derella," and the "Caravan," went off with their ufual applause. Wednesday, May 9th. Douglas, and The Devil to Pay; for the Benefit of Mrs. Powell, who performed the part of Young Norval herself. This was an arduous attempt; but Mrs. Powell proved herfelf fully competent to it: fhe went through her part with great fpirit and with great correctnefs. In the fcene with Glenalvon, where he feeks to irritate him by taunting language, the was excellent; and equally fo in the dying fcene, which the played with much feeling and difcrimination. Mrs. Anfell, in Matilda, fometimes difplayed confiderable ability, and it would be invidious to draw a comparifon between her and Mrs. Siddons. Her voice is hardly strong enough for the more impaffioned parts; and if the could diveft herfelf of that habit of making faces, of ftaring, &c. fhe would be more pleating. Barrymore was very well in Glenalcon. Wednesday, May 2d. Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife, and Cinderella; for the Benefit of Mr. Pope. How much were we disappointed! In vain we looked for the equals of Kemble, Mifs Farren, and poor Palmer, in Pope, Mrs. Jordan, and Bannifter. Pope is in no refpect calculated for Leon; he wants all that dignity and high fpirit which ought to manifeft itfelf after his affumption of his real character. Bannifter in the Copper Captain, and Mrs. Jordan in Eijania, were by no means fuch as to gratify our expectations. The Cacafago of Dowton is a finifhed piece of acting, and does him great credit. Friday, May 4th. The School for Scandal, and the Deferter of Naples; for the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. H. Johnfton. There was nothing particular this evening, except that the lady and gentleman whofe benefit it was performed the parts of Lady Teazle and Charles Surface. The latter character we never thought a difficult one, or one in which an actor could difplay any particular powers: the former requires much, which Mrs. H. Johnfton certainly does not poffefs, though we must do herthe juftice to fay, that, in the cafe and gracefulness of her appearance, fhe was better than Mrs. Jordan, whofe increafing rotundity of perfon greatly difqualifies her for genteel comedy. After the play, Mr. H. Johnfton delivered a patriotic addrefs; the name of which is fuffi cient to convey an idea of its nature. Monday, May 7. Cinderella-The London Hermit-and the Caravan; for the Benefit of Mifs De Camp, whofe judgement we cannot much praife for bringing forward this abominably ftupid play of O'Keefe's. Like all his productions, it confifis of extravagance, low conceit, and an unconnected plot. Mr. Bannister was tolerably fuccefsful in Young Pranks, as were Suett and Palmer in Whimmy and Barleycorn; but Mr. De Camp, in Natty Mags, was truly difgufting and intolerable. "Cin At the end of the play, Mrs. Powell delivered a neat addrefs, written by herfelf: we think this cuftom abfurd; for fuch compofitions, we well know, admit of no variety, and it is merely ringing changes upon the old topics of gratitude, esteem, apprehenfion, &c. &c. The well-known excellence of Mrs. Jordan and Bannifter in the afterpiece renders any mention of it unneceffary. THE HAYMARKET THEATRE Commenced its fummer campaign on Tuesday, May 15, with the Mountaincers, and Love Laughs at Locksmiths. Mr. Colman has again been recruiting among the provin cials, but we cannot give him much praife as to his fuccefs; for, with the exception of Ellifton, there is not one whom a fpectator can behold with real pleasure that has been accuftomed to the performers of the regular theatres. We hear that Mr. Bannifter is engaged; a report which we hope is true, as be will prove a valuable acceffion to their corps. A comedy (we believe 1 Guilty or not Guilty?" is anfrom the pen of Dibdin) entitled, nounced among the novelties. ORIGINAL POETRY. WOMAN. EARTH'S direlt plagues alight on them Who yet arraign their parent ftem; Oh, for the foul-feducing eyes! In woman! Avaunt complaint, while charms like thefe Thro' youth's delightful circle please; Give but the fex, endearing task! Love's kindling glance, without the maik, And feeling heart,-'tis all I ak Of woman. While thefe through Time's tempeftuous day Shall kindly beam a gladd'ning ray, Of woman. Victims of mifanthropic woe, From woman. Around their knees nor children cling, Renew'd in age life's blooming fpring; Nor to their arms, on Love's loft wing, Hafte woman. Long on the bed of anguith laid, Of woman. Of woman. While pilgrim in this vale below, cheer, When torn from the object to him the most dear? When oceans loud roaring, between them may roll, And when diftant, perhaps, as each globular pole; What is it inspires him again and again But Hope's welcome prop and pre'Tis a ne'er-ceating fource of amuseferver, the Pen? ment and joy; 'Tis a blifs, 'tis a treafure, that never can cloy : It enlivens a defert, gives vigour to health, And in poverty proves e'en a fpecies of wealth; It is, whether flowly or quickly time rolls, The indiffolvable tie of congenial fouls. 