Its fury quickly spent or past, To mark the ravage of the biast, With feelings of alarm

I look'd, supposing mischief done;
But save that simple reed alone,
Saw vestige none of harm.
Devoted reed! I then exclaim'd,
With sympathy shalt thou be namn'd,
When next a theme I choose;
The moralist in thee shall find
A subject suited to his mind,
Depicted by my Muse.

The vot'ries of ambition too,

Their semblance in thy form shall view;
Their danger in thy fate;

While those of pleasure, wealth, and pride,
Alarm'd, perchance may step aside,
And learn to contemplate.

Chelmsford.

SONNET.

TO A SKY-LARK.

J. POTTER.

"HERALD of morn!" and minstrel of the sky!

Whose votive music hails the rising light; Now flutt'ring o'er the corn-now soaring high,

Scarce seen, or wholly lost to human sight; How dear to me, sweet warbler, is thy lay, How thy lov'd notes my drooping spirit cheer;

Give a new joy to every opening day,

And fresher rapture to the vernal year. Gladden'd by thee I range the flow'ry fields, Forget awhile the anguish of my heart; Inhale the fragrance bounteous nature yields, Nor feel, or faintly feel, sharp sorrow's dart. Thy song attracts my gaze to yon blue scene, And fills with heavenly sounds the airy space between. 1. U.

On thy loved haunts so fondly dwell? And whence the charm, which thou alone Canst yield, each ruder sigh to quell ? Th' expansive scenes so oft admir'd, Thy neighb'ring woods, thy flowery meads; Thy smooth canal, thy shady groves,

F these, the mind delighted pleads. These may awhile engage the mind,

And Fancy's magic pow'r invite; But these a bounded influence hold;

When absent, they no more delight. But kindness holds my heart to thee,

By polished manners made more dear; And beauty's form, and spotless worth,

Bid me thy very name revere.

When night's blue vault, by gems illum'd, Spreads o'er the world its glittering veil,

A sullying cloud will oft appear,

Borne by some unregarding gale.

CON

SENT TO A YOUNG LADY, IN SEQUENCE OF HER IMMODERATZ GRIEF FOR THE LOSS OF HER CHILD.

WHY, dearest friend! such signs of woe
Do thy conscious features wear?
Why, from thy eyes in ceaseless flow,
Streams Affliction's sacred tear?

Why is thy soul to sorrow giv'n
For one that lives; and lives in heav'n?
True, thy child is snatch'd for ever

To Death's cold and darksome seat!
True, his infant prattlings never,

Never more thy ears shall greet =
Must keenly feel the fated dart.
True, that thy fond maternal heart
Yet consider, that good Being

Who the lovely treasure gave;
Kind! beneficent! all-seeing!

Never strikes but strikes to save! And p'rhaps that word which clos'd his eyes, Bade him, thy guardian angel rise. Ah! then let a softer feeling

Calm the tumults of thy breast; While reflection gently stealing

Soothes thy troubled mind to rest: Kneel humbly to the afflictive rod, And bless the fiat of thy God.

I. U.

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densers might be applied to one boiler, or two or more boilers may be applied to one or more condensers. The cooler or condenser might be another paur not heated, but for saving of expense, the patentees recommend clay lined with brick-flags, or any other cheap and con venient materials, for forming a shallow pond or reservoir, communicating with the boiler, and acting as such cooler or condenser: any other way of causing an alternate variation of the degrees of heat in the brine, during the process, would produce a similar effect; "but no method," say they, "can be more simple and easy for this purpose, than that which we have described; and this, in its principle, comprehends all other methods of graduating and regulating the heat of the brine, by alternate increase and diminution; and therefore we protest against the evasive employment of any mode different in form and appear ance, whereby the same or the like effect may be produced, either entirely or partially, inasmuch as all such different modes would be in substance and principle, the same as that which we have described; and we particularly notice that, as the communication is to be open, a pan or pans of an enlarged size, having the heat applied only to part thereof, would operate to the forming of the salt, because in that case the parts of the pan not heated, would be in effect condensers to the heated parts of the pan; but the extension of the pans would operate against saving of expense. By the addition of the coofers or condensers, a much greater quantity of salt will be made in the same space of time, than can be made in the same pans or boilers, without the coolers, or condensers."

MR. CHARLES LE CAAN'S, (LLANELLY,) for an Invention of certain Apparatus to be added to the Axle-trees and Wheels, or Naves of Wheels, of Carriages, so as to impede, resist, or check, their Action.

