The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-17 00:00:00

Comparative Natritive Properties of F00d...-.
During the last year, a very interesting report on
this subject was presented to the French Minister of
the Interior, by Messrs. Percy anti Vaguelin, two
Members of the Institute. The result of their ex-
periments is as follows:—In bread every hundred
pounds weight are found to contain eighty pounds
of nutritious matter : butcher's meat, .average ing the
various sorts, contains only thirty-five pounds in one
hundred ; French beans (in the grain) ninety.two
in one hundred ; broad beans eighty-nine; pease
ninety-three; lentiles (a kind of half pea little
known in England) ninety-foar pounds in one hun•
dred; greens and turnips, which are the most aque-
ous of all vegetables used for domestic purposes,
furnish only eight pounds of solid nutritious sub-
stance in one hundred; carrots fourteen pounds;
and what is very remarkable as being in opposition
to the hitherto acknowledged theory, one hundred
pounds of potatoes only yield twenty-five pounds of
sAstance valuable as nutrition. One pound of
good bread is equal to two pounds a half or three
p muds of the hest potatoes; and seventy-five pounds
tit' bread and thirty pounds of meat are equal to
three hundred pounds of potatoes; or to go more
into detail, three quarters of a pound of bread and
five ounces of meat are equal to three pounds of
pa:attics; one pound of potatoes is equal to four
pounds of cabbage, and three of turnips; but one
pound of rice, broad beans, or French beans (in
grain), is equal to three pounds of potatoes. This
calculation is considered perfectly correct, and may
b: valuable in families where the best mode of
Supporting nature should be adopted at the least
aspetice.
The Thanes outward-bound East Indianian, on
shore in the day of Eastbourne, it is stated, will not
be fit fur sea again, her back being broken. Her
valuable cargo, shipped for China, has been saved.
She was a remarkably fine ship, mounted f2O guns,
and heathen 1,400 tons. About two years ago site
Was launched from Barnett's yard, at Deptford, and
when completely fitted, the cost was estimated at
52,0001. The captain is said to have on board her,
property amounting to 30,0001. I'he Eastbourne
fishermen are entitled to the greatest praise, fur the
active and humane exertions in rescuing the ship-
wrecked crew from their perilous situations, at tic
risk of their own lives. Mr. Smith, the midshipman
of the Blockade Station, whose sad catastrophe is
universally deplored, was the son of Mr. F. Smith,
of Vincent's Farm, near Margate.
A hen is at present in the possossion of Mr. Ilob-
bins, at Shottery, near Stratford-on-Avon, which has
hatched nofewer than nine broods of' chickens within
the last twelve monilis. This extraordinary fowl at-
tended each brood till it had laid two or three cgs
towards the next; and what is equally singular, the
pullets from the three first broods have all been lay-
ing some time. The fourth brood are at present fine
chickens, fit for market ; and the last (nine in num-
ber, being the smallest brood of the whole) are now
under the cure of their prolific parent.
• Ex ecurtoic.-0,1 Tuesday nun ning, Tye and Rivers,
the one for belittle, and the other fur utteritir
notes, were executed at the accustomed place in the 0 d
/ia:lev. The c.is.s of bbth were of a very aggrat :tied na-
ture... Rivers, Motto only 18, had been a freqiient utterer II
of forced notes, and Tye, it is feared, had not only
brought himself, but many others, to the scaffold. It
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nay be in the recollection of our readers, that one man
who suffered some time since for passing forged notes.
stated that he bought them of a man who had lost one
of Ins fingers. It is not a little singular, that 'rye wanted
the third finger of one hand ; and he is confidently
said
to be the man front whom South, recently executed, ob-
united his notes. They were attended, as usual, by the
Ordinary and Mr. Baker, and Mr. Sheriff Venables, the
only sheriff who witnessed the execution, accompanied
by his chaplain, the Rev. Mr. lltilott. After the mime-
(hate arrangements for execution had been made, such as
knocking off the irons, and binding the hands and arms,
a few moments remained before eight o'clock, which
were filled up by the Ordinary in reading same impressive
prayers;
extreme apathy and indifference as in these two men.—
Tne spectators of this sN fttl sight were not by any means
so numerous as on framer occasions.
A police•offieer iu the neighbourhood of Frome,
Sir
mersetshire, having a poacher to take to Sbeptoti.bride-
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welt, placed such confidence in integrity of the des
litiquent as to enclose his mitt:nags in a leuer to the
puler, and gave it to him with instructions for its dell-
r) 1 The fellow seat. iaty wen: within a mile or two
of whey, me, nog with a smut lad going the
same road, he complained of th,.. late hour beft.re he
stunt d return home, and prevailed ou the youth, for a
pant of neer, to promise to deliver the letter for him to
the keeper of the prison in person. The lad fulfilled
Iris engagem:nt, and was very kindly welcomed to nis
stew residence; anti all his roaring" and assurances that
he
was not the le rsun to le• confided could 'tttot induce his
eve friend to part with him ; he MS accordingly con-
duz..d to his cage; but from the continued bellowing of
toe captive daring the ingist, and his apprehension of
i. having the cue of a maniac, on the following morn-
h.g the keeper it ok the lad before a magistrate, where
lie swore to the facts of his sit.gitlar case, and being
r• cognized by some persons of the town, he was libe.
or:ed. Toe poacher has not been since heard of, and
has to pay the Coe

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