180.1.] Blood not prejudicial in the Refining of Sugar. 



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For the Monthly Magazine. 



We are particularly requeued to give an early 

 infertion to the following additional cir- 

 cumftances, relative to a child wlio was 

 ]aft year fold to a chimney-fweeper, at 

 Burlington (otherwife Dridlingtoo), in 

 Yorkfliire, of whicii we gave an account 

 in our Magaeiue of Oftober i, 1804. 



Eqitos. 



FROM vaiious circumftances, it is im- 

 poflihic he can be the child of ihe 

 wom^n who foil him; his manners ?re 

 Very civilized, quite thofe of a gentleman 

 well brought up, his dialeft good, and 

 that of the i'outri of England. He talks 

 ot his papa and mama, but cannot tell 

 where they live : he has dark eyes and 

 cye-hflies, and an high nofe j he is too 

 young 10 think ih^t his fuher can have 

 any other name th^in that of papa, and it 

 is polTible he may be abroad : he fays his 

 mamma is dead, which appears lik-ly, as, 

 Irom many things he lays, he Items to 

 have lived chiefly with an uncle and aimt, 

 who he invariably lays are called Mr, 

 and Mrs. Fhmbrough. 



The child was living in tlie fami'v of 

 Sir Ge rge Strickland on the 24ih of July 

 lart (as appears by a letter lately received 

 in London), where be had been nearly a 

 twelvemonth, and his parents not then 

 difcovered. 



Whe'her this litde boy wasftolen from 

 his parents (or pr.rent), or whether he 

 was fent awjy by fome cruel relation, 

 for fome dilhonelt purpoi'e, like that 

 rrtorded if) (he popular ballad of the 

 " Children in ihe li-'oml,'"'' feems doubtful ; 

 wliich ever be the cafe, it is to be hoped 

 tile truth will come to light. 



If any perjf)n (liould, fiom rending the 

 above or the fcrmer account, be able to 

 give any inforiiiation on the lubjeil, trnd- 

 ing to the dil'covtry of the cMld's relati- 

 ons, they aie dcfircd 10 c< nnnumratc it to 

 Mr. VViil:am Jones, No. 6, Church- 

 ftreet, Ptmonviile, near Illington, tf:e Se- 

 cretary to the Society (in London) for fu- 

 perfeding the neceflliy of Climbing Boys, 

 tic, and for im|)r6ving the Cmdiiion of 

 Children and others empijyed by Chini- 

 ncy-Sweepeis. 



London, Augiijlzz, 1805. 



Ttf the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



IN your account of patents in your lafl 

 Number, notice is taken of a new pa- 

 lot, granied to Mr. iJallcy, for refining 

 liigar with milk, inilead of blood, which 

 ii the prcfent praft.ce. In the dclcnp. 

 MoM/iLV Mag. Ng 134. 



tion, it is ftated that blood is offen ufed 

 by refiners in a putrid llate, and that fu- 

 gar ihus refined is render.d unwholeCome. 

 l^his reprefentation, if it be not true, is 

 not innocent j as it tends to excite preju- 

 dices againil the ufe of an article which 

 Dr. D irvvin and other eminert phvficians 

 have clalfcd amongfl the molt wholefome 

 and nutiitious foods. It is well known, 

 that blood is not the only medicine by 

 which the dirt or fcum of Aigar cin be col- 

 lefted into one mafs, fo as :o be cleared 

 away J eggs wili anfwer the fame pur- 

 pofe, but are not generally ufed, on ac- 

 count of the expence wh^ch their u.'e 

 would occafion. Milk will certainly, in 

 a degree, but in a lefs perfeft degree, an- 

 fwer the fame purpofe ; and aay one at all 

 converfant with the art of fiigar refinino', 

 cither in its hiftjty or its prartice, knows 

 that this medium of clearing the mafs was 

 in ufe thirty years fince, and was aban- 

 doned not only on account of the expence 

 attending the operation, but on account 

 of its not fo perfectly anfwering its in- 

 tended purpofe. 



If it were common to ufe bl^od In a 

 putrid (tate, the fiil-houfe of a fugar re- 

 finer mult be oneof themoftunvA-holef-ine 

 fituations which can be imagined. Th's, 

 however, is not the faft. I have eai- 

 plo)ed men in this bufinefs a whole year 

 together, wihout any accidental indifpofi- 

 tion, or the ncceflity of ever calling to their 

 aid profefliinai (kill. It is true, too. that 

 the fill-houfe is one of tlie moil wholefome 

 of the apirtmtnts of a fugar-hoiife, as be- 

 ing much mere cool than many other 

 apartments ; and experience proves, that 

 tlie general labour of a fugar-houfe is not 

 ufnally attended with difeafes or lil-health, 

 if the men can be in luced to refrain from 

 drinking cold liquids whilft in a ftate of 

 perfpiration. 



Ai to the biooJ rendering fugar un- 

 wholelbme, everyone knows, who has at- 

 tended to the operation of refining that 

 aiticle, that the blood introduced fur the 

 purpofe of clearing the inals comes out 

 along with the fcum, often in a coagulat- 

 ed Itate, in lumps as large as a rnan'« 

 hand, and as hard as Indian rubber I 

 know of no blood which pafiVs into, ard 

 continues in the fugar atter refining ; and 

 it this aiticle of hourly confumption be 

 ni.t confidered as ftained witluhe blood of 

 the Negroes, torn from their country to 

 perifli in the Welt Indies, it mav be fafely 

 ufed, without the fufpicion of any other 

 impurity. 



Anthony Robinsoma 

 London, Aug, 13, li^oj. 



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