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d. and embowered within a space that the eye could crowning laugh of that little creature, when, with one last, in at one glance, and a pleasant glance it was! bold, mighty effort, she reached the maternal arms, and The east window of the church was lighted up with red was caught up to the maternal besom, and half devoured and glowing refulgence-not with the gorgeous hues of with kisses, in an ecstasy of unspeakable love. As if protificial colouring, but with the bright banners of the yoked to emulous loudness, by that mirthful outcry, and etting sun; and strongly defined shadows and mouldings impatient to mingle its clear notes with that young innof golden light, marked out the rude tracery of the low cent voice, a blackbird, embowered in a tall neighbouring ed tower, and the heavy stone-work of the deep narrow bay-tree, poured out, forthwith, such a full, rich, melody, Windows, and the projections of the low massy buttresses, as stilled the baby's laugh, and for a moment arrested its to regularly applied in defiance of all architectural propor- observant ear. But for a moment. The kindred natures , as they had become necessary to the support of the burst out into full chorus; the baby clapped her hands icient edifice. And here and there on the broken slant- and laughed aloud, and, after her fashion, mocked the ungof the buttresses, and on their projecting ledges, might seen songstress. The bird redoubled her tuneful efforts; seen patches of green and yellow moss, so exquisitely and still the baby laughed, and still the bird rejoined; and, ht, that methought the jewellery with which Aladdin both together, raised such a melodious din, that the echoes pased the windows of his enchanted palace was dull and of the old church rang again; and never, since the contest lourless, compared with the vegetable emeralds and of the nightingale with her human rival, was heard such azes wherewith Nature's own sweet and cunning an emulous conflict of musical skill. I could have ad" had blazoned that old church. And the low head laughed, for company, from my unseen lurking place, mes also-some half sunk into the churchyard mould within the dark shadow of the church buttresses. It was, my carved out into cherubim, with their trumpeters' altogether, such a scene as I shall never forget; one from eeks and expanded wings, or with the awful emblems which I could hardly tear myself away. Nay, I did not: "death's-heads, cross-bones, and hour-glasses! The low I stood, motionless as a statue, in my dark grey niche, till ead-stones, with their rustic scrolls, that teach us to the objects before me became indistinct in twilight; till ve and die," those also were edged and tinted with the the last slanting sun-beams had withdrawn from the highest alden gleam, and it stretched in long floods of amber panes of the church window; till the blackbird's song was tht athwart the soft green turf, kissing the nameless hil hushed, and the baby's voice was still, and the mother eks; and, on one little grave in particular (it must have and her nursling had retreated into their quiet dwelling, a that of an infant), methought the departing glory and the evening taper gleamed through the fallen white gered with peculiar brightness. Oh! it was a beauti- curtain and still open window. But yet, before that churchyard. A stream of running water intersected it curtain fell, another act of the beautiful pantomime had fost close to the church wall. It was clear as crystal, passed in review before me. The mother, with her inning over grey pebbles, with a sound that chimed har- fant in her arms, had seated herself in a low chair within niously in with the general character of the scene, low, the little parlour. She untied the frock-strings-drew off hing, monotonous, dying away into a liquid whisper, that, and the second upper garments-dexterously, and the rivulet shrank into a shallow and still shallower at intervals, as the restless frolics of the still-unwearied anel, matted with moss and water plants, and closely babe afforded opportunity; and then it was in its little hung by the low underwood of an adjoining coppice, coat and stay, the fat white shoulders shrugged up in in whose leafy labyrinth it stole at last silently away. antic merriment far above the slackened shoulder-straps. Tas an unusual and a lovely thing to see the grave- Thus the mother's hand slipped off one soft red shoe, and es and the green hillocks, with the very wild flowers having done so, her lips were pressed almost, as it seemed, sies and buttercups) growing on them, reflected in the involuntarily to the little naked foot she still held. The erill as it wound among them-the reversed objects other, as if in proud love of liberty, had spurned off to a glancing colours shifting, blending, and trembling in distance the fellow shoe; and now the darling, disarrayed roken ripple. That and the voice of the water! It for its innocent slumbers, was hushed and quieted, but "Life in Death." One felt that the sleepers below not to rest-the night-dress was still to be put on, and the but gathered for a while into their quiet chambers. little crib was not there-not yet to rest, but to the mighty their very sleep was not voiceless. On the edges of duty already required of young Christians. And in raves on the moist margin of the stream, grew many moment it was hushed-and in a moment the small hands of the beautiful" Forget me not." Never, sure, was were pressed together between the mother's hands, and appropriate station for that meek eloquent flower! the sweet serious eyes were raised and fixed upon the moth was the churchyard, from which, at about ten ther's eyes (there beamed, as yet, the infant's heaven), distance from the church, a slight low railing, with and one saw that it was lisping out its unconscious prayer ch wicket, divided off a patch of the loveliest green-unconscious, not surely unaccepted. A kiss from the (yet but a continuation of the churchyard turf) maternal lips was the token of God's approval; and then ed with the tall elm and luxuriant evergreens, she arose, and gathering up the scattered garments in the igst which peeped modestly out the little neat rectory. same clasp with the half-naked babe, she held it smiling s constructed of the same rough grey stone with the to its father, and one saw in the expression of his face, as th. Long, low, with far projecting eaves, and case- he upraised it after having imprinted a kiss on that of his windows facing that large east window of the church, child-one saw in it all the holy fervour of a father's farming with the reflecting splendour of the setting blessing. His orb was sinking to rest behind the grove, half wering the small dwelling, which, therefore, stood in perfect quietness of its own shadow, the dark green es of the jessamine clustering round its porch and lows, scarcely revealing (but by their exquisite odour) ure white blossoms that starred" its lovely gloom.' ttheir fragrance floated on the gentle breath of evenmingled with the perfume of mignionette, and the fingered marvels of Peru (the pale daughters of twiand innumerable sweet flowers blooming in their of rich black mould, close under the lattice windows. e were all flung wide (for the evening was still and y) and one, opening down to the ground, showed the lor of a very small parlour, plainly and modestly fured, but pannelled all round with well-filled bookcases. dy's harp stood in one corner; and in another, two globes and an ortery. Some small flower-baskets, 1 with roses, were dispersed about the room; and at a *near the window sat a gentleman writing (or rather ing over a writing-desk, with a pen in his hand) for eyes were directed towards the gravel walk before the dow, where a lady (an elegant-looking woman, whose white robe and dark uncovered hair well became the et matronly expression of her face and figure) was Sously stretching out her encouraging arins to her little ighter, who came laughing and tottering towards her the soft green turf, her tiny feet, as they essayed their t independent steps in the eventful walk of life, twist-and turning with graceful awkwardness, and unsteady ssure, under the disproportionate weight of her fair fat cson. It was a sweet, heart-thrilling sound, the joyous

