sides pitch-large quantities of timber have been exported, chiefly to England. Sweden imports a great deal of corn and mealnot being able to raise enough for the consumption of her people. They catch 300,000 barrels of herring a year on the shoals of Marstrand. In 1804 there were exported from Stockholm 227,394 ship-pounds of iron; 5129 do. copper and brass wire, 103,640 barrels pitch and tar. British Statistics. THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT. PRELIMINARY REMARKS.-In monarchical governments, the church (as it is called) forms too important an item of their political economy to be passed over slightly. Unfortunately, for true religion and the comfort There are several fine canals in Sweden-one of them connects the Baltic with the Atlantic-it has and ease of the people, it happens, that kings, imeight locks the highest ground passed over is 112 Piously affecting a right from God to enslave and feet above the level of the sea-it is navigated by Ppress, and murder and destroy their fellow bevessels of 150 tons, and cost only 358,988 rix dol-ings, have found it necessaay to bolster their claims lars-the king employing a great number of soldiers by a pensioned priesthood:-hence what are termed established religions, the chosen curse of manon the work, and giving to the company all the timkind; the true box of Pandora, as pregnant with ber and stone they wanted to complete it. evil, as though every fallen spirit, (conjured up and named by Milton,) had commingled his favorite crime and darling vice to form the horrid congre. gation -the grand agent of knavery; the choice base and unpardonable, as it would render the great engine of tyrants; and of all delusions the most duty that man owes his Creator of adoration & homage, the medium of his own debasement & servitude. In England, though at this time, they do not sake of Christianity," as they used to do, and have "roast woman and children for the occasionally done, in other countries, the church is not among the least of the impositions on the good people of that nation-but it is not our intention to go into a minute detail of its demerits; from what follows the reader may draw conclusious for himself. From Gottenburg in the same year were exported, 77,303 ship-pounds of iron: 7,401 do. fine forged work; 2,813 do. steel; 79,512 bbls herrings; 28,582 lispounds mountain moss; 12,398 ells of linen; 10,662 ells [Swedish] sail duck; with some smoked herrings, cod, tar, pitch and window glass, and a large quantity of boards. Imported, among other articles the same year, 55,303 bbls. salt-148,494 do. grain. The exports of Gefle and Abo are iron, a little copper, and a great deal of timber-and, from the latter, some pitch and tar. In the year 1800, the number of merchant vessels belonging to Sweden was 956, burthen 63,534 tons, and navigated by 9,929 men. Of these ships Stock holm possesssd 234; Calmar, 43; Gottenburg 168; Whisby 55; Carlscrona 33; Carlshamm 40; Malmo 31; Uddvalla 24; Abo 16. In 1801, vessels 994-tons 62,955, navigated by 9,689 men. In 1802, 946 vessels, 62,234 tons; 10,185 seamen. The Swedish exports amount to about $6,250,000 per annum-imports $4,560,000-balance in favor the country $1,690,000. France, like England (and, indeed, most of the countries of Europe) has her established religion— Turkey as well as the rest, and on more liberal Principles than several of them. Perhaps, they are just as necessary to monarchies as dark-lanthorns are to midnight thieves. Bonaparte, though possessed of greater resources of mind than all the kings of Europe united, and enjoying more personal influence over the will and destinies of man than has ever fallen to the lot of an individual in that quarter of the globe, has, notwithstanding, found it convenient to employ this engine was an atheist or deist, as was the fashion of the on many occasions. Before he went to Egypt he time-In Egypt he was a Mussulman, and, in the The whole kingdom contains only 104 towns, common language of the Turks and Arabians, cried 80,250 villages and 1200 estates of nobility. The out "there is no God but God, and MAHOMET is his manufactures, except of iron and copper are incon-prophet." Since his return from that country, he siderable. The produce of broad cloth manufactur-has become a most zealous Roman Catholic; and so ed, amounts to about 500,000 rx dollars per annum. The Swedish Diet, in 1786, consisted of 49 counts, 136 barons, 188 knights, 396 gentlemen, 51 ecclesiastics, 94 representatives of the cities, & 165 deputies from the peasantry. The diet, or assembly of the states, possess some important privileges, though the government may fairly be called a despotism. conscientiously scrupulous was he, that he re-married Josephine, the pope himself performing the ceremony, who also solemnly crowned them emperor and empress of France, and king and queen of Italy. In the holy farce, pope Pius was an unwilling actor; but Bonaparte thought it necessary so to cheat the people, and there was no resisting his will.