Yet cast my lot so far remov'd from thine?
Thou com'st, sweet Spring--but I upbraid no

more,

For thou a sympathetic look dost wear!
In vain, alas thou wouldst my peace restore,
In vain thou seem'st to pity my despair.

|keeping; a deficiency of taste, and of the Heaven has abundant pour'd its gifts divinequalities that inspire love: they will be Ah, why did fate thy wondrous worth impart, careless in every thing. The girl of eighteen, who desires not to please, will be a slut and a shrew at twenty five. Pay attention, young men, to this sign; it never yet was known to deceive." Husbands, as well as lovers, are gratified and delighted in seeing their partners handsomely adorned, and I am well convinced, that many a beart, now roving in quest of variety, might have been detained in will ing captivity at home, by the silken chains of personal decoration. It is one of the moral duties of every married woman, always to appear well dressed in the presence of her husband To effect this, expensiveness of attire is by no means requisite. The simplest robe n ay evince the wearer's taste as nobly as the most gorgeous brocade. With respect to reigning fashions, it must never be considered, that

ber of your valuable Literary Gazette, that | Lov'd, lost Alexis!-on whose gentle heart
"a Monsieur Louis, of Valence, has con-
structed a machine that is said to solve, as
far as may be reasonably expected, the no-
table problem of perpetual motion."-Now
Sir, a gentleman of my acquaintance has
proceeded in discovery to at least an equal
extent with this persevering and ingenious
foreigner: his machine will regularly and
uninterruptedly proceed, without the inter-
pontion of any external cause: all supplies
from foreign or external causes being, of
et urse, excluded in a perpetual motion; and,
thus far, all well. One sad obstacle how-
ever arises, and, it is thought, ever must
arise to prevent the completion of the ub.
ject in view; I allude to the impossibility of
finding in this world materials of an impe
rishable nature. Pray, Mr. Editor, will you
or any correspondent inform me (and the
information may be acceptable as well to
others as myself) what reward is held up to
the long ng eyes of the man, who fancies be
can with Pythagoras exclaim epnxa, copyxa !
and also if any reward has been claimed and
allowed for laudable approaches towards the
solution of this famed problem.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ARCHIMEDES, Jun.

POETRY.

LINES, by the late COUNTESS B→ Primavera! gioventa dell'anno." GUARINI, Tuon com'st, sweet Spring! but com'st not now

the same

As late I saw thee Winter's frowns remove,
When sportive hours all jocund with thee came,
And drooping nature wakid to life and love.

When charm'd by thee, my rural pipe I sought,
And bid the vallies all thy pra-ses bear,
Waen from the tuneful tribe well pleas'd; I
caught

Some sylvan notes the lonely dale to cheer.
Wen list'ning nymphs adorn'd my flowing hair

With garlands gay that with thy blushes giów d, (Wreaths that in promise blossom'd fresh and fa.r,

Bat never fruit or lasting sweets bestow'd')

The precious gifts ere now profusely shed; A tranquil mad, gay mirth, and liberty--

But rather these at thy approach are fled. Stern Winter's frists have far less cruel been, Though long their rigors whitend o'er the hafe were my flocks beneath the scowling scene,

With lingering glance, en vonder russet plain
Thou still appear'st reluctantly to shine:
Perhaps thou may st lament the faithful swain,
Whom love and mutuai truth had chosen mine.
But no-fell discord, and the din of arms
Alike we fall, in prime of nature's charms,
Far off have seiz'd, and borne my love away.
To glory one-and one to grief a prey'
So opes the lily to the solar beam

Her siver beil; intent its warmth to woo;
Yet droops dejected ere its setting gleam,
And in the blessing meets affliction too!

MORNING.

Now dewy Nature starts from her repose---
Already has the bee her task begun,
And Flora's image upon earth, the rose,
Bursts into beauty with the morning sun.

A thousand zephyrs now are hovering there,
With wings invisible to earthly eyes,
To catch and waft her odours through the air,

As streaming from her lovely breast they rise.

