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viously prepared to the lengths, tre is covered plain, and embeldepths, and shape of the facia.lished with a figure of Meditation;

the back-ground is composed of minor objects, emblematical of the subject; and the whole is carved

The pipes may be ornamented with plain or appliqued velvet, as is shewn on the curtains. A small gilded bead of wood is to be ap-in alto-relievo. A terminus in the pended at the lower edge and finish of the pipes, under which a very full net-work fringe is fixed with card-tacks. The depth of the facia and the fringe must of course be guided by the extent of dead-light. The tablet in the cen

pier supports a globe on the platform, the interior being a depository for manuscripts; it also contains a clock-movement, the dial of which presents itself on the outside, surmounted with an appropriate device of Mercury.

logy of the Ear, on Friday, Oct. 1. at the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, Carlisle-street.

A work is in the press, entitled The Theory of Elocution, exhibited in connection with a new and philosophical account of the nature of instituted language, by B. H. Smart, professor of elocution, and public reader of Shakspeare: 8vo.

Mr. Thomas Jones, author of Poems, consisting of Elegies, Sonnets, Songs, &c. nets, Songs, &c. Phantoms, or the Irishman in England, a farce

INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, &c. MR. CURTIS, aurist to his Royal || Anatomy, Physiology, and PathoHighness the Prince Regent, has lately published a second and enlarged edition of his work On the Physiology and Diseases of the Ear; accompanied by a plate of newly invented acoustic instruments, descriptive of the French, German, and Spanish artificial ears for assisting hearing; likewise an improved hearing-trumpet. In this edition the physiology is much extended, and the uses of the different parts of the human ear are more fully explained by a minute comparison of its structure with that of the different classes of animals, particularly quadrupeds, fowls, insects, the amphibious tribe, and also fishes. The treatment employed in the various diseases of the ear is considerably enlarged; and in the latter part of the work is detailed a variety of interest-cation in November next. ing cases, some of them of young persons born deaf and dumb, who have obtained their hearing and speech by the author's new modes of practice..

Mr. Curtis will commence his next Course of Lectures on the

The Sons, or Family Feuds, a tragic play-Confined in vain, or a Double to do, a farce, &c.—is preparing for the press a volume of Miscellanies, in prose and verse, consisting of Essays, Tales, Poems, &c. moral and entertaining, which is expected to be ready for publi

The Curate's Appeal to the Equity and Christian Principles of the British Legislature, the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Public, on the peculiar Hardships of their Situation; and on the Dangers resulting to Religion, to Morals, and to the

Community, from the arbitrary Na- || true altitude of the inferior limb ture of the Laws as they are now of the moon, and to this add the frequently enforced against them, || horizontal semi-diameter; this will is nearly ready. give the true centre.

New Instrument.-Mr. Perkins of Philadelphia (whom the newspa

Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk; being a Series of familiar Letters, written during a late visit to Scot-pers have announced as on his pas land; handsomely printed, and embellished with a head of the author, and other thirteen portraits, and four vignettes, in three volumes 8vo. is about to appear.

sage to England, in order to submit to the Directors of the Bank of England, a specimen of bankbills which defy forgery,) has invented an instrument, called the Bathometer, which is intended to shew, by the compressibility and

Of the Rev. A. Ranken's History of France, Civil and Military, Ecclesiastical, Political, Literary, Com-elasticity of water, the depth of the mercial, &c. &c. volumes IV. V. and VI. containing the history from the earliest accounts to the death of Henry III. A. D. 1589, are upon the eve of publication.

sea. He is said to have produced a pressure of water in a confined column equal to that of more than 200 atmospheres, or upwards of 3000 pounds to every square inch of surface; being equal to the pressure of 6400 feet in fresh water. Mr. Per

Electrical Man.-Dr. Hartman, of Frankfort on the Oder, has published, in a German Medical Journal, a statement, according to which he is able to produce, at pleasure, an efflux of electrical matter from his body towards other persons. You hear the crackling, see the sparks, and feel the electrical shock.

The mode of determining the longitude by lunar observations is by far the most important improve-kins intends to prepare a graduated ment in modern navigation. The scale, shewing the exact degree principle of this problem is known in which water is actually compres to depend upon ascertaining, with sible. the utmost exactness, the place of the moon with relation to some one or more of the stars, her apparent place being the same at the same moment of time in all parts of the earth. Some difficulty, however, has occurred as to finding the centre of the moon (the point from which, of course, the respective distances of the stars must be mea-He has now acquired this faculty sured,) when she is within a few degrees of the horizon; when, by the refraction of the atmosphere, her shape is flattened to an ellipsis, whose greater axis is parallel to the plane of the horizon. Mr. H. Meike has published in the Philosophical Magazine a very simple and ingenious method of solving this difficulty: it is, to observe the

to so bigh a degree, that it depends solely on his own pleasure to make an electric spark issue from his fingers, or to draw it from any other part of his body. Thus, in this electrical man, the will has an influence on the developement of the electricity, which had not hitherto been observed except in the electrical eel.