* Since then the emperor of the French has instiMonies weights and measures-12 runstucks make tuted priests and parishes-and, like the infamous 1 schilling-48 schillings 1 rix dollar, equal to $1, Henry VIIIth of England, been stiled the "restorer 04. Accounts are chiefly kept in rix dollars, schil- of religion;" when, in fact, he has only restored the lings and runstucks. The copper dollar is 11 cents ministers: who, true to their pensions, salaries and and a half. The Ducat $2,07. There are several perquisites, describe him to the people as the immeother coins and monies used in some of the provin-diate agent of heaven, called to accomplish its purces. In calculating duties, the United States value the rix dollar as an American dollar. 75 lb. (of Iron weight) is 56 lb. English. 60 lb. (victualu, a standard weight,) is equal to 56 lb English. 20 lb. is a lispound-20 lispound a ship-pound -7 1-2 ship-pounds (iron weight) an English ton 6 ship-pounds (victualu) a ton. A last is 12 shippounds. poses! teaching them the most abject obedience to his decress, and extolling his schemes of ambition. * It is, however, an act of common justice to say that no man is persecuted in France for his relig ous opinions. A protestant is as readily appointed to office as a catholic-no distinction is made between them. This is not the case in free and enlightened Fifty seven Swedish ells are equal to 37 yards En-Britain. The French priests are supported by goglish; it is, therefore nearly 23 1-2 inches long. vernment; but in protestant countries are protestants. In Prussia, among other regulations concerning religion, it was ordered, that the soldiers, when formed in line, should be allowed some precise space of time, (say two minutes) to pray. They were notified of its commencement and termination by beat of drum ;-but if any man, in his devotion to his maker, forgot what was due his earthly master, and, for half a second, prayed longer than the law permitted, the sergeant's cane across his shoulders reminded him of his mortality, and taught him to be less religious in future. There is also a bishop of Sodor and Man, consecrated by the archbishop of York, but not considered a suffragan. As the see has never been erected into an English barony, he has not a seat in the house of peers-his receipts are about 6000 dollars per annum. -Many of the bishops have also a rich deanery or some other "living" attached to their see which is held as a mere sinecure; indeed a majority of the bishoprics themselves appear to be little else Perhaps, if we add about one-half of the sums statIn the year 996, Haken-b'amr-Allah, calif of ed to their several amounts, we may ascertain pretty Egypt established a religion-he went further; he nearly the true aggregate of monies these twentyproclaimed himself God, and many thousand men seven gentlemen receive from the people-say, registered their names acknowledging that he was 600,000 dollars per annum; or more than double the The priest offered sacrifices to him as a divinity amount of the whole civil list of the United States! -but his godship was killed in a tumult; some of The amount of tythes in England is estimated at his disciples escaped and fled to the mountains of five millions of pounds ($22,200,000) per annum, Lebanon in Syria: where establishing themselves; nearly twice as much as the whole revenue of the they gave rise to the people at present known by United States. If to this we add the various other the name of Druzes who yet retain some part of dues and receipts of the clergy of the established their opinions. church, extorted in a thousand different ways, SO In the United States we have nothing of this kind, almost incomprehensible to a plain sober-minded though in the constitutions of some of the states American, we may safely assert, that the whole there are provisions manifesting a spirit of intole-support of the church costs the nation not less than rance directly at variance with the general scope of fifty millions of dollars. a year. allur institutions. The increase of that liberality The tythes are a tenth of all the produce of the of sentiment which has so greatly promoted the earth, which the farmer is obliged to prepare for cause of true religion in the United States and