38, Stafford Place. G. B. IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE; With Notices refpecting Men of Letters. Patent to Mr. Wollaston for an Im no provement in Spectacles. THE patentee declares his object to be, to remedy the following defect in the common fpectacles: that “ objects apprar dulinet through them, bit fuch as are seen through the center of the glaffes, or nearly fo, but are indiftinct in proportion to the diftance of the part of the glats through which they are feen from the center, whether Edewards, upwards, or downwards; that is to fay, that the indiftinctnets is greater in proportion as the rays of light paffing from an object to the eye pafs more obliquely through the glais." To remedy this defect, the patentee ufes the marifcu-, a well known glafs, convex on one fide, and concave on the other; and he well obferves, in the conclution of the patent, that "the methods of preparing fuch glaffes, and of proportioning their curvature fo as to give them any power of magnifying or dininihing that may be required, and to fuit the different fights of long and fhortfighted perfons, are too well known to perfons killed in optics to need any defcription." There cannot be a doubt of the fact, that the marifcus is, and has been for a long time, a well known glais to opticians; that its properties are difcuffed in every book of optics; and it is aflerted, and we believe it to be the fact, that a marifcus has been made long before Mr. Wollafion thought of his patent, and laid afide by opticians, as unfurtable to their purpofe. It is, of courfe, a matter of dispute, whether Mr. Wollaton has made any difcovery at all; and, fecondly, whether it is of any advantage to perfons labouring under a defect of vifion. We cannot, indeed, fee the propriety of making the marifcus the object of a patent; but a thort time will determine its merits; for all the opticians will lofe their trade in fpectacles, if Mr. Wollafton can prefent the public, tho at a very dear rate, his new old fjec, tacles. Patent to Mr. Sharp, for a Machine to make all Sorts of Cards for carding Wool, Cotton, &c. THE piece of leather is put into a ftretching frame, and by motions every part is brought to a given point in the center of the machine. On the ma chine being put in motion, a pair of holes is made in the leaf: at the fame time the proper length of wire is brought forward, and feized by its middle, when it is cut and bent into the fhape of a faple; then conducted through the holes in the leaf where it is crooked, let loofe, and forced up into its place. The leaf is then thifted a space for the next staple, and the fe veral movements again take place til the card is finished. Patent to Mr. Hymans, for a Compe fition for having without the Uje of Razor, Soap, or Water. MIx a pint and a half of clear lime water, two ounces of gum arabic, half an ounce of ilinglafs, an eighth of an ounce of roach alum, a quarter of an ounce of powdered turmeric root, an eighth of an ounce of fait of tartar, and an eighth of an ounce of cream of tartar; boil them together for an hour at leaft; clear it through a fieve; then add two pounds and a half of iron pumice ftone, finely powdered, and with the white of two eggs mix the whole with the hands into a cake. Divide the cake into twelve parts, and dry Modern Difcoveries and Improvements in Arts, Sciences, &c. them for three days in the open air; THE lofs which the University of WE announced lately the very generous act of fome individuals to Dr. Priestley, by which they hoped to fecure to him a handiome incoine for the remainder of his life. The design was fcarcely accomplished, when news arrived of the death of this excellent man; and every one lamented that he did not know, that, notwithiland ng the abominable treatment he had received from fome of his countrymen, there were others who entertained a due fenfe of his merits. His death has fhewn that the number of his friends is by no means incomiderable. Funeral fermons have been preached to crowded audiences in various parts of England; fome of them, among which thofe of Dr. Toulmin, Mr. Beljhum, and Mr. Edwards, are the mott dulinguihed, have been pubiiibed. At Birming ham, the congregation to which he had once been the clergyinan pad that refpect to his memory, that the pulpit was covered with black, and every perfon appeared in mourning, which they agreed to wear for two months. It is pleafing to reflect, that in the town, which, a few years ago bad fo difgraced itfelf, as to burn the books, laboratory, and papers of a 523 philofopher, a better fpirit has at laft appeared, and that it is now athained of its former mitconduct. The naine Socrates, R. Bacon, Galileo, and Locke; of Priestley will be added to those of rious purfuit, but to fhew the world, not to difcourage others in their glothat the names of the perfecuted will live in future ages, whilft those of the perfecutors meet with deferved ignoniny even in their lifetimes, and after death are configned either to digrace or to oblivion. Wollufton's account of the fuperiority MR. Jones is not content with Dr. of the perifcopic over the common fpectacle glaffes; and he obferves, difpute, that the perifcopic glaffes which is an important point in this which he purchafed were to little inbe taken by an optician for a planocurvated on one fide, that they night convex glafs. With refpect to the extion, it was nearly the fame in the tent of distinct letters without diftormarifcus as in the common glais; but the coloured letters were nearer to the center than in the common glafs. It is a greater extent of lines was oblerved aferted, alfo, that by looking afquint, lour and confution. Dr. Wollafton will, in the marifcus, but blended with coof course, make his