The Society of National Industry at Paris has offered prizes for the best means of sizing paper, and for the fabri'cation of cinnabar, equal to that called Chinese vermilion. Also for the encou ragement of engraving in relief, or producing blocks for printing. The Society of National Economy of the Netherlands, on the invitation of the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic, proposed the following ques tion: "What are the means of converting spoiled, putrid, and stinking water at Venice by Don Alb. de Megnino, the Spanish Consul. The author proposes means to preserve the lives of 500,000 individuals, who annually perish in the houses for the reception of orphans, in the prisons, &c. The number of children who die every year in the orphan-houses is about 20,000; being in the proportion of fifty to every hundred admitted into them. 1806. Saturday, November 1st. THE planet MERCURY is situated in longitude 7..17°..15', and latitude 48 minutes South. His declination is 170..46' South, and he souths about 15 minutes after noon. into a wholesome and agreeable beve. CELESIAL PHENOMENA for November rage? Thirty-eight memoivere sent to this competition. At the general meeting, in June, last year, the prize was adjudged to one of these memoirs, by Dr A. VAN STIPRIAAN LUISCIUS, lecturer on medicine and chemistry at Delft. The prize was fixed at 6000 florins. Having previously ascertained the accuracy of the results stated by the author, the Society transmitted him 2000 florins; and he will receive the other two-thirds of the prize when the neces sary experiments have been made in different climates, that the Society may be absolutely certain that the author's processes are applicable to every country and every season. The knowledge of hydraulics is in no country of greater importance than in Holland. M. Christian Brunnings, Di. rector General of the river and seaworks of the Batavian Republic, recently deceased at Haarlem, rendered for a long series of years inappreciable -services to his country in that line. The Batavian Government, desirous to do honour to his memory, has ordered a monument of white marble to be erected to him at the public expence, in the principal church of Haarlem, and promised a gold chain and a medal of the value of 200 ducats, or the same sum in money, to the author of the best memoir or eulogy on that excellent ci tizen. The Society of Haarlem has offered the prize of a gold medal, value 400 guilders, for the best answer to the following question: "What do we know historically of the alterations which the earth has undergone in consequence of the flood, and of the variety of causes which occasioned these alterations? A Spanish work, on the Increase of Population in Spain, has been published Tuesday, November 4th. The Third satellite of Jupiter will immerge into his shadow at 42 minutes and 4 seconds after 5 o'clock in the evening. The emersion is invisible, as Jupiter is below the horizon when it takes place. Friday, November 7th. The longitude of VENUS is at present 6'..24°..22', and her latitude 1o..21 north. Thursday, November 13th. MARS is at present situated in longitude 5s..0°..40', and latitude 1o..52 North. His declination is 12°..59' North, and he comes to the meridian about 7 o'clock in the morning. Friday, November 14th. The Moon will be in conjunction with the planet Jupiter at 15 minutes after 7 o'clock in the morning, in longitude 9.7°..14.8". The diffe rence of their true latitudes at the time of conjunction is about 1°.-41′, and the Moon will pass to the North of the planet. Monday, November 17th. All the satellites of Jupiter are situated on the Western side of his disc, the first being nearest and the fourth farthest from the planet. Friday, DR R GIBBES has from a series of experiments shewn, that the Bath waters contain a much greater portion of iron than has hitherto been supposed. He says, that "iron is deposited in three different states by the Bath waters: 1. It tinges the glasses which are made use of for drinking the water at the pumps of a yellow golden colour, which can be scraped off. This portion is what I imagine was united with carbonic acid, and is deposited on the glasses, on the sides and bottom of the baths, in the state of ochre.-2. It forms pyritical incrustations about the re servoirs and channels of the baths; in these the iron is, in its metallic state, united with sulphur.