O thou who walkest with

weep in these places. a slow pace, absorbed in deep thought, listen to the low voice that speaks to thee from afar. "On that tender mofs which thou tramplest at present with thy toot, reposed, thought, and sighed, a young man, to whom nature had granted, as to thee, an upright tender soul, susceptible of the most sublime enthusiasm. If thou lovest virtue, thou art his friend give him your regret. His life passed here in silence and obscurity, as thou seest this rivulet flow. Now his spirit dwells in happier worlds." Ah! when thou fhalt occupy thyself with these thoughts, may a religious and compassionate tear run slowly down thy cheek! may thy heart, sensible and big with sighs. rise !—Ah, mayest thou pofsefs his lyre and a better fortune!

In the mean time glide on in a gentle languor, O my hours! conduct soon this soul to the regions of blefsed spirits, among whom Serena is ready to receive me. O death, wifhed for end of human miseries, come!

But what voice rises in the bottom of my heart? "Banish the criminal wishes of the impatience of mortals:. thou complainest wretch, thou callest on death, and why?"? To be happy. It is the desire of nature!

"It is too great for the earth. Mortal! beyond the tomb be happy; but on this side, be wise. Thou seest. millions of thy fellows suffer, and dost thou think thyself alone worthy to be happy? Thou shalt be so. Wait with

patience., Let affliction correct thy heart. Cares are for vice. Suffer! Serena sees thee, and blefses thy sufferings."

Immortal voice of my concience, I will obey thee; 1 wish to feel and suffer my misfortune. Slavery, reigns here below; liberty dwells in the regions of Serena.

. . I wish to repose here, where the noise of a profane people troubles me not. O solitudes, receive me into

Sept. 25. your bosom, that your profound calm may pafs into my soul! Here nature sleeps; all is calm except this spring which descends murmuring from the top of that savage rock. I will not disturb this vast repose by criminal complaints; I will be silent, but I will fhed tears. Ah! without tears where fhould I find a mitigation of my sor rows? Thus religious patience, peaceful in sadnefs, a marble tomb, and supports the weight of

sits on

grief!

NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

By his last dispaches from Gothenburg, the Editor has received intelligence of some very important improvements there in domestic economy, chiefly respecting the saving of fuel in that northern climate. These

1 are,

1. an improved kiln for drying malt, &c.

This kiln is so constructed as,

1. To save a great proportion of fuel: as not much more than half the quantity that is usually required will perform the same work.

2. There is no pofsibility of setting it on fire; so that all the houses connected with such a kiln are perfectly safe in this respect.

3. The malt, or any thing else thus dried cannot be affected with the smoke of fuel in the smallest degree; so that it is a matter of indifference whether that fuel be peat or coal, or wood, or brush of any kind; all of which may be used indifferently.

4. This kiln is so constructed as to act at the same time as a kind of stove at pleasure during cold weather, so as to prevent the cold from operating as a check to the progrefs of malting, 'c. in cold regious.

5. It also admits of being loaded and unloaded at a smaller expence than in buildings of the usual construc tion.

My informant says this is not a mere theoretic idea; for he has seen it actually carried in part into execution, where it has been found to answer perfectly, in as far as has been tried; he has also seen the whole of the drawings, by means of which he understands the principle, and thinks when fully executed it is so simple as not to be liable to be put out of order, and must be very lasting; so that he conceives it to be a very material improvement.

2. An improved baker's oven.

This is merely an extention of the principle applied above, adapted to the form of an oven, and possesses all the advantages above stated; viz, saving of fuel; preservation of the bread pure and uncontaminated either by the smoke or afhes of the fuel. It admits moreover of having the heat raised or moderated at pleasure, so as to adapt it precisely to the purpose required at the time.

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No contrivance, our informant thinks, has ever yet been evented equal to these two for drying all kinds of green vegetables, or evaporating moisture for any purpose in arts. In the kiln the evaporation can be carried on as slowly as may be wanted ; and it may be easily so' constructed as either to have the benefit of the rays of the sun, or the fhade, as may be most requisite; and in the oven the exsiccation can be pushed as far as can be necefsary for a ny purpose. In both cases a contrivance is adopted for carrying off the damp air as it arises from the substances drying

3. An economical chamber stove.

This is merely an improvement of the chamber stove already in universal use in Sweden, which, he thinks, might be introduced with great propriety among the poor in Britain, where much fuel is spent unnecefsarily. These VOL. Xvii.

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.

THE 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 borse artillery, and therefore are at a lofs to understand the purport of this paragraph. The following explanation will probably be acceptable to them.

Several years ago a gentleman, a native of Scotland, [he 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

size, without any wheel carriages, carried also on a kind 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 fhould 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 deci sive 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. I does not seem that Prince Cobourg has thought they fhould be rejected though not invented by a professional 4 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 situation of things, if adopted, might probably prove in a very short time decisive of the war.