Then the mother withdrew with her little one-and then the curtain fell-and still I lingered-for, after the interval of a few minutes, sweet sounds arrested my departing footsteps-a few notes of the harp, a low prelude, stole sweetly out-a voice still sweeter, mingling its tones with a simple quiet accompaniment, swelled out gradually into a strain of sacred harmony, and the words of the evening hymn came wafted towards the house of prayer. Then all was still in the cottage, and the deepening shadows brought to my mind more forcibly the lateness of the hour, and warned me to turn my face homewards. So I moved a few steps, and yet again I lingered still; for the moon was rising, and the stars were shining out in the clear cloudless heaven, and the bright reflection of one danced and glittered like a liquid fire-fly on the ripple of the stream, just where it glided into a darker, deeper pool beneath a little rustic foot-bridge, which led from the churchyard into a shady green lane, communicating with the neighbouring hamlet.

On that bridge I stopt a minute longer, and yet another, and another minute, for I listened to the voice of the running water; and methought it was yet more melifluous, more soothing, more eloquent, at that still, shadowy hour, when only that little stat looked down upon it, with its tremulous beam, than when it danced and glittered in the warm glow of sunshine. There are hearts like that stream, and they will understand the metaphor.

The unutterable things I felt and heard in that mysterious music!-every sense became absorbed in that of hearing; and so spell-bound, I might have stayed on that very spot till midnight, nay, till the stars paled before'

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the morning beam, if the deep, solemn sound of the old church-clock had not broken in on my dream of profound abstraction, and startled me away, with half-incredulous surprise, as its iron tongue proclaimed, stroke upon stroke, the tenth hour of the night.

The Housewife.

Housekeeping 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." Wet feet-How often do we see people trampling about in the mud with leather soaked through, and how often do such people, when they return home, sit down by the fireside, and permit their feet to dry without changing either stockings or shoes.-Can we then wonder at the coughing and barking, and rheumatism and inflammations, which enable the doctors to ride in their carriages? Wet feet most commonly produce affections of the throat and lungs; and when such diseases have once taken place, the house is on fire'-danger is not far off: therefore, let us entreat our readers, no matter how healthful, to guard against wet feet.-Medical Adviser.

Temperance.-Never eat too much. You have Galen's authority for it. His constitution was very delicate, yet he lived to an advanced age; and this he attributed, in a great measure, to the circumstance of his never rising from meal without still feeling some degree of hunger.-Belfast Magazine.

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hundred and twenty pounds, generally contains twenty Corpulency. It is supposed, that a person weighing one pounds of fat. The accumulation of fat, or what is commonly called corpulency, and by nosolog sts denominated polysarcia, is a state of body so generally met with in the inhabitants of this country, that it may sxist to a certain degree without being deemed worthy of attention; but disease, disposing to other diseases-and to sudden death. when excessive, is not only burthensome, but becomes a A book just published, by a person named Wadd, on this subject, contains a variety of cures for corpulency, one of which seems to be unutterably horrid. It is recommended as a remedy, to devour Castile soap. What a tremendous abuse to the stomachic region! Sooner would we amplify ourselves to the dimensions of Daniel Lambert himself, than make a washing tub of our paunch, and convert our gastric juice into suds. Vegetable diet is more palatable, though still objectionable.

in a letter to the Editor of The Annals of Philosophy. Boiling Point of Liquids.-Dr. Bostock has announced, that he has observed the boiling point of liquids, particu larly of ether and alcohol, is altered very considerably by the addition of any small extraneous substances, such as small chips of wood, &c. In the case of ether, the difference amounted to more than fifty thermometric degrees.Chymist.-" A chip in porridge," may thus turn out to be more important than it has been thought to be.]

To remove Spots of Grease from Silk-Take a little sulphuric ether, and wet the spot of grease with it; let the ether evaporate, and, if the grease is not completely gone, it must be again wet with the ether, which will have the effect of removing it without injury to the silk in the smallest degree.-The Chymist.

Hooping Cough.-A plaster of gum galbanum, applied to the chest, cures this complaint.-Medical Adviser.

LOUISIANA TEA SHRUB.

[From the Philadelphia National Gazette of Jan. 11, 1825.]

