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account of the Algerine depredations, and was launched in 1797 She has seen some service, as the l'Insurgente and the la Vengeance can testify; but even in her old age she retains well her qualities for speed. From Commodore Kearny and commander Long, as from their officers also, we received, during our short trip, every possible attention and kindness. The effect of the visit on the Chinese was evidently very favorable. At first there were many suspicious and bad rumors abroad; and insolent tones and gestures were, as nsual, frequent; but after the affair at the fort, and the admiral's visit, these ceased. In times like these, the presence of such vessels is much needed; and when they leave the Chinese waters, we hope others may not be long in coming to supply their places.
ART. VII. Notices of the Medical Missionary Society in China,
and of the Morrison Education Society in China. Medical Missionary Society's hospitals. It must be gratifying to the friends and supporters of the medical mission to the Chinese, to find that the hospital under their patronage in Macao is so fully answering the objects for which it was established The warmest thanks are due to the benevolent friends who have from time to time so freely contributed to the expenses which it has entaileded upon them. Since July last, up to the present time, there has been an uninterrupted attention paid to all the objects and cases of disease that have been presented for medical or surgical relief. The number of patients, whosc names, ages, residences, occupations, and maladies, have been registered in the books of the hospital, during the period of a little more than eleven months, amounts to 3826. This number (including those only that have appeared for the first time) consists of men, women, and children, from different parts of this and the neighboring provinces. When the institution was first opened, for the admission of in-patients, there was some reluctance and timidity in accepting the offer; but latterly, since the character of the hospi- tal has become established, its regulations known, and its advantages understood, there is not only a willingness, but a solicitude on the part of many to reside within its wards. During the present annual term there have been rather more thau 300 m-patients of both sexes, who have conducted themselves with much propriety, and in willing
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