Yet Britain hopes her sons may never need In her defence on their own shores to bleed.

Is it possible to peruse the poet's playful enumeration of Modern Improvements, without participating in the laugh that he has excited?

rare Invention! to thy skill we owe Refinements our rough fathers did not know.

Contrivance lumbers up our rooms with

He seeks not beauties, but with prying nate with the author's portraiture of

eves

Detects a blemish, as a precious prize;
He knows an hundred parallels to quote
Where different men on the same subject
wrote,

And proves the wond'rous fact, the rogues
to shame,

That, on the same things they wrote things the same.

He shews the world, kind soul! their great
mistake

In prizing authors for their merits' sake:
He finds defective what the gen'ral taste
Had felt instructive, beautiful, and chaste;
Can learned skill on little specks display,
And comment half an author meant away.
Modern Tourists.

trace

our tourists, rambling wide to

Near home discov'ries-pest'ring every place:

Equipp'd with knapsacks, trudging here
and there,

Like pedlars posting to a country fair;
Or perch'd on coach-roof, they admire the

scene,

How uplands rise, and vallies lie between, Or down some river's stream meand'ring glide,

And find that there is land on either side: Who see old castles where they long have stood,

And feast on ruins-antiquarian food : Perceive that Scotland to the northward lies,

And that in Wales huge barren mountains

rise:

That Ireland is an island, where abound
Bogs, hogs, and dogs, and fogs, the whole

year round.

That

poor

meat,

With buttermilk their boil'd potatoes eat. These things made out, a pompous book must show,

What much it must concern the world to know,

How far they walk'd-where halted, din'd, and slept;

What is good meat,-good wine-good lodgings kept;

What dangers, what fatigues they under

went,

And wore their shoes out-and their money

spent.

We could with pleasure lengthen our extracts from the present production, which, however, must termi

a Village Curate.

Mark yonder Curate, of the good old stock,
In youth he furnish'd well his studious head,
The humble teacher of a village flock.
With all the Greek and Latin Fathers said;
Made all the homilies he real, his own,
And felt a wish to make them better known;
Thought all the articles were strictly true,
Lamenting they were thought so by se
few ;t

* See the curious collection of parallel thoughts and expressions in passages collected from various authors, which have appeared in the works of critics and in the magazines; in some of which scarcely a distant resemblance can be traced.

But chiefly drew from Scripture channels

To teach his hearers twice on Sabbath-day.
Nor did his labours with the Sabbath end,
For he would cheer the sick, the dying tend!
With mild rebukes the vicious seek to gain,
Or soothe with gentle words the suffrer's
pain.

His Wife, fit partner for a grave divine,
Was fam'd for nostrums, and good currant-
wine:

She furnish'd salves, and physick for the poor,

Which were not costly if they did not cure; Would caudles rich for groaning mothers brew,

And teach their girls with skill to knit and

Their sons and daughters he in wedlock tied,

And bless'd each youthful bridegroom and his bride;

Their children nam'd at the baptismal pool,
And gave them learning at the parish
school.

literary criticism, we might point out
Considered solely as an object for
before us.
many inaccuracies in the poem now

But as we admire real talent, wherever found, we honestly commend the Age of Frivolity' to the patronage of the public. We feel confident that we shall not be discredited by this recommendation.

To the Age of Frivolity' are ap pended two or three minor poems, which shew the author to be an adept in the various kinds of poetical composition.

↑ Some of the Clergy contend that the Articles are not Calvinistic, or that they are mere articles of peace, and inatters of form, which each may subscribe in what seuse he pleases.

THE NEW PATENTS.

Mr. HENRY FOURDRINIER'S, for ma- fore only mention that its application nufacturing Paper of an indefinite is to the cutting of paper manufac Length, with separated Moulds. tured according to the patent just deDated July 24, 1806. scribed, into equal lengths, by a process peculiar to itself.

