course,

Steers the prone chariot, and restrains the horse.

She drives to Paris,-in their swift career The golden wheels like whirling fires appear. A sage, with astronomic tube, afar

Afore one sees, and hails the new-found star, Describes its motions, calculates its speed, And gains, like Herschel, an immortal meed.

Arriv'd her chariot like a coach she leaves, And, in the form of Talleyrand, deceives. She seeks the conq'ror, and, with skill divine, Makes private feud seem politic design. She bids before his ardent fancy stand The British throng throughout his subject land, An idle throng of every kind, that sped To learn new luxuries of board and bed, When France in peace and ancient nicknames

dealt,

And gain'd repose to hatch new modes of guilt.
These she array'd in all the charms that grace
The best and bravest of the British race,
With wisdom, valour, riches, beauty, all
That win in council, camp, or court, or ball,

"But these, (she cries,) O heav'n-sent chief, detain !

And soon Britannia must resign the main;
Possessing these, her genius you control,
And, wanting them, she wants her life and soul.
Behold Brucides, well his face peruse,
What signs of sense strike our enquiring
views!

O, all ye deities, renown'd in song,
Inspire our chief to keep this precious throng;
But, prime o'er all, may he Brucides hold,
A prize more awful than the Greeks of old
From Ilion stole, before the heavenly powers
Resign'd to Fate her long-beleaguer'd towers:
Then shall Britannia, her Palladium lost,
Receive our conq'ror, and enrich his host."

The

O heavenly Muse, relate with kindred zeal
What happen'd there,-the battle of the wheel.

Ere Cairo's towers or Nilus' mystic stream
Saw Gallic eye and Gallic bayonet gleam;
Ere Atheist antiquaries banded there,
Discover'd temples older than the air,
And prov'd by hieroglyphic beasts and birds,
(The patriarchal ancestors of words,)
That earth was never made, nor mortal man,
And Time's great clock still without maker ran;
From fam'd Byzantium to old Athens came
A four-wheel'd waggon of stupendous frame;
With what intent Discord alone can tell,
Discord it was that sent it to F.

While yet the axles with the journey glow'd, And the wheels' tract shone recent in the road; Rose wond'rous tidings, that th' unwarning French

The fire of thirst in Nilus' waters quench.
Alarm'd F- the fearful rumour flies,
And in his shed the cart forsaken lies.
The Turks exulting at so rare a pledge,
For royal Egypt seiz'd the four-wheel'd
sledge;

And when Britannia with triumphant arms
Restored the land,-to rapine and alarms,
The Turks to recompense with gen'rous heart,
Gave to her Dragoman the fatal cart:

He, Greek-like, hoping thrice its price to gain,
Inform'd Titudon, and bestow'd the wain.
Titudon, chieftain of the cords and crew,
That from their frames the sacred sculptures

drew.

One vernal morn, by chance divinely led,
The sighing consul left his wifeless bed.
And slowly passing Adrian's marble arch,
Faced to the right, and westward chose to
march,

Of pace sedate, two oxen there he saw,
Driven by a Greek, a loaded waggon draw;
Th' sight unusual fix'd his wond'ring eyes,
Till captive in the nearing wain he spies
An orphan-wheel of his lamented cart;
Surprise, like quick electric, rous'd his heart.
Grasping his stick, with wrathful haste, he ran,
Stopp'd the two oxen, and menac'd the man;
The man retreating, in amazement flew,
And told Titudon,- for the oxen drew
Relics of Greece, and fragments of her skill,
The worshipp'd offspring of Penteli's hill:
Penteli's hill, within whose quarried cave
The travellers ponder, and their names en-
grave.

(White beaver hat, with black cockade so Titudon, furious, takes his hat and cane,

plain,

Which Turks, admiring,call the moon of power:) And strode majestic from his lofty tower. F, none daunted, to the combat flies, And, halfway from the cart, insulting cries, "That wheel is mine."Your wheel!'"Yes, mine, I say.'

Your's, (cried Titudon,) then, without delay, I'll write my Lord ;' and stately strode away.