the the barn of the clegyman-If his crop is wheat, he happiness of the people, we trust, will speedily de- must cut it, and put it up in sheaves, ten in a heap stroy the yet remaining shreds of despotism, and—the priest, or his deputy, comes and picks out give to every man the free and inestimable privilege of worshiping in his own way, and according to his own consience, without depriving him of any right another enjoys on that account. every tenth heap, and carries it away; but until he has made this selection the farmer dares not move a straw from his own field. So it is with all other grain, and produce of the soil.t Ecclesiastical government of England-England The lesser tythes, as they are called, is the tenth is divided into two ecclesiastical provinces. The turkey, chicken, pig, calf, apple, pear, plumb, &c archbishop of Canterbury, with 21 suffragan bi--a tenth of all the garden stuff; a tenth of the shops, is called primate of all England. The arch-milk, butter and cheese, and a commutation for a bishop of York, having only three suffragans, is stiled primate of England. They have precedence over all the nobility not of the blood royal. The following are the dues appertaining to each -as well what "they are rated at on the king's books," as what they really produce, extracted from a late British publication: Rated at 1. Sterling. Produce, S. Archbishop of Canterbury2816 17 11 1-4 35,520 York 1309 19 2 31,080 187 11 6 6,660 5,328 Bishop of St. Asaph Bangor 131 16 4 9,768 Bristol 338 8 4 Carlisle 504 4 11-2 420 1 8 677 1 3 Chichester Coventry &} Litchfield Ely Gloucester Hereford Landaff Lincoln 894 10 1 14,200 London 1119 8 4 Norwich Oxford Peterborough 414 19 11 Rochester 358 3 2 1-2 10,656 7,548 tenth of the grass the cattle consume, &c. The gross number of the established priesthood who have "livings," in England, (from a late speech in parliament) appears to be about 11,700. In addition to the bishops there are 24 deans, 60 archdeacons, 200 prebends, 100 cannons, 14 chan. cellors, 11,300 rectors, and vicars. The whole of the clergy of this church including the minor cannons, curates, chaplins, rural deans, lecturers, &c. &c. &c. amount to fifty or sixty thousand men -add to these the parish clerks and other officers or members of the church, with their various retainers and servants, directly or indirectly paid by the labor of the people, and the whole aggregate may be estimated at 120,000 able bodied hearty fellows, whose trade and business it is to keep this great machine of monarchy in motion! The archbishops, bishops and archdeacons, &c. likewise hold courts, in which the proceedings (of a nature too various to detail,) are among the most vexatious and expensive to which the people are liable. Not more than two-fifths of the British nation are professed members of the established church; but all are compelled to contribute alike to its mainte nance. Such is the national church of England, which boasts of being more TOLERANT than any other in Europe. All the dignified places are in the gift of the king and it may easily be believed that the clergy are among the most faithful friends of royalty If after being notified forty-eight hours, the priest does not remove his tenth, the farmer may remove |his own part of the crop. lar sect. DOES NOT EXIST IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. History Of the Invasion of Spain by Bonaparte. ABRIDGED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 115.) We close this article by observing, that, though was contained in it, the precursor of others, and in among the clergy of all established religions, there itself and of the most dangerous and fatal tendency. are men of great piety and virtue (if piety and It was said "that the number of the enemy's troops virtue can exist in a person who lives on the labor of was not so great as the French stated, to intimidate others, without their consent) they are generally them; and that the positions which they had taken among the most venal and corrupt of mankind. were exactly those in which they could be conquerThis remark is made without particular reference ed and defeated in the easiest manner." Whatever to England; though, at the " reformation" of 9000 momentary advantages might be hoped for by thus beneficed clergymen, less than a hundred refused | decieving the people as to the extent of their danto conform to the new order of things, rather than ger, was sure to be counterbalanced, ten-fold, lose their "livings" and, perhaps, would now turn whenever they were undeceived, as inevitably they back again if desired. It is so, and naturally will would be. be