THE Schoolmaster, who sometimes tires as well as edifies, the rest of the members, when he is expatiating upon his favourite sciences, was just finishing some very detailed observations on the phenomenon of the horizontal moon. "You now see, gentlemen," said he, that the moon appears larger in the horizon than on the meridian; not because it is less bright in one case than in the other, as was the opinion of Gassendus;-not because we can compare it with the distance, by means of the intermediate objects, as was supposed by Descartes ;-not because of its greater faint ness in its decline, as was contended by the subtle Berkley; nor yet because the portion of the sky seen in one case does not seem to be an entire hemisphere, as was conjectured by Rowning, and maintained by Smith: but because, gentlemen, as I think I have proved to you, the rays of the luminary, when it is placed in the horizon, have to pass obliquely, through a large portion of our dense atmosphere. I believe I should never have been able to bring my theory to its present state, had I not been assisted in the calculations which I have instituted, by the admirable work of Agnesia." "Hark ye," cried the widower, laughing, "our friend cannot even talk of science, without introducing these women! They always assist him, or rather confuse him, on every subject. If this Agnesia had not been a woman, suppose her work would not have lived long enough to be cited by our President, and I am sure he would not, himself, have studied it with so much attention." SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1822. The old gentleman, did not seem altogether pleased with his friend's jocularity, which he appeared to think ill-timed. The genius of Agnesia," said he, "has hardly ever been surpassed in any age or country; and this lady has justly acquired, by her publications on the abstract sciences, a fame which will reach the latest posterity." "I am no great admirer of learned ladies," retorted the widower. "A female has learned quite enough, in my opinion, when she is able to read Mrs. Ravald's cookery, or, at farthest, when she can copy any useful receipt which may be pointed out to her in a newspaper. Nature did not form the female intellect for study, and a woman is always a truant from more suitable occupations, when she appears in the walks of literature. While she is solving a problem in Euclid, she may be spoiling dumpling, or while she is scanning a line in an antient classic, she may burn out the bottom of a sauce-pan." a Advertisements.-The last column of the Iris is open to such advertisements only as are of a Literary or Scientisenature, comprising Education, Institutions, Sales of Libraries, &c. PRICE 34d. rally found the mind of females to be superior to those of our own sex. In respect to females of the middle and higher ranks of life, I would not have these talents entirely spent upon the operations of the kitchen. Every woman ought to be early initiated in the whole routine of domestic duties; but when she has made herself acquainted with them, when she knows how to direct her servants, I see no necessity for her continuing to be a drudge. The female whose mind has been enlightened and invigorated by science and literature, will, it appears to me, act a superior part in any station of life. In the marriage state, for example, she will possess many advantages. She must be an interesting companion, and better able, than otherwise, to soothe and cheer the feelings of her husband, and, in respect to her offspring, she will be better able to form the infant mind at the period when so much depends upon its impressions. In reading the biography of men who have distinguished themselves by their "It is unfair," replied the President, "to genius and learning, we often find some rerest your opposition against any thing, upon spectful allusion made to the acquirements, as casual instances of the abuse of it. By this well as care, of their mothers.-If it be the fate of a female to pass a single life, she will mode of reasoning," continued he, every plan however excellent, every practice how- find, in an acquaintance with the sciences, ever good, may be opposed. This is a mode something that will impart a charm even to of objection which ought always to be applied her loneliness; and, though an old maid, she with great care and candour." The worthy will escape the characteristics of that class of Chairman looked rather grave, and spoke in a females, a propensity to scandal, which is inmeasured tone, while making the preceding deed, the usual attendant upon a disposition that has been harrassed by vain hopes, and remarks; but resuming the subject with