EDINBURGH: Printed by ALEX. CHAP MAN & Co. For JAMES WATSON, No 57. South Bridge Street. 370 371 372 373-5 375 376 368 369 LONDON. 369 NEW PATENT. MR HENRY TICKLE, of Whitechapel, Brewer, for a Method of more Efe tually Diffolving and Extracting the Virtue of Hops, Malt, and other Ve getable Subflances. The principle employed in this procefs, is to conduct fteam into the veffels containing the fubftance from which the virtues are to be extracted, which veffels are made very tight in order to confine the effential oil and other ve Jatile matter which gives the peculiar flavour to hops and fimilar fubftance. The apparatus in which the fteam is formed, and the methods by which they are conveyed, are the following: Two boilers are erected, fet in brick-work in the ufual manner and closed at the top, over which is placed a fquare back, and in the centre of this is a steam box which receives all the fteam from de boiler. The fteam-box has two pipes; the one to convey team into the pofite boiler, by a pipe which paffes into the oppofite fteam-box, and gos down nearly to the bottom of the boiler; and the other carries fteam to a fervoir, or head, which is placed above, and half way between the two boiler, This refervoir therefore receives fteam equally from both boilers, and is placed at the top of an arch formed by the two opposite afcending copper steam-pipe, which proceed from the team boxes placed over each boiler. The intention of the other team-pipes, which go immediately from the head of one boiler to the bottom of the other, is to allow of both boilers being heated by a finge fire: that is, the one by the furnace placed beneath the boiler, and the other by the fteam of the former. Each boiler is fet over a furnace, that either may be heated at pleasure. The fteam from the refervoir at the top of the arched pipes, is conveyed to any number or form of veffels that may be required. One veffel is placed, for convenience, directly below the refervoir, in the fpace between cach boil. This may contain hops and a little water, which can be heated by conducting a portion of the fteam into it, and the virtue of the hops thus extracted. An ther veffel, placed at a little distance, may contain malt and water, and wi be equally heated by conveying another steam-pipe into it, paffing quite to the bottom, and diftributed by fmaller pipes over the whole of the bottom. Ano ther veffel may contain melaffes and water, and the other materials for før. mentation ufed by the diftillers, aud the requifite heat to excite fermentation given by another team-pipe from the principal refervoir. The Patentee fu nishes every fteam-box with valves of fecurity to prevent rupture by the expar fion of the fteam, and with ftop-cocks to enable him to turn the steam on ary part that may be required. Obfervation. The only important advantage gained (in the process of brewing, at least) by heating any of the materials by fteam in clofe veffels, i in extracting the flavour of the hop, which refides in an effential oil, readily volatilized by the heat, and is totally diftinct from that part of the vegetabl which gives the bitternefs. In common brewing (that is, where hops are really used for the purpose), fome of the effential oil is always loft, and be comes highly fenfible from the grateful smell with which the fteam of the boil ers is impregnated. The infufion of malt certainly requires no particular apparatus for its preparation, but where the expence of a boiler for fteam only is incurred, it is good economy to apply it to every purpose in which heat is wanted. engaged general attention, and in this way he defervedly attracted the notice of practitioners, and foon came into high estimation as a profound lawyer. His employers were much pleased with his eafy unaffec. ted manners, his luminous and convincing mode of ftating his opinions, and his happy and energetic method of pleading his caufes. Mr M'Queen was unremittingly affiduous in his profeffion, and in every cafe where he was concerned, he gave the moft convincing proofs of his great talents and minute attention to business. For a long time after he began to practice, the ufual manner of preparing counfel, was to convene in a tavern, or at the houfe of the fenior advocate, where they were met by the agent who conducted the caufe; at these conful tations, as they are called, Mr M. Queen peculiarly fhone; abftract and difficult points feemed to vanith before him; and the opennefs and candour with which he gave his opinion were