The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-30 00:00:00

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collected. The nib& of conducting the suisscription was* '
post carious ooe ; fur the Sabbath having just commenced
as the subscription was opened, no motley or rhicqttes
passed. and every moment one might see the officers who
were collecting the names of the subscribers hold op their
fingers to any friend whom they saw at a distance. vshic,t
elms to ask him how much be meant to subscribe. .1a
Many fingers as the individual held apt!' return lie MS im-
mediately put down for so many guineas. The subscrio-
"bens were afterwards announced in Hebrew ; after 'this
poi pll the ordinary forms of the Sabbath eve cum-
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t OLD WITI NOTIONS AliOl.IT EA AND Tea-rots Pill- -
LereilkICALLT tORRECT.—The mass of mankind will be
housed, with few exceptions. eorreet in points of observation,
however errooeotis the conelesions may he which they
sometime deduce from their premises. This fact is illus-
trated in many circumstances of daily occurrence, and..
oolong others, In the directions usually riven for the ordi-
nary pence's of -making tea, some of which coincide witlt
Professor Lealie'aliperiments, while others seem hitherto
to lave raceired no explanation. It has been long ob-
served. that the Whelan made in silver is stronger than
that produced in bliek earthenware. This remark is con-
firmed on the principles of the Professor, who has shown
that polished surfaces will retain heat better than dark
rough bodies; and that, consequootly, the caloric being
confined in the former case; must At more powerfully thaa
in the latter. It is further teiparked, that the silver pot,
when filled a second time, produces worse tea than the
crockery ware; and that it is advisable to use the earthen-
ware, unless a silver vessel can be procured sliffii•ientlylatir
to hold at once all that may be terutired. These facts
already explained, by consideriag that the artioi, of heat
retained in the sitter vessel so fee exhausts the herb, as to
leave little savour for a see° d dilution ; all. trim the r• •
(Lucca temperature of the teat in the earthenware, by ex-
tcacting only a small peed at first, le ices some for the
' action of subsequent diluti . The next observation we
might, at firit view, be apt to (insider as a velear error, dill
it not admit an explanation on mathematical prin.aples.
It is sepposed that the infusion is stroneer in a e Weiler
vessel than in one of • different forni, and this must be the
ease, since it has been frequently demonstrated that a sphv ra
contains a given measure unapt less surface than any other
solid; from which it followslhat, where there are two ves-
sels of (vial cap 'city, one globular, and the other square.
oblong, elliptical, or even cylindrical, the spherical vessel
having lets surface than any of the other forms, Must threw
off leis heat, and that, consequently, the effect will be
greater in the former case than in the latter. It is further
obiervable, that the effect increases very rapidly is the ces•
set is made larger, since the *capacity increases as the cah,.
while the surface only increases as the square of the dirt.
meter. The reason fur pouring boiling water into the ve-
gel before the infusion of the tea, is, that, being previa isty
warm, it may abstract less heat from the mist ire, and they
admit a inure powerful action. Neither is it dillicalt to
explain why the infusion is stron•zer if aelyo small (uithily
of boiling water be first used, and more be added lathe time
afterwards. If we , onsider that only the waier
ately in contact with the herb can act noun it, and that it
cools very rapidly, especially in blade earthenware, it is
clear that the effect will be greater, where the heat is kept
op by additions of boiling water, than where the vessel 11
filled at of 'c and the fluid starred erailually to tool When
the iofusimi has once been completed, it is found that any
farther addition of the herb only affords a very small in-
crease in the streugth,• the water having coolest much be-
low the boiling point, and consequently acting very slightly.
--431eelsanie's Mag,azine.)
A WILSTERN 1111R311T.—AbOOt twelleg riles above the
junction of the Spoon and Illinois rivelrinimediately OIL
the bank of the former, there has been living, for threw
years past, a man who had entirely secluded himself from.
the world, and dwells in the midst of the wilderoess alone.
sod above sixty miles from the residence of any human
being. His name is Davidson, is a physician, was formei-
ly a surgeon in the United States' army, and was pupil to
the celebrated Dr. Rush. He has a number of medical books.
two guns and a dog, and a quantity of clothing. He haa
erected a small lint, and has about an acre of ground ha
cultivation. At the back of his garden runs Spoon river,
in which he has a fish trap. His food is wild turkeys, and
other genie, fish, and the produce of his garden. lie appears
displeased at the sight of a human being. My informant
saw hint at his residence, being impelled by curiosity to
visit him, and inquired of him particularly the cause of his
strange seclusion. He said lie had done so,• and would
ever do so, to keep clear of the *retched white people.-••
His father lives in Pennsylvania, and he has received many
solicitous letters from him and other friends to return, but
he has never answered one, and declares it to be his deter-
mination to remove from his present situation as soon ax
the whites approach too near him. As soon as his present
stock of clothing, wears out, he says he will dress himsehl
in skins.—(lndiane Gazette.)
On Tuesday last, a singular affray took place at Vinegar
Hill, near Camlachie, which place is mostly occupied hr
people from the sister isle; It was understood that a per.
eon had taken an asylum among them by a moon-light
ling. who had talcen with him all his furniture, which taw
landlord had poinded for his own behoof, until lie pail Isis
rent; The landlord having got notice where the tenant
had taken up his new quarters and deposited the goods.
immediately got a warrant to carry them back to their
former habitation; and accordingly sent an officer and
posse of constables from the above village to execute the
same. When the officers; fee. arrived on the ground, they
found the inhabitants assembled en masse against them,
who began to threaten and insult them in a shocking 11113.
ner. by testing their papers, throwing stones, ;itch, and
every other missile they were in possession of at them. The
very women were most active in the affray, driving theta
down kill, and the coustabulary were at Jengti; obliged ti
abandon their capture and take to durance vile in tie
neighbouring village to shelter themselves from the far;
of the assailants. An investigation is going on.—(Grass; ,co
Free Press.)
On Monday morning, about three o'clock, one of the
Under Graduates of St. John's College, Cambridge, it as
awakened by a noise in his bed-room, when, seeing a ma
near his bedside taking his watch, he jumped out an
deavenred to seize him, but the man escaped of
window. The gentleman wounded him with ;Afford
which he happened to have near him, traces of blood be
afterwards discovered near the gates adjoining the rivet,
and the new iron gates e high road at the boatels vi
the College walks ; whi monstance, it is hoped, wi
lead to a disCovery of th ender. He hail parked op some
articles of wearing apparel in a bundle, which in 14s tsai;.•
to escape lie left behind him.
It will be fresh in the recollection of our milers. that A
Mr. Middleton preferted bills of indictment at the last S.-
merset Assize against Thomas Wheeler, his servant, fi •
assaults upon three of his children, which bills were ignored
by the Grand Jut/. On Mr. Middleton's return from
its -
Assiars, the bells at Weston were set ringing, and be we{
berm in effigy by tae populace; since which, part of his
house has been unroofed; and within the last week -stones
have been thrown through the windows of his house,- #:u
other outrages committed against him, to such an extent.
that lie has been obliged to keep the 3hutt.,r3 L41111)144'4.
Closed —,(Decizca GI:elle)