tives of that statement, as fully explained in said to favor their designs with effect. It is pertinent to letters, are sufficient to shake his credibility as an remark, that if attempts were made to corrupt the impartial witness; and considering that his charac-patriotism and integrity of general Wilkinson, the ter as to truth and veracity is likewise impeached, records of this court exhibit no one act of his milithe statement just mentioned, which is in evidence tary life which can, by the most constrained conbefore the court, cannot be received as veracious, struction, be considered as the effect of such especially as it is not supported by proofs of a more corruption. If general Wilkinson actually formed a This statement, likewise, appears corrupt connection with the Spanish government, in some measure repugnant to the sentiments of the repeated applications made by him many years the same witness, as expressed nearly ten years ago for an inquiry into his conduct, appear rather before in a memoir on the trade of Louisiana, and inexplicable-especially as many of the witnesses deposited in the office of state. of his guilt, if he was guilty, then lived to testify on the subject. credible nature. If, in 1795 and 1796, the said emissary, as is al After a full hearing of the evidence, both for and ledged by him, visited said Wiikinson with the view of promoting a separation of the union; and if, as against the accused, on the third, fourth and fifth he intimates, said Wilkinson disclosed to him the charges, and after the most mature deliberation whole scheme or project of dismemberment, it does thereon, the court is of opinion that they are not not appear to the court that said Wilkinson took supported, and therefore acquits brigadier-gene any measure to aid such separation; on the con-ral James Wilkinson of the said charges and their trary, a strong presumption exists, that if he appa respective specifications. rently listened to propositions of this nature, it was to advance his pecuniary interest, and not to injure that of his country. The impressions naturally made on the minds of the citizens of these United States, by the events which gave rise to the third, fourth and fifth charg General Wilkinson is said to have conspired with known traitors, and on this notoriety all the legal force of these charges depend. In the eye of the law, as well as of reason and humanity, every man is presumed to be innocent till proved to be guilty; The court cannot perceive any thing in the mises, justify a few explanatory remarks. sion of said emissary in 1797, to implicate general Wilkinson. This mission appears to have been undertaken with a view to two objects-First, the dismemberment of the western country from the Adlantic states-and, second, the delivery to general Wilkinson of an official dispatch from the baron de Carondelet, relative to the detention of the posts consequently there can be no known traitor, unless the proof be established by the record of his conto the north of the 31st degree, contrary to the treaty previously concluded between the United States viction; and it is not within the knowledge of this and Spain. If said emissary disclosed to general court that any known traitor did exist in the space Wilkinson the first object of his mission, it dues of time designated by these charges; no man, as it not appear, even by his own testimony, that he appears, having been convicted of treason. favored it; on the contrary, said emissary was re ceived cooly, and confined to the quarters of the officers: the delivery of the posts, according to treaty, was urged by said Wilkinson in conversa tion with him; and it likewise appears that he sent said emissary under guard to Louisiana, and at the same time instructed the officers commanding at Fort Massac not to permit said emissary to return up the Ohio again, but to send him back in case he made the attempt. On the second object, gen eral Wilkinson in his reply to the letter of the baron de Carondelet, urged the fulfilment of the treaty, and endeavored to remove all apprehension of Louisiana by the English of Canada. As the accused has taken no exception to defects of matter or form, and as a full investigation is desirable on all sides, the difficulty, which thus appears at the threshold of the inquiry, will be past over, The period of time embraced by these three charg es, is between the commencement of March, 1805, and the end of October, 1806. Among the last acts of that session, which terminated the vice presidency of Aaron Burr, will be found an act erecting the territory of Upper Louisiana into a government, and, soon after the close of that session, general Wilkinson was ap. pointed its chief magistrate, It is in evidence before this court, that the geneIt appears sufficiently evident to the court, that ral engaged with great zeal in a scheme to cause general Wilkinson, during the time he had proper- Aaron Burr to be elected a member of congress for ty in New Orleans, held the language of concilia- the state of Tennessee; and after the failure of that tion, if not that of a temporising policy, with the scheme, he gave him warm introductions to influenofficers and agents of the Spanish government: and tial characters at New Orleans. It also appears in his views appear to have been directed to the security evidence, that one speculation was contemplated of that property, and by no means against the tranqui- for cutting a canal round the falls of the Ohio, on lity of these states. But subsequent to 1796, at which the Indiana side; another for opening a commertime it is believed he had drawn most of his proper cial intercourse between the territories of Spain and ty from New Orleans, and provision was made for the free navigation of the Mississippi, he seems