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of them we learn another instance of " very strong mind;" and, as selfish parsimony that well deserves proof of his mental energy, our auto be recorded with those above-men- thor tells us, that one day during a tioned. Her letter concludes thus: violent thunder storm, one of his "I am going with my Lord Bath to daughters burst into his study, crying play quadrille this afternoon, at the out, "Oh, Sir! the day of judgment expense of Mrs. Montague's purse, is come."-" Well, child," said he, for I never give myself the airs of with the utmost composure," and playing with such personages on my when could it come in better time for own account." And did Mrs. Carter you We assure our readers, whatpocket her winnings? Oh, mean and ever may be their doubts, Mr. Pendisgraceful conduct! If she were not nington relates this seriously! able to risk the losing of their play, A tolerably accurate opinion may why did she not stay away; a digni- be formed of the respect, in which fied refusal would have elevated her; Mrs. Carter's judgment ought to be but such littleness lowers her most la- held in literary matters from the folmentably. lowing; any book which had the Her letters on her journey to and least tendency towards levelling and from Spa, are full of the querulous- democratical principles, either in the ness of an English traveller: every publications themselves, or in the chathing is vile and odious, and hateful. racter of the authors of them, she steaForeigners justly ridicule us for this dily refused to read. A more comexcessive nationality. plete trait of an obstinate old woman we would not desire to have.

From this period of her life, Mrs, Carter passed her time in the usual In the year 1791, Mrs. Carter was occupations of a single woman. She honoured by an interview with the travelled froin Deal to London, and queen; nor was this the only mark from London to Deal; she read, and of Royal favour bestowed upon her, took smaff; she visited tea parties, for, in the year 1804, the Duke of and received ladies at home to tea at Cumberland, whose regiment was Deal; she wrote letters, and passed quartered at Deal, called upon her at silly criticisms upon contemporary au- her house; the Princess of Wales also thors. It deserves here to be men- drank tea with her there. These distioned, that Mrs. Carter could never tinguished events are mentioned with admire the works of an author, how- no small exultation by Mr. Penning ever beautiful, unless the author him- ton, who takes care to inform us that self was to be admired. Consequently, he was one of the party at tea with Churchill and Burns she thought no- the Princess, though he happened to thing of! Happy art! by which she be out when the Duke of Cumberlearned to shut her eyes against the land called, and did not return till he sun, because darting its rays through was just upon the point of quitting a cloud. Can we but smile when we the house. afterwards hear her opinions of au- On the 23d of December, 1805, thors seriously mentioned? Mr. Pennington too writes a great deal of twiddle twaddle criticism about Churchill: incomparably one of the most nervous satirists that this country has produced: a poet, whose language, wit, and humour are unrivalled: and, because his life was stained with some follies, we are therefore to forget the beauties of his pen. Oh! 'tis irksome to think of such fatuity.

In the year 1774, Mrs. Carter lost her father, after a long illness. He appears to have been a pious and respectable man; nay, if we believe Mr. Pennington, he was a man of a UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VIII.

Mrs. Carter left Deal for London in a state of extreme imbecility. She ar rived the following day in Clargesstreet, Piccadilly, where she always lodged when in town. She continued to grow daily weaker and weaker, till she expired on the 19th Feb. 1806. She was buried without any pomp in the burial ground of Grosvenor Chapel. A monument has been erected to her memory in the chapel of the town of Deal.'

We have thus compressed the substance of this two guinea volume: the rest is filled with her poems, and some notes on the Bible. Of her poetry we do not think highly; it is 2 T

frigid and tame; it wants fire and ter, the translator of Epictetus, the strength; t is too elaborate; it is such friend of Johnson, being a smugpoetry as may be fabricated by mere gler, is irresistibly ludicrous: nor is labour corect without warmth; the the following less amusing. Mrs. effort of thought, not of inspiration. Carter writes gaily to her friend In giving this volume to the world Miss Talbot, and tells her the life of Mr. Pennington has had little to do as Epictetus must stand still awhile, for an author, yet that little we cannot she has a "dozen shirts to make." say he has done well There is a vast This only shews her in a pleasing deal of sanctimonious zeal in his oc- point of view: but it was too impor casional remarks which is too easy tant to be suffered to pass without a to vulgar and weak minds to be meri- comment from Mr. Pennington; actorious. His language is often course cordingly he gives us a very grave and ungrammatical: the former at p. paragraph, and concludes by assuring 32, where he talks of "Grub-street us that, though caressed and flattered writers," a low expression long since by the learned, Mrs Carter never alexploded from elegant composition:* lowed herself to shrink from domestic the latter when he says (p.33) that employments; that she had “learned Mrs. Carter was averse to all kinds in the best of all schools, that religius of deceit, &c.;" it should be averse duties should be practised, &c." from; and at p. 301, "these how- Whoever thought before of classing ever were acquaintances; Mr. Pen- shirt making among the religious nington should have known that this duties of the female sex? How many word has no plural. At page 304, pions semstresses have we then in he seems ignorant of the true speiling London!

