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latter is to render the metal in fome de- 
gree brittle, that it may readily break off 
from the mafs of metal that adheres to it 
after cafting. 
To whiten the pins, white and red tar- 
tar are employed as ufual. If the pins 
are of iron-wire, in order to tin them 
they are firft wafhed in a‘mioderately. di- 
lute-vitriolic-acid, which takes off almoft 
all the rat. They are then put into 
a fcouring-bairel along with grain-tin, 
tartar, and water, and turned for about 
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an hour, till perfedty clean. After this 
they are dipped into a folution of blue 
vitriol, in the_proportion of one pound to 
two gallons of cold water. They are 
then finally whitened, by being put into a 
copper veffel, in layers alternately with 
grain-tin, water poured on, and the'whole 
placed cover the fire. When the water is 
warm, either argol or cream-of-tartar is 
put in through a dredging-box, and the 
heat continued till the pin is of a fuffictent 
whitenels. They are then dried in bran, 

STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In September, 1800. | 
UR readers will probably be dif- 
C) pofed to compiain that we have 
amufed them with fanguine predictions of 
_ peace, while the afpeéct of the times feems 
to correfpond but little with our fpecula- 
tions. We cannot, it is true, anfwer for 
the frantic projects of blundering politi- 
cians, yet we are not even now difpofed 
entirely to relinquifh our hopes. We ex- 
pect peace, becaufe we cannot fee any 
one feafible object that any of the belli- 
gerent powers can propofe from a conti- 
nuation of hoftilities. The Emperor can- 
not poflibly hope to better himfelf by pro- 
jonging \the war; and Bonaparte mutt 
know that nothing can fo much contribute 
to the confolidation of his authority as 
giving peace to the people. As to our 
own Miniftry, if they are not imprefied 
by recent events, by the mifcarriage of 
all their expeditions, and much more by 
the alarming fymptoms of infurreétion ma- 
nifefted by the populace, we muft fay 
they are paft admonition. This, how- 
ever, we do not believe to be the cafe; 
on the contrary, there are fome circum- 
fiaaces which induce us to believe that they 
are inclined to treat. It is certain that a 
correfpondence is opened with France, and 
this is carried on with that fecrecy which 
is ufually adopted when ftatefmen are in 
earneft, not with the parade of an open 
and fpecious negociatton, when loans are 
to be facilitated, or “‘the people recon- 
ciled to a new and folid fyftem of taxa- 
tion.’ Still we admit that» we may be 
miftaken ; yet we cannot eafily perfuade 
ourftlves, that in the prefent difpute Ku- 
rope will ever have to witnefs another 
campaign. 
It is with deep regret that we have re- 
ceived official accounts that the Imperial 
armies throughout Germany have been 
formally apprifed by the Republican ge. 
nerals, that the armiftice mutt be termie 
nated at the expiration of the twelve days 
allowed by the terms of the late conven- 
tion; according to the time, therefore, 
at which the notices were given to the fe- 
veral armies, effenfive operations might 
be refumed at Frankfort on the 13th of 
September, and in Bavaria on the roth of 
September. | Augereau, in his general 
orders to the Batavian army, exprefsly 
ftates, that the renewal of the war is folely 
caufed by the Emperor’s refufal to ratify 
the preliminaries of peace which had been 
figned by Count St. Julien, the Imperial 
Plenipotentiary at Paris. From com- 
paring all the complicated ftatements on 
this fubje& given the foreign journals, we 
infer, that, immediately on receiving the 
Emperor’s negative above alluded to, 
Bonaparte difpatched the orders to his 
army to diffolve the armiftice, in the ex- 
pectation of ftimulating His Imperial Ma- 
jelty to re-confider the matter, or, in cafe 
he fhould be defirous of returning a more 
pacific anfwer, the tweive days interval 
between the notice and the renewal of hofti- 
lities would give ample time for fuch com- 
munication. It is worthy of remark, that 
the official orders of the French armies do 
not enjoin the aétual commencement’ of 
hoftilities at the ceffation of the armiftice, 
but merely, that the troops fhould be in 
readineis to march as foon as inftruétions 
to that effect fhould arrive. We believe, 
that fince negociations have commenced 
between the British Cabinet and the Con- 
fulate, a new difpatch has been tran{mit- 
ted from Paris to Vienna, and the aétual 
renewal of the war will, probably, depend 
on the Emperor’s reply to this ultimatum 
(as itis cali:d) of the French government. 
Bonaparte has written a letter which 
M mz has 
