1797-1 
can venture to prediét, that the refult 
will be favourable to my opinion ; that, 
though the number of names on the firft 
tripos is not a third of thofe on the books 
for the year, yet this {mall number will 
afford, at leaft, a treble proportion of 
diftinguifhable characters. As your cor- 
refpondent is probably on the fpot, and 
ean refer to the proctor’s books on this 
occafion, his determination will, [I am 
fure, be gratifying to many of your 
readers: and, on a few facts like thefe, 
fome very important conclufions may be 
drawn, of great ufe to thofe who may be 
called hereafter to undertake the Augear 
labour of cleanfing our univerfities. 
Your’s, A. 5; 
eee 
To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
SIR; 
A® thofe of your readers who are nei- 
ther Alarmifis nor, Life-and-fortune- 
men may, probably, be defirous of bearing 
as few of the additional burthens of the 
ftate as they can, without materially in- 
fringing their comforts, I fhall beg leave, 
by your means, to fuggeft a fubftitute 
for the ufual glafs after meals, which ‘is 
now become too expenfive an object for 
thoughtlefs indulgence. Wane, we are 
told, was formerly an article only to be 
had ,from the apothecaries’ fhops: if 
this fhould be the cafe again, 1 believe 
health and morals would be material 
gainers; and our unparalleled minifter 
might, eventually, be the author of more 
good. to the nation, than his warmett 
admirers now probably expect from him. 
But what I have to fay does not concern 
the Bacchanalian topers, who drink to 
drown care or reafon ; it isthe true diet- 
etic ufe of wine that I mean to confider, as 
become habitual, and perhaps neceflary, 
to fober peoples The real advantage 
ariing from ftrong liquors, [ take to 
proceed from two properties only: that 
of checking too great a fermentation in 
food, and that of ftimulating the femach 
to due aétion in the digeitive -procefs. 
As to the firft, I believe a proper choice 
and mixture of animal and vegetable 
aliment would fufficiently obviate the 
danger of excefs in fermentation, were 
water the only drink. Malt-liquor 
rather promotes it; but the moft hurtful 
_ practice in this refpeét, is the devouring ° 
of crude fruit after a hearty meal, by way 
of defert.. This itis which ufvally caufes 
a.cravying for wine, glafs after glafs, to 
quiet the confli€ting elements of the 
food, and reufe the Romach to a& upon 
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its contents. But in this view, no part 
of the wine is ufeful but its /p7rits all the 
acidity and harfhnefs that it may poffefs 
only aggravates the evil; and of all 
kinds, I believe the heterogeneous mix- 
ture, ufually fold under the name of red 
port, is the very worft to wath down food 
with, claret, perhaps, excepted. My fuc- 
cedaneum, therefore, both for health and 
cheapnets, has been drandy, which I ufe 
in the following manner: Afcer dinner, 
I pour one table fpoonful of brandy into a 
‘wine-glafs, and then fill it up with cold 
water. ‘Phis I drink, merely by way of 
a ftomachic, and J find it anfwer perfeétly. 
Others, accuftomed to drink more wine 
.than I have done, and who, perhaps, ftill 
eat a little fruit after dinner (which I do 
not) might require two fuch glaffes; nor 
could they, at firft, well difpenfe with a 
repetition at night. By taking brandy 
tais way, no danger is incurred of getting 
a foaking tippling habit, which is the 
great evil of drinking fpirits and water. 
In my mode, it is a medicine, not an in- 
dulgence; and I ftriétly guard againtt 
any increafe of quantity. Thus, fir, I 
own I am become a worfe cuftomer to 
Mr. Pitt than formerly ; but, feeling ne 
great compunéction of mind on that ac- 
count, and much benefit to my health 
and pocket, I cannot but recommend 
the method to others, who think as f do. 
Your conftant reader, 
May +0. NON: 
N.B. Rum, or beft Britith f{pirits, I 
fuppofe, would do juft as well as brandy. 
To tbe Editor of the Monthly Mavazine. 
3 a & 
SIR, 
{ts he following remarks, I confine 
myieir to two of the common objec- 
tions to large farms, and rather furnith 
hints which may promote invefigation, 
than difcufs the fubjeét : : 
Oljediion iff. ‘Large farmers can, 
and do, withhold corn; and thus enhance 
the price.” 
When a tarmerreferves his grain, if the 
fpeculation anfwers to him, it alfo ferves 
the public: if the market at which he 
produces it, be dearer with the ailiftance 
of his referye, would it not have been 
ftill dearer without it? If it does not 
anfwer to the farmer, ftill ir may be ad- 
vantageous to the~public; for he is, in 
this cale,a flore-keeper without a falary. 
There is provifion for twelve. months : 
you wilh, of courfe, the fupply to keep 
place with the expenditure ; or would 
you haye the whole at market in nine 
months, 