THE

HE moulds are similar to those in common use, except that by the thinness of the framing on each of the two opposite sides, any number of moulds may be applied in contact,

Mr. JAMES WINTER's, for a Mechine for sewing and pointing Gloves. February 20, 1807.

so as to form one long mould. AN instrument called the jaws is

stead of the deckle being applied to fixed on a pedestal, which is ineach mould, as is usually practised, tended to hold the gloves for sewing. there is an edgebar joined by hinges There are also indexes with grooves to each of those sides of the moulds on the top for the direction of the which are not applied to each other, needle. The grooves are from eighteen This bar is capable of being raised to thirty in an inch, in an oblique or perpendicularly by weights and strait direction, as the work may resprings, and to perform the office of quire. The indexes are from one the deckle by preventing the pulp eighth to three eighths of an inch in from flowing beyond the side edges. breadth, and from one to four inches There is also a platform, on which the long, according to the nature of the moulds are supported during the work- work and the expertness of the person ing, made horizontal in such a man- employed, and may be made of ivory, ner as that they may slide in one di- iron, or brass. The shape is either rection, in successive contact with straight or circular, corresponding to each other. This platform is support- the part of the glove to be sewn there ed at one end by chains, so that it may in. The grooves must be of the depth be agitated, and the other end is sup- required for the stitch, the leather ported on a pivot, and is made to de- being placed even with the face on the scribe a small horizontal circle during top of the index. To make a silk the working. This agitation may be cord, every fourth stitch must be taken produced several other ways. On the by the first needle, when the second, extremity of the platform, most re- third, and fourth follow, and fill up mote from the place of agitation, a the space left by the first. No recylinder is placed, having an endless moval of the leather is to take place web of felting passed round it, on in the index before every needle is which the paper is received as fast brought up to its proper place behind as it is ready to take from the moulds. the leading one. The best way of As the moulds advance on the plat- sewing the thumb and finger tops is form, a workman who stands near the in the hand in the usual way. agitated end supplies and connects

other moulds in succession, which Mr. JOHN FLETCHER'S, for a Comare disengaged and taken away by another person standing at the other end of the platform. As fast as the moulds arrive beneath the cylinder, the felt web takes off the paper, and

position for Agricultural Purposes, as a Manure, and extremely effica cious in the Destruction of the Fly in Turnips, Snails, &c.

October 21, 1806.

HE composition is manufactured by taking any quantity of gyp sum, selenite, or natural sulphate of lime, of which that kind called fibrous gypsum is the best. Take also any quantity of those oyster-shells which are found between high and low water marks on every part of the sea shore in the vicinity of oyster beds, and which have, by the long continued action of the water and attrition

against the sand, become deprived baroselenite be powdered consideraof their dark-coloured exterior crust; bly finer. The meshes of the sieves or, in lieu thereof, take fresh oyster- generally used for this last-mentioned shells, and clear off the dark-coloured powder are of such dimensions that exterior crust. Take also any quan- from 2500 to 4096 of them are con- . tity of common heavy spar, barose- tained in every square inch of the lenite, or natural sulphate of barytes. wire-work. Lastly, mix the three be Reduce each of these ingredients se- fore-mentioned powders in the followparately to powder. The powder of ing proportion; that is to say, to 1000 the two first should be of such a de- bushels of the pulverized gypsum add gree of fineness as to pass through a 100 bushels of the pulverized oysterwire sieve, of such dimensions that shells and five hundred weight of the from 400 to 576 of the meshes are pulverized baroselenite, and the coincontained in every square inch of the position is made. wire-work; but it is better that the

ADDITIONS TO, AND CORRECTIONS IN, FORMER

OBITUARIES.

Admiral Sir HYDE PARKER, Knt. his father, on board the Grafton and whose death was announced, at p. 276. the Panther. BEING EING destined by his father for In the latter ship he was present on the navy,as well as from the strong the memorable and successful expediinclination which in his earliest youth tion undertaken against Manilla, and, he manifested for a maritime life, he after the reduction of that place, was was entered when extremely young on engaged in the pursuit and capture of board the Lively frigate, a ship at that the Spanish Acapulco ship the Santime commanded by his father captain tissima Trinidada by the Panther and Parker, under whom he afterwards Argo. On the 18th of July, 1763, served in 1757, in the capacity of a lieutenant Parker was advanced to the midshipman or mate on board the rank of post-captain, but owing to the Squirrel. Fostered and encouraged cessation of hostilities which had then under the wings, as it were, of the pa- taken place, he had no opportunity of rent, he soon became so perfect in distinguishing himself, or of holding those studies attached to his pursuit, any naval command. In this state of that his advancement in rank might inactivity he remained till the year be most strictly considered as resulting 1776, when, in consequence of the disfrom his natural merit, unaided and pute which had then reached a serious unsupported by any influence or in- height between Great Britain and her terest whatever. Having been ad- American colonies, he was appointed vanced to the rank of lieutenant, by to the Phoenix, a small two-decked commission, bearing date January 25, ship, mounting 44 guns, in which he 1758, he was appointed to continue as was immediately ordered on that stabefore, under the command of his fa- tion. Hostilities had actually comther in the Brilliant, to which ship he menced long before captain Parker had sometime before been promoted, reached the place of his destination, and on board which Sir Hyde himself and the fury with which the contendhaving of course served as a petty offi- ing powers assailed each other ap cer or midshipman, continued subse- peared to prepare the most active emquently engaged in different ships on ployment for an able and enterprising the most active services during the mind. Captain Parker, therefore, had whole remainder of the war. Captain very soon an opportunity of distinParker having in 1760 been appointed guishing himself, as he did, in the most to the Norfolk of 74 guns, then under conspicuous manner, at the attack of orders for the East Indies, his son different coasts and batteries necesagain removed with him into that ship sarily preparatory to that of New and accompanied him to her station, York itself. then one of the most active and desir- The first of these naval coups d'essai able possible for a young and enter- was in an expedition ordered up the prising officer. He afterwards served Hudson's River, to a post occupied in progressively under the command of considerable force by the Americans UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VII. 2 X