If this shall ultimately prove to be the genuine plant, (and Mr. William y Lewis, who first made the discovery, informs the editors of the New Orleans Mercantile Adver tiser, that, from a comparison of the seed with that of the China tea plant, there remains not a doubt of its being the genuine plant,) there are several small plantations of it now growing in Louisiana, and as it thrives most luxuriantly, it will be an important addition to our national prosperity and wealth. The plant flourishes in China in much higher latitudes than Louisiana, say from 21° to 40° north; Louisiana being from 298 to 33, the medium latitude of China, there can be no objection as to climate. Indeed it is believed that the plant might be cultivated in Maryland and Virginia, neither of which are as high north as some parts of the tea-growing latitudes of China.

Poetry.

THE MURDERED MAID.

From her briny tomb,

The maid is come,

And William shrinks aghast;

And round his bed

Are shapes of dread,

Loud howling to the blast!

And, anon, the cry

Of agony

Convulsive fills the air;

And the murderer shrieks,

As morning breaks,

These boding sounds to hear!

"When the moon looks dim,
And the watch fires gleam
Athwart the lurid air;
When the rushing waves,
From their viewless caves,

Foretell the storm is near:

When the sea-fowls sweep
O'er the restless deep,

With low and fitful cry;
When the reeling mast
Yields to the blast,

As it madly rushes by:

At the fearful hour,
When in wizard tower,
Is wrought unholy spell
And the sheeted dead,
From their dusty bed,

Meet tales of horror tell!

In that hour of gloom
Shall Margaret come,
Thy traitor heart to scare;
And the madding storm,
In its wildest form,

Be calm to thy soul's despair!

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have seen at least forty summers: bless his youth! ho can he be very young!

But to our excursion: and here I beg to remark, t I do not intend closely to follow up our tourist in all freaks and fulminating maneuvres, but simply to g along after him, at a safe and respectful distance, in the manner best suited to my taste and leisure; and, fra memory, to point out some of the obvious omissions of t journal. I shall join him, if you please, where the Che forms that beautiful sweep round Glasgow-green, and, without pointing out the excellencies of this delight park, with its avenues and monument,❤ just drop over the ruins of Dr. P-'s bridge;† the city of Glasgow towering in polished freestone on the one hand, and the burgi of Gorbals fumigating in all its antiquity and filch en the other. Hutcheson's-town had not, at the period of which we treat, yet reared her hundred of all chimneys over nearly as many steam-engines; nor had the very fine town of Lauriston extended its charming terrace ang the south bank of the river, to call forth the ad of the stranger; but, in those days, the Old-bridge sretched its narrow parapets and planted its massive but upon the Clyde, and deserved at least a passing i. This bridge has, in our day, become classical fie circumstance of its being recorded as the spot whereas Osbaldistone unexpectedly met the freebooter R, is detailed in the Waverley Novels. The Br bridge,§ under which our traveller moored for the right. has been often admired for the elegance of its archite

CHAPTER SECOND.

It was four o'clock, reader, on a fine summer eng when "With sails unfurl'd, And swivell'd prow, To storm the world, Or-kill a 'crow,'"

We have to inform the writer of the following critique, that, previously to the reception of his letter, we had made up our minds not to proceed with the narrative to Loch Lomond, which is the subject of his animadversions. In declining the remainder of the tour, we are influenced by two reasons. In the first place, we find to our surprise that the publication gives offence in some quarter. We confess also, that, when we came to peruse the first portion of the work in the type, we regretted that we had pledged ourselves to its appearance; nor could we conceive how it could ever have "passed muster" at the first stream of Clyde, and keeping a good "look out," our formidable traveller "glided away" down the s perusal. Our readers may recollect that we prefaced the expresses it, saw not any thing remarkable, save “te all first portion of it by saying that it was written in a very slo-tary crow," in search of her breakfast, which D. A. venly way, and that the author had not made the most of D. A., I had almost added an M to it) shot. And his very ample materials. A second perusal, however, still reader, shall I appeal to your sympathy in this dire ne lowered the piece in our estimation; and we have now only gency, and shall that sympathy be exercised in fased to regret that we gave a place to so puerile and common- the poor hungry crow, defunct, or on her forlen place a detail, the writer of which seems to have possessed derers, who betake themselves, instanter, to vadi a the gift of seizing upon the most trifling objects, and the shore to pick up this inestimable prize, and, “not defect of overlooking every thing grand and picturesque. after this, we got a-ground ?" His common-places perpetually remind us of the specimen given by Swift, in his dissertation on the bathos.

"Beasts, tame and savage, to the river's brink
Came from the fields and wild abodes to drink."

CHAPTER FIRST.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-Notwithstanding your precautionary proem to
the narrative of The Traveller," upon his excursion
from Glasgow to Loch Lomond, I set myself down with
some anticipation of enjoyment from the perusal; but,
alas! how wofully was I disappointed! Instead of a
glowing description of the striking scenery and renowned
localities with which this part of Scotland abounds, I
found a meagre narrative about a boat, with its pop-guns
and fishing-tackle-a lazy pilot, and miserable refresh-
ment of "loaf bread," (why not oaten-cakes?) washed down
with "grog," (whiskey toddy would have been better,)
and a cold room, without fire, after sun-set; and all these,
and almost only these, from a tour a-down a valley, as I
have observed, fertile with objects on which the memory
and the eyes could luxuriate for a long summer's day.
Your "impression, that the author is a very young
man,"
"does not at all strike me. The journey was entered
upon (3d June, 1800) nearly five-and-twenty years ago;
and, if our "traveller" could, at that period, note down
his observations (alas! for observation) not in "good set
terms," but in such terms as they do appear, he must

Most unfortunate, certainly, Mr. Traveller; but keeping your good "look out," (surely not alwa crows,) where was the little village of Govan, so fa in those days for its salmon and Glenlevit whiskey? ha was the ancient burgh of Renfrew, noted for its an' yill?" and where the distant spires of P

of which we write. This monument stood for
Nelson's pillar, of course, was not erected st
unengraved, and one dreadful afternoon it wa
lightning, and cleft from the top to the base
remarked, that it was now engraved by "the finge
and a few stanzas of considerable merit were cozaik 3.
the occasion.