a countenance in which a little waggishness, soured by ultimate disappointment. The human mind must be active in either sex; and it mingled with more gaiety, he added, "I am persuaded that our friend rather desired to is, certainly, desirable that it should have some make an acute remark, than to offer a solid valuable materials upon which it may pursue argument on the subject. I am happy to say its operations. I admit that it is not necessary that I have in my school several young ladies that all females should be deeply read in literawho have shewn much taste for the sciences, ture and science, but if they evince a taste for and to whose future attainments I look forward study, and if they are placed in circumstances with mingled feelings of pride, and solicitude. in which constant labour is not required, they My experience has shewn me that the female ought, in my opinion, to be encouraged in the mind, far from being in any way feeble or ill-propensity. It appears to me, that women fitted for study, is happily constituted for the are only inferior to men when their minds, easy acquisition of knowledge. In quickness which experience shews us to be capable of of perception, in that happy talent of calling great attainments and powerful exertions, are up what they know, when it is wanted for a paralyzed by ignorance, and linger in instroke of wit, or an illustration, I have gene- activity," 66 The Doctor, who had listened with much attention to the observations of the chairman, remarked, that, "whatever might be his own opinion upon the education of females, he could not subscribe to the last speaker's closing proposition. He could not recollect, in his professional reading, or in his favourite authors on metaphysics, any thing in support of the notion. He also thought it was quite repugnant to the authority of scripture, in which, from the time of Adam to the period at which the New Testament was completed, the superiority of man was clearly inculcated." As the worthy chairman regards with much reverence, every thing connected with the holy scripture, he was much galled by the Doctor's concluding observation. Like certain prudent logicians, however, he refrained from noticing an objection which he did not find himself prepared to obviate. Suppose, Doctor," said he, " that, upon any occasion, a great number of trials were made to attain a certain object, and, under the same circumstances, a very few ;-from which set of trials might we expect the greatest success?" "From the many, of course," answered the Doctor. "6 as FINE ARTS: WILKIE'S BLIND MAN'S BUFF, ENGRAVED BY RAIMBÁCH. There are sets of Painters and Engravers who seem to have been born for each other. Thus, to notice only those who are more familiar to our own school; Guido and Strange, Wilson and Woollet, Cipriani and Bartolozzi, and as in the case before us-Wilkie and Raimbach. But there are two Engravers, of mighty renown, who must not be passed over. Sharp and Schiavonetti. These flew at game of every species. Either Guido, Reynolds, or West; it was of no consequence to Sharp. His Doctors of the Church, Portrait of John Hunter, and King Lear in the Thunder Storm, are perfect master-pieces of graphic art. Nothing can go beyond them. Schiavonetti should have died hereafter!' He was the sun of our school. His cartoon of Pisa, from M. Angelo; his portraits of Vandyke and Blake, and sundry other subjects, of which the names, rather than the merits, escape our memories, entitle him to a high rank in the department of the burin. all throw a charm about this performance, which we are quite sure will give it a ready admission into the house of the Prince and the Peasant.* The original painting is the property of his Majesty. It is one of Wilkie's warmest pictures; and calculated, in an especial manner, for the effect of the burin. We now turn our eyes on the magical print before us; and frankly declare, that it is the most bewitching interior which we ever beheld. 66 "said the chairman, Then," As an in-door composition, we place it quite there is an immense multitude of authors of at the head of Wilkie's performances. The the male sex, and comparatively few of the subject-or game itself-calling to mind the many happy hours of our younger days, female, it follows, from the principle just snatched in the same pastime, from the drudadmitted, that it would be unreasonable to gery of severer occupations-the mode in expect as great a display of talent among the which the subject is told, the accessories, the latter class of authors, as among the former.pression, the bold manly style of the Engraver tone of colour, the variety and vigor of exBut are there not," he