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!idLT. Lair t fees Papers pre!. .1 to the Holm M Commons. numbs( :e :he Sil okoog of Malt ou the Floor, &c. (Con imam from cestentay'. N e er ) ELATOOK UV MALT. A great deal is said by t:.O agents for wateriog, nn the subject of their being enabled to make their malt of a superior flavour by •prinkling ; but the ques tion of flavour, when applied to pale or common IDA, resolves inch ion, this simple tie, that that unlit which is worked in the most pure, clean, and natural manner, will be the most free from all ad ventitious and improper devour. While pale malt is working on the floors, all that can be done is not to give. but to guard it from as peculiar flavour. On the kiln the case is widely different ; there, just in proportion as the fire is urged, slowly or rapidly, less or more of flavour *rid colour will be given to the mal : it is in this way only that all malt, ezpresidy intended for the brewing of porter, has its peculiar flavour and co lour given to it, but the flavour of ale, generally !peaking, is derived from a different source: this latter arises from the onion of a peculiar oil of a greenish o dour, naturally abounding in hops, with . a portion of the unloosened wort, and the mucilage . and alcohol of the fermented part ; these judiciously blended together in a due proportion, give to ale all its agrevalste trite; but the palate being an arbi trary organ, and differing widely in different - places, he established tole can be laid down for adjust-1 the florioring oinks; is some places the sweet taste of the mail is required Lobe pretty full us the mouth, by leaving a Urger proportion of the unfermented won ; while in.others it is required is be aimist entirely dissipated by a more complete fermentation, and between these a variety of flavour may easily be imagism'. Wax has bean said will be solicits& to explain thecae/ as far es regards that flavour which it is dr awable to obtain ; but there iv another point of view. in which it is tp be considered, and that is, those bad .flavours which malt acquires in its progress through a manufaduting state, and which greatly depts. Omens value. /1)s principal of these, and indeed the only one with which the presto' inquiry is im mediately coooefled, is that of mouldy malts arising from the vegetation ceasing atter having masse some program ; meat of the grains which are i bruised by being trodden under the fast et. %wink pas or others, while in a state of making. pass into umpuldy or putrid state; but the principal source ci ippoldy malt is is wet grain being buried under ahoy corn, and too long excluded from the bi ble* of the atmosphere ; a simple experiment via salliciiittly disavow this ; if • sample of halt ilielsed barley be placed under a bell-triage air tight a* bottom, the cora will vegetate freely until the inclosed oxygen is all consumed. wises she vegeta ties oil' cease. an! the grain will pees into a .sate of decay similar to mouldy and theme* m is the staid was. when bleared under **glass, the sooner * will become mooldy. Ise watering en the doers it is irariehey the prac. des so sera over the pain immediately 'the, it has bon arin bled, lieni• the wet cora is placed at the bottom, and it will necessarily happen that some of this will again be thrown undermost in the subse quent twins p, and this cannot fail to destroy the vegetation, and render each grain mouldy, and not any the grains individually dead, but all others wth which rimy happen to coarein coined, will ac qoirt a dirgusting taint. which will afterwards ma terially al&tt the flavour of the liquor drawn from die malt. WEIGHT OF MALT. Several erroneous opinions are delivered in the evidence given before the Committee respelling the goodness of malt being determined by its weight: abet aeledly consider-d, weight indeed dose net af ford any certain data for estimating the wadi of malt, because bad malt may be either heavier or lighter than that which is good. If the vegetation of ti.e grain has 'wen impeded, or not carried sof. ficiendy tar the prodna will be part malt and part barley, and of course heavier than good malt : bus ii, on the other.banO, the vegetation has been car ried too tar, too