night, but the hisses of the sensible Friday, Feb. 12. Kais- Mayor of part of the audience are still to be Garratt.We notice this evening's heard each evening. Singing and performance merely to pay tribute to music are both very delightful: but the excellence of Dowton's acting in to cram us with three hours of shakes Major Sturgeon, in the after-piece.and chromatics, without one interval It was a truly original delineation. of sense to satisfy our minds, is some- Mr. Russell, too, was an excellent rewhat more than an English audience presentation of Jerry Sneak. Yet we can endure. could wish that the fine satire, and In the after-piece, Mr. De Camp wit, and humor of the piece could be extravagantly overacted the character preserved without its grossness and of Coupee. obscenity. THE NEW PATENTS. Mr. W. CHAPMAN's and Mr. E. W advantage; viz. if liable to be chafed, CHAPMAN'S, for a Method of making the broad belt will be injured the a Belt, or Flat Band, for drawing soonest; but on the other hand, the Coals, or other ponderous Substances, narrow belts from the necessarily inup the Shafts of Mines, &c. T creased thickness of the strands, will HE nature of this invention con- sooner destroy themselves by bending sists, first, in the combination of over the pulleys. In forming the flat two, or any greater number of strands belts, attention should be paid to the of shroud-laid rope, laid side by side, strands being all brought to an equal so as to form any determinate breadth tension before they are combined toof belt or flat band; and secondly in gether, which combination may be the peculiar machinery for facilitating done just as may please the manufac its formation. A strand of a shroud- turer. They may be rivetted together laid rope is the first combination of at proper intervals, with strong irou the yarns which are twisted together wires, or laced, or stitched together. round one common axis so as to form The easiest way of stitching them is, a compact cylindric mass: and the whilst they are laid at length in the common shroud-laid rope is formed of rope-ground, to attach each strand to three of these strands twisted together a rope; on which, by means of leading the contrary way to the twist of the pulleys equal loads, or weights, may be strand, which for common purposes is suspended, which will stretch each necessary, although the loss of strength strand equally. If these weights de is so considerable that exclusive of scend to the ground, they may be the reduction of length from its being raised by heaving at the opposite end made into a rope, the strength of two of the proposed belt. Means of course strands made in such a way as to make must be taken to prevent the strands all the yarns bear an equal tension or from untwisting, which may easily be nearly so, will, when laid side by side done by fastening a sufficient weight be nearly equal to that of three such below each, where they are attached strands combined in a rope; from to the stitching ropes, so as to prevent which circumstance the chief advan- their turning round. The degree of tage arises in forming the strands into tension upon each strand should be belts, instead of making them into proportionate to what the whole belt ropes. The belts will be best com- has to bear. The remaining process posed of an equal number of strands, is to combine the strands side by side, each alternate one twisted the con- which, as before observed, may be trary way to the other, so as to coun- done just as the operator chuses. In teract the tendency they would other- the use of the belts for raising weights wise have to twist round one another. of any kind, it will be best to confine It is also eligible that the yarns for the belt so as to roll upon itself as a the differently twisted strand should spiral: but in some cases this may be be twisted contrary ways. Four, six dispensed with. The hauling forward or eight strands will form the most of the truck, any determinate space convenient belt; but each extreme between each stitch, may be done by will verge towards its respective dis- means of a winding barrel on the sledge, and a chain or rope leading scription of the brush and other parts from it to any fixed object, and by of the apparatus, taking care to disvarious other ways, though the pro- criminate between the invention of it gressive transition of the machine from as it now stands, and what it was in place to place is one of its most con- 1803. She also describes her method stituent parts; because without this of extinguishing chimneys on fire by moveability it could not be applied to means of blocks, of which she ob the stitching of any belt, where its serves, parts, to be thus connected, are lying "And I further improve the blocks stretched at length, side by side. But by making them of such a form as if the operator prefer drawing forward may render them capable of being put the belt or flat band as it is stitched, to a certain height in the chimneys then the truck or frame may be sta- which have been previously built of a tionary and without wheels. All that square