ter of money. How often, and how fervently, have I ejaculated with Horace, "Felices ter et amplius," &c.! How have I envied the felicity of that couple, which Homer describes as kissing ten years after their marriage, and declaring their affections to be as ardent as they were on the day of their nuptials! But such a pair is as rare as the poet who describes them; believe me, they are black swans. Marriage should be a perfect aristocracy; there should be but one common consent or will in every thing. But how do all these Houris of the imagination vanish, when the long train of infelicities, which immediately ensue an extinguished love, pass before me! I start with horror at the phantoms which my fancy has created, and pray that they may never be realized. Such an accumulation of wordly care and misery! Are you disappointed in a scheme of pleasure or profit? your wife, with the sagacity of an after-prophet, reproaches you with an “ I said so." Are you reduced to poverty? you behold an amiable and affectionate wife also distressed, you hear the cries of your children: or, on the other hand, if she be not such a character, she will agonize you by contrasting her former splendour, before you made her a partaker of your miseries. Are you gloomy and sad, or even grave? you do not love her. Do you wish for quiet? she will scold her servants. Will you retire to your study? even if it be not on the day,

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-the great, the important day, Big with the fate of bucket and of broom,

she will meet you with a scrubbing brush! Speaking of a bad wife (and the chances are ten to one that such may be your lot, for that is the proportion of the wicked to the good), we are emphatically told, by an ancient author, that "she makes a sorry heart, a heavy heart, a wounded mind," &c. A woman and death, says Terence, are two of the bitterest things in the world.

And yet, with all the lights of experience blazing before our eyes, how many are there who daily tie the knot, which nothing but death can dissolve! A witty and quaint writer, of the last century, tells us, that "woing is undoing, marrying is marring," and so on: I forget the rest.

Now hasten to your betrothed; read this letter to her; fall on your knees to her (as I presume you have often done before), and pray her to pardon you for holding a correspondence with such a libellous contemner of the all-powerful Hymen. Promise her she shall, at no distant day, see this proud and versatile scoffer interceding at the vestibule for entrance to the altar, on which you will shortly offer up your happiness as a sacrifice to your passion.

SEDLEY.

For the Literary Magazine.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL.

MR. CARR, author of the Stranger in France, and other works, having, during the last summer, visited Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, and made a circuit of the Baltic, intends to favour the world with an account of his travels, accompanied by various engravings from his own drawings.

The late Dr. Sibthorpe, regius professor of botany in the university of Oxford, having, with a zeal truly laudable, accomplished two voyages into Greece and the adjacent countries, with the intent of investigating their natural history, agriculture, and medicine, and thence brought ample stores for his purpose, directed by his will (lest the results of so much labour and expence might be lost to the world by his death, which was occasioned by the fatigues and difficulties he had undergone), that, out of his manuscript journals, notes, and collection of plants, a Flora Græca should be

published, and ornamented with plates from the drawings executed, under his own inspection, by that admirable artist Ferdinand Bauer. The care of this undertaking has been consigned to the person of all others best qualified for it, Dr. Smith, president of the Linnæan society, who will bring forward the work in ten volumes, folio, each to contain two parts or fasciculi, with fifty plates, so that the whole work will comprise a thousand of these engravings. The price of the first fasciculus will be ten guineas; and in proportion as the number of subscribers increase that of the succeeding will be reduced, from the operation of a fund left by Dr. Sibthorpe to assist the publication. A prodromus of this great work is also to be published, by Dr. Sibthorpe's direction, in two volumes, octavo, but without plates.

Mr. Benet, a gentleman of for tune, has recently found amongst his family papers a very large and interesting collection, including the correspondence of Charles the first with prince Rupert and the principal characters of the age, in the times of the civil wars, and while that prince commanded the army. These documents, which are of the highest importance to the history of that period, we understand the possessor of them (and to whom they descended from an ancestor, who was secretary to prince Rupert) intends shortly to publish.

Dr. Griffiths has in the press, Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia, to be published in one volume, quarto.

Mr. Twiss's Verbal Index to the Plays of Shakespeare is carrying through the press with as much expedition as is consistent with the careful attention requisite in printing and correcting a work, of which accuracy must be the sole recommendation.

An elegant work will speedily appear, under the title of, An Excursion through the Principal Parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, with Illustrative Notes, and Sketches of

the Road between London and Dove Dale. The excursion was undertaken by the late ingenious and lamented Edward Dayes, in the autumn of 1803. Its principal object was to contemplate the romantic character of Dove Dale, and to inspect and make drawings of the sublime and picturesque scenery of the north and west ridings of Yorkshire. The observations made by Mr. D. during his progress through these enchanting tracts, were afterwards connected by him with various historical and biographical notices, and the whole formed into a connected work, and completed for the press, but a very short time previous to his unhappy decease. The illustrative notes, and sketches of the roads, &c., have been added by Mr. E. W. Brayley.

Dr. Charles Hall has in the press a treatise, entitled, the Effects of Civilization on the People in European States.