to have changed his language. If said emissary is to be credited, general Wilkinson declared to him in September 1797, that he had relinquish d all inter course with the Spanish government and at the same time intimated his determination to oppose its projects. It must be remembered that general Wil It further appears in evidence before this court, kinson was at that time at the head of the army, that after the failure of previous attempts to gain a and that, while that station opened new and safe seat in congress for Mr. Burr, general Wilkinson channels of communication with the officers and endeavored to engage the governor of Indiana, in a agents of Spain, and multiplied the means of dis-plan to cause him to be elected a delegate for that memberment, he appears to have disregarded them, territory: and the manner of doing this implies an and at the moment, too, when he had it in his power apprehension that Mr. Burr would do some despe Upper Louisiana and in all these schemes it is self evident, that their ultimate success was essentially connected with the integrity and tranquility of the union, as well as the prospect of permanency in the general's newly acquired civil and important station; for a public commotion would have inevi tably destroyed them all. ate act if he failed. The expressions are," I will On the eighth charge, and its three specifications demand from your friendship a boon, in its infiu- (after hearing all the evidence, both for and against ence and effects co extensive with the union; a the accused, and due deliberation being had there boon perhaps on which that union may much de-on) the court is of opinion, that brigadier general pend." James Wilkinson is not guilty of said charge, nor It is in evidence before this court, that in the any of its specifications, and therefore acquits him month of October, 1805, subsequent to this last of all and each of them. and ineffectual e ffort to serve colonel Burr, but The court deems it necessary to offer a few retwelve months before any discovery was made by marks in explanation of the above decision, especi any other person, general Wilkinson communica ally as it regards the two first specifications to the ted to one of the heads of department, his suspicions eighth charge. that Mr. Burr "was about something, whether internal or external he could not discover, but he Wilkinson by the public, appears not to be prohibited The transportation of the baggage of general thought he ought to keep an eye upon him."-by the "act fixing the military peace establishment These facts seem to be irreconcileable with any of the United States," nor by the rules and articles Views hostile to the peace, order and integrity, of of war. It is, therefore, presumed, that his claim these Uuited States. to transportation is as equitable as that of other offiRespecting the fifth charge it ought to be remem-cers; and in this view of the subject, the order for bered, that general Wilkinson, was by the order the payment of transportation, as mentioned in the of government, at the head of an avowed expedi first specification, cannot be considered by the court tion against the Spaniards, at the very time he is as a military crime-more especially as the sum thus charged with being concerned in a secret and paid by the assistant military agent at Pittsburg, criminal one; and it is self evident that he had it appears to have been debited to general Wilkinson in his power, by a single skirmish only to have car- as long ago as 1805, on the books of the accountried such a scheme into the most complete effect, ant of the department of war. with the aid of the public force under his command, The court cannot perceive that the public sugand with the probability of receiving the fruition of tained any injury from the short halt of the detachall his views in case of success; with a certainty ment on the Ohio, to take on board the horses of also, of suttering neither loss nor blame, in case of general Wilkinson; nor does it appear that the failure. But it is in evidence before this court that public sustained any injury from the transportation from the time of his leaving St. Louis to the con- of said horses, in public boats to New Orleans. cluding convention near the Sabine, gen. Wilkin It does not appear, in evidence, that general Wilson was zealously and incessantly employed in ef-kinson directed said horses, on their passage down fecting an honorable peace; and particularly so the river, to be fed at the public expence; but it after the criminal views of Aaron Burr were dis- does appear in evidence, that general Wilkinson covered by him at Nachitoches; it is besides a saved a quantity of public corn, which was sunk in contradiction in terms, to say that general Wilkin the Mississippi, on board of a public boat, in front son favored those views, when it is avowedly owing of his quarters at New Orleans; out of which, to him, that they were discomfited. after he caused it to be removed on shore and dried, From the evidence adduced on the sixth charge he detained two hundred and three flour barrels full and its specification, both for and against the ac-of said corn in the ear-and for which quantity he cused, the court is of opinion, that the written or afterwards sent his receipt to colonel Russel, under ders and instructions from the war department, whose charge said corn was transported from the bearing date April 30th, 1809, relative to the re Ohio to New Orleans, as will more fully appear by moval of the troops from New-Orleans to the high reference to the testimony. The court is, theregrounds in the rear of Fort Adams and Natchez, fore, of opinion, that under all the circumstances of were sufficiently explicit and imperative to have au- this case, the taking of said corn in the