but the memory of Schill is still honoured as that of the most distinguished and gallant partizan that all those wars produced. As he died under the reign of Buonaparte, all public honours would only have drawn down vengeance; but the spirit of the people was not to be totally quenched, and the actions of this gallant officer were recorded in all the more secret and safer forms of memo

rial. A pillar in an open field near Stralsund, bore an inscription in German, of which the following is a translation. The popular attention was too strongly attracted to it, and it was shortly removed.

INSCRIPTION.

Who rests this nameless mound beneath,
Thus rudely piled upon the heath?
Naked to winds' and waters' sweep,
Does here some gloomy outcast sleep?
Yet many a footstep, freshly round,
Marks it as loved, as holiest ground!
Stranger! this mound is all the grave
Of one who lived-as live the brave;
Nor ever hearts devoted tide

More nobly poured than when he died:

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Stranger! no stone might dare to tell
His name, who on this red spot fell!
These steps are steps of German men,
Who, when the Tyrant's in his den,
Come crowding round, with midnight tread,
To vow their vengeance o'er the dead;-
Dead, no! that spirit's lightning still-
Soldier! thou see'st the grave of SCHILL!

BOULEAU AND RACINE

Praise no person's verses but their own. They assume the character of universal critics, and not a ballad escapes their censure. Their powers of versification are good, but their erudition very superficial.

Boileau fancied he possessed a secret worth knowing in the composition of poetry; he always made the second line of his couplet before the first, in order, as he said, to infuse greater energy and compression by confining the sense to narrow limits. It is, perhaps, the adoption of this plan which has given such epigrammatic turns to many passages in his writings.

CAP. XXVI. An Act to continue, until the fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, two Acts made in the fifty-fourth and fifty-sixth years of his present Majesty's reign, for regulating the Trade in Spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally, and to amend the same.-May 23

XXVII. An Act to permit the Importation of certain Articles into his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, or on the continent of South America, and also certain Articles into certain Ports in the West Indies. May 23.

XXVIII. An Act to repeal an Act made in the fifty-sixth year of his present Majesty's reign, for establishing the use of an Hydrometer called Sikes's Hydrometer, in ascertaining the strength of Spirits, instead of Clarke's Hydrometer, and for making other Provisions in lieu thereof-May 23.

XXIX. An Act for regulating the payment of Fees for Pardons under the Great Seal.-May 23.

XXX. An Act for preventing frivolous and vexatious Actions of Assault and Battery, and for slanderous words in Courts.-May 23.

XXXI. An Act to amend an Act passed in the fifty-third year of his Majesty's reign, to make further regulations for the building and repairing of Court Houses and Sessions Houses in Ireland. May 23.

XXXII. An Act to amend so much of an Act of the fifty-fifth year of his present Majesty as relates to the Salaries of Clergymen officiating as Chaplains in Houses of Correction.-May 23.

XXXIII. An Act to alter the Allowance for broken Plate Glass, and to exempt Manufactures of certain Glass wares from Penalties for not being Licensed.-May 23.

XXXIV. An Act to repeal the several Bounties on the Exportation of refined Sugar from any part of the United Kingdom, and to allow other Bounties in lieu thereof, until the fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and for reducing the size of the Packages in which refined Sugar may be exported.-May 23.

XXXV. An Act to provide for the maintaining of the Royal Canal, from the River Liffey to the River Shannon in Ireland.-May 23.

XXXVI. An Act to carry into execu

tion a Treaty made between his Majesty and the King of Spain, for the prevent ing Traffic in Slaves.-May 28. XXXVII. An Act for further continuing, until the fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen an Act of the 44th of his present Majesty to continue restrictions in Payments of Cash by the Bank of England.-May 28. XXXVIII. An Act to extend and render more effectual the present Regulations for the relief of Seafaring Men and Boys, Subjects of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, in Foreign Parts.--May 28.

XXXIX. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for amending the Law of Ireland respecting the recovery of Tenements from absconding, overholding and defaulting Tenants, and for the Protection of the Tenant from undue distress.-May 28. XL. An Act to continue the Laws now in force relating to Yeomanry Corps in Ireland.-May 28.

XLI. An Act to amend an Act made in the fifty sixth year of his present Majesty, for regulating and securing the Collection of the Duties on Paper in Ireland, and to allow a Drawback of the Duty on Paper used in printing certain Books at the Press of Trinity College Dublin.-May 28.

