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■Economy in Cooking.
An account was copied from the I’liilosophi
oal Magazine into the Emporium of Arts
and Sciences published at Philadelphia, of
tome experiments made on a large scale
' sn dressing meat, that appear to be entit
’ led, in the opinion of the scientific editor
of the latter work, to the fullest credit.
Bolton intelligencer.
280 lb. of beef lost by boiling in the com'
m.,n way, 73 lb. 14 oz—or 23 1 2 per cent *
190 lb. of beet lost by roasting 61 lb. 2 «z —
or 32 P« r cent ; 90 lb. of beef lost by bak
ing 27 lb—or 30 per cent-, also by roasting
from 31 13 to 35 12 per cent.
Ttie*e experiment* decide the point that
the economy of conking is confined to stew
ing meat in close ves»<-ls, where the liquor
in which the meat is boiled shall be saved,
•n i by the addition of cabbage, carrot, on
i • rnip, &c. with flour, form a part of the
***!u)ng continued gentle heat, whether in
roa tn g or boiling, (or moderate simmering)
renders meat much more tender, juicy and
d.gt alible. A French peasant dines about
m* day i when hi* meal it over, he pula into
the atew-pan with a close cover, the meat
(„ 24 hours. A furnace that would hold a
-.Hon ,f charcoal, and permit the »tew pan
to c exposed three fourths of its depth to
the h-at of the fire, would he an invaluable
pres nt to the poor : and It could be cheap
ft made at any iron furnace or any potiery.
Wood in this country )» very dear in the
t iwna, and the extravagance of the back
town* is not obliterated in the cities. How
often have I seen a quarter of a rord of
wood heaped on to boil a tea-kettle ! Such
• furnace ni.ght be made in a rough way
with about five and twenty bricks, so that
whatever beat was generated from the fuel,
■b old be applied to the sides ol the pot s
a d tins last be protected from the surround
ing cur ent of old air. The inelegance,
Ih* incmtvenie .ce,the extravagance of the
American kitchen it horrible: from the
poorest up to the most affluent.
Fill- cookery, whether lor the poor or
th< i ih, clmrcnal at eight dollais the him
dr, ,| imlhels, is cheaper than wood at four
dolin'* lie cord. It i» more convenient, it
is cleaner, it affords the means of expedi
tion, ii is more wholesome, it is lesa fatigu
ing, it is lest hurtful to the eyes.—When I
C> me to toe kitchen apparatus of a "ell ap-
trd house. I shall obaerve further on
Sometimes, especia'ly where c&reoal is
us :, it may be a question between saving
in dint of fuel, and saving m point of fond,
in some cases of this kind, as where the fuel
must be wanted if not used, even broiling
m,.i be economical. Generally, however,
It liny be laid down as an axiom, that where
fu I i* at a moth rate rate, iteving is the
must frugal, and 1 believe the most whole
■oin , and may be made, by far the moat pa
burble method of dressing fond.
• When a poor man purchases meat, the
consideration of most moment is not the
puce per lb. but the relative quantity of
nie*t and bone—next of fat and lean. In
point ol nutriment, fat is worth twice as
much as lean j for candle* and snap, thrice
as much. Even beef stakes may be cheap
er to a f our man than the cheapest joint of
the ix.
■ some experiment*have been made by a
Mr. W. Scrinr.shirc on the enmparitive waste
in the bulling and roasting of potatoes.
Four potatoea were boiled in the usual way,
and then steamed to drive oft - the vtiprrflu
ous water, and render them mealy. They
W iglietl 3562 grain*, and Inst by the ope
ration win n quite cold 80 grams of the ori
ginal wt ight, or about two per cent. Ano
ther pot at or, weighing 1300 grains treated
in the same way, lost only ten grains. The
water continued mucilage and extractive
matter.
' A potatoe of the. same kind, weighing
1220 grain*, roasted tinder hot embers, but
not sufficiently, lost 200 grains when cold.
A' Otlu i, weighing 1198 grains masted for
11 2 Ii ur w is found thoroughly cooked,
but it had lost when cold three hundred
and eighty grains.
