Mahomedan Slaves in Christendom. 



1816.] 



whom they contract, burning more gas 

 than the qcautity he ouglit to have tor 

 that money ? — Yes. 



Supposing: a room of twelve feet 

 square, wliat qnanfity of cubic feet of 

 gas would be necessary to cause an ex- 

 plosion, suppcsino; there were 1700 feet 

 of atmospheric air? — About 170 would 

 be about the mixture, provided the 

 atmospheric air did not make its escape 

 at the time tiic inflammalde air en- 

 that tliey reniaincd in those propor- 

 tions. 



Do you know the quantity of gas got 

 from a chaldron of coals? — We average 

 about 10,000 feet. 



You liavebeen employed at Manches- 

 ter, have you not ? — I have. 



Have you ever known any explosion 

 there? — Not one; I have illuminated 

 about two-and-twcnty manufactories 

 with gas, and never knew the least ac- 

 cident 



To the Editor of tlie MontUy Magazine. 



SIR, 



T OOKING accidentally over Lady 

 ij Craven's Journey to Constantino- 

 ple, I met with the following passage of 

 a letter, dated Genoa, ,Sej)tcinher 16, 

 1785; I have thougiit that it niiglit 

 furnish sq;»i.L; useful reflections to my 

 countrymen at t!ic present period, when 

 so much horror is exi resscd at the cruel- 

 ty of tlie Algerines in making slaves of 

 Christians ; and w!icn a great expedition 

 has been sent from this country to 

 avenge tiie outrages co.'nnHtfcd !jy the 

 barbariauK upon the civilized iiihabitauts 

 of ClHistian countries. 



The passage is thus — "Yesterday, two 

 Algeriue slaves came to my apartments 

 to sell slippers; the oldest of the two 

 was one of the handsomest brovvn men, 

 witlr the best countenance, I ever saw ; 

 he has been a slave five-and-t\venty 

 years, and is suffered to go about with- 

 out the usual attendant, which is a man 

 with a stout stick in his hand, who fol- 

 lows the slaves who walk about the 

 town, chained together, always in pairs. 

 When I thought upon the fate of this 

 old man, guilty of no crime, a prisoner 

 •f war — his looks so noble ami hosscst — 

 I wopt, and wished I might have had in- 

 terest enough with the Doge and .Senate 

 of Genoa to have sent liim home to Al- 

 giers. — These sort of pictures in real 

 life are of a dark hue — " 



Dark indeed ! I hope some of your 

 •orrcspondents, betfer in/brmcd on llicse 



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snbjects than myself, will be so good aS 

 to let us know when tlie practice of re- 

 ducing the Algerines to slavery ceased 

 at Genoa, and the other Italian states; 

 and by whose instrumentality so happy 

 a change in the moral system was efi'ect- 

 ed. Let us be certain, that, in tlie horrid 

 practice of reducing men to slavery, lh« 

 Algerines are wholly the aggressors, and 

 have not acted from the si)irit of reta- 



'""" A Friend to equal Jus ticr, 

 August 23. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazhie. 



SIR, 



BEING engaged in a baking busfe 

 ness, requiring a considerable sup- 

 ply of barm (yeast), and not being at all 

 times able to obtaiu a suflicient quan- 

 tity of that useful article ol' a suitabi* 

 quality, I should consider myself much 

 obliged if any of your well-informed 

 correspondents would favourme, through 

 tlie medium of your Midely-circulalcd 

 and truly valuable publication, with th« 

 means of preserving the quality for anj 

 moderate length of time ? what other 

 wholesome material may be used in aid ? 

 and what treatise presents itself in the 

 Jiuglish or rrencli language on this 

 suhject, or on baking in general? 



SoHtli-Shields ; G. V. 



September 5, 1616. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazitie. 



SIR, 



IN addition to the information re- 

 quested l>y your correspondent L. Gw 

 in the Magazine for August, I should 

 wish, if it were possible, to ascertain lor 

 Ijow small a sum a man and his wife, 

 and two servants, might live comforta- 

 bly, contiguous io some large town ; 

 and I shonld like to see a table of ex- 

 pences fairly calculated, that persons 

 might be able to estinsate what addition 

 they would require to sueii sum, or what 

 they could aJlbrd to subtract from it. 



1 should likewise wish to have the si- 

 tuations pointed out either in this king- 

 dom or upon the Continent; which 

 would be highly useful to many persons 

 whose incomes are between two hundred 

 and four Inmdicd pounds a-year, ar.d 

 who dread the niconvenienee occasioned 

 by moving without a certainty of suc- 

 cess. Cornwall and Devonshire are, 

 perhaps, the cheapest and most plentiful 

 counties in Lngland ; but 1 know no- 

 thing of honse-rent, and various oMivt 

 articles, iu tiicsc situations. 



A, E. 

 T» 



