The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-26 00:00:00

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SPORTING
.14,1WLIGENCIL
DONE,ll,Hiclill,e, ..,,,,.-;
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WEnt; LSD Or:.0111,a St.*. !S. . ,
The 0 .1.1 Cop, va,'.•ll I rig,. Apo lor any florae, ke. tl•ted
rt./ ooh ti sorry fast. f3ur .yeas Was to 71b n.e year olds
tat. 3lb six year tft Sat. 1 lib. a 93 :1r.19.1...-The Whaler
f any Subscription ta.at Yolk, this yct., or • King's
plate, to carry 4lb e fa, dr any tiro Sub.cription Plates tii
"fork this year, 71b. extra .-Four mites,
Lord Mourrou'i b. c Send, b, ii.ningbrough, 3 yrs old 1
Sir C. Turner's.b.c. Thorn, 4 yr. "id . &
Mr Mellish's ii h. Statelier, 3in did • $
Mt. JAlllfste• Sh Ati.ltd*, S yr,o:4 • 4 •
Mr Wilsarre se
,toyAfiloyeler • sold . . 4?
Mr..9Mrooleiolta(. Eutteri•ur, 3 yrs old • . dr _
' Mr, claipni.oio g. li. Ktwic, ) yrs old ~ • • dr .
Mr. Teirsa:iti:V. gradate, 4 yrs ard . dr
Mr.A•larforth'. b. c. 3 yis a!d dr
•Mr S. Dencembel b. f. I Upswell Len, 4 yrs old ' . dr
Lord Snathotore's b e. C rano, 4 yrs old
Duke of Hamilton** b. a. Grazier, 4) rs old • ' • Jr
Mr.Cllftiled b. c. !Man, by SI/PAW, ; yra old „ . dr
Sir W. Cro•ard s br. 4..V.!i,5i CZ:Jf, 4rs old ", dr
COI. 'Child ••'s b. c Karon, by Stamford, 5 sol old • 4/
Mr. C. Smith's b.*. Phlcbatem4d; $ yrs old . Jr
The tort year of the ramrod Doncaster Stakes
A Subscription of lege. with 11144. ad 'al by the Corarration
of Dolice•ter. for hones, drc at Amps. bmsa fide thoo pro•
potty of the Subscribor, au Cnrrfederote. Tama-) r ord. so
carry 64...-lour-yr olds, 7.1 714.-•11vc-yr pHs, 84. J.U.'''4l.l,
year old, and •aed,lW. !a1b...15...Jr miles.
Sir T. Gagvoignes ch. f. jhoni.sioa, 3 yrs old . . ' I
Sir W. r;orarft* br. h. Julies Cr sr, 4 yrs aid . • 2'
Lord Suathroories b. otlassio, a yrs old . • • 111
lit. Gmfoldi. b. r. 3 rrs old 4
ncren Sub•eribsts irrt ii•at name.
Mr. 11frlhih's Dxcit, by Espa2asion, 6st. 7lb. against Mr.
Howarth's Plantagenet, B,t. 71b. Two tulles, 300 gs h. ft.
Off by consent.

