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Far more painful is the sensation produced by the in- | the subject of my present reflections. The world is a scene | starting-place, and to measure his course again, must hav spection of a number of figures of about five or six inches of such proverbial misery, and the instances of continued possessed what even they may at the present momen in height, contained in four glass cases, and representing happiness, which are to be met with in it, are so rare, desire; and, resting upon this assumption with as un persons afflicted by the plague at every period of its pro- that an avowal of this kind seems, upon first impressions, limited confidence as if it were incontestibly proved by the gress. In the first, are represented persons suffering un- to bear the stamp of its own falsehood. So prone are man- fullest knowledge of his life, would urge the chase wi der the first attack of the disease; in the second, they ap-kind to judge of others by themselves; so disposed are a speed redoubled by the idea, that the prize for whic pear in the ensuing state of langour and dejection; they they to reject, as fabulous, assertions which seem in oppo- they contend had, in this instance, conferred full happi are extended upon the ground or upon straw mats; their sition to their own experience, that had this sentiment ness. Nor would they change their mode of reasoning complexion is of an olive colour, and a corrupted blood been the only record that remained of Franklin, his opi- if success in the pursuit should show them its fallacy issues from their wounds. In the third, their bodies are nions, or his actions, it would have been regarded, if not as and though, when satiated with the enjoyment of the represented as they appear after death; they are of a deep an intentional falsehood, at least as an opinion avowed in wishes, they started again, untired, and full of hope, i green and covered with livid spots. In the fourth case, is a moment of pleasure, and transient as the sunshine which some fresh chase, they would conclude themselves mi faithfully depicted the putrefaction of the corpses, after warmed it into birth. It would, with much confidence, taken: yet they would perpetuate the error by making th they are thrown into the vault, and have become the food have been asserted, that the person who had left these second object of pursuit, in its turn, the summum bonu of worms and serpents. Such is the truth of these hideous words, as his only memorial, must have been young at compositions, that I have seen people involuntarily hold at the time he wrote them; that they were the production their noses while looking at them. of that age which entertains those flattering dreams of life, which are supposed to be invariably mocked by its sad realities.

The gallery of the Medici contains also specimens of the vases, arms, and other utensils peculiar to every age and every people. The rooms, devoted to the study of anatomy, contain representations, in coloured wax, of every disease incident to the human race. There are also models of the human figure, in every stage of life, from early infancy to decrepit age, in which the finest nerves, arteries, and fibres are executed with admirable science and exactness. These rooms are filled, at certain hours, by young students who multiply the copies of these valuable imitations, executed under the direction of Professor Fontana, by Clement Safini and others.

I stopped in the rotunda, in which the Venus de Medici was placed, before she was taken to Paris to rejoin the other deities of Olympus removed from Rome and Italy. Prefulgebat eo ipso quod non videbatur.

The library of the Medici, at Saint Laurent, and those of Marucelliana and Malabachiana contain many rare manuscripts. The latter is particularly remarkable for its collection of books printed in the fifteenth century. I must not forget to mention the school of engravings, kept by the celebrated Morghen, nor the famous manufacture of works in alabaster of the brothers Pisani, whose statues, vases, and ornaments are much esteemed, both by the inhabitants and by foreigners, and are exported to every part of Europe. Leghorn, Pisa, and Volterra contain also many fabrics of alabaster; that of Volterra, at five or six leagues' distance from Pisa, is much esteemed, and its works are sold at a lower price than those of the

other manufactures.

The school of painting, and of works in mosaic and precious stones, directed by the celebrated Pierre Benvenuti, a native of Pisa, is much celebrated. His pictures are excellent. I remarked one in particular at Pisa, placed at the bottom of the nave of the dome, on the left side of the choir, representing a young and beautiful princess, performing the ceremony of taking the veil, and surrounded by her father, mother, and brothers, which is executed with admirable expression and truth to nature. Liverpool. A. W.

Literature, Criticism, &c.

NO. IV.

ON THE RETROSPECT OF LIFE.

"As constant good fortune has accompanied me even to an advanced period of life, my posterity will perhaps be desirous

of learning the means which I employed, and which, thanks when I reflect on it, which is frequently the case, has induced me sometimes to say that if it were left to my choice, I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to its end; requesting only the advantage authors have, in standing, if this condition was denied, I should still accept the offer of recommencing the same life."-Memoirs of Dr. Franklin, written by himself.

to Providence, so well succeeded with me. This good fortune,

a

second edition, of correcting the faults of the first. Notwith

How few are there, who, looking back upon a life of milar length, could, with sincerity, echo the wish which is

I made these reflections on this passage in the auto-biography of Franklin, which I sat down to peruse, on one of the few rainy days which the fine weather of this July has afforded. It was growing dusk, and when I came to this sentence, the evening had darkened so far, that I could not continue the perusal of this very interesting work without a light. I was so comfortably seated, that I felt unwilling to move; and, instead of rising to call for candles, I leaned back in my elbow chair to enjoy all the luxury of thought..

ness,

But some would adopt a different opinion, who, wearie with continued endeavours, had, late in life, been, b successive disappointments, driven from all hope of su cess; and in despair, ceased every effort to obtain happ and were ready to join Amavia, when"But if that careless Heaven (quoth she) despise The doom of just revenge, and take delight To see sad pageants of men's miseries, As bound by them to live in life's despight; Yet can they not warn death from wretched wight. Come then, come soon, come sweetest death to me, And take away this long lent loathed light: Sharp be thy wounds, but sweet the medicines be That long captived souls from weary thraldom free." They would conclude that Franklin must have bee highly favoured by fortune, and have met with but fe of the misfortunes incident to human life.

Very different would be the inference of the man reason, who was accustomed to act from principle, an not from impulse. Knowing from experience, that it not the enjoyment of ideal pleasures, nor any exemptio from human misfortunes, which confer happiness; bu that it must be successfully sought, by a firm and un wearied course of conduct, by reducing the scale of en expectations, and acting so as to find pleasure in recollection, rather than in anticipation; he would, naturally and justly, be led to conclude, that the man who ha lived a life which he was willing to repeat, must hav made use of every fault, as a beacon, whereby to guid his steps from a similar error; must, as he lived, hav grown wiser, therefore happier; and must have enjoye all the pleasing recollection of having, during his past in whenever circumstances allowed him, been useful to h fellow-creatures. To the man who reasoned thus, Fran lin's life would be of inestimable value; there would see the elenchus of all his views on this subject, and ba before his eyes a forcible example, that, not upon series of events which man can never control, but rational principles of action, firmly adopted, depends t happiness of life.

