Bi ye Ver.) ee Ae 
4 b . 
1808.] 
_ Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
, STR : 
: T has sometimes been a matter of 
‘ doubt with me, whether animal food 
is natural togman, or whether originally 
esigned by nature for his subsistence; 
and there are three questions on this 
subject, which 1 submit to the conside- 
ration of your numerous readers$ some 
of whom will, perhaps, have the gooduess 
to furnish me with satisfactory answers, 
rink why in the early part of life an 
unequivocal preference is always given 
to fruit, vegetables, &c. Secondly, why 
maukind should tecl a repugnance either 
to kill themselves, or to see killed, those 
animals of whichthey partake; especially 
as this repugnance is not known to exist 
among any of the carnivorous animals? 
Vhirdly, why animal food is not eaten in 
@ raw state, (if natural to man,) without 
its undergoing the disguise by roasting, 
boiling, seasoning, &c. which quite de- 
stroys and changes the original taste and 
paabty? Your’s, &c, 
~ Woburn. leg 
pin FO, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, \ 
His office of correcting errors is an 
. unthankful office, but whilst I con- 
sider the value of truth, and the injury 
of false impressions, 1 trust you will not 
spurn my attempt to set you right, 
Since your Commercial Report was 
written, ({ suppose) we have had an ar- 
rival of about two hundred bales of silk 
from Italy, via Holland. You observe 
the quantity cf silk consumed in this 
country is 11,460 bales; you likewise ob- 
‘serve the silk if the market from India, 
is only 4793 bales, which you deduct 
from 11460, and state the deficiency at 
6667 bales. Lsuppose you are not infor- 
med that the Italian bales weigh from 
200 pounds ta 250 pounds per bale, and 
the Indian only from 100 pounds to 
~ 140 pounds; thus it appears to me you 
would have made an error by calculating 
» per/bale, instead of per pounds: for, sup- 
posing we consume the half of the 11,460 
i. iba Italy, (I do not know the 
exact quantityyat 200 pounds per bale, 
~ it will be 1,146,000 pounds, the other in 
— Indian, at 100 pounds per bale, will be 
_ 573,000 pounds: total 1,719,000 pounds, 
To supply this, you state silk in the mar- 
ket from India is only 4793 bales, or 
479,300 pounds, deficiency in pounds 
1,239,700, or bales weight of Italian silk, 
6198. Perhaps f may not be quite cor- 
‘rect, for want of knowing the quantity 
_ of Italian, and Indian consumed; but it 
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- Animal Food—State of the Silk Trade. 
11 
‘will, I trust, appear to you, that reck- 
oning all silk at one weight per bale must 
produce a false calculation, 
I apprehend that the Act of Parlia- 
ment will chiefly be of avail by allowing 
the importation of the coatser sorts of 
Organzine, which was before prohibited. 
Icis to be hoped, however, that a sufli- 
cient supply will find its way hither, 
notwithstanding the decree of Buona- 
parte to prevent it.- The late arrival, I 
am told, was effected by the ports being 
open to export butter from Holland, and 
a douceur to the amount of 6000 gui- 
neas, being paid, before a skein was 
shipped. If there were a consumptton 
for slik goods, which Iam very sorry is 
not ihe case—trade never was worse ! 
—-we should before now have been en- 
tirely at a stand for want of the raw 
material, and this small importation 
would not last one month. ; 
There appears to be another error in 
the same Number, vol. xxiv. p. 517; for 
I cannot perceive how Callowden ean be 
148 miles from London, There is the re- 
mains of an old building which formerly 
had a moat round it at Callowden, just 
two and three quarters miles east from 
this city; but fram the bye roads into 
the London road, I much question if 
there is any difference between London 
and Coventry, or London and Callow=- 
den, viz. ninety-one measured miles. ‘ 
Wishing these observations may be of 
use to you, | am, Your's, &e. 
A Risron Manuracrurer 
Coventry, Fuly 18, 1808. 
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‘or the Monthly Megazine. 
On the iieories of MR. MALTHUS and 
DR. JARROLD, On the PRINCIPLE of" | 
POPULATION. 
at being to Europe as a new 
country, and one which little more. 
than two centuries ago she commenced 
the re-peopling of, presents to the phi- 
losopher and the economist many facts, 
which could notbeso distinctly contein- 
plated in Europe. Mr. Malthus has very 
judiciously taken advantage of this cir- 
cumstance, and has founded. his theory 
of the principle of population on a fact 
drawn from this source. The tact I allude 
to is one which is mentioned by Dr. 
Franklin, and is unquestionably true. It 
is this: In America, the population for 
several successive periods, exclusive of 
emigrants, has doubled itself in twenty- 
five years : now it stems but fair,to infer, 
cand Mr. M]. does infer it, that what ac- 
tually did take place in America, is the 
ratio of the increase of the human race, 
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