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Bleaching . 
BLEACHING: with a plate. 
The plate to which this refers was sent to me some time agio, 
but not meaning to take up the subject of bleaching yet, I omit- 
ted it. However, as it is entitled to insertion, and I am obliged to 
the correspondent who sent it, I insert it now and shall refer to it 
hereafter. 
AA The machinery to agitate the lime-water within the cask 
in which it turns round. BB The Still holding the materials. — ■ 
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 places made air tight with water, to prevent the 
escape of the gas. 
The following paper (which confers equal honour on king 
George III. and Arthur Young, and the piate that accompanies it,) 
will give my readers an idea of a genuine, thorough bred Merino 
Ham. 
DON. A MERINO RAM, &c. 
How many millions of men are there that would smile, if I 
were to mention the sovereign of a great empire giving a ram to 
a farmer, as an event that merited the attention of mankind : the 
world is full of those who consider military glory as the proper 
object of the ambition of monarchs ; who measure regal merit by 
the millions that are slaughtered ; by the public robbery and plun- 
der, that are dignified by the titles of victory and conquest, and who 
look down on every exertion of peace and tranquillity, as unbecom- 
ing those who aim at the epithet greats and unworthy the aim of 
men that are born the masters of the globe. 
My ideas are cast in a very different mould ; and I believe the 
period is advancing, with accelerated pace, that shall exhibit cha- 
racters in a light totally new ; that shall rather brand than exalt 
the virtues hitherto admired ; that shall place in the full blaze of 
meridian lustre, actions lost on the mass of mankind ; that shall 
pay more homage to the memory of a prince that gave a ram to a 
farmer, than for wielding the sceptre — obeyed alike on the Ganges 
and the Thames. 
I shall presume to offer but one other general observation :-»» 
when we see His Majesty practising husbandry* with that 
warmth that marks a favourite pursuit -and taking such steps to 
diffuse a foreign breed of sheep, well calculated to improve those 
©f his kingdoms ; — when we see the royal pursuits take such a 
direction, we may safely conclude, that th.e public measures which. 