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C. Childers's b. e. Raton, by Stimford, Sat. Silt. against
Mr. Wentworth's b. f. Mai;Ar.a, art. 100 gs stab, h. it. TIM
miles. Won by the latter.
PiOnh lVdter Stokes.
Sweopstakesof 2Ogy each, for horusage. thepropmty of Soh!
scorbers, and nestr stated beta.: the day of naming, local/
12st.
Heats two Mites each. To be role by Gentlemen.
Mr. C. Choimondeley't b. h. by Yuung Dromed,-welltud OW.
Mr. R. C. Burton's Scr. pefire, brOther to Stretch.
Sir M. Masterman Sykes anu Mr. Mellish are subaribers,
but did not twine.
Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, the body of
a new-born child was found enclosed in a deal box.
wrapped in part deal And part mahogany shaving',
in a ditch near the New River Head, Cold Rath.
fields. A Jury will this day be held at Clerkenwell,
and proper means taken to discover the i..human
perpetrator of this horrid a& •
loformation was received by \Verson, a eonsta.
ble at the watch-house, in Mount-street, on Tuesday
evening, from Sir intim Anse a UTH ea, that a Apt'
girl, apparently" about ten months old, had been left ,
at the door of his house, in Albemarle street. A
riung warliar., who r..sides in South Melton-street, •
was passing along Albernarle-street, when she disco-
veied a bundle lying at the door of Sir J off s's Louse.
which proved to be a child; she rang t;.e bell, when
Sir Jelin himself opened the chior, and on being in.
formed by the yowl woman the cruse of her ring-
ing, he took the child in, with a buadle of clothes'
which wa. left wi,h her. The infant was carefully
conveyed to the parish workhouse, but the unnatural
mother has not been found. The child has been
baptised MARY ALIIENIARLI. The young wom.
wilo gave the aloft], was at first detained by
Sir Joni, but on her undergoing a,: examination be.
tore theßarish surgeon, it was ascertained that she
was not the mother of the infant.
A, Vessel is just arrived at Whitstable, the Matter
of which states, .that in the island of Walcheren,
the inhabitants are attacked by a disease which has
carried of several thousand perinea, within the last
fortnight or three weeks, and particularly at 'diddle
bourg. The crew of this vessel were taken ill imme.
dirtely on their arrival in the island, and part of
them are retuned to Whitstable in a very sickly
state. At Campf ear the disease was very prevalent.
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ExtraB of a letter from Captain Hoer, of the
Harry, from Jamaica, dateJ off Dover, Sept. t 4
" 1 paned company from the convoy, on the 29th
of August, in LAT. 44, 54. CI. Long. 50. 21. W. in
a heavy.gale of wind. which continued for several
days. with a thick fog. the mos: pan of the fleet,
I believe, is dispersed from the convoy, having seen
several ships after the fog cleared off. I tell in
with His hlaj.l.ty's ship drab, in Lat. 52. 2. I .ong.
25. 34 W. who, in the same gale, lost the whole of
her fleet, which she was convoying from the Lee-
ward Islands ; :he Arab had received much damage,
having wanly lost her rudder in the gale, and was
obliged. for some days, to steer with a cable, while
her rudder was repairing, which was done very
badly,havtng broken all the braces, except two; how.
ever, May made shift to seer the ship with it. while
I was in company. I parted from her on the 16th,
in Lat. 55. O. Long. 14. 47. then all well. She
was bound for some port in Irel.nd."
The following ships were to sail on the 19th July
from Surinam. and a ;, ivu was at anchor off Su-
rinam River, on the 19th July, for convoy to the
place of rendezvous:
The Glenmore, James, few Liverpool; Sisters, Peacock;
Jupiter, Simon Cock, Been ; Harritst, Sterling ; Queen,
—; Prawn, Edvards ; Sorry, Hardy; Mine-sa, Atitiosoo ;
rree.lum, Carr; Dale, Chimp ; and the Liberty, Allan, for
London. Sailed the 15th Jul., from Surinam, the Bear, wit-
; Favourae, Volans; Bellow, Fres ; Ai, ,to, Brown;
rooms*. Wilson; Calista, W ;mime:head W,l,,atn.Sianth
nod thion, Grusin, foe London.

An inquest was held, on Thursday afternoon, at
the Vernon Arms public-house, Pentonville, on the
body of a man of colour, who :as killed by a fall
from a tree, in rentonville church-yard He had fol.
lowed a parrot which escaped oat of its cage, it
took refuge in the tree, which the poor man climbed
in pursuit of Poll, when unluckily the branch sap-
porting him gave way, be was precipitated to the
ground, and killed.—VerdielArrideatal Dearh.

'L'he sailing matches, at lirection, whizb are
ficed for Thursday, OdOber 1, and Friday, ()Skits's.
11, are expefted to be particularly entertaining.—
There will be several matches, between boats of
various descriptions, on the Ent day, with a rowing
match between the young women of Shaldon and
Teignmoush ; and the evening wiLl conclude with a
play.—On Friday there will be a grand match be-
tween tea gentlemen's yachts, for a subscription
silver asp. An elegant and numerous assemblage
of the Nobility and Gentry, it is expetted, will be
present on this occasion ; and all the yachts and
pleasure boats thit can, with convenience and cer-
tainty, reach Teinmogth in times—There will be
ball on Friday evening.

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subscroptum
assemblage
''ed. will be
yachts and
nce and cer•
late will be* :

MALT.

iktgact from riMon• petsanorn the "IWO Itt COMMONIt
totaling to ii SHAG% of Malt on t Floor, &c.
(Condone,' Iron. vest-relay'. Nina )