manner thorised an expectation of a prompt obedience, had above stated, does not constitute a military offence, they reached New Orleans prior to the removal of especially as it appears not to have been claimed or the troops from that place to Terre au Boeuf; but regularly drawn on account of forage. as there is no evidence that said orders and instructions arrived at New Orleans, antecedent to the 14th of June, 1809, which was subsequent to said removal, the court acquits brigadier general James Wilkinson of the said sixth charge, and of the specifications attached to the same. After a full examination of the evidence, both for and against the accused, on the seventh charge, and after the most mature deliberation thereon, the court finds the accused not guilty of the said charge, nor of any of its three specifications, and does ac cordingly acquit him of all and each of them. clare, that from a comparison of all the testimony, P. GANSEVOORT, Brig. Gen. On considering the great mass of testimony which I have examined and considered the foregoing has been produced to this court relative to this proceedings of the general court marshal, held at charge, there appears a decisive preponderance in Fredericktown, for the trial of brigadier-general favor of the attention, activity and humane exer- James Wilkinson-and although I have observed tions of brigadier general Wilkinson; and when it in those proceedings, with regret, that there are inis considered that the troops consisted mostly of stances in the conduct of the court, as well as of new lèvies; that the climate on both sides of the the officer on trial, which are evidently objectiona river Mississippi, to a very great extent, is at best ble, his acquittal of the several charges, exhibited insalubrious; and that the summer and autumn of jagainst him, is approved, and his sword is accord1809, were unusually sickly; the court is of opi-ingly ordered to be restored. nion, that the misfortunes alluded to in the second (Signed) specification are amply accounted for. February, 14th, 1812. JAMES MADISON. The general court martial, of which brigadiergeneral P. Gansevoort is president, is hereby dissolved. By command of the Secretary of War, A. Y. NICOLL, Adjutant and Inspector. Imperial Parliament. remains unsubdued; and the system of warfare so peculiarly adapted to the actual condition of the Spanish nation, has recently extended and improved under the advantages which result from the operations of the allied armies on the frontier and from the countenance and assistance of his majesty's navy on the coast. Although the great exertions of the enemy have in some quarters been attended with success, his royal highness is persuaded that you will admire the perseverance and gallantry manifestEven in those provined by the Spanish armies. ces principally occupied by the French forces, new energy has arisen among the people; and the increase of difficulty and danger has produced more connected efforts of general resistance. HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday, January 7. Soon after 3 o'clock, this day, a considerable number of peers attended in their places, in conse quence of his royal highness the prince regent's proclamation for the assembling of parliament for The lord chancellor, the dispatch of business. The prince regent, in the name and on the behi grace the archbishop of Canterbury, the marquis Wellesley, the earls of Westmoreland and half of his majesty, commands us to express his con Camden being attired in their robes of state, took fident hope that you will enable him to continue to their eat on the bench, in front of the throne, as afford the most effectual aid and assistance in the his royal highness's commissioners. Mr. Quarme, support of the contest, which the brave nation of acting usher of the black rod, was then dispatched the peninsula still maintain with such unabated zeal to order the attendance of the commons, who forth-and resolution. with appeared at the bar, to a considerable number, with their speaker at their head. His royal highness commands us to express his congratulations on the success of the British arms The lord chancellor, then, as organ of the com- in the island of Java. missioners, delivered the following speech on the The prince-regent trusts that you will concur part of his royal highness, the prince regent : with his royal highness in approving the wisdom "My Lord and Gentlemen,-We are command-and ability with which this enterprise, as well as ed by his royal highness the prince regent, to ex-the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, has been con press to you the deep sorrow which he feels in ducted under the immediate direction of the governannouncing to you the continuance of his majesty's or general of India; and that you will applaud the lamented indisposition, and the unhappy disappoint- decision, gallantry, and spirit conspicuously dis ment of those hopes of his majesty's early recovery, played in the late operations of the brave army unwhich had been cherished by the dutiful affection der the command of that distinguished officer, lieuof his family and the loyal attachment of his people. tenant general sir Samuel Achmuty, so powerfully "The prince regent has directed copies of the and ably supported by his majesty's naval forces. last reports of her majesty the queen's council to will you be laid before you, and he is satisfied that adopt such measures as the present melancholy exigency may appear to require. By the completion of this system of operations, great additional security will have been given to the British commerce and possessions in the Fast Indies, and the colonial power of France will have been entirely extinguished. "In securing a suitable and ample provision for "His royal