so, in all parts of the world, where pre-eminence Palafox, in his manifesto, had invited deserters and exclusive privileges are enjoyed by any particu- from the French army to enlist under him. Many How much reason have the United States of the provincial proclamations, in like manner, to be thankful for their envied lot-for that benefi- distinguished between Bonaparte and the people cent spirit of toleration which recognizes no other over whom he governed, calling the French an distinction than virtue, and causes the catholic, the enlightened, a generous, an honorable nation; and well as quaker, the episcopalian and the presbyterian, the saying, that they, as the Spaniards, haptist and the methodist, and all other sects, to meet in were eager to see the destruction of the tyrant harmony, and part in brotherly love, kindly hoping who oppressed and disgraced them. They exand firmly believing, that all may arrive at the con- pressed a hope, that the success of Spain might summation of happiness, though travelling towards induce the French people to offer him up as a vicC y different roads. SUCH A STATE OF THINGS tim for their own sakes, for the sake of universal justice, and to expiate the shame which his perfidy and cruelty had brought upon France. "Do not," said they," believe that all Frenchmen are accomplices in these iniquities. Even among those who compose the armies of this barbarian, we know that there are some unhappy individuals, who, amidst all the evils with which they are surrounded, still cherish in their hearts the seeds of virtue.”— An eloquent address from the junta was sent The junta of Seville addressed a proclamation exforth to the people of Madrid :-"Seville," said they pressly to the French armies:-" Frenchmen," has learned with consternation and surprise your said they, "you possess no longer laws or liberty. dreadful catastrophe of the second of May; the weak-You have shed streams of your own blood only to ness of a government, which did nothing in our favor; wh.ch ordered arms to be directed against you, and your heroic sacrifices. Blessed be ye, and your memory shall shine immortal in the annals of our nation. She has seen with horror, that the authors of all your misfortunes, and of ours, has published a proclamation, in which he distorted every fact, and pretended, that you gave the first provocation, while it was he who provoked you. The government was weak enough to sanction and order that proclamation to be circulated, and saw with perfect composure, numbers of you put to death, for a pretended violation of laws which did not exist. The French were told in that proclamation, that French blood profusely shed, was crying out for vengence! And the Spanish blood, does not it cry out for vengeance? -that Spanish blood, shed by an army which hesitated not to attack a disarmed and defenceless people, living under their laws and their king, and against whom cruelties were committed which shake the human frame with horror. We all Spain, exclaim the Spanish blood shed in Madrid cries aloud for revenge!-Comfort yourselves, we are your brethren: we will fight like you, until we perish in defending our king and country. Assist us with your good wishes, and your continual prayers offered up to the most high, whom we adore, and who cannot forsake us because he never forsakes a just cause. Should any favourable opportunity offer xert yourselves as valiant Spaniards, to shake off the ignominious yoke imposed on you with the slaughter of so many of your innocent fellow citizens, and with a perfidy horrid beyond example." The proclamation to the people of Spain, was worthy of its cause and object-higher praise cannot be bestowed-and of that praise this admirable address is fully worthy. Excellent as this address was, one grievous fault reduce Europe under the tyranny of a Corsican.Spain has been your true and faithful ally, and in many ways contributed to your triumph: yet she has been dispoiled by your tyrant, of her laws, her monarchs, and her freedom. not by gallantry and valor, but by treachery and fraud, in which you are forced to co-operate. Your arms are defiled, and you are made to assist in deeds of infamy inconsistent with your generous character, and with the name of the great nation which you have acquired. We invite you to withdraw from banners which are destined to enslave all nations, and to enlist under ours raised for the best of causes, to defend our laws and our king, whereof we have been robbed, not by force of arms, but by fraud, treachery and ingratitude of the deepest dye. Wipe off the stain which otherwise will indelibly disgrace your nation! The