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particular places, where they were obliged to produce a "bill of health," stating them to be free from all infection, or else to remain ten or twelve days before they proceeded on their journey.
Shortly after, the Cholera appeared in Austria, Riga, and Dantzie; and on the 29th of August, at Berlin, where, in nine days, 58 deaths were announced:
While the disease was destroying such numbers in Russia, it appeared again in Arabia, after an absence of eight years, and destroyed 20,000 out of 50,000 pilgrims who were on their way to Mecca.
This most awful disease visited Cairo in Egypt. In fourteen days, the number of the dead was 7735, at an average of more than six hundred per diem, from August 21, to September 1; and during the same period, at Alexandria the mortality amounted to upwards of one hundred daily. Five days after it had appeared at Cairo, it spread through Lower Egypt, and to the ships of war off Alexandria.
From the arrival of the Cholera at Berlin, as already stated, if shortly reached the Elbe, and in its usual mode, attacked many of the towns on its banks. On the 7th October, 1830, Hamburg was affected. Considerable alarm was excited, and great fears were entertained respecting its entrance into our own country.
Entrance into our Country.
Cholera first made it appearanee among us at Sunderland, in the end of Oetober, 1831. That awful plague, which visited in sueeession many lands, and swept away millions of our fellow-creatures, in its desolating progress, at last approaehed the British shores. God gave our land ample warning that we might seek the divinely appointed way, to avert a national calamity, by repentanee,—but it is to be feared we were slow scholars.— The political state of the country was very unfavourable for deriving any moral advantage from the dispensation with which we had been visited. The reforming and anti-reforming factions in the nation, were struggling for the superiority, and striving to invigorate their strength by
