A , 4 Dr. Roberts's Apparatus for accumulated Electricity. [Feb. 1, and orderly; and many of the parents to the Editor of the Monthly Magazines of the children, as well as other persons, SIR, avail theinselves of the additional oppor- CCORDING to promise, in the service at St. Margaret's church in the have forwarded a drawing of the appa. afternoon. ratus for exhibiting accumulated elecTo such as have conducted themselves tricity. If you approve of it, and think well, a Bible and Prayer-book have been it will have a tendency of giving the presented upon their leaving the school, least help to the farther investigating with a testimonial of their good conduct the science of electricity, it is at your inscribed in each bouk: and the parents service for insertion in your useful Mahave spontaneously attended to return gazine. thanks for the benefits which their chil- Bridport, G. L. ROBERTS, dren have received from this institution. August 17, 1814. B. a glass tube, three feet long, and of the tube about three quarters of an six inches diameter, with a brass ball inch from that. Set the machine in inserted at each end; the balls to be motion, and, as soon as the jar is about about two inches diameter, and to be three parts charged, the aurora borealis well turned and polished, and as free will appear; keep the machine in motion, from holes, or any imperfections, as and balls of fire, of dense purple colour, possible. 1. a brass cap, with a valve will pass froin ball ball; still continue for exhausting the tube, which must be to turn the machine, and they will soon as complete as a good air-pump will do be succeeded by stars, with a loud reit; at any rate, for it to succeed well, port, and as bright as the sun.* 98 or 99 parts out of 100 is necessary. C.C. a brass ball at each end of the so the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. tube, well polished, three inches diameter. SIR, F.F. two glass pillars to support the S the miscellaneous character of . AS your work precludes long details son's plate-machine, (the plate of which or discussions on agricultural subjects, is two feet diarneter.) E. a jar, of the I regret that you have been led, from usual sort, coated with tin-foil, in the the perusal of the Norfolk newspapers, common way, eighteen inches high, ten to give currency, among your Provincial inches diameter. G. a chain, which is Occurrences,page 583 of the last volume, fastened to the ball at the farthest end to a pretended fact, ascertained in Nor. of the tube, and to the external coating folk, as to the deleterious effects of of the jar. When this apparatus is used, place the ball of the jar against • See the Monthly Magazine for June, the ball of the conductor, and the ball 1814, page 446. mangel, 3 1815.] Mr.Farey on a Mis-statement respecting Mangel-Wurzel, $ mangel-wurzel to cows fed thereon; because the real facts resulting from considerable experience, of hundreds of agriculturists in every part of Britain, are the very reverse of this; and, long before you gave so extended a circulation to this alarming and mischievous statement, (without any intimation of its fallacy) a very unusual number of these agriculturists had pressed forward to deny and rebut the same, and are still doing se, by unanswerable evidence, in the Farmer's Journal, a weekly news paper of very wide circulation, near one-third of whose pages is devoted to agricultural correspondence, and where in the statement was first made, on the 28th of November last, by the clerical gentleman mentioned, who, resting his as sertion on only one case in Norfolk, and two others in Cheshire and Staffordshire, from another's information, deemed these sufficient to ground his positive dogma"That mangel-wurzel, if given to cows, is extremely injurious"!! forgetting, as is not unusual on another topic, to offer any of the essentially necessary concomitant circumstances, by which, conviction of the truth, rather than belief of the assertion, might be obtained by the growers of this root, to whom it was, with such officious zeal, addressed. Yet, when the fact, thus broadly advanced, had been denied by numbers of wellknown agriculturists, on large experience through many years, and the reverend gentleman was loudly called on for the mode of feeding, &c. he accompanied the same by this remark, viz. “whether the cows were fed judiciously or not, is by no means a question for me to enter upon"!! and, a little further on, he complaisantly adds, “I have stated what every farmer, who grows mangel-wurzel, ought to thank me for"! The reverend gentleman alluded to would undoubtedly have been entitled to the thanks, not only of all growers of mangel-wurzel, but of all well wishers to agricultural improvements; and the present intrusion on your valuable pages might have been avoided, if he had stated, as has since appeared, to the following purport, viz.-that, while the respectable individuals mentioned, were absent from their houses and farms in Cheshire and Staffordshire, and were enjoying the renowned hospitality of their friend in Norfolk, by some strange fa tality, the farming servants of each of them had, about the same time, given mangel-wurzel roots alone, in unlimited quantities, spread on bare pasture land, to the dairy cows; and that such injurious effects seemed to have followed this new practice, that it was judged proper, without delay, to put the grow ers of this root on their guard against deviating from the usual and perfectly safe and successful practices of giving to cows a proportion of dry hay with these as well as other roots. That inadvertence, rather than a de- To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. HE T A gentleman, writing in the Morning Post, under the signature of Coriolanus, has informed the public, that he knew De Loline personally; that he, for some time, owed the honor of his daily visits to the necessity that ingenious foreigner was under, of having his ideas modelled and embodied by an English scholar. Now, Sir, I will not aver, though, perhaps, I safely might, that De Lolme, had Dr. Busby on the Author of Junius's