added, many works on literature and science, written by females, which deserve the highest praise? Have there not been female professors who have lectured, on various subjects, in different countries, especially in Italy, whose powers and knowledge eclipsed those of all their contemporaries? Had the female authors and lecturers, been as numerous as those of the opposite sex, the ladies would, if I mistake not, have proved to us that we have no claim to the superiority which we arrogate. By withholding from females a suitable education, we deprive them of the means of refuting the libel which, for the purpose of elevating ourselves, we have made upon their mental cha racter." "For my part," said the Secretary, who had hitherto listened to the conversation, without engaging in it, I am of opinion that the intellectual powers of the sexes are wisely fitted for different pursuits. The mind of man appears, like his corporeal frame, best adapted for the more rugged and laborious paths of close reasoning and abstruse research; while the more delicate mind of woman, naturally elegant and graceful as her person, exerts itself, perhaps, to the greatest advantage in those departments of literature in which imagination and taste predominate." J. T. rogue, is smothering her with kisses. Above them, is perhaps the most characteristic figure of the whole. We see a man crawling along the wall, with arms and feet, like a great black spider, measuring his distance as he crawls, and enjoying the agility and dexterity of his movements. A little girl in a corner, hiding her face with her apron, is a most happy thought-exhibiting one of those touches of human nature, in the knowledge of which Wilkie has no equal. A young woman on the ground, with her right arm extended, links this group to that on the opposite side of the picture very artfully and successfully. The opposite, or left group exhibits a man with a feather in his hat, and two females, very beautifully intertwined with each other. Two luckless boys have tumbled over a chair one seems to have broken his shin, and is making a hideous face; the other Come, see rural felicity, The back Which mirth and innocence ever enjoy. The composition is delightful. The blind- On second thoughts, we doubt about the Peasant being able, in these rentless days, to purchase this engraving; but we have no doubt, that the veriest looby, who carts his dung regularly on the Saturday market day, would chuckle with delight on viewing the PERFECT NATURE which pervades this piece. THE PONS ASINORUM. "The reputation of a man depends upon the steps life (that is, if he lives to seventy,) a sticking There is a sort of middle stage in every one's place, "like the swan's down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines." at which one feels by certain signs that he can not exactly be called, that is, that all people do not agree in calling him, young, and that he cannot permit himself to be denominated old. This point has been often varied: those who are not twenty, declaring it to be thirtyfive, or at farthest forty; but no sooner have they reached the last-mentioned age, than they insist that they feel quite as young as they did at twenty-four, and agree that when indeed they are ten or twenty years older, they may begin to think of an easy chair, a Regent's rest, an extra bottle of port, and the et cetera of a middle-aged man. My exact age is-at least I am generally understood to be in short, I have been thirty for the last twenty years, according to the bon mot of Cicero, (vid. Quint. lib. vii. ch. 2.) and notwithstanding it is asserted that my ringlets have withstood the sheers of time too long to be my own, and a young rogue of a nephew declares he recollects laughing twenty years ago at my yellow teeth, which are now as white as a chimney-sweeper's; yet if he saw me in my green surtout and black cravat, I am persuaded that I should be taken for something under forty. But I have griefs to unfold, fatal to hear, and fatal in the telling," so let me not pause. A man in my situation of life is nothing, unless he sports a toe and shakes in a bravura: consequently I am indifferently good in "Love's Young Dream," and "The Trumpet of Victory," and though my voice is somewhat tremulous in the higher notes, I am in the bass decidedly effective. I also dance, and ain proud to say, that many young ladies have preferred me to a younger partner-no won der! very young men dance so languidly now a-days. Well, I was considered an adept; "I did'nt value your cross over two couple, figure in, right and left;" as Acres says; no! I threaded the mysteries of swing corners, and capered round in a poussette, to