And like whose glorious course mine might have proved; Nor lingering, nor misled, with panting hearts You pushed right onward, while the loose. zoned maid Unheeded crossed your path; her syren song Dispelled Imagination's air-built fanes, Your toil is o'er, and yours is now the palm, The shout of thousands, and the laurel crown; Ah! envied!-When together we set forth, the race Now Is run and lost, and I, unpraised, unknown, Follow inglorious;-doomed to hide my shaine Midst the low crowds of mediocrity: It glitters in the sun: O! then, the soul Burns in each vein, fire flashes from the eye, The frame's incumbent weight seems lightened, raised, Expanded by an energy divine! Yet soon, too soon, the paroxysm subsides All the pursuits, the uses of this world, spring From self-inspection ; discontent, despair, And once seemed fair and faultless. With a blush, Viewing his own creation, in disgust He blots the canvas, or destroys the page. Alas! for him, who in this woe-fraught hour, Finds nought within to prop his sinking soul. No secret flattery, no consciousness, That on the walks of life he is revered, And named with honor by the sage and good➡ That might be something, echoing their praise, The mind in sweet soliloquy might say, "Be of good cheer, 'tis but a passing cloud, "Anon the sun will pour his radiance bright, "And all once more will be serene;-the while "Endure." But how, if all the moral past Be but a blank, or worse; if strong desire To climb to honor have sustained defeat, If no soft welcome accent have approved The cherished view that looked to future times, And grasped the laurel of a century's growth ; O! who can bear, when such the drear account, Reflection's horror:—who, but feels, can tell! Then all the common-places, which the world Prattles by rote, and thinks not from the heart, That life is brief, and full of cares; delight wish gulph? And were it worse than all thy sufferings here, Say, can'st thou flee from that? Back to thy sheath, detested poniard !—No,. Though all this world be weariness, though hope Of gladness be from me for ever fled, Yet not less wise, because unsearchable. In each affliction he decrees, design Self-flattery glossed thee in thy brighter hours, Now first thou hat'st, now first thou know'st, thyself. Know and amend, that when the hour shall come, That brings thy lawful summons to be gone, Thou may'st depart with dignity and hope. Lo! the wide field of Piety extends, The field of Virtue, fair beneath thy feet: Act well thy part, and smooth thy wrinkled brow, And kiss the rod, and do the will of Heaven; Soon will a few short years of sorrow pass, And bliss, long sighed-for, will at length be thine, Far richer bliss than this low world could yield, Than wish could seek, than fancy could conceive ΤΟ ON THE RETURN OF SPRING. CAN I lovely nature see, In all her pristine gaiety, Can the rose its pride resume, Can the airy zephyrs bring A maid as fair,-for nature's charms Why then should'st thou refuse to bless, G. Since thou can'st please with so much less? I ask not half so much of thee; Bestow a smile alone on me. D. S. SONG. HOW fresh is the rose in the gay dewy morning, That peeps with a smile o'er yon eastern hill. How fair is the lily, our gardens adorning, And fresh is the daisy that blooms by the rill: But MARY, the rarest, the fairest, sweet Aower, That ever adorned the green banks of the MAIN,* Compar'd with this beauty, the eglantine bower, The rose, and the lily, how trifling and vain! How lovely her bosom, where friendship and feeling Still heave for misfortune the dear tender sigh; How sweet are her looks, ev'ry beauty revealing; The blush of her cheek still out-rivals AuAnd mild is the lustre that beams in her eye. PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. MR. THOMAS MEAD'S, (SCOTT-STREET, YORKSHIRE,) for Methods of Making Circular or Rotative Steam Engines, upon an entire new Principle. UE principle of this invention is not confined to engines of any particular form, but it consists in making use of two moveable pistons in such a manner that they alternately revolve, or move round their axes or centres, as we shall endeavour to explain, as well as we are able, without the help of figures. There are two circular plates or shells of metal, similar in their construction, having their iasides made very correct. Each of these circular plates or shells, has a flanch and semicircular cavity formed for the reception of the pistons, which are afterwards described, and a recess or hollow part formed round its centre, for a small circular plate to turn in. Near the edge of each recess is a small groove running quite round; in the bottom of each groove is placed a metallic ring, and the remaining part of the groove is fitted up with packing or wadding, which ring and wadding may be moved with screws going through each shell, and may be turned on the outside of the engine after it is put together at any time, to make the small circular plates work steam-tight. On the outside of each shell, at its centre, is a hollow pipe for the reception of spindles. One of the circular plates has two holes, to which pipes are fitted, one to convey steam into the shells, the other to conduct it from them into a condenser wherever it may be required. The figures attached to this specification exhibit the parts already described, and also two pistons with grooves round them, to admit of a wadding and two small circular plates, to which the pistons are connected, or made fast. One of the spindles referred to is made hollow, to receive the other, which is solid, and passes through it. Two arms are fastened to the spindles, and each arm near its extremity carries a wheel, called a friction.wheel; a fly or regulating wheel, fixed to one end of a moveable axis, having in its front, opposite to its axis, a groove running across its diameter, for the reception of the friction-wheels, which wheels, when the pistons are put in motion, work in it, and give motion