to the blessing of God, who, by his prophet had declared, that the generation of the upright should be blessed. From which position these two corollaries manifestly arise, first, that exaltation to a peerage is a blessing from Heaven; and secondly, that this blessing may be ob tained by justice and uprightness in the profession of the law; If this honest chancellor's reasoning be good, we must be led to think very highly of our present chiefs in the law, since it is plain that the practice of it is, in our times as it was heretofore, frequently the road to peerages and preferment. Anaxagoras, one of the most celebrated philosophers of the antient world, was especially noted for teaching, that all individual beings, or bodies, originate out of one another, 'Ex Tn 'quoloμspices, by homcomery, or assimilation. Our li thologists would do well to revive this name of an occult cause; in every claypit, in every chalk-pit, in every coal-pit, it may be observed, that the domineering fossil is constantly occupied in transmuting, digesting, or assimilating, into substance like itself, the organic, the vegetable, or the mineral materials, which have fallen within its line of influence. In some places, one observes flint turning into chalk, in others chalk turning into flint; in some, clay turning into chalk, and in others, chalk turning into clay. The like is true of more complex transmutations. Now, if this digestive, or metamorphosing, power in fossils had a name, some laws might be predicated concerning it; as for instance: 1. That it is exerted by means of an atmosphere, since it extends beyond the visible limits of the digesting body: 2. That it is more easily exerted perpendicularly than hos rizontally; since the progress of petrific conversion may be traced to a considerable depth in contiguous superincumbent strata, but can be traced a very little way sideways, where there is a trapping down of the strata, and an opportunity for las teral digestion: 3. That fossil life prine cipally consists in the presence of the assimilating power; for a fossil fragment of whatever kind, when removed from its native bed, dies, and begins to obey that assimilating force, which domineers in the place whereinto it is thrown: 4. That light counteracts the assimilating power; the accretion of stalactites and of several crystals being retarded by it. The transplantability of fossils, if they have a peculiar sort of life, might per haps be effected, so as to cause coals to begin to vegetate, or silver, in mines not yet provided with these substances. as the assimilating power a predilection for a peculiar pabulum? THE DEVIL'S DINNER. In Milton's Paradise Regained, the devil offers a tempting dinner, which is described in these words: A table richly spread, in regal mode, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, Probably this is a faithful description of some of those cabinet dinners, of which, while Milton was secretary of state, he partook at the protector's, or elsewhere. It differs from a modern dinner in the order of viands, the fish occurring last. It also differs in the sin gular circumstance, that the pastry was perfumed with ambergris. No doubt those tall goose-pies, built in standing crust, which last so long as to smell of the cupboard, were still in vogue; and might well require fumigation, when about to be presented before company. And what is ambergris? Is it the drug we now call spermaceti, mingled with some aromatic? truth Or (frenzy to the firmest mind,) Yet save us from the fiend Despair, Without thy providential care, There breathes not one! He hears the cry, when sorrow calls, Prun'd thy wild wing; yet scarce suspecting TO A FRIEND, WHO REQUESTED A WRIT ruth, Pursued thy flights at distance. Quick an shifts The vernal sun and shade, she mark'd thy glance, And rank'd thy rapid visions in her train, Illusive, and still hail'd the fairy dance. But, when she saw thy chemic powers ad vance, Where mineral Nature holds her mystic reign, Embodying forms which Poets dar'd not feign; Starting at thy discoveries from her trance, She own'd, with many a sigh, invention vain." p. 59. TEN CHARACTER GIVE Wellesley's portrait? Oh, how vain the hope! To gain that portrait in a letter's scope Oh! not to me belongs the glowing lay, To sing the glories of Bosaco's height!!! Serve to acquaint you with our much-lov'd chisf; Shew how he shines when war's dread cla rion sounds, Or tell how jocundly he'll join your hounds; Or his urbanity and mirth record, When guests surround his hospitable board! Paint the resources of his wond'rous mind, Of valour, wisdom, wit, and worth, com bin'd; Thus would the portrait in one sentence end, His country's honour, and the soldier's friend." Portugal, January 1811. * Alluding to a poem, commencing Shout Britons for the battle of Assaye." 