Cookery. 
make a confection ; and of his works (qu. Bills ?) there is no 
« end ; and from him is peace all over the earth — (that is in the 
« scripture phrase, I presume, his patients are gathered to their 
« fathers, and are at rest.) 
He that sinneth before his maker, let him fall into the hand 
of a physician.” 
Adieu : I leave you to study the science of cookery en chimiste. 
As for myself, if I cannot view it en fihilosofihe^ I will treat it at 
least en amateur. Moderate myself, I do not despise the bird’s- 
eye view of a well spread table, though I can heartily coincide 
with Horace. 
Si ventri bene : si lateri est ; pedibusque tuis, nil 
Divitiae poterunt regales addere majus. 
Observe, however, that Horace does not say simply, si ventff., 
that is if you have plenty to eat ; but, si ventri bene^ that is plenty 
of food nvell cooked. In my next I hope to peep with good effect) 
into the kitchens of some of my friends who know how to live. 
Epicuri de grege PoRCUg. 
Mr. Cur WEN, who ought to be known under the title of the 
Northern Patriot, has recently circulated the following letter on 
the important subject of the culture of Potatoes. 
« Workington-Hall^ April 9^ 1809. 
“ Sir, — The improvement of our agriculture appears to me 
to be the most certain means of advancing the prosperity and hap- 
piness of the United Empire, and preserving to us the blessings 
we enjoy. I may be deemed visionary, but I cannot disguise my 
opinion, that Great Britain, under a system of good agriculture, 
would be capable of supporting thirty millions of inhabitants. No- 
thing can contribute more to this desirable object than the general 
culture and use of Potatoes. 
“ The population of Workington is estimated at eight thou- 
sand, the weekly sale of potatoes during ten months of the year, 
exceeds four thousand stone’'^ per week ; to supply this consump* 
tion requires nearly an hundred acres ; I am inclined to believe 
five times the number of acres would not, in any other mode of 
* The common stone is 141b. So that this is on a calculation of about 400 
bushels to the acre, as a common crop ; and in England it is so. I insert the 
oext article about Butter, because the value of turnip-culture seems perfects 
ly unknown in this counti^. T. C. 
