To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, IMUCH approve of the plan laid down in the Address, signed, "Common Sense," in the Monthly Magazine, which I am in the habit of reading. My information relates to the Ague. I was afflicted with that disorder severely, when young, (perhaps about ten years of age) and resided with my parents in the West of England. A professional gentleman attended, but my parents were indu ced, by the recommendation of neighbours, to try the following remedy, namely, "sweetwort." I drank at a brewery, probably about a pint, at first: the draught was repeated, and even a third time I drank freely all within a quarter of an hour. A nausea succeeded, and I vomited exceedingly, and the ague soon af terwards left me. August 25, 1808, London. Your's, &c. BRIGHTHELMSTONE. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, IN answer to Mr. Cooley's letter, I beg to relate that though there are several kinds of dock, yet there is only one generally known by the class of people, from whom the remedy was adopted. That is, the sharp dock, Tumex acutus of Linnæus, lapathum acutum of Ray. This, and the rumex hydrolapathum of Linnæus, are the only two that are generally known in medicine; and the latter is, I believe, always, by way of distinction, called waterdock. Your's &c. New Bridge street, October 8, 1802, J. ADAMS, M.D, To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, WHEN I was a lad about twelve years old, my constitution was very delicate, and pronounced by my parents and connections to be Consumptive. I was ordered a trip to sea, and accordingly sent in a vessel going to Hamburgh, in the vicinity of which lived a distant relation of my mother's, to whose house I went. I still complained of the pain in my side, with a very bad cough. A neigh bour of their's, an old lady, proposed a remedy for me. Some eggs of partridges were ootained, one of which was cast, as they term it, mixed with a tea-spoonful of bruised sugarcandy, and half a wine-glass full of claret, which I took two hours before breakfast, and continued taking, every second day for a week, and the following week every morning, and so on, as long as the eggs could be procured. Certain it is, that my complain rapidly diminished. Next season I renewed the reme dy, and before the end of it, my cute was coupleted. The following year I again took the eggs, but substituted new milk in place of the claret, with clean raw sugar, which I thought better than loaf sugar, as I observed 1 the last threw up a mixture of lime in it, which I am told is used in refining it. là short, I attribute my perfect recovery to the old lady's recipe. I have occasionally administered my own cure to young people, consumptively inclined; and of nineteen, I verily believe fifteen have been recovered by it. To preserve a stock of partridge eggs, let them be laid in a cool place, well rubbed with fresh butter, and they will keep for four or five months. It is sometimes difficult to procure the eggs, but still, if you pay handsomely, you will find country people indus trious enough to procure them. The partridge is, perhaps, the most athletic bird that exists of its size, which may possibly account for the virtue of its eggs. Your's &c. Perthshire, October 24, 1808. JOHN BRAHM SMITH. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, SIRA To promote the design of your correspon dent, "Common Sense," and observing in your Number for September, 1808, an in stance of the useful administration of dockroot, in the cure of scald-head; (which, by the bye, is only the old domestic remedy of the country,) I am induced to communicate the following recipe, for the cure of another disease-the Scurvy, in which shape, to my certain knowledge, it has often proved successful, in some most inveterate cases, when other applications had failed. Take sixteen ounces of the best and purest dock-root, to three quarts of soft water, boil them down to two quarts, of which a small tea-cup, or large wine-glass full, is to be taken morning and evening, as the patient can bear it. When there are ulcers, take a table-spoonfull of the flour of brimstone, and four oun ces of fresh butter, and a quart of the liquid; boil it to a cerate, and anoint the part therewith morning and evening; taking the liquid, as above, internally at the same time. It is not to be expected, that this will form an agreeable beverage; but the patient will be encouraged in its use, from the assurance of getting quit of a more disagreeable companion. I have the following recipe for the cure of the Tooth-ache, but I cannot speak with the same confidence or its efficacy, although I believe, and indeed have experienced, that it will give temporary relief. Take a wine-glass full of the best and strongest brandy, and a piece of hard soap, sliced down, put them into a cup, and allow this to stand by the fire till the soap is com pletely dissolved; when it is cold, it will form a salve, which, spread on a piece of grey paper, and apply externally opposite to the part affected. This composition is also a good remedy for sprains and bruises, being well and often rubbed on the part. Lenb November 21, 1808. Your's & HUGH GLADSTONE. MEMOIRS MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS. ACCOUNT OF THE LATE LIEUT-GENERAL I changes produced throughout to N consequence of important Admirably situated for commerce, and formed by habit for manufactures, a numerous and powerful fleet was formerly the chief object of our policy: but the genius of the people has been altered, and it has been deemed necessary, to render us a military as well as a maritime nation. The game of war, however, is played on so grand a scale on the conteen, that it is difficult