This invention consists in causing the wheels, or either wheel singly, of any carriage whatsoever to be stopped, or become stationary, at the pleasure of the driver thereof, by means of bolts or slides of iron, or any other metal or compound metal, attached to an axle-tree of any kind or sort, which bolts or slides, by means of levers, with or without the assistance of springs, come into contact with a plate of iron, or any other metal, or compound metal, on which one or

more projections are formed; which plate being let in, and fixed to the nave of a wheel, will answer the purpose required, by impeding the motion of any carriage, to the wheel or wheels of which the same is applied. The levers are, or may be, connected with the body of any kind of carriage, and to such part thereof as may prove most convenient, by either chains, strings, cords, leather, or any other substance necessary for the purpose.

MR. JOHN SCHMIDT'S, (ST. MARY AXE,) for a Phantasmagoric Chronometer, or Nocturnal Dial, rendering visible at Night, to any enlarged size, the Diul of a Watch, against the Wall of a Room, &c. &c.

This instrument consists of a vase, or any ornamental case, either of wood, stone, tin, or any other metal applicable, and so constructed as to allow a free communication of the air, yet to prevent the rays of the light from being visible; and having on one side a watch with two dials, or what are called the day and night dial, and on the opposite side a combination of glasses, or a single glass moveable in a tube: the diameter of the glass is one inch and three-quarters, and the pins two inches and three-quarters; serving to represent the inward or nightly dial, against the wall. In the foot of the vase is a light or lamp, shut in, yet so constructed, that by means of a little door or slider, it may be taken out, and when in, may be altered in its position, and placed nearer or further off the magnifier or dial. In the bottom of the vase is a case, to receive the waste oil of the lamp. Having stated at large the particulars of the nocturnal dial, the patentee goes on to describe the mysterious circulation, or chronological equilibrium; which apparatus may be applied instead of the watch-work, described in the specification, and illustrated with figures, or may be used as a separate time-piece, or as an orrery. It consists of the work of a horizontal or vertical watch, fixed in a box or globe, representing the earth. "I fix," says Mr. Schmidt, "to the hour-hand wheel a weight; and the box, with the watch and weight, are fixed to the lever, through which the steel centre or axis, made of hardened steel turned very smooth and thin to prevent friction, is fixed. On the other end of the lever is attached a box, containing lead sufficient to counter-balance the watch in every position when in mo

tion; to obtain which with facility, the weight should be fastened in such a manner as to be moveable out and in, upwards and downwards, &c. when adjusting it, the proper weight and quantity of the counterpoise should be found by trials, as the weight and size of different time-pieces are not alike." In that recommended by Mr. S. the box contain ing the watch is three quarters of an inch high, and the distance from the steel centre, is one inch and seven-eighths long: the counterpoise is one inch and a quarter in diameter, and half an inch high; and the distance from the steel centre is two inches and one-eighth of an inch long, the weight fixed to the hour hand wheel, forms a semi-circle, and is the one-eighth of an inch thick: the whole rests upon two ornamental and jewelled supporters, or friction rollers, which are screwed upon a stand, upon which is also fastened a supporter for the rim, serving as a dial, which may be divided into twelve, or twenty-four hours, according to the construction of the time-piece; the hours and minutes are shewn by one hand only, or, if required, a nonius may be applied to subdivide the minutes. The centre piece serves to represent the sun. To use this apparatus as a nocturnal dial, the reflector is fixed

to the steel centre, and is confined within the ornamental case or vase, that con tains the lamp and magnifier; the hand shewing the hours is fixed within the case. By this contrivance, the watch work is not exposed to the heat of the lamp, as in the manner described with the double dial. To represent the increase and decrease, as well as the regular revolution of the moon round the earth, an apparatus is fixed to the back of the globe or box, in such a manner as to make the moon invisible when between the sun and earth, and then, when turning round, gradually to increase, shewing the phases on the proper day; for which reason, the number of days in the month are engraved upon a brass circle, fixed round the globe, The motion is effected by a little weight fixed to the axis of a pinion, with six teeth, this pinion acting into a wheel with thirty teeth. To the axis of this wheel is attached the bent arm of the moon, the other end of this arm serving as a counterpoise to the weight of the moon; this apparatus, turning round with the box or globe, occasions the pinion to be turned by the weight, al ways hanging perpendicularly, and thereby causing the wheel, with the moon, to move one tooth every day.