Bainbridge, Thomas, esq. Physicians' College. Baker, William, esq. Bayfordbury, Herts. Beachcroft, Matthew, esq. 39, Cra ven-street. Beauvoir, Rev. Peter, 33, Lichfield-street, Soho. Beckwith, Mr. William Andrew, Snow-hill. * Bedford, William, esq. Friday street. ent, John, esq. Sackville-street. R Berens, Joseph, esq. 76, Lombard-street. ** Blades, John Hobson, esq. Ludgate-hill. * Boldero, Edward Gale, esq. Post Office, Windsor. Bonar, Thomson, esq. 51, Broad street. Borradaile, John Watson, esq. 34, Fenchurch-street. Boulton, Henry, esq. Thorncroft, near Leatherhead. Brandram, Thomas, esq. 17, Sizelane. Brickwood, John, esq. 79, Marklane. Brickwood, Nathaniel, esq. 1, Crescent, Minories. Brooks, John, esq. Chancery-lane. Brooks, John Thomas, esq. 25, Chancery-lane. * Brown, James, esq. St. Alban's. Brown, Benjamin, esq. 157, Cheapside. * Buckle, John William, esq. Marklane. Bulcock, James, esq. 119, Borough. Burchall, John Henry, esq. Walthamstow. Calthorp, Right Hon. Lord, 33, Grosvenor-square. Carrington, Right Hon. Lord, Privygarden. Cavendish, Lord George Henry, Saville-row. *Calverley, Thomas, esq. Albany. Cartwright, Charles, esq. East India-house. ** Champin, Richard, esq. Mag dalen-college, Oxford. Cator, John, esq. Beckenham, Kent. Christie, John, esq. 323, Wapping. * Clark, Richard, esq. New Bridge street. **Cornwall, Rev. Alan Gardner, 37, Grosvenor-square. Cullen, Charles, esq. Camberwell Grove. ** Curtis, James, esq. Old SouthSea-house. Curtis, William, esq. 61, Portlandplace. * Durham, Hon. and Right Rev. Shute, Lord Bishop of, 16, Cavendish-square. Devonshire, his Grace the Duke of, * Downe, Right Hou. Lord Visct. 11, street. Denison, William Joseph, esq. 94, Pall Mall. Dent, William, esq. Wandsworth Common. * Dent, John, esq. 10, Hertfordstreet, May-fair. Deacon, J. esq. Broomfield-house, Clapham. Divett, Thomas, esq. Wimpole-street. Du Cane, Peter, esq. 42, Great Portland street, Portland-place. * Durand, J. H. esq. Woodcotlodge, Carshalton. * Eardley, Right Hon. Lord, 51, Lower Grosvenor-street. Egremont, Right Hon. Earl of, 4, Grosvenor-place. Eardley, Hon. Sampson Eardley, 7, Hinde-street, Manchester-square. Elwall, George, esq. 7, Love-lane, Aldermanbury. Easthope, John, esq. 10, Exchange-buildings. Fitzwilliam, Right Hon. Earl, 4, Grosvenor-square. ** Frederick, Sir John, bart. 32, Grosvenor-place. Farrer, John, esq. Clapham Common. Fazakerley, J., N. esq. 9, Albany. Fellows, Thomas, esq. 11, Aldersgate-street. * Fenn, Nathaniel, esq. Botolphlane. Franco, Francis, esq. 31, Great Portland-street. Jranco, Ralph, esq. Freeman, place, East. Frisby, Mr. Edward, 35, Basinghall-street, John, esq. 2, Judd • Fryer, George, esq. Bath. Finch, Charles, esq. Cambridge. Finch, Matthew, Jun. esq. Deptford. Graham, Sandford, esq. Portlandplace. Green, George, esq. Poplar. Grote, George, esq. 62, Threadneedle-street. Guillebaud, the Rev. Peter, Mr. Lea's, 26, Old Jewry. * Gibbs, George Henry, 11, Bedford-square. Hastings, the Most Noble Marquis of Hertford, the Most Noble Marquis of, Manchester-square. Hale, Rev. W. H. Christ's Hospital. Hallet, James, esq.12, North-Audleystreet, Grosvenor-square. Hambrough, John, esq. 16, Hereford-street. Hankey, Thomson, esq. 7, Mincing-lane. Harman, Jeremiah, esq. Adam's court, Broad-street. Harrison, Benjamin, esq. Guy's Hos pital. Harvey, Thomas, esq. 16, Portland-place. Hathaway, William Silas, esq. Lloyd's Coffee-house. Hayes, James, esq. 17, New Surrey-street. Helps, Thomas, esq. 121, Cheapside. Henckell, George, esq. 12, Welbeck street. 3 I A SHORT ROAD TO BOTANY BAY. If you are a journeyman, or an out-door apprentice, have your meals at a public-house-smoke your pipetake a dodger of gin three times a-day-go to a free-and-easy every night; if you sing a good song, you will soon be in the chair-form acquaintance with some idle fellows-go to a prize-fight; your associates will probably propose to pick a pocketjoin in it-get taken, tried, and sentenced-never mind the consequences; they are trifling: it will only break the heart of your poor old mother, and send your father sorrowing to an early grave. WELL AND ILL. It is well to follow the law: It is well to pursue a wild beast: ANNALS OF GULLING No. XVIII. CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY. [We publish the following letter on account of the information which it contains, as well as the peculiarity of its style and orthography.] To the Edeter of the Economist en all Partes you Must a Lude to in your 16 Number, & from that I Bort your fust Number after a deal