1829.] 4^«''-^" '" General. 557 



which would best be done by open tender for all the great jobs. More 

 than one hundred per cent, upon the present system of expense would 

 be saved to the nation." 



This is perfectly ludicrous^ and implies the most rustic ignorance of 

 the ways of public business in this best of all possible worlds. We are 

 satisfied that his Grace will do no such absurd thing. 



We feel the spirit of Accum to be walking the earth again, in the 

 pitiful remonstrances of medical men, old women, " monthly reports," and 

 lecturers on coroner's inquests, against poisoning ourselves. Do those 

 idiots forget that we live in a land of liberty, and have a right to feed 

 on oxalic acid and arsenic, if our tastes lie in that direction ? An 

 attempt made some years ago to put down some of our ingenious fabri- 

 cators of Foreign wines, was publicly put down with the scorn due to 

 all attempts to shackle British talent, and violate the liberty of the 

 subject. We now give another example of those invidious attempts to 

 repel us from dying by our own hands in the pleasantest way possible, 

 namely, asleep or drunk. 



" Imitation of Cyprus Wine. — Some of the leading restaurateurs in Paris 

 sell, at the rate of two to three francs per glass, a wine which they call 

 vin de chypre ; and many John Bulls believe tliat they are really 

 drinking Cyprus wine. It is, however, only an imitation ; the mode of 

 preparing which is thus given "by the Biblioiheque Physico Econom. — 

 To ten quarts of the syrup of elderberries add eighty pints of water. 

 Press the berries gently, and add two ounces of ginger and one ounce 

 of cloves. Then boil all together for an hour. After skimming it well, 

 pour it into a vessel, and add one pound and a half of bruised grapes, 

 which are to be left in it until the wine has acquired a fine colour. ' 



We hope to see all ridiculous prejudice extinguished in the judicious 

 throats of our countrymen, and this receipt copied into every house- 

 wife's book in the empire. 



The Duke of Newcastle is sending to the right-about a set of ungi-ate- 

 ful radicals, who had flourished on his bounty, and grew plump, impu- 

 dent, and liberal, by his sufferance ; having raised a prodigious outcry 

 of hurt virtue among the Whig and Papist patriots, the regular dealers 

 in what Home Tooke called " the bullock stalls." And the fact being 

 stated in reply that his Grace of Norfolk had ejected a number of the 

 Protestant tenants from his late Protestant relative's estates, on the mere 

 ground of their having subscribed a Protestant petition, the following 

 attempt at a palliative was written by a high Papist hand to tlie Moi-ning 

 Journal. 



Signatures to a Petition reflecting injuriously on Catholics was industriously 

 circulated amongst the Duke of Norfolk's tenants at Worksop, and even 

 amongst the domestics in the establishment at Worksop Manor, and some 

 were prevailed upon to sign it. Resenting what was thought to be deliberate 

 insult and deep ingratitude, the notice copied ostentatiously into a conspicuous 



Rart of your paper was sent to the oflTending parties. AVhether the Duke of 

 Norfolk were right or wrong in sending this notice — whether he acted wisely 

 or unwisely in so doing — or whether he acted under greater or lesser provoca- 

 tion than tlie Duke of Newcastle, 1 shall not stop to incjuirc. Ihit mark the 

 SCfjiiel. Within a very short space, when the irritation occasioned by an 

 iirDijjiuury insult, if so you please to call it, had subsided, the notices were all 

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