27 JANUARY 1844, Page 10

A paragraph in the Times imputes Sir Francis Burdett's death

to the cold-water treatment, to which he submitted. On the last day he was delirious, and his daughter would not suffer that treatment to be Continued. Gout in the head and hsemorrhage of the lungs were the fatal symptoms at the close. Lady Burdett, whose disease was scirrbus of the stomach, would not undergo the hydropathic regimen. The Times calls to mind that Sir Francis was one of St. John Long's patients.