cording to the former practice: and of 4,005 out-patients, only 39 were inoculated according to the former practice: whereby it appears that the relief of the Inftitution has been afforded to 4,378 patients by Inoculation, of whom 88 having been inoculated according to the former practice, the bleffing of Vaccination has been extended to 4,290 perfons in eleven months by this Hofpital: 159 patients in the Natural Small pox have been received into that department of this Inftitution; and medicines and advice have been granted to 55 children alfo in that difeafe, who were brought to the Hofpital as out-patients. This very extenfive practice, under the fkilful management of Dr. Woodville, the phyfician, and of Mr. Wachfell, the refident Surgeon, have enlarged the fphere of this Inftitution, rendered it more beneficial to the poor, and increased its claim on public liberality. Mr. Wilberforce observed on the popular prejudice, that, out of every 100 who had been vaccinated at the Small-pox Hofpital, not five would have fubmitted, had they not fuppofed it to have been the old-fashioned mode of Inoculation. Counsellor Gurney informed the meeting, that a number of gentlemen, who had firit conceived the defign of this important in ftitution, were of opinion, that, if those prefent felt no ftriking objection, the whole meeting fhould now refolve itfelf into a Society for the Extermination of the Small Pox. Dr. Clarke viewed the subject as of the utmost importance, and agreed fully as to the neceffity of the benefit being widely extended; and it appeared to him, that nothing lefs, viewing the Small-pox as a contagious peft, than an Act of Parliament for the prohibition of Inoculation for the Smallpox, unless with the fpecial licence of a magiftrate, would be a fufficient protection from its ravages. Mr. Ratt, however, objected to this measure, as trenching too much on the liberty of the fubject. The question for the Ad 'refs, having been put, and unanimoufly carried; a motion was made by Mr. Gurney, "That this Meeting do form itfelf into a Society for the Extermination of the Small Pox." Mr. Wilberforce wifhed, that, instead of the actual formation of any Society at prefent, a Committee fhould be chofen, to which should be referred fuch plans as might appear to gentlemen likely to cortribute most effectually to the accomplitment of the propofed object, and which fhould report to a Meeting to be appointed at a fhort period; and he propofed that, in lieu of any Society for this purpose, a general application thould be made to Parlia meat, to carry the whole into effect, in order that the benefits of this wonderful difcovery, which contained fo much for the ef fential good of mankind, might be made as extenfive as poffible, and reach throughout the State, and ramify into every corner the Empire. Dr. Lettfem produced a letter from Dr. Jenner, expreffing his entire approbation of the fubject of the prefent meeting; and, his wishes to co-operate with the plan in its fullest extent, both by a liberal fubfcription and by personal ailitance. After feveral explanatory fpeeches from Dr. Clarke, Dr. Bradley, Dr. Lettfom, Mr. Wilberforce, and Mr. Rutt; Mr. Gurney's motion was put, and carried unanimoufly. Admiral Berkeley expreffed his high fenfe of the advantages the community, and the world at large, would receive from the labours of Dr. Jenner; and stated, that he came officially, having it in command from the Duke of Clarence, to apologize for the abfence of his Royal Highness, who was prevented from attending the meeting, having it in his intention to move thanks to Dr. Jenner, for his invaluable Discovery. The Duke of Bedford faid, that as his Royal Highness was prevented, by unavoidable abfence, from moving thanks fo juftly due, he would take on himself to make a motion to the fame effect; and moved, "That the Thanks of this Meeting be tranfmitted to Dr. Jenner, expreffive of the high fenfe it entertains of his merit, and the great importance of his Discovery; and particularly for the liberal offer of his affiftance to accomplish the great object it has in view." This motion was unanimously carried. Admiral Berkeley then rofe again; and, as he confidered Patronage of much importance on thefe occafions, wifhed that, on one of fo great importance to the interefts of mankind, the higheft Patronage thould be obtained for it; and therefore moved, "That his Majelly fhould be humbly petitioned to become the Patron; and that the inftitution fhould be called THE ROYAL JENNERIAN INSTITUTION;" which was alfo unanimoufly carried, as were fucceffively the following refolutions: "That a fubfcription be now opened to profecute the laudable intentions of this Society. "That the following three Gentlemen be appointed Trustees; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, John