highness thinks it expedient to rethe support of his majesty's royal dignity, and for the attendance upon his majesty's sacred person, du commend to your attention the propriety of proring his illness, the prince regent rests assured, that viding such measures for the future government of you will also bear in mind the indispensable duty of the British possessions in India, as shall appear continuing to preserve for his majesty the facility of from experience, and upon mature deliberation, to resuming the personal exercise of his royal authori be calculated to secure their internal prosperity ty, in the happy event of his recovery, so earnestly and to derive from those flourishing dominions the desired by the wishes and the prayers of his family utmost degree of advantage to the commerce and revenue of the united kingdom. and his subjects. "The prince regent directs us to signify to you, "We are commanded by the prince regent to acthe satisfaction with which his royal highness has observed that the measures which have been pursued quaint you, that while his royal highness regrets for the defence and security of the kingdom of Por that various important subjects of difference with tugal, have proved completely effectual, and that the government of the United States of America on the several occasions in which the British or still remain unadjusted, the difficulties which the Portuguese troops had been engaged with the ene-affair of the Chesapeak frigate had occasioned have my, the reputation already acquired by them has been finally removed: and we are directed to assure vou, that in the further progress of the discussions been fully maintained. "The successful and brilliant enterprise which with the United States, the prince regent will conterminated in the surprise in Spanish Estremadura, tinue to employ such means of conciliation as may of a French corps by a detachment of the allied are consistent with the honor and dignity of his ma my, under lieut. gen. Hill, is highly creditable to jesty's crown, and with the due maintenance of the that distinguished officer, and to the troops under his maritime and commercial rights and interests of the command, and has contributed materially to ob British empire. struct the designs of the enemy in that part of the peninsula. "The prince regent is assured, that while you re flect with pride and satisfaction on the conduct of his majesty's troops, and of the allies, in these various and important services, you wi!! vender justice to the consummate judgment and skill displayed by general lord viscount Wellington. in the direction of the campaign. In Spain the spirit of the people] "Gentlemen of the Touse of Commons, "His royal highness has directed the estimates for the service of the current year to be laid before He trusts that you will furnish him with you. such supplies as may be necessary to enable him to continue the contest in which his majesty is engag ed with that spirit and exertion which will afford the best prospect of its successful termination. "His royal highness commands us to recom mend that you should resume the consideration of certain powers of motion. A third opinion, which the state of the finances of Ireland, which you had seems most probable, is that the embryon is formed commenced in the last session of parliament. He has by the union of the fluids from both male and female. the satisfaction to inform you, that the improved re- The learned Haller supposes that the male semen, ceipt of the revenue of Ireland in the last, as com- in the act of coition, comes in contact with the female pared with the preceding year, confirms the belief ova and that the union of the two forms the embryon that the depression which that revenue had experi- animal. enced is to be attributed to accidental and temporary causes. "My Lords, and Gentlemen, "The prince regent is satisfied that you entertain a just sense of the arduous duties which his royal highness has been called upon to fulfil, in consequence of his majesty's continued indisposition. "Under this severe calamity, his royal highness derives the greatest consolation from his reliance on Philosophical Disquisitions. It According to the ingenious naturalist, M. de Buffon, the male and female furnish atoms, which arrange themselves in their natural order: this seems probable if we suppose the same laws of affinity govern the atoms that govern the adult animal; the affinity being the same, the atoms require nothing but time to unite them. The immortal Harvey supposes the male semen to be taken into the blood of the female by absorption, and after going the round of circulation, some your experience, wisdom, loyalty and public spirit, of its parts come in contact with the ova of the ovato which in every difficulty he will resort, with a firm confidence, that through your assistance and rium, and a new being is formed by their union. support, he shall be enabled under the blessings of Dr. E. Darwin, who seems to have paid great atdivine providence, successfully to discharge the im-tention to this subject, imagines the new being to. portant functions of the high trust reposed in him, be formed by a living filament, disengaged from the and in the name and on the behalf of his beloved male, with certain capabilities of sensation, irritafather and revered sovereign to maintain unimpaired tion, volition, &c.; and the female only affords sustenance for the male filament. the prosperity and honor of the nation." He is decidedly of opinion that the embryon is secreted or formed from the male; and not by the conjunction of fluids from both male and female; he thinks it appears from the analogy of vegetable seeds: for says heNO. V AND THE LAST OF THE SERIES.. In the large flowers, as the tulips, there is no siThe most