The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1793-12-10 00:00:00, page 4

fib the Right Honorable the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal of
Great Britain in Par
' liament aflembled.
^Petition of the Sharks of Africa
Sbeweth^
Next comes the ecoxomift, hunting for recipes,
Receipts, experiments, With up-tumped ncfe
He runs over arose and verse, snd like to Hot
ipurj
Had rather been a kitten,r nd cry m&w,
Than one of these fame metre ballad lovers.
The grade, of mor alt (is, next advance to view.
Fond of the maxim, sage, and sober precept
They once a week expert their frugal fare.
To mend the manners, & inflect rhe mind.
Then comes rhe pale, and H.pper’d wcndir.
hunter.
Intent on dying-speeches, hurricanes,
Malignant fevers, pestilence and want—
Os thousands butchered in the bloody field,
And thousands starving in the waited land.
They thunder-storms delight in, & will leek,
With earnest eye, for deaths and murders.
Os people drown’d, or burnt or fuffocated—
Learn whom the knot of hymen has tied.
And whom the knot of justice fafter ncoied.
With the long lift of every human ill. ♦
And last with calculating brow intent.
Appears a weight dumure, who deems alike,
Unworthy of a glance, poetics, News,
Or moral hint, ientimcntal tale.
A tottering kingdom tumbling from its basts,
Or pumkin huge by wondering yankee rais’d.
Can ne’er arreii his tufty passing eye.
Which eager fecks the pictur’d page, where
ihine,
Fair fculptef’d, negroes loft, & (hips to fail,
And Crifp’n’s were with curious art pour
tray ’d. ' -
The nurse, with copious breasts, that " wants
a place;”
The lying quack, with pannace and drug,
That cozen’s chiefly Cythecea’s fons^
Thefc fix his eager foul. From such sweet
He drinks delight, advertisement! with him
Are all. The tasteless page with these un
frought
He deems an offering' fit, & facrifices, with
Rclentlefs hand, at Cloacina’s (hrire-
the world’s a newipaper,
And all our men and women merely readers j
Tuey have Uieir taftes.and their hobby horses.
And each one, in his turn, receives a part.
The number being eight, ahd firft iheyoet,
Fond ot the jingling line, and tinsel simile ;
Enjoying tortured ienfe, and ftranglcd wit;
If our the line flows smoothly to its end.
Forever bathing in the Aonian fount,
Him nought but fonnets,ftanzas,odes,delight,
And fb he reads his part. Next comes in view
The lober, foftly-fighing (entimintalifi,
Seckmgjor rapture in the—dafhy—line,
The Shandean tale, ill-told, compar’d with
Sterne ;
These all mult have their parts. The prin
ter else
Is but the Handing mark of cenfore loud.
These tailes not gratified—4hey all will cry.
The paper’s barren, empty, dry and doll— l
Sans news, fans fenfc, fans wit, fans every
The author of the following piece is
a citizen of Liverpool who has
wrote fever al Bffays tending to
abolish the Slave Trade— this
piece has been communicated by
' him to a friend of his in this
■ Town—it having been much ap
proved of in Bn gland wilf with
out doubt, meet the approbation
of American readers.
They fragments choose, & tales, & anecdotes.
Next the wir, relilhing the pun obfeene,
Ji out tne point be gross—him repartee,
Bd^moui <»nd gummy epigrams most pleafe,'
And then'the poliiician^MW offirange w'hims ;
Seeking essays, ftritturcs, obfervationj,
Witn iolemn phiz, alking of revolutions,
Patriot armies, sieges, & leagues of despots;
Os neutral powers, and neutral rights, cabals,
Os foreign interferences, liability of ita e ,
And all the mazes off the court police.
He makes each fignature—Whatßrutus writes
he reads,
Sees in fame men the wilh to bend us to a fo
reign ;
In others, jW the wifli for nature’s flare.
And have tK curbed bit of law deft oyed.
