The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-16 00:00:00

WINES.

Madeira (if properly before) improves in qua-
lity by being carried to the PAR: Indies and back, by "illicit
voyage it lowa from right to ten gallons ; or to the West, by
which about five are waited ; however these ruernd-abatit
nianieuvres may tickle the fancy of thou folks who wa*
relish anything that is not far-fetched, dear bought, and
hard to be had, and to whom rarity is the sine yea not ei
recommendation, it is one of those inconvenient prejudissia,
from which common sense preserve tas !
The grand criterion by which a replier wine-drinkea
calculates the quality of it, is the quantity of it ha cm
swallow without being intoxicated by it ; according to such
a scale, the perpetual motion of the ship, and the high de-
gree of temperature, will certainly improve Madeira. if
making it weaker is an improyetnet.t. This efEet will Ls
produced by the casks being kept fur such a length of time .
in a decree of temperature and state of motion, similar to
what they would experience during such a waya;...e.
The vulgar objection to new wine (by *Lich we mean
wine. that has been maturing in wood two years in Pont.-
gal, two in England, and in bottle more than twiltir
months), iv, that its exhilarating qualities are to abet -
dant, and intoxicate in too small a dine ; there " arts
pieunts" to whom " the bottle's the sun of the tabbf," and
who are not in the habit of crying to hea home to bed wkde
they can see it shining, require wines weaker than these
winch are usuall.• imported frem Spain and Portugal ;
however, port and sherry may be easily reduced to the
' standard desired by the I°llg-titter ; rankle»: a.-eti azetosi
will give the acid g•-.4t ; aqua pure will subdue their spirit
ad liLitum, and produce an imitation of the ilavotit acquired
by age, extempore, and you can thus very easily make fine
fruity nutritious new wine, as li:ht, mid as oh!, and as
poor as you please, and fit it exactly to your customer's pa-
late, whether " Massa Milky her &inky, or dritiky for
drunky, masts."
To ameliorate very new er very oid wipe, mix a Louie of
one with a bottle of the other ; or to a lentle of very old
port, add a giass or two of good new claret; to very new, a
glass of sherry.
Of all our senses, the taste, especially for liquids, is the
most sophisticated slave of babit—" de gust:lees non est
disputanduin."
Fhe astringent matter and alcohol, which rend.,r port
win» the prop of an Englishman's heart, are intolerable to
the palate of an Italian or a Frenchman. But a stomach
which has been accustomed to be wound up by the double
stimulus of astringirits, and alcohol also, will not be con-
tent with the latter only, especiaily, if that be in lees
quantity, as it is in the Italian and French wines,
therefore, fur the general it y of Englishmen, arc insufficiently
excitant.

lie who has been in the habit of drirking porter at
and port after, will feel uneornfortabl: with home-
brewed ale and claret.

A rerpNtable chemist analysed some port and sherry of
the finest quality; the port yielded 40 per cent. and the
sherry 19.2. i per cent. of alcohol of 825 specificgravity, r. e.
the strongest spirit of wine that can be drawn—full double
the strength of brandy, which seldom has 40 per mt. and
common gin not mot% than 30 or V.S. _ _ _

Some people have a 'lotion that if they go to the docks,
they can purchase a pipe of wine for twenty pounds his
than they must pay to a regular wine-merchant, and Inert-
ov.r have it neat as imported, as if all wines of the same
name were of the same quality.
Port varies at Oporto in quality and price as myth as
porter does in London ; it is needless to say how diflcult
it is to obtain the best beer at any price; it is quite as dif-
ficult to obtain the best port wine at Oporto, where the
very superior wine is all bought up at a proportionately
high price by the agents for the London wine-merchants.
Brandies and wines vary io quality quite as much as
they do in price; not less than twenty pounds per pipe tu
the country where they are made.
The only way to obtain genuine wholesome liquor is tu
apply to a respectable wine-merchant, and beg of him to
semi you the best wine at the regular market price.
If you are particular about the quality of what you buy.
the less you ask about the price or the measure of It thy
better; if you are not, bargain as hard as you please.—
Economia.

The following statement has been handed to to as the
comparative produce of the Davis' Straits and the GM/P-
-lant' whale-fisheries, in the years 1828 and 1824 :
ft Its . 13.001 . 4,111110
land . 3,7011 - 1,700
The price of whale and seal oil has, in consequence of the
falling off in the supplies this year, advanced considerably
within these few days.—Liverpool Charier.
Tue KING or viii GITIII7I.—On Friday last an in-
teresting funeral took place at IS'itteririg, a village threw
miles south of Stamford. The individual whose remains
were consigned to the earth, was iu life no less a moonset,
than Henry Boswell, well known as the Father or King
of the Gipsies resorting to thia part of the country. The
old man was encamped on Southorpe Heath with several
of his family and subjects on Sunday se'nuight, when death
put an end to his reign and his earthly wanderings. He
had been ill for a few days; but his complaint was really
a decay of nature, for the patriarch was nearly 300 years
of age. The corpse continued in the camp on the heath
for five days—those who had been with him in his last um-
mews expecting that many others of his family and depend-
ents would, on information of his death, come to offer their
homage at his funeral; but something prevented this, and ,
it was deemed necessary to inter the corpse on Friday. A
decent coffin had born provided, and the obsequies wino
conducted with great decorum. The body was deposited
in IVitterinir church-yard. where the service was and by
the Rev. Wm. Wing. On Wednesday the •,;ipsey camp
broke up from Southorpe • on which occasion those wb
hail composed it went to tile church-yard to pay the loot-
tribute of affection at the grave of Boswell, and a very im-
pressive scene of silent unaffected grief was witnessed. Tee
old man is said to have died in very affluent cireumstances,
mid to have possessed estates in SCVeI al parts of England.—
Litteds l'aper.

DARING Rossexv.—About seven o'clock on Thursday
evening, the house of Mr. Jupp. of No. 7, Compton-street
East, lirmiswick-square, was fe!oniouidy entered, and the
house completely ransacked, the lady's wardrobe broke
opt n, and wearing apparel, and other property. the amount
of witkii is not yet known, carried away. The family
were at th:ir country seat, and two female servants left in
care of the house, who were out spending the evening at
the time of the robbery. A lady who waa sitting at five
first floor window of the opposite house raw the men
tying up the property inbundles ; she gave the alarm, and
her husband ran out as one of them was Lauding
a large bundle to Lis companion over the area gat..' and
both ran down the Feud by the New Caledonian Chapel.
The gentleman followed, and desired the watchman OR
the beat to accompany him, but he refused, on the ground
that the way was deep and dirty, and he would lose his
shoes. The gentleman followed the man into Gray's
Inn-lane, when he ran down by the burying-gtound, into
Bagniggesvells fields, where he effected his escape.
On Wednesday last a shocking accident 'centred at
thetton, near Ilppingham. A perwm named Milky, 4
gamekeeper, went into the Talbot public-house, and laid
down a loaded gun, which the landlord, David Stvenett,
took up, anti in a jokine manner present:al towards Frances
Barrett, a charwoman at work there. when the pun sec.-
dentally went cif, and shot the poor woman dead on cho
*mot, scattering her brains and blood about the apartment
a lamentable instance of the shocking cot:sequence of using
guns in a tireless manner.
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