important act in nature is coition. milarity of apparatus between the anthers and the is an enjoyment when properly indulged that is at-stigma: the seed is produced, according to the ob tended with indescribable pleasure. When the male servations of Spallanzani, long before the flowers. and female of every class of animals arrive to a cer open, and in consequence long before it can be imtain age they feel an inclination for this enjoyment. pregnated, like the egg in the pullet, And af The human race in this respect, possess a supeter the prolific dust is shed on the stigma, the riority over all other animals, in not having any fix seed becomes coagitated in one point first, like the ed time for venereal gratification. All other tribes cicatricula of the impregnated egg. The doctor's of animals have certain periods of the year for the ingenuity ought not to have suffered him to resort propagation of their species, and afterwards seem to to vegetable analogy to prove the important work of forget the pleasures of Hymen. By this wonderful generation in the higher class of animals. If, agree. intercourse, the animal kingdom is capable of be able to his theory, the embryon is produced by the getting its like, and continuing their species. Very male, and not by the union of fluids from both male many theories and opinions have been advanced on and female; why is it necessary for the male semen generation; it is a subject which has, for ages, en- to be deposited in the female? And why is not the gaged the attention of philosophers; and it is very new being formed in the male without being at all doubtful whether we possess more intelligence on dependant on the female? The male semen is frethis subject than our forefathers did several thou-quently, if not constantly, present in the vesicula sand years ago. The ingenuity of man has done seminales; the same laws govern them both; there very little towards explaining the phenomena of ge is the same degree of heat, motion and moisture: the neration; the industry of a Spallanzani and some seminal receptacle is a very handsome little uterus, others has given us a few new facts, which seem and what prevents the formation of a new being, only calculated to embarrass and mislead. The par-when the male semen is present in its reservoir? ticular manner in which this great and important Again, if the rudiments of a new being belong to work is effected, is yet unknown to the philosopher. the male only, why does not impregnation take It lies buried in obscurity, very far below the depth place in female animals deprived of the ovaria? we of human understanding. know the male frequently has connection with them Ancient opinions on this subject seem strange and in this state, but the female was never known to absurd: while some have believed in the existence bring forth young, after having been deprived of those of germs from the beginning of the world; others organs. Thirdly, why the necessity of having aphave supposed the whole mass of matter of which pendages to the uterus, such as the fallopian tubes the earth is composed, to be formed of germs, and and ovaria, if the embryon is formed by the male, that each is to be evolved by the action of certain and nothing more required but its introduction into agents; others again have supported the opinion of one primitive germ from which all the animal crea tion were formed. the uterus? For what purpose can those organs be formed, if they do not assist in generating a new being? Fourthly, if, agreeable to Dr. Darwin, the The rudiments of a new being, according to some embryon is formed from the male, there would be ingenious theorists, belong, exclusively, to the no necessity for the direct application of the male male; and the female uterus serves only as a bed or and female organs of generation; every animal place of deposit, and a mean by which it is protect would produce its like, and there would be no need and nourished. Others have supposed organic cessity for the distinction of sex; the first and most matter formed by the female, and that the male se- simple animal would impregnate itself, and this inen excited it into action by giving to it vitality and mode of generation would now be observable. There is another circumstance Dr. Darwin adduces in con- (organic matter marks the sex. If a greater quantity firmation of his opinion, viz. the cicatricula of the of organic matter is formed by the male and female egg is given by the cock, and is evidently the rudi- than is necessary for the existence of a new being, ments of the new animal. In objection to this, I will there may be twins, triplets, &c. if on the contrary, observe, that it is not ascertained that the cicatri-the new being will be mal-formed. cula is given by the cock, it is well known that with- In objecting to my theory, it may be said, that if out the cock there will be no cicatricula; but may organic matter is formed in the semen of the male not this be formed by the cock and hen in the act and fluid of the female ovum, why may it not exist of copulation: this is certainly more probable than in all the fluids secreted from the blood, knowing to suppose the female only affords sustenance for that it is formed from the general mass? In answerthe future animal. A fifth objection to the doctor's ing this question, I will put another, by asking theory is, that admitting the embryon to be formed how perspiration, urine, bile, saliva, gastric juice by the male, it follows, that all animals must be and fifty other fluids are formed from the blood. males, and after the female dies or becomes incapa-It may not be impossible, so far from it, I think it ble of affording nourishment to make organic mat-probable, that all secreted fluids possess organic ter, we should have nothing left