I tried how far I could apply this assertion to my own life; and looked back into a series of events which awakened emotions of very diverse characters. Some were of that bright and sunny cast which form spots of verdure on the waste of life, where memory loves to linger; but they were few and far between, and they seemed barely visible amidst the sombre hues of the remaining darkness. Turning from the gloom of reminiscence, I varied the scene by generalizing the experiment, hoping that I might draw consolation from comparing my lot with that of mankind in general, and perceiving that I stood not single and alone in the cheerless retrospect. I reflected, that (pursuing my former supposition of this being the only remaining passage of Franklin's writings) had it from any incontrovertible proofs been received without the least doubt, either that he had really felt and expressed such a sentiment, or that it was in his individual experience founded on truth, and not the evanescent dream of momentary deception, the declaration would have appeared of immense importance. Present happiness is the object of almost universal pursuit: few are there, who, for any length of time, imagine that they have attained it; and great would have been the anxiety to discover how that man had passed his existence, who, when he had so nearly arrived at the haven, could wish again to cross the stormy But those who advocated the groundless opinions wh sea of life. Various would have been the hypotheses we noticed above, would, although they read his life, which men would have formed: each would have been to perceive the necessary connection between reason an inclined to figure him to his imagination as successfully happiness; and driven from every other hold, would engaged in that pursuit which he deemed most essentially maintain, that Franklin was of a particularly happ to happiness; and their ideas, of the manner in which he spent his life, would have resembled the picture which the ancients drew of their fabled Elysium, which is so beautifully described in the following well-known lines: "Quæ gratia currûm, Armorumque fuit vivis; quæ cura nitentes

Pascere equos, eadem sequitur tellure repostos."

And, though there is no fact more indisputable than that
nine-tenths of the value of the things, which we so ar-
dently desire in this world, consists in their being objects
of pursuit-that possession takes away the greatest value
from whatever we covet, the place of which is succeeded
by a fresh phantom, to be alike followed and disregarded-
yet these are deductions which men seldom make: on
this point continual experience fails of producing any

conviction.

Numbers, therefore, would think, that the man, who, at the close of a long life, was willing to return to the

temperament, that he felt not the ills of life; for them, po souls, they are "framed of tender stuff." "His passi and feelings," they would say, "must have been v sluggish he must have been very cold. We are of warmer temperature; our feelings and passions hurry away with irresistible impulse." I do not know, w ther I would, if I could, be one of those cool men. Su seem to attach ideas of energy, of mental superiority, those who are the slaves of every present impression. B these are errors as deep as they are dangerous. In asser ing and maintaining an habitual commmand over ou selves; in restraining, but not extinguishing, our feeling lies the whole secret of happiness. Allowing for eve difference of natural constitution, there are, to every ma allotted, in an abundant degree, the means of effecting the No man has, I believe, passions or feelings so strong, th they may not, by the determined and timely use of prop means, be so far brought into subjection, as is desirable

for it is the business of reason to moderate, not to extin- | first night or two, and thus lie ruminating on the noctur-
, the passions." On all, then, who read, and particu-nal pleasures she has thus cut herself off from, but persist
steadily for a few nights, when she shall find that habit
arty on the young, whose dispositions are as yet ductile, will produce as happy a sleep as that which followed a late
and the task comparatively easy, would I wish earnestly to ball."
impress that they, and they alone, can make or mar their
happiness. To those who indulge a rational desire
fer that which their own efforts, rightly directed, will cer-
tainly secure, I would recommend Franklin's Journal
of his own Life as a most useful work. Thence they may
Jeam to reason, and "on reason build resolve." Let
them, with Rasselas, discover that what cannot be repaired
is not to be regretted; that our past errors may, if rightly
managed, be of more use to us than our good actions.

Let them not despair at the former, or be puffed up with the latter; but endeavour to correct what is wrong, and improve what is right. Nor are those studies which #trengthen the mind and confirm its powers to be neglected; for to those who would live happily they are of infinite Importance. Such must seek their recreation in mental, and not in sensual pleasures; the former exalt, the latter debase and enervate our nature. On the exaltation of our nature, on our hopes and fears being lifted beyond this transient world, depends, after all, much of what men call happiness.

Here the candles appeared, and their light broke the rain of my thoughts; so I resolved, that my next retro. pert should boast a brighter character, being convinced hat it depended upon myself; and under this impression I returned to the perusal of the work with redoubled Z.

interest.

Fashions for September.

MORNING DRESS.--Shaded yellow jaconet muslin Iress; the stripes in waves, with small sprigs of gold colour; the corsage en blouse, and the long sleeves en bouffants, having seven divisions formed by corded bands, equidistant. Plain cuff, the size of the hand, with a neat worked muslin ruffle; corded band round the waist, with plain gold buckle in front. The skirt is neatly trimmed with five double tucks, cut bias, and corded at the top and bottom: worked muslin square collar, fastened in front with a small gold buckle. Round cap of white crépe fisse, drawn with amber colour ribband, and a large square lace veil. Wrought gold drop ear-rings. Yellow kid gloves and shoes.

EVENING DRESS.-Dress of white crépe lisse, ornamented with small sprigs of rose colour floss silk; the corage rather high, falls on each side of the bust, and is con - | hed by a narrow pink satin band at the top, supporting tow of semicircles, which unite and point downwards; rrow tucker of fine blond. The sleeve is very short and , and is decorated with four fancy bows, formed of ur corded Persian lilac leaves, united by a knot; the eve is finished with a satin band, composed of three all realeaus, and a vandyke blond lace beneath. The it has a deep bouillonnee of white tulle, cut bias, and adal with a band of three small rouleaus of pink satin; sime is introduced to confine the bouillonnee midway, broad rouleau is added beneath the small ones at the ton, and two rows of pink satin bows, to correspond h the sleeves, are placed at regular distances in the loanee. Large French bonnet of pink crépe lisse, tin front; the brim formed of double folds, and edged prak satin and a narrow rouleau; the crown circular, a trimming cut into eight oblong divisions, each und with satin, and edged with folded crepe lisse; four Age white ostrich feathers are placed in the front. The dressed in light curls, and two full-blown white China s on each side of the head. Emerald neck-lace, eargy, and bracelets. Long white kid gloves, white satin toes, lace ficha, or silk elegantine.

