The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-20 00:00:00

TO Taff EDITOIt OF TILE STATES7I477.

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Stn,--Your Paper of Monday last has been this even-
ing put into my hands, and as I do not imagine it was
rm. intention to insert any thing respecting'me, not
justified by fact, 1 beg to correct the mis-statement
which has, I presume, inadvertently crept into your
Paper. On Sunday evening I made no remark what-
ever relative to Mr. llottste Toone, as I have np
knowledge of his ammeter, further than as it is of-•
hibited in the Public Papers. lam not accustomed
to senteuce any man, nor to judge at all of any cha.
ratter upon such uncertain grounds. My statement
re.pected the language adopted by the Journals of
the time, relative to theprinciples of salvatibu, and
Ito establish nay position adverted to the expressions
employed in one of them on the occasion of 'Mr..
Tootte's death (whom, however, 1` did not name),'
and the censure was directed against the language
employed, irrespective of Mr. Tooxt's chkaeter.—,
T;ie sentence alluded to is, so uear as I can recol,.;
feet it, " to take leave of our subject in charity, !
let us hope that some secret recollections of good.
counterbalanced the ill's which we knew of hina."
As I quote hone memory, I have new no_ means of
referring to the paper in question, I cannot be an-
swerable for the precise form-of the-sentence ; but I
beg to observe, that thelnesation was dccuvntely
made in the pulpit (as it .SVlCOltitiell down), and
that I merely remarked, what -1,-now intent, that
11 secret recollectioes of good",:can constitute not
counterbalance to positive evil ; whether traly af-
firmed of Mr. T. or not, I am no judge-, tier di& L
intend at all to involve his merits, or the contrary,
in the remark : the statement itself appears tome
nnscitiptural, and. such as one should snot have ear
ected in the nineteenth century of Christianity,-4
Neither in making-this remark did I wander from mt
subject, the intention of which was, to peint-out
the state of ignorance in which mankind remain re-
lative to the great truths of relegion, on the text
St. John xvii. Y 5, " o,righteous Father, the world
bath not known thee." I am, &c.
Blacktteath Bill, Kent, April 16. W. B. COLLYER.

EREAD.—About lilb. of wheaten flour, of the
best quality, are required by the baker to
,make
tfilb. of bread ; but in the summer of 1.810, when
the quartern-loathad advanced to Is. &l. some expe-
riments were proposed, and made, which seemed to
prove, that Mb. of flour are sufficient, with the id-
'mixture of only 10 oz. of rice ground and boiledo.to
produce an excellent loaf of bread, equal in weight,
and equal or better in all other respects, to the
quartern loaf. In the country, and wherever fami-
lies make their own bread, this experiment and prac-
tice, for the sale of some economy in the expendi-
ture of wheaten flour, may be useful. It is doubted,
whether the nutrition of wheaten flour is exhibited in
its best form and greatest extent its the present mode
of bread-making ; and it •has been
,suggested as an
improvement, to boil some part of the flour in the ,1
Mater with Which the bread is mixed and made.

. In the Court of Exchequer, on Saturday, Mr.
HAIN E moved for a Rule to shew cause why there
Should not be a new trial in the action Haslam v.
Bourne, Esq. for critn con. on the ground of exces-
sive damages. This action was tried at the late as-
sizes for Lancaster, and the defence was the profli-
gacy of the Plaintiff's wife. The Jury, however,
gave 'their verdict for the Plaintiff, with 5001. da-
mages. The Court granted the Role.
l'immtsx.—Yesterday Dutch Sam receivxl a for-
mal challenge from John Furd, a British candidate
for pugilistic fame, to fight him for 100 guineas.—
Sam has accepted the challenge, tune and place sub-
ject to future consideration.
.ItRABI AN HORSES.—M. Cluateauhriand, in his
Travels in Greece, gives the following account of the
manner in which the Arabian Horses are trained to
hardihood :---They are never put under shelter, but
left exposed to the most intense heat of the sun, tied
by all four legs to stakes driven in the ground, so
that they cannot stir. The saddle i; taken from their
backs : they frequently drink but once, and have
only one feed of barley in 24 hours. This rigid
treatment, so far from wearing them out, gives them
sohriety, patience, and speed. I have often ad-
mired an Arabian steed thus tied down to the burn-
ing sand, his hair loosely flowing, his head bowed
between his legs to find a little shade ; and stealing
with his wild eye a look at his master: release his
legs from the shackles, spring upon his back, and he
will 'paw in the valley, he will rejoice in his strength,
he will swallow the ground in the fierceness of his
rage ' • and you recognise the original picture deli-
neated by Job.. Eighty or a hundred piastres .are
given for an ordinary hqrse, which is in general less
valued than an ass or mule ; but a horse of a well-1
known Arabiatt.breed will fetch any price. Abdal-
lah, Podia of Damascus, had jest given. 3,000 ;
piastres for one. The history 'of a horse is fr -
quently the topic of general conversation. NVhen I I
was at Jerusalem, the feats of one of these wonder-
ful steeds made a great noise. The Bedouin to whom
the animal, a mare, belonged, being pursued 1.1 the
Goveruorts guards, rushed with her from the tops of
the mountains Which overlooked Jericho. The mare
sectored at full gallop down an almost- perpendicqlar
declivity without stumbling, and left the soldiers lost!
in admiration and astonishment. The poor creature, I
however, dropped down dead on entering Jericho,l
and the Bedouin;• who would not quit her, was i
taken, weeping over the body of his compaeion.—
This mare has 4"brother„ in the desert, Whit'is. so •
famous, that the Arabs always know where he has
been, where he is, what he is doing, and how he
does. AU Aga religiously- shewed me in the moult-
tains near Jericho, the footsteps of the. mare that
'died in the attempt to save her master. A Macedo-
Wan could net have beheld tllose of Bucephalus with
greiter respect. •
, A gentleman of the name of Fingard, of Berke-
ley-street, undertook on Tuesday, for a wager of 100
guineas, to go on foot 30 roiies.in four hours, which
he completed in seven minutes within the given'
time.—Betting was tiro to one against the perform-
:nice. The eedestrian did 10 miles in two hours and
live minutes.

Committed to Winchester Goal, Thomas _Ye:cher-1
alias Dennis Collins, charged with sacrilege, in
Awing stolen from the Chapel, at- Gosport, the
Nliuister's surplice, two bottles of tent wine and
two pounds of candles, the property of the elope!
Warilea.