are very elegantly formed of stone ware, for the apartments of the rich, and are an ornamental piece of furniture. But were the principle of this improvement explained, and illustrated by drawings, it could be constructed of brick at a small expence for the poorest cottage, so as to render these much more comfortable habitations than they are at present, with a very small consumption of fuel.

Our informant adds that he has no doubt but the inven ter would be ready to communicate the drawings of all the three to any person who enclined to purchase them, at a reasonable price.

A NEW IMPROVEMENT IN THE ART MILITARY.

TH HE following paragraph lately appeared in the news papers. "The art of war has undergone a total change within these few years. Battles are no longer decided by horse and foot, but by artillery. the mounted artillery have, by their rapid movements, gained several important advantages to the French. The Germans have adopted this improvement; both Hefsians and Hanoverians have borse artillery with the army."

Few people know what is meant by the phrases mounted artillery and horse artillery, and therefore are at a lofs to understand the purport of this paragraph. The follow-ing explanation will probably be acceptable to them.

Several years ago a gentleman, a native of Scotland, The was neither trained a matrofs, nor bred at the academy of Woolwich] discovered an ingenious device by which he was enabled to remove the effects hitherto experienced from what has been called the recoil of cannon when fired. By this means a gun carrying a ball, not exceeding four pounds, can be fired upon a litter, supported between two horses, without being let down; and guns of a larger

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size, without any wheel carriages, carried also on of litter, by a greater number of horses, can be let down and fired on any ground, and quickly taken up again and carried off if need be. It is these pieces that are distinguished by the above terms.

This invention was first offered to be discovered to the board of artillery in Britain many years ago; but altho the late general Roy, who had seen the experiments made with these guns, and understood the principle on which they were constructed, greatly approved of them, yet the noble duke at the head of the ordnance board persisted in rejecting them; because, in his opinion, nobody but a professional man could understand the principles of artillery!!!

The inventor was afterwards in France; when he communicated the secret to la Fayette, who grasped at it as a discovery of the utmost importance in the art of war, to whoever should first avail themselves of it. From Fayette Dumourier, as I may say, inherited it; and it was chiefly to this circumstance that he himself attributed the decisive victory he obtained at the battle of Jemappe, without which he was confident that all his efforts would have proved vain. Every advantage the French have since gained in the field, the allies have been conscious could be ascribed to no other cause; as the French troops were in every other respect greatly inferior to those opposed to them. Having gained pofsefsion of some of these kinds of artillery, the allies, it now appears, have adopted them. It does not seem that Prince Cobourg has thought they fhould be rejected though not invented by a projefsional man. And he will now be able to fight the French with their own weapons, and thus meet them on equal terms.

This invention could be applied to some other uses, which, in the present tita on of as, if adopted, might probably prove in a very thort time decisive of the war.

"EVER since that time I have frequented only the suburbs of Delhi. Thence I saw the stars enlightening the abodes of men, and confounded with their fires, as if the sky and the city were only the same domain. When the moon poured her beams upon the scene, I perceived other colours than those of the day. I admired the towers, the houses, and the trees, at once silvered and covered with fhades, which I saw reflected to a great distance on the waters of the Gemma. I traversed at liberty the solitary and silent quarters of the city which then seemed wholly Meanwhile mankind would have refused me a handful of rice, so odious had religion rendered me. Not being able therefore to find the means of subsistence among the living, I sought it among the dead; I went to the tombs to eat the victuals presented by the pious relations at the graves of the deceased.

my own.

"In those places I loved to meditate. I said to myself, "Here is the city of peace: here power and pride disappear; innocence and vir. tue are safe here all the cares and fears of life are dead; even the fears of death are forgot. This is the inn where the traveller takes up his lodging for ever; and here the paria finds a place of repose." During suck meditations, I despised the world, and thought death a thing to be desired. I considered the east, where each moment a multitude of stars were rising. Although their destinations were un known to me, I perceived that they were connected with those of the human race, and that nature which had caused to assemble, for the relief of their wants, so many objects that they never had no less attached to them those that the presents to their view. My soul therefore ascended the skies with the stars; and when Aurora began to join to their sweet and eternal brightness, her rosy tints, I be→ lieved myself at the gates of heaven. But as soon as her fires gilded the spires of the pagodas I vanished like a fhade; I went away to repose myself far from men, in the fields, at the foot of a tree, where the birds with their songs lulled me asleep."

