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more persons row together, instead of the iron frame, let an iron rod or bar, having a socket at the top to receive a stanchion, be suspended by a hinge, or on centres, from any convenient part of the boat a-head of the headmost rower. The lower end of this rod or bar must be fastened either by an iron rod or by a rope connected either by iron rods, or ropes passing from one to the other. To the upper end of the stanchion a rope must be fastened, which from thence will pass along the middle of the boat towards the stern. At a convenient distance a-head of each rowlock, a line, having a loop at the end of it, must branch off from the last-mentioned rope; and there being as many lines as oars, each loop must be put over the handle of the oar it is designed to pull. The use of a moveable stretcher will enable the rower to work an additional oar or float-board with his feet, and he may thus obtain a purchase in the water, instead of obtaining it in the usual way on the vessel itself. To effect this, to a moveable stretcher, inade as before described, let two iron rods or bars of hard wood be attached. The other ends of these rods or bars must pass through the vessel, and with these an additional oar or float-board must be connected and worked a weight must be suspended by a rope, which, running over pulleys, aud having the other end fastened to a staple, serves to run the stretcher back as soon as the rower has stepped off it preparatory to renewing his stroke.

PATENTS RECENTLY GRANTED.

From the Repertory of Arts, Nos. 151

and 152.

JAMES LONGHURST, for an Æolian organ, or barrel organ, with a self-acting swell. Dated Nov. 1, 1814.

JOHN WALTERS, Fenchurch-st.eet, civil engineer, for certain improvements on the construction and fastening of frame timber, or binds of ships and vessels, whether building or under repair. Nov.7. WILLIAM HOWARD, Old Brentford, gent. for improved apparatus for work g the pumps on board ships, which may also be applied to churning, and various other useful purposes. Nov. 10. LEGER DIDOT, Paddington, gent. for certain improvements in the method or means of illuminating houses or places by the combination of tallow or other inftammable materials. Nov. 10.

WILLIAM BENECKE, of Deptford, gent. for an improved method of manufacturing verdigris, of the same quality as that known in commerce by the name of French verdigris. Nov. 12.

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EDWARD MASSEY, Coventry, for his chronometers and pocket watches.Nov. 17.

HORACE HALL, Golden-square, merchant, for an improved method of preparing and opening hemp, flax, and other substances, communicated by a foreigner residing abroad. Nov. 17.

ROBERT BARLOW, Francis-street, Surrey, surgeon, for a machine or instrument called the hydrostatic self-blowing machine. Nov. 22.

ROBERT DICKINSON, Great Queenstreet, esq, for certain improvements in the art of Saddlery. Nov. 28.

ROBERT DICKINSON, Great Queenstreet, esq. for certain improvements in the manufacture of barrels and other packages made of iron or other metals. Dec. 10.

ROBERT SALMON, Woburn, Beds. surveyor, for improved movements and combinations of wheels for working of cranes, mills, and all sorts of machinery, either portable or fixed.-Dec. 10.

Edward GloveR, Penton-place, Walworth, gent. for an apparatus for drawing, or extracting bolts, nails, &c. and for various other useful purposes.Dec. 10.

HENRY JULIUS WINTER, Dover, confectioner, for a method of giving effect to various operating processes. Dec. 12.

JOSEPH C. DYER, of Boston, in America, now residing at Gloucester-place, Camden Town, merchant, for certain additions to, and improvements on, machinery to be made and applied in manufacturing cards for carding wool, cotton, silk, and tow, and other fibrous mas terials of the like description; communicated to him partly by a foreigner residing abroad. Dec. 15.

JOHN FRANCIS WYATT, Furnival's-inn, engineer, for a new kind of bricks or blocks, one of which is particularly adapted for the fronts of houses and other buildings, giving to them the appearance of stone; another is applicable to a new method of bonding brick work; also a new kind of blocks or slabs for paving floors, and facing or lining walls, instead of ashler, which will resemble marble or stone, and which may also be applied to steps or stairs, and other parts of buildings. Dec. 15.