• Hence, ill boiling potatoes, w-e throw a
way about two percent, of their weight:
in r lasting them, about 40 per cent.
• The common breakiast beverage in this
country is coffee. 1 have no hesitation in
•lating it as a tact, lhat to a poor family three
pounds of tlrird succory (chicory, chicori
urn fituhu-) and one pound us coffee, arc
o' - 20 per cent, inure value, than f mr pounds
of c fjv r, and nearly equal in flavour: to
m<, the beverage is pleasanter.—The quail
lily of the mix tire to be u-ied, is about one
fmt-'h le-s than -I c flee, to make an infu
sion of equal strength. ExperJo credc Ho,
bertii. I have ft < quently drank it. If this
be sweetened with molasses made of an in
•pissialed infuam i ot good tna t, it w'dl con.
a’itute a saving, that maybe an object of
ionic consequence to a pour man with a latui
>y-
• In the State of Pennsylvania, though but
in a tew p'aces. chicory or succory as the
German sett ers Call it, has been cultivated
as a so bat lute for c< flee Willi muetr success.
The ntam it sown in beds eith« r drilled or
broad cast j and thinned out to about six or
eight inches apart. In the beginning of
winter they are taken up, washed, and put
into an oven alter the bretid is drawn. In
this state lli-y keep well.—When wanted
for use,they ar< again pul into the oven af
ter the bread is drawn, and dried till they
assume a lull brown emour. They are tfen
ground ur beat in a mortar and nixed w ith
one fourth to one hall of ihcir wt iglit in us
IVes -India coffee. I have repea'edly dtank
of tins beverage without distinguishing it
frmn conin nn unrmxevl c fli c. In Nor
tluiaiberiii d an I die neighborhood, and at
Witiiamaport, l'enn. this use of chicory is
common It would be improved, if in the
la-: ruts.mg, he chicory c mid be roasted
with the coffee so as to imbibe the vapour
ot the suer. The clucory of itself is the
best suoatitwte hitherto known.
• Hve hslf mailed, or even potatoes cut in
small pieces, then dried to a chocolate
bio»m and mixed lia-l and halt with coffee,
a>< - pleasant and pr datable addition.
I, id cooking bait d-composes, and
tluio-iyieoendera meat more easy of diges
ti"i|, and of course more nutritious. but
this is not ahonyt an advantage. Labouring
p- nptc Irequenlit require food that is,hard
©t digest ion. tt is no. an advantage lu them
that toe stomacii should ho so a empty, or
(he loud pass away too f.S.ly.—lienee sailed
n at, sod cheese arc tavourm s woh the n.
nave senium Kp>wn a delicate female,
la note digestion was occasionally bad, and
n iO aaS cnavionally hysteric*-, tna i d not
reqnire tood usually deemed indigctibls,
such as meat and ham fur supper ; and with
great reverence for the opinions of medical
gentlemen, I know of no remedy better for
a female, sick headache, or an hysteric fit,
than a tumbler full of good hot brandy tod
dy, with nutmeg and ginger in it. Dr.
Cheyne used to say, that a man who had so
much regard for Ins appetite and so little re
gard for litn health, as to eat ham for supper,
would not stick to rob on the highway. 1
do not know that more nonsense has been
given to the woi Id in a model ate compass,
than by physicians on the article of diet,
from the silly remark Os Ur. Cheyne, to the
grave, common place nonsense of Dr. Wil
ficli j whose treatise on diet and regimen,
every mistress of a family, ought to consign
to her cook to pin on the roasting meat.
4 There are some gleams of knowledge
in Cullen’s Materia Medica, but lie theorizes
without fact. Whence does lie derive his
alcalesence of several kinds of meat ? He
waa compelled to say something, and he
said What lie could, as learnedly and with as
much appearance of acienlitic theory aa he
could; but it is very worthless. Darwin
knew somewhat about the practical part us
eating, and Dr. Sydenham and Dr. Ilrown
(whom I knew in the decline of his life) had
discovered from their own feelings, that
wine was bad for gout and stone, and that
the best beverage was brandy and water.