much of the substance, and of coarse weight, of die grain. will have bees driven out, and the malt will be light in proportion as the injuring caste has been allowed to operate: in this way malt may be modeted light and unproduCtive SO any taunt at the discretion of the makster. But notwithstanding all this, in every instance *lsere the grain has been pettedly malted, weight is the only certain standard now known for deter minis g tile value of malt; and this is now so well understood in the markets, that it is not unusual fur I the buyer of malt to be provided with a pair of scales and a small measure, and to govern his opi nion of the price by the weight which his measure of the sample yields. Is all malt, therefore. which has been pesittelly malted, there can be no tglessiesi of the heaviest being the best, and in this supsit Hettfordsbire malt preserves a distinguished yip« riling over all watered wok. VCRIITtiII WY WALT floridly speaking, thee are rill three varieties Of malt, via. brown. amber, and mak s the fl ea two are peculiar to porter, have special refor est* to its'llavour and colour ; the third is the ge neral basis as well of all porter, as of every other species of melt liquor ; and it is the only one which merits any consiseraties in the general question of making. Brown mak theeives all its peculiar qua lities in the kiln, by an operation called blowing ; it is spread there very thin, and a very quick sad alive heat is passed thrOugh it from laming fag gots a the sudden application of the heat converts the moisture in the grain into vapour, which blows up the heck, and the heat catching it in its distended date hardens and prevents it horn collapsing ; bonze the grains of such malt are large and hollow, end increase the measure from one to two bushels in a.quarter. The saccharine of this malt is Dearly all destroyed by the operation of the flue, and its sole _ . flavour and co to be ob some porter making of it It is a species made on the .ter, and more used in porter made is in- As bad layout in malt sabatraas from its value. and the charged producing was strongly shifted by the watering party from themselves to the Hertford. shire matinees, the present portion of the subjeß is rn aerial in tire inquiry.; and from wha► has been said, it may be readily understood that flavouring, when applied to the woe king floors. can only mean nraonfaauring the different sieepings there as sweet ani clean as possible, and thereby net giving but guarding against any peculiar flavour. VARIETIES OF EARLEY. In the evidence given before the Committee, the agents of the watering party have sat op a very material distindion between what they call heavy and light land barleys, and they appear to have laid much stress on this distinction, and to have con sidered it as one of the chief supports of their case ; to me. however, it seems no other than one of those artful subterfuges so commonly resorted to by art• ful and interested traders in reveoue questions, merely to obscure and disguise the true state of the matter at issue. On all the numerous gradations of soil, from the lightest down to clay itself, barleys are produced, varying in every degree. chiefly as to colour and thickness of skin ; but this variety is not, as is at tempted to be set up, a local circumstance. It abounds every where, because light and heavy soils des every where abound, and it is only to the extremes, and not to the multitude of intermediate gradations, that any thing advanced before the Committee can fairly be referred. Certainly to mix the very coarsest with the very finest barleys in the same cistern would be Improper, but each sort can be well malted sf.paratidy without any aid from watering on the films. which is in no respell more necessary for what is called the heavy than it is for the light land corn. The several witnesses who have spoken to the case have advanced that more water is required fo the coarse than the fine skinned grain, but the fad is probably the contrary. The thin skimped barley, be. ing the largest and plumpest corn, will certainly te quire the most waver for its vegetation, but on ac count of its more pervious husk. it will sooner lobe item:open don of thellaid. fleece