WILLIAM EVERHARD BARON VON DOORNICK, Sun-street, for improvements on the manufacture of soap. Dec. 20.

JAMES SMITH, Newark-upon-Trent, cabinet-maker, for a self-acting sashfastening. Dec. 20.

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PASSED IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.-53 GEO. III. (1814.) [The figure which follows the date of each Act, denotes the number of sheets of which it consists: each sheet is sold for THREE-PENCE.]

CXIX. An act to repeal certain duties upon letters and packets sent by the post within Ireland, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof. July 23.—1.

CXX. An act to amend several acts relating to the revenues, matters and things under the management of the commissioners of customs and port duties, and of the commissiouers of inland excise and taxes in Ireland. July

23.-3.

CXXI. An act to repeal the additional duties of excise on French wine imported, and on spirits exported from the warehouses, and authorizing the repayment of the additional duty in respect of French wine found in dealers stocks, and authorizing the commissioners of excise duties to pay or remit duties paid on liquors lost by accidental staving before landing. July 23.-2.

CXXII. An act to alter the mode of declaring the value of goods imported into or exported from Great Britain. July 23.-2.

So much of any act as requires the declaration of the value of the goods to be made in the presence of the principal officers of the customs repealed, and in future the value of goods subject to the payment of duty shall be specified on the warrant, or bill of entry, attested by the importer or exporter. The value of goods duty free shall, instead of the former declaration before the principal officer, be specified in a separate shipping bill, delivered to the searcher or other proper officer.

CXXIII. An act to amend an act of the 39th and 40th year of his present majesty, to prevent frauds and abuses in the trade of hops. July 23.-1.

Growers of hops not to put any other name er place of abode than their own on bags or pockets. Hop planters packing hops of different qualities and value in the same bag to forfeit 201.

CXXIV. An act to permit the importation of tobacco and snuff into the port of Plymouth. July 23.-].

From Jan. 5, 1815, tobacco and snuff may be imported into Plymouth, subject to the same regulations as at the other ports where such importation is allowed by 29 Geo. 3.

CXXV. An act to continue until the end of the next session of parliament an act inade in the 46th year of his present majesty, for permitting the importation

of masts, yards, bowsprits, and timber, for naval purposes from the British colonies in America. July 23.—1.

CXXVI. An act to alter and extend an act passed in the 8th year of King George I. for relief of shipwrecked mariners and distressed persons, being his majesty's subjects in the kingdom of Portugal. July 23.-1.

From Jan. 1, 1815, his majesty's consuls are empowered to levy on British vessels entering the ports of the Portuguese dominions in South America a sum not exceeding per cent on the value of their cargoes inwards and outwards, instead of the former duty. The monies so raised to be applied to the maintenance of a minister of the church of England in the several ports, to the salary of a judge conservator and officers, and to the expenses of a hospital and medical assistants for the relief of shipwrecked British mariners.

CXXVII. An act to permit the exportation to foreign parts, from Scotland and Ireland, of linen cloth without stamps. July 23.-1.

CXXVIII. An act to amend the several acts for regulating the Foundling Hospital in Dublin. July 23.-1.

Whereas the number of infants presented for admission has considerably increased, and there is reason to believe that several of them are children of parents able to maintain them; and it has been found that great mortality has taken place among the infants sent to the hospital, particulatly during the winter and spring months; the governors are authorized to suspend the admission for six months in the year, and also to refuse ad

mission to infants without a certificate that

the parents cannot be discovered.

CXXIX. An act to grant to his majesty rates and duties, and to allow drawbacks and bounties on certain goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into and exported from Ireland in lieu of former rates and duties, drawbacks, and bounties. July 25.-18.

CXXX. An act to continue until three months after the ceasing of any restriction imposed on the Bank of England from issuing cash in payment, the several acts for confirming and continuing the restriction on payments in cash by the Bank of Ireland. July 25.-1.

