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ing a chevaux de frize along the top, he 
will do better than by providing tables fo 
finely polifhed,.as to lerve for looking- 
glafles; and chairs’ of fo delicate a fa- 
brigue, as to be fit for every thing but 
fitting upon. If there muft be a china- 
clofet, let him take care that there is 
nothing in it more brittle than porcelain 5 
and if there muft be mutic, let the notes 
be foftened and harmonized, by ‘paffing 
through a key-hole. In the courfe of 
thefe preparations, I cannot help obferv- 
ing, that we fhall be ‘greatly allifted by 
the’ fuperior ingenuity of modern me- 
chanics. “Befidés the ufual help of bolts’ 
and bars; we may adopt the patent lock, 
which,’ we are told, is fo contrived that 
no difhonet: perion-can pick it; and that 
the cwner may depend on the fecurity of 
what he suards by 
but means like thefe. It 
sin vain to think thar peopie will not 
abulé liberty, if they have it. They may 
atk for a little, and that little may not 
feem unreazfonable, but, if it is granted, 
can we be fare that they will fop there? 
No, fir, the more liberty you grve to 2 
man, or a woman (which is the point 
here), the more they will require. It is 
like giving drink'in the dropiy. It grows 
_ by what it feeds on. Welive, however, 
in times, where I hope there is not much 
éccafion for my dilating upon this fub- 
ject. \ It is a general maxim now, that 
the abufe of any thing is a fufficient rea- 
fon again the ule; and it ishighly re- 
q@uifite we fhould carry this theory into 
practice. If I have not fully explained 
‘every part of my plan, I truft many of 
your readers will have entered into the 
{pirit of it, fufficiently to fupply my de- 
fe&s; and I hope, in a very fhort time, 
to find that crim. con. and all its confe- 
quences of “* deprivation of compor?, and 
heavy damages,” will be for ever extin- 
guifhed and ,abolithed, by my plan of 
FAMILY: BARRACKS. Iam, fir, your’s, 
Coren 
; Se 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER Geo j 
\N invafion being expected, and pre- 
parations being at length beoinning 
to be made, on a fyftem and on an extent 
which bears fome proportion to the mag- 
nitude of the evil we may foon have to 
encounter, I would with to afk thofe who 
are the proper judges, why our antient 
national weapon, the ENGLISH HAND- 
BOW, fhould not be revived, and fome 
felek corps invited to be trained and ex- 
OLfervations on Aér. Lennant’s Bleaching Liquor. 
ercifed in the {erious ufe of it? not as a” 
graceful and manly exercife of fport, but 
as a defence, which’ both its efficacy in 
itfelf and its novelty in European warfare, 
might very juftly recommend to be adopt-_ 
ed into our taétics. 
This may ftrike the’ eye’ of feveral, 
whofe profeffional knowledge and expes 
rience will enable them beft to judge 
whether this propofal deferves attention. 
I have underftood it was one of the 
weapons which Marfhal Saxe had medi- 
tated to revive. C. Lorrr. 
Apri, 1798. 
SS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
JIVE me leaye, fir, to make a few 
obfervations on Mr. TENNANT’s 
néw method of preparing the chemical 
bleaching liquor, deleribed in-your ex- 
cellent Magazine for March. Mr. TEN- 
NANT combines the oxygenated muriatic 
‘acid, produced by 30lb. of falt, with a 
ley, confiiting of a folution of 3olb. of 
falt, and 601b. of lime, diffufed in water ; 
inftead of combining it with an alcaline, 
ley, as it has hitherto been praétifed. 
‘The queftion is, whether his method be 
preferable to the old one at prefent mule. 
If it be preferable, it muft be either 
cheaper, or better in point of quality, or 
both.—We find, that fevenpounds and a 
half of pearl-afhes are fufficient to fix the 
acid produced from 30lb of falt; the ex- 
_pence of this quantity of afhes is, at fix- 
pence 4 pound, 3s. 9d. “To fix the fame 
quantity of acid, Mr. TENNANT em- 
ploys Seer 
golb. of falt at rid. --- 3 9 
and 6olb of lime, about - o 7 
—— 
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Tt appears, therefore, that the calca. 
-reous liquor is not cheaper, but even 
dearer than the alcaline liquor, independ-_ 
ant of the additional labour which Mr. 
TENNANT’s method requires. - But, i§ 
his method better? is the quahty of the 
liquor improved by it? Thave feen, in a 
paper publifhed in the laft half volume of 
the ‘* Memoirs of the Literary and Pbilo-~ 
Sophical Society of Menchefter;” that in 
proportion as the oxygenated  muriatic 
acid is neutralifed. by an_aleali, it be- 
comes lefs active in bleaching. ‘The fame. 
muft be the ‘cafe when this/acid is net- 
tralized by any other bafis. New ‘the 
quantity of calcareous eatth which Mr. 
TY. preferibes; is more than fufficient 
completely to faturate the acid produced 
by 3olb. of falt ; whereas 72Ib. of 
vee Mr. TE 
T 
4 
+ Seah he (atcarn teen 
aihes will not faturate ity hene 
