On the 25th of July last (1803) a large house was opened in Frith-street, Soho-Square, for the reception of patients, and in which the Medical attendant, the matron and servants constantly reside.

The objects of this establishment are stated by the Society, in their publication on the subject, as follows:

Ist. To afford relief to the disorders of the afflicted and in'dustrious poor of the metropolis, if the remedy should be ⚫ found capable of that desirable purpose; and

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2dly. To submit the long controverted question on the mer

its of the Metallic Tractors to the test of the severest scrutiny, the ordeal of experiment, by disinterested persons, and ⚫ thereby enable the public to form a correct opinion on the just ⚫ pretensions of Perkinism.'

As one of the articles, among the rules and regulations for the government of the Society, directs the committee to report, after a suitable time, the result of the undertaking, there was published by them in February last, a book, entitled « The Transactions of the Perkinean Society, consisting of a Report on the Practice with the Metallic Tractors, at the Institution in Frithstreet, and Experiments communicated by several correspondents. Published by order of the Committee."

This "REPORT" is highly creditable to the Metallic Practice. It states that "The Books of the Institution, in which every case is registered, both favorable and unfavorable, will shew that nine tenths of the patients have been either cured or materially relieved." Among other cases adduced in this report, are two of restoration of sight.

The Report concludes by expressing The satisfaction the • Committee would feel, should the wisdom of the British Par⚫liament see fit to investigate the merits of Perkinism, and, if • convinced of its utility, honor it with similar patronage, to • other modern discoveries for the benefit of mankind.'

(g) page 90-If rhyme or reason could avail any thing against this barbarous, brutal, foolish and destructive practice, no rational mind, it is believed, would censure the attempt however unpleasant the mode may be to the parties, or the friends of the parties concerned.

In the present instance much complaint was raised in London, by the friends of the two combatants, against these stanzas, as reflecting on the honorable personages concerned. If men will be so superlatively foolish, as well as wicked, however exalted their stations in life, ought any person, who respects the wellbeing of society, to be ashamed of an act which assists to make this vice" a fixed figure for the time of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at?" The duel in question, has scarcely its parallel for absurdity in its cause and disaster in its consequence. A dog, belonging to Col. MONTGOMERY's kept mistress, quarrelled in the Park, with another dog, belonging to Capt. MACNAMARA. The Captain's dog proving too strong for his antagonist, necessarily (I speak as a man of honor) raised in the martial bosom of the Colonel a feeling which could not be allayed, consistently with the preservation of his dignity among gentlemen, without challenging the owner of the victorious dog to meet him, the champion of his kept mistress's dog, before the setting of the sun, otherwise to be proclaimed a coward and no gentleman. Macnamara, a Post-Captain in the Navy, necessarily accepted the challenge. On the first fire, the Colonel was killed upon the spot, and the Captain also received a wound, which, while it will maim him during life, will assist him, in the cool moments of reflection, (if such moments are not inconsistent with a man of bonor) to feel whether it were really manly to take away the life of a fellow creature, and wise to hazard his own in so despicable a cause.

Col. MONTGOMERY was brother to the MARCHIONESS of TOWNSEND, and otherwise connected with the first families in the kingdom. Capt. MACNAMARA, also, belonged to a family of distinction. As there are in England great numbers, who know of no other laws of honor than such as they see adopted by the great, and whom they ape in all their movements, such examples have a four-fold influence. There were consequently, notwithstanding the fatal issue of this combat, more duels, and at the same place (Chalk Farm) within the few weeks following, than had taken place for many months before.

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SOUTHWICK & HARDCASTLE, PRINTERS.