The National Register. — London, England, 1821-07-30 00:00:00

ins HINTS FOR THE APPROACRINO HARI'LNr. A re idcnre or two year. in Sv.itzerland. and pruoieolar atten tion &wiled to the rural economy of the country. aniitos;a in her things le ote,,lit men:go:tinted with r n.etliod ofhaivestoig whip to me was (mite new. Since any return iunni I mad: , tiseny in quiries without havivg Icarian' that a 'molar meth. d tin, etti• practised in Ecgland, though it ii by ro mean, itemolowle ma, it may slready be known. either in total e.iniooi of out date, or front having been intitslinef Fir It-relic-, who hood equal 'moor. tunitics whit mvielr or oh erring what pas ed 'uern.e Melt. rec , . lam not cacao. however. that nit motto, description Or 1 . 1!$8 method alrezt'y no/xi" ; and it is tin 'ea r per •trision ol its great utility that I now endeavour to give it every possible pub. iehy. In berreming. two important matters r esent themselves to o,ll.h:coition t: the f. nice :.C.7:1)C11.0 01 labia-. and tonn.— A saving in !abort.. if h enartets the time. is rawly brit:oral, a: it exposes the (top to additional r i sk ;.tol itce.dent fruit ha. weatherhitt every , aving in tint is a positive advantage. The Swiss method ravel built time rod L.htiur ; and the los. rwin slietithug. in handling the coin. apt , , a 1 be It-. runt %il us. The main principle of their aits,ent coml. s in Me sue at ' the SF:VT NE 41 be the blekl.r. Evety one must be awre of' the very timelier powers tie the limner insumitcot r . but in the ordinary outdo of using it. nothwiths:antling the s•anous conni vance-re' bows, sweeps. cralles, ate. *Melt have been attached to the scythe to remedy the ineunveniente, the corn is tinown down in smut rude heaps. and theca:l become so entatigled, that a peat loss endows from s! , erldi ~ and ii.:ace farmers bare e MID ceured it b. tier to tondo!, six sickles 1 , 411 finer:y . le. 7.ity, I have heart: it argued. when jokes were tint there was good it-wooly in reopin:; ec en barley. In Swi.cerland, however. by a very simple connivance the objections to the scythe have hit n tiontpleteli• ohviattal. Each mower is acconipitMed by a person 'ring n IF,ht sitaigit. long pole. *lime business is to press the role in a horizontal po•i ion against the stems ili the emit width arc to be cot, so as to bend the cart tvm..iuletably away alum ills mower, trial Ic..ve Idol a full. faii, stoke at the aggregated stems. The pole is best tirade or deal, and much ..bout t e Mickness or the handle 01 ' a sweeping Mush. and in Swhzerlond ic commowe about nine f e et in length : bait thi. must be iltermined by die maure u. the scythe used,* or richer Ly the sweep or extent or Co: stioke ; for the person who bearlike pole tool he out or the retch of all danger from the scythe, anti at the same time dive must be sufficient lc ngth of pole left to pres ag. , inst the whole breadth OF bench ot standing into which the mower can compass with his scythe. The person who hears the role. commonly a lad, stands with bit face towards the mower. a Lute to ihe let of hi, line of prm i ression, and moves hilFkViall , as theo,her edvances. Tote pole may be held as the beater finds 11106 t convenient I and steadied, either against his body, or his thigh, according to hi height ; but care must be taken that it is belt really hotiminial, and the pole slional press on the standing corn. from Amt. dx Indies to a foot below the ears, so as to give a .loping dirks ion, ar•ay from the mower, to the whole quantity likely to ise t tit at one et, eke. The ears whielt are thuspressed bi.ek 'over st , ..g.tles !tither during or a.. er the stroke, but shele along the pule ; which if pamerly held. keeps them quite even, suet they will '.ll ono way, antesalily and regularly. Shonao the corn hare been heall-n down Ly rrhi or I , :mm, the scythe ecintiot certainly be 11,e t. vh die !.111,C oilcan! , :lc as ti it stands erect and healthy ; the 1,4 kle will answer xst tinder such ciatannstaneis. The swiss. however. l,re tealcc.rlabout their crew w, that when fallen. they raise Mein, in part. by fastening the sterns together, end ty Mg them iu a a ireetion colic ary to that in which they have fallen. ;sometimes they pint stakes through the dell. and put tinell cross or rods. from stake to stake. so Fs to bear the twin - op; anti after alts. olic coin may he mowed. hut in the ease in a lisle, even, upright crop, whether of wheat or other grain, them tut be nu hesit. dun in prenerthig the scythe and pole, it prepetly used, to the stratal