But we have to add to the causes enumerated, the potent influence of a most unprecedented season. The last winter was generally moderate, very dry, and less severe than usual. The rivers Alabama and Tombecbe scarcely reached the height of their banks; during the winter, not more than half the quantity of rain fell. The spring was cool and chilly; in March, a severe frost, which killed the early garden beans, corn, and other tender plants.—April, May, and the earlier part of June, afforded light falls of rain, very seasonable for vegetation: winds generally S. and S. West. June and July were uniformly hot, greatest heat 92 degrees. The storm of July 28, terminated a long drought, and deluged the whole country around; all the lesser rivers and creeks overflowed their banks to the height of winter floods. From the 28th of July to the 11th of September it rained without a day’s intermission: and often descended in torrents. All the neighbouring swamps, and low grounds about the town, were filled with water to a height unexampled at that season of the year. The sun at times burst forth with sultry, suffocating heat. The brick walls, houses, furniture, books, and clothing, all became mouldy, and the latter required frequent sunning to preserve them from destruction. On the evening of the 10th September, it cleared off, wind N. W. with hot sun, and so continued for 66 days, to November 16th, the wind varying from N. W. to N. and N. E.—during the whole of this period, there was scarcely rain sufficient to lay the dust in the streets: in November, however, the wind was occasionally S. and S. W.—The effect of such an unexampled series of weather, such an excessive drought following a flood of rain, in the month of August, with the influence of the combined causes afore-mentioned, upon the human constitution, as exhibited in this town, the committee will carefully relate. During the previous winter, spring, and summer, to the first of July, the town was healthy, and no unusual sickness appeared. In the latter part of July, a number of violent cases of bilious fever occurred among persons unaccustomed to the climate, and some of a more questionable character. Several persons employed as workmen, in filling up one of the new wharves, were taken violently ill, and died after a short illness of two or three days. About the same time two persons, usually employed about Dauphin street wharf, were taken in like manner, and died, after a short illness. A number of carpenters and sailors employed about the wharf south of the fort, and were much on board the schooner Sally, filled with stagnant water, and the steam saw-mill, where there was a pond of like offensive water, were taken with violent fevers, and several of them died; but as the physicians who attended all the persons alluded to, are dead, the particular symptoms of the fever cannot be well ascertained. It is, however, known, that Dr. Lawton, one of the