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London, England, 1829-09-04 00:00:00

SPIRITS.

An opinion generally prevails among medical men,
that the akuhol obtained from all wines does hut chemically differ,
and therefore it is of no consequence from what wine a spirit is
obtained, so that it be pure. This idea I can say, from numerous
experiments, to be erroneous. The alcohols of different wines
differ in specific gravity, and in rawness, volatility, and pungency.
The spirit Irons malt is very cuar-e and stimulating, and specifically
heavier than any other spirit with which lam acquainted. It
acts p meanly in corrugating the animal hhre ; and when taken
into the stomach, disorders the brain and nervous system. Un-
wholesome as this spit it decidedly is, it Is much drank, in one form
and another, in America, England, Ireland, and Scotland. In the
two latter countries, when flavoured with the burnt articles em-
ployed in rectifying it, it is sold under the name of whisky, which
is a slow poison. Almost all 'the cordials of America and Eng-
land are made with it, and also the spirit flavoured with juniper,
termed gin. The spirixof the rice (arrack) is nearly of the same
specific gravity as the malt spirit, but although apparently milder,
it acts mote injuriously nn the brain and nervous system ; and it
has been observed that those who drink freely of it are short. lived.
The effect of arrack punch on the brain is well known.

Thr spirit of the sugar-cane (rum) is more mild than that of
malt, but its specific gravity is less. It acts in general injuriously
on the stomach, and, what is particularly worthy of notice as pecu-
liar to it, it is very apt to become sour in the stomach, and to
disorder the whole system, when taken in excess.
The spirit of mead (fermented honey) is the mildest and most
wholesome spirit I know. It is more volatile and specifically
lighter than any of the spirits in common use.
The spirit of the wine of grapes, termed brandy, Is somewhat
lighter than whisky or rum, and less stimulating. It is not so mild
as the spirit of mead, but it generally agrees as well with the
stomach, and does not disorder the head like 'Track. rum, or
whisky. It often succeeds in allaying irritation or in the
stomach more speedily than any other spirit or stimulant.
The spirits of cider and perry are lighter and less stimulating
than whisky or rum, and are grateful to tho stomach, and very
rarely disturb' the brain and nervous system; and it has been ob-
'served, that intoxication produced by them is seldom followed by
head-ache or disorder of the stomach. Ili many parts of America
lash spirit is much drank, and was formerly so in the cider counties
of assland, when the tanner's were at libetty to distil the dregs
ef their cider and perry —Mont!ly Gazette of B'ealth.

Fit EN I: II AN D curious to observe how
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miry words of the " modern Doric," edias broad Scotch. are de-
rived from the French. For instance. the hoinely word "to
faib " is evidrutly derivrd from " father." the meaning iy both
(stances being to rte.' of trouble one's self.

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We are informed by letters from Seres, under the date of the 2d,
that lectures had been given in the mosques of a Finnan of the
Grand Seignior, which calls a rising in arms.
On the let of August five thousand men were already on their
march to Adrianople; but this enthusiastic movement was far
from being general, as some letters state, that in one of the mosques
the reading of the Firma' bad caused great murmurs.
We are requested to inquire of M. de la Bourdonnaye, if he did
not say, a month before the last Session, " We can never govern
with such a state of things. As for myself, the happiest day
of my life would be that when I should read on this edifice (in
speaking of the Chamber of Deputies), ' House to Let.' We
can affirm this fact, which is very characteristic. There ate
certain words which are like a sign of system. " House to
Let" will remain ; but a few drops of blood are ineffaceable. The
Gozelk thinks that the time is not yet =rived to wall up the
Chamber. It still flatters itself with having a majority, and
that it will obtain it by the i °hue means of Walpole and Vil-
fele. It says that it expects to form that majority by the Deputies
who vote on the secret scrutiny otherwise than at the open sittings.
Delicate men ! religious men ! They rel), then, on the power of
Infamy, treason, and every thing that is degradhL . What an in-.
suit to the country. what a want of Shame, what degradation!—
These Lovelace, of the Congregat avow it ; they speculate on
the dishonour of the Deputies, as their predecessors triumphed
over the th.honour of women. The Deputies will answer this
mark of insolence by voting with open balls. It will be henceforth
the duty of every honourable man so to do. We see, besides, that
the writers of M. de la Bourdonnaye wash to modify their master's
placard by substituting tor •' House to let," " House to be sold."
FROM THE FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, Aug. 7.
For these few days past, a new calamity has been ravaging the
province. 'llse district of Itemilik, and the environs of Braila, are
dreadfully damaged by the locusts, which, being driven from Mol-
davia, have advanced towards the Danube. The President has
issued orders fur the destruction of them. A tremendous hail-storm
has also done great damage, and killed several men and cattle.
PERPIGNAN, Aim 24.
If we can believe rumour, tauten persons have been arrested at
Figuttras, by order of the Count d'Espagne. Their sixteen fresh
victims will be sacrificed without pity by the Proconsul ut Cate-
lonia.—Feance Ml rtd~orrale.