Spaniards tender you the just reward of such an action; with open arms will they receive you, and fight by your side; and, when the war shall be terminated with that success which they have every reason to expect, land shall be given you, which you may cultivate unmolested, and pass your remaining days amidst a nation which loves and respects you, and where impartial justice shall incorruptibly protect all your fair enjoy ments. ye "Italians, Germans of all the provinces of that great country, Polanders, Swiss, and all who compose the armies called French, will ye fight for him who oppressed and despolied you of what you held most sacred? For him who dragged you from your families and homes, robbed you of your property, your wives, your children, your native land, which he has enslaved? will you fight against a nation, which it is intended to subdue and enslave, under the cloak of alliance and friendship, by fraudulent treachery, detestable and horrid bc THE WEEKLY REGISTER-CHRONICME, yond any precedent in history, even among barbarous nations? come to us, and you shall meet with valor, generosity, and true honor. We tender the same reward to you as to the French; and we and your posterity will enjoy them trust that you peace in and happiness." Here is smuggle in the United States, in opposition to a mere a bona fide American would be refused ingress by the commanders of the said ships; and, indeed, be made good prize for attempting to enter. I have so far deviated from the subject, to shew the true explanation of the orders in council. that congress must have had great faith in British But in nothing was the wisdom of the Seville jun-amity indeed, to suppose, they would not attempt to ta more conspicuous than in the precautions which they published as necessary to be observed in the conduct of the war. After giving the most prudent directions on this head, they animated the feelings of the people by reminding them of their former achievments. "France," said they, "has never domineered over us, nor set foot in our territory. We have many times mastered her, not by deceit, We have made her kings but by force of arms. prisoners, and we have made the nation tremble. British goods are feloniously introduced into the We are the same Spaniards; and France, and Europe, and the world shall see that we have not degenerated from our ancestors."-They were also United States to a prodigious amount. Canada, the watchful to confute the falsehoods which the French grand centre point of this business in America, like circulated, and particularly those which the base-Heligoland was in Europe, has prospered beyond ness of the late government still permitted to be pub-example by it:-and, into every considerable port lished in Madrid. Care was taken to convince the na- of the United States, immense quantities are introtion, that when they had freed themselves from this duced in defiance of law; to the detriment of the intestine war, the cortes should be assembled, abu- revenue, the demoralization of the people, and the ses reformed, and such laws enacted as the circum- great injury of the honest trader. The business is restances of the time and experience might dictate duced to a system-and Boston, it seems, is to become Is there no remedy for these things?-Are our for the public good. "Things," said they "which the great reservoir for the states on the sea board. we Spaniards know how to do, and which we have Suppose.-One hundred fast sailing vessels, well done, as well as other nations, without any neces- laws to become dead letters on the statute book? sity that the vile French should come to instruct, and, according to their custom, under the mask of armed and appointed, were put into commission, "Green mountain boys" employed to look towards friendship, and wishes for our happiness, contrive for guarding the coast-and three or four thousand (for this alone they are contriving) to plunder us, to violate our women, to assassinate us, to deprive Canada-giving to those who seized smuggled goods us of our liberty, our laws, and our king; to scoff three-fourths of the amount, and appropriating the at and destroy our holy religion, as they have hi-other fourth to defray the expenditure occasioned therto done, and will always continue to do, as long as that spirit of perfidy and ambition, which oppresses and tyranizes over them, shall endure." Such was the noble resolutions and so eloquent was the language with which these men commenctheir opposition to this lawless invasion of their rights. There was no wavering, no timid calculations of policy. TO BE CONTINUED. the law be supported? We think it