That like the savage all might rove at will,
Free as the air they breathe, while some he fees
Who wifh,that government, of purell source,
And due fubordtnation. might secure
Our fair inheritance. These form the gene
ral mass
PA KO DP—no PA KO DP.
\
With additionsfrom thi Colun. Gazetteer,
thing.
—yet your petitioners are appre
henfivey that tbe baleful influence of
this philanthropic mania is already
felt even •within the walls of your
Lord (hips wherefore they crave to
be beard by counsel at the bar -of
your august dffembly, when' not
with/landing the wild rovings of
fanatihifm^ they hope to evince that
the fuflenance of Jharks, and the be fl.
interefls of your Lor djhips> are in
timately connected with the traffic
in human flefh.
petitioners have thefirmeft reliance
on the wisdom and fellow-feeUng
of the Lords Spiritual and Tem
poral of Great Britain,
. Tour petitioners know^ that the
truly benevolent will ever be con
fident —that they will not facra
fice one part of animated nature to
the preservation of another > that
they will not fuff er (harks to starve
in order that negroes may be happy
breakers and furfs which roll on
the shores of your petitioners
numbers ofEnglifh boats are de
stroyed, the crews of which ulu
ally fall to their lot, and afford
them many a delicious meal,
but above all, that large veflels.
crowded with negroes are some
times dallied on the rocks and
flioals which abound in the re
gions of your petitioners,where
by hundreds of human beings,
both black and white, are at once
precipitated into their element,
where the knawing of human
flefli and the cralhins: of bones,
afford to your petitioners the
highest gratification which their
nature^ are capable of enjoying*
• Thus benefitted, as your peti
tioners are by tfcis widely exten
ded traffic,a traffic which has ne
ver before been molested, it is
with the utmost indignation
they hear that there are in Bri
tain men, who, under the spe
cious plea of humanity are en
deavouring to accomplifli its
abolition.—But your petitioners
trust that this attempt at inno
vation, this flourifhing of the
trumpet of liberty, by which
more is meant than meets' the
ear,will be effectually fruftrated.
Should the lower branch of the
legijlature befo far infatuated by
this new fangled humanity as fe
rioujly to meditate the deftruPiion of
this highly beneficial commerce, your
your petitioners are
a numerous body, and at present
in a very flourifhing situation,
owing chiefly to the* constant
vifitatioA of the flapping of your
island.
That by hpvering round these
floating dungeons your petition
ers arefupplied with large quan
tities of their mart favorite food
—human flelh.
That your petitioners are sus
tained, not only by the carcases
of thole who have fallen by dis
tempers, but are frequently gra
tified with, rich repafls from the
bodies of living Negroes who vo
luntarily plunge into the abodes
of your petitioners, preferring
instant deflruction by their jaws,
to the imaginary horrors cf a
lingering slavery.
Thar among the enormous
Il HE leading idea that has
governed Mr. Bakewell,
in ail h s exertions, is, to
procure that breed of cattle,
which, in a given quantity of
food, will give the most profita
ble meat—that in which the pro
portion of the ufeful meat to
the quantiy of offal is the great
eff ; also, in which the propor
tion of the beff, to the inferior
joints, is the greatest.
Therefore, a great head, dew
lap, or horns, or an overthick
hide, are rather offal, than meat.
On this plan, the points to at
tend to in a beaft.are those where
the valuable joints lie 5 the rump,
the hip, the bark, the ribs, and,
after these, the flanks, that is to
fay, the backward upper quarters
but the belly, shoulders, neck,
legs and head should be light,
for if a beast has a difpofltion to
fatten or be heavy in these, it will
be found a deduction from the
more valuable points. It has
been laid, but improperly,that a
barrel on four short sticks would
represent the true form,but that
Ihape fwel!s at the top ^bottom,
whereas the back of a beast should
be fquare,ftrait and flat, of,, if a
ny rating it should be from a dif
pofltion to fatten and swell a
bout the rump and hip-bones—
and the belly should like wife be
quite strait, for if it swells, it
shews weight, in a bad point.