From Me Journal des Debuts of Tuesday.
The Ministry begins to make it pereept.ble that it does not
reckon much upon the Chamber ; and tor fear it should be
thought that it will easily cede the bdd of battle, it traces its
plan of detente in the official Evening Paper. The Ministry has
made up its mind how to act—it came in against the wi•li of the
Chamber, and it will remain in spite of the Chamber. %hat is a
Chamber after all? When one is nut satisfied with one's ser-
vants, why they may be sent to form sit opposition in their pro-
vinces. and we can get others. 'Altn a profound politician,
like M. de 14 Itiondonttaye, renounce the Government of France
because the Deputies of Fiance do not like him? It would be
really painful to have excited so much hatred—to have laboured
ten years to overturn all litiistries, and prepared ten or twelve
' splendid projects of law subversive of our civil and political lows.
tiltlolo4, to return with shame and contusion to a seat at [beer-
We've right, in die midst of twenty admirers. You do not know
)rt, Gentlemen. what a Minister is, but you will .snoo Seam—
&wait of categories,and it it should take your fancy to make ins.
"Meer', I would first advise you to read once more the famous
sen:ence, " We must have chains, executioners. punishaispits,
death, death alone," ate. That is the way to gement—that is the
whole sextet of the Representative systein--with a few detach-
ments of gendarmerie, wen paid and well devot.-d, no Chamber
'can frighten a Miniver who has a little- riesolutioo. A hundred

There will be a great noise, and spirited reclamation, will
made; but in order to put an end to the disturbance, and seduce
the Chamber, if it be possible, the Minister of the Interior will
mount the Tribune, and draw from his pocket a project of electoral
reform, by which a decided majority is assured to many persons
elected by the Grand Colleges. The Chamber ought to he satisfied
with so much condescension. They have had the goodness not tn
close at the first blow the small Colleges, and they still leave a few
deputies to the industrious population and to the citizens. What
moderation ! M. tie Polignac will in his turn pay the tribute
which he owes to the aristrocracys His Grace contents himself,
for this time, with overturning the civil code, and changing oi r
order of succession, •by means of that undefinable right which,
without being the right of seniority (droit daitiesie), ha, a perfect
resemblance to it. At last M. de biontbel, the Chief of the Uni-
versity. will read an eloquent apology for the JesuitsJand will de-
mand the Iterty of education for them. The monopoly will come
late. Liberty is but a road to authority, as the experienced sty ,
but behold a Chamber which murmurs instead of applaudiug.
Hostile Committees, taken from the majority, agree to pi (pose the
rejection of those laws, so profound, so learnedly elaborate, and
there will be abundance of black balls at the scrutiny.
In this time, without doubt, the Ministry, despairing of its
country, will cede the place to the factions ? Not at all. Our
Farrows are too good citizens for that. They were about to make
France happy, and it is wished to prevent them. They had pre-
pareda whole Constitution, and it is rejected! They wished to
ensure liberty by the censure, to found a vast Aristocracy among
our citizens, to regenerate the public morals under the auspices of
the Jesuits, and this magnificent edifice will crumble to pieces and
fall at the first breath ! Their projects are excellent—ndracidous.
Who can know it better than the Ministry which formed them?
What presumption to think that bad which M. de Polignac consi-
ders good! What bliutinees to mistrust the liberalism of M. de la
Bourdonnaye, and the genius of 111. Montbel ! Is it not clear that
a Chamber which judges people by their reputation, and does not
leave them to the country, to see if they would not be by chance
better than they appear—that a Chamber which disconcerts the
finest projects and the most cunning stratagems, is a Chamber of
parties. of rebels, and of narrow-minded and rancorous spirits?
Well, then, it must be dissolved. The Chamber is sent away, and
the Ministry remains. What will be done to obtain for the elec-
toral colleges a more complaisant majority ? What will be done,
if by hare possibility the old majority were to return, angry, aug-
mented, compact—the official Journal does not say. Why fort see
misfortunes so far off? And, heddes, is It difficult to guess that ?
Do you know what gives confidence to the Ministry ? lit -
peruse the History of Great Britain. One day Pitt—the famous
Pitt—found an inimical majority he the House of Commons, and
ha was foiled in fourteen successive motions. Whit did Pitt
do? He boldly dissolved the House of Commons, and the year
following seventy-six votes of the majority gave him a decided as-
cendancy. Yes ; but you will say where is Pitt in our Ministry ?
We have first M. de Polignac, who returns from England,
where he studied politics and eloquence under the orders of the
Duke of Wellington. He knows his Pitt by heart, and desires
nothing better than to find a Fox for an adversary. Great con-
tests serve to bring forth great talents. We have then M.
C.ourvoisier, an old Ministerialist, who will second M. Polignac
most men:idly. Last (and I have kept him for the last, for he
is the Grant of the Ministry), we have M. de la Bourdonnaye.
What a resemblance between M. de la Bourdonnaye and Pitt !
Has not M. de la Bourdonusyr given twenty examples of that pro-
found good sense, of that forcible and calm logic, of that sang feel,/
and of that perspicuity, without which no one can he a States-
man? The Monarchy sought for one great Minister, and it has
found three. We now envy England nothing.
litany there is something comical in these frank avowals—in
this fatuity, which is not he. so. Because M. de la Bourdon-
naye perceives that he will not have a majority in the Chamber, he
thiieks himself a Pitt! Because, though it is possible that hr may
fail fourteen times, if he present fourteen projects of law, including
the Budget, he places himself behind the shadow of Pitt! Yes, filo
Pitt, you will be booted when you make your appearance in the
Chamber; like Pitt, you will only have a powerless majority—
there the resemblance stops. What you have net—what you
will never have—is his eloquence, his genius, and that admirable
talent, which, during twenty years, kept him at the helm 01
affairs. Do you think, then, that to finish well it suffices to he-
gin badly, and that because you are detested to-day people are
not far from adoring you! Was the name of Pitt odious .and
unpopular? Did he commence his political career by protesta-
tions of hatred to the liberties of his country? Could not the
son of Lord Chatham have dared to do much without fear in
causing his patriotism to be distrusted? Away then. Between
you and Pitt there is all the distance between genius and stupid
obstinacy ; and there is besides every thing in you to excite the
public animadversion. It is easily seen the Ministry does net
care much about the Chamber—then it is right, and it gives u*
the victory. It will dissolve the Chamber ! Be it so ;we are ie.
forested of it, and it is for us to take our measures. Thus will the
problem, which is thought to be incapable of solution, be resolved
—where is the majority? Thus th: national representation will be
freed from that state or uncertainty which has restored courage to
our enemies, and only I the strength necessary to disperse
them. Thus a strong and really constitutional Ministry will have
for support a decided and powerful Chamber. And thus will
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appear for ever the remains of a faction which is now playing
last crown, sad which it cannot fail to lose at the general Omit'''.

