Some faults are necessary to constitute our individuality: it would be unpleasant to us, if our old friends left off certain peculiarities.

What faults may we polished people retain? Those which rather flatter than offend our neighbours.

A life without love is like a play for the closet; it may be praised, it will not be enjoyed.

Men pass for more dangerous than they are.

Our passions are phenix's; burn the old one, and a new one rises from the ashes.

The greatest men are connected with their own times by some one weakness.

We sometimes converse with a man who is present, as with a statue. Ile needs not speak, or look at us, or be busy about us: we can see him, feel our rela tion toward him, and that relation may increase, without his being aware of it, or contributing any more to it than by staying in our presence, like a statue. To be fond of caricature implies feebleness of observation. Must every trait be magnified to be discerned?

In the great world every one is received for what he gives himself out; but he must give himself out for something: any inconvenience is more bearable than insignificance.

We do not learn much of the men who come to us; it is when we go to them that we find them out.

The greatest prizes of human life fall to the lot of the accomplished soldier. When guests have left their host, they speak well of him; when a host has dismissed his guests, he rips them up.

There is no exterior mark of politeness which has not some profound moral cause; the right education would be, along with the symbol to teach the mo

tive.

There is a politeness of the heart which grows out of benevolent affections, and which, independently of rank or of country, gives to the manners a winning

cast.

Against envying the great qualities of another, the noblest refuge is attach

ment.

No man is a hero to his valet, says some one; this is because the hero can only be appreciated by the hero a valet may be a good judge of a valet.

It is a consolation to mediocrity that genius is not physically immortal.

VERSATILITY OF TASTE.

How capricious is literary popularity! MONTHLY MAG., No. 223,

for Maty in his Review (vol. I. p. 577) has recorded, that the sale of the Town and Country Magazine had, in some months, reached fourteen thousand.

ARTIFICIAL FILTERING JARS.

At the Serapeum in Canopus, says a recent theological writer, filtering jars were invented; and were made by mixing wax with brick earth, and so baking it the fire having consumed the wax, the vessel remained porous. See a Letter concerning the two first Chapters of Luke, p. 96. How much more valuable is this single fact, than all the speculations of his squandered erudition.

GERMAN POETESS.

Pope's Rape of the Lock was transtoria Gottschied, whose letters were also lated into German verse by Louisa Vic published in 1771.

A CLERICAL FREETHINKER.

Among the bolder works of biblical criticism occurs, Esprit du Judaisme, ou Examen critique de la loi de Moyse, printed in 1770, with the fictitious date Londres; and ascribed by literary historians to the Abbé de Prades, who wrote for the Encyclopedy, and whom the king of Prussia promoted to a prebendal stall at Breslau, and to the archdeaconry of Oppelu.

RIDICULOUS EPITAPH.

For Orlando Lassus, a musician, who died in 1594, at Munich, this epitaph

was made:

that, with a disposeable force of this kind, every want in the service can be filled up in emergencies, so as to preclude the necessity of forcible recruiting, and to enable the admiralty to await the requisite affluence of volunteer seamen. This plan is so simple and so specious, that it surely deserves trial at a time when our fleets are much at leisure.

POPULARITY.

Popularity never grows out of compromise. Coalitions neutralise the zealots, whose exaggerations occasion the noise in which popularity consists. The popu lar administrations have consisted of the able men of one party ably opposed. Either party has strength enough in this nation, to supply the nucleus of a popular administration; yet the choice is not a matter of indifference. When the creed of either of the two parties has domineered for a couple of parliaments, it always begins to tire. Their point of view is grown familiar, their style of com mentary stale, and their argument thread

bare. Every third parliament at lea the leading features of public measure should be strikingly varied; if that 11 tional annoy is to be prevented, whi leads the people to call out for somethi new, under the name of parliamenta reform.

PATRIOTISM.

The devil, said a Spanish preache took the Son of God unto a high mou tain, whence he showed England, Ital and France; it was unlucky for him th the Pyrenees hid Spain."

TRIANON.

The villa of Trianon was built for mistress of Louis XIV. The sixteent Louis presented it to his queen, with th compliment: "My ancestor, madam gave it to his mistress, and I give it t mine." This recals the final farewel Augustus: "Vive nostri conjugii memor. Yet the uxoriousness of the husband wa ir neither case requited by the maritalit of the wife.