of Burus' name: in the nominative Any final remarks upon this vo he writes it Burn; in the genitive, lume would be superfluous: we have Burn's. incidentally expressed our opinion of Sometimes too he is laughable. it; and conclude by repeating that At p. 322-3, he enters into a minute such expensive publications coniposed investigation, to shew that Mrs. Car- of such dull and wretched materials, ter, though living at Deal, was no decked out with the name of a "stnuggler!"-the idea of Eliza Car- "Lite," when in fact the life is the least part of the volume, are a sort of literary depredation, against which we will never fail to raise our voice.

At p. 104, he informs us, that Mrs. Carter was never "stupid or prosing." The last word is colloquially vulgar.

ORIGINAL

THE DREAM.

MY soul oppress'd with dark despair,
With secret woe my bosom torn;

I cherish'd every gloomy care
And let each raging passion burn.
My sleepless pillow thus I sought,

With anguish brooded o'er my lot,
Renounc'd the world; renoune'd myself;
My God; my duty; all forgot!
But while I err'd in sinful thought,
And Virtue, trembling, fled away,
Soft slumber o'er my senses stole,

And hush'd in balmy sleep I lay.

When lo! a heavenly shape arose

And stood before my wond'ring sight; Forth from her eyes compassion beam'd,

Than morning's dawn more mildly bright.

POETRY.

I mark'd the lustre of her vest;

I mark'd her winning, easy grace;
Her locks that floated on the wind;
The angel-sweetness of her face.

HOPE was her name; she stretch'd her
hand

To raise me from my fall'n state;
And as she bent, her rosy smile

Seem'd to dispel the clouds of fate.

I Fose: I gaz'd; with wonder heard
Her duicet voice and mild tehest:
"Shake off," she cried, "this sullen grief,
"Arise; be virtuous, and be blest!"

The thrilling accents struck my ear,

I turn'd t'adore my heave ly guideThe dream was past; the truth remain'd: 'Twas MARTHA standing at my side.

W.M.

AT midnight hour, when o'er the hill The moon-beam sleeps, and in the vale No sound is heard, save gushing rill,

Or warbling throat of nightingale, And through the blissful realms above Bright Venus guides her star of love :

The night breeze sweeps the murmuring strings

With dewy breath and amorous sighs,
Above, around, on silver wings,

Stream the entrancing melodies :-
Re-echoed far, above, around,
Is heard the dying, dying sound.

Hushed be the winds! they blow in vain, And mute the strings that caught their breath!

Be ever still the airy strain

Which Echo rocked in tuneful death!
All, all be dead, around, above,
Dead as the heart that cannot love!

THE NEW PATENTS.

Mr. PEACH's, for a floating hollow instead of one single trunk, tube, or Buoy on a new construction for sup- perforated piece. And finally, the porting Mooring Chains, Cables, said buoy may be made and put toge Ropes, &c.

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ther in any convenient and suitable figure; but the cylindrical, prismical, or conical, are to be preferred; and when the cross section of the figure is not circular, the number of sides preferred in practice is generally eight.

Mr. ROEBUCK's, for certain Improvements in a Machine called the Caledonian Balance.