As pleas'd the Muse the scene of strife

would yield,

As the tir'd soldier quits the ensanguin'd field,
To seek his home and village-sports again,
No more the tenant of the tented plain;
Could thoughts like his be mingled with the
lay,

Spring's cheerful morn, and summer's jocund day,

Th' autumnal eve, when jibes satiric please,
And the long winter night of ale and ease.
But ah! far other is the Muse's theme
Than rural junkettings or rustic's dream:

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Did thy fair son awake Brucides' sighs,
Nor less, O goddess of the radiant eyes,
When on that night, by vengeful Bacchus led,
He rov'd bewilder'd to the stranger's bed.
Malignant Cupid, glorying in his power,
Follow'd Brucides to the secret bower,
And, in the crisis of extatic joy-

O direful woe! that Cupid should destroy,
Full at his forehead dash'd the flaming torch;
The nose defenceless perish'd with the scorch.
Like dead Patroclus on the funeral pyre,
His friends lamenting as the flames aspire.
The mortal feature was resolv'd to dust,
And left Brucides like an antique bust.

Apollo's

Apollo's part alone unsung remains,

His was to celebrate in epic strains,
These great achievements and success sublime,
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme;

For this he chose the charter'd British verse, Balanc'd the lines, and bade the bard rehearse. So wrought the gods in old Athenia's cause, Aveng'd their temples, and maintain'd their

laws.

TO DANIEL WILSON, esq. of Earl-street, London; for certain Improvements in the Process of Boiling and Refining Sugar.

HE expressed juice of the sugarcane contains in solution, together with the saccharine matter, a variety of other substances, which impede the crys talisation of the sugar, and by partially adhering to it, render it impure. It is chiefly owing to this mixture of foreign ingredients that the cane-juice possesses so great a tendency to run into acidity; for they operate as an artificial ferment, and the portion which adheres to the raw sugar continues to act in a similar manner, as it is well known that a solution of raw sugar is much more liable to run into acidity than a syrup of the same strength, made from that which has been refined. It therefore becomes an object of importance, as well in the manufacture of raw sugar in the colonies, as in its refiuing, to ascertain the nature of those hurtful ingredients, and, by chemical means, to ellect their separation without injury to the saccharine grain. Mr. W. does not consider it necessary for the description of bis invention to enter here upon the general composition of cane juice or raw sugar, but confines his remarks to those substances which are peculiarly injurious, and the separation of which he effects. The juice of the cane and a solution of raw sugar contain two sorts of impurities, the one chemical and the other mechanical, (that is to say,) the latter being merely floating particles of bruised cane held suspended in the fluid, it is possible to effect their separation by a mechanical operation, and by such it is usually done; but the former being actually dissolved and in intimate union, can only be extracted by a chemical action; and it is to those impurities, for which no means of separation has yet been devised, that this part of his invention relates and this he accomplishes by the addition of certain substances hereafter to be described, which combined with the chemical impurities of the canejuice or raw sagar, form with them an insoluble compound, thereby reducing

them to the state of mechanical impurities which it is possible to separate by means of filtration. The one which is the most abundant of those chemical impurities, approaches in its nature to what is called by chemists extractive matter; the others are tannin and gallic acid, which he bas discovered to exist in cane-juice and raw sugar. Those substances possess the property of forming insoluble compounds with the salts and oxyds of tin and zinc; and this part of his invention consists in the addition of a certain portion of those ingredients to the cane-juice or saccharine liquor in refining, thereby improving the colour and facilitating the crystalisation of the sugar. The solutions of tin or zinc, in any of the acids, possess the property of coagulating these impurities; but he prefers such as contain the sulphurie acid, on account of its forming an inso luble compound with lime, which ena bles it to be entirely separated from the liquor along with the oxyd, in combination with the extract tannin and gallic acid; and he further prefers for this purpose the solution of zinc in sulphuric acid, which constitutes what is called the sulphate of zinc.