+ I never knew it was called by that name. On the site a wooden foot-walk bridge is thrown over, wh been admired for its one well-formed arch.

+ I observe in a statistical account, by Mr. Cleland, f gow, in the Glasgow Herald of last week, that there present 166 working steam-engines in that town and

suburbs.

pose of defending the city; it was on one awful nigh
§ I have seen this bridge planted with cannon, for the
with fate," in 1819 20, when radicalism broke forth ca**
moors, near Paisley, and rose in all its horrors, like a
mare upon the terror-struck imaginations of the "*",
men weavers" (i. e. quondam operatives) of Glasgow,
| Some one breathes in my ear, Oh, oh!
tory, are situated at no great distance from the river, Lad
¶ Cruikston Castle and Camp-hill, both celebrated
served the notice of a "traveller."

Elderslie, the renowned Elderslie of "Wallace dred miles athwart the island, and are well known as the and the whole erection being in such bad order when I :?" where

They lighted a taper at the dead of night

And chaunted their holiest hymn;

fat her brow and her bosom were damp with affright, Her eye was all sleepless and dim!

nd the lady of Elderslie wept for her lord, When a death-watch beat in her lonely room; hen her curtain had shook of its own accord, id the raven had flapp'd at her window-board, To tell of her warrior's doom!"

was the romantic scenery which first opens on the Kilpatric, and enchants the passenger, as he pro with its increasing magnificence and sublimity, until rides on the surges of St. George's Channel? a small elevation near Kilpatric, we have one of st views imaginable. The Clyde, with its ship. ays, villas, and headlands, Dunglass's hoary ruins, mbarton Castle pressing forwards its mighty ridge, re into the centre of the river, and fronting to the

"There, watching high, the least alarms,

Thy rough rude fortress gleams afar, Like some bold veteran gray in arms,

And marked with many a seamy scar. 1. The ponderous wall, the massy bar, Grim-rising o'er the rugged rock, Have oft withstood assailing war,

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And oft repell'd the invader's shock." village of Kilpatric is famous for the belief which habitants entertain of its being the birthplace of Patrick: to this, however, Paddy will not subscribe. this village the canal, which forms the junction of rth and Clyde, enters; and now the river widens into a fine expanse. As we sail along, to the rd towers the misty peak of Benlomond, through a of the mountains, of about one half mile, where iks of the river form a plane level between the proy of Dumbeck and the rock of Dunbarton Castle. foreground smokes the extensive glass-works of and Co. over the quiet village of Dunbarton, now without its "drum." "Dumbarton's drums beat" er "bonny" the beat that we hear, and its ac ying melody, proceed from an arena, typifying a

Grampian mountains, "where Norval fed his father's saw it in 1818, I think I may hazard the opinion that it
flock." Considerably down the river, on the south bank, was built before the year 1800. Near Renton is the birth-
under a lofty hill, you have an indistinct view of Greenock, place of poor Toby; and I should imagine few travellers
with her masts and spires, and "many boated bay," near pass up the Leven, without visiting the spot where one of
which Port Glasgow, emulating the elder port, looks our most pleasing novelists and sweetest poets first drew
proudly down, with her blue painted bells, upon the breath. I cannot refrain from embracing the opportunity
brilliant sheet of water mantling beneath. Newwark's of repeating the following stanzas, by Smollett, on his
lonely tower ('tis not in my recollection, if it be the native stream:
Newwark of Sir Walter Scott) raises its humble battle-

ments hard by the latter port, but the eye at this distance+ can scarcely distinguish it.

Our traveller now discharges a whole round of popguns, "double loaded," at Dumbarton Castle, and mistakes the hoisting of the flag to announce high water, for a returning signal. He is perfectly astonished why the garrison does not return his "fire," but upon reflection, feels higher honoured in the breach than in the observance," when he discovers their flag hung out as a symbol of "friendship."

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He does not waste one line upon a description of the castle, nor does he appear to have made the smallest inquiry if admittance could be procured; probaby he thought all that could be said of this celebrated rock worthy our attention had already been well told: so think I, and have but to observe, that had he entered the guard-room by the gates of the arsenal, he would there have seen a doubleedged two-handed rusty sword, which is exhibited as Wallace's sword," and an enormous one it has been, for it is now but the remains of a huge weapon. Wallace must have had numerous swords, as I have seen several of them elsewhere.

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Proceed we now into the Leven, and, admiring the mazy course of this limped stream, adorned with castles, woods, and modern villas, pause not until we approach the village of Renton, where there is a pillar erected to the memory of Tobias Smollett. I am not aware if this pillar was standing twenty-five years ago; but from the marble tablet placed in the pedestal being much defaced and broken, • Blue painted bells.-A certain magistrate of this town, to evince his wisdom and economy, ordered that the bells of Port Glasgow be painted blue, to fortify them against the tear promontory of Dumbuck, which frowns down even and wear of ringing. The bells were painted blue; when, lo! the worthy magistrate discovered, that in giving his bells a stately castle, terminates that grand range of moun-coat, he had robbed them of their voices. This happened not hich take their rise on the German Ocean, near a hundred years ago. len, and runs on an angle for upwards of two hun- + Dumbarton Castle.

artarus.

ODE, TO LEVEN-WATER.