it is that thick skinned grain does not actually require a larger proportion of water out only of time in the cistern to absorb its proportion ; and having accomplished that, it is equally. and perhaps better, fitted for going through the sebsommot proems of snaking without a further supply, as its thick husk is more likely to retain r.e two some which it has got. I however. the masa of the thing did not sof& timely prove it, the testimony of Messrs. Clough and King lay estabishes that better malt can be made from cootie barleys without than with witering upon the noon; and in *eery place where I have been, except giving the thick skint:led corn a few hours mote of time in Ow cistern, no further atten tion is paid as to treating them differently from others. It has lung been a pretty generally received opi- Lon amongst fanners and others, that barleys grown on heavy lands contain a larger proportion of earthy matter th.:s those produced from light lands; but (tom the chemical analysis of born luaus it has been found that there is no truth in this opinion, and that the prorortioa of calcareous and other earths is the same in light as in Item lard barley, and that the real difference between the two lies merely in the husk; all therefore that we are authorised to con clude on the subjed is, that, in equal weights or measures, the coarser skinned grain zomains a large proportion of waste, and, on that amour' only. less proper for the purpose of malting. There is a other slistinetion of barleys. which the agents of the watering party have advanced in sup port of their case, andthat is, that though the large fine barleys of Hertfordshire, alit in id* southern parts of the kingdom. are matted without watering upon the floors, yet viat the infetior corn mote north wards, does requite, and cannot be malted without sprinkling ; now I am well convinced the case is di rely contrary to their statement. It is a well. known fad. that the thinner. lighter, and mom inks ricer the barleys are, the more apt are they to run themselves out in a too quick vegetesion, and having of themselves but hula subsume. the less of it can be parted with in the process of malting; whereas the large fine plump barleys of Hertfordshire, both require more water to malt them, and could much better admit a portion of their substance to be wasted in the process; and such barleys *Smelly having a less aptitude to run out in vermin. they would require and would stand watering meth better than the others; the conditions therefore. is just, and the fa& really is, that m the finest barleys in the kingdom are actually best malted by not befog watered on the floors, se the Ulterior kinds would be benefited in a higher proportion by being restrid ) ed to the tasty proem for which they ate naturally I better adapted. On Monday morning, as Mrs. Ca even, of Hemp. nail, and her daughter, Mrs. law's, and child, ' were going to Norwich, in a of:whom cart, they were met is a &wow part of-she wad war. Canter chum:4ll a waggoners.' hones, the driver of which had committed the care of his team to an elderly man, who was upon the waggon. In endeavoiriag to pass, the wheels of the can were caught by the ' waggon, and Mrs. Calmat' being throws out, and the wheel passing over her, she received considera ble injury. The hone, then tearing the shafts from the can, ran full speed a considerable way with Mrs. livers, who held the Want in her arms, till at length a person stopped the horse, and the child was taken from her with little hurt ;_ but the :no. Cher received much injury, and, with Mrs. Canvas, was conveyed to Stock Rummer, where every as sistance was procured for them.