Co. Booksellers; E.Mari borough, Newavender; Aalborne, Derb.-W. Hoon; Buru-J. Kay; This familiar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners, LE Mahon-T. Cunningham; Chorley-R. Parker; No. 214.-VOL. V. The Philanthropist. Denbigh-M. Jones; THE LATE MR. BOWDICH'S FAMILY. TO THE EDITOR. SIB,-Among the various appeals, which from time to time have been made to the sympathy and liberality of the public, I recollect none which appears to me more deserving of prompt attention than that now made in behalf of the late Mr. Bowdich's family. I say prompt attention, inasmuch as this is one of those cases which admits of no delay on the part of the charitable. The old adage ays, "Live well, and thou livest twice;" so on such occasions as this present we may perhaps say, - promptly, and thou givest twice.". "Give -Charnley; Northwich-G. Fairhurst; TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1824. reaping the emoluments and the rewards due to a long Islington, July 29, 1824. Men and Flanners. L. L. THE CHAPEL ON THE SHORE OF THE ADRIATIC. FROM THE GERMAN OF KOTZEBUE, BY L. MAN, OF LIVERPOOL [Continued from our last.] At last she perceived that she was in Dalmatia, and the sight of the Adriatic sea had a powerful effect upon her, because she had never before left the interior; and she was so forcibly struck by the grand spectacle of so vast a body of water, that she quite forgot her situation. Not far from Ragusa she reached an old castle, on a steep rock, which belonged to her husband, and was then only inhabited by an old steward, and innumerable flocks of rooks and owls; this was to be her residence. She shuddered as she drove through the court-yard, which was overgrown with grass; and when the old clock struck the hour, she fancied she heard the tolling of a funeral bell. I do not wish to trespass on your columns, by recapitulating what has already been said on this interesting subject in the various papers; I merely would deduce thereFrom a few observations, with the hope of some little further attracting the public notice. A young and accomplished female suddenly bereft of all her earthly hopes and prospects, and left totally destitute with a dependant family of three young orphan children,-can there, though a disressing, be a more interesting picture? But it is not imply thus that our interest is excited. Our compassion is Further moved, and withal our sincere respect elicited, by e reflection that this unfortunate lady was, during the Efe time of her husband, a perfect pattern of conjugal tedness the promoter of his various schemes and untakings the almost constant companion of his travels and his toils, and the unwearied assistant of his numerous Literary and scientific labours; and now, in her widow- A male-servant, of a most ferocious mien, had travelled Food, expressing nothing further than the laudable wish on the out-side, and he now gave the steward a written in devote her talents to such pursuit as may best obtain for struction; the latter read it in silence, and then looked for a respectable subsistence, and enable her to bring up a bunch of keys; and having scraped the rust from them, he helpless family in a manner that may be worthy of applied them to the doors, which creaked upon their "noble and generous soul which is now with its Crea-hinges when he opened them. Damp marble stairs led to some old-fashioned, dilapidated rooms, in which the BaMeetings have been held in various parts of the king-roness requested to be left alone, as soon as the necessary om to do honour to the late Mr. Watt. May the same spirit arrangements for her accommodation were made. The which prompted this, impel the public to stretch forth a gloominess of the abode suited her feelings, but she rehelping hand in the present distressing case. As zealously adnous as that celebrated individual was, in the advanceTent of science, and with it the promotion of the interests and the renown of his country, Mr. Bowdich, though suing a different path, had, like him, given up his ole soul to the noble 'end he had in view. Desarts, ning-sands, encountering the most savage hordes of the uncivilized quarter of the habitable globe, deterred nothing from the object of his enthusiastic pursuit. Cheered by the smile of her who almost ever was near assisting him, and his heart constantly buoyant with the laudable enterprize he had in view, he dreamt not of ger, but looked forward with exultation to the day, ough perhaps distant, when his arduous efforts might be oned with complete success. But, alas! unlike in his Fortunes to the great man alluded to, in place of going, Jake him, to his grave, full of years and honours, after Stockport-T. Claye;. J. Brown; Wrexham-J. Painter; |York-W.Alexander. PRICE 34d. hood: she collected shells and curious stones; she fed the young swallows under her window; or she watched the gambols of the sea-gulls. A daily walk on the shore was permitted to her, and she did not neglect to profit by this indulgence; although the witch of Endor, or her equally amiable male companion, never failed to be close to her heels. Fortunately, however, they became tired of watching her so closely, when they saw that there was no occasion for it. The old woman had brought some fits of rheumatism upon herself by her frequent visits to the shore; and the dissolute footman suffered more from the confinement to a small spot than his mistress; he spent, therefore, most of his time in the taverns of Raguɛa. One day the Baroness had gone rather further than usual, and she perceived it with terror, when a loup clap of thunder made her think of home. She made what haste she could; but, on account of the deep sand, she had often to stop and recover her breath. The storm drew nearer and nearer; but her alarm was still more increased by the figure of a man, who had his face wrapped up in his mantle, and who seemed to be very anxious to come up with her. She began to run, but was unable to continue; and when she looked behind her, she saw that the man was likewise running: her knees trembled, and terror deprived her of the power to move: she sank down, on a rock, at the moment that her pursuer overtook her; and, immediately after, Robert lay at her feet. She thought that the lightning must have struck her, so completely was she overcome by her terror, and she stared at the man without being able to stir. Some large drops of rain, which fell upon her face, brought her a little to her recollection. Robert lay still extended on the ground, and embraced her knees: he spoke not-he only sighed and sobbed: it was to her that female pride imparted the power of first finding words. "What do you seek here?" she exclaimed: "are you come to feast on my misery ?"