Oh! when shall I press thee awhile Until Evelina return. To the gale, as it passeth me by, All thy beauties I'll constantly tell; Every thought of my soul, till I die, Shall with rapture on thee ever dwell. Nor is it alone to the gale That I'll sigh out my plaints with a tear; There is not a grey stone in the vale, That shall not my sorrows oft hear! Come, come, and give ear to my song; Has the summer's approach caused more Than your's can in my bosom beget, A harbinger sweeter appear His hopes let thy presence renew; Bring peace to his heart and his head, Bring Eveline back to his view. The mid-day without thee 's all gloom, And pleasures but sorrow appear; Life without thee's as cold as the tomb, And sadness presides o'er the year! [The preceding translation is quite literal, and contains every thought of the original. It is said to have been written some time in the 12th century, by a bard of Deasey's country, now forming a part of the county of Waterford. It is much to be regretted that all his works have not been handed down to our times. But, so far as can be learned, nothing of his, besides this sounet, has been preserved, nor has even his name been handed down to posterity.] ELEGY, To the Memory of that distinguished Patriot and Philanthropist, GRANVILLE SHARP, Esq. Wdeepest gloom; THY mourns my friend, in sorrow's Why heaves his bosom, with such poignant grief: That matchless merit sinks into the tomb? Painful to us the change, to him relief. Shall worth like his, unto the grave descend, Without the tribute of one parting lay; Shall Sharp! so long, of all mankind, the friend, Unhonor'd, leave us, for the realms of day? No: every virtue round thy tomb shall weep, And Britain's sons partake a gen'ral sigh; The sable children of the western deep Shall join in sorrow, with a widow's cry: PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC SOCIETIES. REPORT of the NATIONAL VACCINE ESTA- Leicester-square, April 22, 1813. Establishment have the honour of informing your lordship, that during the year 1812 the surgeons appointed by their authority to the nine stations in London, have vaccinated 4,521 persons, and have distributed 23,219 charges of vaccine lymph to the public. The number vaccinated this year exceeds that of 1811 by 1,373, and the demand for lymph has been often so great, that it could not without difficulty be supplied. The Board had last year reason to think, that nearly two-thirds of the children born in the metropolis, were vaccinated by charitable institutions, or private practitioners. There is now reason to believe that threefourths of those born, are submitted to that salutary operation. But though the prejudices against the cow pock, which have been artfully encouraged by ignorant and interested men, appear generally to decline in the metropolis, as well as in other parts of these dominions, yet it is with concern that the Board have noticed the increase of mortality from small pox in this city last year, to the number of 1,287. Previous to the discovery of vaccination, the average number of deaths from small pox, within the bills of mortality, was 2,000; and though in the last ten years 133,139 persons were added to the population of this great city, yet in 1811, by the benefit of vaccination, the mortality was reduced to 751. The increase in the last year, we have reason to ascribe to the rash and inconsiderate manner in which great numbers are still inoculated for the small pox, and afterwards required to attend two or three times a week, at the place of inoculation, in every stage of their illness. This practice of inoculation, and of promiscuous intercourse of the patients at the same time with society, is the great means by which this disease is kept in existence, and its infection propagated to persons and places where it would not otherwise be seen. This is not only the opinion of this Board, founded on observation, but it is a fact confirmed-by communications to them from the best authorities, and by the most unprejudiced characters. The respectable College of Surgeons of Dublin allege, that the practice of in. 3 oculation not only supplies a constant source of infection, but prevents the extinction of the disease, for even a short interval. The populous city of Norwich was never free from it till of vaccination, but since that period it has experienced occasional remissions from its ravages. In 1807, after its disappearance for some time, the disorder was brought into that city by a vagrant from London, who, before the magistrates were apprized of it, or before the salutary advice given by the faculty to provide a place where such person might be secluded from intercourse with the inha bitants could be adopted, communicated the contagion. Of 1,200, who took the infection, 203 died. At that period, viz. 1807, the prejudices against vaccination had not subsided. But in 1812, when that city was threatened with a similar visitation, by the appearance of the small pox in the