The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-21 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR"—WhiIv yon are giving to the
Public, from the most raise worthy motive, a
knovvledge of the means by which' thousands of

our trnfortuznate fellow-creatntes, may in these
awhil limes, enjoy the comtora of plenty by the
appropriation of 14 less them 1110115Antith part of
the income of a mere man of business, to their

succour, Mr. ConetferT, determiaed 10 eyed him-
self ief the general spirit of econotny, offeis his
breakfast Powder at one hundred, UT as he, with
bis tomel dkregard of troth, seys, two hundred per
cent. under the common price of Coffee. There
is certainly a Net y gi at rbffereece between the
cot?duct of the EDIIOR or THg SoN, io the heire•
voleot ieformatiou tediich lie his commenicered,
relative to the manetectitte i.f Ceeeo Soon, and
that of Mr. (:tat re in tits etehteen-penny spe-
ion ; hut it ois protessiesns of fee wholesome-
ness awl cheapness of his preperailuo (0 11(1 be
!obeyed, even he, selfise es he is, might fairly he
thaekeel tor his discovery. The truth is, how-
eser, this—Mr. ~egris.TT, uteri& to rouse the
diecontenred 'o R •betlioo, aims i hiow,
oueld be feral if ail loco were week enough to
aid it, at the R. venue. The I/111 V Wt. o.ve I, the
e, even to ourselves, for are a e not di-
rectly interested in the pro•peeity of ihe
is laughed at, and the Refeteners eteenjeined, not
oil to abstain from the use of spitituoas liquors,
U Heti I am sore, (-sect/ good MAO in wad 0111 of
th'S!rt'S they should do, end the
Los to the ReVriMe V'olllo be easily otpplitel by
Pailiement, but every excisetble auricle mete be
lefi to perish in the warehoitees ; BM, this for
whet ! to assite Mr. Coecserr in his political and
peeve schemes to remove the incumbrato:es of-
Botley.—lf Mr. Cneeeee had proposed only some
harmless subssoioe for (stilt and Bandy, I would
forget the wi:kedness of this Champion in the
taus, of Morality *, but, it is difficult for eon('
ratore itselt not to despise the emelt-purity thief,
oho would replace the beverage of a whilie,ollle
and invigorating berry, which is the luxury of the
poor, and the coudo,t of the rich, by the poteder
it burnt peas, and the overeroested skins of rot-
-fee potatoes.—Here is Reform and Moralites with
ti veogeence. rigloven pence per pound for tOis
composition, gives,roore than 200 per cent. profit
to Mr. Ce,ABETT aid his chopped hay, which is
to be offered as a substitute for tea, at. two situ!.
Lugs per pound, will yield more than two thou-
sand—why, Sir, tire woehl,eoppri.e you mad to
give your geripe for CheapSoop for nothing:
yoe might have sold the, prepercol powder at an
ellOilitHlts profit, and sill losee reerlered ate im-
portant sertice to the h 1 ic. I can account for
your roil oro ;ally by si,positig that von are so
tinotoo lily RS to pre;er the !ostisfacrion of :'oar own
heart, itt (Suing good 70 your fellow•areatures, to
the appoobetion roc the. Holley Porcupine tor Ile..
glee ing them. But I would leave Mr. Coßßeler
and his breakfast powder, and say something ex-
clusively of your Recipe. 1 have tried it, and
really find it to he, what you profess it to be, a
very, wholesome 'triad, which Indy be used
much effect, in tht se distressing tins-A, by those
who are unable to ptocure the more solid
food which an Eng lis halal) prefers to intim!.
factared dishes ; but as thit, preparation, excellent
es it is, would, withoot variety, soot) become less
agreeable, it stray alit be amiss to inquire whether
there is any other Soup equally cheap and nutri-
tive. Nothing tends so much .0 disarm poverty
its, sting as the means of renderiug a scanty
pittance capable of yielding a comfortable variety.
The Fiettelt, who have earwig them note poor
families than, any other country of Europe, with
an equal population, manage their culinary matters
so well that every woman who has two or three
pence to spend for a dinner, places one or two good
dishes before her family. This arises solely from
whet is vulgarly called kitchen knowledge, and
mit, as many suppose, from the difference in the
price of provisions ; Inc a French woman, On-
skdled in cookery, would find if almost as diffi-
cult to provide a nourishing dinner for three-
pence, as a person with the same smite in this
Country. I have tasted a Soup in France which
is as cheap and es wholesome as any in Europe,
and has the advantage of forming two good
dishes. This Soup is made with haricots or
French beans in the following very simple manner :
A pennyworth of beasts is steeped in cold water
on the preceding night, and out the following day,
an hour or two hetore dinner, the beans are
boiled in two or three quarts of water with an
onion, a tew !raves of sorrel! and a lump of
but ter, not larger than a walnut. Spices way be
added or not according to the taste of the parties :
when the Soup has acquired a fine flavour, it is
set veil up with sliced bread, an:! the beans are
pieced its a separate dish with a small piece of
butler, and seasoned with salt find pepper. Ti;is
fond is so agreeable that the Kitag himself fre-
quently partakes of it ; and it is so cheap atid nu-
tritive, that a family of five or six persons may
dine heartily for three oe fourpence. I have
known some persons in France live on this food
regularly five days of the seven,- and enjoy great
health and streng'h Arion the diet ; and families of
small income are enabled by this economy to
maintain those outward appearances, for which
the French arc so celebrated. It may be said, in ,
reply to this statement, that French beans are
dear in England ; but I would observe that they
are so, beca,:se their virtue, as a standard article
of food, is to lii tie known that they are only par-
tielly,cultivated. There is nothing in the climate
or 5 oil of this Country adverse to their growth,
and it they were rtii“li tor the supply of the poor,
they might be sold at as clieap a rate as potatoes,
and prove equally, it not more vkdiudde to the
Connounit y. Toe observation made by 'the Gen-
tleman who stipid;ed the Materiels for the excel-
lent article on cheep Soap, Which apt eared THE
SUN, that the poor- man spends his money on
animal forid to bole purpose, because, by his,
mode of corikie; it, he dissipates the juices, and
thus throws away the best part of the nonrish-