But they were no judges of wine. 'lhe
common port of an English tavern, is cyder,
brandy, elder berries and aloe juice.’
Bank of England. Prosecutions.
The bank ot England having cea-ed to
i prosecute offenders for uttering forged one
: pound noter, since they discontinued issuing
! noies of that denomination, and having de
i dared their determination of prosecuting
only those which amount to 51. and upwards,
without giving the parties the opportunity
of pleading guilty to the minor offence, of
knowingly havmg in possession ; the follow
ing unhappy persons were arraigned upon
capital charges of uttering 5/. tinged hank
of England notes, knowing them to have
1 been lorged.
Josiah Madman, a man of respectable ap- ■
pearaoce, formerly a clerk in an attorney’s
office, was arraigned upon an indictment, us
this description.
The prisoner, in a state of considerable
agitation, said lie intended to plead guniy. |
lie stood a guilty man, convinced in Ins own >
mold that lie must be convicted of the ot
fence with which he was charged ; and liar- !
ing seriously considered the awlul ami pe- j
rilous situation in which he was placed, lie
vvus resolved not to consume the tune ol the !
court by putting it to the trouble ol Ii ur- f
ing the evidence w hilst his ow n conscience ,
Convicted Inin. He had only to implore the
humane interposition ot the learned judge
on his behalf with the fountain of mercy, j
in order that his punishment might be com
muted to exile in another country, wliuie
j by sincere repentance and reformation of
l Ins life lie might make some atonement lor
I the grievous wrongs l.e ha I committed here.
| He had had the honor ot s rvmg his Majes
) ty for seven years, with the approbation ot
I his superior officers.—Subsequent y to that
{ tune, poverty and distri ss had reduced lum
, tu a situation hi wlnch lie was templed to
! commit that crime which had now over
whelm'd Inin with ignsmi.iy and infamy.
Goaded by poverty —-goiiized by the suffer
ing* of a tender wile, the partner of hia
cures—wrought upon by the piteous cries
ol his children, who were deprived ot the
neces a> ies of life, lie had in an evil hour
fallen into the gulpli of wretchedness and
misery which brcuglit him as a capital felon
to iln: bar of hia country. Under such cir
cumstances tile only hope letl him at this
awful crisis was in ttie benevolence and hu
manity which he doubled not Ihe learned
judge would eXen in lie. beliait, in the quar
ter where justice was administered in niet-cy.
With this humble supplication he should
conclude, by pl< ailing gtniiv.
Mr. U; mm Graham ordered his plea to be
recorded, and the prisoner was removed
Iron, the bar.
Ami Smith, the wife of the last mention
ed prisoner, a young woman of respectable
appearance, was next arraigned for a similar
offence. She had assumed die name of
Siuitli to avert suspicion truin her husband.
She seemed much affected at her aw fill situa
tion, and upon being called upon to plead,
said she was guilty.
The learned judge ordered her plea to be
recoidcd,and she was removed troiu the
bar.
An Honest Shoemaker.
The London Observer of the lOdi Sep
tember contains a letter from an emigrant,
win) signs his name Hands, who tias set
tled lumsdf on the Merriniac, county of
Hill-borough, New-Hampshire. \f.er ex
pi easing his delight with tile ap pen ranee of
the country, the thousands of apple trees
loaded with fruit, ike. lie informs hi- friends
he has now a coinf>rtable dwelling and two
acres of ground planted witu potatoes, In
dian corn, melans &c. and has two hogs,
one ewe, a lamb, and in the Fall expected
to procure aco w. He gives In triond a de
scription of the country, lie price of labor,
I the manner of building, the classes us per
sons who compose a town, describes the Ri
ver Merrimac, the trade carried on, trans
portation, See.
“ The winters are very long and cold ;
the rivers are frosen from November till
May, a d the snow upon an average is 2
leet deep. The air is generally clear, and
j the cold steady ; for a few days 1 observed
I the thermometer 24 degrees below zero.
