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nated acid every time he finds it neceflary 
to remove the goods, from its action, and 
I fee no other way of preventing the 
-efcape. of the gas in Mr. .Rupp’s ma- 
chine, whenever this operation becomes 
_neceflary), we muft conclude in favour of 
the liquor made with lime, and the more 
efpecially, as even the bleachers, who 
operate on white goods, now, in general, 
find it neceflary to be at the expence of 
afhes in their bleaching liquor. 
Mr. RupP has next drawn an objec- 
tion to the liquor made with lime, from 
a very fertile fource of every kind of ar- 
gument, viz. from chemical theory, and 
fufpecs that the lime, or muriate of lime, 
may become a mordant, and fo make the 
goods liable to become yellow after 
bleaching with this liquor; or unfit them 
for being ufed in printing. Befides the 
matter of fat, which totally contradicts 
this, as has been afcertained by the ex- 
perience of fewera]l printfields, particu- 
larly by that at Meflrs, Fintay and 
Co’s, in this neighbourhood, and at 
the field of Meffrs. ORR’s, at Stratford, 
in Ireland, I am unacquainted with 
any proof, that lime, or any of its faline 
compounds, were ever found to poflefs 
any power in fixing colours in dying 
either cotton or linen, in as far as relates 
at leaft to the madder and weld coppers. 
Thefe obfervations will, I hope, fatisty 
the public, with regard to' the force of 
Mr. Rupp’s objections to my method of 
preparing bleaching liquor; and the ap- 
probation it has received from numerous 
and refpeftable bleachers in England, 
Scotland, and Ireland, will ftill be al- 
lowed to eftablith the character of a fim- 
ple invention, which, in whatever manner 
it-may benefit me, will, I have no doubt, 
foon appear a great national benefit. 
I have no doubt, if Mr. Rupp had 
known, that from the date of my letters 
patent, I have been-ready to treat with 
all bleachers upon the moft moderate 
terms, for the fale of licences to praétife 
my invention; he would have taken the 
trouble to inveftigate a little more fully 
into its merits himfelf, and likewife to 
have heard the report of the very eminent 
bleachers who are employing my procels 
in-his own immediate neighbourhocd,' be- 
fore he had condemned it in fo unqualified 
a manner. 
Sufficient proofs of the approbation it 
has met with, may be feen by applying 
to Mr. WILLIAM TATE, jun. Phoenix 
Fire Office, Manchefter; to CHARLES 
Durrin, Efg. Infpector General to the 
Irith Linen Board, Dublin; or te mé, at 
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The Sacrament an Ancient Fowl Rité. 
‘my bleaching works here: I ams fir, 
your moft humble fervant, 
Daruly, CHAS. 
13th June, 1798. 
ea 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
\ MONG the moft curious topics of 
theological difquifitions, the origin 
of tranfubftantiation, or the belief of the . 
real prefence, has never, I think, been yet 
fufiiciently cleared; but, to ourfelves and 
to this age, it is of little importance. In 
the eye of every chriftian, but the catholic, 
it is an obfolete fuperftittion, and only 
now ferves to remind one of a fanguinary 
epocha, in the annals of modern Europe, 
when the human race was thinned fer ene 
of the-moft abfurd of idolatries, that of 
cooking-a God, and of eating him up 
alive; affuredly, when the Egyptians 
worfhipped the onions growing in their 
garden, they were more rational. 
But the rite ftill remains, although, 
in the bread and wine, we do not any 
more imagine we eat the real body, or 
drink the real blood of Jefus. I have long 
been defirous of difcovering the origi of 
this extraordinary ceremony; but my in- 
quiries have hitherto been baffled, among 
the learned. In avery eccentric work, 
lately. publifhed, among a mafs of other 
matter, there is a note on this curious 
topic, which, as I know not to deny, I 
would with to offer it to your theological 
corre{pondents, either to refute, or to ex- 
plain. The note in queftion, is the fol- 
lowing, literally tranicribed. 
“¢ Chriftianity is nothing but improved 
Judaifm. Iwill give one inftance, which 
I have never obferved remarked. The Sa- 
CRAMENT, for which fo many have fuftered, 
is a fimple rite, Now performed every fab- 
‘bath night by the religious Jew. Wine and 
bread are placed before the mafter of the 
houfe ; after-a benedi€tion, he hands the cup 
round, and breaking the bread, gives to each 
a portion. Jefus, amidit his difciples; was 
performing this rite, called KEEDUSH, and ~ 
in the allegorical ftyle of a young Rabbin, 
faid of the bread and wine, ‘¢ This is my 
blood, and this is my body;” which they 
certainly were, when aflimilated in his per~ 
fon. To this fimple circumftance, we owe 
all the idiocy and cruelty of tranfubffantiation !** 
VAURIEN, Vol li. p. 2193 
According to this account, the modern 
Jew, while he refifes to take the facra- 
ment, atually performs it hebdomadally 5 - 
and the modern Chriftian, while he ima- 
gines it a te? of his creed, in fact, only 
joins ina very ancient Fewifh ceremony. 
Iam, Sir, your obedient Servant, 
York, Fune 4, 1798. “Grr 
TENNANT; 
Bleachers 