CORFU, Acc. t.
It is with great grief I announce to you the misfortunes the
unfortunate inhabitants of Thessaly and Epirus, and particularly
of Janina and Zuzori, have suffered from the Turks, who pall Age.
desolate, and massacre, and, in short, commit every species of cru-
elty and barbarity. The unhappy Christians, dispersed here and
there, conceal themselves in mountains and wools, ahandoning then
houses and their goods, and preferring to die of hunger. Several
families have taken reuse in the lonian Islands, in the most de-
plorable state. It is impossible to have an idea of all the evils with
which the Christians of Epirus are oppressed. And it is still more
afflicting, as this country would have been free, and the misfortunes
of the inhabitants prevented, if the Greek forces on the continent
had not been paralysed by our protectors. It is right that Christi:A:.
Europe should kuuw what to expect respecting the execution of
philanthropic treaties.
It is rumoured that M. de Latour du Pin, Ambassador at the
Court of Sardinia, has been recalled.
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111. de Reyneval, it is said, is ap, Mooed to the Embassy in Lot-
don, and the Duke de Laval returns to Rome. It is not know,
who will be their successors at Turin, at Berne, and at Vienna.
Si. Adolphe Billing, 'I bird Secretary of the Embassy in Eng.
land, leaves London, where he will be so ►onourably remember..:.
for Vienna, in quality of Second Secretary to the Embassy.
Dauchal is named Third Secretary at London ; and 'At
Hyppolite de la Rochefoucarld, Third Secretary at St. Pete:—
burgh. is appointed Second Secretary at London.
M. Tamisier, attached to the Embassy at London, has horn .etc
to St. Pc tersburgh, in the room of N. li. de la liochefolicauld.
Flasigny, Secretary of the Eusba.sy at London. is appoime:.
Sous-chef de Bureau in the division of M. Hob k Corm,- ; ava
M.Viell Castel, Secretary at Vienna, Sous-chef de Bureau in t!:r
division of M. Deffamlis. at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
11. Drools, Chief of the Private Bureau of the same Moist' y
Is appolated COMA. General at Alitsn, in the room N. From, o.
de Chaasp4a-Garde, allowed tq retire.