-" Listen to me," he replied: "I am innocent." At the same moment, the croaking voice of Mrs. Brigitta was heard at a distance; Robert concealed himself behind a rock, and the Baroness frained from yielding to them in the presence of her went to meet her. She brought an umbrella, and scolded keepers. She wept bitterly when they had left her; but the Baroness for having extended her walk so far. Forher frame was so exhausted with anxiety and fatigue, tunately, she had to hold the umbrella straight before her, that sleep closed, at last, her weary eye-lids; although the and was thereby prevented from looking about. Louisa howling of the wind among the old towers disturbed her reached her room in the most violent emotion: the words, with frightful dreams, and awoke her before day-break." I am innocent," which she was so willing to believe, She arose with the first dawn, and looked through the rang continually in her ears. "It must be so," she said, window, which presented to her a view of the water. The "for what else could engage him to visit me in this majesty of the rising sun inspired her with renewed confi- desert? What would he care for my fate, if that horrible dence in the Creator of the universe, and she threw herself letter had been actually written by him?" She waited on her knees, to implore for protection in her misfortune, anxiously for the next day, and looked at the sky in every and for strength to bear it. She derived much comfort direction, in the apprehension that the state of the weather from her devotion, and began to think of the manner in might prevent her from taking the usual walk; not that which she was to spend her time. There were no books she would have been afraid of braving even the most on the premises, and writing materials were denied to her: pelting storm, but because it would create suspicion if but she knew how to make little baskets of rushes, and she offered to go out at an unseasonable time. Besides, rosaries of corals, which were got in the neighbour- she could not conceal from herself that it was giving Robert a positive meeting, although nothing had been agreed on the subject. She considered a long time, whether it was proper or not for her to afford any facilities for an explanation; and, in order to reflect more quietly, she went earlier than usual to the sea-side, resolving to return if Robert should present himself before she had come to any conclusion: but he came so unexpectedly and suddenly, from behind a rock, that there was no avoiding him. "It would be difficult to estimate the value of the be engineer detailing and expounding, for hours togethe the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or cr ticising the measures or the matter of German poetry. great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty-by h "His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in power of digesting and arranging in its proper place a the information he received, and of casting aside and re jecting, as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless of mind seemed instantly to take its place among its othe immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to bi rich furniture, and to be condensed into the smallest au most convenient form. He never appeared, therefore, be at all encumbered or perplexed with the verbiage of th dull books he perused, or the idle talk to which he lis ened; but to have at once extracted, by a kind of inte lectual alchemy, all that was worthy of attention, and have reduced it for his own use, to its true value and to i simplest form. And thus it often happened, that a gre deal more was learned from his brief and vigorous a counts of the theories and arguments of tedious writer than an ordinary student could ever have derived from th most faithful study of the originals,-and that errors an absurdities became manifest from the mere clearness an plainness of his statement of them, which might have d luded and perplexed most of his hearers without that in valuable assistance. of another of our illustrious countrymen, and one to whom mankind has been still more largely indebted-Mr. James Watt, the great improver of the steam-engine. ours; for he that bore it survived to see it crowned with "This name fortunately needs no commemoration of undisputed and unenvied honours; and many generations will probably pass away before it shall have gathered all its fame.' We have said that Mr. Watt was the great that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he improver of the steam-engine; but, in truth, as to all should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his "In the name of mercy!" he began, "hear my jus- inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it tification: we have been both most shamefully misled. Be- capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate fore I had ever seen you, I had been intimate with Madame manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight Wickenfeld. She was young, handsome, vain, and a and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and coquette. She distinguished me from the crowd of her its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, admirers, and I felt flattered; but this lasted only until and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which