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come, young and old, with merry hearts and active hands, repair to the vineyards, and cafe the vines of their precious loads: but in doing this, the troken-beers are picked from the reft, and kept apart; and they are often fold to those who make aufbruche, by those who do not. The fpoil carried home, the ordinary grapes are trod apart, and the juice is taken out, and then the remaining juice is preffed out from the fkins and stalks: both are commonly put together in tubs, no difference being generally made between the juice trod out and that preffed out. This when fermented forms the common wine; which is not fent out of the country as a delicacy, and never reaches our island. The troken-beers are likewife trod, and then have the confistency of honey to this is added the common juice; and as the richnefs of the aufbruche or maschlafs depends on the greater quantity of the juice of the troken-beers, the proportions vary according to the intent of the owner. The common proportion for an antal of aufbruche, which contains feventeen or eighteen English gallons, is two bufhel of troken-heers; and for a cask of maschlafs, which is only a lefs rich liquor, the fame quantity ́is taken: but then the cask is about equal to two antals; fo that only half the quantity of troken-beers are used to make maichlafs as are ufed to make aufbruche. But as the police does not interfere in this matter, and every one does as he thinks proper, thefe two liquors are often very near alike, and the principal difference then confifts in the fize of the cafks.

"The mixture being made, it is ftrongly fürred together. By this operation the feeds are feparated from the flesh of the grapes, and

come to the top, and are taken out with a net or fieve: thus it remains in the fame veffel, covered over for a couple of days, till fermentation begins; and this is fuffered to continue about three days, according to the weather; that is, till the fermentation has properly mixed the fleshy pulp of the troken-beers with the common juice: it fhould be stirred every morning and evening, and the feeds carefully taken out. If the fermentation is continued too long, the wine receives from the fkins a difagreeable brown colour, and forms a deal of yeast and sediment in the cafk. Nothing now remains to be done, but to pour this liquor through a cloth or fieve into the barrels in which it is to be kept. The refiduum is then preffed: fome even after this, pour the common juice upon this preffed refiduum; but if the prefs is good the common wine gains little by it.

"When a confiderable quantity of the troken-beers remains a fhort time together, fome of their thick juice or firup is expreffed and runs out: this is carefully collected as a great delicacy; it is called effence, and has the confiftence of treacle. No art is used to fine these wines, nor to make them keep. The barrels fhould be kept full, and their outfides free from wet and mildew.

"Aufbruche is not exclufively made about Tokay: there is a Saint George, a Ratchde, and a me uifche aufbruche, and this latter I prefer to that of Tokay; it is red: fome is made likewife in the county of Oedenberg.

"The beft wine does not long remain in the place of its growth: a great part of it is foon fent into the cellars of the nobility in other parts of Hungary; and the greatest quantity is to be found in the coun

ties of Zips and Liptau in the north, from whence it is fent into Poland. The Polish magnates are the best cuftomers, particularly for the aufbruche, which is the deareft European wine that is: here in the country, a bottle of the best is va lued always at about a ducat, that is near half-a-guinea. 1 dined once at the coffee-house at Peft with a few friends: we had only a plain dinner, for which we paid but a moderate price: befides common wine we had fome Tokay: when the waiter came to be paid, he afked each how many glaffes he had

drank of it, and then added twenty creutzers (about eight-pence) for each glafs to the fcot of every drinker of Tokay.Tokay is no doubt a fine wine, but I think no ways adequate to its price: there are few of my countrymen, except on account of its fcarcenefs, who would not prefer to it good claret or Burgundy, which do not coft above one-fourth of the price. Some of the sweetifh Spanish wines, begging its pardon, are in my opinion equally good; and unless it be very old, it is too sweet for an Englishman's palate."

ACCOUNT of the FERMENT for BREAD Used at DEBRETZIN.
[From the fame Work.]

IGHTER, whiter, and better flavoured bread than that made here I never ate; nor did I ever fee elsewhere fuch large loaves. Were I not afraid of being accused of taking advantage of the privilege of travellers, I fhould fay they were near half a yard cubed. As this bread is made without yeast, about which such a hue and cry is often raised, and with a fubftitute which is a dry maís, that may be easily transported, and kept half a year or more, I think it may be of ufe to my country, for me to detail the Debretzin art of making bread. The ferment is thus made: two good handfulls of hops are boiled in four quarts of water; this is poured upon as much wheaten bran as can be well moistened by it; to this are added four or five pounds of leaven: when this is only warm, the mafs is well worked together to mix the different parts. This mass is then put in a warm place for

twenty-four hours, and after that it is divided into fmall pièces about the size of a hen's egg or a small orange, which are dried by being placed upon a board and exposed to a dry air, but not to the fun: when dry they are laid by for ufe, and may be kept half a year. This is the ferment, and it is to be used in the following manner: for a baking of fix large loaves, fix good handfulls of these balls are taken and diffolved in feven or eight quarts of warm water.

