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Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended the 5th January, 1824, and the 5th of January 1825, showing the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof.

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SCIENCE.

Considerations on the Origin, and the Causes of the Yellow Fever, according to Observations made on this Disease at Barcelona, in 1821, and at the Port du Passage, in 1823, by Mr. Audouard, Physician to the Military Hospitals of Paris.

This is a scientific production, by no means confined to the learned. It treats a question of medicine, involving, at the same time, a profound and very interesting question of morals and humanity. If the discovery of Dr. Audouard is in reality what it appears to be, it will prove an emanation of light sent by providence to dispel the darkness of those who have hitherto been blinded by a sordid and unfeeling interest, or at least to compel policy to act in unison with the dictates of philanthropy.

Is not the slave trade one of the principal causes of the yellow fever? Convincing experiments and an investigation founded in numerous and well attested facts, have induced the author of the work before us to decide in the affirmative. The commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences has admitted the novelty and importance of this question, and expressed a desire that the work of Dr. Audouard should receive a publicity calculated to attract the attention of the faculty, and of all who interest themselves in the subject.

This production, which from the simplicity and

perspicuity of its style, is adapted to all classes of readers, has, consequently, been published. The author, who has seen by himself the things of which he speaks, assumes the character of historian as often as that of judge; hence, the public also can form an accurate opinion concerning facts of which they may in some degree be considered witnesses. By a fatality that cannot be too much lamented, the very obstacles opposed to this infamous traffic, have multiplied the seeds of a pestilential disease. The unhappy blacks, closely crowded, buried in their floating dungeons, poisoned by a fœtid air, to the complete corruption of which they themselves contribute, deeply impregnate the ship with a cadaverous infection, which 'combining itself with the heat, the damp, and many other malignant principles, becomes converted within the harbours into mortal and contagious gases.

The particular species of yellow fever alluded to, is described by M. Audouard under the name of nautical typhus. This disease, arising from the close compression of men in that part of the ships where the air is renewed with most difficulty, assumes a more serious character, when these men perspire profusely, as negroes generally do, particularly when they are treated with all the disdain that is excited by the most disgusting animals. Then it acquires the energy of the most virulent poison; it escapes from the centre to which it was confined, and strikes with the rapidity of lightning, the unfortunate wretches with whom it comes in contact, and who themselves become new centres of pestilential miasmata. We refer to the work itself those persons who wish to follow the

development, the proofs, the inductions by which the author establishes the character and effects of the nautical typhus. It is sufficient that we have pointed out to the learned, to the philosopher, to the statesman, this new and valuable discovery in science. In conclusion, we adopt the words of Dr. Audouard, "abolish the slave trade and the yellow fever will cease to exist. Such is the two-fold benefit humanity expects from the philanthropy of the age in which we are living; Africa claims it from Europe, kings from kings, nations from nations, man from man." We trust that the useful researches of the author will not terminate in a vain dream or fruitless expectations.

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LITERARY NOTICE.

Biographie Nouvelle des Contemporains, par MM. Arnaut, Jay, Jouy et de Norvins.

We regret that the great political interests to which our work is particularly devoted will not, at present, allow us to notice some of the new publications before us, and which prove that the political movements of society, instead of impeding, seem rather to have accelerated the progress of the human mind. We see with pleasure, that a taste for literature in connection with the love of sound social principles, is beginning to diffuse itself throughout America. This is a proof that the moral faculties of the inhabitants of the New World, which seemed stifled in the atmosphere of despotism, required nothing more for their development, than the pure and vivifying air of freedom and independence.

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In a curious and miscellaneous catalogue sent to us by Messrs. Le Clerc and Co. booksellers, * we have observed several works of great interest written in America, or concerning America, an account of which we shall give in one of our succeeding Numbers, and which we recommend to every one desirous of familiarizing himself with the literary productions of Portuguese and Spanish writers, whether of the Old or of the New World.

*76, Regent Quadrant, London.

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