* See the Adrertif;ement for the Meeling tit the Crown and
Anchor—" Mr. (o. eft and several utiwr zeals.al3 friend* to
the cause of MUHA Li LY !

The PROP ft I ETOit ef this Paper finding that it is currently re-
ported that he has disposed of it., deems it necessary to in-
form the Public that it is still his SOLE Prtormnr, and
that whenever new arrangements may take place, he will
give dne notice to his Readers.

We received last ❑igt►t the Paris Papers of
su►►day last. None of . those of either Monday
or Tuesday, bo►li of which are due, have yet ar-

liv'tl.

The resumption of the consideration, in the
Cbarnber of Deputies, on Saturday, of, the Re-
port of the Committee of Petitions, respecting
the Petitions against any alteration in the Elec-
tion Law, produced a long and stormy discussion.
A decided opinion expressed by M. LAINE, that
some change ought to be made in the Election
Law, gave rise to considerable tumult. The Ba-
ron PAsaurEß also stated himself to be amongst
the number of those who thought the 10;lection
Law stood in need of modification ; and they-
both, as well as others on that side, obitcteid to
receiving the Petitions, on the ground before
urged, of its being a want of respect to the
Royal Initiative to propose that they should not
discuss u proposition for modifying any law. On
the contrary side, M. AIANDUL, 13UNJAMIN
CONSTANT, aid others, ridiculed this argument,
and warmly contended, that the right of Peti-
tion was essential to liberty, as offering the only
means of estimating public opinion. Thts discus-
sion was at length closed, and the appel nominal
called for when there appeared the closest divi-
sion that has yet, we believe, taken place in the
Chamber upon any question of great public im-
portance, the numbers being, for agreeing with the
Report of the Committee, by passing to,the Order
of the Day, 117 ; against it, 112 ; I‘l4.iorit only
5. Thc Chamber did rot rise till a late hour for
them, nantely, near sev. n o'clock. Probably,
after this division, the Ministers will be disposed
to hesitate 1' little 'mime they bring forward their
l'rnjet for modifying the Election Law.--The
following are extracus ;

" PARIS, JAN. IG.—Yewiday the Duke of

Orleans and Mademoiselle d'Orleans paid their
respects to the King.
fc The Baron Pasquier, the Mitticter for Foreign
Affairs, had on Friday a conference of an hour
with Monsieur.

FIYI3 PER CENTS.

Saturday '

. 72 f. 30 c.

DP.FERRED STOCK.
Of the 22d March, 1817,
22d Sept. 1817, 93 f. 15 c.
224 March, 1818, 9l f. 15 c.
2'2d Sept. IBIS,
?Rd March, 1819, B7 1. 15 C.
22J Sept. 1319,

STRASBUHGU, JAN. 11.—We are momen-
tarily threatened with an interruption of all direct
communication with the right bank of the Rhine,
by the way of Kehl—the bridge being in danger
of total destruction, front the effects of the cur-
rent. In other 'parts of the Rhine, the river is
so from, that persons pass over it on foot. Se-
veral foreigners are here, wishing to proceed to
Oermany, but who are prevented from continuing
their journey."

A series of New York Papers strived this
morning, bnt not of so late a date as those which
we received last week.