to establish a school of generals, calculated for the tanes in which we live; or, perhaps, even for those extensive operations, required against an enemy, that can bring a couple of hundred thousand fighting men into the field. Materials are, indeed, wanting to forma the line of battle, and so extensive is the apparatus demanded for a land campaign with France, that it unhappily requires the complete and effective union of several great powers, to face her with any prospect of success in the field. Perhaps, on this, as on other occasions, nature has proportioned our means to our wants; and our armies, although not sufficiently numerous for a contest with the whole undivided power of the enemy, are acknowledged, when headed by gallant and experienced generals, to be amply sufficient for what is obviously the first object of our policy:-the defence, security, and preservation of the empire! General Sir John Moore, was a native of Scotland, a country, which, since the days of Fletcher of Saltoun, has been nire famous for producing military men of eminence, than patriot citizens: he, however lays claims to the gratitude of bis fellow subjects, in both of these character, having been at once a distinguished conamander and an ardent friend eivil liberty. His grand-father, Charles Moore, was a minister, or in other words, say something in thay be necessary to educated at the University of Glasgow, and afterwards attended the medical lec tures of the celebrated Dr. Cullen, who was his relation. We next find him serving as an army surgeon, in Flanders, and having, on his return, settled at Glasgow, he obtained the degree of M.D. from his Alma Mater. It was there that the subject of the present memoir first saw the light of heaven, and received the rudiments of an education, that was matured and perfected under the eye of a father who early instilled into his mind those generous and heroic principles, as well as that ardent love of freedom, which warmed his own bosom, and was never extinguished, 'or even debased, by his constant residence, and habitual correspondence with the great. An accident occurred, but a few years after he had settled in Scotland, that effected a great change, in respect to the family of Dr. Moore, as well as himself. The late Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, born in 1756, like his elder brother, James-George, being of a sickly babit of body, although extremely handsome, and even apparently athletic in respect to person, it was determined by his mother, the Duchess of Argyle, that he should travel under the direction of some skilful medical man, capable, at once, of enlightening bis mind, and taking care of his constitution. The physician to whom we have so recently alluded, was accordingly selected for this purpose; and whatever might have occurred at a future period of life, it must be allowed by all who knew him, that the choice was happy. They accordingly set out in 1773, and spent no less than five years abroad; during which period, it would appear that the seeds of those Bacchanalian attachments, which are supposed to have shortened his Grace's life, either did not appear, or if they did appear, were carefully depressed, and kept under. Young Moore was their companion during some portida of this tour, and was much respected by the the ducal pupil of his father, with whom he lived for many years, amidst all those early and endearing scenes, which knit the hearts of young men to each other. On their return in 1778, they separated for a while, the one' to pursue the delusive carcer, falsely denominated pleasure, which carried him to the grave: the other to serve his country, as an officer in the army. His first commission, we believe, was in the 15th regiment of foot, and he was afterwards promoted a lieutenant in the same. After passing through all the intermediate gradations in due order, he became Lieu. tenant-Colonel of the 40th; he afterwards obtained a colonelcy, and, rose to the rank of major-general, in 1798. On most of these occasions, he was doubtless assisted by the powerful recommendations of the Duke of Hamilton, for his military talents had not as yet been elicited; and but for the opportunities that afterwards occurred, he might have been lost or forgotten, amidst the crowd of officers, who swell the army list, and his name never heard of, but in a return, or a muster roll. It was in the Mediterranean that Mr. Moore, while a lieutenant-colonel, bad first the means of distinguishing himself. After having served at Toulon, he was selected by Admiral Lord Hood, to accompany Major Koehler, on a secret and confidential mission to Corsica. That commander, who had obtained possession of one of the two grand arsenals of France, finding it no longer tenable against the republican armies, determined, if possible, to annex this island to the crown of England; but as it was first necessary to ascertain the practicability of the scheme, these two officers were chosen, to confer with the celebrated Pasquale Paoli, who had left England, where he resided for many years on a pension; and after making great professions of his unalterable love of liberty, at the bar of the National Assembly, had been permitted to retire to his native country. On his return, he was once more elected Generalissimo, by a public Consulta, expressly convoked for that purpose, and apparently aimed to obtain the sovereignty of the island, On this, he was first denounced, and to-gether with his godson, Napoleon Buonaparte, who declared in his favour, expressly proscribed by a decree, in which they were treated as rebels. To frustrate the attempt on his life, he immediately engaged in a correspondence with Lord Hood; and having proved to the agents