The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-10 00:00:00

JOSEPH LANCLIST.ER.

The labours of this truly patrif-itie and benevo-
lent Gentleman are indefatigable., To promote
the good of the public, he has sacrificed• ease,
worldly.interest, and even the_comforts- of

gal life ; and in tf. short time we may expect to see
the benefits of principles and improveinents as
widely extended over the, natural; as,they have
already been over the moral world. All his spe-
culations are reduced to practice with p. wonder-
ful facility, and the results of his
,experiments
operate on the minds of his countrymen with all
the appearance of a miracle. Several years ago
he.inventetl a system of EdUcation for the child-
ren of the labouring poor, by which he could
make them religious members of. the corimmnity
without teaching, them alzy religion. He ha3.lately
turned his attention to agriculture ; and, by a pa-
ragraph wich has appeared in some of the public
prints, it appears, " that he'has diScovered a me-
thod which will enable a.person to increAse the
crops on his land from the 'proportion of one-
. twentieth to one-half." " fie are assured," says
the writer, " that the principle is a true one, and
that it will be made clear by facts equal to ocular
demonstr.qion. The Dukes 'of Kent and Sussex,
and the Duke of Bedford, and Lord John Somer-
ville, have engaged to attend a Lecture at Free-
masons' Tavern, when Mr. L. will explain/ the as-
tonishing principle." From an inquiry into the.
nature of the above process, it appears to be part
of a plan with which Mr. it is, ;said,
,shortly favour the public. The principle is en-
tirely neW, and the effect is truly astonishing;
for he can direct his efforts in such a way as actu-

ally to influence, in the course of a few hours, the
state of vegetation. It iswa well known fact, that
th"e simplest occurrences have sometimes .generat-
ed a train of thinking that has, led .to the most
important discoveries. It was.the: falling , an
apple that suggested to the mind of, Newton the
system of gravitation, and from an incident equally
simple Mr. 'L. -derived the idea which led to the
wonderful discOvery in question. During his late
residence in Ireland, he was in the habit of fre-
quenting a society of men whose minds were in a
perpetual state of politicalfermod, which on some
occasions was so exceedingly .high that it dis-
charged itself ina kind of vapour, which sensibly
affected the surrounding air. Now, Mr. L: is.
possessed of that happy talent, and that philOso-
phical turn of mind, -which derives improvement
from every circumstance that comes under obis ob-
servation ; and it immediately occurred to him
that,- as the fermented spirit of one Man produCed
a certain effect, if it could be collected together in
a sufficient quantity,' and discharged with aug-
mented force, it might put the atmosphere, to a
Certain distance, in a state of agitation. He there-
fore applied himself to experiments, 73y which he
discovered; that even the portion of the fermented
spirit whi,.-.11 he himself possessed, when discharged
in the form of a Lecture, diffused a vapour which,
incorporated with the external air, immediately
created an unusual freshness on. the face of
,the
ground where he stood, and that vegetation 'began
to spring up around him. His next endeavour
was to imbibe as large a quantity of this spirit as.
possible, and when he left Ireland, he hiMself
supposes,that he might retain about as much of it
as ten ordinary Irishmen. Thug prepared, he set
off for England for the sole purpose of benefitting,
his country by this important discovery ; but dur-
ing his voyage he felt, as it may be supposed, much
inconvenience from the agitation which the • fer-
mented spirit created, and from the efforts which
it made to disdhar.,,e itself • so that wheia he • ar-
rived among his friends in i.ondon, he was so in-
flated that they could,scarcely recognise him. His
eyes Were apparently grown up with fat, and his
face and, body were so much increased, that those
who are unacquainted with the abstemious habits
of his life, and with his contempt for the luxuries of
the table, were inclined to ascribe the alteration in
his person to unusual indulgence. But he soon
convinced them that the matter he possessed lAA
been collected for the purpose of doing good to
his ccnintrv, and he lately made an experiment on
a. piece of ground near Woburn Abbey, in the
presence of the-Dukes of Kent and Sussex, and
the Duke of Bedford,- and Lord' John Somerville.
The piece of ground, was chOsen for its poverty,
but from the effect of :the matter which Mr. L. ex-
uded in the course of his Lecture, it was covered
in a few hours with a rich verdure. The Earl of
.Liverpool, who happened to be passing, stopped
to witness the operation. His'Lordship observed
that there was a novelty in the experiment which
would excite attention, and, for a time, procure
advocates, but he expressed his doubts as to the
.ultimate advantage or the practice, remarking, at
the same time, that the.blades of grass exhibit-
ed, on each side, a yellowish appearance, which
he attributed to 'some poisonous quality issued
with the vapour, and which, in his opinion,
wonld, corrupt them before they came to matu-
rity, -and which, in the end, would bring the
soil into a worse eondition, than that in which
they had f047.(1 -it. his • Lordship also declared
hii belief, tiiAt the old estsiblished mode of cul-
tivation is yet. to he preferred to all Mr. L.'s
ncw-fangl,ed expetiments. flowever, -Mr. L.'s .ne w
system of agriculture s;•,ents. to meet with general
approbation, and Mr. Whitbread, it issaid intends
to introduce kt -to the notice of Parliament, with
a view Of having it adopted on a national scall:,

MANCHESTER Poolas.—The eight following
were Left for execution on Saturday .next, viz.:—
James Smith, Thomas Kerfoot, 'Job Fletcher,
Abraham Chanson, John Howarth, thn Lee,
Thomas- Hoyle, and Hannah Smith.— The sen-
tences of the other ptincipal Rioters weie as fol-
low :—John Hurst (the notorious General Lucid),
Christopher gedcalf, James Brierley, Henry
,Joseph -Greenhalgh, Samuel Radcliffe,
Thomas Pickup, John Burney, James Knowles,
John Fisher, and Thomas Holden, were severally
sentenced to be transported for the term of seven
-years.—John Hope and Sainuel Crossley, for riot-,ing and stealing at- Worsley, were also sentenced
to seven years t‘-ausportation.—Ann Hamer, for
rioting, and stealing flour at Bolton-upon-Irwell,
was tined one shilling and sentenced to six months
hard labour in the House of Correction at Preston.

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