Upon such nights a person’s hair, me bt-ank
et» on the beil, Jtc. look as w lute aa il they
had been powdered. During winter the
farmers slide their timber ami tire-wood to
the rivers, attend their cattle, J-e. 1 lie com
mon drink la cider, their dram rum; the
latter a great evil to the Yankees. They
generally barrel beef in the mn, and pork
in tile .vinter, for the year’s u-e ; much fish
i- eaten in the a .miner ; the bread is some
times rye and Indian corn. I hey li-ave hut
three meals a day hut the* are hearty one* :
tor breakiast, Ii led meat, vegetables, loa.it,
cakes, biscuits, tea, coffee, choc-date, butter,
cheese, See. They say mey dont like pot
uck t,boiled victuals.) and seldom have a
un al without a pie baked on pialcs; in
short, it takes twice as tiinc-i to keep a Yan
kee as it would to support a common Eng
lishman ; but the people ot Boston live
more hke the English than any of the Amc
r.cans. Boslo.. .» me gust mart lor all the
Northern States, and in a few years will be
me large-t mauuUclui mg t.wvu in America,
especially as a Uaui has bee.i lorme-1 three
miles long, and broad enough for buddings
, on cadi side, from tiie om twn lo the mam
I land. I Ins is a turn, ike road, and nere they
i work silt- uiihs by :h.- tide at all ii -es. N.,w
t lor Ihe principal question ; t assure you
have made every pesaible enquiry, and can
safely invite you to this ttap [>v country t
there can be no doubt of a ateady active
person doing well, especially a man conver.
sant in business as you are, and in possession
of a little property; you have nia ly dis
tressing accounts in England, but is it strange
that a person should be distressed who lands
in a strange country without a farthing ?
and some expect miracles, others use no
perseverance, and sink under their troubles.
I could have sent you a distressing letter,
when I had no money.no tools, no furniture,
and a child extremely ill i but no,l would
not : I went into the woods, felled a tree,
made my lasts; went to a smith's, made my
tools, and, strange as you mat think it, turn
ed out such boots as the people here never
saw before. Bring all the furniture you can,
in a ship direct from London, and if you arc
a steerage passenger, lay in 63 days provi
sion or more. T. HANDS.
RICH PRESENT TO THE LIBRARY AT
CNMBKIDGK.
A gentleman of this town has la elv pre
sented to the library of the University at
Cambridge, a copy of the magmficient work
on Egypt, prepared by the members of the
Institute attached to the French expedition j
in that country. The publication of tiiis j
splendid work was begun in 1811, and near- ;
ly finished under the government of Napo- i
leon j it has been completed at the royal
expense- The whole work is divided into
three general departments of Antiquities,
Natural History, and Prevent State. The
portion of the work containing tne text is in
several volumes folio, and the plates are
partly i.i very la-ge folio, and partly in what
is called the Atlantic form, being, we believe
the largest engravings ever attached to a 1
; book. Their mag nticsent size, however, is j
j their least merit, as they are universally al- I
I lowed to equal, it not excel 1 , all other prints
of the ki id. The gen ral charac‘-r of this
w-Tfc may he estimated from the f dlow ng
opinion expressed of it, hy one i f the most
compet- til judges in Europe. Speaking of
uha had then appeared, he says:
“ llie storms of the age often exci’ed ap
■ prehensions i f the interruption of his s, len
did typugiaphieal enterprise. Bui a favora
ble destiny has prevailed, and the work was i
ntar'vcomp’eted before the overthr.w of
Napoleon. The art of engraving has here
I exerted all it* powers to excel, as it were
; itselt ; and in not less than one liu.idred and
j sixty-one prints, some of them of a ii.a.pn- j
| toil- never issued from a press, lias laid he- 1
i fore us the delineation of the eldi si metro- j
' polis oil eat th. If the pre-ent race of men j
1 is obliged ti confess that they are incon pe- 1
t tent to the erection of such works as are 1
here pourtrayed, on the ollur hand ihe ar- •
clutects of those s'Upindoussiructures con d |
not have surveyed such representations of
tlie r works without admiration. Thcco-'li- '
ness of die work must confine it to public
libra'its.” —lice ten's Jtleen, II 748.