neighbourhood, the magistrates, the faculty, and the clergy, concurred in recommending vaccination. Between the 10th of August, and 22d of October following, 1316 persons were vaccinated. The result was, that, though one gentleman, whose child the faculty refused to inoculate, procured matter of small pox, which he applied himself, and from this source seven persons took the infection, yet by means of this seasonable vaccination not a life was lost. This result, so different from the events of 1807, cannot but make an impression on every mind open to conviction: when vaccination was not performed, 1,200 persons took the small pox, of which number 203 died: when speedy recourse was had to vaccination there was not a single victim to the disease. But it is not at home only that lessons, so much to the credit of this new art, may be learned. The Board have abundant communications from every quarter of the world equally to its advantage. To detail all the evidence which they may have received as to its efficacy, not only in preventing the small pox, but its power to suppress its ravages under the most unfavourable and threatening circumstances, would extend this report to an improper and an unusual length. They will content themselves with mentioning a few particulars, which they trust will recommend it to the favour and confidence of their countrymen, and to the fostering care of government. On the continent of India, vaccination has has been hailed as the greatest blessing, and has been practised with the greatest success, and in the most extensive manner. In the Islands of Ceylon and Bourbon, it has been received in a manner no less favourable, and been practised with an effect no less beneficial. In the Isle of Ceylon, since its first introduction, more than 200.000 persons have been vaccinated; 30,491 in the year 1811 only, as appears by an account received from Mr. Anderson, the superintendant general, to whom but one case of failure, in preventing the small pox, (and the circumstances of this case render it very doubtful) has occurred, in the great numbers which he has seen. At the Cape of Good Hope the small pox is dreaded as much as the plague, and it has proved there little less destructive to human life. Lord Caledon, the late governor, established at Cape Town a vaccine institution, which was soon called into activity under his successor, Sir J. Cradock. The colony consists of a population of 80 or 100,000 individuals, of which number it was supposed 15,000 were subject to take the infection of the small pox, which appeared there on the 12th of March, 1812. Between that time and the 4th of July following, 233 persons caught the disease, of which number 100 died. The remaining part of the inhabitants liable to the disorder were preserved by an active vaccination, in which all the faculty in the place, as well as the regimental and garrison surgeons, strenuously exerted themselves. From the various details with which the Board have been favoured, we think it our duty to select one instance, as tending to show in a most pointed man. ner, the power of the vaccine lymph to arrest the contagion of the small pox. Four hundred negroes from Mosambique were on the 1st of March landed at Cape Town, one of whom, a woman, was on the 5th succeeding afflicted with the confluent small pox in its most virulent form. This female was at that time inhabiting a large room in common with 200 more of her companions, not sepa rated either by day or by night. On the report of this case, the whole of these victims of " avarice and cupidity," as the surgeon terms them, were immediately subjected to vaccination, and on the following day removed to a small island (Paarden Island) at a little distance from the town. A few days after this, the woman fell a sacrifice to the most aggra vated character of that dreadful disease. Of the aggregate number of negroes, 78 individuals received the vaccine disorder, and underwent the regular course of its action. From these subjects the remaining portion were vaccinated. "They remained on the island fifty days, during which no further case of small pox made its appearance, although they had been exposed to the whole strength of the contagious atmosphere, nor is there a single instance wherein any of this large proportion of persons became subject to the small pox." It is added by the professional gentleman who writes this account, that throughout the entire course of this "arduous struggle" (the general vacci nation) not a single instance had come to his knowledge of the failure of vaccination in protecting the individual from the small pox, where the former was ascertained to have taken effect. At the Havannah, by the account written by Dr. Thomas Romey, secretary to the committee of vaccination, 13,447 persons were vaccinated in 1810; 9,315 of these persons had been vaccinated in the city of Havannah alone, with so good an effect, that for two years not a single person had been interred in the