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The Housewife.

" Hon sekeeping and husbandry, if it be good,
Must love one another as cousins in blood:
The wife, too, must husband as well as the man,
Or farewel thy husbandry, do what thou can."

BEAUTY.

Odd Coincidence.-The Cambridge paper of Friday se'nnight contains the following curious coincidence:-"The Chief Justice for the Isle of Ely, before entering the court to open the assizes, at Wisbeach, attended divine service, when an appropriate and impressive discourse was preached by the Rev. Mr. Pratt, of Whittlesea, from these words:-One day in thy courts, is better than a thou

2d. Let her rise about six o'clock in summer, and about eight in winter, immediately brush her mouth well with a tooth-brush, and cold water, and then take a table-spoor.- |sand."–Psalm 1xxxiv. 10. ounces; of tincture of bark, one ounce; of diluted sulful of the following mixture:-Of decoction of bark, six phuric acid, one drachm; mix; after which breakfast within an hour.

3d. Her breakfast should be something more solid than a cup of trashy tea, and a thin slice of bread and butter. She should take an egg or two, or a little cold meat, or a cup oft chocolate.

4th. She should not sit reading romances all day by the fire, or indulge herself with thinking upon the perfidy of false swains, or the despair of a pining damsel, but bustle feels hungry, eat a mutton chop or a custard, with a glass about, walk, or ride, or make puddings; and, when she of wine.

5th. Let her dine upon mutton or beef, without fat;
but she need not turn away occasionally from a fowl, or
any thing equally as good, only to observe to drink but
little during dinner.

6th. She must not take three or four cups of tea, but one
or two, and pretty strong, at about two hours after dinner.
7th. Let her eat a custard for supper, or a few oysters,
or a basin of sago and wine, or any light thing of the kind,
|and then, in a little time after, let her go to bed.
tales, but humorous works, so as to keep the mind unin-
8th. Let her read, if she will read, not die-away love
cumbered with heavy thoughts.

9th. Let her take a cup of senna tea, or fifteen grains of
rhubarb, or one or two of the family pills mentioned in an
early number of the Medical Adviser, in such a way as to
keep the body regular: this last is indispensible to obtain
a clear and wholesome colour.

Miscellanics.

Ancient Lawsuit.-The Egyptians (say the Rabbins) sued the Jews for the gold and silver vessels carried off by their ancestors at their departure from Egypt, and insisted on their making restitution. The Jews did not plead prescription; they readily admitted the claim, and offered restitution; but at the same time, preferred a counter claim in their turn. For 210 years, they said, we were in Egypt, to the number of 600,000 men; we, therefore, demand day wages for that period, at the rate of a denarius for each man, and our account stands thus:-365 multiplied by 210, is equal to 76,650, which, multiplied by 600,000, will give 45,900,000,000 denarii. The Egyptians, of course, dropped the suit.

Dryden, in his poem of Absalom and Achitophel says:

"But 'twas hard fate which to the gallows led
The dog that never heard the statute read;"

which is not a little applicable to the slaughter that is at present going on among the canine race.

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"Life," said one who had seen much of it, "is like a game at backgammon; the most skilful make the best of it. The dice do not depend upon us in the one case, nor do events depend upon us in the other: but it is the manner of applying them that occasions the difference of success.' The present King of Persia made many inquiries of Sir Harford Jones respecting America, saying, What sort of a place is it? How do you get at it? Is it under ground, or how ?"

A Canon of Exeter Cathedral died a few weeks since. A gentleman crossing the Cathedral yard, in that city, accidentally met a friend, to whom he said, "So Canon His dead."-" Indeed!" replied the other, "I was not aware that Canons went off in that way." Yes, they do," rejoined the first," for I have just heard the report." "How old are you, Pat?" said a clerk of indictment to a convict, at a late assizes in the south of Ireland. "Faith, Sir, I believe I'm pretty well as owld as ever I'll be," said Pat: and, in good truth, he was hanged on the Monday following.

Lord Norbury is expected shortly to retire from the judicial bench. It will be seen by our Irish Assize IntelThe following respecting the preservation of the beauty ligence that his Lordship has lately held some curious diayoung ladies is from the Medical Adviser.,

On restoring Colour to the Face.

1st. Let her go to bed at ten o'clock-nine if she pleases. must not grumble because she may not sleep for the

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logues in Court, and that he still retains his punning propensity. In this latter respect, however, a fellow-punster observes that his Lordship (whose name is TOLER) is no longer Toler-able.-Irish paper.

Irish and Dutch Bulls.-The bull related of the Irish hangman, who, upon asking a criminal about to be executed, for the customary bequest, and receiving it, exclaimed, Long life to your honour," at the same monient he drew the bolt, which launched the ur.fortunate man into eternity, has found its fellow in a recent instance at Antwerp. A criminal there, when condemned to be broken on the wheel, is permitted to have any thing he may require for his sustenance, previous to his execution. A person deservedly condemned to this punishment, for a obtained it, and was observed blowing off the froth which murder he had committed, demanded a glass of beer. He surmounted its top. Upon being asked his reason for doing so, he exclaimed, "Because it is very unwholesome.” The criminal was executed in a very few minutes afterwards.

Musical Drake.-A Dunkirk journal, anxious to prove that France possesses animals of rare merit, gives us the following example::-"Mr. Jolly, a cloth-merchant of Abbeville, is in possession of a beautiful drake, which he has, by perseverance for two years with a bird organ, the same experiment on a turkey!" Should this friend taught to sing several different airs. He intends trying

of the feathered race succeed, we shall, in a few years, find ducks, geese, and turkeys, singing in cages, instead of smoking on our tables.

Voltaire, the Inventor of Printing.-Mouctar Pacha, son of that Ali Pacha who, after putting to death so many human beings, was himself doomed to meet a violent end, looked upon Voltaire as the author of this pernicious discovery. "If he ever falls into my hands," says Mouctar, he shall swing for it without mercy. I will not suffer in my domioions (added his Excellency) a man more learned than myself." His Excellency could not read.— News of Literature.