We cannot b n congratulate the Univer- |
sity and (he community on this addition to
our literary treasure?, of tne only copy of
this work of which we have heard, in this
country. It is justly remarked, by Mr. Hee
reu, that its cxpensiveness makes it a suila
; ble wink for public libraries alone. We
cannot, therefore, but express our admira
tion ol the act of private munificence to
w hich our University is indebted for this no
ble | ri sen: ; a d lament that we daie not
t-isk won d ug tile delicacy ot its author by
acknowledgments aspuohc as they are sin
cere.
Poston Daily Advertiser.
moJt THIS COLL'JtMU TELLSsCOFU.
THE VALE OF JOCASs.V AND THE
U 111 I E WAT KR.
We have b en favored by Prolessor Black
burn with a pi ru>al of Ins Southern Ram
bles, eoiitauiing his notes made during a
tour through me st.de in 181 b, from which I
we extract an animated and poetic descrip
tion of die Vale ofjocassa and the While
Water, situated hi Greenville district. We
hope it will m some measure compensate for
the interesting, and to many of our readers 1
unintelligible controversy, rea ing to the
eclipse: Me would not exchange this sin- (
gte article for a 1 the polcin.cal writings
w hich our columns ever did, and we had al
most said ever will contain, it cannot tail
to prove interesting to the lovei of rich ima
gery and beautilul description. We shall
make some further extract from the AIS. in
our future numbers.
•• F.oin our camp near the Chat tig a, one
of the head w aters ot the Savannah, in lat.
35 deg. N. I made an excursion to visit the
vale ol Joeassa. It was only four Hides ills
taut, but a mountain intervened wlucli com
pelled my hooter guide tom.ike a circuit of
ten or a dozen miles, crossing deep and nar
row glens, siu| winding along the tops of
ridges, the ascents and decents of which
were so abrupt, as irequemly to obi ge us
to dismount; at length, alter a very tire
some mut, w e reached the vale.
“ This titty Arcadia is about four miles in
length, and from a quarter to a half a mile
w.de. I lte land is rich and well timbered ;
the beech and American poplar, in particu
lar, large and beautiful. It is watered by
the .locsssa, which rcc. ives the While Water
neat the northern extreme ot the vale. I lie
White W ater precipitates ilsell over a suc
cession of tails extending a few miles, roa -
ing through the infracted rocks, dashed
from steep to steep, and teaming till it at
length reaches a more quiet though stiil
stony bed, and rolls its pure translucent
stream along the vale.
Tins vale contains seven families, who
have settled here within the last two years ;
they sre properly speaking, widiout a y
legal jurisdiction, as they live w ithin the In
dian territory. 1 hey dwell in small log ca
bins meanly built, as they are all new set
tlers. Some of the comforts, and indeed,
nearly all the luxuries of life arc in a tnea
sure excluded, t hey live On bread, milk
ai d flesh, w ild or tame, but most generally
the spoil of the chase, they have neither
lawyer nor physician, for liny need no aw,
and die medietaal plants ot their mountains,
are amply sufficient for their scanty list ot
diseases. One supreme blessing too is theirs
they have not a slave amongst them. They
are clothed in the work of their own hands,
for they ply the bu-y w heel and shuttle, am
the deer supplies the mccasins, the leggms.
and not unfiequently the vest of the huutei
"A little learning too it theirs, thougi
not to them “a dangerous thing;” near t
the village school, and in a gione of lolly
overshadowing trees, we found tlie boys j
play, in the noonday recess. The girls les.-
confident retired, but peeped at tire stran
gers from their sylvan retreat. Happy pei
pie, secluded Irum the ills of polished ant.
luxurious life.
•• I’lie vailey is encompassed by bids am
mountains, so rougn and precipitous that i
it inaccessible, except by tw o er three atccu
winding paths, and the encircling hills so
high that the clouds sit upon their summits,
and seem to spread their wings, to shade the
uvored and sequestred spot.
“ The view of Joeassa, as I looked down
into it on my approach, reminded me of the
rural prison of Kasselas, prince Os Abysmia ;
but this was no prison—a finer image pre
sented itsell : I thought on Milton's paradise,
guarded by high umbrageous walls, and wa
tered by delicious streams, the sweet abode
of innocence and peace.