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'Sensible and unfortunate man, said the Englishman, your story very affecting. Believe me the most part of cities should be seen only

by night. After all nature has beauties belonging to the night, which are not lefs charming than those of the day; a famous poet, a countryman of mine, has made them his sole theme in one of his works. But tell me, how did you find means to render yourself happy during the day."

"It was a good deal gained to be happy during the night, replied the Indian. Nature resembles a fine lady, who during the day exhibits the beauties of her tace only to the public, and who during the night unveils all her charms to her lover. But if solitude has its enjoyments, it has also its privations. To the unfortunate, solitude seems a calm harbour, whence he can view the pafsions of other men blow over without being disturbed by them; but while he congratulates himself on his own unruffled tranquillity, time hurries him along its current. We can never cast anchor in the river of life; it carries along with equal rapidity, the man who struggles against the stream, as it does him who suffers himself to be carried along, the wise as well as the foolish; and both arrive at the end of their days, the one after having abused life, and the other without having known how to enjoy it. I did not wish to be wiser than nature, nor to find my happiness beyond the limits she has prescribed to man. I wifhed above all things to gain a friend to whom I might communicate my pleasures and my pains. I sought one long among my equals; but I found only persons actuated by envy. Meanwhile I found one, sensible, grateful, faithful, and inaccessible to prejudice; indeed he was not one of the human species, it was this dog that you see, They had exposed him, when a little whelp, at the corner of a street where he was ready to die of hunger. I was touched with pity for the poor creature; I reared him, he attached himself to me, and became my inseparable companion.-That was not enough, I wanted a friend more unhappy than a dog; one acquainted with all the evils of human society, and who might afsist me in supporting them; one, who should desire only the blessings of nature, and with whom I might enjoy them. It is only by sheltering each other mutually, and uniting their branches, that two tender young trees resist the storm. Providence crowned my desires in giving me a virtuous wife. It was in the source of my misfortunes that I found that of my happiness. - “One night that I was at the burial place of the brahmins, I perceived by the light of the moon, a young female brahmin half covered with her yellow veil. At the sight of a woman of the kindred of my tyrants, I started back with horror; but returned through compassion

Sept. 25. when I observed how she was employed. She was setting avessel, with

some victuals, upon a hillock, which covered the ashes of her mother, who had lately been burnt alive, along with the corpse of her father, according to the practice of her cast; and fhe was burning insence *there, to recal her shade. The tears rushed into my eyes at seeing a person more unhappy than myself, I said to myself, alas! I am bound with the bonds of infamy, but thou with those of glory. At least I live undisturbed at the foot of my precipice; thou still tremblest on the verge of thine. The same destiny that has carried off thy mother, threatens one day to carry off thee also. Thou hast received only one life, and thou must die two deaths. If thy own death does not cause thee go down to the grave, that of thy husband will drag thee thither though still alive. I was weeping, and fhe was weeping. Our eyes bathed in tears met each other, and spoke like those of the unfortu. nate; he turned away hers, wrapt herself in her veil, and retired.

The following night, I returned to the same place. She had set a greater store of provisions on her mother's tomb. She had judged that I stood in need of them; and as the brahmins often poison the victuals they place on the graves of the dead, to prevent the parias from eating, to show me that I needed be under no apprehension of danger in using her's, she had brought fruits only. I was affected by this mark of humanity; and in order to testify the respect I bore to her filial offering, instead of taking away her fruits I added flowers. These were poppies, to express the share I took in her grief. The following night I saw, with joy, that she had approved my homage; the poppies were watered; and she had set at a little distance from the tomb a new basket of fruits. Pity and gratitude gave me courage: yet not daring to speak to her as a paria, for fear of fhocking and displeasing her; I at tempted, as a man, to exprefs to her all the affection which the caused to spring up in my soul According to the practice of the Indies, to make myself understood, I borrowed the language of flowers. To the poppies I added marigolds *. The following night I found my pop. pies and marigolds well watered. The night after, I became still boider; I added to the poppies and marigolds, sumach, which tanners use to dye their leather black, as the expression of my humble, and unhappy passion. Next morning after the dawn, I ran to the tomb; but I saw the sumach quite withered, for it had not been watered.

*The same word signifies either marigold or care.