A Philadelphia paper relates the following laughable occurrence : A prisoner in the bar at the Mayor's Court in that city, being called on to plead to an indictment for larceny, was told by the clerk to hold up his right hand. Hold up The man immediately held up his left hand. your right hand,' said the clerk. Please your honour,' said the culprit, still keeping his left hand up, please your honour I am left handed.'

The magpies and jackdaws of Milan were carefully taught to salute the Emperor of Austria, on his last visit, with the cry of "Va via Checco!" or, "Get away, Frank!"-a circumstance which was omitted in the of

ficial account of his Imperial Majesty's reception.

To make Names grow in Fruit.-When peaches and nectarines are about half ripe, cover the side exposed to the sun with strips or specks of wax, in any desired shape or form, which hinders the sun from colouring the parts covered; and, when the fruit is ripe, and the wax removed,

it will be found marked in the manner described.

Sealiores. A curious instance of the choice of situation by swallows is nowto be seen at Burton Hall, near Lincoln. The little creatur es having gained entrance to a closet through a broken pane, have fixed their nest on a huntsman's old cap which hangs on a peg, and have erected their plaster dwellir, on this moveable basis, which has been frequently brought down to exhibit to the visitors. There areuow four eggs in the nest, on which the parents are sitting.

The recent discoveries of Professor Gruithausen, the moonich astronomer, have been but imperfectly detailed in the daily papers. The Learned Professor finds that the moonites are by no means ignorant of horticulture. The crops of vegetables are good ; but, he says, they do not exhibit many varieties of each kind: thus, among peas, they have no Prussian blues: nor have they any Windsor beans. The inhabitants do not, it seems, make the most of their gardens, for the Professor ascertained that the onions are running to seed, and that the French beans have got too large even for pickling. The reports of the Horticultural Society, and Phillips's History of Cultivated Vegetables, have not, it appears, yet reached the moon.-Literary Chronicle.

Poetry.

TIME.

Time, why on rapid pinion only fly,

When Pleasure, laughing helmsman, steers the bark, And heavenly azure tints the cloudless sky,

And dances on the wave Joy's buoyant ark, Mocking the destinies, a hideous train;

And but alone when roars the tempest loud, And Misery lights her torch to fire the brain,

And angry winds do lash the billows proud; Then, then alone, to creep with sluggard pace, And weeping hours, to ages, reckless swell; And, all forgetting thy allotted race,

Linger, like measured toll of passing bell? Strange, so to scorn the bower where roses blow, And love "the blasted heath," and couch of woe! Liverpool.

EPIGRAM.

(From the Greek Anthology.)

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'Twas twilight's hour, I'd felt its sad control,

When o'er my ear the sweetest music stole;

It was a strain familiar, yet so dear,

I stay'd my trembling breath to bring it near:

It was an air so ravishingly sweet,

It made my heart bound heavy from its seat;
Fond mem'ry's joys, that long had ling'ring slept,
Reviv'd within my breast; I sigh'd, I wept:
Its subject was so dear and lov'd a scene,
That home, sweet home, appear'd what it had been;
When friends the dearest sweetly linger'd there,
Whose kindness 'twas my happy lot to share:
And they are gone, and time can ne'er erase
My hopeless grief, nor aught such loss replace.
Oh! fond remembrance, wherefore dost thou dwell

On what I lost, what still I love so well?
Ah! sure that strain it was the lovely voice
Of other days, and made my heart rejoice:

For worlds I would not then one word have spoken;
For worlds I could not such a spell have broken:

It was so sad and yet so sweet a grief,

It would have hated and defied relief;

The sombre quiet of the stilly hour,
When music hath a more than magic pow'r;
The sweet solemnity that reign'd around
Seem'd echoing back each vibration of sound;
And evening's shadows could not then dispense
Those lingering strains that bore my spirit hence,
To those abodes of bliss, those realms of peace,
That "home" alone where earthly sorrows cease.

ELEANOR.

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Of printing and printers we've long had fair proof,
Whose correction makes ignorant pride stand aloof;
On the rack we will batter each slavish opinion,
And chase the base columns of Folly's dull minion.
At war and its myrmidons cannon still point,
May piece-work still furnish its point and good joint;
May the wielders of pikes find in pica a trimmer,
And long shots be exploded by fire of long primer.
Of press and press-warrants, our nation's disgrace,
Our press has long striven the shame to erase:
May the freedom from press be our tar's fond delight,
And the freedom to press be the printer's proud right.
To press! what parenthesis gape in the word
How inclusive the phrase, with what comfort 'tis stor'd;
To press, hot or cold, in fair sheets, wet or dry,
May our fortune be ever, nor sheets ever fly.

May our chapel, of wisdom and sense the bright fame,
Devoted to English and freedom remain;

While monks and gray friars, ever fruitful in evil,
Shall there meet their match in our old friend the devil.
At the bank may we lay up a heap, and may that
Exhibit good matter and plenty of fat;
And where's the companion can e'er prove a churl,
Whose hands daily glisten with diamond and pearl?
Our ART in its progress a TYPE has display'd
Of itself, while it folly and vice has dismay'd,-
For in blocks though began, it has ended in letters,
And blocks have for once given place to their betters.
The marshall's gay staff to a STICK must give way,
And our tympan's the only drum Wisdom will play ;
Dismay'd at our balls shall the bigot retreat,
And inquity's self shall still blacker be beat.
Then may quoins ne'er be wanting, good copy ne'er fail,
May capitals ever your destiny hail;
With errors corrected your lives still be past,
And revis'd and amended be work'd off at last.
XIII.

There, Sir! what think you of a Bristol bard?
At least you'll own there's point in what he says,
The devil's in it if you wo'nt reward

A brother rhymer with one sprig of bays;
Besides, as little Morgan says, 'tis hard

That merit should not have its meed of praise. We therefore join in hoping without humming, That Mr. Cummins will be soon forth coming.

XIV,

But why expatiate on a theme so low

When you might soar to one of any height?
I thought you'd say so, but you ought to know,
Poor Harris thought so too before his flight;

A lass, and he, but rose to fall, I trow,
Like Lucy, far into th' abyss of night;
The strangest thing attending this sad leap,
Was, that he owed his death to an escape.

XV.

I had some thoughts, to you it should be known,
To write a ditty on this pair o' ducks-[paradox.]
I would begin, of course in strains high flown,
"Rise, honest muse, and sing the fall of stocks;"
It surely would on the Exchange go down;
I care not who the speculation mocks,
Tho' 'tis an airy one, must be allow'd,
Rather than under I'd be in a cloud.

