log, or Christinas block, thus illuminating the house. This custom was perhaps borrowed from the Sasons; they began their year on the eighth of the calends of January, which is our Christmas day. The night before was termed by them "the Night of Mothers," and was ob. served by them as sacred. The log, perhaps, was burned in imitation of the

sun's return.

The origin of Christmas-boxes is said for every thing. If a ship went on a disto be this: the priests had masses said tant voyage, a box was fixed to the mast, and consecrated to some saint. The mariners were expected to put money into this box, that masses might be said for them at their return.

the At

The mass was then called Christ Mass, this particular box Christ-mass-box. Many other custorns may be enumerated: Christmas-carrols, Christmas-pies. the Universities, it is common to hang laurel in all the colleges and chapels, which, when we consider that the laurel was emblematical of peace and victory, is easily explained. One of the earlier councils forbade Christians to deck their houses with bay leaves and green boughs,

What are the thousand ills of life,
Bewildering woe, and care, and strife,
The miseries which mankind distress,
To him whom Fancy loves to bless.
For she can bid the desert bloom
With fairest flow'rs of sweet perfume,
Transform the dens where darkness reigns
To flow'ry fields and peaceful plains,
And make the pensive pris'ner's cell
A place for freedom's self to dwell.
When Fancy waves her magic wand,
Rich fruits adorn the barren land,
And Ceres spreads her golden store,
Where desolation ruled before.
The dismal caves, and yawning graves,
Where envy pines, and madness raves,
By Fancy touch'd, in scenes abound
With nature's greenest glories crown'd;
And rising hill, and verdant vale,
With joy the sweet magician hail.

Happy he whom Fancy leads,
Through her wild sequestered meads,
Over valley, over hill,
By the torrent, by the rill.
She will lead him to her bow'rs,
Cull for him the fairest flow'rs;
Sweetest pleasures he shall find,
Greenest bays his temples bind;
All throughout the livelong day
She will sing his cares away,
And her notes of soft delight
Lull his soul to rest by night.
By the torrent, by the rill,
Over valley, over hill,

Through her wild sequester'd meads,
Happy he whom Fancy leads.
Kentish Town.

H. N.

45 UNCERTAINTY OF HUMAN JOYS. WHY dost thou pine for sordid gain,

Procured with toil, enjoyed with pain ? The wealth of Creesus cannot save When Death commands, e'en monarchs must Or buy one moment from the grave;

obey,

And change the purple for a garb of clay.
If thy desires be for gain,

Let VIRTUB in thy bosom reign.
Why dost thou seek delusive fame,
And barter substance for a name?
Those vaunting brows with laurels crown'd,
The solemn cypress must surround:
Impartial death prepares an equal grave
For conqu❜ring heroes as the vanquish'd slaves
If thy ambition pants for fame,

Let VIRTUE be thy stedfast aim.
Why dost thou trust in beauty? say!
'Tis like a flow'r that fades away,
The tyrant smiles at beauty's bloom,
And plucks it to adorn the tomb;

His ruthless hand, with all-subduing sway,
Enshrines alike the youthful and the grey.
If thou wouldst be for ever fair,

Let VIRTUE be thy constant care.
When wealth, and fame, and beauty, pass away,
Her hand shall bear thee to eternal day.
June 21, 1813.
MORTALIS.

LOVE'S FASCINATION.

Is there a flow'r that fragrant blooms,

Warm'd by kind Sol's enliv'ning ray,
But, when black night its shades resumes,
Withers, droops, and fades away ?
So my fond heart, by Sarah's smile inspir'd,
Lives in the genial sunshine of her eyes,
But, when averted or in anger fir'd,

Shrinks by neglect, or by their splendor diese

Have you not seen the lily bend,

Parch'd by fierce Sol's too potent ray; But, as the fresh'ning showers descend,

Dare with new charms the beams of day? So, when the tear which mourns my hapless lot, Down Sarah's cheek, unbid, repentant steals, How is each sorrow and each pang forgot? What boundless raptures then my bosom feels!