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Written on seeing a Model, in the possession of J. BRITTON, Esq. from the monumental Bust of SHAKSPEARE in Stratford Church.

His was the master spirit; at his spells
The heart gave up its secrets; like the mount
O Horeb, smitten by the prophet's rod,
Its hidden springs gush'd forth. Time, that
grey rock

On whose bleak sides the fame of meaner bards

Is dash'd to ruin, was the pedestal

On which his genius rose; and, rooted there, Stands like a mighty statue, rear'd so high Above the clouds and changes of the world, That heaven's unshorn and unimpeded beams Have round its awful brows a glory shed, Immortal as their own. Like those fair birds Of glittering plumage, whose heav'n-pointing pinions

Beam light on that dim world they leave behind,

And while they spuru, adorn it*: so his spirit,

His "dainty spirit," while it soar'd above This dull, gross compound, scatter'd as it flew

Treasures of light and loveliness.

And these

Were "gentle Shakspeare's" features; this the eye Whence earth's least earthly mind look'd

out, and flash'd

Amazement on the nations; this the brow Where lofty though: majestically brooded, Seated as on a throne; and these the lips That warbled music, stolen from heaven's own choir,

Where seraph harps rang sweetest. But I tempt

A theme too high, and mount, like Icarus, On wings that melt before the blaze they worship.

Alas! my hand is weak, my lyre is wild; Else should the eye, whose wondering gaze is fix'd

* In some parts of America, it is said, there are birds which, when on the wing, and at night, emit so surprising a brightness, that it is no mean substitute for the light of day. Among the whimsical speculations of Fontenelle is one, that, in the planet Mars, the want of a moon may be compensated by a multitude of these luminous aëronauts.

Upon this breathing bust, awaken strains Lofty as those the glance of Phœbus struck

From Memnon's ruin'd statue; the rapt soul Should breathe in numbers, and in dulcet

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Dear is the summer of day, when the fountains,

Unfetter'd and free, pour the bright chrystal stream;

Dear is the cataract's leap in the mountains, When sparkling at night in the moon's silver beam;

Dear are the shoals where the sea-horse is bounding,

With his icicled mane and his eye-balls of fire;

But dearer than all, is the comfort surround

ing

The wife of his choice, and the hearth of his sire.

SONG,

FOR THE AMATEUR SOCIETY, GLASGOW.
By JOHN CARNEGIE.

Sung with great applause by FRANCIS MACGILL,
Esq. one of the Members of the Society.
Come, O come, Euphrosyne!

Come, and with thee bring along Wit and sweet Hilarity,

Laughing Mirth, and cheerful Song:

Come, and join the sons of glee;
Bring Apollo in thy train;
Bring the Muses nine, to be

Minstrels in the joeund strain.

Love and Beauty also bring:

Beauty, source of fond desire; Love, that rapt immortals sing,

Ne'er shall cease in heav'n's bright choir.

All shall one grand chorus join,

All shall swell the vocal strain;

Joy and harmony divine
Hence shall ever with us reign.

Joy and harmony divine, &c.

SONNET.

To Mrs. T. H--M--T--N, Glasgow, after a grand Ball and elegant Supper.

Oh! thou, possess'd of worth and matchless

grace,

To thee, fair excellence, belong the bays; Thy brilliant wit enlivens every face;

Thy merits rare demand the meed of praise. The laughing hours how gaily dost thou lead!

In thy blest mansion love and friendship reign,

Where varied pleasures every hour succeed, Diffusing joy, while charms the sprightly strain.

The dance and song each heart fill with delight;

The festive board inspires with mirth and

glee:

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Here Contemplation soothes the labouring mind,

And for all griefs a speedy cure ye'll find;
Serenity will give your eyes new fires,
New life, new spirits, all that love inspires;
While air and exercise will cause a glow,
Brighter than bloom Circassian can bestow.
Too long has man, by foolish custom sway'd,
Unsocial thro' the fragrant meadow stray'd;
In solitary haunts his hours employ'd,
Which better with the fair had been enjoy'd.
Woman the social circle we proscribe,
The soul of harmony, of wit the tide;
Curtail the pleasures Heaven would bestow,
And stop the source from which our bliss
should flow.

Man, own thy error; ev'ry art employ
T'entice thy fair-one to partake thy joy."

Well sung, brave bard! the fair-ones hear thy strains,

And their applause rewards thee for thy pains;

They'll join the angler's sports; their toast shall be,

"To jolly anglers all"-with three times three. M. W.

MUCH-HADHAM, Hertfordshire.

L. Harrison, Printer, 373, Strand.

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