is, the obvious effect of the bloodletting to dimmish the symptoms in both. The admission of air-the endurance of the sight of water-the pleasure felt in swallowing it -the diminished swelling of the eye, and uneasiness of look, are all circumstances equally rare in the history of the d-ease; and apparently equally attributabic to the copious emission of blood. But it was, perhaps, unfortunate that in the latter instance the experiment was made so nakedly. In Dr. Shoolbrd's statement, the calomel was tried within three hours after the opening of the vein, and its effect seems to have been produced in copious evacuations, for which the system prepared and low ered by the loss of blood. The bleeding was only used on the first day, and it is obviously a remedy which must have speedy limits; but the returning uneasiness-the starting-the heat of the skin-and the burning sensation in the region of the abdomen, all which look too Like the former symptoms, not to make it probable that they belong to hydrophobia, appear to have owed their removal to the calomel and other evae ating medicines. The case of the serjeant was also the inore unfavorable one, and a man who indulged in drinking morning drams, and had a longstanding ulcer, was more likely to suffer by this most violent of spasmodic disea-es, than the abstemious and pure-blooded Indan. His disorder was almost too rapid for medicine; it killed him in a day. It would, we may hope, be more accessible in our milder climate, and the process eminently deserves the trial. At all events the melancholy comfort remains to us from the account of the Indian, that in those paroxisms which aguire the bystander for the agonies of the sufferer, he is probably insensible.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

AN act for the relief of insolvent debtors has lately passed the British Parliament, which we notice on account of some provisions it contains in favor of morality. While the act is designed to relieve the innocent and unfortunate, it guards against any perversion, which would screen the vicious from punishment. The act was drawn with great care, and has the following provisions among many others:

That attornies, servants, or agents, having embezzled the money of their principals, are not entitled to the benefit of the act, unless the creditors consent, or the insolvents shall have been confined ten years;

That persons obtaining credit by false pretences shall not be benefited, unless the creditors consent, or they have been confined five years;

That persons, who have suffered any bail or surety to be charged on their aecount; and persons who have lost money by gaming to a certain sum; shall not take the benefit of the act, unless creditors consent, or they have been confiaed five years;

That persons, who have made a conveyance or transter of their property, subsequently to their imprisonment, without just cause for so doing, shall take no advantage of this act unless creditors consent; and,

That persons who have been found guilty of seduction, criminal conversation, &c. shall not take any benefit from this act in reference to daniages in such suits, unless those who are entitled to the damages consent, or the guilty persons shall have been coulined live gears.

Sow notie's of the religions experience of JOSEPH TREAT, jun. of Ashford, (Conn.) who died July 7, 1812, aged 34 years.

The following paragraphs are abridged and compiled from an account, which was found among the papers of the deceased, in his own hand writing.

"By the power, goodness and mercy of Almighty God, I live, move, and have Tay being: And O that I lived more upon him, and rejoiced pore in hisn!

"For the spiritnd good of my relations, I would con hit to writing the hopes and feelings which I formerly had, together with my present oues.

"I own with me and self abasen ent, that I do not live seccably to my experi erce and vows; lot I hope that i see of my experience will keep ac hanble and penitent until the hour of death; when I hope to be exalted above all temptation, sin, trial, trouble, and son ow.

"It is evident, that every person, who believes in the mortality of the soul, must, unless he is in a tate of despair. have some hope of Leing happy in the life to come.

“I have had three revers! kinds of hope, at different periods of my 1fe. These I shall describe one at particularly.