Fair flowers less lovely, handmaids to their

Queen,

Unclose their eyes and weep the dew away,
And lift their heads late drooping o'er the green,

And sweetly welcome the approach of day.
What varied strains are gathering in the sky!
The ploughman's whistle and the lark's shrill

tone,

The rook's discordant answer to the ery

Of noisy nestlings helpless and alone.

Now Avating far, the full and mellow pote'
Of piping blackbird, perch'd upon the thorn,
And twittering strains from many a tuneful,
throat.

Mix in the concert of the merry morn.

And ob' what eve could gaze on such a scene,
And coldly view the beauties there display d,
Her rambow tints, but inest prevailing green,
Chaste in the light, and mellow in the shade --

Woods slowly waving to the scented gale,

And imaged, waving in the stream below,
| Flocks calily browsing in the cowslip daje,
With fleeces brightened by the matin glow.
Halesworth, May 26, 1817
JUVENIS.

ON TASTE IN FEMALE DRESS.

Concluded from our last Number.) Personal neatness may almost be class ed with the cardinal virtues. It was an observation of Lavater's, that persons habitually attentive to dress, display the same regularity in their domestic affairs

"One form of dress prescrib'd can suit with all:

One brightest shines when wealth and art com. buse

To make the firish'd pirée eompletely fine, When least adorn d, another steals our hearts, And, rich in native beauties, wants not aria, In some are such resistiem graces found, That in all dresses they are sure to wout 1, Their perfect forms all foreign aidt despe And gems bat borrow lustre from their eyes.” The natural figure of a woman is of the first importance in determining the style of her dress. What sight, for instance, can be more preposterous than that of a short, thick, broad-shouldered, fat female in a spenser! It has been well observed, too, that "short women destroy thei symmetry, and encumber their charmis, by all redundancy of ornament;" and that "a little woman, feathered and fur belowed, looks like a queen of the Bantam tribe, and we dare not approach her, for fear of ruffling her feathers.

Nor is the substance of which dresses are composed unworthy of notice. Mak ing due allowance for the season, that which will display, or soften, the contour of the form, with most propriety and effect, should always be preferred. The Roman ladies had their ventus textilis, and their linca nebula haen so hue as to acquire those names — -; and, frin the transparent musim, to the substantial silk, the merino and kerseymere, our variety of texture is almost mhaite. Thus, whilst the sylph formed maiden may be allowed to that in gossamer, the more matured and portly female should adopt

And bitsi my collage-sacred then to love!" Young women," says he, “who neglecta fabric better suited to her suze, bet their todelte, and mandiest little contigure, and her time of life. cern about dress, indicate in this very Ihere is nothing, perhaps, more d !.. particular, a disregard of order, a mind cult of choice, or more delusive to the but ill-adapted to the details of house-wearer, than colours; and nothing more

Bright blas'd the turf, the social board appear's
With rustic piraty, and with joy suppaed.
For twas Altas every sadness cheer d
Nor then foresaw in spring we must divide!

bined.

seen

offensive to the educated eye, than co-
lours ill-chosen, ill-adapted, or ill-com-
"Let the fair nymph, in whose plump cheeks is
A constant blush, be clad in cheerful green;
In such a dress the sportive sea-nymphs go;
So in their grassy bed fresh roses blow."
In has been remarked, however, that
grass-green, though a colour exceedingly
pleasing and refreshing itself, jaundices
the pale woman to such a degree, as to
excite little other sensation but compas-
sion in the beholder.