XVI.

I thought to you to write some verses twenty; And so I should, but time will not permit. Verily, therefore, xvi. must content ye,

Seeing I've just now neither time nor wit.
When next I write, I hope to send ye plenty,
I mean of verses, if in rhyming fit.
Mean while, I am,

(In hopes of an epistle,)
Your's, very faithfully,

SAM. TAYLOR-Bristol.

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The following lines have been often published, and said to have been written by the late Lord Erskine at house of a friend, where he was on a visit.

What a plague's a summer breakfast,

Eat whate'er you will!

Cold butter'd bread's à nasty thing,

Hot toast is nastier still!
Then, how to pass the time away
Till dinner, there's the doubt;
You're hot if you stay in the house,
You're hot if you go out.
And after dinner what to do,

Not knowing where to move:
The gentlemen are hot below,
The ladies hot above.
And now the kettle comes, full trot-
That's not the way to cool one;
Tea makes an empty stomach hot,
But hotter still a full one.
Well, then an evening walk's the thing-
Not if you're hot before;

For he who sweats when he stands still,
Will, when he walks, sweat more.

So now the supper's come, and come
To make bad worse, I wot;

For supper, while it heats the cool,
Will never cool the hot.

And bed, which cheers the cold man's heart,
Helps not the hot a pin;

For he who sweats when out of bed,
Sweats ten times more when in.

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even excepting the exquisite richness of Dowton's Fal-scientific gentleman of this town, whose opinion we le-
staff, can reconcile us to this play, "as performed up-quested respecting the recently discovered horns :-
DEAR SIB,-The horns found at Wallaysey Pool undoubt-
wards of forty nights last season, at the theatre-royal,
Drury-lane, interspersed with SONGS, DUETS, CHO- edly belong to a stag, very similar to the stag of the present
RUSSE3, &c." or we should, perhaps, rather say, "as per- day (Cervus Elaphus.) From their solidity, thickness, rough-
formed at the theatre-royal," Liverpool. It may have ness, and the size of their antlers, they seem to have belonged
been differently performed in London. We should not, to a full grown animal, that fed plentifully. Though ex-
however, omit mentioning, that, even in Liverpool, the tremely dense, and of considerable thickness, they cannot be
staff's antlers was much applauded.
moon which shone so resplendently on the Adonis Fal- considered as large. I have seen longer horns on the stag of
these islands; and the magnificent horns in the Museum of
the Royal Inititution (I think between three and four feet
high) are those of the American stag.

HE REAL SWISS GIANTESS, during her stay
Tin the metropolis was visited by, during her stay
It seldom occurs that we remain to witness a farce;
persons, among whom were several members of the Royal
Famy, and many of the most distinguished Nobility. She but our old favourite Browne's Lord Duke was irre
is now exhibiting at STOAKES'S ROOM, CHURCH-STREET.- sistible. The managers have this season evinced more
Those who have not yet seen this extraordinary and inter-attention to decoration, and to the properties of the
esting Female, are respectfully requested to visit her as soon
as possible, as the Exhibition will shortly close.-Admit- theatre, than heretofore; and it was, therefore, with
tance, Is. Children, half-price.—Open from Ten in the Morn- some astonishment that we perceived Lovell's table
lag till Ten at Night.
so very scantily covered, on occasion of the grand en-
tertainment given by Mr. Philip to his distinguished
guests. It was the reverse, in fine, of what the pre-
ceding circumstances of the farce lead one to expect.
From" the note of preparation" we thought to have seen
the festive board crowded with the choicest viands, and
This present MONDAY, the 6th instant, and every Even-wine. But "twas no such thing;" a more meagre show
labouring under the accumulated weight of ragouts and
ing during the week, Saturday excepted,

THEATRE DU PETIT LAZARY DE Paris, de Messrs.

MAFFEY, YORK HOTEL, TARLETON-STREET.

IN consequence of the rush of Spectators, whose numbers nightly increase, Messrs. Maffey have resolved yet to prolong their stay for one week longer, and will have the honour to submit to the Public,

THE ATTACK OF THE CONVOY,

Or the DEFEAT of the BANDITTI,

A grand military melo-dramatic Spectacle. This Piece is embellished with superb Changes of Scenery and Decorations, and superb Dances, Costumes, Ballets, Metamorphoses, Military Marches and Evolutions, Charges of Cavalry, desperate Combats, Firing, &c. In the course of which, and incadent to the Piece, the beautiful and picturesque View of THE PROCESSION OF THE CONVOY

Across the defiles of the Mountains. This fine Painting Will be animated with a variety of analogous objects, and in particular will be distinguished the meeting of the hostile Armies, in roads, which at first appear inaccessible; together with other entertainments which will be announced in the Bils of the day. Bills will be given to the Spectators at the Door, announcing the Piece in the English Language. Driors to be opened at half-past Seven, and the performance to commence at half-past Eight precisely. Messrs. Maffey have the honour to announce, that before leaving the town, they request all those who may have any -claims upon them, to apply to them at the York Hotel, any dap before the 13th Instant, the period fixed for their

departure.

The Drama.

THE THEATRE.

"That it should come to this!"

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, Shakspeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, has been mercilessly mutilated to an opera, to the great scandal of dramatic orthodoxy, the profit of music composers and dealers, as well as the delight, perhaps, of some quantity of barren spectators." Hereafter few things of this kind will much surprise us. Coriolanus, belike, will next be melo dramatised, Macbeth reduced to the empty parade of pageant spectacle, Lear transformed to a capering ballad singer, and Hamlet be made to chant his plaintive tale of domestic woe

tippity witehet, after the manner of Grimaldi. Queen Elizabeth," says Mr. Theobald, "was so well Pleased with the admirable character of Falstaff in the two Parts of Henry the IV. that, as Mr. Rowe informs us, Se commanded Shakspeare to continue it for one play sere, and to show him in love. To this command we we The Merry Wives of Windsor: which, Mr. Gildon ys, he was very well assured, our author finished in a night. But this must be meant, only of the first imrfect sketch of this comedy, an old quarto edition hereof I have, printed in 1602; which says, in the title "As it hath been divers times acted, both before her Majesty and elsewhere." It should now be announced, "as hath been divers times" ALTERED both by men of sound ense, and senseless men. We have surely operas enough cat dressing up Shakspeare in the fantastic garb of Mr. Bishop, or Mr. any body else, who chooses to enrich self at the trifling cost of the poet's degradation. And, erall, what do we gain by the metamorphosis? In the Merry Wives of Windsor, songs (two of them ShakSpares, certainly, from As You Like it,) as inapposite, excepting "Sweet Ann Page" to the tune of Shenkin Bahor Sheer Montgomery," vulgarly called "Poor Mary Anne," as the music is old. What occasion, ample, could Master Fenton possibly have to plain of "man's ingratitude?" Nobody had been grateful to him but fortune, for the lady he so antly sighed for was kind enough in all conscience. Pak might just as appropriately have entertained us the birth, parentage, education, et cetera," of the 14ous Dennis Brulgruddery. Nothing, in short, not