to the fly-wheel, and other machinery which may be connected with it. All the parts being deacribed and shewn in the drawings, we are told; when the engine is to be put together, the arms should be taken from the spindles, and the solid one fixed into that which is hollow, which, with their respective pistons, and small circular plates, are to be placed in one of the shells, and the other placed over them: the sheils are then to be fastened together, with screws or otherwise, so as just to admit the pistons with their respective plates and spindles to turn round in their respective chambers nearly steam-tight; the arins may then be made fast on the spindles, and the engine erected. Di rections are now given for fixing the machine, which being done, and ready to be set to work, the steam is permitted to enter by one of the pipes into the steam chamber, where, by its elasticity, it will press or act upon both pistons nearly alike; and, as one of the pistons is stopped or held fast, the steam cannot pass into the other pipe that way, but will force the other piston round with its small circular plate, spindle, arm, and friction. wheel, and put the fly in motion, and continue it. A similar effect may be produced with a concave globe, or sphere, having within it two moveable semicir cular leaves, as substitutes for the pistons, with packings at their edges, and united in the centre or axis of the globe with hinges, and having each of them an axis passing through the globe to receive the arms and friction-wheels, and with holes, pipes, &c. for the admission of steam. Engines on this principle may be made of every size, and may be put in motion by air or water as well as steam. The invention may be applied to engines for extinguishing fire, or for raising or forcing water to any height, and for other purposes of practical uti lity. MR. EDWARD SHORTER'S, (WAPPING,) for an Apparatus for Working Pumps.` Mr. Shorter, in describing his invention, says, he fixes at the stern or afterpart of a vessel, an axis nearly parallel to the horizon, and in a fore and aft di rection, so that one of its extremities may be within board, and the other, viz. the aftermost extremity, shall either be without board, or so placed as to admit of the fixing of an external apparatus on it, intended to produce a rotatory motion in the said axis, by means of which the pump or pumps of any description may be 152 towards the points, in order to prevent MR. DAVID MATTHEW'S, (ROTHERHITHE,> the sume. be worked, a connection being made between the said axis and the pump, by any of the well-known methods. The Fotatory motion is produced by a piece of mechanism called the fly, and which is drawn through the water by the motion of the ship, and is made to nove round The objects of this invention are as by the re-action of that fiuid, or otherfollow: to render the construction of wise; in case the ship be at anchor in a current or stream, the direct action of locks and lock-gates less expensive than the water produces the same effect. The they have been heretofore; to diminish the pressure of the water upon the gates; fly is made of wood, or other suitable mato render the locks less liable to be blown terial, and may be constructed after the manner of the sails of the windmill or up, and to work the gates with less labour smoke-jack, or of any other form that than has been necessary heretofore. The form of each of the lock-gates, inshall present oblique surfaces to the relative action of the fluid, so as to cause it stead of being, as usual, square or obto revolve upon the principle of those long, will be such that the depths of the machines: the said fly is connected with gates will increase from the hanging-post the aftermost end of the horizontal axis, to the meeting-post, making the lower by means of a spar, or chain of metallic edge a straight line, or curved line, derods, or a rope; and flexibility is given scending from the lower end of the hangto those parts of the gear wherever it may ing-post to the lower end of the meetingpost by this means the construction of be necessary, by means of universal joints, &c. The patentee adds, that his the gates is less expensive, from their not apparatus may be used to work the requiring to be equally strong, and not pumps of ships, and other vessels, by ex- taking so much timber; also the pressure of the gates is much diminished, on acposing the fly of proper dimensions to count of the surface exposed to the fluid the action of the wind instead of water. being less, and by that means the pressure against the side walls is also less than in the case of the common lockgates. The gates will shut against a sill in the form of the lower edge of the gates, which sill will project a little way beyond the termination of the body of the lock, so as to receive with the hollow quoins the whole pressure of the gates. The body of the lock will terminate on each side in a plane parallel, or nearly so, to the gates on that side when shut, at a convenient distance from the gate. The lower edges of the gates, instead of running on a platform, will move a little above a surface of brick or stone, which in form has the figure which is swept out by the lower edges of the gates in opening, but is placed a little below them. If the lower edge of the gate be in a straight line, it will be a regular conical surface; if a curved line it will be a curved conical surface; by this means the body of the lock and the sill form an arch, terminating in a groin arch, the strength of which is opposed to any effort of the water to blow up the lock. Upon this surface à circular rib of iron is raised, having the same centre with that on which the gate turns; on this rib the gate will turn by means of a roller. The rib will be most conveniently placed, so as to be always under the centre of gravity of the gate, MR. BRYAN DONKIN'S, (BERMONDSEY,) for a Pen of new Construction. 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