would. "A spark from the altar of seventy six”—a little Sheep Breeding. H. N. FIRST MEETING OF THE MERINO SOCIETY OF On Saturday, the fifth of this month, the Merino The Non-Importation Law. The twelfth congress convenes at Washington in Society of the middle states held their first stated a few days—If they do not, immediately, adopt mea-meeting since their organization, at the farm of Mr. sures to enforce, I hope they will flatly repeal, the non-importation law. If they will do neither, let the AND title be changed, and the act be called, "AN ACT FOR THE BETTER ENCOURAGEMENT OTHER PURPOSES." OF ROGUERY Caldwell, their president, near Haddonfield, in Jersey. Besides the members of this most laudable facturers attended, and count Pahlen, doctor Loassociation, several farmers, proprietors, and manugan with some other gentlemen, were present as In Great Britain the most severe laws exist guests. Between two and three hundred full bloodagainst smuggling; and the commission of forgery ed merinoes, in the finest order both of fleece and is never pardoned. But if these things are done flesh, some in the open enclosures, others in sepaout of the realm, or, only to affect persons not sub-rate folds were exhibited: their appearance provjects of "his majesty," they become virtues, and are ing, beyond all controversy, that the soil, climate, patronized by the government! The counterfeiting and food of Jersey, are fully congenial with the of our paper money; the manufacture of the French health and excellence of this inestimable animal. A assignats-the public sale of forged papers in Lon-large number of those examined on the present ocdon, at this day, and the immense smuggling busi-casion, when purchased from the importers, were ness that has been carried on in the north of Eu- feeble, pining, and more or less diseased: but the rope, under the immediate protection of British whole flock is now completely recruited and re-esta national vessels of war, prove the truth of our asser-blished in, at least, as good condition as they ever tion, and leave the, fact unquestionable. Methinks this is a curious morality. Fifteen thousand voyages, per annum, have been fleece of the sheep of England, France and other enjoyed in Spain. As the Spanish sheep improve the countries, to which they have been transported, there is every reason to believe from that circumstance alone, that their amelioration will attend their establishment in the United States, and that The Leicestershire sheep in England yield in Lincolnshire 6 to 9 pounds of wool. It is finer than that of the Lincoln breed. The carcase is not so heavy; but so good lands are not required for this breed. The Herefordshire, English sheep, yield very fine wool: but only 2 to 3 pounds to the fleece.-The Merino sheep yield finer and much more wool, and our dry climate particularly well suits this valua(Dem. Press. Miscellaneous. BLESSINGS OF ROYALTY. by care and attention to preserve the breed pure, the merino may reach the highest state of perfection in the United States. And it is certain that Mr. Caldwell, in all his enterprizing purchases from the late importations of Spanish sheep, has never met with any equal in appearance, fineness of fleece or length of pile, to those of his own raising from his original flock. About one hundred lambs have been the produce of this year, nearly all of which have been so far reared without accident or distemper. Re-ble breed. duced as Spain is, beyond all hopes of immediate reinstatement, and, indeed, with the moral certainty of further devastations, cut off, as we are, by England from French supplies of clothes, and resolved, as we ought to be, ourselves, not to import Of one of Bonaparte's wives-the ex-mistress of from England while she insists on monopolizing Barras-and present discarded Josephine, we had our market, the accession of merino wool, to the the following account a few years ago, extracted stock of American staples, is a matter of the highest | from a French work, published in October, 1803. gratification. In a few years we may undoubtedly "Madame Napoleon never puts on any plain gown furnish our own consumption, and, perhaps, export twice, and she changes her dress four or six times fine wool in large quantities, as we have cotton. The every day. In the summer she makes use of four factory of Messrs. Dupont and Bauduy, near Wil- dozen of silk stockings and three dozen of gloves mington, (Del.) is already well advanced in its ope- and shoes; and in the winter she uses three dozen rations, on an extensive scale, and will before the of the best English cotton stockings, and two doexpiration of the