The Political State of the British Empire, containing, a general view of the possessions of the crown, the laws, commerce, revenues, offices, and other establishments, military and civil, will be published this spring, by Mr. Adolphus.

The admirers of planting will speedily be gratified by a new work, under the title of the Forest Pruner, or a treatise on the improvement of British timber trees in general.

Sir James Stewart is about to present to the public a complete edition of his father's Principles of Political Economy, and other works, with an account of the author's life.

Mr. Mungo Park, the gentleman who has attained to a high degree of celebrity for his Travels into the Interior of Africa, has just left Portsmouth, on another journey of discovery to that quarter of the globe. The object of his present voyage is to establish, if possible, commercial connections between some of the principal African towns and this country. His course will be towards the southern part of the continent. He sailed in the Eugenia, captain Webb.

The Rev. S. Parker, of Lewes, intends to publish, by subscription, the Old Testament illustrated, being explications of remarkable facts and passages in the Jewish scriptures, which have been objected to by unbelievers; in a series of lectures to young persons.

A Collection of the Moral and Religious Works of the pious and learned sir Matthew Hale, have been collected by a clergyman of erudition, and published.

We have great pleasure in announcing the appearance of a monthly miscellany in the island of Jamaica (a part of the world hitherto considered as devoted solely to the services of Plutus and Bacchus), to be regularly continued under the title of the Jamaica Magazine. Part of the second number contains some original Memoirs of Charles Westcote, which have proceeded with much spirit through the succeeding numbers. We ardently wish success to an attempt calculated to introduce a spirit of literary curiosity and enquiry into so considerable a community as that composing the flourishing island of Jamaica.

Mr. Abbot, of the Temple, has recently finished, for publication, a small volume of Instructions to Masters of Hired Transports and other Vessels in the Service of Go

vernment.

An Essay, Philosophical, Moral, and Political, on the present extended Commerce of Great Britain, and on its Advantages and Disadvantages, is in the press, and will speedily be published.

A new edition of Dr. Smith's History of the Peloponnesian War, with a life of the translator, is nearly ready for publication.

A translation of the Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther, which gained the prize given by the National Institute of France, will very shortly be pubished in London. It has already been translated into the German, with notes, observations, &c., by D. Rosenmuller. To the English edition will be added copious illustra

tions, intended to correct the views of the author, and passages from the writers of our own country, who have thrown out so many important ideas on the subject.

A work, intended as a continua. tion of Dr. Paley's Natural Theology, is in considerable forwardness.

The long-disputed manuscripts of the Poems of Ossian, in the original Gaelic, are now in the press, under the auspices of the Highland Society. They will be accompanied by a Latin translation, by the late Mr. Macfarlane. The whole will form two large volumes, octavo.

The first volume of Mr. Lyson's General Survey of Great Britain, containing the counties of Bedford, Berks, and Bucks, will speedily be published. To accompany this work, Mr. Byrne will publish a series of engravings of the most interesting and picturesque objects in the several counties of Great Britain. The latter work will be entitled Britannica Depicta.

A new translation of the works of the Swiss Theocritus, the amiable Gesner, is in considerable forwardness. It is intended to follow the popular essay of Zimmermann on Solitude, executed for the Select Foreign Classics, a work which, from the numerous advantages it combines, bids fair to supersede all the preceding translations of modern classic authors.

The following is a method of giving the grain and hardness of steel to copper. Take the metal under the metallic form, fuse it with two parts of animal glass, and a twelfth of charcoal powder: as it is essential that the copper should present a great deal of surface, the shavings of that metal are to be placed in strata, with animal glass mixed with charcoal powder, and the crucible so exposed to a fire sufficiently strong to fuse the glass. There is then formed phosphorus, the greater part of which burns, while the rest combines with the copper. When the crucible has cooled, and is brok en, the phosphorated copper is found in the form of a grey brilliant but

ton under the glass, which has passed to a state of red enamel. By this operation it is increased in weight one-twelfth. The copper thus combined with phosphorus acquires the hardness of steel, of which it has the grain and colour, and like it is susceptible of the finest polish; it can be easily turned, and does not become altered in the air. The copper emits no smell when rubbed. The dark red enamel which is formed in this experiment may be employed with advantage for porcelain and enamels, as this red does not alter in the fire.

It is ascertained, by experiment, in the New York ships which go on whaling voyages of twenty months' duration and more, that scorbutic symptoms appear among the crews, unless they have temporary supplies of fresh vegetable matter. These will of themselves work a cure, but it is well known that they are more efficacious when consumed raw than if they are subjected to any culinary operation. Under this conviction the Americans eat their pumpkins, potatoes, &c. in their natural and crude state.

Dr. Blachly gives the following recipe as highly efficacious in the cure of dropsy, by external application. Recipe:-Saponis, Aceti, et Spt. Vini ana partes æquales. The whole body is to be rubbed with it at bed-time, as long as the patient can bear the application, occasionally giving him brandy or wine. This remedy, joined to the other remedies of dropsies, cures generally in two or three applications; the water disappearing by perspiration. Oedematous legs bound up, with the mixture plentifully rubbed on them, are quickly reduced in size.

