A bottle of old hoc, containing twenty-one ounces, nearly an ounce.

A bottle of brandy, containing twenty-four ounces, ten ounces.

A bottle of rum, containing twenty-four and a half ounces, nine ounces and a half.

A quart of public-house ale (not bottled), from the brewery of Mr. Wyatt, one ounce.

From a quart of common draught porter, from the brewery of Messrs. Elliot and Co., five and a half drachms.

From the foregoing results, it appears that four bottles, of laying down rales for governing the caprice and whims of the infirm stomachs of crazy invalids. Here all the codes of dietetics fail, and the suggestions of reason are commonly in direct opposition to the desires of appetite. In all matters of importance regarding the adjustment of this most supreme organ of existence, honest instinct comes a volunteer, and nine times out of ten makes out a fair title to be called "unerring*." either of port, sherry, or Madeira, contain more ardent spirit than a bottle of brandy.

Three bottles of sherry are nearly equal to one bottle of rum. That ten bottles of hock, or ten quarts of ale, or about fourteen and a half quarts of porter, are equal to a bottle of brandy.

* "As to the quality of food, though whatever is easy of digestion, singly considered, deserves the preference; yet, regard must be had to the palate and appetite, because it is frequently found, that what the stomach earnestly covets, though of difficult digestion, does nevertheless digest better, than what is esteemed of easier digestion if the stomach nauseates it: I am of opinion the patient ought to eat only of one dish at a meal." Vide Sydenham's Treatise on Govt.

"My appetite is in several things of itself happily enough accommodated to the health of my stomach: whatever I take against my liking does me harm: but nothing hurts me that I eat with appetite and delight." Vide honest Montaigne's Essay on Experience, book iii. chap. 13.

"The taste, considered superficially, would seem to be a if strong spices and savoury herbs awaken (he appetite, they in an increased ratio accelerate the action of the bowels, and prematurely hurry the food through, the alimentary canal, too rapidly to allow the absorbents to do their work properly. We advise those whose stomachs stand in need of such artificial stimulants, if they value either intensive or extensive life, rather to abstain from dishes requiring a vigorous stomach, than resort to such pernicious means of forcing the action of a feeble one: moreover, by the too frequent use of piquante sauces, etc, the papillary nerves of the palate become so blunted, that in a little lime they lose all sensibility and relish for plain nourishing being, for whose benefit they are established. It is very natural that the mouth, which first receives the aliment, and of course becomes the taster, as it were, in respect of the gullet and stomach, should he endued with a discerning property beyond them; as it is the part of a good clerk of the kitchen to distinguish himself by an elegant choice of provisions, to prevent his incurring the disp'ensure of his employers.' Vide the ingenious Le Cas's Essay on the Senses.

A little respect to the suggestions of instinct, every invalid will find of infinite advantage: those who are poor in health, must live as they can: certainly the less stimuli any of us use, the sensation peculiar to the mouth, and distinct from that of hunger or thirst. But, if we trace its origin, we shall he-convinced that this organ, which in the mouth makes us sensible of the fitness and delicacy of meats- and drinks, is the selfsame principle, that in the mouth, gullet, and stomach, is craving for food, and incites us to a longing after it. These three parts, properly speaking, are but one continued organ,, and have but one and the same object. If the mouth creates in us an aversion to any particular food, does not the gullet recoil at the approach of it? and does not the stomach immediately discharge its disagreeable contents? Hunger, thirst, and taste, are therefore three effects of the same organ. Hunger and thirst are the motions of the organ desirous of its object. The taste is the motion of the organ, in the enjoyment of this object. This unity of the organ, in regard of hunger, thirst, and taste, is the cause of these three effects being almost always in the same proportion in the same persons. The more violent the appetite fot-food is, the greater is the enjoyment in. eating;, and the more the taste is gratified, the more easily the organs defray the expense of this gratification, by digestion. This rule is general, in regard of all the sensations and all the passions. Genuine desire constitutes the proportion of the pleasure,. and of the power without this mutual consent, founded on the sympathy of these organs, our sensations would destroy that better; and those combinations which excite the circulation at the least expense of nervous and muscular irritation, and afford the greatest portion of nourishment, must be most friendly to the stomach, when it demands restorative diet.

Food, And the sensualist is punished with all the sufferings of incessant and incurable indigestion, perturbed sleep, and the horrors of the night mare, etc etc.: however, enough has been written a thousand times over, by a thousand cautionists, to convince any rational creature of the advantages re-suiting to both body and mind from a simple and frugal fare: the great secret of health and longevity is to keep up the sensibility of the stomach. It is highly gratifying to me, to find my sentiments so frequently in unison with those of the editor of the "Almanack des Gourmands" indisputably the best written book on the savoir vivre, and which I had not met with till my own work was nearly ready to go to press. In the 5th volume, page 195, speaking of the immoderate use of spices, etc. he says: "The stomach, the bowels, the liver, and the other viscera, soon become affected with many unmanageable maladies, against which all the skill of Esculapius will avail nothing. Seek appetite, then, from air and exercise, rather than from the excessive use of exotic stimulants, especially the inflammatory spices, which arc burning as the sun which produces them; and however medicinal or alimentary they may be to the inhabitants of the tropics, to us are absolute poisons."