On Leven's banks, while free to rove,
And tune the rural pipe of love,

I envied not the happiest swain
That ever trode th' Arcadian plain.
Pure stream, in whose transparent wave
My youthful limbs I wont to lave;
No torrents stain thy limpid source;
No rocks impede thy dimpling course,
That sweetly warbles o'er its bed,
With white, round, polish'd, pebbles spread;
Where, lightly pois'd, the scaly brood
In myrids cleave thy crystal flood;
The springing trout in speckled pride,
The salmon, monarch of the tide;
The ruthless pike, intent on war;
The silver eel and mottled par.
Devolving from thy parent lake

A charming maze thy waters make
By bowers of birch and groves of pine,
And edges flower'd with elgantine.
Still on thy banks, so gaily green,
May num'rous herds and flocks be seen;
And lasses chaunting o'er the pail,
And shepherds piping in the dale;
And ancient faith that knows no guile,
And industry imbrown'd with toil;
And hearts resolved and hands prepar'd
The blessings they enjoy to guard.
To conclude, for I doubt I have encroached too much

upon your time, Mr. Editor, and for which I request your forgiveness, I shall only add, that, but for the circumstances of frightening a Highlandman from his gabert's hold, and astonishing the Dumbartonshire mountains, in the stillness of their summer sublimity, with his obstreperous pop-guns, together with some sundry matters very childish and mal apropos,-I remark, that but for these your traveller might otherwise have been journeying down the Jordan to Jericho with as much propriety of observation as paddling in the steam-propelling Clyde.-I am, &c.

DOCTOR TIMOTHY TWIST.

Andante.

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OF A FINLANDISH PEASANT GIRL.

FROM "ACERBI'S TRAVELS THROUGH SWEDEN, FINLAND, AND LAPLAND, TO THE NORTH CAPE, IN 1798 AND 1799, VOL. II."

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The Investigator.

[Comprehending Political Economy, Statistics, Jurispru dence, occasional passages from Parliamentary Speeches of a general nature, occasional Parliamentary Documents, and other speculative subjects, excluding Party Politics.]

THE MANCHESTER MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.

[From the Manchester Courier.]

In order to accommodate a greater number of persons, the Minor Theatre was selected instead of the room in which it was originally intended the lecture should be delivered; and so great was the interest which prevailed on this occasion, that long before the appointed hour the house was completely filled in every part, and several who were unable to obtain admittance, arrived about the

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Mr. WILSON then came forward, and his appearance was hailed with marks of approbation. He informed the assembly that the first part of the course would treat of the properties of material bodies, and the object of me. chanical philosophy was to investigate the laws upon which the various phenomena of matter depended. Mr. W. then proceeded to state the three several forms under which matter is found to exist, namely, the solid, the liquid, and the fluid or aeriform; and to explain its various properties of extension, form, divisibility, impenetrability, com. pressibility, porosity, &c. &c. most of which he illustrated by a series of familiar experiments. Mr. Wilson adopts BENJAMIN HEYWOOD, Esq. the worthy and zealous the theory of M. Boscovish, Dr. Priestley, and others, who President of the institution, pronounced an introductory assert the impenetrability of matter, and that it consists address, and was greeted on his appearance in such a man only of physical points endued with powers of attraction ner, as abundantly testified the high sense entertained of and repulsion. Provided, therefore, a body move with a his valuable services to the institution and his zeal for its sufficient velocity, or have a degree of momentum sufficient interests. He explained the objects of the institution, and to overcome the power of repulsion it may meet with, it expatiated upon the importance of the union of Science will find no difficulty in making its way through any other with Art in the person of the practical mechanic. He body whatever, without any respect to the relative hardwould then no longer be the mere imitator, travelling on ness or softness of the two. This, Mr. Wilson illustrated in the same beaten track which others had trodden before by firing a waxen bullet through a thick deal board. A him; but would apply himself to an investigation of those corollary from this proposition is, that no such thing as principles and laws which regulated his particular handi- absolute contact exists between any two particles of matter, craft, and would thus open an abundant field for new dis- that, if the velocity be sufficiently great, one body will coveries, and for suggesting improvements upon scientific pass completely through another, without displacing any principles in the practice already in use. Mr. Heywood of the particles of which it is composed. We have not held up to his auditory, as bright examples for imitation, space this week to notice the other experiments, the arguand as a stimulus to exertion in the acquirement of know. ments against the infinite divisibility of matter and its inledge, the names of Franklin, Watt, Arkwright, and other finite extension, and various other interesting points in the practical mechanics who had immortalized their names by lecture; but we shall probably recur to them again. their scientific acquirements, and most of whom laboured Judging from this introductory lecture, Mr. Wilson's under the very great and discouraging difficulties which it | style appears clear, and his observations and arguments was the object of this institution to remove. Mr. Heywood perspicuous. His own good sense and experience will earnestly recommended to his auditory the careful perusal doubtless suggest to him the necessity of descending to the of the life of the late illustrious Mr. James Watt, and level of the capacities of his hearers as he proceeds in his expressed his approbation of Mr. Brougham's interesting illustrations of the practical application of the sciences to pamphlet on the education of the people. He could not, art. We would not here be understood to insinuate that however, but lament a misconception into which the ho- this was not done in the present instance, as far as the nanourable and learned gentleman had fallen, with respect to ture of the subject would admit of; but as it is essentially the mode in which it was proposed to conduct this institu- requisite in a public lecturer that he endeavours to convey tion. He had supposed that none but the honorary mem- knowledge to others rather than display his own, we throw bers were to have any share in the management. No such out the observation in order that it may not be lost sight thing was contemplated; (cheers) but at its first establish- of. Mr. Wilson concluded by expatiating on the imment the institution took for its basis the plan of the Edin-portance of mathematical knowledge to the study of me burgh school of arts. Mr. H. then enumerated the various chanical philosophy, and expressed his willingness to circumstances which ought to render the The Manchester Mechanics' Institute one of the first and most flourishing in the kingdom, which it was his most anxious wish, proud as he was of this his native town, at no very distant period to see it; and he had great satisfaction in informing the assembly, that eight of their worthy townsmen had most handsomely offered to lend the institution £500 each, to make up a sum of £4000, to be employed in the purchase of land, and the erection of a suitable building for the purposes of the institution (immense cheering). The assembly were aware that the formation of a library had already commenced, and so soon as it could be carried into effect, it was intended to add a workshop and a laboratory, where the student, who had a thirst for knowledge, would have an opportunity of reducing to practice the various principles of science he had imbibed in the library or at the lectare; and honorary rewards would be given to those who