CXXXI. An act to provide for the better execution of the laws of to land by appointing superintending magistrates

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and additional constables in counties in within the limits of the charter of the certain cases. July 25.-2.

Whereas disturbances have from time to time existed in different parts of Ireland, for the suppression whereof the ordinary police hath been found insufficient, it shall be lawful, from the passing of this act, for the lord lieutenant, by the advice of the privy council, to declare by proclamation, that any county, city, town, barony, or half barony, is in a state of disturbance, and to appoint one chief magistrate with all the powers of a justice of the peace for such county, &c. with a salary of 700l. a-year. Such chief magistrate shall have for his aid and support a clerk and chief constable, with a salary of 1301. per annum each, and petty constables, who shall receive 50l. a-year. Salaries and

other expenses to be defrayed by present ment. Chief magistrate to return weekly a state of the county, &c. for which he shall be appointed, to the lord lieutenant, who may declare by proclamation when any county, &c. is restored to peace and good

order.

CXXXII. An act to repeal the duty payable in Ireland on certain houses or tenements under the annual value of ten pounds. July 25.--1.

CXXXIII. An act for better enabling the Commissioners of Stamps to make allowances for spoiled stamps on policies of insurance in Great Britain, and for preventing frauds relating thereto. July 25.-2.

CXXXIV. An act to continue until the 1st day of Jan. 1816, and to amend several acts for allowing importations from, and exportations to the places

East India Company, in ships not of British built; and for the better maintenance and care of Lascars and other Asiatic seamen arriving in this kingdtom. July 25.—1.

No vessel having on board Asiatic sailors, &c. shall be permitted to clear, until bond be given for the support of such persons.Asiatic sailors, &c. found in distress, to he taken care of by the East India Company, at the expense of the owner of the ship which brought them.

CXXXV. An act to further explain and amend an act of the 50th year of his present Majesty's reign, for repealing certain parts of several acts relating to the limiting the number of persons to be carried by stage coaches in Ireland. July 25.-1.

CXXXVI. An act for enabling the commissioners of the northern lighthouses to purchase the island and light of May, at the entrance of the Frith of Forth; for enabling the commissioners of the Treasury to advance a certain sum of money towards that purpose; and for amending several acts in regard to the northern light-houses. July 25.-2.

Commissioners authorized to purchase the island and light of May, of the Duke and Duchess of Portland.-Light to be altered, and other light-houses erected-30,000l. to be paid out of the Exchequer towards the purchase.

CXXXVII. An act for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. July 25.-8.

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A Lawyer's Valentine.

For the things of this sort with which judges environ

The legs of their patients are nothing but iron, Their Courts too (of Conscience,) are truly absurd,

The Court of Apollo, where prayers are preferred

For the gift of bad rhyme, and the Court of fair Venus,

To which lovers fly with their pleas, while between us,

A lover who chooses a mistress should deck her

With an order or two from the Court of Exchequer.

And as to that Cupid whose conduct denotes,

While men's hearts he is stealing from under their coats,

That thieving's his trade, I'll be bold now to say,

No judge would transport him to Botany Bay: But, though he escapes, yet the girl who is courted,

And receives the stol'n goods, has been often transported.

Then to mention the murders which gentlemen, sighing,

Indict the fair ladies for, swearing they're dying,

Expiring of wounds, not of sticks, staves, and knives,

But inflicted by glances endang'ring their lives;

There's no jury I'm sure, but would throw
out the bill,

And acquit the fair felons of meaning to kill.
But you'll tell me that suicide often ensues,
Which a lawyer may handle as well as the

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But none of all these, I will venture to tell ye,

Need dream of a stake being drove through his belly,

Which the law kindly says in a cross road shall pin

The wretch who amuses himself with such sin;

Though I think that some lovers much better would thrive

With a steak in their belly, sometimes when alive.