“ The stream cilicd the Devil's Pork-, en
ters the valley near the south end, and min
gles with the Joeassa. It is so named from
the deep glens and dark enlarg ed sbadcs
through which it flows ; fit haun a, in ru-oc
estimation, for demons and genu. Nc.r is
this little spot without irllie claim to the his
torian’s notice ; for here stood once an In
dian village, but the wh.te de,trover came,
and the Indian fell by Ins sword. Even now
the hunter points where the i\d warrior
bled, and shows his grave. At the aoulu end
the valley narrows to a defile ; the Indians
. had fortified the pass with abbaltas, but lef.
the river open ; our troops advanced in si
lence under cover of the night, killed the
watchman whom they foui d asleep, pushed
j tip the stream and destroyed tne town.
“ Having had a glimpse of ihe White Wa
iter Kali from about six miles distant, 1 con
cluded that a c'ose view of it must be highly
interesting. A few gentlemen of our c nt
; pany and myself formed a party to visit, at
the same lime, the valley and the fall. We.
set out from Major M’Kcnny’s, the last house
in Souih-Carolinn, and pursued our rout
along the margin of thq Texaway, in a path
accessible only to horsemen or foot passen
gers. On our riglit the 't exaway rolled its
, pellucid current over a pebiy bed, in pleasu g
! murmurs; and on out leit rose almost per
! pendicularly the rocks and lid s, covered
wi li evergreens ; the Rhododendron, the
I Kalmia, and the Magnolia, wiloly and beauti
fully luxuriant. In tlie valley we procured
guides to lead us to t e to it of the falls.
“ The White Water derives its name from
: its numerous cataracts ; that one by which
it flings itself into the vale, is transtendaiilly
be.iitilul. At one place called the Pncn,
| the water rolls over an even iedge of rocks,
forming ail uncommon elegant ca-cade, about j
20 feet perpendicular, and creating a wind
that keeps the foliage below in constant mo
tion. The brilliant whiteness of the water
through its whole descent, contrasted with
; the hues of the surrounding scenery, has an
| uncommon edi ct, and justifies the"appella-
I tion by winch the river is distinguished.
] “in describing such a .cei.e of beauty,
| one feels at a loss for adequate Words „nd
, images Some compared it to cotton thrown j
from a machine, some to a river of milk, but j
i it would be in my opinion, no easy task to ,
convey a correct idea of it in language or in j
painting. I found the whole scene suited to ;
produce sgrceable emotions, and 1 became a
poet.
“ Ah who can forbear that sweet valley to !
praise,
Thru’ which the Joeassa meandering strays, j
Embus lin’d in mountains delightful retreat,
Whee health and contentment have choaen
their seat;
Where law is unknown, as in primitive times,
Ere wealth was ador’d, fertile parent ot
crimes;
Where freedom, like air, is in nature’s free
plan,
The choicest of blessing bestow’d upon man.
And thou lovely White Water, what pencil
can shew,
The beauties display’d by thy bosom of
snow f
Niagara may boast of the grand and sublime,
But thou dost the pleasing and awlul com.
bine :
Language fails to express, nor can fancy con
ceive
So charming a sight as the wild dashing
i wave.
Jocasia sweet stream, may thy banks ever be,
From the evils of vice and luxury tree.
The vally is about twenty miles west of
Table Rock, and though not worth a long
j voyage, is certainly worth a trip from Cliar
! leaton. Should the rhymes be objected to,
I l> tit be understo. d that in the college of
Eutopia, during my apprenticeship, my mas
ters taught me nothing but amalgams, gasses,
tulminations, detonations, and a heap about
how I was to distinguish a queen Ante far
thing from a inedal of Qtho, mighty usetui
matters, to be sure in our swamps, but very
poor pabulum lor a mind susceptible of the
beauties of Akcnside anti Campbell.
