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harassed by the calamities daily happening around him; by the peculiar weight and responsibility of his situation, added to the illness of every member of his family who were present with him. This combination of afflicting causes, no doubt, aggravated the disease which attacked him in the evening of the 29th of October. It commenced with sickness and vomiting, followed by yellowness of the skin, and, on the third day, ischuria. This last symptom left him the succeeding day; and the fever abated, giving his friends some hopes of his recovery. In the evening of the 2d November, however, the disease had put on a more alarming aspect, and, at six o'clock in the morning of the 3d November, 1828, he expired, at the age of fortynine years, greatly, and, it would seem, not only universally, but very sincerely regretted by all who knew him. To use the expressions of one of his friends, who writes from Gibraltar,-"There is hardly a person on the rock who did not look upon him as a friend; and the opinion all along of the governor and of every one capable of judging, has been uniform, that, fatal as the disease has been, but for his (Dr. Hennen's) exertion's, it would have been incalculably more so."

Besides his principal work on "Military Surgery," Dr. Hennen is the author of several papers on professional subjects, which appeared in various periodical publications. The first of these was one upon Hospital Gangrene, which appeared in one of the early numbers of the "Medical Repository." His writings abundantly testify, that he held no ordinary rank, as a surgeon; and that his mind was ardent, industrious, and zealous in the improvement of his profession.

P.S. We are informed that a subscription is going on to erect a monument in Gibraltar, where a considerable sum has been subscribed by all classes, from the governor downwards. Besides the subscription paper in the Army Medical Board Office, subscriptions are going on in Dublin and in Edinburgh. It is notified by the Committee at Gibraltar, "that they entertain strong hopes, that, after erecting the monument, there will remain a sum worthy of the acceptance of Dr. Hennen's highly gifted daughter."

SUBSCRIBERS.

Bernard, Mr. Surgeon, Wells. Boisragan, Dr. Cheltenham.

Cairnie, Mr. Honble East India Company's Service.

Chetculi, Dr. Thomas, Malta.
Chinnock, Mr. Michael's Place, Bromp

ton.

Dewint, Mr. T. M.R.C.S. Ancaster Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Dill, J. Esq. Regency Square, Brighton.
Follcott, William, M.D. M.C.S.L. Clona-
kilty, County of Cork.
Foote, Dr. Baker-street, London.
Loudon, Dr. Leamington, Spa, Warwick-

shire.

Macaan, Dr. Surg. 67th Foot, Liverpool.
M'Vickar, Dr. Benjamin, New York.
Ore, Assistant-surgeon, Malta.
Pettigrew, T. J. Esq. Saville-street.
Plymsoll, Mr. J. H. James Square, Edin-
burgh.

Roy, Dr. Park-street, Portman Square.
Smith, Mr. Surgeon, Great Haddam.

INTELLIGENCE, &c.

NEW PROVINCIAL JOURNAL.

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Mr. Wakley's" CASE OF REAL DISTRESS" is relieved from the advertisement duty on nominal subscriptions.

We regret to inform our Caledonian subscribers to the fascicular form of this Jour

nal, that Fasciculus II. of No. XX. was lost in the Leith packet, the Lord Melville, run down by the Lord Wellington. The Fasciculus was instantly put to press, and we hope our subscribers will receive the second and third Fasciculi at the same time.

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