the admiration of the whole room. Waltzing was introduced can a man of between thirty and fifty shine in a waltz? But I had excellent excuses: Extremely indelicate! no sister or wife of mine should waltz-it did well enough on the continent: I had waltzed at Göttingen; but it would not do in England!" This, though it displeased all the young ladies of fifteen, gave infinite pleasure to all the ladies who were double fifteen. But-quadrilles (nomen quantas tragoedias excitat!) were brought into England, and they spread like a typhus fever. Infants in leading-strings were taught the steps; schoolboys were connois seurs ; older young ladies and gentlemen could think of nothing but quadrille clubs and practising parties; and my ancient subjects, the spinsters of thirty, rebelled: girls of forty ambled in a side couple; babies of fifty sidled in a trènise. I was now come to the Rubicon; I must either sink into an old man, for whom, if he danced at all, a country dance would be got up at the end of the night; one who must catch at a place in a rubber, or jump at a hand at twopenny loo in the parlour, when the young folks were dancing up stairs, orI must learn quadrilles. I chose the latter, and went to M. Pas-bas. fair partners of the evening, who, as usual, sat giggling together on one side of the room: not one did I know-not one to whom I could say, that "I hoped she'd excuse me if I blundered." I Mrs. T. soon came up to me: "You don't dance quadrilles, I suppose, Mr. B." said she, "we shall get up a country dance." assured her that I did walk through them. "Oh! I beg your pardon then," answered the lady, with something of a smile, "Come with me, Sir, and I'll introduce you." Miss S. leading me into the very middle of the ring, "allow me to present you a partner, Mr. B." I bowed, ventured some common-place compliment, which was not audible, and retired amidst the titters of the circle. Some peculiarly harsh sounds now told me that the music was going to begin. Gentlemen, take your partners," echoed from all parts of the room; and I hastened to give my partner my arm. Time was when it was only the hand. She took it without even looking at me. would you like to stand, Ma'am?" said I. "Here, Sir!" said the lady, placing herself at the top of the first quadrille. If you please," cried I, with some hesitation, "not being quite as yet a proficient, providing you had no objection, I would rather stand" "Where "Sir," replied the fair one, in a thrilling tone, "I never stand at the side." During these words, the first part of the tune, according to custom, and without my attending to it, was played over, and at the first bar of the second, out I stepped; my partner frowned, "Not you, yet Sir." I obeyed, although I was sure I was right, and she was turned by the opposite gentleman. I declared "I never danced it so." “Avançez !” cried the side couples. I stuck in my place. "The devil! its lady's chain," said I. No, no, ballancez to the corner lady-tour de mains! You're wrong, Sir! Avancez! Turn! Ballancez!" I did neither, and the figure had now finished. I turned to the lady, who did not look very kind: “ Why, Madam!" I exclaimed, "I never danced a quadrille in this way. At Monsieur Pas-bas's"-the lady stared. "Perhaps," said she, "you may not know, Sir, that we are dancing the Lancers." " what, Madam?" cried I, in a voice of terror: "The Lancers." I then recollected that I had only learnt the first set; and the compassionate reader may have a faint idea of my situation. I was standing in the first set, with the first dancer in the room; all eyes were upon me, and I was to dance from figures of which I had never heard before! All the people of my own standing seemed peculiarly to enjoy the joke. Lodoiska was now playedit thrilled through my brain; my partner dragged me forward; a thousand voices shouted out and endeavoured to put me right, and only caused me to stray the more. 66 The Ballancez-eight bars-now turn your partner-fall into two lines-avancez.' In vain. I went wrong myself and put every body else wrong; I cut twice in the air when I should have remained in my place; I stood there like a mountain when I should have advancedevery thing seemed to swim before me-I could' bear it no longer-I made my way to the door, ran down stairs, flew home in spite of rain and mud, and am resolved never again to attempt a quadrille : It was not long before a request the honour of Mr. B.'s company to a small quadrille party" was laid on my table. I tied on my starched cravat with peculiar care, and as I buckled my knee-breeches, and practised a pas-seul, I felt an exultation that nothing before had given me: I thought at least with Napoleon, "La balle qui me tuera, portera mon nom. "Imagine my having paid coachy, announcing, and making my bow to the lady Colla jugo excutiunt, abrupta prague relinquunt. 