in the animal crea- parts, and would be formed into new beings, if tion but males, which in one generation must become circumstances were favorable. Would it be a very extinct, as they would not, unassisted, be capable of absurd supposition to imagine a new being formed continuing their species. It may not be impossible from equal portions of saliva, tears, or any secreted for male semen, unassisted by the female, to pro-fluid from the male and female, if they could be duce a new animal if it could be so acted upon by retained in their proper place, and acted upon by the parent from which it was formed, as to evolve its causes favorable for their evolution? Extra-Uteparts. This may sometimes be the case, but it rine conception seems very much in favor of such seems improbable. However, in support of so an opinion. strange an opinion, I have the authority of a very It is well known that there are males and females learned physician in Virginia, of great celebrity in in most classes of animals, and in order that their his profession, who, in attending some anatomical species may be continued, a mutual embrace between lectures in France, was an eye witness to a foetus them is absolutely necessary; the genitals of each perfectly formed in the abdomen of a male subject, must come in contact and unite fluid matter. In brought into the anatomical room for dissection.-the female there is a place of deposit for the fluid, The foetus, he stated, was found near the valve of the after it is united, and this compound acting as ari colon. But if this ever happens, the new being extraneous substance, invites fluids from every part must partake of the sex of the parent; for it is very of the mother; this affords it sustenance and causes absurd to suppose the male semen nourished by the organic parts to arrange themselves in their natura! male should produce a female; this seems contrary order; this is done by the laws of affinity, which to the general laws of nature. Admitting the male tends to bring together all analagous parts. Now capable of impregnating himself, we must likewise it seems probable that organic fluid matter formed admit this power in the female, for it is just as pro- from bone, will not unite with organic fluid matter bable in the one as the other. It is well known that formed from muscle, because there will be little or the male semen, and the fluid contained in the fe- no affinity existing between them; the organic male ova is formed from the blood; this fluid (the parts of bone, will therefore, be continually changing blood) circulates through every part of the body, places with organic muscle, tendon, &c. until it and carries with it principles, affinities, &c. from comes in contact with bony matter, for which it every part; now the male and female matter of gehas an affinity; they unite; and this union conti neration must be composed of infinitely small par nues until the bone is complete. In Ike manner, ticles of matter collected from every part of the bo-cartilage, muscle, tendon, &c. are formed until the dy which once organized it; this being the case, it new being is perfect in all its parts; thus a young is reasonable to suppose, that when a sufficient animal is formed, merely by the affinity existing quantity of fluid organic matter is formed from the between organic portions of fluid matter, which was male and female and united by coition, it is then ca-originally an organized solid. We now have a pable of becoming a new being by the laws of affi-young animal, a miniature of the parent which re. nity. In the act of coition, the male and female are quires the continued application of exciting matter both mutually engaged in the greatest act that can from the mother to evolve it. possibly interest them. The semen is forcibly ejected After the young animal is formed, it must ne、 into the vagina of the female; the stimulus, which cessarily inherit the disposition of the parent, bothe semen imparts to the female organs of genera cause the parts of which it is composed has received tion, rouses them into action, the fallopian tubes be- from the original the same capabilities of action: come rigid, the fimbria of which embrace the ova-being formed from organic matter, disengaged from rium in such a manner, as to burst one of its ovas, every part of the old mass and united again by the the organic fluid which it contained is conveyed by same laws, it is impelled to the same actions; hence a spasmodic action of the tube into the uterus, and we find offsprings from unhealthy parents inherittne union of the male and female organic fluid forms ing their diseases, children from gouty, scrophulous the rudiments of a new being. Affinity first unites or consumptive parents, are subject to those disthem; when united, it is compelled to assume the eases. Organic parts, disengaged from unhealthy form of the parents, because it is composed of parts, solid, carry with them disease, and when formed which once organized the originals; and of course into a new being, the foundation is laid for morbid carries with it part of its affinity. This original action, similar to that which exists in the parent. affinity, together with the new affinity of the parent, May I go so far as to suppose, that an animal, in a causes the infant to assume the exact form of the number of generations, might be entirely changed originals. Nowif the male organic fluid is greater han in form, by gradually removing the parts of which the organic fluid from the female when they unite, fits forefathers were composed? Buffon mentions & the new being will be a male, if on the contrary, a race of dogs that had no tails, and accounts for it by young female will be formed, and this difference in supposing the original inate and female had their |