I admit by the way that the bonds which

ensue,

Are as bad as our judgments at law, and
worse too,

If the parties united should happen to tiff,
And the fetters of silk grow by accident stiff;
For when man is once caught, there is no
writ for error,

No convenient sham-pleading, or quirking
demurrer,

No appeal to the Bench, or by twirl or by twist,

But the simple appeal from the tongue to the fist,

And the only ten jurors whose office ne'er fails

(T'is a dernier resort,) are ten blood-thirsty nails:

For though an attachment the law sometimes issues,

Yet this would not answer the poor creatures' wishes;

O, Lord! they'd exclaim, that can't lighten

our woe,

We tried an attachment, some five weeks ago!

Some husbands, quite wretched, whisk off to the Commons,

And give vent to their grief in the shape of a

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Mr. Elmes to Mr. Hayden.

Covent Garden, Hyde Park, Piccadilly, and Sloane-street,

Where each husband might lawfully knock down his own sweet.

But a truce to this nonsense, your ladyship's yawning,

I've the honour to wish you a very good morning!

SONNET.

T.

Addressed to B. R. HAYDON, (painter of the sublime picture of the " Judgment of Solomon)," on his return from Paris; by his friend, JAMES ELMES, Architect.

An Architect leaves his drawing-board and square, his diagrams and problems, his lines and rules, to dabble in rhyme, in praise of a Painter, but it is to honour an old friend, whom only to know is reputation, but to be ranked among his friends, (among his admirers he long has been,) and those not of short date, is among the degrees of earthly happiness.

HAYDON, I long have mark'd thy soaring

mind,

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THE CONVICTS;

OR, THE POWER OF CONSCIENCE.

A Tale, after the manner of Crabbe.
"The proper study of mankind is man."
So sung the bard, his moral theme thus ran.
His virtues, vices, all are ours to trace,
As well in simple as in gentle race.
Some novelists we have with vicious taste,
Who waste their time, their ink and paper
waste,

Displaying human nature in disguise,
Conceal'd beneath the mask of art and lies:
It secu
the purport of their chaste design
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huilt to pass for current coin.
Deem ey to lash the follies of the age
With the loose ribald of their looser page?
As well might vice the privileges claim
To preach morality in virtue's name.

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Like flies, they stick to every morbid place,
Panders of lust, retailers of disgrace:
The foibles of the great they note with care;
The poor have vices, but the poor they spare.
Perhaps the frailties of these vulgar men
Would dim the lustre of their polish'd pen.
Hark how they rant 'bout rustic sylvan life,
How good the cottager, how chaste his wife!
As if of vice alone its name they knew,
And virtue in their breasts spontaneous grew.
Arcadian scenes and manners they pourtray,

Revive the golden age in modern day.
Why are our jails with peasants fill'd? or
why

Are men so harmless doom'd by law to dje?
Exists there not for this some flagrant cause?
Yes, crimes exist, for ours are perfect laws.
Loud let them rave in bombast prose or
rhymes,

The poor have vices-vices lead to crimes.
While these to titl'd belles or lordships soar,
Be't mine to paint the viees of the poor;
For these display'd, a warning may impart,
Recall from error some deluded heart.
A striking case permit me to rehearse,
'Tis drawn from life, accept the tale in

verse:

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hood's prime,

Unmov'd he seems tho' stain'd with many a crime.

You ask the deeds that doom'd him to this fate,

The sequel of my tale will these relate.
He dy'd in blood his homicidal hands-
See where with agile bound he spurns the
sands :

Within the boat he calmly takes his seat,
Insensible to feeling and regret.

Yet he was once a father's joy and pride,
Sorrowing for him his aged mother died.
His sire, good man, was poor as poor could be,
To him look'd up a num'rous progeny:
He taught them by his practice how to live,
And gave them good advice, 'twas all he had
to give.

Full oft we see the summer's tender bloom
Untimely fall when worms the core con-

sume;

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