Maids grown pale with sickness or

despair, The sable's mournful dye should chuse to wear; So the pale moon still shines with purest light, Cloath'd in the dusky mantle of the night." Ladies of a pale complexion, I conceive, should seldom, if ever, wear a dress of an entire colour. Their white drapery, at least, might be relieved, and animated, by ribbons, flowers, &c. of delicate tints; such as light pink, or blossom-colour. On the other hand,

manner, this head proves that facility, the above, and gives additional clearness and firmness of a draftsman, and taste, may solidity to this admirable portrait. flourish together. Its pure and unaffected No. 199. "Portrait of W. Q. Dick," loose and undefined scumblings, which are painted this gentleman in a loose Vandyke spirit opposes a consoling contrast to those not quite a half figure. Mr. PHILLIPS has obtruded upon the public, as specimens of a drapery of a warm shadowy purple, with a masterly execution. Although unlike the style broad linen neck-band turned over and tied of Titian or Reynolds, and evidently a style with tasselled lace. The action is graceful formed, altogether, upon a close study of and spirited; the person seen in profile; the nature, it possesses, with its own distinct face turned round in a full three-quarter character, a depth of colour equal to that in view, as if addressing the Spectator; the the portraits of the former, with much of near arm buried in the loose folds of his the warm feeling of the latter. But Mr. robe, and the other raised, holding the draPhillips's own fine taste, his chaste feeling, pery with one finger, gently pointing as if to and his jealous attachment to simplicity and mark the particulars of his reasoning. The truth, are its essential beauties. Its style is mild inflection of the brow is that of a person as original as that of the Countess of Cassilis, conversing. The expression is altogether in by Mr. OWEN, or of Anacreon Moore's por- accord. The head is finely drawn; the pentrait, and that of Ellis, by SHEE. This ori- ciling soft and large; the carnations clear, ginality is valuable, not only for its merits, inclined to sanguine; and forming, with the the British School, from the vice of manner purplish shade of the dress. The fragment but because it is an additional safeguard to linen, a bold light in perfect union with the which corrupted the Schools of Italy, and to of a ruined building wrapt in deep obscurity; which all schools are prone. We repeat this and the louring solemnity of a dark cold sky, observation, with a particular stress, at this with ruddy gleams breaking through the moment, from a conviction that it is neces- grey clouds on the horizon, throw a sentisary. The rage for copying the style of ment into the accessaries, and give an effect some one master of celebrity, must produce of grandeur to the whole. Mr. Phillips has an abandonment of nature; a mistake of the also, No. 163, nearly a whole length portrait "The lass, whose skin is like the hazel brown, surface for the principles; and a disgusting of J. Brookes, Esq. "painted by desire of the With brighter yellow should o'ercome her own!" sameness of manner, in the majority of those, Students of Anatomy under his tuition." She may even, without fear of offence, who, even with the best advantages, are bred This is a capital specimen of truth. The atassume the orange, the scarlet, the coque-in the same school. As the population of a titude, expression, accessaries, light and licot, the flame-colour, or the deep great capital, like London, is principally kept shadow, are in a pure style. But we conrose; either of which will heighten the up by provincial settlers, so an original cha-ceive that the general effect would, perhaps, animated hue of her complexion, and im-racter in a School of Painters, is, perhaps, be more spirited if a greater portion of cold part a more dazzling lustre to her eye. best maintained by the intermixture of or cool-colours had been introduced. The young and able artists from a distance, who grey tints in the back ground, the glass jar, It is not within the province of an old have formed an independent style of think- and