The National Register.
London, England, 1820-02-14 00:00:00

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among all the good housewives of ale metropolis non, oecautse .the unni.......tuii...
supply in Mark-lane of wheat of ff
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which it will not bisagy to dissipate. Nothing i;
*ot of efferent soils—aft advarfla, bee vinare inyeation .I.,•••• ............ ..... ,
1 erent counties.
whit+ the come.: Reflection with relentless hand pulls down. ~
talked of—nothinehoutht of—may, ,nor dreamt Of, airy, Alters do not possesi. But, on the other hand," The tyrant's bloody wrath and revish'd CrOWII.
but enetrible mistures of deleterious ingredients it use is not dressed so fine and in vain he tells of battles bravely won,
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which itiTiuman bakers, brewers, druggists, grocers, the flour for Loutro• Os Of nations conquered. and of worlds urbane,
- vciumplis like thsse but in with raanhood suit, •
oilmen, wine-merchants, publicans and others, int- consequently is not so starchy and adherent as* teat
for the London market.—lt is obvious also, that Any tank the ooriquenw boheath the brute I •I le
pose upon us as wholesome articles of food, drink nut if, in munching round the world, we and : '
Sonic gen'rous youth, the Mend of an mankind t
and medicine for our daily consumption!, All that when flour comes close-packed from a distance, either whose anger, like the bolt of Jove is shod,
Nlattliew Bramble, in the indulgence of a splenetic on chip-board or by canals, and is long on its pass- in terrors only at the guilt/11nd ;
imagination, ever invented or aggravated, is nothine age, it is liable to be heated, and to get into a state
of fermentation, particularly as the season advances Whose mercies, like Heav ii s dew-refreshing falls
In general love and charity to all ; .1
• to the chemical discoveries of Mr. Accum. Woe t 7)
—and this sort of flour falls to the lot of the under- inceed, eye behold such worth on any throne.
the unfortunate inhabitant of London and West- And doubly plew'd to find it on our own. I
. minster, for lie is apparently condemned to cat and sellers, and of the most necessitous in the trade. •• Alg,haf•
drink perdition to himself, however simple and un- But among those in good credit, and who arc sup- Truth, goddess of celestial birth. ,
sophisticated may be his diet ! Mr. Accum has not plied with the best, or what is called Town-made But lilac loved or known on math, • 1
. • indeed gone into the treatment of living animals Flour, we believe that no adulteration takes place. whether (from eines far away
Where fraud and falsehood scorn thy sway). ! l
destined ter the resod of man, but the stratagems It often happens that American flour must be dress- The faithful nymph's and shepher's pride, . ...
used for bringing anitnals to a premature weigiit, cd over again to make it fit thr the baker. There AV ith love and virtue by her side,
Your hours in hartnkssjoys are spent
-to an cetraordinstry degree of fat or of whiteness, is no judging by the eye of the adulteration of flour, Anions the children of content; •
are well known. And with these hideous notions, and, therefore, wheat only should be imported ; 0 fond of gaiety and sport,
what is a poor invalid, or a nervous ternale to do ? since for foreign flour sold by public auctiou there You tread the round of England's court,
In George's and in Charlotte's breast.
She cannot taste fish, for it is either caught when is no responsibility. " The Ghost."
oof season, or kept in tanks or welt-lentts till it Upon beer and porter, Mr. ACCIIIII is particularly
hasas beaten itself into flabbiness—veul has been whi- minute. He quotes from the niinutes of paella Rut anxious only, for toy country's good. : !
In which my King sof course is understood,
tened with chalk, or blown up from the in
meat the names of the persons who have been con- spy spirits cannot sink, though nom the teinb
lungs of a sturdy butcher—poultry and pork elitist vieted or using deleterious mixtures and he describes Stern Jetfcties slimild be vlaced in Ntanstield's r00m...
be excluded because they are lulled into fatness by the new anti notorious trade of brewers' druggists. Though he should bring his base de,igm to aid
Solite black attorney tor his purpose iMide ;
sleep through gin and opium—Welch mutton is lie confesses the difficulty of detecting the fraud of And shove, while decency and law retreat, , '
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, manufactured by half-starving moans Soutielown mixing vegetable poisons by any common means, The modest Norton front his maiden seat- :
Though both in dl confederates should agree 11
j . sheep—and Mile is fed, like eels on ail-coke. These and he acquits the eleven great porter brewers of In damned league to ',noire law and me,
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are dreadful things, aud thus are we destined to London of having recourse to these artifices, as from vvitile George is King I cannot fear endure :
•.! starvation in tile midst of plenty. the number of their workmen, even it' they were Not to he guilty, is to be secure.
