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jn SCOPE. 1 L'Liim-i-L1 ii iiii-auj?u-jj.iLii.-iJiux.LE-u-i.i..L.t.j iiiiHWrt?ate, j i.iuni .tan?j^Kg-saajgag-s u, . " j 'i j,, . i n ? n i !???? [Vol* I.] CC)LUMBU^g^Q^K8^Y, NOVEMBER g|J810. fNo. 40.3 rVNUMin WKIKLV BY TIIOMA8 W. LORRAIN. TJtwm Subtcription.?'l'Urcc Drtllart per annijn, pay nblc hi *dvancc....No paper to be discontinued. but at the option of the Rdilor, until all arrearage* art paid. not cxcccding fourteen lints, ittcricd tlie first lime for seven* y-flve centa, and H?rty cwiu tor each mibjequcnt insertion. Letter* to tlie EdiUr imut he postpaid,or the postsge will becharged tothe?vr.icr mmrnrninijmmrtimm \ 1 ?????" ? ?? LITERARY. A JOURNAL OF 8C1KNCP. AND TUB AHT8, No*. I. nnil 1L edited at tho Royal Institution of Great-Britain } published Quarterly; l*nn> doit, John Murray, 1816, fivo. pp. 328.?" We announced this publication in the Analytic! Magazine for July f but a* the second nunjber in much better than the first", xve think our rid ers can have no objection to being introduced to it again. From tho ausnice* under which it appeamy?emanating an it uoes fro in tho Royal Institution?and from the persons who have engaged to supply it* pages | consisting not only of the most active persons belougiiuc to that In stitution as Sir II. t>avy? Mr. Thomas Uniiidc, otr.) hut of various literary and scien tific gentlemen in difi'emit parts of the Hritith empire ,Mtio Qunrterlv Journal promises to bo one of the first periodical works of tho present day. No expense is spared in composing its contents j and accordingly, all accounts of new inventions, or new modifications of old ones,? every article, in short, winch requires illustra tive iliagra'ns iff accompanied with an appropri ate plate. As this great expensivene*s, with the additional consideration that, to tho bulk cf American readers, fhc whole of it* pages would not be very interesting, will doubtless prevent its total republication in this country, we shall, in future, extract such articles as we think will be of practical utility in our own do mestic economy, accompanying them wit[i all tho plates and diagrams which v/c find in the -original, or which their illustration requires. For this number wo present our readers with a pnper and plate relative to a now invented gasometer, which, as they will perceive, is in tended to remedy, and (Iocs actually remedy* all the defects of the common apparatus, in reg ulating the admission and escape of gas. it was invented with a particular reference to the illumination of streets and public buildings, by means of carburetted gas i and as some of our large cities have umlertaken to illumine their streets in this manner?an example which, ero long we hope, they will all imitate?a disrup tion of the apparatus employed for the same purpose in Kngland cannot fail of being sub servient to the consummation of their labours. The substitution of gas for oil in lighting streets ?!?}??? ofW utiw invention ?Hch i* calculated to abridge the occupation of a cer tain class of labours?will unquestionably be obliged to encounter much opposition in its progress; but we believe it will eventually succeed. The history of this police regulation is somewhat curious; und we think an extract from an article on the fiihiect of inventions, in the Wllld number of the Quarterly Itexiuw, Mill bo a useful profacc to the paper we arc going to subjoin. " Lighting th? Streets.?This was a policc regulation unknown to the Roman*. In re turning from their nocturnal leasts their sluves carried before them torches or lanterns. Puldir illuminations, on particular occasions, are how - ever, very ancient > Kgy pt and Greece had thein. Rome, according to Suetonius, was lighted up on the occasion of some games, exhibited by order of Caligula. The Jews lighted up the holy city for eight days, at the feast of the ; dedication of the temple, and Constantine or dered Constantinople to be illuminated on Kaster eve. ?i H It uId appear, from some passages in llm father* of the Greek church, that Antiocli was rmanently lighted in the fourtti century, ami leswi, in the fifth, ami that the lamp** were spended, an they now arc in Pari*, from ropes! ?etched across the street. Pari* was not ;htcd until the early part of the sixteenth cen-, ry. In 1524 a mandate wan issued for the habitant* whose houttcs fronted the street* to ?arg out candle*, after nine in the evening, to! prevent incendiaries and ?