Where Ouse's current laves the lovely scene;

In Barcombe's solitude, from towns afar; With goodness unaffected, mind serene,

And of her little world the polar star j Dwelt she, whose life devoted but to good, Spread to the poor, and friendless, kind relief;

The wand'ring supplicant she ne'er withstood,

Or turn'd an inattentive ear to grief. Full forty years in virtuous deeds alone,

Dispensing every blessing here she dwelt ; Affectionate and kind, she meekly shone;

Perform'd each duty, and spoke all she felt. O ye! who waste your stores in joyless state, O ye! who hoards on hoards are heaping high;

Blush, as ye pass her charitable gate,
And learn of her to live, of her to die.

Exclaiming, as their heart-felt sorrows flow, There goes the sufferer's, there the poor man's friend!

Take comfort, mourners! brief is mortal life;
A little hour is only granted here;
O! lead it void of error, wrongs, and strife,
Lead it, like her, whose death extorts the
tear.

Take comfort, mourners! full of years she fell,

Devoted to benevolence and truth;

Of all her virtues, all her goodness tell,
To cheer the aged, and instruct the
youth.

And when the heart is sick, and all is drear,
To bear you up amid a world of woc,
Let such examples, through the gloom appear,
Nor miss the roses, 'mong the thorns that
grow.
CLIQ.

MR. WILLIAM HANCE'S (TOOLEY STREET,) for a Method of rendering Beaver and other Hats Water-proof."

WE

E are directed by this invention to take a thin shell, made of wool, hair, and fine beaver, to form the crown of the hat, and another shell or plate, of the same materials, for the brim. These parts are to be dyed black, and finished without glue or other stiffening, in order that they may not be injured by the rain, which in other beaver hats, after being exposed to a heavy shower of rain, draws out the gloe, which sticks down the nap, and makes it appear old and greasy. The shell may be made in one piece only, in the shape of the hat, blocked deep enough to admit of the brim heing cut from the crown. The under side of the shell and the inside of the crown must then be made waterproof by first laying on a coat of size or Thin paste, strong enough to bear a coat of copal-varnish; and when thoroughly dry, another coat of boiled linseed-oil. When dry, the crown must be put on a block, and a willow or cotton body or shape, wove on purpose, put into the

inside of the crown, and cemented in. When dry it must be finished with a hot iron, and the crown is done. The brim must in like manner be cemented to a substance or body made with willow or other fit material, sufficiently thick to make the inside of the brim. The brima and body are now to be pressed together, after which, the underside of the brim may be covered with another shell of beaver of silk shag. The crown and brim are to be sewed together: the edge of the brin unust be oiled and varnished with copal-varnish and boiled linseed-od, to prevent any rain getting in. The ce ment used for sticking the parts together may be made with one pound of go senegal, one pound of starch, one pound of glue, and one ounce of bees-wak boiled in about one quart of water. Hats made in this way require only to be wiped dry after being exposed to the heaviest rain.

MR. RALPH WALKER'S (BLACKWALL,) fot a Mode of making Ropes and Cordage.

Mr. Walker's invention is applicable to the making of ropes and cordage of

every dimension or size, from a small hine to the largest cable. The machinery nade use of in this business does not admit of a description without the aid of plates. By the mode adopted the yarns are all laid so as to be made to bear an equal proportion of the strain in the strand and rope, and the strands are laid uniformly in the rope; and each strand and rope receives throughout an equal degree of twist, by which the rope is rendered stronger than it would otherwise be, and of an uniform degree of strength throughout: the same is either wholly done by one machine and operation, or separately by different machines and operations.

DR. CAREY'S (ISLINGTON,) for an Invention of various Contrivances for preventing or checking Fires, &c.