Letters. had his birth occurred some forty or fifty years later, would, while in his boyhood, have been, in English literature, the master of this gentleman's manhood; but, without any qualifications whatever, do I assert, that he was a perfect master of our language at the period of this gentleman's childhood. It does not appear to be generally known, that the author of the "Essay on the English Constitution," gave to the world, as early as 1772, (the very year in which his letters were first published collectively,) an English work, entitled "A Parallel between the English and Swedish Governments;" that the style of this work is, in every respect, equal to the masterly language of his translated Essay; that, of about one hundred and twenty paragraphs, one hundred and five are taken,word for word, from the translation of that very Essay, as that translation then existed in the private possession of the author, and as it was It first published in the year 1775. is, however, well understood by many persons, that his Essay, in its original language (French) was written in England, ready for the press as early as the year 1770, and sent, or carried, by the author, to Holland, to be printed there; where it actually was printed It will therefore, no early in 1771. doubt, be said, that Junius, in 1771, (for in the November of that year, he sent the MS. of his preface to the printer of the Public Advertizer,) translated the cited paragraph from this first French edition; and that De Lolme, finding it so well executed, preferred its adoption, in his first English edition, published in 1775. But to admit this hypothesis, would be, either to confess that De Loline did not translate his own Essay; and then, he never produced any thing in English; or, that he did translate his Essay; and then, though a foreigner, did surmount the physical impossibility of writing as good English as Junius. For, if he did not translate his own Essay, neither did he write the "Parallel between the English and Swedish Governments," the "History of the Flagellants, or Memorials of Human Superstition," the "Dissertation" prefixed to De Foe's "History of the Union of England and Scotland," "Thoughts on the Shop Tax," "Thoughts on the Window Tax," "Thoughts on the Tax upon Hawkers and Pedlars;" nor the "Enquiry," so highly extolled by Dr. Coote, "whether the Dissolution of the Parliament, during the Trial of Mr.Ilastings, [Feb. 1, did not, viewed constitutionally, inva- If Junius was not De Lolme, yet did The editor of the Monthly Magazine is possessed of a leaf of the manuscript of one of Mr. De Lolme's Tracts, written in his own hand, in pure English, and in a neat and terse style. other, 1815.] Entrance of the Confederates into Paris. other, complaining of the disingenu ous treatment he had experienced from Coriolanus. To what extent the mutilations and curtailments were carried, I have to learn; not bemg yet in possession of the copy of that letter, though it has been promised me by Mercator. Without being insensible of Mercator's kindness, (be Mercator whomsoever he may,) I am able to rest my evidence of the fact, that De Lolme was Junius, upou certain indisputable, irresistible circumstances, the knowledge of which, a sedulous and determined research has obtained. 7 For the Monthly Magazine. ACCOUNT of the ASSAULT OR PARIS, and of the ENTRANCE of the CONFEDE RATES into that CITY; in a LETTER from a LADY to her SISTER in ENG LAND. Paris, April 16, 1814. * We see, Sir, however, how Mercator has been treated! Mercator, who bas conducted himself so explicitly, so fairly! Mercator, who, for whatever he advances, produces some substantial evidence, some satisfactory corroboration! Why has not Coriolanus been equally expla. natory? equally ingenuous? Why has he administered to the public appetite for truth and reality, what does not bear even the semblance of truth? Why has he neither produced, nor named, those productions of De Lolme, for the correction and improvement of which, that ingenious foreigner honoured him with his daily visits? Why has he not pointed out even a single solitary passage, from the many with which he enriched the needy lucubrations of the author of the "Essay on the English Constitution?" For his generous declaration, that great credit is due to my deep research into the subject of Junius, I am thankful. Did I perceive in his letter, or in the annotation appended to that letter by its author, any thing like research, any thing like argument, any thing like delicate, or even candid, treatment, I would be equally liberal in any acknowledgments. I only wish to add, that, however persuasive the circumstances, however cogent the reasoning, here adduced, may appear, to unprejudiced minds, they are not meant to establish the fact of which I am convinced, and in the affirmation of which, I am so unequivocally direct. The physical impossibility of that fact, I have disproved, and the proofs of the fact itself are about to appear. Queen Ann Street, T. BUSBY. Jun. 14, 1815. As the public feel a certain degree of interest in this development, we shall cheerfully admit any communication of the writer who signs Mercator; and we hope, before our next publication, to receive some conclusive information from Gepeva, ALL the French were persuaded they were coming with the determination of pillaging the houses, murdering the inhabitants, and setting fire to the town, in revenge for Moscow with these ideas, numbers of families made their escape into Normandy and different parts of France. We had almost resolved to go to Morlaix, which is a sea-port three hundred miles off; but we continued talking of it only, till too late: we were told it was absolutely dangerous travelling, as the Cossacks were roving about in every direction, and frequently robbed the diligences on the road. I had prevailed on my father and mother to leave Passy, and come and live with us, that we might comfort each other in case of the worst; and it is very fortunate they did, for the environs of Paris have, and still continue to suffer very much by the soldiers, who feel themselves entitled to rob