other accessaries, with the small bit of man, Mr. Editor, to descend into the ing and painting before their arrival. Such green cloth on the table, are not sufficient minutiæ of female attire, to prescribe the artists prevent the students from all running to give value to so large a preponderance of cut of a robe, the fall of a mantle, or the after one model, and bring a treasure into warm assimilations. The introduction of shape of a bonnet. These points may the school for that which they receive from the small bit of green cloth indicates that the it. very safely be left to a consultation be- other distinguished provincials, besides Mr. colour; but we cannot help thinking that so Chantry, Mulready, Shee, and many Artist sought a balance or opposition of tween the lady and her dress-maker; the Phillips, are instances of this original power. scanty a morsel of that tint is of small weight cultivated taste of the former regulating There is a gentle facility in the execution of in the scale. We are aware that Chastity in and checking the meretricious fancy of this portrait, which shows that the painter Ait is his idol; yet Chastity may smile and the latter. In the hope that the hints did not study to make the mere mode, or sparkle without losing its innocent attracwhich I have offered may prove of some boldness, of his handling, the first attraction tions. We cannot resist a conviction that utility, to the eye of a spectator. The penciling is upon the judicious use of the cool or cold not so distinct as that in his never-to-be- colours, depends much of the brilliant effect forgotten portrait of Mr. Hatchet, last year. and vivacity of a portrait. Take away the It is more soft and large, and the effect of cold stormy back-ground from the portrait of sharpness is produced without any over- Mr. Quinten Dick, and you take away half charge of colour, or display of touch; all the life from that speaking picture. This the features are correctly drawn, and deter- Artist has also Nos. 256, 277, 266, and 104, mined with masterly precision. There is in the Exhibition. In No. 256," May Ella, No. 73. "Portrait of T. MURDOCK, Esq." but one mass of light, which is composed in with her gude grey Katte," the little Brunette by T. Phillips, R. A.: a head in a three- a rich, vigorous breadth, by the flesh, cravat is seated in a playful posture, pressing her quarter view, of a complexion originally san- and top of a yellow waistcoat. This single- favorite to her bosom. The light of a smile guine, embrowned by travel. The tone of ness in the chiaro-scuro, produces the im- sparkles in her countenance, and the exthe flesh is low and mellow. The combina- posing unity in the picture. The light is pression is full of exquisite simplicity. Her tion of breadth and detail, in the carnations diffused and mellowed, below, by some bright forehead is shaded by chesnut curls; the and shadows, is so perfect, and the reflections sharp touches on the buttons; which, with flesh tints are warm; the cheeks tinged with are so admirably managed, that, as in na- the delicate sharpness in the folds of the ruddy health; the shadows of a clear olive; ture, the light and shadow, and all the forms, cravat, gives a spirit to the subdued move- and the innocent archness of Correggio animerge into one. We are instantly struck ment of hand in finishing the flesh. The mates her whole figure. The back-ground is by this singleness of object, and the union is next subordinate mass is composed by the close and dark, excepting one picturesque so entire, that it is only on a near inspection upper part of the dark purplish coat, united break, and the light is thrown in broad the parts admit of a separate examination. with some faint dun reflections on a dark, bright masses upon her person. To those, who, in their imitation of the indistinct piece of carving or furniture be- No. 277. "Portraits of two young girls, tasteful fascinations of Reynolds, cover the hind. A strong accidental shadow across with a Red-breast;" is of a different characwalls with pictures in a spongy or woolly the arm and breast concentrates the light ter. The light is broadly diffused on the