further any plan for the formation of mathematical classes.
He announced that the next lecture would take place on
the 12th of April; and in the mean time he should be
happy if any mechanic would turn his attention to the
solution of the problem of the saw that is to say, why an
instrument with a notched or jagged edge will cut
through any substance, a deal board for instance, more
effectually than one with a much finer and keener edge
which is perfectly smooth. An individual from the gal-
levy replied, "because it more easily separates the fibres."
it does so that I want you to tell me. Direct your at
Mr. Wilson Aye, my friend, but it is the reason why
tention to it, and perhaps you can tell me when we meet
again."

Scientific Records.

LIST OF NEW PATENTS.

To Joseph Manton, of Hanover-squate, gun-make for improvements in fire-arms.--26th February - 6 mcade To William Hopkins Hill, of Woolwich, lieutena artillery, for improvements in machinery for propelag vessels.-26th February.-6 months.

To George Augustus Kollmaun, of the Friary, S James's-place, Middlesex, professor of music, for provements in the mechanism and construction of fortes.-26th February.-2 months. To James Bateman, of Upper-street, Islington, f portable life-boat.-26th February-2 months. To Cornelius Whitehouse, of Wednesbury, whites, for improvements in manufacturing tubes for gas, &c 26th February.—6 months.

method of making nibs or slots in copper, or other me To Thomas Attwood, of Birmingham, for an impreved cylinders, used for printing cottons, &c-26th February 6 months.

To David Gordon, of Basinghall street, and William Bowser, of Parsons-street, Wellclose-square, in-ma facturer, for improvements in plating or ring won with copper, &c-26th February.-6 months.

To Chevalier Joseph de Mettemberg, of Pele, Mary-le-bone, physician, for a vegetable, mercurial, and spirituous preparation, called Quintessence dutie or Mettemberg's water, and also a particular chi of employing the same by absorption as a specific and es metic.-26th of February.-6 months.

To John Masterman, of No. 68, Old Broad fr an improved method of corking bottles.—5th_Men-4 months,

of Stratford-place. Mary-le-bone, and Charles Jery? To Abraham Howry Chambers, and Ennis Chain, of Adam-street, Manchester-square, for a new hizig apparatus. 5th March.-6 months.

To William Hailey, of Holland-street, Blas road, Surrey, iron-founder and blowing-machine ater to be used therewith, or separate.-5th March-ira for improvements in forges, and on bellows

To Robert Winch, of Steward's-buildings, le Fields, Surrey, engineer, for improvements à pumps for raising water, &c.-5th March.-6 mo

To William Henry James, of Coburg-place, W rail-ways, and carriages to be employed theregreen, near Birmingham, engineer, for improvenan March -6 months.

To William Hirst and John Wood, both of Le

improvements in cleaning, milling, or fulling co-f

March.-6 months.

bone, architect, and James Turner, of Well-street.
To John Linnell Bond, of Newman-street, M
le-bone, builder, for improvements in the construer
windows, casements, folding sashes (usually called Fr
sashes) and doors, by means of which the same are bay
clude rain and wind, and to afford a free circula
and hinged, in a manner adapted more effectually
air.-9th March.-2 months.

To Thomas Hancock, of Goswel Mews, St. L Middlesex, patent cork-manufacturer, for a ne facture, which may be used as a substitute for leather. otherwise.-15th March.-6 months.

To Thomas Hancock, of Goswel Mews, for ments in making ships' bottoms, vessels and mess different descriptions, and various manufactures, a rous or fibrous substances, impervious to air and and for coating and protecting the furnaces of metallic and other bodies.-15th March.-6 mock

To Thomas Hancock, of Goswel Mews, for ments in the process of making or manufactur cordage and other articles from hemp, flax. k-iki

March. 6 months.

To John Colling, of Lambeth, engineer, f ments on springs and other apparatus used for doors.-15th March.-6 months.

his improvement on the frames of eye-glass To Robert Bretell Bate, of the Poultry, epicie,

March.-6 months.

To Henry Nunn, and George Freeman, both ef friars-road, Surrey, lace manufacturers, for impre in machinery for making that sort of lace known by the name of bobbin-net-15th March

months.

To Samuel Brown, of Saville-row, Middle, motion to vessels employed in inland navigation mander in the royal navy, for his apparatus in po March.-4 months.

should distinguish themselves in any branch of Science for an improved method of producing figures or ornaTo John Heathcoat, of Tiverton, lace-manufacturer, or Art. Mr. Heywood then announced that the directors ments on goods manufactured from silk, cotton, &c. had made arrangements for the delivery of a course of Dated 25th February, 1825.-6 months to enrol specifi- To Joseph Barlow, of the New-road, St. George's, M lectures, on chymistry, by the justly celebrated Mr. R. cation. Phillips, F. R. S. lecturer to the London institution; anding.de la viudacturer, for an inkstand, in which, by pres known by the name of bastard and piece sugas To David Edwards, of King-street, Bloomsbury, writ-fying and improving the quality and colour of sex, sugar-refiner, for his process for bleaching and concluded, by introducing to the assembly the Rev. Andrew sure, the ink is caused to flow to use.-26th February March.-6 months. Wilson, A. M. late lecturer on mathematics and mecha. 2 months.