TO MY OLD HORSE SORREL,
BY DR. WOLCOT.

DEAR Sorrel, thine eyes are grown dim, and thy feet

No longer can travel the road; Yet think not penurious, I grudge thee thy meat,

Or forbid thee thy happy abode. Thou knowest full well, that, in fair and foul weather,

Now 'mid zephyrs, now tempests abhor'd, How often like friends, we have journey'd together,

And never exchanged a cross word.

In a canter, or trot, or a gallop, or leap (Ah me! what a satire on man,)

I scarcely remember thou mad'st a false step; Let mortals say this if they can!

To comfort thine age, take as usual thy rounds;

Enjoy all my pastures can yield : Thy limbs shall not hang on a tree for the hounds;

Thy bones shall not blanch on the field Alas, shall the tale to my neighbours be

told,

A tale that sweet mercy must doubt; For thy food, that I ll thee, because thou art old,

And unable to bear me about? Remembrance shall gratefully keep in her

eye,

The excursions that oft have been mine;

Then I dwell on thy virtues, and wish with a sigh,

That my life had been harmless as thine. When Winter appears, with his storms an his snows;

That might freeze the slow course of th blood;

Thou shalt have a dry bed for thy limbs t repose;

A warm stable and plenty of food. Ingratitude never was thine, the disgrace,

To thy praise which shall ever be sung: But by man, (let me say, with a blush for th race,)

That my bosom has often been stung. Should I die before thee, (for we know no our fate,)

Let thy fears and suspicion be still, Till the close of thy life, shall Benevolenc wait;

For thy name shall be first in my Will. Ossulton Street, Dec. 1812.

O! there prolong thy fragrant flower, And bask within a nuptial bower. Sweet Rose, so long the Muse's prize, By every love-sick poet sung; Still to delight admiring eyes,

On Flora's fav'rite mantle hung:

What summer flower, in all its bioom, E'er met so fair, so blest, a doom. And, when with chaste confusion warm, On that soft cheek the blush shall steal, Thy glow shall, with reflected charm, The heart's emotions half conceal : Then, as those tints shall die away, Read in their fate thy own decay.

THE SWEETS OF LIFE.

By MR. PARRY, Editor of the Welch Melodies. WHAT's more pleasing to the eye

Than a clear unclouded sky?

What more grateful to the ear
Than the voice that speaks to cheer?

If by fate we're doom'd to roam,

What's more sweet than thoughts of Home? If distress the bosom rend

What so welcome as a Friend?

Sweet's the lovely modest rose,
Which 'mid thorns and briars blows;
But more sweet the youth who proves
Faithful to the heart that loves."

THE LION DESCRIBED. From a Paraphase on the 104th Psalm. BY WM. TUCKER, OF TILSHEAD. THROUGH the wide forest ramble uncontrol'd,

Unconquer'd hordes, fierce, ravenous, and bold,

'Mid favoring gloom, to chase their destin'd food,

With dreadful triumph roar, and dye their fangs in blood;

The princely lion takes his rightful stand Full in the front, the leader of the band :Erect and bold, with brandish'd tail he

moves;

His well-built form unrivall'd prowess proves ;

On his broad cheek the bloom of youth appears,

Tadorn his front, and crown his rising years; Long-beaming honors, on his neck reclin'd, Start as he moves, and flourish in the wind; On either side the bright encumbrance rolls In many a ringlet, and his speed controls; His eyes, huge stars of living fire, all bright, Shine grand and horrid through the shades of night:

Pride of his ample rear, his pond'rous tail Forms a broad arch, and swings with every gale.

When through the plain he roars his loud - alarm,

All creatures shun the grandeur of his form;

ON THE PORTRAIT OF AYOUNG LADY BY MISS RUSSELL, MITFORD.

SEE fairest among many fair,

Yon graceful maid with smiling air,
And cheek as bright as summer even!
Warm from the dance she seems to spring;
Ard the light gales above her fling,
Her silken scarf in floating ring,

Like rainbow in th' autumnal heaven,
One snowy arm she lifts to bind
The dark curls sporting in the wind;
And one half raised as if to fly,

With fairy foot keeps equal measure:
Joy sparkles in her radiant eye;
Her light form seems to bound on high;
And motion snatches grace from pleasure,
Such the fair form-the fairer mind,
'Tis not in painter's art to bind.