3 M Te To R. CARMICHAEL, 28Q PAYMASTER ACCEPT, dear Sir, a humble lay, The world's great-muster-roll shall call, May your accounts prove right at last. Think not misfortune the sole mark of heaven, The emanation of thy Light Divine, On crime in man, not otherwise forgiven; By thee, th' enchantment easily we break ; move To visit such distress, and wipe the tear, or Battery can avail, nor craft, nor lies. In shy true mirror seen, how few there are, That stand the test, whose characters can bear tence Would augur most of sympathy and sense, Avoid the famish'd debtor's dismal home; Leave him unpitied, wounded, and alone! A prey to Avarice! whose malignant breath, Consigns to misery, and want, and death! "Know then this truth, enough for man to know," "Virtue alone is happiness below." Learn now thy errors, and thy weakness see, And shun the rocks which fatal prov'd to thee; That e'en when blackest seem, the gathering storms Affliction teacheth, and the heart reforms. Compared to our future recompence. Frustrates our hope, not mitigates our pain; Seek then his aid, by penitence and prayer, Who sees thy sorrows, and relieves thy care; In thy own breast, the greatest friend thou'lt find, To guide thy judgment, and console thy mind. THE FLY.-A SONNET. WITH joyous hum, the curious thirsty fly Within the goblet's gilded rim displays, His wings transparent to the shining rays, That here allure: tho' fearful yet and shy. The juice nectarious longing still to try, He buzzes round and round in giddy maze, And now the tempting beverage he es says, And now drinks deep, nor thinks of danger nigh! Thus, happy fly, of pleasure's cup drink deep! Since one short summer makes thy all of life, No moments waste on grief, or care, or strife; Leave these to mortals, who are born te weep! Do thou enjoy the moments as they run, Bask in the morning ray, or noon-tide sun. PATENTS PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. Communications of Specifications and Accounts of New Patents, are earnestly solicited, and will always command early notice. MR. THOMAS POTT'S, (HACKNEY), for a new Process of Freeing Tarred Rope from Tur, and of rendering it of Use to the Manufacturer. Τ HE process made use of for freeing tarred rope from tar, may be conducted in three different ways: first, by means of sulphate of alumine (common allum); secondly, by sulphate of alumine and fullers-earth; and thirdly, by fullers earth alone. When sulphate of alumine is used, the rope is to be cut into proper lengths and opened, and boiled in water, in which is mixed five pounds of sulphate of alumine, to every cwt. of rope. When boiled an hour it is to be taken out aud beaten, and the operation repeated. The rope is next to be boiled with a carbonate of lime, whiting is the most pro per. It is then to be cleaned and bleached either on the grass or with oxymuriatic acid. The operations are somewhat similar when fullers-earth is used, or fullers-earth with alum; but the proportions of the materials differ; for an account of which the reader is referred to the specification, MR. JOHANN GEORGE DEYERLEIN'S, (LONG ACRE), for a Machine, new Principle, or Method of making Bricks and Tiles, and other Kinds of Pottery. The machine consists of a box or other receptacle into which the clay is put, and also a plug, or forcing instrument, by means of which the said clay is forced onwards during the work, so as to urge the same through one or more suitable openings or orifices, which give the figure or form; and also certain mill-work for giving motion and effect to the plug or forcing instrument, and also a fit carriage for receiving and conveying away the bricks or other products of art; and if need be another carriage for supporting and conveying the combined or united parts during the time of working, or from place to place. The use and application of the machinery are shewn in drawings attached to the specification, and the necessary explanations given in it. By these it appears that by what the patentee calls "every home and out stroke of this machine, fifty six bricks will be finished; or if the power of the first mover is increased either by addisional men or otherwise, the barrow may MR. PETER STUART'S, (FLEET-STREET), for a new Method of Engraving and Printing Maps, &c. This method is for the purpose of combining the arts of engraving and letter press printing, so as to produce dispatch and economy of the latter, with the ef fect of general utility. The printing maps, figures, &c. for books, magazines, newspapers, &c. consists, in the first place, in reversing the ordinary or com mon way of printing or representing