To William Grisinthwaite, of King's-place, Nat

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for his improvement in air engines.-15th March. fested become yellow; the trees themselves die at the top, nths. and soon entirely perish. Their ravages have been long Richard Whitechurch and John Whitechurch, of known in Germany, and the insect is formally mentioned aard, Cary-street, Middlesex, for an improvement on in the old liturgies of that country. This pest has been inges for doors, &c. which will enable the doors, &c. to particularly prevalent at several periods, occasioning inopened on the right and left (changing the hinges), and calculable mischief. In 1783, the number of trees deth or without a rising hinge.-17th March.-2 months.stroyed in the Hartz forests was reckoned at a million and To Mark Cosnahan, of the Isle of Man, for a new appa- a half. The premature decay of the elm trees in the Mall us for ascertaining the way and leeway of ships, also ap- and Birdcage Walk in St. James's Park, is to be attritable to other useful purposes.—17th March.-6 months. buted to this insect; and it should justly bear the blame that has been wrongfully cast on the young recruits, who, it was said, wantonly wounded the bark of the trees with The Naturalist's Diary. their bayonets: the idle loungers also came in for their share of malediction: but it has since been discovered that Messrs. Scolyti and Co., the corselet-armed anibuscaders, have perpetrated the mischief complained of.

APRIL, 1825.

[From Time's Telescope.]

[Concluded from our last.]

Biographical Notices.

In a volume now before us (The trials of the Regi cides) we find a manuscript copy of the following sketch, and also an original comment upon it, which we shall insert next week. We consider the two documents interesting, as some of the Colonel's descendants are at this moment residents in this town and neighbourhood.

THE LIFE OF THOS. WAYTE, ESQ. From the Rev. Mark Noble's Lives of the English Regicides, vol. 2, p. 310.

landshire.

He wrote to the Parliament, in 1648, that he had fallen on those who had made insurrection at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, and had killed Dr. Nudson, who had commanded them, with some others, and had taken many prisoners, but had dismissed the countrymen; which the House approving of, sent him their thanks, and ordered that the General should send him a commission to try the prisoners by martial law: soon afterwards he reported to the House the defeat and capture of Duke Hamilton, with all the circumstances relative to it.

Thomas Wayte, Esq. was a native of Rutlandshire, and If the garden, like the year, is not now absolutely at its is said to have been the son of an alehouse keeper, (see best, it is perhaps better; inasmuch as a pleasant promise, Wood's Nasti Oxonienses, vol. 2, col. 64) at Market Overbut half performed, partakes of the best parts of both promise and performance. Now all is neatness and finish, ton, in that county; but going into the Parliament army, 1 April, or early in the next month, the plover, lap- or ought to be; for the weeds have not yet begun to made such good use of his time, that he obtained a Colog or pee-wit (tringa vanellus) lays her eggs, and sits, make head, the annual flower seeds are all sown, the di-nel's commission, and a seat in the long Parliament. In she makes no mest. A few pairs will retire to heaths, visions and changes among the perennials, and the re- 1643 he beat up the King's quarters near Burley-house, ens, or ploughed fields during the season of incubation, movals and plantings of the shrubs, have all taken place and probably then, or immediately after, became, in conthe greater portion of them fix their stations upon the The walks, too, have all been turned and freshened, and ks of the dykes of marshes, or the great drains in our the turf has begun to receive its regular rollings and mow-sequence of it, Governor of Burley-on-the-Hill, in Rut. ay districts; and the traveller who at this season passes ings. Among the bulbous-rooted perennials, all that were g the roads bordering upon such places (as they com- not in flower during the last two months, are so now; and ly do in some counties), is wearied by the incessant if the season, up to the commencement of this month, has and inquietude of these birds, which rise at his ap- been seasonable, and if due care has been taken in the h, and wheel around him in a kind of tumbling flight, planting and tending of them, we may still encounter the mpanied by the unremitting cry of pce wit, pee wit; tulip, hyacinth, daffodil, the various kinds of narcissus, this successive cry will assail him as long as he re- &c. Indeed, the richest and rarest kinds of tulip are s near their haunts, which are commonly surrounded scarcely yet in blow. But what we are chiefly to look for fat, aguish, uninteresting country, where nothing is now are the fibrous-rooted and herbaceous perennials. but the whispering of the wind in the reeds and There is not one of these that has not awoke from its winter s, and the deafening monotonous clamour of this dreams, and put on at least the half of its beauty, A few these conjoined, give to some of our low fen roads of them venture to display all their attractions at this time, dar character of dreariness and melancholy; and from a wise fear of that dangerous rivalry which they gold, wet districts are called in some places 'pee-wit- must be content to encounter if they were to wait for a As one of the army grandees, he contrived and assisted In this season, the bird is fearless of man, and she month longer: for a pretty villager might as well hope to in the destruction of his Sovereign, whom their arms had ,with insulting vociferation, to drive him from her gain hearts at Almack's, as a demure daisy or a modest conquered, fearing his Majesty and the Parliament should s; but when the broods are fledged, they unite in polyanthus think to secure its due attention in the pet settle their quarrel, and they, in consequence of it, be feeding upon worms and slugs, in open meadows sence of the glaring peonies, flaunting roses, and towerimmons, and are then wild and vigilant creatures. ing lilies of May and midsummer. Among the shrubs disbanded, without reaping those rewards they were desouth of Scotland this bird is called the pease-weep.' that form the enclosing belt of the flower-garden, the lilac termined to obtain. He sat as one of the pretended his delightful month, in which the feathered tribe is in full leaf, and loaded with its heavy branches of judges at the mock trial on the 25th, 26th, and 27th Jan. Susily engaged in forming their temporary habita-bloom-buds; the common laurel, if it has reached its flow-in the Painted Chamber, and on the last of these in Westnd in rearing and maintaining their offspring, howering age, is hanging out its meek modest flowers, prepatis it ratory to putting forth its vigorous summer shoots; the larch has on its hairy tufts of pink, stuck here and there among its delicate threads of green.