After the mower has vadad on. two or m o re women or bor. commonly women, follow, whose busi••ess it i. gently and care fully to spread the corn that has been mowed. much in the Aine way that flax or hemp is spread• in even tep,ottur layers. When properly dried. a third operation pmts. -story to laintlhig is per formed by two other present, eutiettnnily WOMV , /, one of whom carries two wands or rods, ..bout Mao lest in length, the other one rod only. The person cou)ing the two roes, thrusts them. one in each hand. under the riser of' core which tics sprawl on the ground ; the person whh the single wand, at the MIFF time standing opposite to the toilet. lasts tile single wand touter tile layer, onectly midway between the opposite wands. Then the hands ale raised, whilst the points et toe rods or wands 'email' on the ground, and thus the iota sides, or is dental toge,h, r, in heaps large enough for bin ~ i,, g. It' the aop is thin, toe gather ings roust login the Wet attar., or wo ;la:tiering; may be united, and ; o va attention during this operaiion is paid to col lecting any scattered or starggling sterns. The same operation may be pert . ..lived with a long toothed rake ; but the mu is taken much less when the wands a. - e meet. The hinders thllow those who have collected the heaps ; and it is to be particulialy noted, that the Swiss do not use Lite Desii cat corn for bantis, but make them at home in tile barns, of straw, at some convenient time in advance. When wanted tot u-c. they vie carted to the field, and di tribu.eti along the tows,— The time spent in kno.ting the barnis in the dens it thus sits eh. a;4l the loss of front t v.istlng the bands or rubbing rgaimit *titer *heaves in c3trying home, i avoided. Tke advantage', derived r.ont this me:hod, and the dividon of I thou:, will be obvious to any periato who bits once seen the pc!. 1: et plactice ; and I do not think there is any exaggeration an that with Ihe same hand: - . a crop may by such means be saved in half the tittic. Itut I am inclined to go fai.her, and express my comic:ion , thu, the clop may be saved in 14.1 f the hiee with even fewer hands titan the z:t:.le requites. Much however will certainly depend on the dexterity anti willingness of the people employed but the mete experiment of the scythe and pole way be tried without any expente or difficulty. In de: cribing this na shod as St+ it is fleas:art/ to add. that it is by no means ;;cnctal Switzerhxd, but aniline,. at present to particular distritas; slier being onte intiodoccd, however, it is never abandoned ; and I have been told it is spreading very rapidly th:oligli the country. There con be no ktorer prian ca Its extvnente ; lot in a country exposed to cala mities titan inclement scmons, and where years ui scarcity are . by no means uncemtuton, it would cm:linty nut be atiopieti, it' it did not ensure to the litisb:mtlatan the militia po,si ale produce ft ran his crap. These is no went ul Maids in Switzerland; on the cunt:ary, the valleys of Oberland, where I lb.ve OilliC , Ved the use of me sey.lte mot: prevalent, swam wish inhabi.anis, sad men, walnut), and children M. work in use fields with the greatest assiduiq, both early and late. I have pull osJy delayed this publication until the time of harvmt was near, under a persuasion that it was likely to prutarce more effect, when there was an onvortunity of trying the experi• went whilst the subject was fresh in the mind. Lumlopt, AN 16, 11111. ISAAC WELD, jun. • The tires commonly aired in Saab wetland have light shun blades, and I believe MI epi incbodly of 61., man uuuniaclm e. .1 he imaillas me nisch Mat; and ibc Mower slands lolmanly upright. The sweep Is nu) err) Veal. i.t.t lac Sulfa me admirable iliontia; 1 Imes seen palehes of maw On the Alps. growing under ledges of toll wane au cal/le could climb. cm as close ami sinoolli as a demo:owls n4livh ea, ricawr emild cat a onus plot. pal an e►yni-its roe.: oii uatit Seymes sonure. log Nom toot on rime mulls Lein for the purpose, of linumaz the env by a cuar,c Voile as our mowers du; at... Omit re)thes by t h is ire...norm come 1.1'18.1y last mae6 lovger. Le opc.adon l• per lot mud mice iu a da) Or two; and toe bilge is r wards .611,14dt:ref Alm pa.cld by a sort al drop or perm TITE NATIONAL REGISTER _ (!?FEN'S ACCOU NT OF II IS AENA I. VOYAGE. IN HONOUR OF MS AlAsi EsTa":4 CORONATION. The balloon with which I tocentled was 31 fret in diameter, as retie the sire ds possible of the one with which Lunartli first made an a-cen-ion in En • , ..nd. It was inflaied with about 1.'200 isect of carbonated llydrogen gin. supplied from the main pipes of the original charter,.l G. , s Conipsily. and I am much inotbied to the gentlemen of the Committee fur their kind assist ance du. in g tile operation of Wittig. I had no doubt of being üb'c to asemil wi.ll the gas. haying. since the pet ha: when 1 first conceiytd the itlea that common g as . answer the purposesiif s:rostati.m, made freq•a.iit exponnents, all of which complorly succe‘de it oar was my ardour damped when I knew that, es', n within an Ilona my ascension. p. Non: of great e:epetience iu nemstation exptes.ed their opinion that 1 should not be able to ascend. About five minute; before one o'clock the mpcs were divided. and having taken my scat in the car. die italloan rose in a most majestic irt.tnacr. nearly perpeneicularly. The almost ilcafrting shouts of the popottee. and the mar of cannon that totk place when I had a -centled a consitlen.ble dist ince from the earth agitated the balloon. I felt the tof it most sensibly. The mom: nt the di.cliatge cannon took place. I knew it was the be girt it when the Crown was set upon , he heal of toy ino.t gtacions S..vereig.)' and 1 drew the cod: of a bottle of brandy. and hosing ponted out a full glass. I drank " II valth, long life. and a groi:ukts reign to his Majc3ty." The effect au the air uron the Meanly is worthy of notice: when I thew the cork. repott took pl..ce. which I attributed to the rarilieation of the ail similar to that produced by drawing a cork out of a bottle of sod; water. When tile balloon travelled nt its greatest rapidity, I felt n o t the least motion ;it a; tpeart.tl as it the ear in winch I sat was strtionsry, and th..t the earth was rtctding from me. The balloon totk a no .11 cast direction at first, end on my looking down upon the vast assemblage of persons in We uninster, the delight I tilt is oat of my r titter to describe. The view presented ore entire being mass 4 4 noire than a million of human beings. tt—llasing ascended as high an I could without throwing o t t. lx.ibist, I deterntin.d. as the weather was zo fine. to keep in sight t.s long as rossible. I threw out two bag; of sand of ten pounds weight each. and immediately the balloon lose with astonishing rapidity almost perpendicularly, according to my wish. Wtien the balloon arrived at its num): altitude, which, m my opinion. (I could not be certain, in constquenee of the oscilla,ton of the quit 1; dyer in the bat °meter) was about 11,000 feet front the cart it, I found that I had cased acne rent of air, conveying me directly east ward, towards the Sore. The cold was exit cine. I put on a cloak. wide h I hark up with me. and on looking at my glass 1 found it was below 30. two dewees below the fleezing point. I was fearful of being carries' to sea, and immediately opened the valve; the gas is tad in considerable quantities. anti 1 found, by the increase of the size of objects below me to my op.ies.t bat I was descending toy rapidly. The In ge.,t fklds. width a few minutes beim arpearcel to be not mote than six inches square, increased in size pettily ; and I very soon saw the sea, and a number of vessels most disi:nctly. The balloon Kati a rotatory motion, and turned about four times in a minutes _ . _ Stilt i,:aing di«t I should fall into the sea, I opined the video to its uttna t extremity; and kvingtlefecniled so as to be able to recognize small objects di-tinctly on the earth, with great delight 1 h u ed that 111,. to teen had entered another current of air. vthich was conveying tue from the sea; I was LITII travelling north we 4. I sat down and ate some sandwiches with a goon Lipp( the. nue. saw the clouds rolling beneath me. soma Ludy on the wound. Xicut 20 minutes Wine two &deck l descended in a iield belonghT to a flamer named Lanikins, which is situate about four miles I:eyond Banter. in the put of South Minis. I wit= not aware that I hail descci,eid so rapidly; before I had time to thaw nirell up to the hoop, the car snack the eat ill with great force, and I was thrown ma of it on my back; I wits nearly tunnril from the tilials of a blow which I received. I mill held tie hoop of the 10lot n ; and the gt.npliog which I hail thrown out when about a qtrarter of a mile horn the rush. rot taking gnu bold, I Iva - , dragged tin my bad: along the "round a consaleroble distance. The balloon was eventually second, with the assistance of named Waugh, and conveyed to a piece of safety in his Park, and I was anemia& tons' laispitobly entetudned at his mansion: to hint my gratitude is due, end. bta for his kind exertions, I have no doubt the bal loon would have suffered considerable injury from the great crowd of persons that assembled on my decent. I believe, from the be,t caleuhoton I ear. make, that I travelltd altogether, in various ditections, upwards of filly miles. CHARLES GREEN. 