dispatched by that commander, to enquire into his power, and resources, that neither had been exaggerated, an expedition was immediately determined upon. A fleet accordingly sailed from the Hieres islands, on the 24th of January, 1795, and a body of land forces was disembarked soon after, in Corsica, under Lieutenant-General Dundas. In the course of a few days, Lieutenant-Colonel Moore was dispatched to seize on the town of Fornelli; but notwithstanding his movement was sudden, and although his men had dragged a howitzer and a sixpounder through a mountainous country, where artillery had never before travelled, yet the place was found too strong to be carried by a coup-de-main. Nothing dismayed by this, by means of a body of a seamen from the navy, he was enabled to carry four eighteen pounders, one large howitzer, and a tea-inch mortar, to an eminence seven hundred feet above the level of the sea. This Herculean labour being achieved, he was soon in a condition to enfilade the batteries, and render all the works, raised by the French, untenable. Finding, however, the officer who commanded, obstinately bent on retaining the place, he made an assault on the redoubts, which he carried during the evening of February the 17th; and as he advanced at the head of the column, cut down a French grenadier, who opposed him, with his own hand. His conduct at Calvi was no less gallant, for he marched against one of the strongest of the forts, that covered this city, with a body of troops with unloaded muskets, &c. stormed, and took possession of the ramparts, under a severe discharge of musquetry, and grape-shot, equally regardless of the fire of small arms, the roaring of cannon, and the bursting of shells. Although severely wounded in the head, he entered the enemy's works, in company with the brave grenadiers, whom he had led, and was embraced at the close of his victorious career, by General Stuart, the conqueror of Minorca, who was an adequate judge of that gallantry, for which he himself was distinguished. Dr. Moore, lived long enough, to win ness and to celebrate the gallant achievements, and growing fame of his son. Accordingly, in his "Mordaunt, or Sketches of Life and Manners, in various Countries," published in 1800, he notices botha both of these actions, but we shall only "The French, at this period, seem to have made it a rule to stand an assault, rather than capitulate, even after a practicable breach was made. They expected to repel the assailants on the present occasion, by throwing grenades from the parapet nearest the breach, as well as by the fire of the garrison. The officer, who was to conduct the assault, posted his troops at midnight, among the myrtle-busbes, with which the rucks around Calvi are covered, and as near the breach as possible, without being heard by the enemy. That there might be no risk of alarming them by accidental firing, he had ordered the sol. diers not to load, having previously convinced them, that the point would be best effected by the bayonet. A little before day-break, the commander in chief arrived with the officers of his suite. He had the satisfaction to find that the garrison had not been alarmed, at that quarter. False attacks had been made elsewhere to divert their attention. "After a short conversation between the general, and the officer who was to lead the assault, the signal was given. The troops advanced with a rapid step to the breach; and they were half-way before they were observed by the enemy. A volley of grape-shot was fired from the ramparts. The dubious light before day-break made the cannoniers take a false aim: the shot flew over the heads of the advancing party; and some of the general's attendants were wounded. In a short time, the grenadiers were descried scrambling up the rubbish, while many grenades and shells were thrown from the parapet on the assailants, who, pushing past their wounded, and dying friends, continued their course to the breach. Those of the enemy who were not killed, or taken prisoners, fed into the town. When the general perceived the grenadiers ascending, he put spurs to his burse, and rude to the bottom of the hill, on which the fort stood, and quitting his borge, mounted directly to the breach. Filing the troops in possession of the ploce, he flew into the arms of the officer who had led the assault. The surrounding officers shouted, and threw their hats MONTHLY Mas, No. 182. into the air for joy. The moment was worth years of common life. "It does not fall to the share of many officers, even during a pretty long military career, to conduct an assault, or even to assist in taking a fortress by storm. Such dangerous services seldom occurred formerly, as the garrison generally capitulated after a breach was made. It has been the fate of this officer, although a young man, to conduct two, and to be successful in both. The most effectual measures were immediately taken for establishing the troops in the works they had so bravely carried, the cannon of which were turned against the town of Calvi, which the works commanded, and which capitulated soon after." At the end of a short period, the whole island of Corsica submitted to the British arms; and a general consulta, consisting of deputies chosen by the different dis tricts, having assembled at Corte, the capital, Paoli presided as president. The first business agitated, was the union of Corsica to the crown of England, which accordingly took place; and had prudent measures been adopted, it is not at all unlikely that the inhabitants might have been conciliated, and all efforts on the part of the enemy rendered ineffectual. Lieutenant-Colonel Moore was immediately appointed adjutant-general, but he, as well as Paoli, appear to have