roam abroad amidst the mists, and dews,
And brightness of the early morning sky,

en rose and hawthorn leaves wear tenderest hues.
To watch the mother linnet's stedfast eye,
ited upon her nest; or wondering muse

On her eggs' spots, and bright and delicate dye;
peep into the magpie's thorny ball,
wren's green cone in some hoar mossy wall.

Howitt's Forest Minstrel.

vine now expands its empurpled leaves. Honesty, wort, is in flower; and the new sprung leaves of & chesnut, in their turn, are playing in the breeze. Steg moles are now to be found in their nests; this is me, therefore, for destroying them. Weasels and great enemies to moles, and frequently get into oles, kill the inhabitants, and take up their own here. us kinds of insects are now observed; as the jumper, seen on garden walls; and the webs of other of spiders are found on the bushes, palings, and of houses. The inlus terrestris appears, and the atch beats early in the month. The wood-ant now o construct its large conical nest. Little maggots, State of young ants, are now to be found in their The shell-snail comes out in troops; and the sting and the red ant appear.

mole-cricket is the most remarkable of the insect en about this time. The blue flesh-fly, and the Ay, are frequently observed towards the end of the The great variegated libellula, which appears, aly, towards the decline of summer, is an animal lar beauty. The cabbage butterfly, also, now ap The black slug abounds at this season. The newt Seen crawling along the bottoms of ponds and deep he beetle tribe now on the wing, the scolytus dedermestes scolytus of Linneus) may be noticed extraordinary powers of injuring trees. It is dein Kirby and Spence's Introduction to Entomoas feeding on the soft inner bark only, and as makattacks in such vast numbers, that 80,000 have ound on a single tree. The leaves of the trees in

What exquisite differences, and resemblances, there are
between all the various blossoms of the fruit-trees; and no
less in their general effect than in their separate details!
The almond-blossom, which comes while the tree is quite
bare of leaves, is of a bright blush rose-colour; and when
they are fully blown, the tree, if it has been kept to a compact
head, instead of being permitted to straggle, looks like one
huge rose, magnified by some fairy magic, to deck the
bosom of some fair giantess. The various kinds of plum
follow, the blossoms of which are snow-white, and as full
and clustering as those of the almond. The peach and
nectarine, which are now in full bloom, are unlike either
of the above; and their sweet effect, as if growing out of
the hard bare wall, or the rough wooden paling, is pecu-
liarly pretty. They are of a deep blush colour, and of a
delicate bell-shape, end their divisions open or shut, as
the cherishing sun reaches or recedes from them. But,
perhaps, the bloom that is richest and most promising in
its general appearance, is that of the cherry, clasping its
white honours all around the long straight branches, from
heel to point, and not letting a leaf or bit of stem be seen,
except the three or four leaves that come as a green finish
at the extremity of each branch. The pear blossom is
also very rich and full; but the apple (loveliest of all!) is
scarcely as yet open.

Timely, though late, the pomp of Spring draws on:
Their flowery carpets are the meads preparing:
The woods, as yet some wintry tatters wearing,
Now haste their liveries of green to don.
The banks blush violets, while the primrose wan

Thrusts her meek head from forth the trodden leaves
Of forest path; with them the cowslip weaves
Her golden pendents. Thickly now upon
The dressy hedge-rows snowny blossoms stand,
Of sloe and cherry; for the speckled boughs
Have burst at once, as by enchanter's wand,

Into rich network: green, where late the plough's
Fresh trace appeared, the fields and every thing.
Hark! from his airy tower the lark proclaims the Spring.

J. CONDER.

minster-hall, when sentenced was pronounced against the unhappy Monarch: and he signed and sealed that instrument, which commanded the execution of it.

After this event, we hear nothing of this man until the Restoration: he seems neglected by the Parliament, and totally given up by Oliver, when he became Protector, who even omitted his name as one of the Committee for Rutlandshire, which he had enjoyed during the Parlia ment's influence.

[Mr. Noble then proceeds to detail the particulars of Mr. Wayte's trial, (for which see p. 294) observing, that he was extremely troublesome to the court; though he does not appear to have been more so than others, whose lives and fortunes were at stake, or than his Rev. biographer himself might have been under similar circumstances; and the account is concluded with the following remarks.]

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• By this relation it may be seen, that Mr. Wayte was by no means a man of understanding, and that the party made him the meanest dupe to their most wicked schemes: it should also be observed, if his relation be true, that Grey was not for having the King put to death, but he was so bad a man, and so deep in the mystery, that little reliance can be placed on the opinion of a man, who seems to have a very bad judgment. It may, however, be a probable surmise, that many of those who were drawn in to sit as judges, were fooled by the heads of the party, pretending that it was only meant to try, and even condemn the King, to bring him, when in so deplorable a situation, to adopt what schemes they pleased, and what terms they chose to lay him under by their own security and reward. Mr. Walker says, he soon obtained an estate of £500, who before was not able to purchase five pounds a year; but when I hear him speaking of his estates, I am led to suppose that he was not so mean, nor so poor a man as he has been represented; but by his speech he seems to have had little or no education, or to have made an ill use of it."

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