34 Ervor in the Life of Beddoes.—Substitutes for Sugar. [Feb es 
were generously applied towards the 
reduction of the public expences, or in 
rewarding the merits and services of emi- 
nent characters. But to return to the 
question; it is to gratify all the above 
classes, with the last exception; it is to 
humour and administer to the spleen 
and malice of clumsy, bafiled, and dis. 
appointed, ministers, against a successful 
foe, who has by their means alone been 
elevated to his present height of glory 
and pre-eminence ; it is to satisfy their 
unquenchable thirst after power and 
patronage, that we are still pursuing a 
hopeless and indefinite contest, and that 
weare bleeding at every pore. 
2, What have been the motives and 
objects of those persons who are the pro- 
moters and abettors of this war? 
Their motives and objects are to enrich 
themselves and their adherents at the 
ublic expence; to accumulate all the 
wealth, aud consequently the power, of 
the country into their own hands; and 
by the continuance of a war of unex- 
ampled expenditure, and which has cre 
ated taxes to an amount unknown in any 
other time or country, to extinguish the 
middle classes of society, and to depress 
that spirit of independance which, by 
constitutional exertions, could alone de- 
feat their purposes. 
3, How are we to account for the ap- 
" parent apathy and indifference of the 
great mass of the people to the destruc- 
tive, impoverishing, and truly calamitous, 
effects of this long-protracted war? The 
answer is variously—as 1. From the gross 
and general corruption of the times, 
2, From the selfishness of the commer- 
cial part of the community, which, whilst 
jt maintains by means of war carried on 
at the expence of others, a proud pre- 
eminence in wealth, feels not for the 
distresses of those who are ruined by the 
war, and its unjust and unequal pressure. 
3, From the monopoly of wealth in 
the hauds of a few persons, and the con- 
sequent interest which those persons 
have, and the unfortunate power they 
possess, of governing and deluding others, 
4. From the interest which the nume- 
rous classes of individuals adverted to in 
the answer to question 1, have in the 
prosecution and continuance of the war. 
5. From the great mass of the people 
themselves being driven from necessity 
to get money by every means in their 
power, whether honest or otherwise; 
from the consequent destruction of the 
moral principle, as well as of the means, 
aud even time, to occupy themselves in 
the concerns of the state, or in sober ree 
flection on the miseries that await them ; 
and fourthly, though not lastly, by any 
means, from the terror that almost every 
honest individual feels of the conse- 
quences to his interest, from any resist- 
ance to the principles of those on whom 
they may have dependance. 
Liverpool, Nov, 8, 1810. Z. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
WN the Life of Mr. Beddoes, lately 
published by me, an accidental error 
has been detected, which I should be 
happy to avail myself of the medium of 
your Magazine to correct. 
From the account given at page 389, 
it would appear as if Dr. Craufuird had 
expressed a wish that further advice 
should be called in, when the alarming 
change had already taken place, which 
so shortly preceded Dr. Beddoes’s dis- 
solution, The fact however is, as I have 
since been informed, that this wish was 
expressed not by Dr. Craufuird, but by 
some members of the family, and, though 
complied with on his part, was accome- - 
panied by a remark that it must necess 
sarily be useless. J. E, Stock. 
Bristol, Dec. 19, 1810. 
—__L 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
On conTINENTAL SUBSTITOTES to fré= 
medy the scarcity of suGAR. 
By a German. 
Ce stil-repeated attempts of the 
people of the Continent to find our 
some tolerable substitute for Wést India 
sugar, evidently proves that those 
already discovered, are not fully satis- 
factory, and that all the improvements 
and refinements of art and science have 
not been able tu supply the obvious de~ 
ficiency of this almost indispensable ar- 
ticle to the comfort of life, to which 
the greatest part of Europe is condemn- 
ed, by the stubbornness of a tyrannic 
usurper. ‘Che endeavours of Dr, Achard 
to procure it from turnips, &c. are toe 
old and too well-known to need to be 
mentioned. Two other experiments 
seem about to share the same fate. 
1. M. Parmentier’s Syrup of Grapes. 
—This syrup was at first so much ap 
proved of in the south of France, that in 
the autumn of 1808 nearly 200,000 cwt. 
were made, each valued at 100 franks, 
and it was called Sirop de Parmentier, 
to declare the common sentiments of. 
vratitude entertained towards ils ins 
ventor. 
4 1807, 
In the manth of December, * 