The state of the I{EVENUR has been lately a
fruitful source of dissention among the News-
papers, on both sides. We conceive that the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would in a great de-
gree obviate the clamours of the Opposition
Writers on this head, if he were not to suffer,
official accounts to be given partially to any Public
Journals, but to order them to be transmitted to
the Morning Papers in general —lit fact, as the
state of the Revenue is a subject of general in-
terest, no partial communications on that head
should be suffered to appear. An impartial com-
munication would lessen that jealousy which is
too common among the London Journalists of
all parties, and it would be a test of that PUBLIC
SPIRIT by which the Opposition Writers pro-
fess to be animated, as their own reputation
would suffer if they were to decline the in-
sertion of snob Accounts of the State of the
Revenue, as might give , pleasure to the
Country. So open a communication too would
slim that Government was really influenced by
public spirit and above the narrow; impulse of
favouritism, in a matter of general interest. It is
evident that we are not actuated by any selfish
jealousy on the occasion ourselves, as we recom-
mend the transmission of the accounts in question
for insertion in the Morning Papers, as the
Evening Papers would copy them of course,
and could not reasonably expect a preference on
' an occasion of universal interest to the Empire.
Let the Wags of office ,:xercise all the wit and hu-
mour which they may luckily possess, in support
of favourite Journals, but they should not be per-
mitted to communicate partially facts so impor-
tant as those relating to the state of the Revenue.
We have been. urged by several of our most re-
spectable Correspondents to express their sen-
timents on this subject, and we have chiefly
embodied those sentiments upon the present oc-
casion. We conceive also, that it would be a
wise as well as a liberal,policy in Government to
give its advtrtisments to the Morning Papers in
general, except to those obviously of a Radical cite-
raCter, and the consequence would infallibly, be a
diminution of that asperity with which they at.
tack Government and each other, and thereby ex-
cite disgust in their Readers, and bring contempt
upon the Palk Press.

If it be true, as is stated in a Morning Paper,
that it is the intention of the CHANCELLOR Of the
EXCHEQUER to fund seven or eight millions of
Exchequer Bills, and to prevail on the Bank to
hold over the payment due to it for a time, so as
to prevent the necessity of borrowing to meet
any temporary want that may arise, it really
argues-much wisdom and focesight in the Minister.
He who gains time, gains a great point. Now,
it seems generally admitted by those who have
reasoned on the subject, that the savings Of the.
Public, incln►ling th9se of corporate bodies as well
as private individuals, are little short of 20 millions
a-year over and above what is required for trade;
but this sum can find no other source of invest-
ment than in the Funds; and every man of com-
mon capacity must know that the price of an ar-
ticle wholly depends cm supply and demand; there-
fore, if an annual saving of 20 millions, in addit►'n
to the Sinking Fund, is applied to the purchase
of Stock, witE►out any ncys, creation by loan, the
demand must greatly exceed the supply, which will
of course raise the Funds, and reduce the perma-
nent interest of money to four, or perhaps under
that rate per cent. This will enable the Mini-
ster either to liquidate the 5 per cents. or to
arrange with the Holders, so as to save the Coun-
try hy.one stroke of Finance upwards of Thirteen
Hundred Thousand Pounds per annum interest,•
tvhich is equal, reckoning at 4 per cent, to a
Capital of Thirty-two Aldlions Five Hundred
Thousand Fouuds.

FOR VIE SUN.

THE NEW NEWSPAPER ACTS.

MR. EDITOR—Some of. your Contemporaries
have begun to express a very needless alarm at
the partial indulgence of the New Act to the Ra.
dical part of the Press, and its unequal severity
on the legitimate Pitblishers. I hasten to assure
these loyal tremblers, whose apprehensions su far
outrun their reason, that they may pluck up heart
againi by a second perusal of the terrifying Clause.
Its words are as follow :
, " That no person shall print or publish
" for sale any Newspaper, or any Pamphlet or other Paper,
" containing any public news, intelligence, or occurrence,-o[
" any remarks or observations thereon, which shall not ex-
" ceed two sheets, or which shall be publishej for sale at •a
" less price than sixpence, unless he or she 'shall have en-
" tered into a recognizance

The British Press had yesterday more than a
column of terror upon this Clause :—and argued,
that because the di,junefive " OR" separates the
two conditions of slate and price, therefore every
Newspaper which is smaller than two sheets, must
enter into recognizance, even though it shall be
dearer than sixpence.
The disjunctive, Sir, presen►s two conditions,
not coupled, but sepal-toed ; either of which ex-
empts the publication. If its size shall not exceed

two sheers, it is not liable to a recognizance, no
matter what its price ; if its price shell not fall
short of sixpence, it is not liable ; no matter what
its size. But no human ingenuity, no human
apprehension, can'strain the Statute into any lia-
bility of those publications,which ►while larger than

two sheets, are cheaper than sixpence, "or," whilt
smaller than two sheets are not ssoPd at a lower

rate.

Pray, then, Sir, ease the fears of your loyal
Contemporary ; and beg him henceforth to spare
the promulgation of his alarms. Thi British Prest
has, of course, no other motive than pointing out
those flaws which his ultra-anxious zeal in the
cause of Religion and Social Order has discovered
in the Statute; but its Editor should consider that
his suggestous have a consequence which he is
quite as far from desiring to aid, as was Lord
Ens i.re io the House of Peers, when that
Lem ned Nobleman exposed the loop-holes of the

Act, and the facilities of its evasion.
Not that I should much care, t hOtigh COBS err
or WOOL ER, or any other Radical Scribbler should
make an experiment of quibbling upon the new
Statute. I should dearly like to see their convic.•
tion ;—and I should be confident of seeing it.---
We have honest Judges—and honest Juries unit
surely be found, who will close every loop-bole
against a libeller as fast as k is opened for him.
January 21. FLINT.

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