I remain, &c.

FINE ARTS.

SENEX.

REVIEW OF PAINTINGS

IN THE EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET-HOUSE.

white draperies, sky and back-ground. There | Fandyck used cold purple, lilae, blue and place them in such friendly relation to theɗ as more joy of the heart, more dancing spirits, black draperies, to give a relative warmth to intended points of opposition, as might be and vigor of chiaroscuro, in No. 256: more the flesh-tints in faces of this deivate fair-productive of richness and harmony. Owing airy vivacity in the masses, and a sprightlier ness. This counter-effect of the red in the to this they have, with a few peity excep play of pencil in this. The countenances are turban upon the light carnations, is however tions, no relative value. Instead of being very fair, and painted in cool, clear tints of a so very shght as to be scarcely perceptible, invited by a mellow combination of skiiful Low sweet tone, upon which the roseate hues and the grace and beauty of this lovely por-oppoutions, we are repelled by a pie-baid of the cheeks, and humid crimson of the lips, trait fix the eve, and are calculated to make discord of irreconcilcable and isolated anomelow with much freshness and beauty a long impression. malies; a clasting of hungry, dead lights, The bine eyes of the girl leaning, in a front No. 223. Benevolent Ladies relieving a¦ and sluggish, opaque shadows, without glow, view, give a liveler charm to her colouring, distressed Family, by S. Dato'p" We transparency, breauth or coherence. Every and the blue is spread by a bit of bright ri- noticed, in a former communication, the thing is in spots and patches. The yellow hand on her arm-knot, which mingles with merits of this artist's whole length of C shawl on the matron is a patch; her deep the blueish tints of the sky and distance. | Partips, Esq; and, in the inventions and crimson dress is a patch; the green bed-curThe hair is a light brown, executed with a circumstances of this story, there is much tains are a patch; the chud in the cradle is touch so loose and sharp, and yet so broad tine feeling and fancy. The pallid head of a patch; the red coat on the old man, the and thin, that one would think it might be the sick young man asleep in bed, and the pale clammy blue in his pantaloons, and the blown about with a breath. A busty bit of tender anxiety expressed by his old mother, same sickly colour in the boy, are all so landscane, surrounded by felicitous combina- with a tea-cup in one hand and the other many patches To sum up this account of tions of tint, soft, broad, negligent, touched gently laid upon his breast, watching to shreds and patches, although we are happy by the hand of taste iselt, peeps upon us in the moisten his lips in the intervals of his slum-to repeat that the selection of the subject, middle distance. Betund the girls and their bers, are sufficient to stamp a value upot. and the invention of the incidents, do feathered captive, the trunk of a tree rises, this performance. The young lady cutting honor to the head and heart of the ar enriched with touage and the wanton tendris a loaf for a meagre hollow-eyed little boy; tist; and that the drawing, grouping, exof a vine, whose broad leaves of golden yel- the greedy action of whose hands and raven-pression and characters, sa all that does not low brighten, in vivid opposition to the ous gestures, show that he is ready to tear it depend whom the eclouring, manilest no corn. arure masses of a summer sky. In from her, is another affecting and weil told ion skill, and are deserving of warm cuin. breadth, fleshiness, lovely colouring and incident. The gratitude of the poor old fa|mendation, yet, in whatever relates to fue tasteful handling, there is nothing to be ther, whose eyes and clasped hands are colouring, we are under the painful necessity wized for in this fiue specimen; but the raised in thanksgiving to heaven, is also of observing that it is unworthy of his ge sentiment is not so well defined as in No. 256; expressed with much truth and feeling. The nius, and rank as an associate of the acade at is neither a joy for the acquisition of the group with the matron and her disgüter my. Mr. Drummond has also several other red-breast, nor a concern for its emptivity giving money and the bibie to the kneeung pictures in the Exh lation, which evine his The expression is rage, and wherever that wife of the sick son, is cleverly disposed, ai-tea-ly invention and mastery of hand, bit is the case, however adinirable the execution | though the expression is not so strongly to their enlouring, partake, in different de» may be, the impressions upon the spectator marked as in the hgures already noticed grees, of the coming discords, which dise must be rigue also. Nevertheless, if we The little innocent asleep in the crauie is │hgure this pathetic subject. The prevalence consider them simply as portraits, which designed with spirit. Ite various accessa- of sickly turish draperies in his principal have no incidental character to sustain, theseries in the apartment are introduced in a masses of light, as in the portraits of Mrs. beads are in an exquisite taste. The artist good taste, and with a correct attention to Brooks and her cân. Iren, is one of his most had a great dithcuity to encounter, in avoid-relative propriety; and as far as the choice prominent errors or urgieets. In that picture ang unpleasant hoes and angles, in the meet-of subject, invention, drawing, characters there is a plea ag d sition in the lag'n ag of three hands and arms, about the and expression, this composition is li,diy figure, and a gatebil si ni in the turn of Ret No degree of skill could, perhaps, creditable to the artist's humanity and pro-her Lead; hot she is in a fall, leaden, b. aruk seh: 'is overcome this difh-uity. Mr Philips fessional ab, ities. There are genuine strokes diess, with, the nontrast of an unwashed carhas exerted his powers, and we wish that we of nature in it, which come home to the tain of dis, y yellow alove her head, as if caid e umpirent him upon an entire vic-heart and lay a strong hold on our kinduer to render the chung, havy effect of her try But the eye is still sensible of some ernstraint and complexity, which is more @bvalas, as it occurs in the centre of this very attractive picture.