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ed through a fieve into one end of the bread-trough, and three quarts more of warm water are poured through the fieve after it, and what remains in the fieve is well preffed out: this liquor is mixed up with fo much flour as to form a mass of the fize of a large loaf: this is ftrewed over with flour, the fieve with its contents is put upon it, and then the whole is covered up warm, and left till it has ↓ 3

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rifen enough, and its furface has begun to crack: this forms the leaven. Then fifteen quarts of warm water, in which fix handfulls of falt have been diffolved, are poured through the fieve upon it, and the neceffary quantity of flour is added, and mixed and kneaded with the leaven; this is covered up warm, and left for about an hour. It is then formed into loaves, which are kept in a

warm room half an hour; and after that they are put in the oven, where they remain two or three hours according to the fize. The great advantage of this ferment is, that it may be made in great quantities at a time, and kept for use. Might it not on this account be ufeful on board of fhips, and likewife for armies when in the field?"

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The EFFECTS of BENEFICENCE more extenfive than are foreseen, or intended, illustrated in the STORY of Dr. CLEMENT,

[From the PHILANTHROPE.]

[R.Eden of Wildrofe-hall had

poft-chaife drove up to his door; and

M made his fortune in India. fervant informed him, that an

A very short time before his return to England, having feen at Calcutta an amiable and beautiful young lady, the coufin and companion of lady Alwin, the wife of colonel Alwin; and never confidering her fmall or no dowry as any objection, he asked, and received her hand. He regarded her beauty, amiable difpofitions, and elegant accomplish ments as fufficient dowry; nor was he difappointed in his choice, for fhe was as deferving as the was fair. On his return to Britain, he purchased a fine house and extenfive park in the weitern part of Ef-, fex; and having nothing wherewithal to accufe himself during his refidence in the Eaft, and being therefore as eafy in mind as in external circumftances, he flattered himself with the profpect of happinefs.

"One dark autumnal evening, foon after he had taken poffeffion of his villa, while fitting in his parJour during a dreadful ftorm of rain, thunder, and lightning, a

old gentleman, wifhed for permitfion to pafs the night in his houfe, He learned too that the ftranger was juft come from the Continent; that he was on his way from Colchefter to London; that the driver, not well acquainted with the country, and confounded with the violence of the tempeft, had miftaken the lane that led to Wildrofe-hall for the road to Rumford; and that the gentleman was fo very ill, that he could not venture to go even as far as the nearest inn. It is needlefs to fay, that he was received with the kindeft welcome. For, befides that Mr. Eden's humanity would have fo inclined him; there was fomething particularly interefting in the gray hair, dignified cou rage, open countenance, and dejected air of the ftranger. He remained fome days at the hall till he fomewhat recovered, and in that time the prepoffeffions of Eden in his behalf grew into strong attachment.

"I have been indeed unfortu pate,

nate,' faid the old gentleman, giving fome account of himself as foon as his ftrength permitted him;

his fucceffor confidered me as no lefs neceffary to himself than Į had been to his father. At

and I know not that my misfor-length, however, my melancholy ⚫ tunes are at an end. I was happily established in the early part of my life as a physician in the • North of England. By the death ' of a maternal uncle in the ifland ⚫ of Antigua, and whofe name I was by his will appointed to affume, I fucceeded to a confideraIt was neceflary,

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however, that I fhould go thither to receive the inveftiture and poffeffion of his property and eftates. The veffel in which I failed was feized by a Moorish pirate; was carried to Barbary ; and I was never heard of, I believe, by my friends: for the governor of Mogadore learning my profeffion, fent me immediately, to Fez, to render what affiftance I could to the emperor of Morocco, who was at that time af'flicted with a dangerous malady.