—We are happy to add they are in a fair way of recovery. A few days since, as a man named Loci. belong ing to Ringmer, SIIURX, was making bin accustomed tour round the neighbourhood, on a kick-ass, he alighted at a pub:ic-house, and there remained un til intoxication compelled him to retire and remount his donkey ; but he had not rode far, before the in dignant animal, As if sensible of his rider's condition, and in revenge for the many stripes and hardships he had endured, cut a few capers, that soon laid his inebriatei master prostrate on the road, and in that situation attacked him so ti..rcely with his teeth, that his body was shockingly lacerated before he could be rescued by some person who ran to his as sistance, FRENCH • FABRICATIONS. (Extra& frees a Paris Pier, of September 14.) , The MINSif llf of to-day contains the following re marks, by a Dane, upon the Proclamations issued Is) the Land and Sea Officers of the King of Crea Britain, in the Baltic: --,. The oljedion that, uncle the present eireunsoanceh it is impossible for Den mark to retain her neutrality. is answered by this question—How have the Engli.ls Ministers proved this impossibility ? When iu tho 3 England deprived the world of peace, had Denmark no army in Hol stein ? and did not D.inish blood flow at the time. when the events of the last war brought foreign troops to the Danish frontiers ? li% e, Danes, have thus proved with our blond our determination to re main neutral. But you, when the two greatest Powers in the world found peace on the hanks of the Niemen, with your accustomed Machiavelianism, by the presence of your troops, wished to excite the King of Sweden to re-open the theatre of war in toe neighbourhond of Holstein, thus to decoy the Danish troops from Zealand. In consequence ot treachery of this nature, you have surrounded Zea land with your whole force, even before the Crown Prince was aware of your Punic or perfidious mode of thinking. . .i As to your saying that the Danes heartily wish to preserve their neutrality, the English Ministers themselves acknowledge that we did not entertain the least hostility against England. So far is can did ; but France was not so well treated, when, in 1903, the same Ministers accused her of fitting out great naval expeditions against England, which nobody ever saw. si As to what the Proclamations say of the ne cessity of resisting France, in behalf of all the Powers of Europe, you manifestly abuse terms, if the King of Sicily is included amongst these powers; *hat King whose country you went to defend in Egypt I Reckon not upon the King of Sweden, whom you at first forced into war, and afterwards abandoned. He is the last person in the North who will agree with you, respeaing the freedom of the seas ; and neither he nor his people will ever forget, that the Rags of Denmark and Sweden should fore but one and the same fleet. "Asa the pretext that France intended to make herself master of the Danish navy, why did you not inform us how this was to have been effected ? Whatever may be within the power and interest of your gold, it will never be able to purchase those to whom Napoleon has confided his secrets. Your newspapers have often placed French armies in Hol stein, and your hlinistera and Consuls have perhaps transmitted to you even die march-routes ; but all the while Nepalese has never violated Denmark, or afforded her the least reason to complain of him. , The Dams admire him without fear s Was it pos. sible we could have been attacked in our islands by a greater force than that you have rent against us! Though wholly taken by surprise, you find we shall not be conquered without resistance ; though we knew you could rob us of half the property we have at sea; though we knew you could lay our Sect and our capitol in ashes, and that 10,000 of our seamen would inevitably become your Owners, before they could even suspeß that you are at war with at.- 1 How then could you imagine that we should not have resisted the Continental Powers, had we been at tacked by them ? Does not all Europe, do not you yourselves know our august Prince better ? i , As to the justice .4 seizing our marine, what morality is this? The appearance of justice is mi. ficient for you, and yet you pretend to be the cham pions of ancient fai th and chivalrous honour. " With rasped to the necessity for taking posses sion of the Danish navy, you will make no one be lieve that such necessity exists. Even supposing Zealand in danger, why did you not content your selves simply with sending a feet, which in all pos sible cases might have defended the island till the land forces should arrive ? You have proved to the world, that when you have an expedition earnestly ' in view. you do not wait so lon as you compelled the Prussians, the Swede . end