*reet robbers. In 5H& large va*e*, fdled with pitch, rosin, and <ftthor combustible* called falots, were placed at the corners of the streets. In IGtt2 an Italian <Ibbe, of the name of Laudati, obtained an ex elusive privilege, for twenty .yearn, to let out Perches and lanterns for hire. For this purpose lie erected booths in ever? part of Paris, and had men and boys in waiting at each, ready to Attend either foot passenger* or carriages. Five years after this the whole city was lighted As it now it. The n? of London, as Mail1 ml says, Were, ordered, in 1414, to hang out lanterns, light the streets j and sir llenry Hnrton, ac ting to Stowe, ordered, in 1417, * lanterns lights to be hanged out, in the winter ingy, betwixt llallowtidc and Candlemas and for .100 years afterwards the citizens ndon were, from time to time, reminded, pains and penalties, to hang out Oicir Inn it the accustomed time. In 17.10 an ap ition was made to parliament to increase lamps from 1000 to 50t|01 and in 17*14, on aunt of the number of robberies, an art pas for completely lighting the cities of London } "Westminster. . (jfrln 1J53, at the Hague, lights were ordered ?t* placed before the doors, on dark nights j Hft in lf?73 lamp* were placed in all the streets. t(JOOD Amsterdam was lighted with horn \ (ferns. Hamburgh was lighted in 1074. In jP# every third house In Berlin was to show a fit* and in 1089 it wa? lighted, but very badly, at it still is, at tho public expense. Han* over was lighted in 1090 f but Dresden, Lcip 2iff, Cassel, Halle, Gottingen, Brunswick, Zu rich, and some other German towus, uot till the eighteenth century. Venice, Medina and Palermo arc all lighted \ so art Madrid, Valen cia snd Barcelonaj but Lisbon is still in the dark, as is Home. Sextus V. rl?|du nn attempt to have tho streets lighted j bujgthe must ue could accomplish was to iiicreM? the number of lamps placed before the images of the saints." " Mr. Murdoch (Kays the Ecclectic Review of Accum's Treatise on Gas Lights) seems en titled to the credit of being the first to bring the new uiode of applying coal gas to the purpose of illumination into practice, and Mr. S^inuul Clegg, of Manchester, has the principal merit, as it regards the construction afld application of tho requisite machinery." Mr. Ackerman has calculated that, while the old method of illuminating his printimcoflko cost him no less than 1 GO/, per annumrthe expense by the new system is only 40/. per annum, or uuly about oite fourth as great ns tin* former. M 8uch (adds Mr. Ackr.rinan) is the simple statement of my present system of lighting, the brilliancy of which, when contrasted with our former light*, bears the saino comparison to them as a bright summer sunshine does to ai murky November day : nor arc we, as formerly, suffocated with the etyluviaof charcoal, nor tfn? lumen of caudles ami lamps. In addition to tkis, tho damage sustained by the spilling of oil and tallow upon prints, drawing books ami palters, &c. amounted annually to upwards of 6oJ. All the workmen employed in my estab-j lishmcnt consider the gas lights as tho greatest blessing, and 1 have only to add that the light we now ouiov, were it to be produced by means of Argaud's lamps, or candles, would cost at least 350/. per annum. " With regard to the apparatus and ma chinery employed for tho. production and use of the gas, we cannot of course be expected to give in this place any description : ipdeed such uescription would be altogether unintellighle without the assistance of plate*. Suffice it to ?ay that the coal is introduced into iron cylin der!, called retorts, which being made air-light, and placed upon the l'n?, the gaseous product* are luado to ascend, together with other pro ductions, in the form of liquid. These la>l are conveyed into proper receptacles, while the gaseous matter is conducted by pipes into places for purification; and then, thus purified, made to pass into the several conduits for use. The proilucts of coal, treated in this manner, arc, beside the gas in question, coke, coal tar, and an ammoniacal fluid, all of which are ma terials of much value and use, and, as we have cauit t?y Mr. AcLvrnutt'u ?tatonu::t, ijrua very considerable deduction of the required espnniture in the production of the aa*. Mr. Accum thus answers the arguments against gas lights which is drawn from the danger of using them. t% In fact \iie says) no danger can arise from the application of gas lights, in any way, but what is common to candle-light and lamps of all kinds, and is tho fault of none of them. Kvcn ill this case the ?a* lights are less hazard ous. There is no risk of those accidents which often happen from tho guttering or burning down ol candles, or fiom carelessly snuffing them. The gat-light lamps and burners must necessarily be fixed to one placo ; and there fore cannot fall, or otherwise become deranged, without being immediately extinguished, lie sides, the gas-light Humes'emit no spark*, nor are any embers detached from them. A? a proof of the comparative safety of the gas lights, it ncdfi only be stated that the fire offices en gage themselves to insure cotton mills, and other public woiks, at a less premium, where gas lights are u?ed, than in the case of any other lights.'