The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-19 00:00:00

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---•-•ajzierkl"it- • ID 4L ESCPES.
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'Jslitipre
'young men of very respectable connexions
at 3etsey, had a 'Most providential escape, a few
de) i since. Thief went en baud i small boat of slot.
more thin tlfree tenfrie titt,Bredade's Bsy, to spend
the niglit iii fie... 44; they had only provisions to testi
them titV the next day, when, about three leseees
from tire Corblere Racks, the tried freshened sei
much, that %tith all their efforts, they could not re-
win the shore, a'nd' were blown to sea, out of sightl
any land. The wind increased tot stem, aosi
!ley had •no provisions of any kind bot a small 11
rung Pr eel, of about four pounds weight, which the
shy before they bad caught, sod dried in the sun.—
lti Olt state of distress and peril they remained four
441ys and three nights, a prey to all the horrors of
thitth; '4llich appeared to them inevitable. Oa one
vido'ihry were seised with the pangs of honor sod
aliirie; tin the other hind, they dreaded that every
wave wOutti swallow up their frail bark.. On There.
%ley night, one of them could no !wager resist this
secumotation of bottom, anti feH into a state of per
fact insensibility; early on Saterdsy moveing„ the
tun erlter`meit, nearly *smiting with banger, thirst,
end toilet, were on the point of teaming these boot
to ilti'atircy (if the wives, when they perweired laird*
which they letter, to he the Jersey coast; hope re.
aniatitti4l theteOrtd after eabseatlng tbeir last efforts,
they had tboo..happiness of geld", into St. Braude's
Bay. The Wit others were so weak, that it was
vitt Oifficultr they could be- tireaght to. Captais
Aletander's tOesr. 'the former/ who had remained .
for tan days in a slate of insensibility, was
td steed
littittosititable mansion, whets he and his com-
panion' received all the attendee that their pitiable
stelevetteised. -.Food was given often, and in email
wesetities• liswasea stripped, rather' with hot' hen.
noir, and.taid in-blankets before the ire ; be remain-
ed al/Aloha ti site insensible ; on Sunday reorniog
rte
began to recover his secollection ; he stilt remains'
very ,teak, but hopes are entertaine that he is out of
(laver; the two ethers are entirely recovered.
• rfle-0,,:- imesseirearmegeo.r•rwF

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br THE COMPARATIVE QUANTITY .OF THE
*NUTRITIVE PRKNCIPLE IN VARIOUS SPECIES
OF ANIMAL AND VECIETABLE SUBSTANCES
.lisiol. AS.FOOD. .
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';l4heie haring been 'complainti made in some of the
' Otis and hospitals in regard to the vegetables used
.awi. f'9A the -Minister of the Interior at Paris has or.
4red oti enviry to he made as to the supposed corn.
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.quality of nutritive matter contained in
r!Orient sorts. and also* in meat. Three qoestiona
are therefore been submitted to the faculty of •me•
dieitie,lu wider to determine what quantity of various
other vegetables is adequate to supply the place of a
Feitain quantity
.of potatoes, which are at present
nitres, and, will continue so, because, from the great
dryness of the season, the crops ate very light and
swill. The• different eabstances pointed oat were,
bread, meat, dry grains, as rice, prepared barley ;
green vegetabliot, as cabbages, tar:tips, sFfinage ; large
beans, peas, ace. .
Messrs. Percy and Vauquelin were charged with
atakin4 the experiments, and they haw jest present-
ed a Report which is very-interesting, in as fife it re-
lates to domesitc economy. Out of every hundred
parts of different matters, the results are as follow :
one hundred parts of bread' contain eighty pacts of
-thk..eutritive principle, or foor.ufths ; meat, thirty-
,four,,, or only about one-third ; haricots, or the dry
Arlo, frugal beaus, ninety-two parts, or above
• llitethn broad puns, eighty-nine, or near nine.
.tilikt hs 3, . peas,, , niaetrt hree parts; lentils, ninety•
Jenr.fartiti:.whill cabbages and turnips afford only
tight parts..or, not one-tenth ; carrots and soinage
.ilvf,lou,rteen, while potatoes give twenty-five, orb
enattistbof nutritive matter These of eourie can
:ba,frakg, epiirealinatinns;:ili the dry matter of vege. ,
talow iggobaltly, contain some ligneous or -earthy
:Islas's, not, prepOy nutritive, because the same mat.
. Sets do act Amoy, act
the
the same open dif-
. (greet counKultoos,, Ihe reporters have, however,
vsaticnalegl„etst it. Pound of good bread is equal to two
. ptiql4,jiKa,*kor three pounds of potatoes; and
that sevidty•five pound's of bread and thirty pouods•
of meat, are equal to three hundred pounds of po-
tatoes; *rams quarters of a pound of bread, and
{eve ()YOU.; of meat, are equal or equivalent to three
• pun& of 'potatoes. Other• substances have given
• stierlo,the following results:—four parts of the heart
• et cabbages, ?gust one of potatoes ; three parts of.
tvroips, equal one of potatoes; two parts of carrots-
stod epinageequi one, and about three and a half of
• potatoes, equal oue part of rice, lentils, beans, heti-
-cots, or dry pease.

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A ROSIER Soor.—On Thursday night, after the
family of a Gentleman who lives in the mansion oc-
cupied by the late Dr. dolt, in East.lane, Walwertb,
had retired to rest, a gang of thieves endeavoured to
break into the back part of the house and rob the
premises. They effected an entrance into the gar.
dens and grounds by getting over a high wall, and
. would, no doubt, have succeeded in their object, had
not one of the gang trod upon the wire of a spring.
gun, which was set in the grounds, the contents of
which lodged in some part of his body. The family
was alarmed by the report of the gun, and got up im-
' mediately and found, a quantity of blood lying on the
ground nest the wire, and traces of spots Writ to the
wall, over which it is supposed his companions help-
ed the wounded man, and carried *him of. There is
no doubt but the thief was dattgerourty wounded ; 'he
met with that summary punishment he merited.
CURIOUS CIRCUISSTANC9.—AS Mr. C. tomb, shop.
mean to frpawnbroker, in Holborn, was coming out
-of the Old Bailey Sessions-horse, on Thursday ar.
ternoon, lettere he bad been attending to give evidence
on a trial, in palming through the crowd be was rob-
bed of his watch. Two hours after his return home,
and whilst (Witting his loss to his fellow-shopmen,
a man tome intooneof the private boxes and offerrid
him a watch to pledge, demanding 31. on it. On
Lamb's looking at the watch be immediately re-
cognised it to be the watch he was robbed of, and in
• eatery turned round to his companions to tell them
of his good fortune ; the fellow took ode's tage of
this turned out et the private door and rap, stay;
pursuit immediately took place, but from the ttiinber
of persons passing, and it being dark, he effected his
e:cipe,