t he Russians to wait. If what you suffered at Constantinople has taught you never to send out a Meet any more without land , forces, why did you not, according to the plan of your late Ministers. listen to the request of the King of Sweden, in Dauber last, and send an sirmy of ob servation into Scania. The objea you hold out is not the real objea. You wish to carry on your pi ratical-pradices without interroptiois, and therefore you wish to burn those ships which, some time or I other, might transport the vengeance of the Conti nent to your own coasts. .4 You say it is not in the power of Denmark to save herself. Had we been in real danger. it would have been consistent with your Government to have offered its assistance. Your Ministers, on the 21 of Assiut, received the offer of the Russians to medi ate for a peace. You pretended to negotiate upon the subje ct, and on the 19th you declared a new war. Nothing could have happened more cony*. bent for you. thee to have obtained from Napoleon the continuation of the neutrality of Denmark, as a etwidition for sepaisiaor a pacific negotiation. Esc instead of even making the experiment, your Minis ters, as the 16th, commenced a war with us, who me of the same extraaion as yourselves; with us, who ever since the dark ages (that is upwards of 500 years) have been continually at peace with you ; with us, against whom you have no pretext for costa plaint ; with us, whose independence in consequence l ' et the local position of Zealand , is almost as essen tial to your interests. as to our owns with us, whose ports are almost the only ports that are op:n to the British flag. As to any compromise whatever, it would be scandalous. Honour only is the watch word of our Prince. Many of us will pay the price of that word with oar blood; many, with oat pi o perty ; all of us, with a part of our fortunes; but there is none among us base enough not to bless our Prince, who would only listen to the voice of honour. 4 , Relative to your menaces, it is grained yna may every where spread terror and distress. The first bombs thrown from your vessels in the road of Copenhagen may destroy the hospital for females, and that of the lying-in women founded by Fre derick. There they may fall among hundreds ot infants ; the weak may be driven from their beds ; the sick may be killed or wounded. chem. your first deeds of heroism, may be worthy a Hems tratUS. As to the cruet advisers. motioned is the Pro• clamation, and to whole she Dams are supposed to I-, I , ne e listened. It 19 asked, 'whether la ahrl f r „ rn 'eavett could have advised the Crown Piince in any .anew way • " The Danes being threrened with e:gnur if ,! try do not comply with the meolies of the g l i g li c f,. we reply `, we have been unjus t ly attac k ed. You nay kill' m soy, you may plunder more t you may somihilare. numbers ; but remember, these is .rmeihing you cannot annih ,l 4te—vengnance. t• Lastly, the advies which the Proclani4;ion Or. fees, viz, to listen to the voice :if prudence, 4nswered El.glishmen, it is incumbent on yo; .Ind you ci.sly, to listen to the voice of pru fence , sther wise, the flame that you have kindl dis l ea . and will extend over the seas, like the Greek fire, snextinguishable, till it reaches your island;, fires cone fleets, and arena the cultic of oppressed mi. Lions." i Ihsffsiscsysia spy sus up...saw. us 11.0 5/1 ii ■ objeft in porter is to communicate !layout 1 lour ; but as these qualities are probably tatned from other materials than malt, so ►rewers are not using it at all, and the m is very rapidly declining. Amber Malt i between brown and pale, and is also m kiln by giving it less fire than tt,e former, than the latter ; it is still generally used *long with pals malt, but the quantity Is e insidetable. NAVAL INTALLItiLPICE. PORTSMOUTH, Irpr 23. Arrived the Resirfastre from a esithe. The Mow is appointed cony for Guernsey. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 21`.. Came in the Hiirrnia and Haar,. h nal 1 Sailed the thend bonib, with a fleet iaclar voy for the Downs.