" The Cenferenoe." 1 - •
But there is 8011IC COM tUrt held out to us in Mr. base enough to have the inclination, they could not
Accum's publication. He has provided an infinite avoid exposure, with all its consequences. ___ -..------------__.. , . •
number of tests by which the fraads and adultera- The manlier in which drugs are vitiated, comes, The late King, in his walks about his farms, was
• dons may be disevereil; but, Unfortunately, they ;le. within Mr. Accunt's personal connoissance, and he often alone, and many pleesent little incidents oc
• is justly vehement in his condemnation of the mat. carrell on meeting with rustics, to wham he was 'li .
mind the skill and the apparatusof ti chemist to apply 1..1 •
them. The most experienced housekee.per and the practice. Almost every one of the potent drugs, sometimes unknown. One day he had to pare
most vigilant cook would be puzzled in the applied- such as bark, calomel, rlinbarb-powder, opium, the through a narrow hedge-gate, on which sat a - hr
essential oils, Sec are adulterated by cheap substitutes, 1 young clown, who showed no reedess in !ravine. -1 •
elan tit the oxalate of ammonia, the muriate of physician, and to the i “ Who are yon, boy Y. said the King. " Ibe a . ,
•• barytes, the nitrate of silver, the phosphate of soda, to the disappointment of the
destructiest of the patient. Surely, however, the ! big-I'Y," answered lie. " Where do you come t.' .
* . together welt the inipietectets of a plaiina vessel, a ,
vendors throughout the kingdom may assure them- ' from ? Who do you work for here ?—" Ibe limn S
blow-pipe, a crucibee, and a sand bath. All that
cat• Le done is to carry the suspected article to the selves of receiving genuine metlecines from A pothe- ' the low country ; out of work at present.' . .
nearest laletratory, and have it analysed. cariee-Hall, where even every article is prepared " Don't they want lads here ? ' said the King. "I -
under the inspection of Mr. Professor Brands. doan't know," rejoined the boy, " all belongs here- ,
He deecriires with accuracy the ditierent kinds of
••.• water, out does not instruct us how to purify that The above, however, are melancholy facts
eared aborts to Georgy." "fray' said his Majesty, • .
in like manner, Mr. Accum goes through the detail " who is Georgy ?" "lie be a King, and live at *:
which contains earthy or animal matter. He tells
us, that the springs which pass through rocky or of almost all the necessaries and luxuries of life- the Caistle, !hut he does no good for me." • His
• gravelly soils ere the purest. Then the obvious tea, coffee, spirituous liquors, cheese, pepper, vine- Majesty immediately gave orders at his farm hard \
pickles, &e. &e. &c. But notwithstanding all by to have the boy employed ; and when he saw
way to itnprove river water or that of surface springs gar; It el
is ro imitate the process of nature by filtering; it these tremendous aides•du-camp of the rent tyrant him, told him to be a steady lad, and the King may '
through gravel (to which may be added charcoal to Death, he does.not tell us, what, however, it; true, do some good tor him.
We are happy to observe, that his Royal ; .I'l. 'fill
clear it, even it tainted), and for this every one may that men live as long as ever they did—nay, that -• •
provide the means at a cheap rate. Divide a they possess health to a greater period than hereto- Highness the Duke of Sussex hurl an interview ee
fore, as may be ascertained from an examination of with his Majesty on Tuesday afterimn. This
• common wooden cistern into two parts, let the
centre partition reach to within four d
well of the the bills of mortality for the last 50 1. ears--and interview, we understand, took place in conse-
which is justly ascribed to the greater cleanliness rinence of a desire expressed by the Kira' that all i
. bottom, till both sides half full of -washed
in our habits of life, and in our domestic comforts, to the branches of the Royal family should r*be united -
I gravel, putting a layer of charcoal in the middle of.
greater moderation of spirituous liquors, and to the ad- in confidence and affection, a desire in which the A.
the gravel then pour the water into one side of
vancement which has been made in the healing art. Duke of Sussex could not fail to participate. The
the cistern, it will rise through the gravel to the
, same level in the other side, and draw off by a cock Though this little volume of Mr. Accum has spread visit lasted a considerable time ; and there can be **-. t I
I the water for use above the surface of the gravel, in such a panic, we believe its chief effect will be to no doubt of the permanent and happy effects of a • te 1
the side through which it has risen, the earthy put those adulterers of food and drink upon their reconciliation effected at such a monient, and under ~
and ma, be guarel;—they will see the danger of losing their such circumstances." We quote, so far, from a
` particles will subside in the bottom,
$ drawn oft by a cock below.—This will materially custom, because it may induct! people to subject ministerial Evening paper. We have reason to Z 1.
their provisions to chemical inquiry, or at least, believe, however, that the interview, above stated ,4,,
1, improve river water.
make them resort to the truly respectable dealers for to have taken place, hail reference to an affair of .e! 1 •
et Mr. Accum's next great article is wine. The
the various articles which they consmne. In this higher importance than merely the reconciliation
i• adulteration of this luxury, from the excessive price
way, the volume may be useful—and we have no of differences which had exieted upon political points. ' .