XLII. An Act for enabling the Trustee of certain premises at Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk, held in trust for his Majesty, to execute a conveyance of the same to a purchaser thereof

XLIII. An Act for preventing the Destruction of the Breed of Salmon, and fish of the Salmon kind, in the Rivers of England.-May 28.

XLIV. An Act to alter the Application of part of the Sum of fifty thousand pounds granted by an Act passed in the 56th year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled an Act for improving the Road from the City of Glasgow to the City of Carlisle.-May 28.

XLV. An Act for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in Populous Parishes.May 30.

XLVI. An Act for relief of Persons entitled to Entailed Estates to be purchased with trust monies in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland,May 30,

XLVII. An Act to establish Fever Hospitals and to make other regulations

relief of the Suffering Poor, and

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for preventing the increase of infectious fevers in Ireland.-May 30.

XLVIII. An Act to amend an Act. passed in the last Sessions of Parliament, to encourage the establishment of Banks for savings in England. -May 30.

XLIX. An Act to explain three Acts, passed in the 46th, 47th, and 51st years of his Majesty's reign, respectively for the abolition of the Slave Trade.May 30.

L. An Act to amend and continue, until the 10th day of November 1820, An Act passed in the 56th year of his present Majesty, to repeal the duties payable in Scotland upon wash and spirits, and Distillers Licenses; to grant other duties in lieu thereof, and to establish further regulations for the distillation of spirits from Corn, for home consumption in Scotland.--May 30.

LI. An Act to amend certain Acts passed in the 4th year of King Edward the fourth, first and tenth years of Queen Anne, first, and twelfth years of King George the first, and thirteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-ninth years of King George the Second, and thirteenth and fifty-seventh years of King George the Third, prohibiting the payment of the wages of workmen in certain trades otherwise than in the lawful Coin or Money of this Realm.-May 30.

LII. An Act to continue until the 20th day of June 1820, An Act of the 52nd year of his present Majesty, for the more effectual preservation of the Peace, by enforcing the duties of Watching and Warding.-May 30.

LIII. An Act for enabling his Majesty to make further provision for this Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and to settle an annuity on the Princess of Leiningen, in case she shall survive his said Royal Highness.May 30.

LIV. An Act to grant certain Rates, Duties, and Taxes in Ireland, in respect of Fire Hearths, Windows, Male Servants, Horses, Carriages, and Dogs, in lieu of former rates, duties, and taxes thereon, and to provide for the payment thereof to the collectors of Excise, and for the more effectual accounting for the same.-June 1.

LV. An Act to continue until the 5th day of July 1819, Two Acts of the 54th year of his present Majesty for repealing the duties of customs on Madder imported into Great Britain, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.June 1.

LVI. An Act to make perpetual an Aet of the 46th year of his Majesty for

granting an additional bounty on the Exportation of the Silk Manufactures of Great Britain.-June 1.

LVII. An Act to amend an Act of the 55th year of his present Majesty, for granting Duties of Excise in Ireland upon certain Licences, and for securing the payment of such Duties and the regulating the issuing of such Licences. June 1.

LVIII. An Act to defray the charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent expences of the disembodied Militia of Great Britain, and for granting allow·ances in certain cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Quarter-Masters, Surgeons, Surgeon's Mates, and SerjeantMajors of Militia, until the 25th day of March 1819.-June 1.

LIX. An Act for defraying until the 25th day of June 1819 the charge of the pay and clothing of the Militia of Ireland, and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said Militia during peace.-June 1.

-LX. An act to continue, until three months after the ceasing of any restriction imposed on the Bank of England from issuing cash payments; the several acts for confirming and continuing the restrictions on payments in cash by the Bank of Ireland.--June 1.

LXI. An Act for the better accomodation of his Majesty's packets within the Harbour on the North side of the hill of Howth, and for the better regulation of the shipping therein.-June 1.

LXII. An Act to continue until the 1st day of August 1819 two Acts of his present Majesty allowing the bringing of Coals, Culm, and Cinders to London and Westminster.-June 1.

LXIII. An Act to revive and continue until the 25th day of March 1819, An Act made in the 49th year of his present Majesty, to permit the importation of Tobacco from any place whatever.-June 3.

LXIV. An Act to make further regulations respecting the payment of Navy Prize Money, and to authorize the Governors of Greenwich Hospital to pay over certain shares of prize money due to Russian seamen to his Excellency the Russian Ambassador.-June 3.

