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rejoice, that the merchants have obtained thoſe late a ccomMmMo- DATIONS which ſeem to have been abſolutely neceſſary to ſave many of them from ruin.

M SUGAR, Of fs OWA nature, is fitted to become a very bene- ficial ſubject of commerce. It is not a mere luxury, but‘one of the moſt ſalutary articles of our neceſſary food,—? Hydrogen, carbon,

OXYgen,, azote, are almoſt’ the only ſimple principles which, the ultimate reſult of chemical an ialyíis obtains from the bodies of men and other animals. THe E food upon which animals are nouriſhed, muſt ES upply theſe principles: And the uſe of this or that ſpecies of food, is more or ef falutary, i in proportion as it affords them, in greater or ſmaller abundance, more or leſs ſuitably

united, more or"leſs caf y of diffolution in the ſtomach.—Bur, SUGAK 1s a compound of hydrogen and carbon, with a ſmall pro- Portion of oxygen; a E that, when taken only in due quantity, is very eaſy digeſtible; 2nd that E ſents its ſeveral Pri aciple 2s combined i i à proportion, in which'they are exceeding- Îy fit to be adminiſtered for the ſupport of human life. Moſt of our favourite vegetables afford the nouriſhment for which we value them, nearly in a /accharine form. CULLEN, and other eminent phyficians, have conſidered /accharine ſubſtances as the beſt aliments for perſons in the laſt feebleneſs of GS dif- Eaſe: Tnfants; while their taſte is yet ſimple and ES BIS moîft inſatiably fond of the ſweetneſs of ſugar: And it ſeems to be the wiſe order of nature, that whatever is wholeſome to the bodily conſtitution of uncorrupted man, is originally pleaſing to his taſte. On the ſugar plantations in thé Weſt India Iſles, during the ſea- ſon while the canes are cut down and the ſugar extracted, new ritality,, health, beauty, E joy, are diffuſed over the whole coun- try, by the general uſe which D dren,- ſlay Ves, pigs, and all other ánimals, then make, without reſtraint, of the juicy ſugar canes for their nou ciſhment. E 15, ÎN N o generally and ſo largely inuſe throughout the world, that,—if it were not of all our articles of food, the'moft falutary E it were even E R ſome,—it could not il of being. dreadfuliy, pernicious. Our wheat, our barlez its, Our pôtatoes, our beef, mu ton, pork, poultry, and fiſh, are excellent for the ſuſtenance’ of life. But, none of all theſe, preſents the moſt reguiſite nouriſhment in a more r form, than that in which we have it in ſugar. Even milk,

ble part of the food of: rich and poor among us, has a ugar for one of its beſt elements.

SIT, it is, in our preſent circumſtances, highly ad- to this country, to procure its SUGARS, rather from fſt India IMands, than in any other way.

even be a plant found, ſuch as the Sugar-beet, the Cc: NV CNIENt ſubje&t of our domeſtic agri- ime, while ît fhould afford /ugar, ina quan- Grratiei: yet, would it not be prudent in