highly to his honour. Mr McQueen has been heard to fay, that he liked pleadings before the Lord Ordinary, better than Inner Houfe memorials ; of thefe plead ings he had a very large fhare, he is known to have, repeatedly, pled from 15 to 20 caufes in one day. When it is confidered that he behoved to make himself malter, not only of the points of law involved in each question, but of all the facts and circumstances relating to them, the verfatility of his mind will appear as remarkable as the tenaciouf nefs of his memory. This required, too, a great share of bodily itrength as well as of animal fpirits, of both which Mr M'Queen enjoyed a large share. Mr M'Queen never declined doing his duty in any caufe; he was remarkably diligent and active. The numerous papers which he wrote are proofs of this. The VOL. LXIII. Belles Lettres, and what is generally known by the term of polite li terature, did not fo much then, as now, conftitute a branch of education. Mr M'Queen's ftile of writing was extremely clear, diftinct, and energetic; although neither his language nor his pronunciation were much polished. It would be endless to enumerate the important and remarkable causes in which Mr M'Queen was engaged; indeed, few occurred during his 32 years practice, in which he was not employed on the one fide or the other. It is believed Mr M'Queen never enjoyed the appointment either of a theriff, or of one of his Majesty's Depute Advocates. Mr M'Queen had contracted an intimacy with Mr Dundas, after wards Lord Prefident of the Court of Seffion, and his brother, the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, at a very early period of life. The Lord Prefident, when at the bar, married the heiress of Bonnington, an estate fituated within a mile of Braxfield. During the receffes of the Court, thefe eminent men used to meet at their country feats, and read and study law together. This intimacy, fo honourable and advantageous to both, continued through life. Lord Prefident Dundas and the Lord Advocate, (Henry Dundas), well knew Mr M'Queen's merit and abilities, and they were both defirous of teftifying their fense of them, by obtaining for him a feat upon the bench. Mr M'Queen for fome time refifted their importulities. Being in the receipt of much more money as a barrifter, he conceived that duty to his family required his perfeverance in that fituation. In the year 1776, a Judge's gown became vacant by the death of Lord Coalfton; upon this occafion, the folicitations of the Lord Prefident and his brother, the U u Lord Lord Advocate, were renewed, aid ed and feconded by the late Earl of Suffolk, Secretary of State. To thefe Mr M'Queen at length reluctantly yielded, and took his feat as a judge, on Dec. 13, 1776, by the title of Lord Braxfield. The late Lord Mansfield was fo fenfible of the va luable acquifition which the bench received by this appointment, and of the difistereited conduct of Mr M'Queen upon the occation, that he spoke of it in the highest terms of approbation. Though Mr MQueen had facrificed fo much by leaving the bar, no opportunity occurred of calling him to a higher and more advan tageous fituation till the year 1780, when he was appointed by his Sovereign a Lord Commiflioner of Jufticiary. A few years after, in December 1787, he was premoted to the important office Lord Juftice Clerk of Scotland, in the room of Sir Thomas Miller of Glenlee, who was appointed Lord President of the Court of Seffion, upon the death of Lord Prefident Dundas. Thus did this able law. yer and acute Judge, folely by his own merit, attain one of the high and molt important stations in the country. (To be continued.) ACCOUNT OF THE LATE SIR GEORge staunton. SIR GEORGE STAUNTON was the fon of a gentleman of small fortune, in the county of Galway, in the kingdom of Ireland, and was fent by his parents, early in life, to study medicine at Montpelier, where he took the degree of M. D. After he had finished his ftudies, he repaired to London, and employed himfelf in tranflating fome medical effays, written by Dr Storck of Vienna; poffeffing wonderful facility in the attainment of different languages, he at the fame time drew up in French, for the Journal Etranger, a comparison between the literature of England and France. Soon after this, whilft refident at Stockbridge in Hampshire, he married one of the daughters of Benjamin Collier, Efq; Banker in Salisbury. About the year 1762, Dr Staunton embarked for the Weft Indies, as we find from a farewel letter written to him