remarks on Mr. Jones's letter; and we prefume that the conteft will be referred to fome eminent mathematicians and opticians, that the public may not be impofed on, may have the merit and profit, if he is on the one hand, or that the patentee fo entitled to it, which deservedly refult from a difcovery. DR. Olbers is laid to have difcovered the limits of the planetary fyftem, even another planet, which is far beyond his countryman Herjehell. It is three as they have been lately extended by times the fize of Jupiter, and upwards of three thoufand millions of miles from the fun. This new planet travels alfo far out of the zodiac, the inclination of its orbit being thirty degrees. wait for farther information before we give credit to this announced difcovery. We ployed in enquiring into the fate of Dr. Letijom is very laudably emthe prifons of this kingdom. Mr. Nield has communicated to him feveral very extraordinary, and what would appear in ble, circumftances. At Caernarvon he a civilited country to be almost incredi found women in irons, and a lunatie confined with a felon. At Dolgelly, a poor man, upwards of eighty, who had been confined nearly nineteen years for a debt of twenty-feven pounds five fhillings and fixpence. At Penzance, the prifon is moft wretched : at the back yard of a public houfe, twelve feet fquare and fix feet high, with a, neceffary in one corner, the floor extremely damp, and paved with ftones, like the middle of the street; without a fireplace, lighted by a fmall iron grated window without glafs. In this place a farmer was contined from the 23d of March, 1803, to the May following, for a debt of about twenty pounds. The making known of thefe and fimilar circumliances will fhame the inhabitants of the places where they are practifed, and lead to the removal of the evil. MR. J. Pratt propofes to publifh by fubfcription the works of Bithop Hall, with a new life, and complete index to the whole, in ten volumes, 8vo; each volume to be delivered monthly, in boards, price three half crowns. A NEW edition of Giraldus Cambrenfis is under the infpection of Sir R. Houre, enriched by fome highly finished engravings by Mr. Byrne. THE Arabic original of the work tranflated by Renaudot into French in 1718, and whofe exiflence has been doubted, will foon be given to the public by Mr. Lungles. THE Decade Philofophique recommends the fun-lower as a profitable plant in agriculture: the leaves for cattle, the flowers for bees, the feeds for theep, pigs, and poultry. THE attention now paid in England and France to philofophical purfuits has excited a degree of emulation even in Spain; and we hear that at Madrid, in fpite of the Inquisition, a journal has made its appearance, whofe objects are phyical and mathematical, fcience, atural hiftory, agriculture, medicine, polite literature, and the arts. FRANCIS and Pierre Piruneji are preparing for the prefs the antiquities of Magna Grecia, left by their father. The work will be contained in fix volumes, the fabject of the firit being the city of Pompeia. Mr. Beauvais, the naturalift, who accompanied Captain Landolphe on his voyage to Africa, in the year 1736, has put into the prefs an account of Benin, from which is expected much information on the political, moral, and geographical fate of that kingdom. THE works of Guftavus III are now in the prefs at Stockholm: the first part is printed. MR. Beation has added three volumes to his Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, which now come down to the year 1783. THE fubject for the prize of four hundred florins, annually given by the Teylerian Theological Society, is the following question:-What fuccefs have the millious for the propagation of the true Chriftian religion had during the two last centuries; and what fuccefs may be expected in this refpect from the active exertions of the present miffionary focieties? The effays, written in either Dutch, Latin, French, or English, mutt be fent to Haerlem before the 1ft of December, 1804: the decifion will be made known in the beginning of April 1805. THE fubjects for the Bachelors' Prizes, to be diftributed at the commencement, at Cambridge, are, for the Senior Bachelors, Quid commodi aut incommodi é republicâ hominum nigrorum five coloratorum inter occidentales infulas nuper conftituta derivari queat?-----The Middle Bachelors, Quibus modis et gradibus civitates jam florentes paulatim labare inclinare et occidere foleant? SIR Richard Worfey's magnificent work Mufeum Worleyanum is expected foon to make its appearance, at an expence to himself of between twenty and thirty thousand pounds. DR. Harrington has now in the prefs, and will be ready in June or July, a complete overthrow of the French Theory of Chemistry; proving, upon the moft clear and fatisfactory evidence, its uuttable principles, fo that the greateft fceptics must be convinced. MR. Mons converts almost the whole of any quantity of alkohol into ether, by mixing three parts of that liquid with one part of fulphuric acid, and submitting the whole to diftillation. AMONG the proofs of the flourishing fituation of the United States of America, may be mentioned the lift of their poft offices, published by Mr. Granger, the pofimafter-general; according to whofe account they amount to nearly thirteen hundred. MR. Reinhard, of Strafburgh, prints musical notes with folid types; for which he has obtained a patent. |