form. In this case I make the this invention consists of, is the use of exterior form of the blocks of a cirstrands laid side by side so as to ac- cular figure, with levelled or sloping quire a strength which ropes used in joints, and over-lappings, so formed the same manner would not possess: that with the aid of cement, no air or and also the invention of the truck or smoke can penetrate them; and I frame and its apparatus for combining sometimes make them with knees or speedily and correctly together any slopings to assimilate with the level of requisite number of strands, or other the flues of these chimneys. The said flexible substances laid side by side. circular blocks may not only be used for the purpose of conveying smoke, but also every other kind of fluid, or bodies in a pulverulent state; and in order to render them generally useful, and in all situations fit to convey water, &c. and, that they may be incapable of injuring the water or fluids, I give the internal part, a certain degree of MR. ELIZABETH BELL'S, for certain Improvements in an artificial Method of sweeping Chimnies, and an Improvement in the preparing and manufacturing Pieces used for constructing the Chimnies. RS. BELL about four years ago used for the purpose of producing it powerfully and firmly. This also protects them from external injury, and adds to the strength of the pipes or blocks used for the conveyance of fluids, &c." There is also another method laid down for constructing the said blocks, not materially different from that already described. Mr. OBADIAH ELLIOT's for Improvements in the Construction of Coaches, Chariots, and various other Fourwheel Carriages. similar to the present; but, by this latter invention, she proposes to remedy the inconveniences attached to the former. Mrs. Bell denominates her present plan an improved method: and it consists of a frame of iron, or other materials, composed of two semi-circles, which should possess a considerable degree of adjustment by means of screws, so as to encompass and adapt themselves to all the various sizes of chimney-pots that are now in use. To these semi-circles upright bars are attached, at the top of which are fixed cross-bars with a couple of supports, which cross-bars contain the describe this patent without figures, it is necessary to observe friction roller, over which, the chain, that it consists in the construction of rope, or line, may be made to pass, coaches or other four-wheel carriages, while it performs its passage of ascent without a perch, or cranes. With and descent in the act of cleaning. this view, there are fore and hind This apparatus not only enables a per- springs, which are fastened to two beds son to sweep any chimney from the that project from the body or the bottom of it, but also provides a ready boot; and two pieces of timber are method of keeping the chain, line, or framed before the carriage, and when rope, in a situation so that the chimney required, two also behind from the may be cleaned at a moment's warn- front and hind seat rails, which project ing. Mrs. Bell having described her out at each end of the body to receive main plan goes on to a particular de- the spring bed, or beds. There is also a horizonki wheel fixed to the body or exhibits the whole construction in a the boot, for the purpose of locking very, clear manner. The patentee round. The tp front springs are uses springs either with or without fixed to the bed which projects from braces as may suit convenience; and the horizontal wheel; there is a he varies the size, shape, or form, acspindle-bar fixed into the bed; the cording to existing circumstances, or hind springs are fixed with a pro- as different roads may require. If jection from the body, the same as necessary, he fixes braces, ropes, or the front, but without the horizontal chains from any part of one axle tree wheel. The drawing that accom- to the other, and from the fore axle panies the specification of this patent tree to the splinter-bar. TRANSACTIONS OF LEARNED & ECONOMICAL SOCIETIES. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. N CARLISLE, Esq. has commu nicated some ingenious observations on the round painted boards containing verses and figures, found in some families in Staffordshire, and called rondles. A great many conjectures on the origin and use of these boards, about five inches in diameter, and one fourth of an inch thick, were extracted from the Gentleman's Magaziue. It is supposed they are of the age of Henry VII or VIII; had been imported from Flanders, and used either as conversation cards, or wooden platters. Their being found chiefly in Staffordshire sanctioned this opinion, and that they might have been the forerunners of our Delft ware. The poetical stanzas, written in old English characters, are chiefly amatory, and some of them rather indelicate; both the verse and the sentiments, equally slovenly and trifling, The figures which are coarse, are mostly painted round the outside, and the verses in the centre. ROYAL INSTITUTION. HE lectures of this learned body consist of the following courses:-Mr. Davy, on Geology and the Elements of Electro-Chemical Science; Mr. Allen, on Mechanical Inventions and Natural Philosophy; Mr. Coleridge, on the distinguished English Poets, in illustration of the general principles of Poetry, the Rev. Mr. Crowe, on Architecture, an extended course; the Rev. Mr. Hewlett's fourth Course on Belles Lettres; the Rev. Mr. Dibdin's third Course on English Literature; Dr. Calcott, on German Music, and that of the eighteenth century; Dr. Smith, on Botany; Mr. Crag, on the Principles and Practice of Drawing, Painting, and Engraving; and Mr. Wood, on Perspective. