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the liberty of fending you. At the fame 
time I muk beg of you, or your Correfpon- 
dents, that, where they may be corrected 
in any manner, it may be done, and I 
fhall feel myfelf much obliged by the 
attention. 
Glue is an infpiffated jelly, made of 
the parings of hides, or horns,of any kind, 
the pelts obtained from furriers, and the 
hoofs and ears of horfes, oxen, calves, 
fheep, &c. quantities of all which are 
imported, in addition to the home fupply, 
by many of the great manufacturers of 
this article. Thefe are firft digefted in 
lime-water, to cleanfe them,as far as itcan, 
from the greafe or dirt they may have con- 
tracted: they are then fteeped in clean water, 
taking care to ftir them weil from time to 
time: afterwards they are laid in a heap, 
and the fuperabundant water preffed out. 
Then they are boiled in a Jarge brais caul- 
dron, with clean water, fkimming off the 
dirt as it rifes; and it is further cleanfed 
by putting in, a‘ter the whole is diflolved, 
a little meited alum or lime, finely pow- 
dered, which by their deterfive properties 
ftill further purge it. The fkimming 1s 
continued for fome time ;—when the mafs 
is ftrained through. bafkets, and fuffered 
to fettle, that the remaining impurities, 
if any, may fubfide. . It is then poured 
gently into the kettle again, and fuither 
evaporated by boiling a fecond time, and 
fkimming until it becomes of a clear, but 
darkith brown, colour. When itis thought 
to be frongenough (which is known either 
by the length of time a certain, quantity 
of water and materia!s have boiled, or by 
its appearance during ebullition), it is 
poured into frames or moulds oi about 
fix feet long, one broad and two deep, 
where it gradually hardens as the heat 
decreafes—out of which it is cut when 
cold, byafpace, into fquare pieces or cakes, 
Each of thefe is placed within a fort of 
word:n-box, open in three divifions to 
the back ; in this the glue, as yet foft, is 
taken to atable by women, where they 
divide it into three pieces* with am in- 
frument not unlike a bow, having a brafs 
wire for its firing: with this they ftand be- 
- hind the box, and cut by its openings 
fromm front to back.» The pieces thus cut, 
are taken out into the open air, and dried 
on a kind of coarfe net-work, faftened 
in moveable fheds of about four, feet 
fquare, which are placed in rows in the 
giue-makers field, and every one of 
which contains five or fix rows of netting. 
eis bier ee Bd 
* When the women by miftake cut only 
two, that which is double the fize is called a 
bifhop, and is thrown inte the pan again. 
Glue-making—-Mr. Thelwall’s Later. 
[Au g» i, 
When perfectly dry and hard, it is fit for 
fale-—T hat is thought the bef glue which 
{wells confiderably, without melting, by 
three or fourdays immerfion in cold water, 
and recovers its former dimenfions ahd 
properties by drying. Glue that has got 
froft, or that looks thick and black, may. 
be melted over again, and refined with 2 
fufiicient quantity added of frefh to over- 
come any injury it may have fuftainea ; 
but it is generally put into the kettle, 
after what is in it has been purged im the 
fecond boiling —To know good from bad 
glue, it is necefiary for the purchaler to 
hold it between his eye and the light; 
and if it appearsof aftrong dark colour, and 
free from cloudy or black fpots, the arti- 
cle is good. 
Newcajile, Fune 21, Your’s, &c. » 
1802. Joun CLENNELE, 
SoS OT rm oT: 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AM much indebted to you fer the 
premptitude, with which my letter, on 
the fubjeét of Mr. Belfham’s calumny, 
was inferted im ycur interefting Mifcel- 
Jany. The equal promptitude of Mr. 
Belfham’s apology, | confefs, was no more 
than I expected: for, confcious that the 
afperfion was as unfounded as it was un- 
provoked—and knowing that Mr.. Bel- 
fham’s perfonai conneCiions enabled him, 
at all times, to make himfelf acquainted 
with my real character, there was little 
reafon to appiehend that he fhould endea- 
vour to evade my appeal, ne 4 
Why that appeal was made, has been 
already fufficiently explained —though Mr, 
Belfham, towards the end cf his apology, 
feems to have forgotten that part of my 
former letter. My family had received a 
pofitive injury from the calumny of Mr. 
Belfham—and fuch injuries cannet wait 
the tardy redrefs of pofthumous reputa- 
tion. . I: was therefore, that for a tempo- 
rary injury I demanded a ccutemporary 
reparation. ‘That reparation (as far as 
relates to the future, which was all that 
I defired) Mr. Beifham has fhown his 
readinefs to make: and if this explana- 
_t.on is fubjoincd to the yet uncirculated 
copies of his work, and the Aifforian and 
his readers can be fatished with fuch an 
explanation, my purpofe is fufficiently 
anfwered. Moral and intellectual reputa- 
tion are the only obje&is of my anxiety ; 
with refpeét to any thing that has oc- 
curred upon matters of a more public na- 
ture, P have not the flighteft imelination 
either to vindicate, to apologize, or to 
explain. I have difmiffed fuch confidera- 
tions entirely from my mind ; and neither 
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