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LONDOIV,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 23,' 1810.

An American Messenger arrived yesterday -at
Dover from Calais, and immediately set off for
London.

We now prOceed to redeem the pledge we Made
:yesterday
,in correl the Misrepresentations of the
Times on the subjeB: of LAMB'S fire-hearths.
_ The Writer sets out with a broad asiertion, which
is not true ; he says that BRODIE'S fire-heartl.isan-.
swe;ed every purpose.; they did not answer every
purpose.; they did not answer that most important

porpose, which a hunched years.ago was a desidera-
tum in the Navy, namely, the complete distillation
of fresh water from that of the sea. The hearth
invented by LAMB does this so completely, .as to
furnish a very considerable quantity of pure fresh
water, at the same time, and with the same fire that
the vi&uals are cooked with, for the ship's company.
It was easy enough to divest sea water of its com-
mon salt, but not so easy to get rid of .ihe marine
acid/ u.llich gives that peculiar bitter taste to sea
water; LAMB'S hearth does this most effetlually.
The water produced by distillation having been sub-
mitted to the test of one of the first Chemists of this
Country, Ntas found to be free of all saline and'acid
impregnation. But it is to cost the nation 200,0601.
He might just as well have said two Millions; the
one v.rould have answered just as-well as, the other
for a random shot. We believe the' one hearth to
be pretty much the same price as the other ; and as
they are to be supplied only to new ships coming
forward, and to replace the old hearths of Bflonit3,
as`they wear out, perhaps the writer may Conde-
-82e04.1 to explain how the new ones are to cost the
nation 2.00,0601. •
If even 'the adoption of this hearth did cost the
nit.on the sum stated at random, we cannot think
it ill laid out, since it, is to procure, to so valuable a
dais of men as our seamen, so essential a comfort as

plenty of good fresh water: But the Navy Bolrd,

it is asserted, remonstrated against the .introduc-
' tion 'of ,these ,hearths. This assertion, we under-
stand, is vr.;nally cdrre4 with the rest of the state-
ment,' can only be intended as a gross libel on
that Board. Either it must have been aware of the
advant;ge's of the new hearth's, or it was not ; if it
'was aware of them, and yet remonstrated, the in-
P.ence knust be, that either they had a leaning to-
wards,favoming Mr. BRODIE,. which no man will
believe; or they must be considered as a narrow-
minded, ignorant, and 'prejudiced Board, who set
their fa& s agai'nst all improvements,- however' obvi-
.
otl; a supposition .equally improbable.- If .the Navy
'Board -svas not aware of the advantages-of the new.
, hearth, and yet remonstrate'd,, in this case theirre..
monstrance would have been absurd, auslt hey ?would
have rendered themselves'perfealy ridiculous in tak-
ing such a step. ,No ; the Navy Board did not re-
monstrate, the malignity of the Writer is ob-
. vionsly direhed againAt that Board,
,as well as against
'the Admiralty. The .heart hs, in fa6t, have been under
trial ,ntarly, three years in several line of battleships,
i all of which the Captains pave reported most fa-
vourably of them; but what can the Captains in. the

Navy know, or what are their opinions worth, when
put iu competition with the knowledge and the opi-
nion of the man who
,rules Zlie 71712:2$ ? •
We assure him, and we solemnly pledge ourselves

for the truth of what we are going to say, that the'
Writer of the articles respeCting die liii(ford, who
' cleteCted the calumnies of the Times, did not, ,as
that Paper this, morning asserts, write a single line,
or furnish us with a single idea a( the statement
in THE St of yesterday, which exposed his misre-
presentations respeaing the sheaves of blocks.

understand that Lord. GRENVILLE has de,
dared, that lie Will not hive his support to the Ca-
tholic Petition, unless the Catholic's consent to alltiw
his Majesty a veto in the appointment of their
Bishnps. His Lordship, we are are further in-
formed, means to .tare his sentiments upon- this
subject in a Pamphlet, with his name-Axed to it.

Malta Mail, arrived yester'dff inorning. The
falsehood of the story about an insiirredion at Cadiz
is completely proved. The Packet which. 1.),2-light
Gibi'dltar on the 7 h, six day* after the
pieiendvd insurredion is siid 'to li:ive...happpned.
Cadiz kt as then quite traoqiiil. She !ailed from
on• the 'loth tilt. le::vink there his Majesty's
shirs' Tett ikle; Bulthark, Sp 6 ice, 1 m ps.!eiz. ).'he •
Mat ana Montrose Packets had nailed totMessipa:
The Privcess Augusia had arrived at Gibraltar and
proceeded for Malta. _
i he, Lady Mioress olDubliti has announced her
intentioa of giving a grand Masquerade o t the 9th'
o' month. Tneprlarations are already coal-
ence.d.ort the grandest scale.