LXV. An Act for repealing the duties of Excise on Verjuice and Vinegar, and granting other duties in lieu thereof, and for more effectually securing the duties of Excise on Vinegar or Acetons Acid.-June 3.

LXVI. An Act to empower any three

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or more of the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt to exercise all the powers and authorities given to the said Commissioners by any Act or Acts of Parliament.-June 3.

LXVII. An Act to provide for the more deliberate investigation of presentments to be made by Grand Juries for roads and public works in Ireland, and for accounting for money raised by such presentments. June 3.

LXVIII. An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in Ireland, in the 9th year of the reign of Queen Anne, inituled An Act for taking away the benefit of Clergy in certain cases, and for taking away the book in all cases, and for repealing part of the statute for transporting Felons, as takes away the benefit of Clergy from persons stealing privily from the person of another, and more effectually to prevent the crime of Larceny from the person.-June 3.

LXIX An Act for the regulation of Parish Vestries.-June 3.

LXX. An Act for repealing such parts of several Acts as allow pecuniary and other rewards on the conviction of persons for highway robbery, and other crimes and offences, and for facilitating the means of prosecuting persons accused of Felony and other offences.June S.

LXXI. An Act for granting to his Majesty a sum of money to be raised by Lotteries.-June 3.

LXXII. An Act for improving and completing the Harbour of Dunmore in the County of Waterford, and rendering it a fit situation for his Majesty's Packets. June 3.

LXXIII. An Act for Regulating the Payment of Regimental Debts, and the distribution of the effects of Officers and Soldiers dying in service, and the receipt of sums due to Soldiers--June 5.

LXXIV. An Act for the further Regulation of Payment of Pensions to Soldiers upon the establishments of Chelsea and Kilmainham.-June 5.

LXXV. An Act for the more effectual Prevention of Offences connected with the unlawful destruction and sale of Game.-June 5.

LXXVI. An Act to subject Foreigners to Arrest and Detention for smuggling within certain distances of any of the dominions of his Majesty, for regulating rewards to the seizing Officers, according to the Tonnage of Vessels or Boats seized and conderuned, and for the further prevention of the Importation

of Tea without making due entry thereof with the Officers of Customs and Excise.-June 5.

LXXVII. An Act to repeal the Duty upon Rock Salt delivered for feeding or mixing with the food of Cattle, and imposing another duty, and making other provisions in lieu thereof.-June 5.

LXXVIII. An Act to make further provision for the better securing the Collection of the Duties on Malt, and to amend the laws relating to Brewers in Ireland, June 5.

LXXIX. An Act to amend an Act of the 54th year of his present Majesty's reign for granting duties on Auctions in Ireland. June 5.

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LXXX. An Act to amend an Act passed in the 57th year of his present Majesty for permitting the transfer of Capital from certain public stocks or funds in Great Britain to certain public stocks or funds in Ireland.- June 5.

LXXXI. An Act for extending to that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, certain Provisions of the Parliament of Great Britain in relation to Executors under the age of twenty-one years, and to matrimonial contracts.June 5.

LXXXII. An Act to prevent Frauds in the Sale of Grain in Ireland.-June 5

JAMES IKIN, of the parish of Christchurch, Surrey, for an Improved Method of constructing Fire or Furnace Bars.-Dated Jan. 27, 1818.

These bars or gratings are so constructed, with a hollow channel lengthwise in each, that water passing through them, keeps the whole cool. By making them of cast iron, this fluid has a free course from one bar to another, till, having passed through all, it is discharged at another opening, and succeeded by a fresh supply. The contrivance is simple enough, but the benefits arising from it are considerable; as, first, in preserving the grating from burning, bending, or even acquiring a red heat, let the fire be ever so great: secondly, it prevents the clinkers from adhering to the grating, and opposes the escape into the ash-pit of that heat which ought to ascend: and, lastly, furnishes a constant supply of hot or cold water, according as either may be requisite.

LOUIS FELIXVALLET, of Walbrook, Gent. for the Manufacture of a new ornamental Surface to Metal or Metallic Composition.-Dated August 5, 1817. The principle of this invention consists in the application of such acids or saline compounds as have a chemical affinity to act upon tin; and when employed as here recommended, give the appearance of a chrystalline surface in various modifications. To produce this effect, the composition must of course be previously coated with tin, unless the basis be already of that metal. grease remaining on the surface must be removed with a solution of potash, or any of the alkalis. The tin is then to be washed with clear water, dried, and heated to a temperature that the hand may bear; after which any of the acids that act upon tin, or their vapours, will give the appearance of chrystalization. The patentee recommends, however, the following composition to be laid on the surface with a brush or sponge: NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 55.

