1823.] Dr. Car twrigki on Suga)'foi Curing Skip's Provisions. 199 

 This is become a very prevalent error. Board of Agriculture,) that " a copious 

 and sanctioned by many of our later use of sugar, either wholly or in part, 

 historians : but the real historical fact, in curing sliip's provisions, would ren- 

 I believe, stands otherwise ; at least if der them more palatable, and more 



nutricious and wholesome ; and would, 

 no doubt, operate most powerfully as 

 a preservative agaiust the sea-scurvy. 

 For a purpose like this, the remission 

 of the duty would be an act not only 

 of humanity, but of sound and liberal 

 policy. I'or, though there would be a 

 considerable defalcation (supposing 

 this suggestion to have been then act- 

 ed upou, when salt was loaded with a 

 tax of fifteen shillings per bushel,) 

 from the duty on salt, in a proportion- 

 ate ratio to the quantity of sugar that 

 might be substituted in its place ; yet 

 this, surely, would be a consideration 

 which, it is presumed, would not be 

 suffered to come in competition willi 

 the reasonable gratification and health 

 of such a valuable class of men as the 

 British sailors, — the great pillars of 

 our national prosperity ; which they 

 equally sustain, whether employed in 

 the Royal Navy for the nation's de- 

 fence, or on-board of merchantmen, 

 for the extension of its commerce." 



Now that the duty on salt is already 

 so much reduced, and will shortly be 

 taken off altogether, the objection to 

 what is here proposed, as interfering 

 with the salt-duty, is totally done 

 away. Were there to be a remission 

 of the duty on all sugars used in curin"- 

 ship's provisions, the revenue would 

 lose nothing ; as, without such remis- 

 sion, sugars would never be applied to 

 such a purpose. 



Though Dr. M'Culloch's experiment 

 was not tried on animal-desh, there 

 can be no doubt of its answering equally 

 well with flesh as with (ish. 'I'he fact, 

 indeed, may be said to have been 

 ascertained more than a- thousand 

 years ago. Apicius, " the cook's ora- 

 cle" in the time of Trajan, says, that 

 flesh of any kind, by being immersed 

 in honey, will keep lor any length of 

 time. But we want no oracle, ancient 

 or modern, to tell us that which a 

 beef-steak might at any time bring to 

 the proof in our own larders. 



E. CARTVVRIGtlT. 



For the MoiU/ili/ Magazine. 



SECOND JOUKNEV <>/' M. FRKDERICK 

 CAILLIAUD in NUBIA, aiul the KING- 

 I»OM uf SEN'N.Ul. 



(From llic itivue Encyclopcdijne.J 



M. CAILLIAUD embarked at 

 jMarseilles (on his second voj- 

 age,) 



we reflect on the details of cotemporary 

 historians, and the inferences to be 

 drawn from the comparison of dates. 

 The real circumstances we may. I 

 think, believe to be these : — That Miss 

 Hyde, being abroad with the royal 

 family during the exile, as maid of 

 honour to the Princess Royal, attracted 

 the attentions of the Duke of York; 

 and, successfully resisting all attempts 

 on his part to assail her virtue, only 

 assented at last, — under the perhaps 

 almost venial ambition of a future 

 crown, — to the honourable union of 

 marriage ; which took place privately 

 in the presence of the £ail of Ossory, 

 and which was afterwards proved to 

 the satisfaction of the King, of the 

 nation, and of her father, — who, so far 

 from being privy to the affair, deeply 

 deplored it, prognosticating that it 

 would ultimately cause the future ruin 

 of himself and his house ; and true it 

 was, that it tended greatly to aggra- 

 vate the envy of this great man's 

 enemies ; and, perhaps, had it not been 

 for this (to him unfortunate) royal 

 alliance, his country bad not lost the 

 benefit of his services by his posterior 

 expatriation. It appears that the mar- 

 riage of the Duke of York with the 

 Chancellor's daughter took place in 

 November 1659; and that their first 

 child (Charles, who died in his in- 

 fancy,) was born in October 1660. 

 Lake-liotise, Wilts; E. Duke. 



Feb. 19, 1823. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR. 



I WAS much gratified to read, in 

 your Chemical Report for last 

 month, that Dr. M'Culloch had ascer- 

 tained, by actual experiment, that fish 

 may be long preserved in a dry state, 

 and perfectly fresh, by means of a 

 small quantity of coarse sugar; and 

 that he recommends an extension of 

 the practice in the curing of ship's 

 provisions. 



So far back as at the time (now 

 about fourteen or fifteen years ago,) 

 when the West India merchants ap- 

 plied to the legislature to permit sugar, 

 duly free, to be given to cattle, I 

 suggested its aj)|)lieation to the pur- 

 pose of curing ship's provisions, as a 

 substitute for .salt, observing, (in a 

 paper which i then delivered in to the 