sympathies. As an excitement to charity, drapery, more offensive. No 213, the whole» it is a practical act of virtue, which must raga portrait of a chud embracing her work good by example. We bear this testa- duik, is des., and with mach playful grace, mony to Mr Drummond's benevolent con- and an cle,aure of fan y, which would jo No 200 * A whole length of a Boy, a ception and genius with sincere pleasure, credit to tue pesed of any Bitish Artat, native of New Guinea," is not a favorable but when we have done this, we are cun-but stuffrauave y lle taggygen to co by sub eet for colouring, but Me Phillips has|cerned to add our fear that not one tenth of uid careless, culoare 1, a mis pressed by a made it a picture of much merit and interest its merits will ever be louard into, on ac- we glat of gin any blur touts, latte a isope. la No. 104, a three-quarter length por-count of its cold remate comuring and total | If the former works of tus arust od bol tra-t of ludų Rastey, he has displayed a aunt of even any approach to union. It would warrant a gli arama of lus powen, we large share of tasteful fecung. Toe draw-be an tupe of words to say that tue to its | shimura lave pas nå og sat þ clades ilà haurien, ang, attitude and a ressanies, are worthy of are distributed or masted. They are wat but we have jeceive, lou minacci prís að ale jớc tha hsenral The execution is firm and sweet, | tered and broken, like the party-cloure. fus various cumpa,tum to abat, kà hơn afiche whole prenture marked by his un- bits upon a thrifty housewife's qal', who now to the Peaks of lawca, fice, thin enous of alterat ie love of truth. The tone of the head has må ie up her bed-covering from a cotier De giects of his pracire this ba' ie of Wateras e car and mellow; but not quite so richtion of shreils and cuttings out of the trash- | lou, last year, eintales, mere bid thinking, as tur tone of the heads in No 477. The bags of every good wanan in the parish |ciever drawing and composition, a! * migh vən “auad of octour are es m, iex, xnd not so lucy a; pear as a sort of chancr-uardley¦ra hier tracts or cum ured, tuala a ne ho y of Alogh the deucate farness of assemblage thrown in, with little it any re į the pictures then in the roums, in 810, he Be fesh is contrasted by the coed green dra-}} ton to the colors around them. May, land test De best uste mai coda, os tin penis, that and is checked by the qvantity of the principai 1.25ts ofcad the ele bi ." Ite、 m. of Iwere to se

of red sunt vel,wish tints on the turban and watry chnita” colours – A dul greasy blae Dego ma 6**erjar's Te latter certainty melow the | 14 very conspicuous in the draperies. Le red on Lie heck, but they also ferrn a w rym | brightest hues are faced where they are. Muut ettak, eundrast with the light curnalist of the face, cut off truta su, part. They are left witiunit ; sorvený zrodává ma a cze what lose worse of their value by the conila suflency of intermediate suades orit, at day --" Lue en tune a jactatenour, and jat soil and aj pear propustionany cod stawowy assimilations to subside upvo, auij muvuja te grel, sinun By Orary

A NEW EXAMINER.

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W.

PROGRESS OF THE ARTS AND
SCIENCES.

TIN MINES. The simplest events in domestic economy are often conducive to general welfare and internal emolument. Of this nature is a recent discovery, that the Coal Gas, though corrosive of copper, has may be beneficial to our Cornish Mines of yet no mordent effect upon Tin. The result the latter article.