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. A method of preserving Potatoes. the Annals of Agriculture, Vol. XXXIV, page 511, is given a method of preserving potatoes for a length of time in full perfection, by Mr. L. Millington: if this could be brought into extensive practice for the use of public institutions or the Navy, it would bid fair to become a great resource in case of the failure of a crop; and upon a large scale, might very much assist a general scarcity. The account is as follows: "I took three pounds and a half of potatoes, and had them peeled and rasped, and put them into a coarse cloth between two clean boards in a press, and pressed them into a dry cake like a thin cheese, which I placed on a shelf to dry; a quart of juice was expressed, to which I added a quart of cold water, and in about an hour it deposited 60 grains of very white starch or flour, fit to make pastry. This cake was kept near three years two thirds in weight by the process, but upon being dressed, either by steam or otherwise, will produce nearly the same weight and quantity of food the potatoes would do. Potatoes after washing and peeling and cleaning from discoloured specks might be pounded or ground, and pressed into these cakes or cheeses, for the use of the navy, or against scarcity, and night supply this important article of food in all seasons. Machinery of the nature of the washing machine, and cider-press might greatly facilitate this mode of preservation." He further says, "I boiled a piece of the cake the life, both of the animal and vege made three years ago, and it turned table creation, a different plan would out perfectly sweet and pleasant to the have been resorted to. It is well taste. It is necessary the potatoes known that tares grow so close toge should be perfectly ripe to keep well." ther at the tops, as to exclude all the I think this experiment well worthy of external air from the bottoms, and being pursued further; and if some though they keep green at the tops quick and expeditious, and conse- where they receive the air, they conquently cheap method could be intro- tinue rotting at the bottoms for want duced of thus preparing and preserv- of it. When they are cut for soiling, ing large quantities of this article of the stock, refusing to eat the decayed food, and a market opened for its sale part, destroy a great deal of the sound in this form, and state of preservation, food: the loss to the growers of this it might prove a great resource in fu- plant therefore is not to be calculated. ture scarcities, and be well worth en- My first attempt at improvement was couraging by premiums. on two roods of ground for the soiling of two horses, sown as first stated, and A Plan for improving the Growth of ploughed into four furrow ridges: Tares. By Mr. Thomas Herod, of they continued growing with rapidity North Creak, Norfolk. to the height of near five feet, clinging Tares to be sown broad-cast in to the wheat. A high wind took them October from ten to twelve pecks per about Midsummer, and bent them all acre, with one peck of wheat, then down, but not close to the ground; ploughed into four furrow ridges. In some yards might be seen up the the months of April and May, a one furrows which appeared like an arch. horse plough (double breast) is to be These furrows admitted the light as run through the furrows: this will well as the air, which is also a means keep them clean, and admit the air to of preserving the plants green, for if the roots of the tares, and will keep air is admitted and light taken away, them green and growing till Mid- they may continue growing, but they will lose their colour. These two Observations.--Tares being found roods produced more than my two very useful for the soiling of cattle, horses could eat: after Midsummer, and the best plan of growing them be- the remainder were cut, and produced ing required by the Board, I submit half a load of excellent hay. one for their consideration which 1 land is a sandy soil upon a gravel; six have practised seven years with suc- loads of farm-yard dung were ploughed cess. They are a plant which contain in with the tares. Last year and the a great deal of moisture, particularly preceding year, I had two roods on à when young, therefore it is not proper black gravel sown on this plan; had no to soil cattle with them in that state, other manure than a thin covering of without dry food. Those persons who mould from an old bank in the same are destitute of that must give