All

one part of sulphuric acid, diluted with five parts of water; one part of nitric acid, diluted with an equal portion of water, each mixture to be kept separate: then ten parts of the former are to be united to one of the

latter; which mixture is to be applied to the tinned surface with a pencil, and repeated several times successively; after which the whole may be covered with a varnish or jepan, and polished.

Patents lately granted.

John Dyson, of Watford, Hertfordshire, for certain apparatus for the culture and til. lage of land.-Dated May 26, 1818.

Charles Greenway, of Manchester, Lanin the operation of opening raw cotton or cashire, cotton-spinner, for an improvement cotton wool previous to the carding and spinning the same; and by which improvement such operation will be facilitated.Dated May 26, 1818.

builder, for improvements in the method George Michael, of St. Austle, Cornwall, of opening and shutting windows or sashes; and also in the application of machinery to the opening and shutting window-shutters, and in other cases where the aforesaid improvements may be applied.--Dated May 26, 1818.

Henry Taylor, of Kingston, Surrey, gent. for improvements in machines, or apparatus for catching and destroying rats and other vermin.-Dated May 26, 1818.

Thomas Homfray, of the Hyde, Kinfare,` Staffordshire, iron-master, for a new kind of bobbin or bobbins used in spinning and other manufactories.-Dated May 28, 1818.

William Lester, of the Commercial Road, Middlesex, engineer, for a method of increasing and projecting light produced by lamps or other means.-Dated June 2,

1818.

George Atkinson, of Leeds, Yorkshire, canvas manufacturer, for a combination of materials to produce an article resembling bombazeen.-Dated June 10, 1848 William Eaton, of Wiln Mills, DerbyVOL. X. H

BY LORD BYRON.

And wilt thou weep when I am low?—
Sweet Lady, speak those words again!
Yet, if they grieve thee, say not so;

I would not give thy bosom pain.
My heart is sad-my hopes are gone-
My blood runs coldly through my breast;
And when I perish, thou alone

Wilt sigh above my place of rest. And yet, methinks, a beam of peace Doth through my cloud of anguish shine; And, for a while, my sorrows cease

To know that heart hath felt for mine! O Lady! blessed be that tear,

It falls for one who cannot weep; Such precious drops are doubly dear

To those whose eyes no tears may steep. Sweet Lady! once my heart was warm

With every feeling soft as thine; But beauty's self has ceased to charm A wretch-created to repine! Then wilt thou weep when I am low ?— Sweet Lady! speak those words again! Yet, if they grieve thee, say not so;

I would not give thy bosom pain!

Thy bosom is cold as the glittering stream
Where dances thy tremulous ray!

Canst thou the sad heart of its sorrow beguile,

Or Grief's fond indulgence suspend ?— Yet, where is the mourner but welcomes thy smile,

And loves thee-almost as a friend! The tear that looks bright, in thy beam, as it flows,

The sorrow that loves in thy light to repose, Unmov'd dost thou ever behold;

To thee oft in vain hath been told! Yet soothing thou art, and for ever I find, Whilst watching thy gentle retreat, A moonlight composure steal over my mind, Poetical-pensive, and sweet!

I think of the years that for ever have fledOf follies-by others forgot;

Of joys that are vanished-and hopes that are dead;

And of friendships that were-and are not! I think of the future, still gazing the while As tho' thou wouldst those secrets reveal; But ne'er dost thou grant one encouraging smile,

To answer the mournful appeal. Thy beams, which so bright through my casement appear,

To far distant regions extend; Illumine the dwellings of those that are dear, And sleep on the grave of a friend. Then, still must I love thee, mild Queen of the Night!

Since feeling and fancy agree

To make thee a source of unfailing delightA friend, and a solace to me!

SONNET,

E.

Written in the Church-yard of Runcorn in Cheshire.

This is a spot to pensive sorrow dear! Where, unobserv'd, she may pour forth her 'plaint

Ponder on pleasures past without re

straint

And breathe the sigh-fools should not overhear!

Much do I love, alone, to linger here, What time the glow of summer's evening beam

Brightens the landscape round, and
Mersey's stream

Sleeps in the mellow light:-Sometimes a

tear