'of the house. I cast a timorous glance to the et, saltu in contraria facto W. B. pressure. = Solution of No. 24, by Chemicus. interior and exterior level of the mercury, as the First, in order to correct the inequalities of the volumes are inversely as the pressures, 29: 29-6 :: 7.5 : 527 the volume of the gas at 29 inches Again, 30:29: 5278 : 5.75 the volume of the gas at 30 inches pressure of mercury. Now it has been proved by Dalton and Gay Lussac, that gasses expand equally by equal increments of heat, that their expansion is uniform, and amounts for every degree of increased temperature to their volume at 32° Fahrenheit under the pressure of the atmosphere. We have, therefore, to find what will be the volume of gas, after increasing its femperature 25°, i. e. from 35° to 60°. Let m=1+ 1,0020833, and x = the volume of gas required. Then, x = 5.75m25, (a formula which is evidently similar to the formula of the amount in compound interest.) Hence, by Log, we find x 6.0571443, the volume of the gas at temperature 60° and pressure 30 inches. = = of Solution of No. 26, by Mr. John Hill, Let 2x diameter of the cone's base; h: side of the cone; p = 3.1416, and 2d = diameter of the circle, Then, phx superficies of the cone, and pd2 area of the circle. Per question, phx = pd2 or hæ d2. Therefore, 2 d d h the ratio required. = Solutions were received from Mr. T. Willan and Amicus. Question No 30, by J. Wilson. intersection of two planes. It is required to determine the equation of the POETRY. PALMYRA. A Prize Poem, recited at the Theatre, Oxford, O'ER the hush'd plain where sullen horror broods, Bat where the stirring crowd, the voice of strife, See fondly ling'ring Mithra's parting rays Gild the proud tow'rs once vocal with his praise, But the cold altars clasping weeds entwine, And Moslems worship at the godless shrine. Yet here slow pausing Memory loves to pour Her magic influence o'er this pensive hour; And oft has yon recesses deep prolong The echo'd sweetness of the Arab's song, Recalls that scene when wisdom's sceptred Child First broke the stillness of the lonely wild. From air, from ocean, from earth's utmost clime The summon'd Genii heard the mutter'd rhyme, The tasking spell their airy hands obey'd, And Tadmor glitter'd in the palmy shade. Lo! to her feet the tide of ages brings The wealth of nations, and the pomp of kings, And far her warrior queen from Parthia's plain To the dark Ethiop spreads her ample reign. Vain boast; e'en she who Imma's field along Wak'd fiercer frenzy in the patriot throng, And sternly beauteous, like the meteor's light, Shot through the tempest of Emesa's fightWhile trembling captives round the victor wait, Hang on his eye, and catch the word of fate— Zenobia's self must quail beneath his nod, A kneeling suppliant to the mimic God. But one there stood amid that abject throng In truth triumphant and in virtue strong; Beam'd on his brow the soul which undismay'd Smil'd at the rod, and scorn'd the unlifted blade. O'er thee, Palmyra, darkest seem'd to low'r The boding terrors of that fatal hour; Far from thy glades indignant freedom fled, And hope too wither'd as Longinus bled. Wadham College. AMBROSE BARBER. Now day conceals her face, and darkness fills The abyss of heaven appears-the stars are kindling round; Who, who can count those stars, who that abyss can sound? Just as a sand 'whelmed in the infinite sea, His everlasting strength-his all supporting presence. Where are thy secret laws, O nature, where? - What fills with dazzling beams the illumined air? ray Parsnip Wine-Wine made from parsnips approaches nearer to the Malmsey of Madeira and the Canaries, than any other wine. It is made with little expence or trouble, and only requires to be kept a few years to make it as agreeable to the palate as it is wholesome to the body.-Phillip's History of Vegetables. one. Puns.-Puns do not deserve the reproaches heaped upon them; they enliven society; and we have heard hundreds of them in companies where no pocket was ever picked. Bad or good, here is In a party, chiefly of medical gentlemen, discussing the power of animals to communicate hydrophobia, it was asserted by a learned Doctor, that the infection had been communicated in one instance by a duck. Many inferences were made from this fact, till an extra-professional visitor observed, that the strongest lesson he could draw from it was, to "beware of Quacks." A Correspondent informs us, that half an ounce of wood of quassia, boiled slowly in about a pint of water till reduced one half, and then a small quantity of sugar added, will destroy flies; and is perfectly harmless when taken inadvertently by children. Than ever yet adorn'd the golden summer's day. untrod Who then shall say how vast, how great creation's God? LOMONOSOV. CHILDREN'S OFFERING ON A PARENT'S Not the first tribute of our lyre, "Tis not to-day that first we tell Nor light the altar's ray. That altar is our household shrine- VARIETIES. BOBROV. QUERY.