In the manufacture of sugar in the colonies, for every hundred gallons of cane-juice eight ounces of sulphate of zine should be used, and the sooner it is added to the juice the better; and the common temper of lime may be em. ployed in a few minutes after it. The quantity of this temper should be increased at the rate of two ounces of lime to the hundred gallons of juice, in order to saturate the acid of the sulphate of zinc; but the experience of the boiler will soon enable him properly to apportion this. A method of purifying cane-juice by rapid filtration has always been extremely desirable; and the ap paratus, already alluded to, assisted by the action of these ingredients, completely separates every floating particle, so that the quality of the sugar is greatly improved. The cane-juice, after the addition of the sulphate of zinc and temper, should be brought nearly to the boiling point in the clarifier, and then

run

run through the filter into the troches to be boiled.

In the manufacture of raw sugar, where an excess of lime always should exist in the liquor, the sulphate of zinc is most advantageously used; but the oxyd may be also employed, after being prepared in the manner already described, and in the same proportions. That which has been specified, with regard to the sulphate and oxyd of zinc, also applies to the solutions and oxyds of tin, and more particularly to the sulphate; but Mr.W.claims generally the applica tion of the solutions and oxyds of tin and zinc to the abstraction of colouring matter, and soluble impurities, from cane juice and solutions of sugar, thereby improving the colour, lessening the vicidity, and rendering them capable of being readily purified by filtration.

TO WOLF BENJAMIN, of Plymouth Dock, Umbrella Manufacturer: for a Composition, varying in Colour, with a peculiar Method of applying, for the purpose of rendering Canvas, Linen, and Cloth, durable, pliable, free from cracking, and Water-proof.

To make a black.-First, the canvas, linen, or cloth, is to be washed with hot or cold water, the former preferable, so as to discharge the stiffening which all new canvas, linen, or cloth, contains; when the stiffening is perfectly discharg ed, hang the canvas, linen, or cloth, up to dry; when perfectly so, it must be constantly rubbed by the hand until it becomes quite supple; it then must be stretched in a hollow frame very tight, and the following ingredients are to be used or laid on with a brush for the first coat, viz. eight quarts of boiled linseed oil, half an ounce of burnt umbre, a quarter of an ounce of sugar of lead, a quarter of an ounce of white vitriol, a quarter of an ounce of white lead.

The above ingredients, except the white lead, must be ground fine with a small quantity of the above-mentioned oil on a marble stone and mullar; then mix all the ingredients up with the oil, and add three ounces of lamp-black, which must be put over a slow fire in an iron broad vessel, and kept stirred until the grease disappears; in consequence of the canvas being washed and then rubbed, it will appear rongh and nappy: The following method must be taken with the second coat, viz. the same ingredients as before, except the white lead; this coat will set in a few hours, according to the weather; when set, take

a dry paint-brush, and work it very hard with the grain of the canvas: this will cause the nap to lie smooth.

Third and last coat, which makes a complete jet-black, which continues its colour-take three gallons of boiled linseed oil, an ounce of burnt umbre, half an ounce of sugar of lead, a quarter of an ounce of white vitriol, half an ounce of Prussian blue, and a quarter of an ounce of verdigrease; this must be all ground very fine in a small quantity of the above oil, then add four ounces of lamp-black, put through the same process of fire as the first coat. The above. are to be laid on and used at discretion in a similar way to paint. To make lead colour, the same ingredients as before in making the black, with the addition of white lead, in proportion to the colour you wish to have, light or dark.

To make green.-Yellow ochre four ounces, Prussian blue three quarters of an ounce, white lead three ounces, white vitriol half an ounce, sugar of lead quar ter of an ounce, good boiled linseed oil sufficient to make it a thin quality, so as to go through the canvas.

Yellow.-Yellow ochre four ounces, burnt umbre a quarter of an ounce, white lead six or seven ounces, white vitriol a quarter of an ounce, sugar of lead a quarter of an ounce, boiled linseed oil as in green.

Red.-Red lead four ounces, vermilion two ounces, white vitriol a quarter of an ounce, sugar of lead a quarter of an ounce, boiled linseed oil as before,

Grey.-Take white lead, a little Prassian blue sufficient to turn it grey, according to the quality you want, which will turn it to a grey colour; a proportion of sugar of lead and white vitriol, as mentioned in the other colours; boiled linseed oil sufficient to make it of a thin quality.