— Wind W.S.W. FALMOUTH. SUPT. 21. Arrived the NeekteN packet, Blight, with Mails from the Windward Islands, 33 days from Tortola. The Nerthwarrlaud, 74, saihd from Aittigns, 23d July. w . th convoy for England. Lord Lawlor°, is dead at Antigua. The packet spoke oh t& 4th hut. • ship from St. Thomas's, bound to Copen. hagen, and on the I Ith inst. spoke the slip Cade. of New 0 - leans, bound to Anuserdasa. Captain Dickson, 46th Regiment, died on the passage to England. Sailed the Husiske, with convoy for the Downs. His Majesty's ship Aliastrd, IS gnu, Captain Hollinworth, arrived last night, and has made sip.' nal for convoy to Lisbon and Oporto.—Wind S.W. DUAL, serf 23. Arrived tie Homier armed shin, from Falmouth, with a cot voi. which are sailed for the River. Arrived the Sparrow. and several gan.brir. blown from off the French coast, and remain in the Downs with the ships as per Last.—Wend blows bard. aurr MEILIINGI OF CREDITORS, AT GUILDHALL, eo-aantatm. • D. d. Daniel Wilmett, Whits Croas•erseet, I,ondon,dealer ia Write I to Monet Hughes. loniletterreet, 2* )11111411 . 1. victvallw f II Walliaor Codd, Catsatenenrcet, LntltiCli• libereheig a to Jahn Firitips, Ist* of the Star &alehouse, Wapping, keener lased Rotleargh, Lt. of Winehtuktrsertet, London, in• serene* broker . S 10 John Elliott and Joitn Thomas papa, Upper East Selittgeld. Middlesex. tax-dr-stars .a It Willies Booth, re•enu.atk.witrtmge, reaeberairopses, Lisorkin, marwrawnweiner S 19 John frogman, °anomie. John Cotlieb Ferns., Pd. bati.strara, Spitalfielrh, ittlidAreeez, colour anJ map °manufacturer f 11 Thomas Forst Little Gui ld ford-street, Rtaseellatroarv, Middlesex, iatherdeater EJTaul Thomas Thua.y„ heretofore of Lone-not, cook 2 I 1 William Cuff, tipper East SmithfieW, Middlesex, tutees. monger I If Leonia Washes°, Back-lane, Middles... whesletight 1 9 DIVIDENDS. Mel Richard., Oxfoni-semot, Middlesex, linenelripsr fe James Dom, now or taut of Newmarket, Sulfolk, goes IS Joseph Sayer, Upper Nonh.place, Grey's ion-lanc, alum, and John Jeffery, Tochliel I *wet, P4ary.ir bona.a.MidAlcsex, ce.th and harne.s onak.rs . 10 John Lloyd slot Walton Wydoso, Upp.r flumes. Infest. London. items , . 14 Witham Bab Docklersbury. London, oar. hauseinan 11l CP.RTIFICA rr.s. W.lliam Whitaker, now or late of Wakefield, in the county of York, •idl Joseph Whitaker, no. or late of Lee Green, hi West Ardslay, in the parish of Wrr.lc turd s, in the county of York, colliers delkorervol chairmen. Abel Cock and Henry Cook, late of the city of Gloocester, drapes, dealers and chagrin's. John Dutchman the elder, of the town and county of the torso of Kingston-opal-Hall, sail artal.er, dealer and clue. Tan. William Wakeford. of Horsham In the county of %M CI, shopkeeper, dealer and eheriati. John illenkinsop, of Newcastle upon-Tyne. in the county of Northumberland, tobacconist, dealer and chaprnan. James Epewth, now or late of Spalding, in the county of Lincoln, grocer, dealer and Chapman. George Wiggins, elLatleaktior, in the merchant. Richard benesfierd. of Alfretoe, in the count' sass dealer mid coopman. Jebel Coleman. late of Fetter-limo j Awadon, dealer and chapeau. TESTI& PRICE OF STOCKS, S per Cent. Consols per Cent. Navy Imp. St pet Cent. Ditto Annuities (Minium lorla Stock Ditto Bends Exchequer Sills Enlist. Lottery Tickets Demob fur T. Sinis peck-aeohstr, Pm 4. Oisithat, asti. BIRTHS. The 10th Inst. at Alsolet, Nottht ward, *de of John Michael Aylward, Ireland, of a daughter. Fr.dsy last, at Hoeins, neat Whiteh ..... Joseph Bell, BA of a son. 0.1 the Sth inst. at Ofedie. House, Chines Cotter Pricy, Eaq. of a son. DEATHS. On Tuesday tart at ShornitaMt, near M. r ia.er, M. 1; late or Lower Ot...va ••• Liming a markt amiable wife awl ten cttli.if en s loss al ao aff.cti.inate husband and tent. r Litelt's Mr. Savkv, hatter, of Mart. from the Isle of Wight, whew be hod his health, died in the coach, about lour At St Pao.' burgh, the Ifith of Act, h ir I.th teas, mother of John Julius A Sakertiay, at the house of his sun•in Faq l in Salisbury, L. Ni man, Esq. Ald,intran of that city. Sunday, at his house in Wootton Satoh, L.. 4 IMO of His Majesty's 5.4 flu Altlerivao aid lettuce or the bet. iltitt ' K, Pli , _ 11111 lPkv . Ar Yuen.... Xi Mill. after ..7 I even. LONDON t-4MalaJ h u DAVIDSON, court. N wadereet. Cuantelienlca, and Uses. 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