*??Jliiulci'tic Magazine. MAlHMt Of Till*. MOOU? A 11Y .1 HOGG. inuM Tim riiAvrwgr. There ha velwen many men who have undeserv edly obtained llio reputation of pools. Suc l? i?pr son'rt, ?n mean. who have been made political by rending. Their minds liavc been recipient?nut inventive? imitative of the observations ^f other*, not observant themselves. They have imbibed uliat i.? railed the language <?l poetry, but they have not been aide to giasp it a suo Manrr, Thrv may b?? ?uid to have arrived at tlio banks ot* Ca&talv?to have plucked tiiv flowers growring by it* side-?to hove loriked with complacency, and even pleasure, upon its waters;?but some secret working, uudeliuable spell has paralyzant tbeir power, at the instant when they attempted to plunge into the stream. That 44 mol> of gentlemen,'* who Wrote with ease in tho jocund davs of the voluptuous Charles, was of this quality of mind. And of the numerous name* that have come down to us from that time we think that the miuhty din proportion ot nine out of ten may be placed among this order of imitator*.?-\Vc trust our readers will apprehend our meaning, without our entering into a long detnil of names. Wo have now, however, poets that forcibly set before us the genius of 44 olden time*."? The names of Worosworth, More, lt\ i on, and Coleridge,?w Iiosh " Hf?oU arr like tho ?tir* tint apart ,*? n ill throw their light into tho hotoin of after ages. Mr. Hogg, the author of the potto before us, though it would be <toin? hiin prejudice, because injustice, to compare him witli tho above high names, must bo a poet of considerable rank. He Iiuh much original genius. Ilo necms to bo "made in tho poetry of iiftturo"?that is be loves all those lino part* ojpher which it it tho province of poetry to love noil cherish. The following stanzas, out of the introduction to " Mador of the' Moor,'* will show his close eyed observations of uuture \ and his love of it | " There tho ?l.-*rlr raven builds his dreary home; The eagle o'er eyrie raves jifciud i 'Che Unrnlled lux around thee loves to roam, And ptarmigan*, the inmate*ol'the cloud t And when Uie tmninor flings her dappled shroud, O'er reddening moors, and u ddsoi softened (Tray, The voutliful ssvam, imlUthioncd, unendowed, The hioi kot and the latnb may round thee play : T!icu;tl;y first guests alone, thou fair majestic ray 1 Hut liear me, spirit of the filled eye, Far on thv pinion* easVwurd to the mam, O'er garish glen* and strathsof every hind, Where oxen low and Wave* the yellow gram. Where bursting cliffs o'erh nig the belted phdn, In spiral forms, fmtastie, w.hi, and riven t Where swell the woodland choir and mu.dcn's strain, A\ forests I tend unto the hrr*. /e of even, And in the Hood iHNtcalli Wave o'er k downward he-wen." fl'licre is great beauty in these de?ci iptive kUii t hut we do not give them ns (he befit of the po tto* but merely by cliance, to illustrate our obser vtthin of Mr. Itt\eff*s love of nature?u fueling ii.o>.L valuable in tho lireast of a poet. Mr. il. seems quite at home in tho fields. He loves "To wander Adown soma trotting burns' meander, And iiae think long." lie derives all his figures and smiles from the mountains, the lioidn, and the heavens. Kven (he jiassions of tho mind urc thus illustrated?as " So beam of wtper rayed Iter glistening eye, It sunk like star within the rubied west; Or like the tinted dcw.hcll seen to lie Upon the roiC-leaf trcuild.ngly at rest, Then softly .vtiksiipou its opening breast. p. 123. The shift nig lines that sported o'er her face, Were like the streamers of the rosy Eve. p. l.>3. We could give ir.any other like passages, but these will do for our purposo. lie sometimes, however, shows thvt lie can rise higher than mere description, and natural imagery, ns in tho following passage of au ex* quisite ballud in the first canto: Thin the car) I liflit the babe ??? young, And neurit lur w:th ane treindou* lung ; And the lychtc of God slr.?k on Ins fare, A?, he nel.ton the dewe, and raliit her tirace p. 57 We shall make hut one more extract, which | wo think excessively beautiful: | The rainbow's lvv!\ i:i the c .w.rjar'. iti.l, | The rose is '.