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of the hospitality of High Life below Stairs, was never
exhibited in the most needy commoner's hall in christen-

dom.

The horns found at Wallasey have been regularly shed, and

T. S. T.

their points have been polished by use. They are not in a
fossil state, but retain their animal matter.-Your's, &c.
Sept. 1, 1824.
The horns may be seen for a few days at our office.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE EFFICACY OF WHITE MUS-
TARD SEED, TAKEN INTERNALLY.
The following article is entitled to the serious attention
over a paper with so unpromising a title. Our reasons for
of our readers, who, but for this hint, might wholly pass
publishing it are:-first, the importance of the discovery,
if it merit what is here said in its favour; and, secondly,
the conviction that we feel that the individual who is now
labouring to recommend to the public the white mustard
seed, is actuated by the most disinterested and philantho-

He as

In the month of June, 1822, I made a trial of the White

On Tuesday, Bickerstaff's celebrated comedy of the HYPOCRITE, as commanded by his Majesty last season at the theatre-royal, Drury-lane, was performed to a very indifferent house; notwithstanding the intimation at the head of the bills, that it was " THE ONLY NIGHT THE HYPO-pic motives. He is a gentleman of independent property, CRITE CAN BE ACTED THIS SEASON," and, what is and what he advances on the subject of the efficacy of the stranger still, notwithstanding Dewton's known excellence mustard seed is the result of his own experience. as Cantwell. Were it not that the king is really a gentleman sures us that it has been found a great and general bles (we trust we speak not treason) of acknowledged refinement, sing amongst the poor in the neighbourhood in which he we should almost conceive the managers had, themselves, resides.-Edit. Kal. contributed not a little to this most singular occurrence: for, from the advertisement, it might have been thought by many that they were not going to witness the represen-Mustard Seed merely as an aperient: when the generally tation of " Bickerstaff's Hypocrite, but of "Bickerstaff's improved state of my feelings, which soon followed, inHypocrite as commanded by his Majesty," the inference clined me to give it credit for other medicinal propertics being that they were totally different from each other, of a very beneficial nature. Under this impression, I gave when, in fact, they are precisely the same. We went, it to some of the sick poor in the neighbourhood, and with nevertheless, and, for once, were certainly much pleased a success which excited my astonishment. I have since with the whole of the dramatis persona; more espe- recommended it in many cases, of which, several were cially with Miss Kenneth's Charlotte. It was a perfor very distressing. The result is such as to authorize a permance distinguished by much good sense, an suasion, that the public are not aware of its very extraor rate conception of the character, and replete with the dinary powers, nor of the very great variety of cases to arch gaiety of one whose deportment was frank as her which it is applicable, and that in order to its adoption as a remedy for disease, its virtues require only to be knowr. mind, whose feeling was unrestrained as her thought, accompanied by the felicitous grace and dignity suited to her breeding. Of Mr. Dowton's Cantwell we have always been warm admirers: it is worthy a place beside Kemble's Co

riolanus and Vandenhoff''s Cato.
6th Sept.

accu

THE COUNCIL OF TEN.

Scientific Records.

[From the Liverpool Mercury.]

In the white mustard seed are combined a valuable

DISCOVERY OF STAG'S HORNS UNDER THE BED OF eating, heartburn, sickness, wind and spasms, cramp, ar d

WALLASEY POOL.

aperient and an equally valuable tonic: and thus, while it affords the most salutary and comfortable relief to the bowels, it strengthens and invigorates in a very remark. able degree the whole line of the alimentary canal. For diseases, therefore, and morbid symptoms connected with a disordered state of the stomach and bowels, it is a very general remedy: and, accordingly, it has been found to succeed in tendency of blood to the head, in head-ache, weakness of the eyes and voice, and hoarseness; in asthme, shortness of breath, wheezing, cough, and other distressing affections of the chest; in indigestion, oppression after other uneasy affections of the stomach; in debility, unerThe labourers engaged in excavating the bed of Wal-siness, pain and sense of tenderness and soreness in the lasey Pool, for the purpose of making a wet dock, have interior, and particularly at the pit of the stomach, and n lately discovered several fine stag's horns in the most pain in the left side and lower part of the body; in defperfect state of preservation, which is surprising when we cient perspiration, gravel, scanty and unhealthy state of consider the length of time they must necessarily have the urine, and other morbid affections of the skin and kidbeen buried. We shall forbear to indulge in conjecture neys; in relaxed and irritable bowels, flatulence, and respecting the period when these remains of former days occasional and habitual costiveness; in rheumatism, lumwere deposited in this spot. At that time, it is probable, bago, spasms and cramp in the body or limbs, partial and that what is now termed Wallasey Pool was part of a wood general dropsy, palsy, coldness of the limbs and feet, loss or forest, as, in the neighbourhood, the remains of large of appetite, failure of sleep, weakness of nerves, deprestrees are frequently found at different depths below the sur- sion of spirits, and general debility of the system. face, and also out of the ground. These vegetable remains some species of gout and epilepsy, and in some diseases of are of a very dark coleur; some as black as coal, and so the liver, the seed may probably be taken with advantage. hard, that the farmers use them as gate posts. The horns-It invariably expels worms both in children and adults, were found nearly thirty feet below the bed of the pool.- and not only the long round worms, but the small white The specimen which has been committed to our care, for ones also.-It has been successful in a case of ague. A public inspection, consists of a single and very perfect poor woman, of the age of 77, had been suffering from a antler, so hard as almost to defy the file. It weighs three quotidian ague, of at least a fortnight's standing, when pounds and a half, and is very elegantly branched. We had she began the mustard seed, taking two small tea-spoonalmost omitted stating a circumstance, which, if true, is fuls every three hours. The disease abated almost immefully as extraordinary as the discovery of the animal re-diately, and in two days was entirely subdued. She had mains; and we doubt not, that some of our antiquarian also for some years laboured under the consequences of a readers will endeavour to ascertain whether it be fact, as very weak interior, and had suffered greatly from habitual reported, that the workmen have discovered evident traces costiveness, and extreme coldness in the extremities, and of an ancient road having once existed, twenty or thirty in the stomach and bowels. Such was the sense of coldfeet below the bed of Wallasey Pool.