given umbrage to Sir Gilbert Elliot, now Lord Minto, and Governor General of British India. He accordingly took measures for the return of the subject of the present memoir, who, on this occasion, is alluded to by his own father, in the foltowing short quotation. "Highly esteemed by his brother of ficers, beloved by his soldiers, and enjoying the confidence of the general who had succeeded in the military command, he had the misfortune not to please the Viceroy, in consequence of a representation from whom, to the surprize of every body, and of none more than the commander of the troops, he was recalled from his situation in Corsica. This seemed the more extraordinary, as, independent of the cool intrepidity, zeal for the service, and the professional talents he had so eminently displayed; he is of a modest unassuming character, humane, of scrupulous integrity, incapable of adulation, and more solicitous to deserve, than to receive praise. To the Corsicans, who have a high admiraX Lion tion of military talents, and are perhaps, not such good judges of those of a politician, this removal seemed peculiarly inexplicable; because they had been witnesses to the successful exertions of the officer, and were unable to comprehend the merits of the person, at whose request he was recalled. 64 This removal, however, though intended as a misfortune to the officer, turned out to his advantage. The com→ mander in chief of the British forces, whose heart sympathises with valour and integrity, soon placed him in situations of the greatest trust, from every one of which the same intrepidity of conduct, and zeal in the service of his country, which he displayed in Corsica, gave the French Directory substantial reasons for wishing that he might be recalled. "When one important conquest, in which he had a considerable share, was detailed in the gazette, the most honourable mention was made of this officer, by the experienced and judicious general who commanded on that expedition. The whole article published in the London gazette, relative to this conquest, was translated into Italian, and appeared in a gazette, published at Corsica, under the authority of the Viceroy, except the paragraph regarding the officer now in ques tion.' On being ordered home from the Mediterranean, the ex-adjutant-general, who in 1795 had been promoted to the rank of colonel in the army, and was at the same time lieutenant-colonel of the 51st, then commanded by his countryman, the Earl of Eglintouna happened to be sent to the West Indies. The army, which was under the orders of Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Aber cromby, arrived at Barbadoes in January, 1796, and as no time was to be lost, in a climate of this kind, which within the space of three years had devoured the greater part of fifty-four thousand men, operations were immediately commenced. Accordingly, after the capture of the Dutch colonies, Colonel Moore, who now served with the local rank of brigadier-general, was employed in the reduction of the French island of St. Lucia. This campaign, like the prece ding ones, presented a new opportunity for distinguishing himself: the fortified eminence of Morne Chabot having been seized during a night attack, and Morne Duchassaux taken by him, after the completion of two parallels. On his return to Europe, he was once more employed under the gallant Sir Ralph Abercromby, who, during the expedition to Holland, entrusted the reduction of the Helder to his charge; but the Dutch having thought fit to evacuate that post, which was then deemed of greater importance than it inerited, in the sequel, it was taken possession of iinmediately, without any contest. The brigadier, however, was employed to command the right wing of the army, and when the enemy advanced against the British cantonments, received a slight wound, while defending them with his usual gallantry and success. After this, but little was effected on the part of the English, and in truth the object of the expedition was entirely frustrated, ... consequence of events which it would be unnecessary to detail here, but relative to which, the subject of this memoir was in no respect blameable. We have already witnessed the conduct of this officer in the Mediterranean, in the West Indies, and in Holland: we are next to behold him, acting in a scene, towards which the eyes of all Europe were about to be directed. Bonaparie having routed the Turks and Mamelukes, and finally subdued Egypt; it was deemed necessary to repair thither, in order to contend for the country of the Pharoabs, and the Ptolemys, and drive the French back to Europe. Without stopping to inquire into the policy of such a measure, we shall only briefly state, that Sir Ralph Abercromby embarked with a considerable army, expressly for this purpose. Finding that the Turks, notwithstanding they alone seemed likely to profit by the expedition, were dilatory in their preparations, Major-General Moore (for he had lately obtained that rank,) was dispatched to the Vizier's camp at Jappa and, immediately on his arrival, discovered how little such allies were to be relied on, the troops being in a state of mutiny, and far more formidable to their own commanders than to the enemy. The English army, which had but too long delayed its operations, in cousequence of the van promises of the court of Constantinople, at length arrived m Aboukir bay, March 7, 1801, and elected a landing; on which occasion, the officer, of whom we now treat, commanded the reserve. The position of the French, who were posted on a commanding minence, was admirable; but no sooner had his boat approached the land, than the major-general leaped on shore, and, placing himself at the head of fus br gade, |