-3. It is deposited in the sand of the bath in black particles, which are attracted by the magnet. Some of these par ticles appeared in a chrystalline form " Mr James Horsburgh has given an enumeration of the several cases of ships which have been struck with lightning from his observations he remarks, 1. That lightning always appears to embrace one of the mast. heads at first, and descends down, wards; 2. That the parts of masts which are covered with tar and blacking are not so liable to be rent by the lightning as the parts where they are clean scraped, or scraped and covered with tallow: 3. That the yards are seldom or never damaged by lightning, although the masts to which they are fixed may be rent to pieces. The practice established by the Academy of Sciences of Petersburg, of sending some of its members or as. sociates to travel in such provinces of the empire as are the least known, cannot fail to prove highly useful to the physical and natural history of that vast empire. Thus in 1804, Messrs. Sewergin and Rodoph, the one as geologist and mineralogist, the other as botanist and zoologist, were chosen to make the tour of Finland. The former has already published his observations.-It is asserted that the province of Orel contains a plant, known by the name of matrunka; which is an infallible specific against the bite of mad dogs. The Academy of Petersburgh charged M. Smielowski to verify this circumstance on the spot, and the result of his expe riments is extremely satisfactory. M. Jungius, preparatory to his recent aerostatic voyage at Berlin, took four hours and a half, and three thousand pounds of sulphuric acid, to fill his balloon. At a quarter before one o'clock he launched his eclaireur, or small globe, from which was suspend. ed a basket with two pigeons. An hour afterwards, his balloon being two-thirds filled, 'the professor embarked in the presence of the King, the Queen, and the whole royal family. He was accompanied by a youth of fifteen, named Kols, the son of a baker at Berlin. His ballast weighed sixty-eight pounds, and he rose with an ascending force of about 300. At the the height of about 3900 feet M. Jungius threw out a goose, which alighted rather fluttering than flying, near the Menagerie. Saussure's hygrometer, observed at 8650 feet, was at 71°. The aeronaut having attain ed an elevation of 15,000 feet, descended, at thirty five minutes after two, between Grosbeeren and Heinersdorf, to land his young companion, according to promise. He imme. diately ascended again by himself, and was lost at an immense elevation, the degree of which cannot be stated, because the barometer was broken in his previous descent. He alighted between Trebbin and Neundorf, five German miles and a half from Berlin. M. Jungius returned next day to the capital, and immediately proceeded to Charlottenburg, where the King and Queen were desirous of hearing from his own mouth an account of his experiments. M. Jungius is pro fessor of physics at the college of Frederick William, and had before executed a successful ascension, on the 16th of September, last year. At one of the late meetings of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Mu nich, Professor Ritter communicated a series of experiments, which have a direct relation to the nature of mag. netism. The results of his experiments are as follow: 1. Every load stone is equivalent to a pair of heterogeneous metals joined together; SONG, its different poles represent different metals. 2. Like them it gives clectricity, namely, one of the two poles positive and the other negative electricity. 3. By following the same process, a certain number of loadstones, like a certain number of pairs of metals, have furnished electricity; and by these means he has been enabled to represent on the electrometer the electricities furnished by the poles of different loadstones. 4. By means of these electricities, one of these batteries of loadstones, in pro. portion to its strength or weakness, produces on dead and living bodies. all the phenomena which are produced by a Voltaic pile of the ordinary kind, and of the same foree. 5. The experiments which prove this demonstrate, that in magnetized iron the south pole gives positive electricity, and the north pole negative electri city: but that in magnatized steel, on the contrary, the north pole gives positive electricity, and the south pole negative electricity. 6. The same inverse distribution is likewise observed with respect to the polar oxydabilities of the magnetized body, the change of which is produced by the magnetization. In magnetized iron the south pole is most oxydable, and the north pole the least so; whereas, it is found, that in magnetized steel the north pole is the most, and the south pole the least oxydable. Poetry. CANNIE WI' YOUR BLINKIN', BESSIE. TUNE.