We have been favoured with the following note from a

In

ness in the interior, that warm tea and broth afforded no relief. After taking the seed for a fortnight, all these un,

seed is to be swallowed whole, and either alone, or in a
little water or other liquid, warm or cold. It should be
taken regularly every day without intermission, until the
disease subsides, or, in other words, until health is restored,
as far as the age and circumstances of the patient will
admit: and in most cases it will be prudent to persevere
in the use of it for some weeks or months longer, with a
view to the more effectual extinction of the former diseased
habit, by the establishment of a healthy one in its stead.
This precaution, however, may not succeed in every case.
When the disease has been of very long standing, returns
of it may occur: but by having recourse to the seed on
such occasions, each attack will probably be less severe
than the former, the intervals between them will be suc-
cessively enlarged, and thus by degrees the disorder will
finally disappear.

easy symptoms, with some others, disappeared; and she
is now enjoying as good a state of health as is compatible
with her advanced years. It is proper to add, that after
the ague had been subdued, the seed was taken only three
times in the day. In April last, a labouring man became
wet to the skin by exposure to a heavy shower of rain,
and neglecting to change his clothes, he took a severe
cold, which brought on a violent pain in the left side,
with head-ache and excessive purging. He remained in
this state for nearly a fortnight, when he took the mustard
seed with the happiest effect. The distressing symptoms
abated almost immediately, and in two or three days he
was perfectly restored. The following interesting case
deserves particular notice. A very respectable surgeon and
apothecary, whom I have long known, a person of regular
and rather abstemious habits, who, during a period of
thirty years, had sustained the fatigue of an extensive The mustard seed is valuable, not only as a remedy for
country practice, with scarcely a day's illness, at the age disease, but as a means of preventing it. Of its power as
of fifty-two was suddenly attacked with severe pain in the a preventive, a very extraordinary instance has occurred.
left side and lower part of the body. Supposing the pain A friend of mine had, for five or six years previous to the
to arise from constipated bowels, he had recourse to calo- last, been regularly attacked with hay-asthma in the
mel, rhubarb, çastor oil, and several other active ape- months of June or July in each of those years. The at-
rients, but without obtaining relief. He then took an tacks were always violent, and for the most part accom-
emetic, was bled largely in the arm, used a hot bath, was panied with some danger. And such was the impression
blistered in the part affected, and lay for seventy hours in made on his constitution by the disease, and the remedies
a most profuse perspiration. By this treatment the pain resorted to (of which bleeding and blistering were the
gradually abated, leaving him, however, at the end of chief) that each illness led to a long confinement to the
four days, extremely weak and emaciated. For the space house, extending to a period of nearly three months. In
of two years after, he had frequent and severe returns of the early part of the last year, he resolved to make a trial
the pain; and his constitution being undermined, the of the seed, in order to prevent, if possible, a recurrence
stomach, liver, and kidneys became sensibly affected, and of the asthma; and in the month of March in that year
indigestion, constipation, and flatulence succeeded, with he began the use of it, and thenceforward took it regu
the appearance of general decay. Having consulted seve-larly every day without intermission; and the result was,
ral professional men, and taken a great variety of medi- that he escaped the disease. In November last, he in-
cines during this period, but to no good purpose, in No-formed me, that, from the time when he first took the
vember, 1822, he made a trial of the mustard seed. It is seed, his health had not only never been interrupted by
remarkable, that in a very few days after taking the seed illness of any kind, but it had been progressively improv-
the pain entirely ceased, and has never since returned. ing: and he further assured me, that he did not recollect
The action of the affected organs was gradually improved, that he had ever enjoyed so good a state of health as at
digestion was restored, the bowels resumed their func- that time.
tions, and at different times he was relieved by the die- In further recommendation of the mustard seed, it is
charge of several small portions of gravel. Encouraged by to be observed, that where the patient steadily perseveres
these advantages, he continued the use of the seed within the use of it, taking it at proper times and in quantity
increased confidence. In November last, he discharged sufficient to keep the bowels in a perfectly free and uni-
with ease a large, rugged, oblong portion of gravel, and, formly open state, a complete cure, or, at least, very sub-
to use his own language, his health is now, and has been stantial relief may be expected as a result in the highest
for some time past, in a state of wonderful improvement. degree probable. As an aperient, it never weakens the
When the seed is used merely as an aperient, and for system, and has succeeded in many cases when the usual
accidental or occasional costiveness, it should be taken routine of opening medicines has failed. It requires nei-
fasting, about an hour before breakfast; and, generally ther confinement, nor any particular attention to diet;
speaking, a table-spoonful is the proper dose. With some and in the absence of decidedly inflammatory symptoms,
constitutions, however, a tea-spoonful is sufficient, while is always safe. A material improvement is generally ex-
others require a second or even a third table-spoonful to perienced in the short space of three weeks or a month,
be taken in the course of the day. When it is used as a and, in some instances, in a very few days. In no case
remedy for the diseases and morbid symptoms above de- has it appeared to lose its effect by familiarity with the
tailed, three doses should be taken in the day; the first an constitution; on the contrary, as the discase has abated,
hour before breakfast, the second about the same time af- smaller doses have generally sufficed. A circumstance
ter dinner, and the third either at bed-time, or before, as also which stamps a particular value upon it is, that by
may best agree with the patient. Those who dine at a strengthening the constitution, it obviates, in great mea-
very late hour should take the second dose at two or three sure, the effects of sudden exposure to cold; and is thus,
o'clock in the afternoon, and the third about an hour after probably in no small degree, a protection against that host
dinner. The quantity in each dose must always be regu- of evils which flow from our very variable and uncertain
lated by the effect produced on the bowels; which are not climate. It seems peculiarly adapted both to infancy and
to be purged, but in every instance must be uniformly old age. It enables the young to contend with the mor-
maintained in a perfectly free and open state. The quan- bid debility frequently attaching to their tender years,
tity, therefore, in each individual case can be ascertained and it supports the aged under the pressure of infirmities
only by trial. The patient should begin with a tea-spoon- generally annexed to declining life. When taken by the
ful in each dose; which he must afterwards diminish or former, it occasionally throws out a considerable eruption
increase, as the effect designed to be produced on the on the skin; a result which has never failed to promote
bowels may happen to require. With most constitutions the general health of the child. Perhaps it may be ser-
two tea-spoonfuls in each dose are found to be sufficient; viceable as an antiscorbutic and general purifier of the
while others require three times that quantity, or a table- blood: and it may reasonably be questioned, whether
spoonful. In some few cases, four doses in the day, each there exists a safer or more effectual means of regaining
containing a table-spoonful, have been necessary, and have strength, after the loss of it from severe illness.
been taken without the slightest inconvenience. When It is peculiarly adapted to the wants of the poor. The
this quantity fails (a circumstance, however, which very labouring classes of society are almost universally destined
rarely occurs) it will be proper to assist the operation of to hard work, and scanty means of support. With them,
the seed with a little Epsom salt, taken in the morning, as therefore, the stomach and bowels very commonly lose
occasion may require, instead of the first dose of the mus- their tone, and fail in the due discharge of their important
tard seed. Where the patient is much troubled with piles, functions: and hence they have generally to contend with
it may be advisable to relieve the bowels occasionally with one or more of the distressing disorders before enumerated,
a small tea-spoonful of milk of sulphur and an equal for which the seed appears to be an almost certain remedy.
quantity of magnesia, mixed together in a little milk or It is also a medicine extremely cheap, taken with equal
water, taken at bed-time, either with or after the last dose ease at home or in the field, and requiring neither con-
of the seed. It not unfrequently happens that with the finement to the house, nor any alteration of diet.
same patient, the seed varies from time to time in its effect It is to be observed, that there are constitutions which
on the bowels; and whenever this takes place, the quantity forbid the application of this remedy. Two instances
in each dose should be reduced or enlarged accordingly. have occurred, in which the highly inflammatory habit
When it is taken for the expulsion of worms, four doses of the patients would not admit of a trial of it, although
should be taken in the day, at equal intervals between it was given in very small quantities. In one of these, a
each, and in such quantity as to keep the bowels in a state dose of only ten seeds produced an irritation and degree
rather more free and open than in ordinary cases. The of heat so great as to preclude the trial of a second. Ge-