Spinning Wheel,

PATENTS

carriage consists of a bar, on which four upright pieces are fixed, one foot eleven inches high: two of these pieces are placed within an inch of the ends, the other two at the distance of two feet four inches from them; these are all coupled together by a bar at the top. Between each of the bars, that are two feet four inches apart, a stretching frame is placed. These two stretching frames hang upon one lifting bar. Upon the top of the back stands a shaft-turn, in the centre of which a saw-tooth ratchet is fixed, to raise the lifting bar, which raises the stretching frame, both of which have been just mentioned. On the centre of the carriage, near the bottom, a round piece of brass is placed, which is cut in notches, for any pattern for twilled or plain work. On the top of the carriage two jointed bars are placed; on each of which a knob is fixed, which knob falls out of and into the aforesaid notches of the round brass piece, one to the right, and the other to the left. On the aforesaid jointed bars a moveable knob is placed, which, by pressing against the stretching frame, by means of a spring on the other end of the said stretching frame, shifts it till the desired pattern is obtained. On the front of the frame three stands are fixed, one on the centre, and one at the distance of one foot nine inches to the right, the other at the same distance to the left. These three stands are one foot high. On the top of these the main arbour turns. From the top of the middle front-stand, and nine inches from the top of the middle backstand, a bar is fixed. Their working-dograck is placed on the centre of the car. riage. The other rack is fixed a little to the right. The working-dogs, backdogs, their shafts, and levers, are all in the centre of the machine. The working-dog-lever is fixed on the aforesaid bar. On the inner part of each outward front-stand, another stand is fixed, one foot high. On these the plates are fixed. These plates are described in the just-mentioned specification. Opposite the plates the crookers work; each of these work on a bar. Repertory.

To JoHN DUFFY, junior, of Dublin,

Calico-Printer; for a Method of producing Patterns on Cloth mude of Calico or Linen, by preserving or defending Mordants or Colours, previously applied to them, from Injury,

when

1815.]

Patents lately Enrolled.

when it is required to pass such Mordants or Colours through Solutions of Acids, of Acid Salts, or of Combina tions of the oxymuriatic Acid.-Feb. 8,

1814.

After the mordants or colours have been applied to the cloth, either in figures or as a ground, by any of the well-known methods of calico-printers; he first prints, or otherwise applies to the cloth, over those parts of the said mordants or colours that are intended to be protected from the action of acids, acid salts, metallic salts, and solutions or combinations of the oxymuriatic acid, wax, resin, turpentine, mastic, elemi, frankincense, spermaceti, tallow, or animal fat, rendered fluid by heat, and so mixed or combined, and in such proportions, of two or more of thein, or any other waxy, resinous, fatty, or oily substances, as will not only adhere to the cloth, and protect the mordants and colours during the operations they have to undergo, but be afterwards removable by warm water, or bran water, or by such other simple applications as will neither impair the mordants so preserved, or materially affect the natural brightness of the colours. After the said waxy, resinous, fatty, or oily composition has been so applied to the cloth, and over such parts of the mordants, or colours, as are intended to be preserved, he immerses the cloth in a diluted solution of vitriolic acid, or of oxymuriatic acid, or in such diluted solutions of the vegetable, mineral, or animal acids, or acid salts, or metallic salts, or oxymuriates, as will in a reasonable time dissolve or discharge from union with the cloth such parts of either the mordants or colours, or colouring matters alone, as have not been protected by the beforeinentioned waxy, resinous, fatty, or oily compositions. He then rinces the cloth well in water, or otherwise removes from them all the remains of the said acid, sowings, or salts, by the usual process.

And, having thus removed the mordants, or colours, or colouring matter, previously applied to the cloth, from those parts of the said cloth not defended by the aforesaid waxy, resinous, fatty, or oily compositions, he proceeds to finish the work by the ordinary methods of calicoprinters, according to the nature of the patterns and colours it is intended to produce.

Example 1. If it is required to exhibit a yellow object, or pattern, on a dark blue ground, or a red object, or pattern, on a dark blue ground, he prints or pads

Example 2. If it is required to exhibit a yellow object or pattern on cloth that has been printed or padded with the aluminous mordant, and dyed madder-red, or an olive object or pattern on cloth that has been impregnated with a mixture of alum and iron mordants, and dyed madder-brown, he applies the same composition of one part of spermaceti, to two of turpentine, over the parts intended to be preserved, red or brown, and destroys the colouring matter of the rest by immersion in a discharging liquor, prepared by adding one part by weight of concentrate sulphuric acid, to about two hundred and fifty parts of the watery solution of the oxymuriate of lime, of one thousand and thirty specific gravity; or proportionably to any of its other (water being considered as one thousand) earthy or alkaline combinations; the mordants of such destroyed colouring matter will remain attached to the cloth, and will become yellow in the red pattern, or olive in the brown pattern, by the usual process of dyeing in weld, or quercitron bark. If, on the other hand, it is required to produce a blue object or pattern, instead of a yellow or olive, on the foregoing dyed madder, red or brown, he uses the composition of three parts of black resin, one part of tallow, and one sixteenth part of bees-wax, to cover the red or brown parts intended to be preserved, and passes the cloth through the foregoing discharging liquor, to destroy all the unprotected colouring matter, and afterwards through some acid solution, to carry off the mordants. He next proceeds to dip it in the indigo

blue