He thinks the fhortnefsof the
legs of no importance nor
are the neck, head, horns,
skin, and colotw, which are
fancied to be great signs of
good or bad creatures. Thick
hides are generally esteemed
worse thriving beasts than others
of thin hides. Mr. Bakewell
thinks pale colours, as white,yeL
low,&c. denote finer meat. If all
these points were agai’nft a beast,
yet if his carcase was made well,
and skewed a turn to fatten, he
Fearjul of becoming tedious you?
petitioners- have only *to add,tbat
should the abolition take place,
which the god of fbarks avert, the
prosperity of your petitioners will
inevitably be de fir oy cd y and tbeir
numbers y by being deprived of their
accuflomed food, rapidly dimini(h
ed.—But on the other hand, should
your Lordfbips, in your legijlative
capacity, J corn the feelings of the
vulgar and nobly interfere, either
openly, or by procraflination, to
prefer ve this invigorating trade
from the ruin that now Jeems to a
wait it, your petitioners and their
wide-mouthed poflerity, as by na
ture urgedywill ever,ever prey &c.
Fol, FI page 446. The account
From Arthur Young’s Annals.
Co M m u n i c at lon from the
*
Agricultural Society.
of his visit to the celebrated
To FARMERS.
Mr,
EXTRACT,
Bakewell.
One of his sheep was killed,
weighed 461bs. a quarter ; it cut
fix inches of fat between the tail
and the loin, along the back, 3
inches, and at the division of the
quarters, through the ribs, fix
inches and a quarter —yet his are
usually of a moderate size, it is the
shape & disposition to fatten that
makes them io heavy. Let the
food be what it may, they will
eat less, and fatten more, than
other breeds of sheep. It is by
fhefe principles that Mr. Bake
well has gradually formed his,
breed, by felecfions.
The kind of cattle that were
most esteemed, before Mr. Bake
well’s day, were the large, long
bodied, big-boned, coarse, gum
my, stat-sided kind.—This dip
cerning breeder, on the contrary,
introduced a fmall,clean-boned,
round, fhort-carcafed, kindly
looking cattle, and inclined to
be fat 5 and it is a faft,that these
will eat less food in proportion/
hnd make themselves sooner fat,
than the others—--they will, in
. truth, pay more for their meat,
than any other fort, in a given,
timer
The points to examine a fhcep,
and the general form of his car
case, are the lame as in an ox,
/—The flatnels and breadth of
back, a spreading barrel carcase
with fiat bellies, and by no means
curved and hanging —with such
a disposition to fatten as is indi
cated in the bullsand cows. In
such the fat goes into the meat,
instead of making tallow.' He
would have the fat not run to
tallow, and all the offal, as the
head, pluck, hoofs and bones
very small, his own breed are
remarkably so. He keeps in
pickle a neck of his own mutton,
which is four inchesand an half
thick with fat on the bone.
The lame rules of judging are
applicable both to sheep and
cattle.
would prefer him to an ill-made
beast with all those unimportant
points in his favor.
He judges whether a beast has
his right disposition to fatten,by
feeling. He had rather depend
on feeling only, than on feeing
without feeling. In sheep, the
hand only can tell whether the
back is flat be broad, & free from
a ridge in the back-bone. There
is a great difference in the feeling
ofdean bullocks. The hip-bone
should be covered with fome^
thing under the skin that feels
oily a-nd foft, the fame along the
back-bone and on the ribs, with
a good flank. In beads that
will not thrive well, there is no
thing of this foftnefs to be per
ceived, but the hide is tight and
hard. There is indeed some
times in such, a frothy looseness,
unlike the mellow feel. J t is
hard to describe this in words,
but the graziers underfland and
practice it perfectly.—Mr. Bake^
well pays no regard to crofting
the breed, his own success fliews
it is of no confequene whatever.
SHEEP.