of England, as we have shewed, are tra- and countries. It is an eternal truth, that a course of inquiry,and to employ himself upon duced, rendered objects of suspicion, and divided people can neither acquire liberty, much laborious calculation. His son has jealousy; and held up by malignant infer- nor retain that inestimable blessing. They very properly favoured the public with four ence, to their husbands, fathers, brothers, must be either amicably joined in the bonds volumes of his revered father's discourses and lovers, as the most depraved and im-of a common interest, by nature, reason, and and some other of his erudite performances, modest of their sex in Europe. The men the dictates of humanity and religion; or but one thing remains for filial duty to disof England are blackened and stigmatised by an over-ruling Power, in fetters of an op- charge, and he is hereby respectfully called to the people of Scotland, Ireland, and the posite kind. An empire composed of differ- upon to remember that time is passing away whole world, as dolts, dupes, blockheads, bul-ent nations requires the pen and voice of and that many are hastening to the grave, lies, and by palpable inference, cowards; the mild, persuasive Eloquence, to charm away who would be glad to contribute their assis most dishonest, base and bloody-minded their prejudices and melt them into one peo- tance in enriching a memoir which, properly people in Christendom. The IRISH, in their ple. The unhappy divisions of the several executed, cannot fail to be one of the most turn, are calumniated and rendered objects states, which composed the commonwealth, valuable in the English language. of public odium to England and Scotland, as overthrew the liberty of Rome; and finally May 9, 1817. a people, in a good natured way, ready to lend subverted the empire. Those incendiaries a hand to any villany or atrocity through an who would excite popular divisions are pubincoherence in their understandings, a want lic enemies. The British Writer, who can of virtue in their heads. The SCOTCH, not- subdue a local prejudice or national dislike, withstanding the clearness of their heads, in the breasts of Englishmen, Irishmen, and have come in for their full share or defama- Scotchmen, is the true friend to his country; tion with the Irish and English, as equally and will merit more than a statue of gold; dangerous, equally ready for any villany or the gratitude of the latest posterity. These atrocity, whenever the selfish depravity of are the victories which are to our taste, but their impulses" puts them in the way of we have the will only without the power. a profitable robbery, assassination, or any other These are the glories of which a friend to heinous crime. In this latter concluding re-humanity, a man of real genius, might well capitulation of the parts only to which we be proud. Our voice is weak, and our hope in varied colours, has been applied by Mr. The system by which Cottons are printed have hitherto adverted, we are obliged, as humble, but we shall repeat, again and again, W. Savage to the colouring of Prints in imiwe before observed, to condense the matter that a Writer, who subdues a popular animo-tation of highly finished drawings; or, in of their words and malignant inferences, with sity, and introduces tranquillity and affection other words, the print both in outline and a reference to the preceding extracts and among his countrymen, does more for the colour is worked off by successive applicareasoning, in this and our two former let-public security, than a general who wins tions of wooden blocks cut and tinted in a ters; and as their essays are before the pub-dozen bloody battles, fills a country with wi- manner so progressive as to produce the lic, every man who sets a value upon the dows and orphans, and conquers a kingdom, effect required. Our fair readers will at once morals of his family, can form his judgment in a distant part of the world. see that this idea has partly been practised by their own words, by the letter and the spiin the progressive application of colour, rit of their whole publication. A full and through the vacancies cut in plates of copimpartial comprehension of their work, in parts and as a whole, in its direct and ultiper, so as to produce ornamental Aowers on To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. muslin and tiffany trimmings. mate tendency to injure public manners SIR,-Allow me through the medium of STEAM BOATS. Since the approach of and morals, can easily be acquired by a com- your excellent journal, which appears to be a summer has put all our Steam Boats in moparison of its letter and spirit, which in many proper vehicle for eliciting literary information for Margate and the other marine wastriking passages will be found to preserve, tion, to enquire whether there is any likeli-tering places, it has been proposed to obvi in appearance, a guarded separation, al hood that the world will be favoured with an ate all danger of explosion, and to encourage though they work together in the minds of ample memoir and correspondence of the the timid, by substituting the mechanical the reader. The words "On good nature," late learned Bishop HORSLEY! It is truly to action of hydraulics for the impulse proprefixed as a title to one of their essays, be lamented that in this age of Biography, duced by steam, It is true that the first were made use of to introduce their false when so many insignificant characters are impulse given by the latter mode is not so and infamous attack upon the Irish and eulogised with as much pomp and parade as rapid; but all mechanists know the mode of Scotch; so in their scoffing attacks upon re- if they had been persons of the first distinc-multiplying power and increasing rapidity; vealed religion, and their impious mockery tion in science, eight years should have pass- so that the only objection can be the inof the Deity, which require a distinct expo-ed away without any detailed account of one creased expense of machinery, which would sure, the letter and spirit will be found to of the brightest ornaments the English be saved in fuel in a few seasons. be as cautiously set at a seeming distance. Church ever enjoyed. The excellence of the When the benevolent mind of Addison Bishop of St. Asaph was not confined to his forewarned the people, in his essays, that, peculiar profession, for it is well known that if ever the liberty of England should be de- he was a mathematician of the first rank, stroyed, it must be by their own party ani- and a scholar of almost universal knowledge, mosities and national divisions, he little His writings will ever speak his praise, and foresaw that, in another century, English the journals of parliament exhibit ample Writers would be found, under the pretext proofs of his diligence as a member of the of publishing a series "of similar papers," to House of Peers, and of his powers as an oramake a mockery of the Scriptures; and blow tor of the most commanding eloquence. In into a flame all those fatal prejudices and private life he was truly amiable, and I can national divisions, against which, as the most cheerfully bear testimony to the suavity grave of freedom, he so earnestly admonish- of his manners, and the liberality of his dised his country. Yet all the anti-social male-position. He held a very extended corresvolence and sneering contempt for revealed pondence with learned men abroad and at Salisbury, 27th May, 1817. religion, in the Round Table, is set forward home, upon all subjects of literary impor Mr. Editor,-No problem has more enunder the mask of philanthropy. Our stream tance, and he was to my knowledge always gaged the attention, puzzled the brains, and of thinking is not muddied by the petty punctual in answering any letters that he baffled the efforts of Mathematicians and interests or fluctuating maxims of parties in received, though frequently he was called Mechanical Men, for these two thousand or out of power. We speak in the spirit of upon to give his opinion upon compositions years past, than the celebrated problem of history, and our reasoning applies to all ages which obliged him to enter into an elaborate a Perpetual Motion. I find in a late num