of Truble to get not knowen Ware to aply & than I Wars serprise to See the grosees lie Saddel on a Rong Parson, in the fust Place I Work for a M Thos Walker the Parson how hone 2 or 3 Sale House he alway Paid me Like a Gentelman not Wanting anny More goods I wars ablidge to a Pliay to the House of Call for Woerk for my Self to suport & 5 Chidreen after been on the Books 3 Week only Get 5 Days Woerk, I Next a Plide to the London Cabnet Maker Society & thare I attended the Gennul Meeting I fownd thay never take anny man to Woerk, unless thay Can Give him Constant implowment been full my Name is Secend on the Book for Woerk in that Establishment now to Due jestice to all Partes I Will give you Evry informashion in mi Powerin Second Place the London Cabnet Maker Society Never had any thing to Due with the House you Menshion Nor Anny outher for at the time you speek of I Wars in Waten for Monny tell M Thos Walker Cum in, the House in Lime Street belong to a M Thos Walker of Manchester Street, Manchester Squir hows Bisness is Nothing but Sales a man of the Name of Platt wars the Auctione in Lime Street and Sum time Jos Walker but the time the Lady Lade out 50£ Prate Sold & Jos Walker & Archerbauld wars the Mock Brokers after having that house Sum time thay then took a house in Mark lane but thay Left that & ablidge to leve the one in line Street, Through the agent for the Cabnet Maker Society & a M Newton of Cornhill by Porters Large Bill beeware of Mock Auctin, has the agent of the Society wars offen aplide to by Gentilmen that had bort & all Ways Made them Refun the Monny, Next took house in York Place Portman Squir after selling a fue time than is a fresh Plan advertisment Put in the Paper the Property of a Nobilman to bee Sold by Privet Sales things all Mark & Half Price wat they Corst that Would not Long last than is Kne House takin in Duke Street Manchester Squir for Sale & is offen I See by the Paper Sales known I Meet one of the Men that attend M Walker Sales told me that Walker wars after a Nother house in the City I told him he had better Keep the West, for all that appeerd beefore Will agane if he Cum in the City the Name of Men that atend Thos Walke Sale auctions Jos Walker & somtime Joh Platt they Take it in Turns, one Day auction, and one Day Broker Jos. Walke and Archerbauld is Cussin to M Thos Walker Men in attendence Mr Archerbauld, Smith, Burgues, a jew of the Name of Soloman, Goes by the Name of Jinkins Jos Walker Joh Platt Elerm tall, Ugly old man, Shaw, Edmonds, in Short Severel authers hows Names I Cannt Call to my mind at Pressent I lernt thare Name by been a Constant Visiterer for my Mony and if they have no buyers the Porter sets on the Stars to Give Nottice of sum one aproch then thay all begin again tell he go down then stop tell sum one cum agane the Next man in the Sale way is Hart of the Strand hows Got a house in the Delphey Strand witch Will bee oppen in a fu Days More of this Man Next Week Yesterday I attended the London Cabnett Society & show them your Books but thay know of it & Wars told by manny Gentelmen to Tread it with Competent & take No Notice abowt it but after your Secund Notice in your No of 16 I under stand the Commite by order of the Trusstee is to Call a Gennul Meeting for Tuesday Next to Vote a Sum of Money from the fun agains so Grose a false Wood has you have put in your Book & I under stand from the Commite the Society Will bee in Roll under the Last New Act of Parlement Like wise on Tuesday Next the Rules & order of that Society is to bee Read over at the Meetting before takin to the Magstrates, if you Should Like to atend you Can for I understand it is Eld at the Miter Taven, Miter St aldgate at 8 o Clock And thus after all this informashion you are Rong infeorm and the Least you Can due is to beg thare Pardon in your Next Satady No of 17 149 Men in Numb 6 Commite 3 Trusste 159 in all For your informent is Rong in is informashion & if you take the Truble to go to Duke St thare you Will find all True and on the face of this wat Can you say after Trying to due that injurey to a Society of So Grete a Respetibily. Sir, I ham your Humble Servt W Stove Lambouth Excuse the Spelling for I had my Trade to Lern in steed of my Book only I like to See Justice to Evry one even a false Writer I Shall Call at Night for a Number 17 on Monday Pray Due not for Get if Wanted I Can Get you 20 Oath from all Walkemen if Wanted to suport your Charge for the Traid. The original of this letter may b seen at our publishers.] To the Editor of The