-Why is the nine of diamonds called the curse of Scotland. CAROLINE. Learning. No man is wiser for his learning: it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.Selden. Tractors.-The Tractors are no new mode of quackery, witness this extract from one of the rogues of the days of old: How famous is that martial ring, which carried in some fit place, or rubbed on some parts, will allay and cure the pains of the head and teeth, the cramp, quartain ague, falling sickness, vertigo, apoplexy, plague, and other diseases! insomuch that the great Captain of Hetruria commanded the inventor thereof (a brother of St. Augustine's order) to sell none to any but himself for some years. If this same were formed of some long horse shoe nail, pulled out of a horse's hoof on purpose, in the hour Mars reigns, it would be ready to contract itself to fit the least, and amplify itself for the greatest finger as you would.' A pseudo-mathematician in the North went to a worthy, pains-taking Schoolmaster; one anxious to oblige as well as to inform all who consulted him. "Sir," said the present applicant," I want to learn how to calculate Eclipses, and have come to you to be instructed in the right way." The honest Teacher replied, "There is a clever book called Ferguson's Astronomy; I will lend it to you, to read attentively, and if there is any thing on the subject of eclipses which you cannot understand, return to me and I will explain the matter to you." Our Disciple followed the advice-he studied Ferguson, and he studied so profitably, that when he came back to his Mentor, he thus addressed him :-" Eh! Sir, yon is an excellent book ye lent me I am now such a hand at the calculations, that I can foretel eclipses to half a minute! But I want to go farther into the Mathematics, and ye maun tell me next where I can learn to calculate thunder and lightning." The poor schoolmaster was gravelled, and all the thanks he got for his first service was the being abused as ignorant, because he could not render the second. : CHINESE PROVERBS. Translated by J. F. Davis, Esq. F. R. S. The man of first-rate excellence is virtuous independently of instruction: he of the middling class is so after instruction: the lowest order of men are vicious, in spite of instruction. Modesty is attended with profit: arrogance brings no destruction. In learning, age and youth go for nothing: the best informed takes the precedence. If there be a want of concord among members of the same family, other men will take advantage of it to injure them. Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurions to the health of the body. The man of worth is really great, without being proud; the mean man is proud, without being really great. Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past. In making a candle, we seek for light; in studying a book, we seek for reason: light, to illuminate a dark chamber; reason to enlighten man's heart. By learning, the sons of the common people become public ministers; without learning, the sons of public ministers become mingled with the mass of the people. When the man of a naturally good propensity has much wealth, it injures his advancement in wisdom when the worthless man has much wealth, it increases his faults. Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it: do not consider any virtue as unimpor tant, and therefore neglect it. He who tells me of my faults is my instructor: he who tells me of my virtues, does me harm. In our actions, we should accord with the will of heaven: in our words, we should consult the feelings of men. It is not easy to stop the fire, when the water is at a distance: friends at hand, are better than relations afar off. Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows. ter by what means. I recollect an instance,, where the unfortunate being was placed so near a large fire, as made it doubtful whether they intended to restore him to life, or to roast him. At my suggestion they removed him farther back, but with great reluctance. He had not been in the water two minutes, yet he died, and well he might. "A heated warming-pan, covered, lightly moved over the back and spine," he also recommends. The heat from burning coal is perhaps the worst of all others; a bladder, or bottle full of hot water would The best of all is animal heat, and it cannot be combe much better, and is perhaps as easily attainable. them in bed betwixt two adults. To older persons municated to young children better, than by placing it may be communicated by three or four of the water, and then applying them to the body. Who attendants warming their hands at the fire, or in hot does not recollect the fond maternal method of warm The fame of men's good actious seldom goes being the feet of infants? yond their own doors; but their evil deeds are carried to a thousand miles distance.. Though the life of man be short of a hundred years, he gives himself as much pains and anxiety as if he were to live a thousand. The three greatest misfortunes in life are, in youth to bury one's father, at the middle age to lose one's wife, and, being old, to have no son. A virtuous woman is a source of honour to her husband: a vicious one causes him disgrace. Those who cause divisions, in order to injure other people, are in fact preparing pitfalls for their own ruin. It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities, than to assert that he does not. The original tendency of man's heart is to do right and if a due caution be observed, it will not of itself go wrong. CORRESPONDENCE. BATHING. TO THE EDITOR, SIR,-If you think the following observations on an article, which appeared last week, in a cotemporary paper, worthy of a place in the Iris, you may insert them. The article is that beaded "Bathing." The Editor's motive is praiseworthy, but as to the means recommended by Dr. Hawes, I think some of them very objectionable. In the first place, I imagined tobacco smoke had long since been exploded. It was always to me inconceivable why it should ever have been thought of for such a purpose. When so used, in cases of strangulated hernia, etc. it mostly throws the patient into a state analogous to death. One of the most celebrated medical writers of the present day, in speaking of its use in that complaint, makes use of the following words:"It exerts a peculiar depressing influence on the whole system, reducing the pulse, aud causing nausea and sickness, cold sweats and fainting, and, sometimes death." Can a thing which has such a depressing effect on the powers of life, restore those powers when suspended? Dr. Hawes forbids the use of salt, but recommends spirits. Now when spirits is applied to the skin, it greatly diminishes the heat by its speedy evaporation. On this account it is judiciously used in burns and scalds, where the skin is not eroded. It does not act as a stimulant till it has been applied a considerable time. Let a person rub a little spirits of wine, or brandy, on his hand, and suffer it to evaporate, and he will find it occasions great cold. Æther produces this effect in a greater degree. On many accounts, spirits cannot have a good effect, applied either hot or cold, to the, apparently, drowned. The Doctor recommends the body to be laid, "in cold weather, near the fire." This is injudicious, as the apparently drowned mostly fall into the hands of the ignorant, who will take it as meaning, restore the heat of the body as quickly as possible, no mat When the friction of hot bands is not sufficient, the body should be rubbed with bladders full of warm water, or the warm bath had recourse to. Electri city, or galvanism, if properly employed, is doubtless the most efficacious of all other means. Pendleton, June 22, 1822. A. FRIEND. BOTANICAL GARDEN. : "Cash down."-JOB TERMS. 'Think rationally!'-I judge I can indeed. Such times as these are enough to take any man off his grinning, and give him his graver moments,' with a vengeance. Bad debts are no joke. Falling stock -machinery wearing out-expenses increasing-yarn coming down orders to be executed in a hurry and returns made at leisure, would make the sweetest jest in the world turn as sour as curds on the stomach. And here am I, in addition to all other calamities, up to the neck and ears in squib-writing for newspapers: I think all the imps in Christendom must have settled on my fingers, when I first took up a pen about this Botanical Garden. I've no objections to a Botanical Garden; not I; if the town like it; let it have one to be sure. Only this I can tell you, I'll never encourage it, nor set a foot in it myself, except it be to look at a Cotton tree. But it seems very odd to me, that all this noise about a Botanical Garden should have started up in a fortnight, and every body be stark staring mad for a thing that they never thought of a month ago: but what is still odder, and indeed is a sort of oddity I