Letters on phrenology, &c. which appeared in the Glasgow Free Press, under the signature of Peter Pipestaple.

  • Pipestaple, Peter.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Letters on phrenology, &c. which appeared in the Glasgow Free Press, under the signature of Peter Pipestaple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DOMESTIC NEWS. Last night arrived at Telfer’s Quay, Broomielaw, H. M. S. Spitfire. Same day, set sail the Joseph Hume, 74-, for the Sneddon station. The Spitfire, in passing Cleland’s Point, run against the Nutter, West Indiaman, and destroyed a calf, a sow, a hen’s cage, and three negroes. A young man committed suicide by strangulation. He was a man of exemplary character; but, on having his head examined by a Phrenological Quack, he found that both he and the public had utterly mistook his character, and in a fit of melancholy he did the rash act. On accurate inspection after death, we need hardly mention that the developments were found exactly to correspond with his actual char¬ acter. It cannot be too strongly pressed on the public, that no reli¬ ance ought to be placed on any examination of the skull made by any but a licensed Member of the Phrenological Society. The organ of Caution was found small, and Destructiveness large, which completely accounts for his melancholy end. Mr. Rashman last week inspected the Custom House in Greenock, and reported favourably as to its removal, by means of steam levers, to the proposed site at the foot of Telfer’s Quay, Broomielaw. The fatalists of the present day are becoming precisely what the Radicals were twenty years ago. The most unprincipled actions are committed and defended on Phrenological principles, but this does not imply any objection against the science but merely against the ignorant part of its believers. Meetings and trainings have been going on throughout the country by these deluded beings. It is talked of re¬ embodying the Glasgow Sharpshooters, who were of such vast service during the Radical time; and, when it is recollected how handsomely they were used in the end by the Goverment, it is certain that all who were in the ranks then will now, from gratitude, rejoin them. There is no truth in the report, that government has any 'present intention of removing Dumbarton Rock and Castle to the mouth of the Thames. At a meeting of the Congregation of Purity Chapel, Constancy Fields, whose Clergyman, the Reverend Mr. Bombastus, has been convicted, on his own confession, by the Court of Justiciary, of Perjury, and on that account suspended by the Presbytery, it was very pro¬ perly resolved to hold their worthy Pastor as incapable of the crime, and to continue him in his sacred office. This reflects much credit on the congregation, as being anxious to discountenance any thing like a deviation from rectitude on the part of their immaculate Pastor. Mr. Cobler will not ascend in his balloon to-morrow, that active