49. Correll Y 4 reel, July 40, iB2l. Mr. (liven will ate:nd in a few days from lalins.on, with the Fame balloon. ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The Nautilus transnort, which accompanied the discovery ships as a store-ship, is arrived olf Berwick on her re: urn home, having left the Fury and Heda ofi . Resolution bland, on the Ist, all well, and the crews in the highest spirits. Having received on board all 'lie spare adores, provisions, &c. with which the Nautilus was loaded, the Fury and Heck; were about to proceed to Southampton 1616nt1, in the pro secution of their voyage of discovery. Reiolution Island, where they stopped to take out the cargo of the Nautilus, is in the entrance of Hudson's &mit, through which they were proceeding in• the prose cution of their intended voyage. We Lave been favoured with the following extract of a letter, brought by the Nautilus, which contains nn accurate detail, up to the time that vessel left the discovery ships, of the progress of the expedition, and probably the last notice that can be received of it fur a long period:— His Majesty's ship Fairy, Ilud,on's straits, north toast of A merica, June 2(i. lts2l. -- - - 6, We bad a very fine oa: , 7l; i e to this part of tile world, and tbercfoie 1 am able to tell you but lit.le news. We reached tltc ice about a week ago, since which time we have made two attempts to take the heavy 13101V13 out of the IVaiildas tninspon, which accompanied us; but, Com the wind blowing upon tile ice, we were obliged to smnd oti; as the transport Intel no: beer. 'engiliened so as to resist the ice : we are now, however, making a tin rd attempt, and we hope to ged till of her in shout a couple of days or so. We made a pretty long stay at the Orkneys (about a fortnight). dut Mg which time we amused ourselves iay shooting grouse, plover, arc. or any th.ng that came in the way, fur we were not very nice about the shooting 6ca.on. 4, We have got a famous supply of live and fresh movision on board, that will last us till Chrisunas. There is a good deal of ice about us, but not enough to obstruct our passage forwards, if it was not for the tiansport; but, however, we hope to get her off in about a day or two, if it is line weather. We made an island about It weel(ago, called Evolution Island, where we expected to see some Inabans • but there was so much ice between the ships and the hin, that we were disappointed. 1 can hardly give you an idea of our intended route without a chart, for two reasons—Mg, because those in common use UM so inaccurate as to be of little use, and berause our future COMA: will in a great measure depend upon the state of the ice: but, however, it you should ever fall in with a good chart, I will tell you lour most prolxible course. From the Orkneys we first made Cape Eare• well, the southern extremity of t.reenland, in lat. 60 deg. north; front thence to I I talson's .traits, between Cape Chidlcy and Re , solution Island, which is about due west of Cape Farewell, and here we arc at present ; and from hence we intend to steer about north west (lime wind and ice will permit, !to try to get north. wards through sonic inlets on the north side of Iltulson's Day; from thence northwards to the sea, as seen by Herne, near Coppermine river, where we shall probably winter; from thence to the sea, as seen by Al•Kenzie; and from this to Behring'a Straits. round Cape Horn to England. We are all of us preparing our rifles for shooting deer, which we most probably shall see upon the next land we fall in with, as the islands here abound with then,. We arc, however, exceed. ingly well MI in the ra !big way; plenty of fresh beef, mutton, pork, poultry, egg., li,h, &c. on hoard, besides 14 or 15 sheep, 21 bullocks, and as many pigs on hoard the transport: we have besidos preserved potted fresh meats of all kinds, so that salt pro visions we scarcely need taste till the time we are out, unless we choose. All the officers are very agreeable, and Captain Parry I like very much indeed ; and I have no doubt but that we shall spend the wititcr very combinable to:.;etlicr." COURT 01% EXCL)E. Mr. William Weaver, a 4 rocer, residing