Dr. Carey has in his specification shewn the applicability of his invention to various purposes, as will be seen by our present brief description. Ife supposes, first, à cistern to be placed in the upper part of a building to contam water, either that which falls in rain, or which may be thrown up by means of a pump. From this cistern a pipe is to be conducted into a room, which terminates in à cock near the cieling. The plug of the cock is to be furnished with a projecting cross bar, to one end of which is attach ed a weight sufficient to turn the plug, and keep the cock open, when it is not prevented by any other force, the cock being placed side ways, as the ball cock of a common cistern, and the weight acting as the ball in its descent. To the other end of the bar let a cord be attaclied, which being drawn tight and made fast below will keep the cock shut. This cord at night is to be fastened to a ring in the floor, so that if the fire burn any part of it, the weight may fall, and set the cock running. Ring-weights may be used instead of rings fastened to the floor; these may be moved in the day time to a convcaient place. From one pipe several branches and cocks may be conducted to different parts of the room, so that, wherever the fire breaks out, it may burn a cord and set a cock-running. To scatter the water, each cock may terminate in a large rose: or instead of several roses, one large shallow vessel may be used nearly equal in size to the cieling, with a slight descent toward the centre, and full of holes; which vessel is to receive the water from all the cocks.

The weight fastened to the bar of the cock may be connected with an alaram which shall be set off by the fall of the weight, and give notice of the fire.

The second thing noticed by the pa tentee is a Chimney Shower-bath upon the same principle of a pipe proceeding from a cistern, with cross bar, &c. When a chimney is on fire, the cock is to be opened by means of a wire, and kept open till the fire is extinguished. It is obvious that the same cistern will answer for both these purposes.

Dr. Carey next describes a ChimneyStopper, which, by excluding the air will as effectually extinguish a fire in the chimney as water. This stopper is to be made of metal or wood, in a single piece or in several parts; and it may be ornamented so as to serve for a chimney'. board or fire-screen.

The fourth part of this invention is a Damper Gridiron, with round, semicir cular, triangular, square, or rhombic bars, placed in contact with each other or nearly so; the semicircular bats having the flat side down; the triangular resting on the base; the rhombic having the acute angles above and below, and the square being placed either side to side, or angle to angle. This gridiron is to be furnished with a pan in front, to receive the fat, in the same form as the pan attached to hollow or concave-barred gridirons. The advantages of this gridiron above others is that the meat cannot be smoked or singed, however full the fire may be of smoke or blaze; and the fat flowing into the pan, there is no danger of setting fire to the chimney.

Fitibly, a Lock-lantern for Stables, Nurseries, &c. The lantern is covered with wire, and its peculiar advantage consists in the mode of fastening to prevent children and servants from getting access to the light.

Sixthly, a Fire-cloak or Gown, to protect the wearer from external fire, or extinguish fire in the wearer's clothes. It may be manufactured of any substance not very liable to catch fire, such as leather, silk, calimanco, &c. and lined with the same. Between the inside and outside there should be a stuffing of wool or hair.

Seventhly, a Soot-trap for Chimneys. For this purpose the chimney is to be fitted a few inches above the fire-place with a stone slab, or metal plate, leaving in it a hole for the smoke to ascend. To this hole is to be fitted a moveable 302 tube

tube or box, the upper end of which is open, and the lower end grated with thm bars, or with a bottom perforated with numerous holes. In this box is to be placed coarse gravel, pebbles, &c. which will leave a passage for the smoke, as a sort of strainer. The smoke passing through this strainer, and depositing part of its soot, the strainer must be occasionally removed to be cleansed.

Eighthly, a Soot-trap Stove is described by the Doctor upon the same principles. The advantage of which, we are told, if properly managed, will so far diminish the collection of soot in chimneys, that they will very seldom require to be swept: the danger of fire in a chimney thus constructed will be nearly done away, and the smoking of chinneys in many cases prevented.

- Ninthily, a Chimney Water-trough is intended to produce the same desirable effects. The chimney being stopped as before; from the back edge of the plate or slab, let a ledge descend a few inches, under which a metal trough is to be placed so as to fit the breadth of the chimney, and to present an opening of two or more inches in front and rear of the descending ledge. The lower edge of the ledge is to be exactly horizontal, to form a parallel line with the water in the trough, and it is to descend so low, that if the trough were filled with water, the liquid would entirely stop the passage.

The trough is to be supplied with water from a reservoir by means of a bali cock, and it is to be emptied, when necessary; through a pipe and cock placed at the bottom for the purpose.

Tenthly, a Chimney-damper, consisting of a double hair or woollen cloth large enough to cover and close the opening of the chimney, and which is to be applied wet, in case the chinney is on fire.