to which, through taxation, it has risen, is, we fear,
doubt, but that it was with this view that Mr. His Royal Highness's friendly interposition in
e'e like smuggling, too profitable to be altogether pre- Arcata gave it to the public. another quarter might be productive of an acentn•
• , 'vented ; but there are many most respectahle wine- modation, which might be desirable for all the -
merchants who would disdain the mixture of rere.'•""—s---"'"'"----- parties immediately concerned_
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‘ deleterious ingredients in their genuine stock, and The longest law suit ever heard of in England
little ,
. A curious fact, although, perhaps, but Known
• it is chiefly practised among the lower order for the or perhaps in the world, was between the heirs of
is, that the Countess of Morningtou, the mother of
. • use of inns and taverns. Mr. Accent justly run- Sir T. Talbot. Viscount Lisle, on the one part,
his Grace the Duke of Wellington, walked at his
doling the use of lead, both for water cisterns and and the heirs of Lord Berkeley on the other, res.
late Majesty's coronation. She was then reckoned
•-. for the doctorine of wines. There is a common pectines certain possessions not far from Wotton-
ri amongst the newest of the Irish nobility, Lord 111
practice among wine outliers which ought to be under-Eilg,e, in the county of Gloucester. The l‘lornington beine only advanced, in 1760, to the .'s
'Se condatneed, that Is, the rinsing of old bottles with suit was commenced at the end of Edward IV. andrs ,s
Earldom ; and site le possibly the only Peeress now ..l
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twit. Iti pewees of time the lead is decomposed. was depending till the reign of mnales I. whea a
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es. end frequently sonic shot are left in the bottles compromise took place, it having lasted above leo remaining, who may appear at the new coronation, I
who had been present at the termer.
i'r which, if the wine be long kept, is sure to have years. -.....,.._.. -----____ The magnificent library at Buckingham-House
•*' . •• •• fie e• on the Unwary drinker.
pecteceour, Cl S
Ex OFFICIO INFORMATIONS.—Tile following lea
Bread is the next :oriole on which he animad- ..
ropy of a notice which was on Friday served upon the his privy purse. This was questioned, but the fact
op e /Ate, as it is so itneortatit a part of our daily food.
deietietant therein mined is undoubtedly as we Istate it. His Majesty pre- ..‘
ie According to hint, scarcely ;my bread can be niadeseatedthe BritishNl•allbot *I
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ke• trout hieltly-dressed flour which the Meteopolis de- " ill tin King' II • I•Th • King a 't R hert Slow-
ter Oa infoimaiinsti Ifniertublictittioiiol theitinlslll ov,e )1 b• - sent to . neeum the _do that am
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been collected by his erceleceseors on the throne,.
IPI b• I • f lof be *K
•the. ' " • ' •
. Illa•Ill.F., Willow. the mixture o. a um, or car e• Ile. tee oeamst satue, en Worm:toms, for iitilhlniti‘t:.;
1 from King Henry VIII. downwards, and all the . 1
• Is nate of !meow :size This is true, as applied to flour of Ilte 30Ih October.-Sir, Iha notices of Trial, giSt•U in
treasures of literature, of which a most valuable,
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I:: -I: I• f 't urel bent my t I te,:e__P• OYCCUiII,IIM. are . ttuuterittioutu
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ra. la. tis 111.01 U ai. t_e one :temple of Hated 10th Feb. IST'. ,- b. &C. catalogue has been long in preparation, were col- i
.. ' wheat, that is, from wheat of one soil and of oneel
" GEO. Al AU LE Solicitor for the Prosecutions." lected by the King himself. We trust that a col.
growth. The inhabitants of London require it to "To Robed Shorter. Au' alcove named Defenthelt.”
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.ia„,.„tatt„„s „.„.:0., 1114 tie. lection so i,tiest Unable will never be! disisereeti, Out .1.... . 1
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t: be dressed so line (to please the eye s
ensell as the
•%teem, for venditia of Nos. - and 5 01 the Repuide that his present Majesty will either 11111IeX it the ...
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'f„ palate) that it become!! cleyey from honurte- , ,
0 he Viol ~,u the sonic4s alter this tern', ire
the Crown, or add it to the stores attic Nlusettni. I
I tii. 11011 S nature and affinity that exists in the pasta es tc.7,t,5,',,,L. of Kam:
, s Bench, NV sontioster Ball, and for The new lion tof the Riteial for the prayers is t
is, and it requires an eery
substance to make it which he has load notice to nominate iliSiOO;:ti not settled. According to tis; existing form, if no , f*.
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',s ribt.„111(1 bi_Colllt light anti poiou.. tat of coma. omelet este. . ere e d twilit It the ocher
order to the contetry C. Issued, prayers Insist i
pride from a iudicious mixture of different wheats, persons 3gAiItSIiiIIOIIIIIIIOIIDAIOOS OI a Like; MIMIC hat e
n't';
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. be put u ) to-Inorrow in all the churches for their
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-I; the tendency us cohesion is so much lessened, that a been r most excellent Nlajesties, the King anti glteen.
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