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Monthly Chronicle.
mtincd fortunately discerned a gentleman ' s house at a small distance , wnere they met with every care and attention it was possible to bestow on people in
their situation . H YDROPHOBIA . —A most melancholy instance of that dreadful malady the hydrophobia has recently occurred , the particulars are as follow : Mr . Henry W-ivlin apothecary , of North Audlev-street , so long ago as June last , was bit in the hand by a small dog that he attempted to take up near his own door , supnosins it to be lost . He applied , in consequence , to Mr . Thompson , the sur-> eon in the same street , who asked if he had any reason to suppose that the mad said at alland the wound was therefore treated as an
dotr was . He none ; ordinary bite , and cured in the regular course , without any untoward symptom whatever . Lately , however , Mr . Thompson was called in to attend Mr . Waylin , of what the family supposed to be a violent sore throat . He found him perfectly cool and intelligent , and received the following account of his complaint ; on Friday preceding he had dined out , and discovered in himself an unaccountable aversion to any kind of liquor when he attempted to drink it . This surprised him a little , but created no alarm . In the evening he returned home with ht whichwith the aversion to
some general symptoms of slig indisposition , , liquids , rather increased in the course of the next day ; and very early on Sunday morning he was attacked with violent spasms , attended with the greatest honor , if any thing , whether liquid or solid , approached his mouth . From this description it was directly suspected that he was seized with the hydrophobia : Sir Lucas Pepys was called in , and he was treated accordingly . The symptoms of this disease , however , soon increased to the utmost degree of violence . He that it became to have him
ivas at times so frantic and outrageous , necessary put into a strait waistcoat , and strapped down in bed . In this state he continued till Monday evening at six o ' clock , when he expired in great agony . Mr . Waylin had been for some time previous to this attack , rather dull and irritable , though Iiis natural disposition wasmuch the reverse . [&< r a REMEDY , p . 65 J Jan . 2 . That well-known character Major Scrapie was brought before Nicholas Bond the sitting istrate at the Public OfficeBow-streeton a charge
, Esq . mag , , of having committed divers frauds , under the assumed names of Col . Lawson , James George , Lisle , Sec . He was apprehended in consequence of having defrauded Mr . Oliphant , hatter , of Cockspur-street , of six guineas . This extraordinary adventurer has experienced all the vicissitudes of fortune in most parts of the world . After being liberated from the Hulks , he went abroad and entered into the French service , in which he ranked high , ancl had a command at Paris when the late unfortunate sentenced to dieand was one of
king was , those who conducted him to the scaffold : from the French army he deserted ' to the Allies , and obtained , by his courage as a soldier , the rank oi Major in the Dutch amy , having signalized himself on several occasions . Vv hen bis real character was discovered , he was suffered to depart , and retain his
com-. A dreadful conflagration took place at Berlin , in the night of the 27 th Nov . which laid in ashes the whole buildings called the Palace of Werther : very little has been saved of ( he papers deposited there , and of the library belonging to the public school . Several persons have been killed and wounded by the tailing-m of a strong wall . Count Wartensieben , a young nobleman of distinction , was taken from under the ruins , much wounded , and expired the same night . Mr . Martin , ( he attorney , has been enlarged from the charge of high treason , Bench Prisonfrom whence lie had
and removed from the Tower to the King ' s , before been removed . A bill was found by the Grand Westminster Jury , against Sir Charles Price , Bart , and John Jones , a corporal in the first regiment of Foot Guards , on a charge of misdemeanor of the most unnatural kind . Jones was tried ; and on the evidence of a publican and three witnesses , was convicted , and sentenced to two months imprisonment , ancl to stand in the pillory in the Broad-way , Westminster . —The worth Baronet is at large . K 2
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Monthly Chronicle.
mtincd fortunately discerned a gentleman ' s house at a small distance , wnere they met with every care and attention it was possible to bestow on people in
their situation . H YDROPHOBIA . —A most melancholy instance of that dreadful malady the hydrophobia has recently occurred , the particulars are as follow : Mr . Henry W-ivlin apothecary , of North Audlev-street , so long ago as June last , was bit in the hand by a small dog that he attempted to take up near his own door , supnosins it to be lost . He applied , in consequence , to Mr . Thompson , the sur-> eon in the same street , who asked if he had any reason to suppose that the mad said at alland the wound was therefore treated as an
dotr was . He none ; ordinary bite , and cured in the regular course , without any untoward symptom whatever . Lately , however , Mr . Thompson was called in to attend Mr . Waylin , of what the family supposed to be a violent sore throat . He found him perfectly cool and intelligent , and received the following account of his complaint ; on Friday preceding he had dined out , and discovered in himself an unaccountable aversion to any kind of liquor when he attempted to drink it . This surprised him a little , but created no alarm . In the evening he returned home with ht whichwith the aversion to
some general symptoms of slig indisposition , , liquids , rather increased in the course of the next day ; and very early on Sunday morning he was attacked with violent spasms , attended with the greatest honor , if any thing , whether liquid or solid , approached his mouth . From this description it was directly suspected that he was seized with the hydrophobia : Sir Lucas Pepys was called in , and he was treated accordingly . The symptoms of this disease , however , soon increased to the utmost degree of violence . He that it became to have him
ivas at times so frantic and outrageous , necessary put into a strait waistcoat , and strapped down in bed . In this state he continued till Monday evening at six o ' clock , when he expired in great agony . Mr . Waylin had been for some time previous to this attack , rather dull and irritable , though Iiis natural disposition wasmuch the reverse . [&< r a REMEDY , p . 65 J Jan . 2 . That well-known character Major Scrapie was brought before Nicholas Bond the sitting istrate at the Public OfficeBow-streeton a charge
, Esq . mag , , of having committed divers frauds , under the assumed names of Col . Lawson , James George , Lisle , Sec . He was apprehended in consequence of having defrauded Mr . Oliphant , hatter , of Cockspur-street , of six guineas . This extraordinary adventurer has experienced all the vicissitudes of fortune in most parts of the world . After being liberated from the Hulks , he went abroad and entered into the French service , in which he ranked high , ancl had a command at Paris when the late unfortunate sentenced to dieand was one of
king was , those who conducted him to the scaffold : from the French army he deserted ' to the Allies , and obtained , by his courage as a soldier , the rank oi Major in the Dutch amy , having signalized himself on several occasions . Vv hen bis real character was discovered , he was suffered to depart , and retain his
com-. A dreadful conflagration took place at Berlin , in the night of the 27 th Nov . which laid in ashes the whole buildings called the Palace of Werther : very little has been saved of ( he papers deposited there , and of the library belonging to the public school . Several persons have been killed and wounded by the tailing-m of a strong wall . Count Wartensieben , a young nobleman of distinction , was taken from under the ruins , much wounded , and expired the same night . Mr . Martin , ( he attorney , has been enlarged from the charge of high treason , Bench Prisonfrom whence lie had
and removed from the Tower to the King ' s , before been removed . A bill was found by the Grand Westminster Jury , against Sir Charles Price , Bart , and John Jones , a corporal in the first regiment of Foot Guards , on a charge of misdemeanor of the most unnatural kind . Jones was tried ; and on the evidence of a publican and three witnesses , was convicted , and sentenced to two months imprisonment , ancl to stand in the pillory in the Broad-way , Westminster . —The worth Baronet is at large . K 2