The last things described by the patentee are a Water Candlestick and Candle. A pan, basin, &c. of six or more inches deep is to be furnished with a socket, the top of which is at least half an inch lower than the margin of the pan, and the diameter of its bore proportioned to the size of the candle intended to be used. The socket to have one or more holes near the bottom to let the water pass freely. Let water be poured into the pau until it rise about an eighth or quarter of an inch above the top of the socket; and the candle is to be thicker in proportion to the wick than common candles.

Such are the outlines of the specification before us: some of the principles contained in it certainly have not that sort of claim to novelty as to give Dr. Carey an exclusive title to the use of them, and we doubt very much as to the utility and practicability of others.

MONG the means which have, in A the highest degree, contributed to give effect and currency to the improvements and discoveries in MODERN HUSBANDRY, may be mentioned the esta blishment of the Board of Agriculture, and of the Societies which flourish in every enlightened district of the empire, and the publication and diffusion of their Reports and Proceedings. The Board of Agriculture in particular distinguished itself at an early period of its existence, by causing surveys to be made of every county, in which the state of its husban

dry, its produce, soil, and general industry were to be described-it circulated these surveys in the manner of proofsheets for correction; and it is now enployed in preparing, under able editors, corrected editions and improved surveys, and in laying them before the public, with all the dispatch which is consonant with accuracy. These improved and corrected County Surveys, as published by the Board of Agriculture, may perhaps be compared with the famous Domesday Survey of the Norman conqueror, as far as the enlightened views and superior pos

licy of our own times can be compared with the imperfect conceptions of a dark age. Doubtless this great undertaking will continue to be justly appreciated, and will become the Domesday Book of distant ages, conferring distinction on the reign of George the Third; and transmitting all the past experience of husbandmen in every kind of soil, and under every variety of circumstance, for their warning and example. Every British subject is interested in knowing the progress which the Board of Agriculture bas made in this grand work, and we have subjoined a list of the corrected Surveys which have already been published, and have annexed the names of their respective editors.

Argyle, by Dr. Smith.

Clydesdale, by John Naismith, Esq.
East-Lothian, by R. Somerville, Esq.
Essex, by Arthur Young, Esq.
Fife, by Dr. Thomson.
Gloucestershire, by Mr. Rudge.
Hertfordshire, by Arthur Young, Esq.
Herefordshire, by John Duncumb, Esq.
Kent, by John Boys, Esq.
Lancaster, by John Holt, Esq.
Lincolnshire, by Arthur Young, Esq.
Middlesex, by John Middleton, Esq.
Mid-Lothian, by George Robertson, Esq.
Norfolk, by Nathaniel Kent, Esq.
Norfolk, by Arthur Young, Esq.
Northumberland, Cumberland, and West-
moreland, by Messrs. Baily, Culley, and
Pringle.

Nottinghamshire, by Robert Lowe, Esq.
Perth, by Dr. Robertson.

Roxburgh and Selkirk, by Dr. Douglas.
Salop, by Mr. Plymley.
Somersetshire, by John Billingsley, Esq.
Staffordshire, by W. Pitt, Esq.
Suffolk, by Arthur Yeung, Esq.
Yorkshire (the West Riding), by Robert
Browne, Esq.

Yorkshire, (the North Riding), by John
Tuke, Esq.

Other Surveys will follow, at the rate of six or eight per annum. Essex by Mr. Young, and Gloucestershire by Mr. Rudge, have been published within these few days; and Inverness-shire and Devoushire are in the press. We are happy to observe, that several of them have already arrived at second editions, and indecu as such a practical and useful work, either entirely, or separately as relating to particular counties, addresses itself to the curiosity, the self-interest, and the patriotism of every Englishman; it ought to constitute a permanent feature of every Englishman's library.

We congratulate the public on a re

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cent event of much consequence to Literature, and to the comforts of its unsuccessful or imprudent votaries: we refer to the substantial bequest which has been made to the Society called THE LITERARY FUND, by the late THOMAS NEWTON, Esq. a gentleman allied to the family of the great philosopher, in whose life-time he was born. Besides appointing the Society his residuary legatee, from which a considerable surplus may be expected; he has left to it in direct lega cies:

20007. 3 per cent, consols,

2000!. 3 per cent. reduced, and
21007. 4 per cents.