in Charles street, St. George's in the Last, was charged with hav ing had in his possession a quantity of coffee, pepper, rice, and other articles, which had been removed front the Docks before the duty had been paid upon it, with intent to defraud the revenue, whereby he had incurred penalties to the amount of 2001—There was also an in formation against a man named Atkins, for a like oflence. It appeared from the statement made by J. Calthorpe, an &beer of the Excise, that on the 19th of June last he went to the house of the defendant ‘Veaver, and seized 323 lbs. of a mixture of coffee, pepper, rice, and other ingredients, which would dely the skill of the most able chemist to decompose or analyse. It appeared to be the refuse of a ship's hold, which was iu process of separation for purposes of profit. A quantity of coffee, such as it was, had already been separated. The officer gave it as his opinion that about 401bs. of pepper might be got from the quantity seized. It was such stuff as no merchant would pay the duty upon, although it might he such as some men might, by skilful management, make money of. The witness and a brother officer dis covered a quantity of the same heterogenous stuff in a warehouse, which belonged to the defendant Weiver. They also discovered a quantity in some adjoining pre mises, which belonged to Atkins, who it was stated, was in the habit of speculating in such articles, and who had sold to Weaver the quantity found ott his premises. Samples of the compornd were produced to the Court, sonic in a &KWH and others in an ungarbled caw. The greater quantity was composed of rice.— There were other substances in it, which the witness could not ascertain the nature. Mr. Weaver, in his defence, disclaimed any intention of using the articles found upon his premises to the pre judice of the revenue or of his customers.—He said he merely had it Iron) Atkin.; for the purpose of trying whether his pigs would eat it. The Court asked the defendant how the pepper, which the mixture contained in such abundance, agreed with the pigs ? Mr. Weaver made no reply. Mr. Atkins, in his defence, declared that he had bought 12 tons of the article, solely upon the specula tion that pigs would like the rice. Could the Court think titat he would ',ass upon the town as pepper that which contained so large a proportion of rat's dung, about the nature of which substance the Excise officers had been so pozz cd. The Court could form no other conclusion hut that the articles com posMg the mixture were intended to be separa. led and sold. But it being the first case of the nature that came before them, they mitigated the penalty in the first case to 251. and in the second also to 251. observing, that they would visit the Mil penalty on the first tradesman they found repeating the offence. A MIRACLE.—The town of Wurtzburg has just witnessed a miraculous cure, v'hich has produced the most lively impression. We all recollect that unfortunate Princess of Schwartzen berg,who in 1 8 I 1 fell a victim at Paris to her maternal love, when a fire broke out in her dancing saloon. One of her daughters, the Princess Matilda, has from infancy been afflicted with a dreadful disorder which has produced a carious of two of the vertebra dorsal spine, and was pronounced incurable by the most eminent physicians of Vienna and Paris, among others by 1)r. Dubois, who, after having attended l her for three years, declared that she might live, but would never be able to walk. A young man, how ever, has appeared, who has falsified the predictions of the doctors, and who has said to the young Prin cess, " Rise and walk." He is a German peasant, brought by Prince Alexander of Huhenlohe, an ecclesiastic, to the house of the physician at W urtz burgh, where the Princess's friends had placed her, and who, after having repeated a prayer, and asked the young Princess ii she firmly believed that God had the power of working her cure, effected this miracle ! On that very day the Princess Matilda went down stairs to the family chapel in the house, and walked a long time in the garden before an im mense concoutse of the inhabitants, who flocked thither to convince themselves of this astonishing litct ! ! ! An officer of distinction, now in London, has just received a letter front Bombay, from which the Mewing is an extract :—'• A letter from Shiraz of the I 7th March last, confirms the report of an attack having been made upon General Smith immediately on his landing. in which six officers were killed and wounded."