it I met you. I then freed myself from the net, and you can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an know what was said at the Dorothea-stone. My heart elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is as nomisgave me at that time; but the artful woman knew so thing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it; draw out, without well how to conceal her real feelings, she counterfeited breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of generosity so cunningly, and appeared so entirely divested war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin of selfishness, that she won my confidence, and made me and forge anchors,-cut steel into ribbands, and impel actually believe in the possibility of her enjoying the hap- loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. "It is needless to say, that, with those vast resources. piness of others. I saw with what sisterly affection she nefits which these inventions have conferred upon the his conversation was at all times rich and instructive in no accompanied all your steps, I heard her daily speak of country. There is no branch of industry that has not been ordinary degree; but it was, if possible, still more pleas you in raptures, and we owed her so many happy hours, indebted to them; and in all the most material, they haveing than wise, and had all the charms of familiarity, wi that all my suspicions were lulled asleep. She ap- not only widened most magnificently the field of its ex- all the substantial treasures of knowledge. No La peared, indeed, on some occasions to doubt your attach-ertions, but multiplied a thousand fold the amount of its could be more social in his spirit, less assuming or fast productions. It is our improved steam-engine that has ous in his manners, or more kind and indulgent toward ment for me, and she pointed out to me some slight fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, all who approached him. He rather liked to talk.marks of levity in you which had escaped my attention; through the late tremendous contest, the political great- least in his later years; but though he took a considera but all was said in the good-natured tone of friendship, ness of our land. It is the same great power which share of the conversation, he rarely suggested the top and even her remarks on the smallness of your fortune now enables us to pay the interest of our debt, and to on which it was to turn, but readily and quietly took a seemed but to originate in her extreme anxiety for our maintain the arduous struggle, in which we are still er- whatever was presented by those around him, and as gaged, with the skill and capital of countries less op- tonished the idle and barren propounders of an ordinar welfare. It was only after our separation that her at-pressed with taxation. But these are poor and narrow theme, by the treasures which he drew from the ni tempts at making me jealous became more direct and views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the which they had unconsciously opened. He genera daring. She pretended to regret, most bitterly, that the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered seemed, indeed, to have no choice or predilection for c duties of friendship imposed upon her the irksome and cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of subject of discourse rather than another; but allowed i painful task of informing me of the real state of my man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be his associates might choose to turn up, and only e wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of mind, like a great cyclopædia, to be opened at any lette prospects, by telling me how much you indulged in all assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most deavoured to select from his inexhaustible stores has the fashionable follies of the day, and how highly you refractory qualities of matter, and laid a sure foundation might be best adapted to the taste of his present hearers relished the amusements which were offered to you. for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are As to their capacity he gave himself no trouble; and, in With every post she furnished me with some fresh proofs to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is deed, such was his singular talent for making all thing of her sincerity and your faithlessless; but it was with to the genius of one man, too, that all this is mainly owing; plain, clear, and intelligible, that scarcely any one ca and certainly no man ever before bestowed such a gift on be aware of such a deficiency in his presence. His talk the greatest reluctance that she did it. In this manner his kind. The blessing is not only universal, but un- too, though overflowing with information, had no resem she worked upon my passions until she had brought me bounded; and the fabled inventors of the plough and the blance to lecturing or solemn discoursing, but, on th to the resolution of resigning my claims. I discontinued loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their contrary, was full of colloquial spirit and pleasantry. H writing to you, and remained also for a considerable time rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran thro mankind than the inventor of our present steam-engine. most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jo without hearing any thing from you, until I received your "This will be the fame of Watt with future genera-larity, which gave infinite zest and effect to the condens last letter, which I took for an absolute mockery; since tions, and it is sufficient for his race and his country. But and inexhaustible information, which formed its a Madame Wickenfeld wrote, at the same time, that you to those to whom he more immediately belonged,-who staple and characteristic. There was a little air of had long lived in the most intimate connexion with the lived in his society, and enjoyed his conversation, it is not, ed testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and car Baron, and that the consequences of your intercourse perhaps, the character in which he will be most frequently diction, with which he used to address his younger friend required a speedy marriage. Thence my mad declaration. recalled-most deeply lamented-or even most highly ad- that was always felt by them as an endearing niark ef mired. Independently of his great attainments in me- kindness and familiarity,-and prized, accordingly, A few months afterwards my elder brother was killed in chanics, Mr. Watt was an extraordinary, and in many re- beyond all the solemn compliments that ever proceede a duel, and my father died of grief. I became heir of the spects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age from the lips of authority. His voice was deep and pe estate, and hastened home, where I found a letter of Ma- possessed so much and such varied and exact information, ful,-though he commonly spoke in a low and somet monotonous tone, which harmonised admirably with t dame Wickenfeld to my late father, which was dated from-had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of appre-weight and brevity of his observations, and set off to t Carlsbad, and in which she informed him of our love, hension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying greatest advantage the pleasant anecdotes which he and advised him to remove me with the utmost expedition, and methodising power of understanding, which extracted livered with the same grave brow and the same calm 81. representing you as the most dangerous person with whom something precious out of all that was presented to it. playing soberly on his lips. There was nothing of the I could possibly be connected. I should have doubted His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense,- indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levit and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all in his demeanour; and there was a finer expression the existence of such abominable duplicity if the proof times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was reposing strength, and mild self-possession in his mane had not been so very clear; and I need not tell you what casually started in conversation with him, had been that than we ever recollect to have met with in any other where my feelings when I thought of yours, and of the which he had been last occupied in studying and exhaust- son. He had in his character the utmost abhorrence to misery which my blindness had brought upon us both. ing-such was the copiousness, the precision, and admi- all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretensions; and As soon as I found myself at all able to connect my ideas, rable clearness of the information which he poured out indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promp- countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrep I resolved to see you once more,-to withdraw, in silence, titude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree dity of his language and deportment. if I should find you happy, or to free you from bondage, to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That if I should find you to be the victim of tyranny. he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in [To be continued.] chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with the most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and MR. JEFFREY'S SPEECH At the late Meeting in Edinburgh to contribute to the Mo nument in honour of the late Mr. Watt. "It is with pain that we find ourselves called upon, so soon after the loss of Mr. Playfair, to record the decease, In his temper and dispositions he was not only ki and affectionate, but generous, and considerate of t feelings of all around him, and gave the most liberal a sistance and encouragement to all young persons w showed any indications of talent, or applied to him f patronage or advice. His health, which was delicate fro his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he a vanced in years; and he preserved, up almost to the la moment of his existence, not only the full command his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spir and the social gaiety which had illuminated bis happie days. His friends in this part of the country never s T him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial ani- "He was twice married, but has left no issue but one This happy and useful life came at last to a gentle close. He had suffered some inconvenience through the summer; but was not seriously indisposed till within a few weeks from his death. He then became perfectly aware of the event which was approaching; and with his usual tranquillity and benevolence of nature, seemed only anxious to point out to the friends around him the many sources of consolation which were afforded by the circumstances under which it was about to take place. He expressed his sincere gratitude to Providence for the length of days with which he had been blessed, and his exemption from most of the infirmities of age, as well as for the calm and cheerful evening of life that he had been permitted to enjoy, after the honourable labours of the day had been concluded. And thus, full of years and honours, in all calmness and tranquillity, he yielded up his soul, without & pang or struggle, and passed from the bosom of his family to that of his God! The Housewife. standing open for three days, during which it is to b stirred frequently, it is to be put into a barrel, and left for a fortnight, to work, when a ninth part of brandy is to be added, and the whole bunged down. In a few months it will be most excellent wine.-Economist. A new and expeditious Method of milking Cows.