11 I would not have it thought that I am too
romantic. It is a long time since we had
shepherds and shepherdesses. Snivelling
Philips’ pastorals are out of fashion, but we
have pastoral life upon a bolder and merr
manly scale. Ido not think that any of our
seaboard folks have a right notion of a hunter
by trade, it would scare them a little to see a
fellow slip the /title from a bear and then slip
himself into it; the whole ready made suit in
one piece, to fit body, legs and arms without
the aul ot Mr. Shears anil thimble. Robin
son Crusoe was a mere clown compared with
this sort of dandy.
Foreign Intelligence.
From late London Papers received at the
Uriice of the N. Y. Daily Advertiser.
Buona^avtc.
Extract of a letter, tinted Paris, Sept: 8.
“ I din d yesterday with Dr. Antomar
chi, Napoleon’s physician. You will allow
that one cannot help feeling a great interest
in conversing with a person who has given
the last drops of water to such a man, and I
therefore readily accepted the inv.tation to
meet him. The Doctor was very circum
spect ; but I have collected many interest
ing glea fr m conversation with him,
winch t give you as 1 got them.
“ Buonaparte occupied himself often with
gardening ; and under his immediate super
intendence bowers anil grottes were erect
ed in the garden at Lo igwood. General
Bertrand, Madam Bertrn id with the chil
dren, and Dr. Antomarclii, assisted him on
such occasions. His usual dress was that
ofa Chinese gardner—nankins, .md iarge
straw hat. Within the last eight months of
his hie, he scarcely inure out, and «>, ob
liged either to res: on the sofa, or in his
easy chair : he suffered considerably, and
was. so consequence, exceedingly morose :
he had lost lull two-thirds of his corpul- ;
ence.
*’ His last words certainly were “ Tele,” 1
” Arrxee,” hut witliout any connexion ; for
what he uttered was in a convulsive s;ale,
and no other words could be distinctly un
derstood.
“ During his illness his son was the prin
cipal topic of Ins conversation ; ne never
conversed on polities, at least the Doctor
said *o. Two priests wet-e sent to him by
his mother, one an old man (Bin navua,) and
the other a young man. 'l'nt- first could not
hear the climate, ana was obliged to return
to Europe. Since arrival n ass was read
every day, at long»-o<d, and the Doctor
said, II ett mart en bon Chretien.’ 1 Buona
parte expressed much diarist at tfi'e old
priest’s smelling of disliked
smelling and smokers. He had entirely left
off taking snuff. You have seen it noticed
in the papers that he sent a present to Lady
Holland. The circumstances that led to it
are extremely honorable to her Lady-hip.
Lady llol'and vt- never personally known
to Buonparte, but since Ids confinement she
lias been unremitting in her altenium to him,
by constantly providing him with articles tor
in. table w Inch she thought would be agreea
ble to him j also by stinting hirn books, and
contributing in many other way to Ins do
mestic comfort. lie Sent her a Cameo of
great value as a token of gratitude; it was a
snuff-box which the Pope prtseoted to .Na
poleon.
“ In contradiction to all the anecdotes in
English and other newspapers, the Doctor
as-ured me that the Emperor (he never
c. lied him otherwise than I’En per*, ur) nev
er had any female attendant in h:S household
nor Was any one in attendance on him during
his confinement at St. Helena.
“ Tin- veneration with which the Doctor
spoke of him is beyond any thing of the sort
1 ever witn. ssed. Speaking of Ber'rand, he
always sti es him le tirand Marechai.’ Ma
dame Bertrand w s always a towed to enter
his room without being announced. Napo
leon was quite resigned to die in St. Held a. 4
He often conversed with Antomarclu of
events of his earnest age, and recollected
the most trifling acts of his childhood : tha
Doctor being a native of Corsica, they ge ,e
--rally conversed together in the idiom of the
is'a.d, winch was quite familiar to N;,p le< n.
The house at Longwood was exc. edingly
so all and uncomfortable. and dan.p beyond
conception ; the m-w house was no yet fi
nished, and it was Bonaparte's intention, had
he hved, never to inh .b.t it.
“ The library of Napoleon consisted of the
best classics, and through the kindness of
Lady Holland and other friends, he had a
i fresh supply of what was new and interesting
every three months, sent to him unde. L' rd i
Bat lur-t’r seal. Dinner was aiu a) s served
on the plate {service d'argent) with the Im
p-ral arms on it, off which he dined at St.