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was growing into defpondency I had been eighteen years in a ftate of captivity; my health was vifibly impaired, and the young emperor, with an humanity which I muft commend, confented to my departure. Nor did he part with me without expreffions of friendship; and an ample compenfation, not for the bondage I had endured, but for the services I had rendered him. I returned by Italy and Germany, on account of the troubles in France; and coming from Hamburgh to Colchester, I am not more afflicted with fatigue and weaknefs, than with anxiety to receive intelligence of my family, which 'confifted, at the time I left them, of a wife, and infant of three years old. If they furvive, I may yet be happy: I left them in eafy circumftances, and to the care of an affectionate friend. But if they furvive not!' he fighed, and his voice faltered, if they furvive not! would to heaven that I alfo ' were dead! or had never ⚫ turned !'

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I was willing, from every confi⚫deration, to give him all the aid in my power; and hoped that if I was fuccefsful, my freedom ⚫ might be the price of my fervices. But I was cruelly difappointed. My fuccefs in restoring the em" peror to health, made him con⚫ceive me fo neceffary to his welfare, that he would not fuffer me to depart fo that obferving my impatience, he allowed me to ⚫ have no communication with any ' perfon whatever, who could give notice of my fituation to any of the British confuls. In all other ⚫ refpects I must do him the justice of acknowledging, that I was treated with the utmott kindness, • and lived even in a ftate of barbarous luxury. After the emperor's death, my fituation for fome ♦ time underwent no change, for Leeds! my friend, my deliverer, L4

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"Eden's fympathy, and defire of affording him relief, need not be doubted. He inquired by what addrefs he might procure him the important information he fo anxioufly wifhed for. I have already written,' faid he, from Colchefter, and have alfo written from this place. I perfuade myfelf that in the space of a day, or 'few hours, I fhall be certified of

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my happiness, or utter mifery. I 6 was Dr. Clement in the city of 'Leeds. Merciful heaven!' interrupted Eden. Dr. Clement of

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of virtue, had been able to secure his felicity. His friend perceived it. Sitting under a walout-tree in the fhrubbery adjoining to the house, while they expected the return of Dr. Clement's difpatches, You feem thoughtful,' faid he to Eden; too thoughtful for the happinefs of your condition. Eden looked at him with fome furprize; fighed: fixed his eyes on the ground: You have obferved it then he faid. Indeed, my

• and my protector!' he fell on his neck and embraced him. The ftranger was overwhelmed with amazement. And have you for * got me?' cried Eden; the poor boy whom you faved from ignominious punishment; received into your family, educated and • fent abroad?'-Frank!' faid the venerable old man, fcarcely able to Ipeak for tears; Frank, whom I fent to fchool? The fame, the ་ fame,' faid Eden; poor Frank • Eden! whom you faved and pro-friend, I am afraid I am not tected; who am now, by the bleffing of heaven, in wealth and efteem and glad, beyond the 'power of expreffion, at now meeting, and under my own roof, with my kind benefactor.'

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"Francis Eden had been a poor man's fon. His parents having died while he was yet an infant; and being left to the care of a diftant relation, it need not be a matter of furprize, if at ten years old his education fhould have been neglected, and his habits unpromifing. In fact, he had been carried before à magiftrate for attempting to take fome fruit from a gentleman's garden. The poor orphan was to have been punished and sent to the workhouse. Dr. Clement was prefent. Moved by his ingenuous appearance, by his tears and helpless condition, he interpofed; took him home to his houfe; found him worthy of his attention; had him educated; and recommended him to a merchant in London. By him, being found deferving, he was fent out to India; where by the moft able, upright, and honourable conduct, he realized fuch a fum as enabled him to return with fplendor.

"But neither fplendor of outward circumstances, nor high reputation, nor even the confcioufnefs

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happy. And to you, I will ufe * no referve. Yet I cannot exprefs the caufe; it is fo ftrange; fo unexpected; but fo fufficient to fpoil my peace. My wife-and then he paufed; was unable to fpeak. - Clement gazed with amazement. He was alfo terrified. Hideous images poffeffed his fancy. He was afraid and loth to make any inquiry. He had thought the wife of his friend in all refpects excellent. She was indeed reserved; and had fomething dejected in her appearance. But he was withal fo correct in her deportment, fo refpectful to her husband, fo atten. tive to his friend. It is impoffi

ble! the muft be good!' he thus rallied his recollection; banished fufpicion; was afhamed of his fears; and with fome indignation, not against Eden, but against him felf, is the not excellent?' he exclaimed. Moft excellent!' replied his friend, moft lovely! moft

engaging! blameless as an angel of light! and yet I fear and he groaned with anguifh-I fear I

am not her choice.' His friend, in the kindeft and moft affectionate manner, withed for more informa tion.

"Her delicacy of mind, faid Eden, is indeed moft afflicting. She had no fortune; was under food

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