Julius Angerstein, Esq. and Benjamin Travers, Efq. "That a Committee, confifting of the under-mentioned Gentlemen, be defired to prepare a plan, and lay it before another General Meeting, to be called by them, for the purpote of carrying into effect the important object of this Society; viz. Right Hon. the Lord Mayor Right Sir W. Leighton John Furnell Tuffin, Efq. Dr. Woodville "That the thanks of this Society be given to the Governors and Officers of the Sm.llpox Hofpital, for their very liberal offer to Co-operate in the purposes of this Society. "That the thanks of this Society be given to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, for his respectful attention, cordial fupport, and able conduct in the chair. "That the Bankers of London and Weftminfter, and the Members of the Committee, be requested to receive fubfcriptions." A fubfcription was then opened, to effect Doctor Dimfdale W. Stephen Poyntz, Efq. the purposes of the Inftitution; when upwards of 5ool. was fubfcribed on the spot, The bufinels of the meeting, which confifted of about 300 gentlemen, was carried forward with the most unanimous enthufiafm we have ever witneffed on any public occafion; highly honourable to the benevolence which characterizes the Metropolis of the British Empire; and worthy of the well digefted defign of the first projectors of the Inftitution, which promifes to be of the mcft extenfive benefits to our countrymen and to the world. The following interefiing ADDRESS to the PUBLICK is inferted at the "Requeji of feveral refpectable Correfpondents. AMIDST the various calls for liberal fupport of charitable and benevolent Inftitutions, THE SOCIETY FOR EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF CONFINED DEBTORS, inftituted in 1796, feel themselves, in confequence of the reduced ftate of their finances, again under the neceffity of appealing to the benevolence of the publick. Imprefied themfelves with the laudable object of their primary affeciation, and confoled with the fuccefs attending the progrefs of the work; they are only defirous of exciting in the public mind a more extended, as well as livelier intereft, than appears yet to have difcovered itleif, on the important occafion. In the courfe of the extenfive circulation which will be given to this Addrefs by its appearance in Mr. URBAN'S Mifcellany, it is probable that it will meet the attention of many individuals, who have hitherto remained ignorant of the very existence of this Society; but whofe benevolence would otherwife have prompted them to aid a caufe, which powerfully appeals to the tinett feelings of the human heart, and has a tendency to exalt the ftandard of morality and public virtue. It will be remembered, that the great Philanthropist, Mr. HOWARD*, was perhaps the fift happy inftrument in turning the attention of the real friends of humanity to this degraded clafs of the community. And let it be remembered by those who are bleffed with affiuence, and who are yet strangers to the painful viciffitudes of life, that many of these children who now claim their patronage and fympathy were the endearing pledges of once happy unions; that they have been foftered during infancy, and the first rudiments of their education, with great parental tenderuefs; and, even in the unpropitions hour of removal from their domeftic cicles to the confinement of prifons, were innocent victims of the misfortune, extravagance, and even profligacy of their unhappy parents. To afford an afylum to fuch as thefe from mitery and wretchednefs; to shelter them, during the day-time, from a familiarity with fcenes of grofs licentioufuefs and pro fanny; to extend to children of this defcription, of both fexes, the privilege, of a guarded, moral, and religious educa *Mr. Howard, on his vift to the Prifons in the Metropolis, in 1776, ftates the number of children in the King's Bench only, to have been 725; two thirds of w bun were in the prifon. cation, are the leading, and may it not be fard, the dignified objects of this Inthtution. The Society, through the medium of its Committee, has the happiness of of affuring the Publick, that the schools in the City and the Borough of Southwark are both well appointed: the mafers and mistrelles, in addition to the neceffary qulfications for inftruction, are ferious and exemplary characters, and difcover a lively interest in the welfare and improvement of the chil dren. Many grateful teftimonials have been received from parents ducharged from pri "fon, of the benefits derived from time to The Corporation of the City of London have patronized this Society in 1800, by a donation of One Hundred Pounds; and among the refpectable Philanthropists whole names appear as its conductors, are thore of Meffrs. Henry Thornton, Wilberforce, Burdon, Barclay, Benfeld, Birkbeck, Bowman, Clarke, Cowie, Fenn, &c. &c. ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. During this month, reports have been in circulation, on the authority of private letters, that an intention has been declared at Paris of creating Bonaparte Emperor of the Gauls Sketch of Bonap irte.-' -The perfon of the First Conful is mall, below the ordinary size of men. The Confular garb does not become him; he looks beft in the plain @niform of the National Guard, which he at prefent generally wears. His face is ftrongly marked with melancholy, reflection, and deep thought; the lines of premature age are very visible upon it. He is faid to be impenetrable even to his friends. His head is remarkably large, and his eyes are well formed, and well fet, animating a countenance which has been feldom known to fmile. His voice is the deepe toned, and feems to flue as from a tomb. His mouth is large and bandfome; and in general it may be afferted, there is that harmony of features winch denotes an entire character. The various resemblances of him are tolerably ex &t; though they by no means do him justice, nor give this look, which is extremely interefting and impreflive. Bonaparte has defired the French Minifter, Reinhard, to fignify to his Danish Majefly, That, upon confuiting all fubfiting treaties and precedents, it appeared that the Elbe is a free river, and that the Danish Ag could not exact from any nation particular marks of homage or falute; and that Denmark ought confequently not to demand falutation from the fmalleft States in Europe in amity with the French Republic." The confequence of this mandate has been, that the works at the intended Royal Pattery of Cluckitadt have been futpended. The late journey of the Prince Royal of Denmark to Holbein was principally to facilitate these works, the expences of which had amounted to more than two millions of Dnith crowns. On Sunday the 12th, a deputation from the Republic of the Valais was prefented to the First Conful. It confitted of citizens GENT. MAG. January, 1803. Auguftini, Grand Bailli of the Republic, Quartely, Vice-Connfellor of State, and de Rudmatten, Ex-President of the Tribu Bl. The Grand Bailli delivered an Addrefs upon the occafion; after which he prefented the following decree: "Art. I. Bonaparte, Firft Conful of the French Republic, and Prefident of the Italian Republic, is proclained, in the name of the Valaifan people, Reftorer of the Ins dependence of the Republic of the Valais. II. The homage of the prefent law fhall be conveyed to him by a special deputation. III. The prefent law fhall be printed, published, and posted up, and republished every year, on the 5th of September, the Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Independence of the Valais. Given in the Diet at Sion, the 28th" of October, 1802. The Prefident (S-gned), &c. " of Diet," The following particulars of a molt horrid deed, which was committed at a fm ll village between Marquife and Boulogne, may be relied on A written paper, with three fignatures, was carried to the house of the Mayor of this village, appointing a meeting upon business in the evening, at a fixed place. A neighbour obferved three men at the door, and the Mayor to go out with his great coat on, leaving at home his wife, daughter, niece, and a maid fervant, Early the next morning, a nephew of the Mayor's calling, found the door open, and upon entering, firft beheld the dreadful fight of the maid lying murdered in the pallage; the mother and daughter dead in one room, and the niece a corpfe in another. As foon as he could recover bimfelf from the horrid fpectacle, he, with the affidance of a neighbour, fearched the other parts of the house, when it appeared that nothing had been taken away, The written paper was found, containing the three fignatures which induced the nephew and the neighbour to proceed to the stated place; when, as their minds foreboded, they discovered the unfortunate Mayor, m ferably mangled. In one of his hands was a large lock.of bar hair grafped, with a part of the skin to it, fuppofed to belong to one of the villains. This was taken immediately to the Municipality, who, for a few hours, embargoed all the veffels between Calais and Bouogne, and a most active fearch was made. The diligences were all examined, and every one obliged to take off his hat; but unhappily the monsters were not difcovered. A perfon arrived in England, about a week ago, to communicate the fhocking act to the English Police, in order to trace the villains, if they fhould have croffed the Channel. The Mayor was a powerful man; he was very much cut; and by the hair, which he appears to have torn from one of their heads, it is evident he made a ftout refiftance. To the cry of the new Oppofition in the British Parliament-“ that Great Britain is at prefent in a fate of danger beyond all example," the following answer is given in the Journal des Defenfeurs —" Where, or in what quarter, is England to difcern this unexampled danger? She has the most powerful and numerous marine that ever has ex fted. London has become the metropolis of the commercial world. Forty millions of men obey her in the Eaft and Weft Indies, and pay to her the tribute of their riches, their induftry, their manufactures, and of a foil the most fruitful on the globe. Jamaica enjoys the greatest profperity. Her veffels plough the Southern Seas, in order to add new dfcoveries to the British domain. The poffeffion of Ceylon and Trinidad opens to her new fources of commerce and of cultivation. Canada and the fisheries of Newfoundland vary and aggrandize her commercial ftores; whilst the perfection of her manufactures has, in fome degree, colonized the whole world to the profit of England."How much of this statement will the new Oppofition stand forward to deny ? A Society, in imitation of The Literary Fund in London, has been formed at Paris, for the relief of men of letters in diftrefs. Francis Neufchateau and the Prefect, Fochet, are chofen to be its Prefidents. SWITZERLAND. Bafle, Dec. 18. We have received official news, of the highest importance, from Paris. All the deputies, having arrived in that city, were, by a commiffion of four Senators, requested to meet, on the 10th of December, in the paper-room of the office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. They met accordingly. Barthelemy, one of the Senators of the commufion, with Ranx and Roederer, its Secretaries, there communicated to them a letter from the First Conful, dated St. Cloud, Dec. 10, and addreffed to the Deputies from the Eighteen Cantons of Helvetia. The fubtance of that letter here follows: "The prefent critical fituation of Hel vetia demands from all parties an entire fa- Milan, Dec. 12. The organic law, which eflatliches the new government at Genoa, has been published there. The government will confift of a Senate, in which a Doge is to prefi le. There are to be five They write from Tunis, that a flotilla of Our the Letters from Genoa, of the 15th of De- At paffed in the courfe of the 23d, and fo In the morning of the 19th of Decem- lined with old cables and junk. It was impoffible to extinguish the fire; and this battery, which did moft mischief to the Spaniards during the fiege, is entirely deftroyed. Some French engineers were lately fent to Tetuan, to examine that bay, and afcertain how far it could be converted into a harbour; and it was reported, that the Chief Conful purpofed to have purchased it from the Moors as a check on our navigation of the Mediterranean; the anchorage, with the exception of a final patch of about 100 yards in diameter, is very indifferent; the fituation is expofed; and the estimate of the expences to be incurred in rendering it a fafe port, have been deemed fo great, that the project has been relinquished. GERMANY. An article from Strafburgh, dated Dec. 14, fays, " By a Convention figned at Vienna on the 11th, we have for our Sovereign the Grand Duke of Tuscany." The Archduke Charles has tranfmitted to General Mereau fome handsome prefents, accompanied with high expreflions of esteem. Amongit other things, he bas fent him a large quantity of pheafints, and other game, for the purpofe of stocking his newly-purchased eftate of Gotbois. A dreadful fire lately happened in Gottenburgh, which has destroyed nearly a fourth part of the town. The damage is eftimated at 2,000,000 dollars. A great part of the houses and property which were confumed was, it is faid, infured in London. Count Rumford, fince his return to Munich, has inftituled a Society for Converfation and Reading, on the plan of the Royal Inftitution of Great Britain. It is denominated the Museum. Its first public meeting was on the 4th of November. An University is about to be erected at Chriftianfand, the capital of Norway, with a chair for a Profeffur of Agriculture. According to letters from Petersburg, the Emperor intends to fettle a pension of 50,000 crowns upon the King of Sardinia, until he thall receive a fuitable indemnity; he propofes alfo to engage the other powers to contribute to ameliorate the condition of his Sardinian Majefty. EGYPT. General Stuart arrived at Alexandria in the middle of September; and immedi ately fent off Lord Blanture, his Aid-deCamp, to Cairo, with dispatches to Achmet Pacha, by whom he was kindly re ceived. The Pacha prefented hin, and the Officers who accompanied him, each with an elegant fabre, and fent a guard of Turkish folders to efcort them down the Nile, on which feveral pirate boats had made their appearance fince the overflowing of that liver. They were fired upon |