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abroad.. It will soon be discovered, what articles are most wanted, 
what are most profitable, and these will be supplied. On this sim- 
ple plan of home defence , wars may be avoided, for what nation 
would or could invade this ? But on the system of foreign com- 
merce, the misconduct of your own, or of foreign* merchants, will 
forever make peace insecure. Even your honourable successes 
Will be causes of jealousy to other nations whose councils are gui- 
ded by mercantile policy, and the maxims of the counting house. 
®a that system, wars, debts, taxes, and despotism will be inevitable. 
T. C. 
SUGAR FROM BEETS AND GRAPES 
I -observe in some late numbers of the Moniteur, that to April 
1812, (Monit. of 1,9th April of that year) two hundred and four- 
teen licenses had been taken out For the manufacture of sugar from 
beets in France ; hence I presume it must be, not only a practica- 
ble, but, in that country, a profitable concern, or the tax would not 
be paid for the license. 
Klaproth, who repeated Achard’s experiments on this sub- 
ject at Berlin, procured from 25 beet-roots, which, when top- 
ped and scraped, weighed 3.2 l-2ib. 19 3-4lb. of juice by expres- 
sion. The squeezed residuum was boiled in water, and again pres- 
sed. The liquors added together were boiled to a syrup, strained 
and slowly evaporated. The raw sugar amounted to 2th. and 12 
ounces. 
The king of Prussia, in the fall of 1799, appointed a committee 
to repeat these experiments. They did so. From 15001b. of 
beet-root, they produced 3981b. of syrup; which yielded 571b. of 
tolerably white powder sugar. 
I mention this, not to recommend the substitution of beets for 
the sugar cane, though I hope we shall soon substitute Louisiana 
forthe West Indies ; but to suggest a query, whether the expres- 
sed juice of beets, would not be a profitable article to distill ? 
The French also, procure sugar from the syrup of grap* 
(Appercus des resultats obtenus, &c.) 45 Practical view of t 
*es. 
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u results obtained from the syrup and conserve of grapes in France, 
“ during the years 1810 and 1811, by M. Parmentier, p'uoiished by 
a order of government-*— price 5 francs. 55 
