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red with the sister kingdom ; but do not propose that the pro- 

 duce of England should be kept out of your country, by a high 

 malt-tax, under pretence of protecting your own agriculture. 

 Remember, that the barley of England has often supplied yon 

 not only with drink, but with food, when made into meal, in 

 calamitous seasons ; and while you wish well to an improved 

 agriculture, let it be to the agriculture of the united kingdom. 

 If you behave with becoming respect ; if ye speak truth, and 

 act with liberality, tliere is no doubt that your legislators will 

 grant you redress. Eut prepare, in a less oppressive way, to 

 show your loyalty to your Sovereign, and to maintain the in- 

 dependency of the empire, by paying cheerfully those taxes 

 which are necessary for the support of Government. Remem- 

 ber, it is one thing to pay a high tnx, imposed by your re- 

 presentatives, as the price, the evidence, and the support of 

 your liberty, — and another, to pay successive and arbitrary 

 contributions, imposed by a rapacious enemy, as the evidence, 

 the support, and the tribute of slavery. This is the conscien- 

 tious opinion of 



Geo. Skene Keith. 

 Manse of Keith Hallf Dec, 7. 1803. 



APPENDIX. 



Account of a series of Experi?nents made in Distillation, in 

 June ^803, /// order to ascertain the comparative Values 

 of English and Scotch Barley, and of Bear, or Big. 



It is necessary to apprize the reader, that, in spring 

 1799, ^^ the desire of the Scotch Distillery Committee of the 

 House of Commons, the writer of this Paper conducted a se- 

 ries of experiments in distillation, from malt, raw grain, po- 

 tatoes, and carrots. Owing to the uncommon inclemency of 

 that season, he found it very difficult to effect a complete fer- 

 mentation, even where the malt was pretty good, and impos- 

 sible completely to attenuate the wash of malt that was made 

 from weak bear. He discovered, at that time, that the using 

 2. proportion of roots, mixed with the wash, was very favour- 

 able for promoting the fermentation and attenuation. In a se- 

 cond set of experiments, made in 1^802, under the authority of 

 the Commissioners of Excise, he distilled a great variety of 

 roots, and marked their diflerent powers in promoting the at- 

 tenuation of wash ; and also their comparative quantities of 

 extractive matter, and the qualities of their essential or fla- 

 vouring oils. In conductnig these experiments, he discovered 

 a mode of effecting a complete fermentartion, or attenuating the. 



wash 