such figure or figures; that is to say, where the usual mode of printing or engraving the figures now described has hitherto been by a black upon a white ground or surface, the new method is by introducing the contrary effect, viz. by a white upon a black ground or surface. In other words, as the usual way of printing or representing in maps, for instance, the rivers, towns, fortifications, letters, or words, &c. &c. has been by black upon white, the new method is by producing a contrary effect, by leaving the the tints, lines, or figures, alluded to, white instead of black; so that where in the common way the paper is covered with black or coloured ink, the new method is to leave it uncovered, and vice versa: or instead of producing dark figures on a light ground, to produce light figures on a dark ground or surface, or on a ground darker at least than the figures themselves. In the second place, instead of representing all figures by black tints or lines, or black figures, as now commonly represented on a white ground or surface. Mr. S. can adopt any other coloured ground or surface, taking care always to produce the advantageous combinations of the two arts of engraving and letter-press printing, that is to say, the dispatch and economy of the latter with the effect and general utility of the former, "a combination," says he, "hitherto wished for in vain, and from which, it may be obvious, very essential results will arise both to the artists and to traders in the arts, and, in fact, to the public, that will no doubt be actuated by interest to encourage a new invention, which may afford an extraordinary gratification by a specdier mode of intelligence, through a cheaper medium." The engravings of the figures may be cut or stamped on plates of brass, copper, tin, pewter, type-metal, or wood, or any other substance on which engravings can be made; and, for the better adapting the ground or surface of the plate, or for the better rendering the ground or surface fit in all its parts for the proper reception and adhesion of that kind of ink used by letter-press printers, so as to produce a clear and an equal impression on all its parts at once, he causes dots or lines to be cut, marked, or stamped, or drawn across the ground or surface of the metallic plates, or other substance; or corrodes it with aquafortis, so as to produce a sufficient degree of roughness for the adhesion of the particular ink now mentioned; leaving the figures or subject of the plate or engraving, untouched by such dots or lines. The part of the surface which is not engraved upon, instead of being made as smooth as possible, as in copper-plate engravings, ought to be made sufficiently rough, either by mechanical or chemical means, so as to make the ink, applied by the letter-press printer's balls, adhere in a way nearly equal, or in such quantity or proportion as is wanted or intended. The last preparatory process of the plate for the letter-press, previously to its being printed as described, is by fixing it on a wooden block; or by grooving it on a brass or other metallic standard; or by fixing it on a clay or earthen substance or cement; taking care that the whole body thus formed shall not be higher or lower than the types commonly used at the letter-press; and also taking care, that it be calculated in every degree to be embodied as it were with the letterpress printer's form or types, so as to produce, by the very same operation of the letter-press, the impression of both the plate and the types at one and the same time, or by one and the same pull of the letter-press printer, and on the very same sheet or piece of paper. Or the plate or plates thus prepared, may, if on particular occasions deemed more expedient, be worked off alone at the letter-press, so as to produce the intended effect of engraving with the faci lity and dispatch of multiplying copies agreeably to the nature or principle of operation peculiar to the letter-press. "Thus by the means now described or specified," says Mr. Stuart, "I combine, or unite, for maps, charts, music, anatomical figures, or any figures or repre sentations of the human body, or for all or any of the other figures already mentioned, performed in my manner, the se parate arts of the copper-plate engraver and the letter-press printer, by engraving as engravers usually do, and by printing as printers usually do; thereby render ing, by the application of these united arts in the printing of books, magazines, newspapers, periodical publications which require dispatch, a very great saving or abridgment of time, labour, and expence, in the exercise of both arts, and conse quently a very great convenience and advantage to the public at large." NEW |