By this fortunate event the Society is placed on a permanent foundation, and with the aid which it receives froin its annual subscriptions, and the munificent donations made to it by liberal and opulent individuals, there is reason to hope that it may render essential services to the cause of literature and science. In every public reference to this meritorious establishment, it is impossible to avoid noticing the persevering exertions of Mr. DAVID WILLIAMS, who was the founder, and we believe the original projector of the Society, and who has for many years forstered it with parental assiduity, by filling the office of its secretary.

MR. PARK, the antiquary, who has lately gratified the literary world with his extended edition of Lord Orford's Royal and Noble Authors, has been engaged also in preparing for publication, a new edition of the Harleian Miscellany, the first Volume of which is soon expected to appear. This valuable repository of curious tracts and historical documents, which has of late years become exceedingly rare, will in the new edition receive considerable augmentation: the Harleian Manuscripts deposited in the British Museum, having furnished sufficient materials, it is thought, for the formation of two supplemental volumes to those formerly collected by Mr. Oldys.

The Board of Ordnance have determined to supply the Royal Observatory of Greenwich with a new set of Instruments.

Mr. RAYMOND, to whom the public are obliged for the interesting account of the Life of Derimody, is preparing for publication, a complete edition of the Works of that unfortunate Poet, under the appropriate title of the Harp of

Erin.

office of Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the French Government, for the avowed purpose of devoting himself exclusively to science, has just com pleted a capital work, on the Application of Chemistry to the Arts. A Translation has been undertaken in London, and will appear in the course of the month of June.

Dr. MAYO, Dr. STANGER, and Mr. RAMSDEN, have reported to the Committee of the FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, that twenty-one of the children who were vaccinated on the 10th of April, 1801, and inoculated with Small-pox matter on the 9th of August, 1802, and again on the 18th of November, 1804, were re-inocu-. lated with Small-pox matter, on the 23d. of February, 1807, without any conse quence, except slight inflammation of the inoculated part, in a few instances; and in these cases a small pustule on the part where the matter was inserted.

A Classical Collection of Sonnets, made by Mr. CAPEL LOFFT will speedily appear under the title of Laurana.

Mr. NICHOLSON, to whose scientific labours this country is under so many obligations, has undertaken an entirely new Chemical Dictionary, to be printed in one large volume octavo; and it is in such forwardness, that its publication may be expected in three or four months.

Dr. ADAMS, physician to the SmallPox-Hospital, will publish in a few days, a Popular View of the present State of Knowledge in the Practice of Vaccine Inoculation.

The Grammar of Philosophy, on the approved plan of Goldsmith's Grammar of Geography, and Robinson's Graninar of History, may be expected to appear before Midsummer.

An Exposition of the Historical Books of the New Testament, with Reflections subjoined to each Section, by the late Rev. TIMOTHY KENRICK, will the course of the summer. It will form three volumes in royal 8vo.

appear

in

A Palestine Association has lately béen formed, on the plan of the African Society; the object of which is to promote the ends of learning, in forwarding and ass sisting discoveries in the interior of Syria and Palestine. The following are the various subjects to which the attention of the travellers, selected by the committee, to be sent into Syria, and other regions of the east at the expense of the Associa tion, is to be directed:

1.-Astronomical observations to ascertain

4.-Times and extent of inundations.

5-Every other observation relative to the geography and topography of Palestine, which may be of use in the formation of a more accurate map of the country than has hitherto appeared.

6.-Process of agriculture in all parts.

7.-To compose a meteorological journal according to a form prepared for the purpose in England, and in which shall be comprised an accurate statement of the winds and tem perature for the whole year, mentioning the place, time, and exposure.

8.-A list of the natural productions of Palestine, with a description of the soil and situation of those that are more rare; particular attention to be paid to the culture and use of the date and the palm trees.

9.-To observe the uses, of any kind whatever, the other botanical productions of the country are applied; whether these uses are publicly known or kept secret in partico lar families, and what is their medicinal or chemical value.

10.-To detect the errors of former travellers.

implements of masonry, carpenter's work, and 11. To make accurate drawings of the

other handicrafts.

and in hours.