^a'ltcons on the bended ilmrn, Sweet is the evening r from pvr; 'e slmmd. Ami sweet the orient blushes of li e mn:ii, Sweeter than all the beauties wb ? h mI.iiii The fcinalr form n yotrh and :it udru bliK.tn, <) why should p.issiuii ever nu i suborn, To work the s?vote..'. Mower ?.f ii.-tore's doom. And cast o'er all her joys a \ cii >f eheeru'ss gloom O ftugile il'iv-r ! thai b!o<.s?ins hut loi*;iic' Onr .shp rec.ivt.y or recall defu**' Thou walkst thedi?*y verge w.th steps unit aid, Fair as the habitants of jyi.Utv sk es ! I.ikc itiCITi Tilii'tl licm mors* lo lin*! (? lingile flower! for thee iu> m\ p ?in ! Haply :? world i-> hid from mortal Where thou inay'st sm.le purity n^i ?, And shine in v rgin bloom tlwt ever dial) remain 50 j Wo liavc not spare to make further extracts; J hut what have been git en, ?c think, are sofli clpftt to justify our remarks upon the style of Sir. Il's poetry. Nor v. ill <?ur limits allow it a to entor into tlie story of *? Mad or of the Mooi." There is one thing, however, which forces us to disagree, ami almost to (piurrel with Mr. It??. Wo ullude to the<< management of bin story. The first canto is nil mystery-?it is enveloped in a cloml! The forms at o fointly shadowed out?not distinctly drawn to n ?i*c. The second canto is more natural,?and the third, quite <o;?hut the fourth is supernatural: ?the fifth gain* upon nature auain, but cannot get free from romance.?Thin wavering hutween one nnd the other gives the poem a character of inconsistency, which for the respect we en tertain for. the talents of Mr. II?, wc are ?oi jy to see. The Queen's Wake showed us the powers of Mr. II. in tlm ballad-style, in which lie greatly excels?and, in t';is, he has |Improved upon?not departed lYom?his former cxcellaiice. flattie of firown*ti>wn.?Wc have just read, and with lively interest, a narrative of the battle of Brow nstown, fought on the !>th of August, IB12, between a detachment of L\ 8. infantry, militia, ficr. under the command of lieut. col. (now brigadier-general) Miller, and a combined llritish and Indian force under the orders til major Muor, Tecumsoh, and other chiefs. Th narrative is written by miyor Dullibn, with great clearness and accuracy } describing the ininiit ent circumstance relating to this biill'mut action In this afi'air, as at Tippecanoe, and in every part of tho cumpaign on the Niagara. Millei is seen characteristically cool, composed, ac tive and biave.?This pamphlet (which is pub lished by I?oogw'orth,Hhakc?nearo Oallery, No 11 Park) forms an acceptable contributton to tha future historian.?AVw-lorA- pnprv. The 1st No. of tho " Huston Weekly MagA ?/.ine," from the press of Messrs. Tilester and I'armenter on Saturday evening. Wo under stand it is edited by a club of literary gentle men, from whose learning, spirit and* iudepen donee, the public nifty expert without the fear of disap|Wiintment. a fond of literature and ori ginal criticism. \Ve hope for the honor of the t'iwii it will be liberally patronised.?ttuut. dun, Messrs. Wells and Lilly have received from Kn^land, and will shortly publish?A I.ettci of Advice to his UramM'hifdron, Matthew, (Jabri el, Anne, Mary and Frances llale. Ily Sir Mat Hale, Lord Chief Just, in tho reign of Charles the sccond.*?Motion Vmlladlum. Speedily w ill be published a secret history of tho marriage of tho Princess Charlotte with Printt) liCopold, and of tho breaking off the troa ty with tho hereditary Pr. of Oiang riON THB ALItXT DAtt* ADVCItTltKH. THE N Alt RATI VR OFHOHKRT A1) A MR?A SAILOR Tho Quarterly Review for May, 1816, con tain* an accouut of a very singular work, called ?" The Narrative of Robert Adams, a bailor, who was wrecked in the year 1810, on the Westorn Coast of Africa, was detained three years in slavery by tho Arabs of tho Great- De sart, and resided several months of that period in the city of Tombuctoo." litis narrator w&* a common sailor, belonging to this country and said to be a native of Hudson. His account of himself in England wan?that lie sailed from New-York in June, 1B10, in the ship Charles* John ltprton master, bound to Gibraltar, with a crew of nine pei'-vtns, and at Gibraltar another man was ship|>ed?that the ship sailed down the African coast on a trading voyage, and nit tho eleventh of October, tho vossef run upon the rocks, and was lost, about 400 mile* northward of Henegal, at a place called El Gaizje, a low sandy place, without verdure, trees* hill* or mountain, an far as the oye could reach. Here they'%ere mnftt* pmouiw-H by the Moors. Afl the story appears to have gained credit in Kns land, we have {'..ought a short account of it would not be uninteresting to our readers. Ad* am*, if this account be corrcct, is the first