nerally speaking, however, it excites no other sensation than that of comfortable warmth, and in some cases no particular sensation whatever.

I will close these observations by remarking, that there are peculiarities belonging to the mustard seed, which may perhaps in some measure account for its extraordi nary powers. It discharges a sort of mucilage, which serves as a vehicle for its medicinal properties; and that this discharge is slow and gradual, is perceived by retain ing a portion of the seed in the mouth for ten or twelve or a greater number of hours, during which, a sort of radi lage is found to be incessantly flowing from it. When therefore the seed is taken whole, there is some ground for supposing that its virtues are not exhausted in the stomach and primæ viæ, but that they reach every part of the alimentary canal, by direct communication, as the seed passes through it. And it is also very probable, that the bowels are assisted in the propulsion of their contents, by the mere mechanical action of the seed thus taken in an entire and unbroken state.

August, 1824.

I. T.

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On Mr. Samuel Seaward's claim to the Invention of a
Hydro-pucumatic Pump for compressing Gas, je
By Mr. John Martineau.

TO THE EDITORS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL MAGA
ZINE AND JOURNAL.

GENTLEMEN,-I observe in your last number a draw. ing and description of a pump for condensing gases, by Mr. S. Seaward, which pump he states to be his invention. As far I am myself concerned, I should have hardly thought it worth while to contradict his statement; but i cannot in justice to yourself allow your respectable journal to be made the vehicle for conveying a falsehood to the public.

This pump was constructed at the manufactory of which I am a proprietor, during the time that Mr. Seaward filled a situation as draughtsman in it. In that capacity be made the necessary drawings connected with it; but I do most positively assert, that he did not invent or suggest any one essential part of it. I content myself with simply stating the above facts, and remain your most obedient servant,

City Road, August 10, 1124.

JOHN MARTINEAU.

LIST OF NEW PATENTS.

To Charles Random Baron De Berenge, of Target Cat tage, Kentish Town, in the parish of St. Pancras, Mid dlesex, for his improvement as to a a new method or methods of applying percussion to the purpose of igniting charges in fire-arms generally, and in a novel and pecuar manner, whereby a reduction of the present high price fire-arms can be effected, and the priming is also effect ally protected against the influence of rain or other mes ture; such invention and contrivances rendering the pet cussion principle more generally applicable even to comm pistols, blunderbusses and muskets, as well as to all sort of sporting and other guns, by greatly reducing not on the charges of their manufacture, but also those impeding circumstances which persons have to encounter whis loading or discharging fire arms when in darkness, whilst exposed to wet, or during rapid progress-seri impediments which soldiers and sailors, and consequentl the service, more particularly and most injuriously expe rience.-Dated 27th July, 1824.-2 months allowed enrol specification.

To Alexander Nesbitt, of Upper Thames-street, L don, broker, who, in consequence of a communicat made to him by William Van Houten the younger, foreigner residing abroad, is in possession of a process which certain materials may be manufactured into pape or felt, or a substance nearly resembling coarse paper felt, which material so prepared is applicable to variou useful purposes.-27th July.-6 months.

To Thomas Wolrich Stansfield, of Leeds, Yorkshire merchant, for certain improvements in power looms an the preparation of warps for the same.-27th Julymonths.

To Edward Cartwright, of Brewer-street, Golde square, in the parish of St. James, Westminster, M dlesex, engraver and printer, for his improvements on additions to roiler printing presses.-27th July.-2 month

To Charles Jeffreys, of Havanah Mills near Congleton silk thrower, and Edward Drakeford, of Congleton, watch maker, both in the county of Chester, for their method making a swift and other apparatus thereto belonging, it the purpose of winding silk and other fibrous materials. 29th July.-2 months.

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