THE Caledonian balance is repre

THIS buoy is constructed out of pieces of wood longitudinally applied to each other, after the manner of staves; but instead of making the joints to consist of flat surfaces evenly or squarely applied to or against each other, they are rabbeted together, by making the half thickness of each piece to overlap the other. The faces which are to apply to each other, are tarred, and upon one of the sented and connected in a draw faces, a thin covering of beaten hair ing or section; and the manner in used by plaisterers; or wool, flax, or which the balance produces its effect any other fibrous matter; and upon is as follows: When any weight, L, is the said hair, wool, or flax, the hot laid upon the table, the pressure is and melted matter is applied and communicated to the platform, OP, smeared in, forming a coat of a mix- which acting upon the points, B and ture of pitch and tar. Immediately EE, tends to depress B, and to suffer after, the joints are put together and A to rise in such a manner, that secured by nails, screws, pins or pegs, the table will, if it be moved at or bolts, and by hoops suitably erve all, rise without any tilt, totter, or loping the whole; and the heads of side motion, and will constantly rethe said buoy are put in by rabbeting main parallel to its first situation. the same in and with the staves, or At the same time, the extremity S, of side pieces thereof. The fitting is the steel-yard lever, will tend to rise, also made good by several steps or suc- and the motions here mentioned will cessive faces in the joint, between actually take place, unless a re-action, which, tar and hair, wool, or flax, or such as that of the weight G, be apother fibrous matter, and pitch, is ap- plied to prevent it: but the weights plied: and for greater security, in G and L, will be in equilibrio, if their some cases, two or more additional quantities be respectively, as the heads are fixed within the external length ED and DG. And hence it heads. And further, in constructing follows, that a small weight may in this buoy, a trunk, tube, or perforated this instrument, be made to indicate piece, is fixed therein, so that it shall the quantity in a larger; and connot occasion or allow the water to versely, a large weight will make the enter from without; but that a pas- quantity of a smaller, if the same be sage shall remain, through which the placed or applied upon the table, IK, chain, rope, or cable, used for moor- and lever, DS. But the improveing, may be passed and continue to be ments in the Caledonian balance are moveable, in the same manner as is as follows: First, a weight or lead, customary with small or imperfect H, is placed beneath the cross axis, buoys, made out of single solid pieces near the middle thereof, by means of of wood. The said trunk, tube, or which, the tendency to equilibrium in perforated piece, is made and put to- the horizontal position is rendered gether by rabbeted joints, and secured more smart, speedy, and effectual, and as aforesaid. And the said trunk, the indication of the precise result is tube, &c. is fixed in any convenient direction, position, or situation, within the buoy; and in some cases, when it may be found useful or convenient, two, three, or more, of such trunks are thus placed and fixed in a buoy,

more speedily, readily, and accurately obtained, than otherwise. But in some constructions, and for purposes in which it may be preferred, the arm, DS, is rejected, and a spring applied beneath F, which acting down

wards by means of gradation, affords of solid glass, of a circular or elliptian indication of the lead upon IK, cal form at the base; the circular is without requiring any weight upon the most productive of light, and the G at all-or, instead of DS, and the strongest against accident. Its outweight G, the patentee's weight H, is side is convex to receive or condense placed by an arm forming a greater the rays of light, and has a flat or angle with DE, than a right angle, plane surface on the inside of the or ninety degrees; by these means room, vessel, &c. it is intended to upon the principle of the bended light. Approaching to the segment lever, the re-action will be greates, of a sphere, it is in fact, a lens; but the lower the table descends, and where there is any danger of its bethere will be positions of equilibrium coming a burning glass, one side at for different weights afforded by the least, should be ground or roughed. descent of the said table, and the rise. Its size as well as its convexity may be of H; which are severally indicated varied, though the ordinary bases are by gradations on a circular arc, form- about five inches diameter, to one ed by experiment, or by any other half inch in height from the centre of well known and fixed method:-or, the base. The illuminator may also instead of D and the weight G, a be fixed in a square or circular piece scale is hung at FG, or elsewhere-or of wood or metal, with glazier's putty, otherwise the position of the cross or other cement. axis, supported by D, are reversed, For decks and other parts of ships, so that D and E shall be farther out its construction is so managed by towards the letter S than F is. The thickening the edges, as to render moveable platform PO, is enlarged it capable of resisting any injury from or continued, so as to reach the sup- the weight of goods, or the beating of porting wires from PE, while the the waves in the ports and scuttles. arm DS, is carried in the direction In dwelling houses, &c. it is far supe beneath the table contrary to that rior to the sky-lights now in use, not of the Caledonian balance, repre- being liable to accident or leakage. sented in the drawing, by which For buildings, one side should rethe apparatus becomes more com- main unpolished, as the rays of the pact, and the weighing may be performed by any of the methods before specified.

sun produce prismatic colours when shining upon it. Under-ground vaults and cellars, wherever any communication may be made with the open vention, excepting in places only air, may also be lighted with this inwhere it may be injured by the passing or re-passing of horses. The illuminator will also prove a very good substitute instead of the glass now used in lanthorns for lighting the powder magazines in ships of war, care being taken that the convex side shall be always turned towards the light.

TRANSACTIONS OF LEARNED & ECONOMICAL SOCIETIES. THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF from the pen of the president A. H.

LONDON

AVE published the first volume

Haworth, Esq. and F.I.S. entitled
Prodromus Lepidopterorum Britanni-

object of their pursuits appears to be tannica,ora Review of theRise and Prothose species of insects indigenous to gress of the Science of Entomology in or found in Great Britain, and to dis- Great Britain, chronologically digestcover every thing relative to them that ed; from whence we learn that the first may prove useful or beneficial to sci- work published in Eugland, upon Enence or mankind. The first of the tomology, was a large folio volume, papers now published by them, is written and completed by Thomas