don't very well understand, A BOTANIST' is the only person that has ever found out how much' this garden is spoken of,' and how long it has been desired.' If the higher classes' anxious as this BOTANIST represents them, one would think they might manage it somehow. Surely some of them have habits' good enough to go about a collecting in-and are in circumstances' to subscribe something themselves. are SO very For my own part, however, for the credit of the town, I'd advise them to drop it in the beginning. I'm sure they can never raise money enough in Manchester to go through with it handsomely and to have it done shabbily, or not to accomplish it when set about, must make them feel so miserably small. HUNTING A DUKE. The late Duke of Bridgwater commonly resided at his house in Worsley, in order to be near and superintend his canals and navigation concerns. He was accustomed to rise early, to take a dish of chocolate in haste, generally standing, and then go out to his workmen, with whom he staid till nearly dinner-time. About a quarter before five, he came to dress, and exactly at five his dinner was upon the table. His usual companion at the table was Mr. Gilbert, his steward, and his regular potation was a bottle of wine. At nine, he was accustomed to call for his coffee; after which, for a short time, he retired into another apart ment, giving time for the table to be cleared, the windows opened, and the cloth laid for supper. This meal was brought up at ten o'clock; the Duke finished another bottle after it, and then retired to bed. Mr. Gilbert was almost his only guest, except a particular friend might be staying with him upon special invitation. Lord Thurlow was one of these occasional visitors, as well as Mr. Rigby, who sometimes stayed with him for weeks together. The Duke was a very shy man, and much disliked general society; and was either denied to morning visitors, or con trived to slip out of the way when any one called upon him. The clergyman of his parish, Mr. Kenyon, who had some particular business with him respecting the tithes of the parish, had often tried to gain admittance to him, but in vain ;-his Grace was very busy, or he was told he was not at home. Determined, however, to have an interview with him, Mr. K. called at a very early hour in the morning, thinking he should by this plan be certain of finding the Duke at home; but still he was disappointed, the servant giving the customary answer, that his Grace was gone out. Mr. Kenyon, fully assured that this was not the case, loitered about the house, that he might catch its noble owner when he quitted it. In a short time he perceived his Grace slip out of a back door. Mr. K. did not shew himself, lest the Duke seeing him, might slip in again, but kept his eye upon him till he saw him cross the field, and take his way to his navigation. He then walked hastily after the object of his pursuit; but not being able to conceal himself, was soon discovered by the Duke, who perceiving he must be overtaken, instantly took to his heels. Mr. K. did the same. They both ran stoutly for some time, till the Duke seeing he had the worst of the course, turned aside, and jumped into a saw-pit. He was followed in a trice into this place of refuge by his pursuer, who immediately exclaimed, "Now, my Lord Duke, I have you." His Grace burst into a fit of laughter, and all the business of the tythe was quickly and amicably settled. LITERARY NOTICES. Once upon a time we were to have had some Statues erected, and nobody knows what was to be The Author of Waverley,' and the author of Sir done, in order to commemorate Victories and Peace: Andrew Wylie,' the Ayrshire Legatees,' &c. are -and when we had bragged of them all over Eng-with a romance the scene of which we understand is both again in the press with new works. The former land for six months, and described how they were to be, to a nicety, it was found out that they would cost money, and that we had not a fit place to put them in. I see MASTER BOTANIST has stuck a motto to his letter: I don't put up for a scholar, but, as I suppose it's the fashion, I have set down a motto for mine, which will be generally understood, and which I would have the Botanical Jobber attend to. laid in England, and which is to bear the title of the Great Unknown's powerful rival, both in genius The Peril of the Peak.' The forthcoming novel of and despatch, is to be called The Lairds of Grippy.' copious account of his writings, and anecdotes of The Life and Times of Daniel De Foe, with a several of his contemporaries, by Walter Wilson, Esq. Mr. Aspin is preparing the third volume of his Analysis of Universal History for the press. |