FRAUDS OF WoToitoos Or THE FLOORS.
There see no form's, of any eetent. pea ticableat
• ;tali-house, eleept those which are immediately
coneetted with. and *net. ly dep-nd on, the praBore
of watering on the liners. I hese last are three in
eumfor, vie draitimg the cistern before the time
mascots. d fis law, in order to keep down C•e gauges
r •
us the some ; w •olly empiying the cistern. to be
fraudulently workd as a dittina floor; and pri
vately plundering the cistern of parr, of ti e coin, iu
order to be milord w'iti the youngest fi tot ; as the
grain, in rash of these frauds, is short wet in the
cistern, it would be imprafticable to carry it for-
ward in a sufficieraly malted state to the kiln, with-
out watering it upon the fl tors. Of the first 1 shah
say nothing, as it explains itself. Instances of both
the others I have myself detetted ; and, what is
more, an instance of the second was in a foot walk,
and bad been praCtised to a great extent. But it is
in rides where it can be pursued almost with im-
tesity. from the officers' visits at the malt-house
being ouly two or three times a week ; and I am in-
clined to brilette, that it is followed in such situations
to a degree much beyond what has yet been disco-
vered, or even disputed. It requires, indeed. the
use of a large kiln, and where that has been pro-
vided, it is only necessary to get the oldest floor
Hier, immediately before the cistern is fraudulently
tenoned ; wad though it must, like every other
fraud, at particular stages of its prattle., afford in-
dication of what is doing to a vigilant and intelli-
gent odi-er; yet, for the most put, an officer may
survey, in the usual manner, for a length of time,
without observing any thing to call forth his sus-
17'w• inns I can even readily believe that a cautions
, _ ,
mid artful monster may defraud the revenue of half
the duty erloch he ought to pay, by means of this
fraud. and yet Mew in the practice of it but very
little ink, provided he is indulged with watering the
silent wet con on the A •o s
The Chit u fraud of rouhing (or, as it is called in
trade, grldiag) the c:••etn, anti mixing the plunder.
ed corn with the youngest l ot. err ainly has been,
and there is rearm to tear it is yet, p.aaised to a ,
moot injutious degree as the present to striaion
against wattling oa the Hrs d ies not extend to a
per.o I oilicleiolv late to exa hose its prallicability,
and eh:eh indeed may he equally said of the pieced.
g fraud. The one, however, of which lam now
speaking, is too well known at the Hoard, from the
mn. mos des etions which have been made of it, to
requite any particular akscri‘o ion or summent from
"W.
PKESEN r stEeToiCr.ov itGAINsT SPRINKLING.
When the present reotiftion against watering: on
th. flu n. was established, a very material circum-
stance, intimately ovine/led with it, was probably
in some degree overlooked. or at least not sufficient-
ly adverted to. Teis circomo ante is, that in every
instance. where short set corn is fraudulently laid
upon the Hors, it does nor take the hue age. when
it was aftwally removed nut of the cistern, but a
false age of the same date of the preceding steeping.
this arises from its heirg either mired with, and of
coarse becoming part of the young. St floor, or tak-
ing its place in the office.'s account, and passing for
it, through all the subsequent stages of malting.
11w regidation of this false age, is very mach with.
in the power of the traudul at manner, for as he
"reiss. when he pleases, he can determine the day
and hour when be will empty privately the cistern,
Ind he can keep back the youngest floor (vim grow.
leg, by 'wading it very thin. I • this way three
days of false age can be readily gained, and su.h
corn will ceme in course to be watered on the se-
vends, instead of the tenth day, as intended by the
rent idiot ; but had the monster a oiscretional polo.
str of waterit.g. he would not do it sooner than about
the s'oh day ; hence, the present restriction against
irate' ing, as IA: as regards fraud, cannot be con-
sidered as C.p. wing to any very useful purpose ;
and even in cases where no fraud is practised, its
operation is very feeble indeed, and the great ex-
tent to which waterirg upon the floors is still fol.
lowed, sufficiently proves the inutility of the pros
sent restricted period.
The former restriction of twelve days was much
more efolual, as short wet corn could not be
worked up to that period, even eirli the false age al-
ready spoken of. without waterino it ; and by woe
trying it illegally, the penalty tit doing so was sot
only inked. but what is much mote, great hazard
*as incurred of disclosing the fraud itself, the very
circumstance of watering being matter of suspicion
aufficinnt to dove specially the officer's attention to
the state and condition of the particular steeping
which he found illegally watered.
The rests iltion of twelve days also took away from
the interestedmaltster the mischievous means of wast-
ing the scAstance of the coin, by throwing out too
much vegetation, and making that light unproduc-
tive malt which atinally is at this time so abundant
in the market. 1 would therefore humbly submit it as
a matter of much importance, and as a case resting
upon grounds which cannot fairly be controverted,
that the revenue on malt can only be protected from
troy extensive depredation, and the quality of the
commodity manufaanred in the greater part of the
kingdom preserved from a most improvident waste,
by the restriction s„-• inn watering the grain upon the
Amin being extended from its present period of nine
to its former of twelve Jays.
What has hitherto been stated in this report is the
result of my own previous experience and know-
ledge in the survey and manufatfore of malt; but I
have now to detail the VAt ions prafkkail lads and cir-
comnances collated on my journey through many
of the miss considerable matting planes, and from
which I am but just returned.
My first pr -gross was at. liertfordshire, and into
the northo•astern and western dirrttions from Lon-
den, where the ;intake of mishits); prevails without
watering upon the flews. I visited one hundred
• malt-houses of this descriptisin,
Ile eeriest' of steeping were p-
is, and tie time of keeping the
tied from fotty•eight to fifty-six
was shorter than had usually
ig to thy barleys of the last year
inner than in termer years, from
particular period of the crops As
.sever. were h trdening by longer
timid take mote water in the eistetn.

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and Giteen c
all in toll wcrk. Tti
so rally twice a week
coin under water yeti
heart. 'Chi' period
bees employed, owin,
Wag lighter and this
a•oissat of rain at apt
the barleys, bowevi
iesepirg, they w.tttld
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