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cured fufficiently cheap, the bleachers and 
woollen manufacturers would ule it large- 
ly in extracting the vegetable gluten and 
the oil from the cotton, the linen, and the 
wool. For this purpofe they, at prefent, 
make ufe of potafh. The price of pot- 
afh is about fifty-five pounds per ton: 
that of foda about fifty pounds. Butk 
for bulk, the pofafh asts further, and ts 
therefore preferred; its increafing power 
of a€tion more than compenlating the 
frrall difference in price:—but wee the 
manufacture of foda extended, and the it- 
berty of extraGting it from common falt 
made general, it is believed it would be 
2fforded at half its prefent price; and 
would entirely fuperfede the ule of 
potafh, thus faving to the country 
the large fums at prefent paid for that 
articie. 
A further lofs the country fuftains by 
the provifiens ef this Act is this: —The 
bleacher cannot receive the benefit of the 
crawhack, if any ufe is made of the li- 
quor left after preparing the oxygepated 
muriatic acid.’ This refufe-liguor is a 
folution of fulphate of foda, or Glauber’s 
falts, and would be infinitely more valu- 
able to the preparerof foda than the com- 
mon falt itfelf; fince it has already had 
the addition of the fulpburic acid, an ad- 
dition eflential in fome of the procefles for 
the extraction of foda from common falt. 
Many thoufand tons of mineral alkali 
might be annually madefrom this refufe- 
liquor alone, while, at prefent, it is thrown 
away and entirely loft to the country. 
The A& allows the glafs-maker to pro- 
cure fiineral alkali from Glauber’s falts, 
duty free; and there can furely be no 
doubt but the privilege of extra€ting it 
might be made general, without at all in- 
juring the trifling gain to Goveriment 
{ten fhillings per bufhe!) on Glaubrr’s 
falts. For the extraction of alkali from 
falt, it is neceffary to convert it intoa 
fulphate of feda; but it is not neceffary 
that this fulphate fhould-have a cryltal- 
lized form, in which only it is faleable as 
Glauber’s falts. How eafy wouid it be, 
fuppofing the prefent exceflive ‘duties not 
to be removed, to allow the application of 
common and Glauber’s falts to the manu- 
fa€ture of mineral alkali ;-fubjecting the 
manufacturer to fevere penakies, if any 
faleable Glauber’s falts were ever found 
in the premifes allotted to the manufac- 
ture. The falt applied to the making of 
foda might be bonded, as is the fale for 
exportation. 
. Cruel Punifoment infli@ted on Mr. Seider. 
- [May 1, 
ACCOUNT of the cruel PUNISHMENT ine 
ficted by OnDER of the late-EMPEROR 
PAUL, 02 MR. SEIDER, LUTHERAN- 
MINISTER Of RANDEN, iz LivoNta, 
wha was accufed of having prohibited 
BOOKS in bis POSSESSION. 
“¢ Le Crime fait la honte et non pas l’Echafe 
faut."——-Vortrarre. * 
N the month of April, 1800, I had 
lent a gentleman in my neighbour 
hoed fome books to read. When fF re- 
ceived them back again, I found, that 
one of them, the firft volume of Lafon- 
taine’s Power of Love (a work much~ 
efteemed and generally read) was not in 
the parcel, which had been delivered. to 
me in a very tattered condition by the 
poftilion. I immediately wrote to my 
correfpondent, begging him to inform me, 
whether he had retained the book : but he 
afflured me, upon his honour, that he had 
fent it back well packed up with the other 
books. Not doubting, then, that. the 
parcel had at one of the poft ftations been 
opened by fome inquifitive perfon, and the 
book taken out of it, and loft; and be- 
ing loth to have the fet broken, I caufed: 
a fhort advertifement to be inferted in the 
Dorpat Newfpaper, intimating, that *¢a 
‘parcel, containing fuch and fuch books 
Chere I named them ail) having . been 
lately fent to me by the poft from the ~ 
Effate A; the firft volume of Lafon- 
taine’s Power of Love had been loft out of 
it, on the road from the faid Eftate to the 
Parfonage of Randen: and as I withed to 
recover this volume for the fake of the 
other three, I hegged that whoever had 
found it, would nave the goodnefs to fend 
it to me, and that I fhould thankfully pay 
I] expences.”” 
The confiquence of this advertifement. 
was, that I foon after recovered my loft 
bock ; and likewife, that I became the molt 
wretched of men. For I had already for- 
gotten the circumflance, when one day, 
(it was the 24th of May, 1800), as I was 
walking in my garden, and contemplat- 
ing my trees then in full bloflom, M, 
.von Kennenkampf, Afieffor of the Tribu- 
nal at Dorpat, drove up to my door. 
Being a friend and acquaintance of my 
houie, and hereditary proprietor of three 
of my domeftics, his uflexpetted appear- 
ance did not caufe much farprife: bat he 
{oon opened to me the real objeé& of his 
vilit. He fthewed me an order from his 
Excellency the Governer. general of Livo- 
nia and Efthonia, addrefied to.the Tri- 
bunal 