tares piece: the first crop was but middling. very sparingly, or they injure their I gave it another thin covering of more than they are aware of. On mould from the head land of the same the general plan of sowing, soon after piece last year, as the ground was they are at an age proper for the stock, weak. I sowed six pecks of tares, and they begin to rot at the bottom; to three quarters of a peck of wheat, this obviate which, some people sow ryc, proved a good crop, and after soiling some oats, and some barley; the stems two horses with them from the end of of the latter being weak, of course, May till the middle of August, half a they can have no effect: the former load were cut for seed. I have always Soon get hard, and the cattle refuse to found that two roods of tares sown on eat them, and by endeavouring to this plan were more than two horses avoid them destroy many of the tares, could eat. I am well convinced from treading them under foot: therefore, my own practice, that tares sown on on that plan they cannot be grown to poor lagd will improve it, if repeated great an advantage as might be a few crops; they may also be grown hoped for. If it had been considered to great advantage, if sown on this that air is the most essential means of plan, as the food will not only be sound UNIVERSAL MAG, VOL. IX. Summer. stock T This T. H. We the undersigned have examined the above statement, and find it to be correct, as our lands adjoin those of the writer's, where these experiments were tried. R. PRESS, Gent. and sweet, but also in much greater submitted to the Honourable Board's quantity. It has been supposed they approbation, trusting that their can would be inconvenient to cut on the dour will forgive the infringement on ridges; but I believe they may be cut their time. better than when they are fallen close to the ground, and rotten. The reasons for my sowing wheat among the tares, are, the stems of the wheat are not only strong and hold the tares up, but they are also so sweet that the stock will eat them with as much avidity as they do the tares, and to as late a time as the tares are proper to be cut for soiling. If the above statement is thought worthy of notice, it is humbly D D. SAUNDERS, Farmer. North Creak, near Burnham, VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL; R. UWINS, of Aylesbury intends entitled Inspiration, has a Volume of shortly to publish a small Tract, Original Poetical Tales in the press, entitled Modern Medicine, which will founded on interesting facts. contain a familiar explanation of the A Life of Luther, is in great formost prominent discoveries and doc- wardness by Mr. Bower. It will contrines that have conduced to the recent tain a full and circumstantial account advancement of medical philosophy; of that great Reformer, and the revoa critical disquisition on the mode in lution he accomplished. The author which medicine is cultivated and has been unwearied in searching the practised in the present period; and, most original and voluminous docuan enquiry how far the principles ments and the contemporary records, upon which the healing art is founded by which he has been enabled to exinay with propriety constitute a sub- hibit a more complete and interesting ject of unprofessional research. picture of this extraordinary man than has yet been presented to the British public. It is in agitation to reprint an exact and literal copy of the first folio of Shakspeare's plays, now usually sold at a very enormous a price. The Epistolary Correspondence between the late Mrs. Carter and Miss Talbot, and a Series of Letters from Mrs. Carter to Mrs. Vesey; in two quarto volumes, will be published in the course of the spring. Mr. Capel Loft's collection of Sonnets, so long expected, will shortly make their appearance. A new translation of Virgil's Georgics,and Mr.Colman's popular dramas, The Iron Chest, The Surrender of Calais, The Battle of Hexham, and The Heir at Law, are in the press. Two additional volumes of D. Espriella's Letters from England, will shortly be published, as well as a new edition of the former volumes. Mr. G. Gottlieb is preparing an ac count of his travels in North America, in the years 1806, 1807. It is to be illustrated with a great number of wood cuts. An edition of the late Mr. Harmer's Observations on Scripture, with numerous additions, by the Rev. A. Clarke, one edition of which was lately The Pastoral Care, a Didactic poem consumed by fire in Fleet-Street, is in three parts, by the Rev. G. Grant, nearly ready for publication. M.A. is nearly ready for the press. Mr. Crabbe will shortly publish a Mrs. Hall intends to publish a second part of the work called the Manual of Botany and Vegetable Preceptor and his Pupils; containing Physiology, principally intended for dialogues, examinations, and exercises the instruction of the female sex. on the two succeeding parts of grammar, namely, Syntax and Prosody. Miss Savory, author of a short poem Lord Valentia's Voyages and Travels to India, Cevion, the Red Sea, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 3, 4, 5, and M |