White.-White lead four pounds, spirits of turpentine a quarter of a pint, white vitriol half an ounce, sugar of lead half an ounce, boiled oil sufficient to make it of a thin quality.

The above ingredients, of different colours, are calculated as near as possible; but, as one article may be stronger than another, which will soon be discovered in using, in that case the person working the colour may add a little, or diminish, as he may find necessary.

The same preparation for wood or iron, only reducing the oil about three quarts out of eight, and to be applied in the same manner as paint or varnish, with a brush.

BRITISH

AP. IV. To prevent delay in the

of Misdemeanor.-Dec. 23, 1819.

I. Persons prosecuted in the Court of King's Bench, for misdemeanors, appearing in Court, not permitted to imparle. Judgment may be entered for want of plea.

II. Court may allow further time to plead.

III. Persons in custody for misdemeanors, or held to bail within twenty days before the Sessions, shall plead to indict ment, unless a writ of certiorari be delivered.

IV. Certiorari may be issued before or after indictment is found.

V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, where any person shall be prosecuted for any misdemeanor by indictment at any Session of the Peace, Session of Oyer and Terminer, Great Session, or Session of Gaol Delivery, within that part of Great Britain called England, or in Ireland, not having been committed to custody, or held to bail to appear to answer for such offence twenty days before the Session at which such indictment shall be found, but who shall have been committed to custody or held to bail to appear to answer for such offence at some subsequent Session, or shall have received notice of such indictment having been found twenty days before such subse. quent Session, he or she shall plead to such indictment at such subsequent Session, and trial shall proceed thereupon at such same Session of the Peace, Session of Oyer and Terminer, Great Session, or Session of Gaol Delivery respectively, unless a writ of certiorari for removing such indictment into his Majesty's Courts of King's Bench at Westminster or in Dublin respectively, shall be delivered at such last-mentioned Session before the jury shall be sworn for such trial, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

VI. Not to prevent indictments found by a Grand Jury of any city or town from being removed to an adjoining county to be tried, 38 Geo. iii. c. 52.

VII. Court may, on sufficient cause shewn, allow further time for pleading, &c. VIII. In prosecutions by the attorney or solicitor-general, copy of the information or indictment to be delivered to the party.

IX. In case such prosecution is not

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brought to trial within twelve calendar

X. Not to extend to Quo Warranto actions, &c.

Cap. VI. For more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings and Assemblies; to continue in force until the end of the Session of Parliament next after Five Years from the passing of this Act. -Dec. 24.

I. No meeting of more than fifty per sons (except county meetings, &c.) to be holden, unless in separate parishes or townships, and with notice to a justice of the peace by seven householders.

II. Justice may alter time and place of meeting.

III. It shall not be lawful to adjourn any meeting that shall be holden at any time or place mentioned in any such notice, or so altered as aforesaid to any subsequent time, or to any other place than shall have been so mentioned in such notice, or so altered as aforesaid; and that every meeting which shall be holden by way of, or under pretence of, being an adjourned meeting, at any other time or place than the time or place mentioned in such notice, or so altered as aforesaid, for the purpose or on the pretext of deliberating upon any public grievance, or upon any matter or thing relating to any trade, manufacture, business, or profession, or upon any matter in church or state, or of considering, proposing, or agreeing, to any petition, complaint, remonstrance, declaration, or address, upon the subject thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be an unlawful assembly.

IV. No persons to attend meetings, unless freeholders of the county, or members of the corporation, or inhabitants of the city or parish, &c. for which the meeting shall be held; or Members of Parliament or voters.

V. If any person shall knowingly and wilfully attend any meeting holden for the purpose or on the pretext of deliberating upon any public grievance, or upon any matter or thing relating to any trade, manufacture, business, or profession, or upon any matter in church or state, os of consi-dering, proposing, or agreeing to, any petition, complaint, remonstrance, declara. tion, resolution, or address, upon the subject thereof not being a freeholder, copyholder, heritor, or householder of, or inhabitant usually residing in, the county or

riding,