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For MARCH, 1757. weather, during the whole flaughtering There has been lately published a very extra- feafon, and one, two, or three months, ordinary Pamphlet, entitled, The Royal ufually expiring before they are coopered Navy Men's Advocate, wherein are and made tight, not only hurts the casks, fully fet forth the corrupt Practices of but the flesh alfo: For as in ftrong winds Victualling the Royal Navy, &c. By and funs the cafks fhrink (the joints being William Thompson, Citizen, in Little A then more open) the wind and fun more Tower-Street, and late Infpecting Cooper forcibly conveying themselves into the flesh, of the Pickle-Yard of his Majesty's which dries up is juices, and makes it Victualling-Office, London. ruity; fo when fnow or rain falls, the wider the joints of the cafks are, the fafter the fnow and rain will penetrate, and gradually render the flesh fomewhat fresh by divefting it of its falt: This makes it foft and flabby, and haftens its decay. T HE author prefixes a declaration, in confirmation of the truth of which, it feems, he received the fa- B crament, that all the material corrupt practices, mentioned in his pamphlet, were true, and matters of fact. As we have no opportunity to examine, nor any authority to determine, whether the facts he mentions be true or falfe, we C fhall not prefume to publish any of them, but from a paper prefented by him to the commiffioners, fome time before his admiffion into the Victualling-office as infpecting cooper, he seems to have been a man who very well understood his bufinefs, which paper is entitled, A Method to rectify fome Miflakes in the Flesh Branch, and is as follows: "Salters provided with larger packing cloths will prevent the dirt of their fhoes mixing with the flesh; and when mistaken in their tale, by having fail-cloths to turn the flesh out upon, will prevent much naftinets being fhovelled up E with the flesh, as is the cafe when turned out upon a dirty floor. It is neceffary the labourers fhould take the cafks to and from the coopers as they hoop them. This will be a means to enable the coopers to perform much more work with lefs fatigue, and will be a great ftep towards preventing the calks being expofed to the weather. It would be alfo advifable to fet afide many fuperfluous hoops, feveral of them being not only ufelefs, but a wafeful expence to the crown, and a lofs of time to the cooper. A very material advantage will thereby D accrue to the flesh, if as foon as the cooper has finished his cafk, the labourer, on taking it immediately away, fhould draw the bung, and lay it down to drain. Then it will eafily be perceived whether the cafk has a clear vent; for if a piece of meat fhould lodge in the bung-hole (as it often does) the deficiency will be better known, and more readily rectified. Befides, every cask muft, by fo doing, be well drained; for ninety or one hundred of them being laid down together, it will be impoffible to difcover an accident of this fort. If the bung-holes fhould chance to be clear, yet the drains may be, and often are ftopped, by the wells they difcharge themfelves into being full of ftinking brine, which choaks up the bung-holes of many of them, the brine in the drains reaching thereto And for want of air, casks are not half drained, fome not at all, the 0 2 labourers Cafks fhould be well made, and of good found timber, and hoops free from mould, or putrid filthy ftenches; and when filled, should be placed under cover For by being kept dry, they will F be hooped with leis fatigue to the cooper, and will be lefs fubject to leak, than when fodden with rain and fnow, and befineared with dirt, blood, and the excrements of oxen and hogs. What is ftill worse, many hundred cafks being exposed to the March, 1757. : 108 MISTAKES in the Victualling-Office reclified. labourers leaving them without any far- The fillings cleared every day, will prevent any cooper charging more work than he has performed; and for want of a due obfervance of the aforefaid methods, many more mistakes arife, fuch as pickled, unpickled, and undrained cafes rolled away together, which, before ftowed up for fervice, are examined, and if any caiks are fuppofed to have loft their pickle, they are again filled up. Deficiences of this for are often judged leaks, but have too often been obferved to be the neglect of pickling, and are often flowed up unpickled, without any due regard to theie overnights. Chentimes casks that are pickled are left on the fillings, and thro' hury, or a different fet of men, have been laid down to drain a fecond time, with those that have not been drained at G H March all, to the lofs of great quantities of the pickle. Cafks fhould be fent to the Red-Houfe, according as the ftore-houfes become full. They fhould alfo be always kept under cover; otherwife the fun and winds acting without, and the ftrength of the pickle within the caiks, muft comprefs the pores of the timber, and caute leaks, to the great waste of much pickle, and damage of the flesh; which laft, by lofing its nutriment, becomes dry and rufty, diminishes in weight, and is more unwholesome to the confumer. In short, the fhell and falt of flesh must thereby occation inveterate fcorbutick diforders in the feamen belonging to the royal navy. The offals fhould be taken out of the flaughter houfe as foon as the flaughter is over; for being suffered to remain till they ftink, the purer air infected, infufes its morbid qualities into the frefh-killed carcaffes of the oxen and hogs, the heat of which ferving alio to attract the corrupt air, the fame remains lodged therein when they grow cold. This in part may be ascribed as one of the caules of the ftinking of 1500 hogs in 1743. The yards of the flaughter-houfes fhould likewife be kept clean, fo much the more, as the blood and excrements of oxen and hogs not being cleared away in due time, produce abominable ftenches. Labourers fhould be appointed to dif charge particular forts of work, which if any one of them neglected, or abfented himfelf, it might eafily be known who he was, by a flight view of thofe that were prefent on their appointed ftation. By this means, none would complain of doing more work than another, or fkreen himfelf from his duty, under the pretence of being elsewhere employed in private fervices of clerks, &c. to the great neglect of the king's bufinefs; but each in his province would do his duty, and know when it was done. Hoops, twigs, &c. (lavishly and unneceffarily wasted) by proper meatures might be prevented." However, his fervices were not, it fecms, agreeable to the commiffioners, for in little more than half a year he was dilinifled, on account of a complaint, that defective or bad pickle had been made use of in curing beef, which had been cured many months before he had been appointed intpecting cooper of the pickle-yard, And he applyed first to the commissioners of the victualling office, and afterwards to the lords commiflioners of the admiralty, for a hearing, in order to justify his con duct, |