next year, turn out superfine cloths zen of French silk stockings every week. She neof the finest and most durable fabric; and the zeal ver wears any washed stockings nor puts on twice which animates almost every portion of the cominu-the same pair of gloves and shoes. All her chemisnity, for atchieving this great measure of Americanes are of the finest cambrick, with borders of lace independence is the sure pledge of its early and com- that cost ten louis d'ors each; six dozen of chemisplete success. es, with lace are made up for her every month.After visiting the various accommodations which Every three months she exchanges her diamonds Mr. Caldwell has arranged for the preservation and and jewels, or has them newly set according to the comfort of his fine flock, the company sat down be-prevalence of fashion. Four times in the year her tween three and four o'clock, to an elegant dinner, spread in the genuine American exuberance, and passed the remainder of the afternoon in social and rational festivity. [Aurora. plate, china, furniture, tapestry, hanging, carpets &c. are changed according to the seasons. She has ordered as her regular establishment, two new carriages and twelve different horses every month; and of the thirty six horses in her private stable, the A CLOTHIER-No. V. master of the horses has a power to dispose of HEAVY FLEECED SHEEP.-It is stated in "Arthur twelve every three decades, to be replaced by twelve Young's Lincolnshire,” that Mr. Graves, of that others of fashionable color. Twelve times in the county, had a true Lincoln sheep, which clipped year, all persons belonging to her household receive twenty three pounds of wool, the first year, and with-new accoutrements or liveries. Her own wardrobe in half a pound of that weight the second year, and is divided every thirty days between her maids of was sold in the London market the following Christ-honor. mas, weighing forty pounds the quarter. This gentleman (Mr. Graves) sold in 1796, no less than 3568 tods of wool, weighing each 28lbs. They feed often on oil cakes, often on turnips, and sometimes on a plant called the Saw thistle which grows on rich lands. Nothing makes wool grow so fast as oil cake. "Madame Napoleon has four distinct established wardrobes, different diamonds, &c. for travelling, for the Thuilleries, for St. Cloud and Malmaison; and though she cannot reside but in one place at the same time, in the Thuilleries as well as at St. Cloud and Malmaison, four changes of furniture, &c. are always ordered for the same period. At St. Cloud It is also stated, that the sheep around Boston, she has at the expence of thousands of louis d'ors, in Lincolnshire, (Great Britain), yield, on an ave-improved the bathing cabinet of the late unfortunate rage, 14 pounds of wool per annum, fit for kerseys, blankets, carpets, shalloons, &c. A lady of Spalding, in the same county, spun one pound of this wool into 168,000 yards, or 95 miles of yarn. The apprentices spin it to the length of 13,440 yards to the pound, or 8 miles.-Hence we may learn the profits this country can make on long wooled or heavy fleeced sheep, by combing the wool and making "worsted" stuffs, such as shalloons, durants, moreens, bombazetts, &c. They use a machine to comb wool called "a Big Ben." The price of a fat Lincolnshire sheep, after the third shearing is 38s. to 72s. sterling or eight dollars and forty-four cents to 16 dollars for the sheep. The Lincoln sheep are preferred to any other by the English marsh graziers for hardiness and for profit. Heavy sheep have been found to eat less in proportion to weight, on some experiments, than light. cr sheep. queen. By touching certain springs, she can command what perfumes her caprice demands to mix with the waters, the reservoir always containing for fifty louis d'ors, the finest odours and best perfumed waters, by handling other springs, she commands the appearance of drawings, or other pictures. elegant or voluptuous, gay, or libertine, as her fancy desires. When she wishes to leave the bath, at the signal of a bell, she is, by a mechanical invention, lifted without moving herself from the bathing machine, into an elegant, moderately warm, and perfumed bed, where she is dried in two minutes; and from which she is again lifted and laid down upon a splendid elastic sofa, moved without her stirring, by another piece of mechanism, into an adjoining cabinet for her toilet, of which the furniture and deco rations cost 100,000 livres. For the improvements only of her luxurious, though less expeasive bathing cabinet, at the Thuilleries and at Malmaison, the French republic has paid 200,000 livres." |