-I have had the satisfaction of witnessing, in presence of a number of gentlemen, a cow evacuating the whole of her milk by the following simple contrivance:-A rye straw was introduced into the orifice of each teat, through which the milk flowed spontaneously in a full and uninterrupted stream, until the udder was completely emptied. In exactly five minutes, between five and six quarts were thus drawn off. After the straws were withdrawn, the udder was collapsed and empty, 'and not a spoonful of milk could be obtained by the efforts of the hand. It is well known to anatomists, that the numerous milk tubes or canals are so formed as to communicate with each other, and all terminate in the extremity of the teat, and the Compound Wine-An excellent compound wine may milk is retained by a power similar to the contraction of a be made from red, white, and black currants, ripe cherries, sphincter muscle. The straw, or any tube, being introand raspberries, well bruised, and mixed with soft water, duced removes the contraction mechanically, and allows in the proportion of four pounds of fruit to one gallon of the milk to flow freely. The discovery of this novel prowater. When strained and pressed, three pounds of moist cess was reserved for a simple rustic boy in the town of sugar are to be added to each gallon of liquid. After Middleborough.-American Paper. "Housekeeping and husbandry, if it be good, A SONG, ADDRESSED BY LORD BYRON TO MR. THOMAS MOORE. SET TO MUSIC EXPRESSLY FOR THE KALEIDOSCOPE. TESSELATED PAVEMENT AT CIRENCESTER. Lately, as some workmen were employed in removing a mulberry-tree, near Barton-mill, at a short distance from one of the entrances to Oakley-park, the seat of the Earl of Bathurst, they discovered some tesselated pavement; and, pursuing their search, by the direction of his Lordship, who immediately ordered a tent to be erected over the spot, to protect the pavement from the effects of the weather, it was ascertained that the curious remains must have been the floor of an apartment. The subject is presumed to relate to Orpheus, as the centre figure is seen with one hand resting on a musical instrument, and surrounded, as the classic legends describe the great master of song, by the quadruped and biped auditors, the fierceness of whose savage natures had been subdued into gentleness by the magic charm of his melody. Amongst other objects are distinctly seen a lion, a panther, a peacock, a peahen, and various beasts and birds, the greater part of which are in excellent preservation, and the colours vividly bright. The whole of this tesseræ yet developed, occupies a space of twelve feet square. Already has this vestige of Roman antiquity attracted a vast concourse.-Cheltenham Chronicle. hill, near Killin, by following a fox which had entered it Antiquities. A cave was lately discovered in a rocky mitive limestone. The opening is small, but the interior said to contain chambers, in number, equal to those of an inn. It has no appearance of being an artificial excavation, and is said to be distressingly cold and very dark. The existence of such a cave had been traditionally talked of, as having been the resort of a famous freebooter, who was betrayed by a paramour, to whom Duncan Dhu offered, as a reward, as much gold as she could contain in her two hands. The gold, however, having been delivered in a melted state, the recompense proved perfectly suitable to the service. ng the main-gaft, and those already on board, (probably wo or three of particular lengths must be provided for the Purpose) are to be laid across over the masts, and lashed n the best manner. On those latter spars the bottom is to be made, by frapping lines in all directions to connect the aft together, as well as to prevent any opening that a person could drop through-(if a proper netting-bottom e already prepared for the purpose, it would be of great dvantage,)-over which, lengthways with the masts, wery thing about the deck will come of use, viz. boat pars, oars, handspikes, hatches, &c. &c. In proposing his sort of raft, eight butts (or more if convenient) should e always ready slinged on deck, with proper bungs to hem, four each side the deck forward of the paddle-box, ould not cause much inconvenience on board of a steamacket; added to which, it will readily appear useful to attach every thing floaty, as cork fenders, buoys, &c. Constable and Co. Edinburgh. nd if cork mattresses and cushions were used, it would greatly add to the buoyancy of a raft. Being thus prepared with the necessary materials, and be mode they should be put together, with such ample sistance of men, preserving good order, and proper midance, a complete raft might be made in half an hour, ad easily launched overboard; during that time the ats can be hoisted out, and take on board females, hildren, &c. the boats given in charge of the mate; and should be expected that no master would so disgrace imself, as not to be the last person to quit the raft. I do not presume to state it as a new thing to construct s with spars and casks, but I am not aware of any where it is proposed to use them in the same manner. 1 will doat above water sixty persons, and sixty more required might cling to it until assistance arrive, which uld probably not be long in the track of a steam-packet: to prove how little will support a person's head above ater, I beg to mention that two men who sunk with the lert, got hold of a crate of eggs, which supported them il the return of the boat from the shore)-it affords space nd buoyancy, a good bearing in the water, and will not dily capsize, particularly with the pointed end to the The butts are down to their full bearing before the tom of the raft is in the water. The life lines are bent spar over the bung of the casks, and passed along in best manner for the security of those using it, that le a person has any strength remaining, he has the s of holding fast to prevent being washed off. Also pproaching a lee-shore and shoal water, a raft of this cription would be preferable to a boat, as the former uld probably get within the reach of assistance, but in ny instances boats, when near the ground, have swamp-jects analogous to the customs of the country; with many , and all on board perished. |