-Willie was a wanton wag. 0 the days whan luve was lispin', O the days o' auld langsyne, Wi' the glammar o' your e'e. Sin' our maiden tryste yestreen, Whan my heart I first unlockit On the velvet sward sae green. Lampin' Tibbie Deemster saw us Tak' a kindly kiss or twa; Syne awa' she bang'd to blaw us. Mumlin' what she heard an' saw. Slavrin' Jock glour'd owre the hallan", Kindly speir'd for wooster Tam: Swith, quo' he, ye beardless call^n, Tak' your beuk an' learn, your psalm. Whist, quo' Kate, our clashin' howdie, Haith ye wrang the laddie sair, Bessie's sleek as ony mowdie, They wha cuddle young learn fair. Scow. 3 Scowderdowp cam' to our dwallin", Hotchin' thrang o' crikes an' flaes; Tam, quo' he, their gibes we'll laugh at, Whan I mak' the bairns's claes. Warst o' a', Rab Birse the souter, Blythe ha'e I been wi' my Bessie, Owre the moors o' Gallowa. TUNE.-" My love she's but a lassie yet." MY love they say is yet too young, Ah me! I cannot think her so; Her mind belies each censuring tongue, For there she scarce can older grow. With mild affection's winning grace, Possess'd of every pow'r to charm, As would e'en cruelty disarm. With artless manners all admire, Who knows must to my love aspire. If youth and beauty can alone The human heart in love retain, Sense, youth, and beauty, all her own, Insensible who can remain. 'Tis thus exhaling sweets at morn, The rose-bud bursts upon the view, Thus the blossom on the thorn, opes When wet with drops of early dew. The flow'r that's in the sun-beam sprung, If shelter'd will more lovely blow, Then let them say my love's too young, Still I can never think her so. JAMAICA. To M. B. W. W. L. WHO could resist the witching smile, Upon my Mary's face that shone? Who could behold her soft blue eyes, And still retain his heart his own? And yet 'twas not that witching smile, Fair form, or eyes of lovely blue, SONG, W. W. L. Tune.--Te banks and braes o' bonny Doun. THE lily of the vale is sweet, And sweeter still the op'ning rese, But sweeter far my Mary is Than any blooming flow'r that blows. And whiper saft the tender tale, 1806. } To MARY. HOW sweet are the blushes of morn, B. And sweet is the gay blossom'd grove, The linnet chaunts sweet from the thorn, But sweeter's the smile of my love. Awhile, my dear Mary, farewell, Since fate has decreed we should part, Thine image shall still with me dwell, Tho' absent, you'll reign in my heart. But by winding Devon's green bow'rs, At eve's dewy hour as 1 rove, I'll grieve for the pride of her flow'rs, And the pride of her maidens, my love. The muse shall cease in the grove, Thine absence the linnet shall mourn, But the lark in strains breathing love, Soft warbling shall greet thy return. Banks of the Forth, 1806. } B. But let me brush the nightly dews If sprightly strains alone are dear, The footsteps of the parting year. 'Mid friends of youth, belov'd in vain, Oft have I hail'd this jocund day; If pleasure brought a thought of pain, I charm'd it with a passing lay. Friends of my youth, for ever dear, Where are you from this bosom fied? A lonely man I linger here, Like one that has been long time dead. Foredoom'd to seek an early tomb For whom the pallid grave-flow'rs blow, I hasten on my destin'd doom, And sternly mock at joy or woe. Yet while the circling year returns, Departed year! thine earliest beam, Beheld me by the Cavery's stream, A man unblest on holy ground. Might charm a sadder soul than mine, For each sweet scene I wander'd o'er, Girt by the green and glistening wave, Olivia's kind bewitching smile Seem'd to recall me from the grave. When far beyond Malaya's sea I trace dark Soonda's forests drear; Olivia, I shall think of thee, And bless thy steps, departed year. Each morn or ev'ning spent with thee, Fancy shall, 'mid the wilds, restore, In all their charms, and they shall be Sweet days that shall return no mote. Oct. 1806: Still may'st thou live in bless secure LINES Occasioned by reading COOPER's Works. WHILE bards, whose bosoms never glow'd, With holy zeal, or love to God, To transient themes attune the lyre, Their views no further than the hour ex. tend; Cooper, in more instructive strains, Oh! blest to whom impartial Heaven, For ever free from jarring strife, cay, And in a heavenly transport breathes his soul away. How mean to this the courtier's pow'r, ear. But soon the sweet deception dies, Pharmacopolas. HIS |