white man that has been known to have ever visited Tombuctoo,** Great pains were taken in Lon don to ascertain, as far us possible the truth of hi* narrative. The history was drawn up at Mio secretary of state1* office for the colonies, ? be fore lord Bathurst, chancellor of the exchequer* 8ir Joseph Banks, and others, in Adams's pre sence, and the appearance of integrity in it was such, that the lords of the treasury ordered him a buiii of money, to carry him home to this country. Doubt*, it is true, were entertained of the accuracy, and, indeed of the truth of bin narrative. Tho reviewers, however after weigh ing all the circumstances, " on the whole con clude, that iio reasonable doubt can be entertain ed of the general accuracy of it." Some parts of it. at least, appear to have received confirmation from u very respectable nource. Adams wart released from his enptivil v whilst he was ut a place callcd Wed-noon, by the assistance of a Sir. Duptiis, the British consul at Mogadon?.?? Mr. Dlipuis sent one of his servants, iu the dis guise of a trader to Wcd-uooii, who succocded in procuring Adams's discharge, and they pro ceeded from thence to Mogadorc iu company. After reaching that place, he remained with him ciuht months, and was treated with every possible kindness. Mr. Dupuis afterwards sent mm to Tangier, where Mr. .Simpson the Amer ican Consul, procured him a passage to Cudix, where he arrived on the lrtlt of Muy, 1H14. lie remained at Cadi/. 14 mouths, in the nervier, of a Mr. Hall, an Kn ?li?<h Merchant, and r^. soon as he heard of the peace between this coun try and Great Britain, ho went from Cadiz to Kitglnnd, was lauded at Holyhead, and from mciivu HH i iu 1<011<1011< anil was there discov ered by a person who had seen liirn in the em ployment of Mr. Hall. After he hu<l passed t! rough two examina tions in Kneland, and his narrative had been drawn un, M. Dupuis arrived in that country. It stated that?" At the request of the editor of the narrativo, Mr. Dupuis read it over* made notes upon it, and corroborated the leading cir cuuistunccH of it, which had been related by Adams, almost to tho very letter of the nam* tivn." Mr. Dupuis is stated by the reviewers to be " a gentleman of the strictest veracity, sensible, well informed, and a perfect Arabblft Scholar*'?and highly respectcn bv hi* acquain tances. lie hus written many notes to the nar rative, the last one of which is in these words : 44 1 did frequently interrogate Adams when at Magadore respecting his travels in Africa : and frequently sent for person who had been at the places he described, in order to confront their accounts with his, and especially to ascertain the probability of his having been at Tombuc too. Amongst these individuals was a sbiek at Wc<lnoon, a man of great consideration in that country, who had been several time* at Tombuctoo*, in company with trading pat lies $ ami who, after questioning Adams very closely respecting the city and its neighborhood, assur ed me tjuit ho bad no doubt he had heen there. Another Moorish trader, who was in the habit of frequenting Tombuctoo, gave mo tho satno ac count. In short, it was their universal opinion* that lie most hnvu been at tho places he describ ud & that his account could not bo a fabrication.1* To this testimony in favor of the truth of this account, we shall not undertako to add any opinion that we might he induced to form at tits distance, and upon only reading a short ab stract of the narrative. If Adams was an in habitant of Hudson, the fact can, ami doubtless will, be ascertained. Indeed, wo understand that an attempt is now making for that purpose. We hope tho result will lead to confirm tho sto rv. Whatever it may be, wo shall bo gratified to bo favored with it as the interests of litera ture require, if Adams is an impostor, that he should bo exposed. We franklv own we should very much regret the event, if it should prove to lie so. We should bo sorry (hi* country should produce a second Daniberger. II the truth of the story should not be shaken, or should bo fully confirmed, it prove highly honorable to tho gentlemen in Knulnnd. who were willing to run the |?o?sihlo risque of being made lidir.iMytis by the publication of such a (ale a* this is. Their treatment of Adams wan kind and generous ? ami if ho bo in fact no im I?outer, he deserved such treatment. And we iop". if he shall have returned to this country, that an edition of tho narrative may be publish ed for his lienefit. We. think it would aell very rapidly, ami it might, in some measure, com p?:iiaato him for his unparalleled suffering*. .;T'? l>?? '.vu'.lu ifd iii 0'ir nfxi.)