at Orange Town; and, immediately appeared to have reached their most after his return from thence, he was dangerous crisis. France had interemployed in covering the debarkation posed a few months before as a party of the troops, on which occasion com- in the American dispute, and the sucmodore (now lord) Hotham, to whom cour afforded by her to the insurgents the chief superintendance of the ser- was no less felt by its actual weight vice was confided, shifted his broad than by its consequences. The naval pendant to the Phoenix. On the 9th force which had been detached by the of October following, he was detached new ally, under the orders of Count up the North River, as chief or senior d'Estaing, was in itself formidable, officer of a small force sent thither for and it was by no means improbable the purpose of dividing or distracting that further re-inforcements would the attention of the enemy; and the arrive. Accordingly, in that month, operations as well as services of this Sir Hyde Parker was detached by little squadron proved of very mate- Admiral Gambier, and sailed from rial service to the general plan of at- New York as convoy to the transports, tack. It had been resolved, in order having on board the troops intended to prevent the enemy from receiving for the attack of Savannah. By means supplies by the North River, to send a of this expedition the rebel army was detachment of ships above their works forced to cross the Savannah river at Jeffery's Hook, on York Island, and into South Carolina, and protection the opposite shore of Jersey, between was given to such of the inhabitants which they had been lately making of Georgia as retained allegiance to fresh attempts to block the channel, his Majesty's government. and captain Parker in the Phonix was chosen for this service with the Roebuck and Tartar. Of four of the enemy's gallies chased from their stations behind the lines of sunken frames and vessels placed to obstruct the passage of the river, two were taken; one mounted a thirty-two pounder with swivels, the other two nine pounders and two four pounders, The two remaining gallies with some small vessels, being favoured by the tide and weather, escaped the ships in shoal water, where they had suffieient protection from the shore, which was in the enemy's possession. In this action the ships under captain Parker suffered much in their masts and rigging, but the loss of men was not considerable; and the address, activity, and gallantry displayed by him on this occasion, added to those successes which, a similar conduct at preceding periods had procured him, gained him the high favour of his Sovereign, who conferred on him, on the 21st of April, 1779, the honour of knighthood. Sir Hyde continued on the same station in the years 1777 and 1778, and though actively concerned in all the various events which took place in that quarter, was not fortunate enough to meet with any second occurrence by which he could more materially add to his reputation.

In November 1778, public affairs

The political hopes formed on this expedition appeared for a considerable time to be raised to their highest pitch by this success, and subsequent advantages fully proved the value of Sir Hyde's services on that important occasion. Having accomplished the first object of his duty, the commodore found it absolutely necessary to return to Europe, as the Phoenix had sustained so much injury in the course of her passage as to be rendered unfit for service, without a thorough repair; having therefore received the best refitment at the newly-captured port, which circumstances would permit, he quitted North America, and arrived in England in the spring of 1780.

The repair of the Phonix being immediately attended to, Sir Hyde Parker, on resuming his command, was ordered out to Jamaica, as commanding officer of the convoy, to whose protection a valuable fleet of merchant ships was confided. He sailed from England, in December 1780, in company with Sir George Rodney (who was then destined with a very formidable fleet for the relief of Gibraltar), and arrived at Jamaica without any accident happening to the ships under his charge. This station afforded only slender means of increasing his reputation, the operations and successes in that quarter