BISHOP HORSLEY.

ANTEDILUVIAN DISCOVERIES.-It has been

suggested lately by Mr. Mushet, in consequence of analysing some native Iron discovered in Brasil, that such specimens are actually the remains of Antediluvian Metallurgy, and not resulting from the chemistry of nature. This idea struck him from its resemblance to the residuum so often found in blast furnaces; particularly as similar masses are often found where an ore of iron is abundant on the surface, perhaps the scoria of former works!

PERPETUAL MOTION.

Lov'd, lost Alexis!-on whose gentle heart
Heaven has abundant pour'd its gifts divine
Ah, why did fate thy wondrous worth impart,
Yet cast my lot so far remov'd from thine?
Thou com'st, sweet Spring!—but I upbraid no

For thou a sympathetic look dost wear!
In vain, alas! thou wouldst my peace restore,
In vain thou seem'st to pity my despair.

With lingering glance, on yonder russet plain
Thou still appear'st reluctantly to shine:
Perhaps thou may'st lament the faithful swain,
Whom love and mutual truth had chosen mine.
But no-fell discord, and the din of arms
Far off have seiz'd, and borne my love away:
Alike we fall, in prime of nature's charms,

To glory one-and one to grief a prey!
So opes the lily to the solar beam

Her silver bell; intent its warmth to woo;
Yet droops dejected ere its setting gleam,
And in the blessing meets affliction too!

Now dewy Nature starts from her repose-
Already has the bee her task begun,
And Flora's image upon earth, the rose,
Bursts into beauty with the morning sun.

A thousand zephyrs now are hovering there,
With wings invisible to earthly eyes,
To catch and waft her odours through the air,
As streaming from her lovely breast they rise.
Fair flowers less lovely, handmaids to their
Queen,

Unclose their eyes and weep the dew away,
And lift their heads late drooping o'er the green,
And sweetly welcome the approach of day.

What varied strains are gathering in the sky!
The ploughman's whistle and the lark's shrill