1801. | 
The increafe, however, to be expeéted 
from their enlarged con{umption, may be. 
confidered as.a mere trifle, when compared 
with the fums which will accrue from the 
fuppreffion of Jmuggling. No great faga- 
city is requilite to difcover how much more 
difficult the tafk to {muggle at once entire 
pipes of grape wine faa the Continent to! 
England, than fucceflively to {maggle a 
few bottles at a time of floe and lBrwaia 
wine, from an obf{cure garret or cellar 
where it has been clandeftinely brewed, 
_to fome fecret corner of an inn or tavern 
where the excifeman would never dream of 
looking for them. But, though they may 
efcape the vigilance of the excifeman, the 
wine-drinker will foon detect the traud by 
the application of a few drops or grains of 
his chymical* preparation: he will of 
‘courfe refufe to drink or, pay for fuch 
ftuff—will infift on being furnifhed with 
the genuine juice of the grape—and, if 
mine hoft prove refractory, will take him 
before a magiftrate to declare upon oath 
from what wine-brewer he purchafed the 
objectionable liquor. 
When every wine-drinker is, in his 
own defence, interefted in becoming an 
informer without fee or reward, the brew- 
ing and fmuggling of flce and log-wood 
wine will of courte rapidly diminifh: in 
the fame proportion, the importation of 
grape wine will neceflarily increafe; and 
the collectors of the cuffoms will foon bear 
_ ample teftimony to tae truth of my affer- 
tion, that our rulers will promot e their own 
interefi, while ibey proteéé the lives of their 
fellow-citizens, by adopting firong and 
cfetiual meafures ta prevent the fale of 
adulterated wines. 
Should the legiflative body ever think 
of ordering the neceflary experiments to 
be made for the purpole, and of enaéting 
a law on the fubject, I hope thet atten. 
tion will nof be ‘confined to the f in gle ate. 
ticle of wine, but that they wil! in like 
manner inftitute proper tefts to alcertain 
whether brandy and other fpiritsious lint 
quors be free from deleterious mixtures— 
to detect cocculus Indicus and other noxious 
drugs in malt liquors—and to difcover 
alum and ether ‘unwholefome i ingredients 
in bread: which that they may ” fBeedily 
do, is the very fincere with of, 
Sir, your’s, &c. 
October 24, 1800. jJ.c. 
ae 
Tol the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
SHALL be much splat to your nu- 
-Moerous readers, who will favour me 
with an account of the author of an oc- 
tavo volume printed for Millar, in 17615 
Monra.y Maa. No. 74. 
Account of S#, Rumald, or Rumbold. 
J believe his name was Wallace ; 
-racles and cures. 
504 
imtieled *¢ Various Profpects of Mankind, 
Nature, and Pepe? * ‘The author 
alfo publithed, about the year 1753, ‘* A 
Difertation of the Numbers of Mankind; 
with Remarks upan Mr. Hume’s ¢ E flay 
on the Populoufnefs of Ancient Nations.”* 
and 
fome peculiarities in his ftyle fhew him 
to have belonged to that nation in which 
the name of Watvacr is immortal. 
His, “* Prospects,” publithed in 1761, 
have become more interefting fince two 
writers have acquired fome celebrity by 
copying and amplifying the obfervations 
which they contain. Whatever is con- 
vincing, or even plaufible, in Godwin’s 
<¢ Political Juftice,’’. on the poffibility of 
man in a fiate of civilifation living with - 
out private property, may be found in 
Mr. Wallace’s ‘* ‘Profpeéts 7” and the 
well-known ** Effzy on the Principle of Pa~ \ 
pulation,” printed about three years fince 
tor Mr. Johnfon, is indebted to the fame 
fource for all that it contains in proof 
that the principle of population alone for- 
bids us to expeci that human fociety wilk 
ever reach that perfeétion, of which all . 
benevolent men expected the approach at 
the commencement of the French Revd- 
lution. Lhe reputation which others 
have drawn from the refearches of the au~ 
thor of the ‘“* Prospects’’ loudly calls 
upon his friends and relations to favour 
the public with fome account .of him and 
his writings, that his countrymen may 
reap all the advantage which can be dex 
rived from his labours, and that his name 
may have the honours, reftored to it, 
which others have obtained from’ his 
works. Wake 
Fune 8, 1801. 
——— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR Correfpondent, Alidfilius, will 
_ find the following fhort account of 
a St. Rumald or Rumbold, in Speed’s 
Theatre of Brittain, in the defcription of — 
the town of Buckingham.—f* The river 
circulates this town on every fide, that only 
on the north excepted, over which three 
fair ftone bridges lead, and into which 
the fprings of a well run called St. Ru- 
-malds, a child faint, born at King’s Sut- 
ton, canonized, and in the haven: of this 
town enfhrined, with many conceited mi- 
Such was the hap of 
thofe times to produce faints of all fexes 
and ages.”” Moll, in his defeription 1 
England, alfo mentions this circumitancey 
and. ads that he was the patron of fifher- 
men. 
. Your's, 
Fune 7, 180%. jou. 
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