That form with ever-changing grace
Flits like the borealis race,

In variable spell;

That mind like planet star we trace,
Bright and unchangeable,
In its own time its course to run
And Virtue the light-giving sun.

Ill it beseems the playful Muse
Such grave unwonted theme to chuse :
She better loves her darts to try
At the wide mark of prophecy.
Imp with gay plume, the wings of time,
And deal her spells in careless rhyme.
Her magic wand, my maiden fair,
Has chang'd that sylph-like bounding air
To matron softness, calm yet free,
Just such as ten years hence 'twill be.
She would not one dark ringlet shred,
Nor fade one tint of native red;
Nor steal one lightening-beam that flies
Warm from expression's all-thine eyes;
Nor rob thee of the smiles that dart
From kindness, better home-thy heart.
But with those glossy locks she'd chaim
One wedded follower to thy train;
Those native blushes still should flow
As brightly on their bed of snow,
But one alone should bid them glow;
Those powerful glances still should melt
Through only one their influence felt;
Those smiles their sweet enchantment send
To charm the husband and the friend,
Bertram House, 1811.

Whilst Love, so trim, shall bring me wine,
And all Elysium shall be mine.”
Swift as th' Olympian car's career,
Life's rapid current down we steer;
And Death's imperial mandate must
This fabric soon consign to dust.
Then on my tomb why incense burn?
Why pour libations on my urn }
While yet I live, with wreaths, ye fair,
Of roses, come, and deck my hair!
Ere I, O Love, my breath resign,
With airy forms below to join.
Devoid of care, and free, I'll live
Midst ev'ry pleasure life can give.

STANZAS,

TO PETER PINDAR, ESQ

When thou, sage Bard, command'st the shel
The sons of folly shun the strain,
Then Vice retires within her cell,
Affrighted at thy pow'rful spell,

And bright ey'd Virtue smiles again.
When thou command'st the plaintive wire
The feeling breast consistent glows,
The 'waken'd passions all conspire
To raise the soul's sublimest fire,

And lure her from her self-drawn woest When sorrow claims the mournful song

Thy lute can breath her deepest moan; Each woe-fraught tone with pathos strong Can bid the breast its sighs prolong,

And move the heart obdurate grown, When thou resumest the song of glee Or satire keen, fair Virtue's guard, Then sons of wealth and misery

And let thy liquid numbers flow: Oh! give thy genius ample wing, Each varied note, shall echo sing In.cadence.with thy native Doe.*

*Doe-brook, now called Dod-brook.

My country's pride, Devonian Bard! The venial clan, with eagle eye,

Still let thy poignant Muse explore; For deep regret shall prompt the sigh, The Doe shall weep her fountain dry When thou shalt sweep the lute no more. A. K.

THE

HE patentees of this invention saw out the planking for the staves in the usual manner, or by means of a circular saw adapted to the business; the staves are then cut into suitable lengths for making the intended casks: they then provide machinery for cutting the edges of the said staves, either straight or curved, according to the figure of the cask intended to be made. This machinery consists of a strong bench, having a board, or platform, to be slided or moved endwise thereon. And upon the Board is placed another piece, capable of being slided crosswise, which has a recess, or hollowed part, into which the stave-board may be laid, so that one edge of the stave board may project beyond the edge of the platform, before mentioned. The distance of the projection, and the cross motion, are regulated and adjusted by racks and pinions, or by joints similar to those commonly used as parallel rollers. Above or be beath the bench is a circular saw, re

volving on an axis, nearly at right angles to the direction in which the first-mentioned platform can be slided or moved, and opposed to the direction of the motion of the projecting part of the stave board. The saw is to be made flat, when straight-edged staves are to be cut, and to be made of a dish-figure to agree with the circular, or curve line, when curve-edged staves are intended to be cut. A different kind of machinery is used for cutting the nose, or projecting part in the bung-stave of small casks, called bottles, which consists of a flat or a concave circular saw, to be employed for cutting the face of the stave close up to the nose, according as the face is required to be flat or curved, in which last case the stave must be moved upon a convex bed. There is also another circular saw, duly placed on an arbor, to revolve nearly at right angles to the plane of the other circular saw, and to be employed in making the cut close to the nose. And, after the two faces on each side of the nose have been duly formed, the bung-hole is perforated by means of a bit which is fixed at the opposite end of the arbor, belonging to the last-men