and plunder there as much as they choose. Imagine to yourself what a state we were in, when, on the Tuesday, March 29, our servant came into our room at six in the morning, to tell us she had heard the enemy was only three leagues from Paris. Several wounded soldiers had given the account, who were just arrived from the scene of action. Mr. B- went out ta make enquiries, and found the report true enough. All Paris appeared in alarm; fear and consternation were pictured in every countenance. I had presence of mind sufficient to pack up them in a cupboard under the staircase; what few valuables we possess, and hide under ground. Afterwards I went out our plate and money we put in a hole to buy a little provision of flour, rice, meat to salt, &c. in case we survived, and should not be able to leave the house. Nothing was to be seen all day but cartloads of goods, cattle of every description, women with their children coming into the town, without knowing where to go, being driven from their homes. What hurt me most was, to see the poor wounded soldiers brought in by cart loads, stretched upon straw, like so many calves, the greater part of them nearly expiring for want of food, or from their wounds not being dressed. Being Witness witness to all these dismal scenes, you may suppose we passed a most restless night, and the next morning we were awoke at five o'clock, with the sounds of guus and cannons at a distance. I must tell you, our house is very near one of the entrances or gates of Paris, and opposite the mountain of Montmartre, which was slightly fortified. A vast number of people were assembled on the hill, to see the battle on the plains behind; papa had the curiosity to go also, and came back with the account, that the Russians were gaining ground very fast. We saw all the artillery and troops go by many thousands who were never to return any more. Our anxiety during half the day was beyond every thing, to know what was going forward in the field of battle, and what would be the result. All the inhabitants were standing at their doors, asking one another what was the news? Sometimes they were absurd enough to say, the allies were completely beaten, and obliged to retreat; then it was rumoured about, that the emperor Napoleon was arrived with eighty thousand men, and consequently the victory would soon be declared on his side. The French were delighted with this news: as to me, though I really dreaded the consequences of the city being taken, yet I am so truly English, I could not help feeling quite angry when I heard the French were likely to gain any advantage. I wished and prayed most heartily for the success of the allies. Only think what a providential thing it was, that Bonaparte could not get to Paris, for, by all accounts, he had determined to make every inan march, and see every house in flames, rather than surrender. To continue-towards three o'clock the reports began to change; it was evident the Russians were advancing, as the smoke behind the hills became more thick and black. Presently, we saw the French troops tearing into the town, infantry, cavalry, men, women, all pell-mell, screaming out that the enemy were entering by force. The sounds of the cannon made the house tremble beneath us; but, when they be gan to throw the balls into town, which we heard hissing over our heads, and the drum beat to arms, the signal for every man to go and defend the city, while the people were crying that one of the gates (or what they call here barriers) was in flames! Never, my dear Jane, shall I forget that moment; my heart seemed to die within me: we all looked as pale as death, and appeared almost bereft of our senses. Poor Therese (who is our servant) was quite sobbing as she clasped the little baby; Nancy, who is mama's servant) held Zelia, and I had Ursina in my arms; in fact, we looked the picture of despair. Mr. B, who was more calm than we (as men generally are on these occasions), desired us to go in the cellar, which we did immediately, with my mother and a neighbour of our's with her daughter, who were here during the whole day: as to papa, he was as composed as possible; no more alarmed than little Caroline, or indeed than either of the children, for happily at their age they have no idea of danger. Fortunately we were not ob'iged to remain long in the cellar. All on a sudden, 'twas then between four and five in the afternoon, the fireing ceased; only conceive how delighted we were; it seemed to me as if I were in heaven. From our window up stairs we saw the French making their escape from Montmartre, running down the hill as hard as they could scamper; and in less than ten minutes after, we saw the Russians take possession of it, and their flag hoisted. The report soon spread itself that the allies had sent messengers to capitulate: all we had now to fear was if the twelve mayors to whom they addressed should refuse to yield to their conditions. We knew the Russians were masters of all the heights, and that a vast quantity of artillery was on Montmartre; therefore, in case of a refusal, they would imme diately have begun to throw balls and bombs into the town, and our house, being so near, would have been one of the first to tremble. However, before ten o'clock, we were told that Paris had surrendered, and that the emperor of Russia would enter the next morning. I was so happy to think all our fears of being bombarded were over, though I felt still so agitated I could not sleep during the whole night. We had the pleasure of hearing the conquerors before we saw them those who were posted on the mountain celebrated their victory with the most enchanting music; we could discern their fires blazing on the ground while they were enjoying their repast, as I suppose they had been more than twelve hours without eating. The next morning, 'twas heavenly weather, the emperor of Russia and the king of Prussia entered Paris at the head of their armies. Such an immense army struck every one dumb with astonishinent. The cavalry only were more than two hours in passing by: at the head of every regiment was a bind.of music : M. B. |