public burying ground of that city who died of the small pox, which before was a great cause of mortality in it. In the Caraccas, and in Spanish America, the small pox has been extinguished by vaccination. For the means which were taken by the Spanish government, and its subjects, we must refer to the papers, furnished by some Spanish gentlemen now in London. The accounts from various parts of Europe are almost as favourable. In the report of last year it was observed, that the small pox was extinguished at Milan and at Vienna, in which latter place for many years the average mortality from it had amounted to 800. From Malta, information has been received, that not only his majesty's ships are supplied with lymph to vaccinate such sailors as may not have had the small pox, but that the children of the artificers of the dock yard, and nearly 3000 Maltese childrens have been vaccinated by the institution there (gratis): and it is added by Mr. Allen, the surgeon of the dock-yard, that during a residence of seven years at Malta, he has never known au instance of one of them being afterwards afflicted with the small pox. Russia has likewise participated in the benefit of vaccination. It was introduced into the Russian empire in 1804; and since that time, in its various provinces, 1,235,637 have been vaccinated; and so uniformly successful has vaccination been, that it has been termed, in the language of that country, the Pock of Surety. Dr. Crighton, physician to the Emperor of all the Russias, observes, supposing (according to a well-founded rule of calculation) that before the introduction of vaccination every seventh child died annually of the small pox, vaccination has saved the lives, in the Russian empire, of 176,519 children, since the year 1804. The government of France appears to have taken the greatest pains to secure to the people all the advantages which could be derived from this discovery. A central institution was soon established at Paris, to encourage and to promote the practice of vaccination, and a simi. lar plan for the same purpose was adopted in every considerable provincial town. These provincial institutions were not Jong ago ordered to make a return to the government of the state of vaccination in their several districts. From these hoods even propagated to discredit vaccination, it is even now gaining ground. The Royal College of Surgeons have resolved not to inoculate with variolous matter. The College of Surgeons of Dublin have formed the same resolution. In Glocestershire, sixty-three surgeons, convinced of the pernicious tendency of inoculation to support and propagate the small pox, associated, and pledged themselves to decline the practice of it. The National Vaccine establishment have recommended the imitation of such examples to the members of the profes sion in every part of these dominions; and they have no doubt but that the good effects of such advice will soon appear, in the diminished mortality and the increased population, of the country. It may be proper to add, that the surgeons at nine stations of this metropolis reported to us on the 14th of last January, that they had no complaint of any person vaccinated by them having afterwards had the small pox. FR. MILMAN, President, Royal College of Surgeons. documents a report has been drawn up by Mr. Berthollet, Percé, and Halle, philosophers of the first reputation, and submitted to the class of Physical Sciences of the Imperial Institute; in which it is affirmed, that of 2,671,662 subjects, properly vaccinated in France, only seven cases appear of patients having af terwards taken the small pox; which is as 1 to 381,666. It is added, that the well-authenticated instances of persons taking the small pox after inoculation for that disease had perfectly succeeded, are proportionably far more numerous; and also that in Geneva, Rouen, and several other large cities, where the Jennerian system has not been circumscribed by popular prejudice, the small pox is no longer known; and the registers exhibit the members of the college, of corre strong evidence of consequent increasing population. The report concludes with expressing great hopes that this pestilential disorder will ultimately disappear from society. scribed, deeply impressed with the many We, whose names are hereunder subfatal instances of the small pox which have lately happened, and which daily occur in the metropolis and in various such events are, in a great degree, con towns of the kingdom, convinced that sequences of the support and propagation of that disease by inoculation, and fully satisfied of the safety and the security of vaccination, from a consequent sense of duty to the community,-do hereby engage ourselves to each other and to the public, not to inoculate the small pox, unless for some special reason, after vac cination; but to pursue, and, to the utmost of our power, promote, the prac tice of vaccination. 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