The Boylstonian prize-medal, of Harvard College, has been adjudged to Dr. James Mann, for his Dissertation on the Causes, Nature, and Cure of Autumnal Diseases of Infants, as prevailing in the New England States.

Dr. Shadrach Rickeston is engaged in a work on the means of

preserving health, and preventing diseases, founded principally on an attention to the non-naturals in medicine.

Mr. C. S. Rafinesque has been for some time engaged in collecting materials for a catalogue or flora of the country, for a hundred miles or more, round Philadelphia. He has already explored the two shores of Maryland, the state of Delaware, and the northern part of Virginia. He is now engaged in visiting the northern parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in the next season he expects to visit the southern part of New York, and Long Island.

On the thirteenth of December, 1803, between eleven and twelve in the forenoon, the inhabitants of the village of St. Nicholas, near the small village of Maesing, were alarmed by a noise which resembled the report of cannon. A peasant, looking at the clouds, which became dark and gloomy, heard a singular hissing in the air, and saw a stone fall through the rafters of the barn, which he found warm, and it weighed three pounds and a quarter.

A prize is offered, by the National Institute of France, for the best memoir of the literary state of France in the fourteenth century.

The society at Copenhagen have offered three prizes to the best memoirs on the cultivation of foresttrees, considered in relation to the purposes of ship-building.

The Teylerian Society have proposed, as a subject for a prize-essay, the following question: "What advantages has christianity derived from missions during the two last centuries; and what success may be expected from the missionary societies at present existing."

The inquisition publishes annually a list of the books which it prohibits. That for the last year includes the Decade Philosophique, on which the editors of this journal say, "We thank the holy officer for having placed our publication in the same list with the finest pieces of Corneille, Locke on the Human Understanding, the works of Pope, and

the Discourse on the Re-establishment of Religious Worship. This is, in fact, too much honour for a journal. But the more sensibly we feel our own unworthiness, the more we feel the value of the favours with which the inquisition has honoured us."

The king of Prussia discovers much zeal for the improvement of the universities in his dominions. M. Massow, one of his ministers, is employed in forming and executing plans for this purpose, and the sovereign himself has, with his own hand, transmitted circular letters to the several universities, exhorting them to co-operate with him in his views for their improvement.

Schweighauser has published two more volumes of his new edition of Athenæus, with very copious notes. The abbe de Lisle's long expected translation of Milton's Paradise Lost is just published at Paris; and, in the same city, the posthumous works of Marmontel have also made their appearance very recently.

M. Cossuli has published, at Parma, a work, in two volumes, quarto, on the origin and early progress of algebra, in Italy; in which he shows that this science was brought from the east into Italy, by Leonard Bonacci, of Pisa, in the thirteenth century. He follows its progress through the subsequent periods, and shows that for the first advancement of the science the world is indebted to Italy, and that even before it began to be cultivated in other countries, it had there attained to a high degree of perfection.

A collection of the Italian authors who have written on the subject of political economy, is proposed to be published, by subscription, at Milan. The writers, whose works it is intended to embrace, are: Berghini, Scarruffi, Davanzatia Serra, Turbolo, Montanari, Bandini, Broggia, Maffei, Belloni, Pagnini, Neri, Galliani, Carli, Algaroti, Beccari, Genovesi, Zannoni, Veri, Paoletti, Briganti, D'Arco, Filangieri, Vasco, Mengotti, Palmieri, Gennaro de

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Cantalupo, Delfico, Corniani, and Gianni. To the works of the above authors, many of which are very rare, will be added several unpublished performances, in the possession of the editor. The collection will not exceed in number thirty volumes. In a preliminary discourse, by P. Custodi, will be given a sketch of the commerce and industry of the Italians, in the times that preceded the revival of arts and sciences, together with a historical account of the origin, progress, and present state of political economy, both in Italy and other countries.

An Italian translation of Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and the Belles Lettres, by Francisco Soave, has recently been published at Parma.

The following method of making an anti-incendiary liquid, for extinguishing fires arising from oily, greasy, or bituminous substances, invented by M. Driuzzi, has been published by order of the minister of the interior of the Italian republic. Take 84 ounces of common water, to which add 24 ounces of pulverised soda, and boil them till the liquid be reduced to two-thirds of the original quantity. The same proportions must be observed in preparations on a larger scale. Filter the liquor through a linen cloth, that none of the grosser parts may remain; let it cool, and use it when required. To give the soda a greater activity, make a caustic ley of it, and add three ounces of quick lime to every twelve ounces of soda in solution. The liquid is then more efficacious in extinguishing the flames, but it is more destructive to leather and animal substances, so that when the caustic solution is employed, the liquid should not be discharged through pipes of those materials. It should be observed that this anti-incendiary water must not be employed in fires arising from spirituous liquors of any kind; and that its effects in extinguishing wood are little superior to those of mere water.

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