tioned circular saw. The staves are put together in the usual way, and the cask, when thus formed, is fixed in a stout flat piece of wood, called the chuck, having a circular hole therein, of the proper size to fit and be driven upon the end of the cask, and the chuck, in this situation, retains the cask firmly, having the axis thereof concentric with the chuck, and at right angles to the flat face of the same. In the next place there is a hollow implement constructed, for the pur pose of holding a cask therein, to finish the chime, or groove, for receiving the head, by the application of a turning tool, fashioned for that purpose at the edge, or cutting part thereof. The heads of the casks are cut out of pieces, in which the holes for receiving the pegs, or pins, are bored by a bit, or piercer, proceeding from a mandril. When the heads are ready, and the casks entirely connected together with the heads in their places, the cask is put between the centres of machinery, of the nature of a strong lathe, and in this, with proper in struments, the cask is completely finish ed. The wooden hoops are bended in a more complete and expeditious manner, by applying them so as to fasten one extremity to the surface of a wheel, which being turned round, and the remaining part of the hoop pressed against the cir cumference, the hoops receive the regular bend with correctness and expedition.

MR. EDMUND GRIFFITH'S, (BRISTOL,) for an Improvement in the Manufacture of Soup, for the purpose of washing with Sea-Water, Hard Water, and

other Water.

The nature of this invention is the admixture of phosphoric acid with soap, for the purpose of washing with seawater, &c. and the manner of performing the same is to procced by the usual methods to conve:t any of the saponaceous materials into soap, and to add a competent quantity of the phosphoric acid, in any form or proportion, either alone or in combination with an alkali, that may be best suited to the object proposed, having regard to the cheapness, or the elegance of the article to be produced. With a view to economy in price, Mr. G. has found the phosphoric acid of urine, applied without any minute chemical decomposition, a cheap and easy method of procuring the acid: for this purpose, the urine may be evaporated to about one fourth of its original quantity, and then to be added to the

materials in the proportion of ten gallons to every ton of soap. To avoid the smell which this will communicate to the soap, the phosphates of soda, or potash, may be used instead of the material just mentioned.

MR. JAMES CAPARN'S, (LEICESTER,) for preventing Chimneys from Smoking.

This invention is well known by the name of the "Patent-smoke Disperser," the machine is simple, and has proved of great utility in a vast variety of instances it consists of an iron pot, similar in shape to common chimney-pots, but on the top of it is a ventilator, which turns on a pivot, or rather in a box filled with oil, to prevent friction; this ventilator is moved with great rapidity by the current, a circumstance that increases the draft of the chimney, and of course aids the smoke in passing from the chimney into the air; the flat sides of the ventilator prevents the smoke from being blown down the chimney by heavy winds, which are the chief causes of the evil complained of. Of the value of this invention we can speak from experience: it is however a duty that we owe the. public to say, that we have lately seen another invention by Mr. JOHN LEWELL, of Kentish-Town, which appears to be a striking improvement on Mr. Caparn's. It consists of three parts, united in one machine: that part which is fixed in the brick-work is square; and, in size, adapted to the opening of the chimney: it is about sixteen inches high: the di ameter of the upper part is ten inches; that of the lower, fourteen or fifteen; just above this turus, on a pivet, a cylindrical iron-pot, having in its circumference twelve wings, about ten inches high and three wide. These wings appear as if made by cutting the cylinder in so many places, and on three sides, and then lifting the said pieces and fixing them to a given angle. Over the cyldrical iron-pot is fixed a cone, containing six wings, set in a diagonal direction: the bottom part of the wings extends over the cylindrical pot an inch all round. The length of the conical wings is six.. teen inches. The difference between Mr. Caparu's "Smoke Disperser," and Mr. Lewell's HORIZONTAL VENTI. LATING CONE, consists in this, that in the former the smoke has no other exit but through the openings in and above the ventilator; and, if any of it should be beat down by the wind, it cannot escape, because the pot is in one piece, without