by the late Dr Johnfon, given by Mr Bofwell in his life of that great man. This epiftle is replete with excellent advice, and does equal credit to the writer, and the perfon to whom it is addressed. Dr S. refided, for feveral years in the West-Indies, where he acquired fome addition to his fortune by the prac tice of phyfic; purchased an estate in Grenada, which he cultivated; and had the good fortune to obtain the friendship of the prefent Lord Macartney, governor of that island, to whom he acted as fecretary, and continued in that capacity until th capture of it by the French, when they both embarked for Europe. Having ftudied the law, while in Grenada, Dr S. filled the office of Attorney-general of the island. Soon after Lord Macartney's arr val in England, he was appointed governor of Madras, and took M: S. with him (for he seems now to have loft the appellation of Doctor as his fecretary. In this capacity, Mr S. had feveral opportunities of difplaying his abilities and intrepi dity, particularly as one of the com mithioners fent to treat of peace with Tippoo Sultaun, and in the feizur of Gen. Stuart who feemed to have been preparing to act by Lord Mac artney as had been before done by the unfortunate Lord Pigot. The fecretary was fent with a fmall par ty of feapoys to arrest the general, which he effected with great fpirit and prudence, and without bloodfhed. On his return to England, the India Company, as a reward for his fervices, fettled on him a penfion of 500l. per annum; the king foon after created him à baronet of Ire. land, and the University of Oxford conferred on him the degree of LL. D. It having been refolved to fend an embaffy to China, Lord Macartney was felected for that purpofe, and he took his old friend and countryman along with him, who was not only appointed Secretary of Legation, but had alfo the title of Envoy-extraordinary and Minifterplenipotentiary bellowed on him, in order to be able to fupply the place of the ambassador in cafe of any unfortunate accident. The events of this embaffy, which, on the whole, proved rather unpropitious, are well known, and are given to the public in two quarto volumes, written by Sir George. When we confider the thort time he took to compile them, added to the fevere illness he actual ly laboured under, and with which he was attacked foon after his re turn, we cannot with hold our praise and approbation. As a further proof the esteem in which the India Company held Sir George Staunton, they appointed his fon, who accompanied him in the former voyage, a writer in China; and had the father's health permitted, he would, probably, again have attended Lord Macarthey in fome honourable and confidential station to his government at the Cape of Good Hope. The memoirs of Sir George, drawn up at full length, would exhibit many inftances of a strong and ardent mind, labouring occafionally, under difficulties, and furmounting dangers by patience, talents and intrepidity. His conduct in the Teizure of Gen. Stuart, demonftrates his refolution and prefence of mind; and when treating with Tippoo, he had the addrefs to induce M. Suffrein to fufpend hoftilities, even before he had received advice from his court of the treaty of peace being figned between Great Britain and France. He is fucceeded in his title by his only fon, now Sir Thomas Staunton. ACCOUNT of JAMES BRUCE of Kinnaird, Efq; AT Cairo Mr Bruce's earthly career had nearly been concluded by a diforder in his leg, occafioned by a worm in the flesh. This accident kept him five weeks in extreme agony, and his health was not re-established till a twelvemonth afterwards, at the baths of Porretta in Italy. On his return to Europe, Mr Bruce was received with all the admiration due to fo exalted a character. After paffing fome confiderable time in France, particularly at Montbard, with his friend the Count de Buffon, by whom he was received with much hofpitality, and is mentioned with great applaufe, he at last revifited his native country, from which he had been upwards of twelve years abfent. It was now expected that he would take the earliest opportunity of giving to the world a narrative of his travels, in which the public curiofity could not but be deeply interested. But feveral circumftances contributed to delay the publication; and what these were will be beft related in his own words : "My friends at home gave me up for dead; and as my death must have happened in circumftances difficult to have been prov. ed, my property became as it were |