Economist. MR. EDITOR-In noticing your quotations of the markets of last week, I perceive the highest price of bread is ten-pence the four-pound loaf, and the lowest eight-pence. I am but a poor man, with a large family. I wish you would send a cheap baker up here, for we pay tenpence half-penny the loaf. To be sure, there are two shops here who sell one-penny less, but such bread as is not wholesome to be eaten. The case with butchers' meat is similar; we pay two-pence per lb. more than the London folks pay. Your's, &c. DUMPS. Hampstead, September 14, 1824. laugh at the "Confessions of a Brick"layer," showing by what process a bill for repairs was augmented. These confessions, excellent however as they are in their way, fall infinitely short of those of a Journeyman Baker, which have just fallen into our hands, and of which we propose to render a good account. We have long been of opinion that Pharaoh's chief baker was not the only one of his trade who ought to have been hanged; and could we for a moment have had any misgivings as to the severity of our judgment, they would have been removed by a pamphlet, just published, entitled "Tricks of Bakers, unmasked by James Maton." Of all the frauds of trade we ever read or heard of, we never met with any equal to those exposed by Mr. Maton; and if one-half of his statements are true, there are or have been bakers in London, whose malpractices would, in Turkey, have caused their ears to adorn door-posts, if they did not procure them a baking in their own ovens. Mr. Maton was apprenticed, in the year 1792, to a person in Salisbury, who was miller, baker, &c. and who had some army contracts; he afterwards came to London, and entered the service of a baker, where, on the first Sunday, he got initiated into one branch of the business, that is, of managing the dinners sent to be baked. "As I was the underman," he says, "it became my duty to take the dishes out of the shop into the bakehouse; the second hand, as the cant phrase is, shaves the meat (that s to say), cuts as much off from each joint as he thinks will not be missed; the foreman drains the water off, and puts the dishes into the oven till they require to be turned; after which the liquid fat is drained from each dish, and the deficiency is supplied with water; this fat is the master's perquisite!" Here is a pretty particular considerable way of robing Sunday dinners, as our friend This little article (The Confessions of a Bricklayer) first appeared in "The Economist," and from thence was copied into all the Journals. Jonathan would say. While living with this master, Mr. Maton acquired a knowledge of the trade of dealing in "dead men," or charging loaves to the customers which they never had; this is another lucrative branch of the business, in which master and man strive which can get the monopoly. Such, at least, was the case in this place, and Maton kept a check on his master. He found that four shillings per week, with the spoils of the "dead men," was more profitable than sixteen shillings a week, with lodging, bread, beer, a Sunday dinner, broken victuals, and the spoils of a "sharp knife in the bakehouse, which would shave off a dinner to a hair's breadth." This baker, who appears to have been a terrible plunderer, used to send a peck of flour four pounds short of the proper weight. Another baker with whom Mr. Maton lived, not only robbed the customers' dishes of the fat, but the journeymen of their accustomed perquisite the lean. On Christmas Day, which is usually a banquet with the bakers, Mr. Maton was sent out of the way; but returning rather unexpectedly, he found the master busily employed "in filling his dishes, basons, and tea-saucers, with puddings and mincemeat, and in ornamenting his dough-boards with mut ton-chops, pork chops, veal cutlets, and beef-steaks, cut most scientifically from the viands before him; there were upwards of twenty pudding-dishes from which he had taken toll." Bad as the master-baker was our confessionalist, James Maton, to wit, was worse. "On New Year's Day, or it might be about the Twelfth Day," says he, "we had about a dozen good plum-puddings to bake, and I thought I had a right equal to master's, of making a parishpudding for myself and the maid, and there was one pudding of a superior kind, which smelled strong of brandy; I therefore thought I could improve on my master's plan; for his method was, to take a little out of each dish, but my present method was to take all the best into my dish, and to give the customers the mixture instead.' |