Cloud.
“ Dr. Antomarclii found a proper stone on
the island, with which he had prepared plas-
I ter, ami succeeded very well in takimj a e it
1 of his bust after his death ; unlortunateiy it
i had been shipped to Leghorn, e'.-e I m.ght,
, perhaps, have had alight of it. The Doctor
[ has intended it a present to the mother of
: Bonaparte, whom he styles Matlame Mere.
“ The hair of hi 3 head as well as his beard
1 had been shaved, ami sent to his relations,
; his household each retaining some small
! quantity of it. The Doctor had a 6niall lock
lofit in a broach 1 had it in my hand, and
I confess, and am not ashamed t say so, that
my feelings were very acute at the moment,
and 1 perceived something like a tear in my
eye. The Doctor could not obtain permis
sion to embalm the body,nor would the Co.
vernor (Sir Hudson Lowe) al ow any inspec
tion. The remains were first placed in cof
fi of tin, then in one of mahogany ; these
tw o in one of lead, and the upper are again
i.i mahogany; all four were well secured,
und r the inspection of Dr. Antomarchi/
“ 1 could not learn any thing respecting
the I fe of him .elf. which Bonaparte was said
to have written ; but it is probable, at all
events, that nothing was done in it after the
arrival of Automarchi, as he declined in
health these two years. Montbolon, who
came over with Ucitrand and ins taint y. h. *
permission to return to France ; but Ber
trand, who had been condemned to death
/,ur cantumace, has n t yet received that per
mission. Dr. Antonia, chi brought over Ilia
journal of the two lust year* attendance on
Napoleon ready for publication. Several of
the London booksellers were anxious to ob
tain it, and I think lie said that lie had sold
them the copy right, I'hc Doctor, who ia
about 32 year* old, was sent out to St. Hele
na by Letitia, mother of Napoleon.
“ I'he poin'. on which I was most anxious
to obtain information was the cause of the
non-appearance of the D rtor’s name,, aiong
with the rest of the surgeons to the official
report of the causes of his death, and the ap
pearance of his body after it. He was never
asked to sign it, but his opinion was well
known, as he had frequency declared it
without reserve to be, that the death o) Bo
naparte was owing to the climate.”'
I 'he Timet .
The large and populous town of St i rk >rt
is about to be lighted with gas. Indeed he
adoption of this means of biff'itsing light is
becoming daily more general through iut
the kingdom r it may certainly be consider
ed one of the most useful inventions of the
age.
A Dexterous Thief- —Monday night a pick
pocket was brought into the watch-house of
the parish of St. Septiinre without, in Cow
crass; whilst Mr. Colman, a tailor, who was
constable of the night, was entering the
charge in the charge-book, one of the light
fingered- gentry, who accompanied the
charge into the Watch-bouse, picked hi*
pocket of liis watcli ami departed before the
loss was discovered.
Extraordinary. — A gentleman from
county, Va. has very obligingly furnished
the following singular facts On the 19,h
ult. four very large skeletons were found in
a field which harl for twenly-lour years past
been cultivated in corn. They were depo
sited m a mound apparently very ancient.
The first was discovered by the owner of
the field having ploughed it up, which in
duced nim to make a further examination,
when three others were found. I'lie bones
are perfectly sound, ai d much larger than
common, more especially the skims, wh-cll
can be very easily slipped over the largest
man’s head. The upper jaw bone h.is one
row of double teeth ad round, and the un
uer jaw, two teeth only on the left side, a id
no sockets whatever in the rest of the bono
wc-ie provided by nature for more. Consi
der-bie quantr es of broken er"Ckery ware,
| with Buck horns and bones, Bear's bone,
! and muscle shells, &c. were found w.tli the
skeletons,and the whole buried in lime, two
eet deep.
It is hoped,that the curiosity of the irteL
' lig til public ■ nit) excite them to examine
; the skelel ms, and furnish us with some inter
; eating speculations on the subject.
Kenitana Spec.
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1 November 16