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Gentle alien toa sky 
Ever varying its state, 
Tho’ its native, still must I 
Share thy feelings and thy fates 
‘As contending winds prevail 
In the elemental strife, 
Straining, slack’ning, they assail 
All the trembling strings of life, 
Sinking, then my languid eyes 
Fail my spirit to amuse ; 
Wearied, fainting ere they rise, 
Exercise my limbs refuse. 
And as ev’ry season’s course 
Inthe change of one we see ; 
Ere ’tis seen, I feel its force, 
Shrinking, withering, like thee. 
E. A, 
——_2—— 
ODE TO PEACE. 
STILL must fierce Mars pervade the main, 
And pallid Discord *cross the plain 
Urge on her fatal car; 
Most blood distain the peaceful mead, 
And de:dlited regions bleed, 
Beneath the hand of War? 
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Must still the Muse hear groans of death, 
Behold the warrior yield his breath, 
Deserted on the plain 5 
See heroes fall, and many a flood 
Swell’d high with slaughterd legions® bloed, 
Run gory tothe main? 
Oh! Peace, thou maid of heav’nly birth, 
Come, shed thy blessings o’er the earth, 
And wave thy magic wand 5 
Deep in the gloom of native ‘hell, 
Fierce Rapine, hideous fiend, expel, 
And Discord’s ruthless band, 
The lab’ring peasant hails thy charms, 
No more he hears the din of arms, 
Nor fears the wasting sword ; 
But views with glad, exulting eyes, 
‘The golden harvests round him rise, 
And Plenty crown his board. 
Where’er thou goest, fell tumult fails, 
No more the Corsair spreads his sails, ' 
On schemes of plunder bent ; 
At once tbe universal friend 
Upon thy footsteps e’er attend—— 
Joy, Ereedom, and Content. 
E. Duncannon, 
PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
—— a 
MR. JOHN WHITE'S, (WESTMINSTER,) for 
the Discovery of a certain Substance, 
which is cupuble of being converted 
into Statues, artificial Stone, Melting 
Pots, Bricks, Tiles, and every descrip- 
tion of Potlery. 
NHE nature and description of this 
invention, are thus set forth: In- 
stead of potters’ clay, or other argilla- 
ceous earths, which are dug out of the 
ground, and used in the manufacture of 
bricks, tiles, &c. Mr. White takes 
from the bed or channel of the river ; 
Thames, er from the creeks; cavities, 
&c. into which that river flows, near the 
metropolis, and parts adjacent, within 
the reach of the tide, sach portions of 
the deposit or alluvial soil which sub- 
sides in the said river, and the creeks, 
openings, docks, cavities, and places, 
aforesaid; and which, by various re- 
searches and experiments, he bas found 
10 consist, for the most part, of argilla- 
“ceous earth, clay, or chalk, and sand, 
from the uplands, with materials of the 
~ mature of pit-coal, ashes, sand, with 
the remains of organized matters, and 
which is the substance before-mention- 
ed. Mr. W, sejects, in preference, such 
parts of the said deposit as upon exa- 
Mination he finds to be gost clear of 
worms and aquatic animals, and mast 
efit for the purpose of waking statues, 
&c.; and he alters, modifies, and im. 
proves, the same, by the addition of such 
proportions of natural clay | and 
sand, or either of them, as inay be 
needful, and as may be easily ascertain- 
ed by any competent'workman, by such 
trials, as in all such cases are needfal 
to be made ih the art of pottery and 
brick-making; and he places and dis- 
poses the masses so selected upon any 
sloping ‘bank or ‘stand, in order thar 
the water may drain. therefrom, and 
then he applies the same to the  pur- 
poses of his manufactol'y, as in the 
usual cases of trade. 
—— 
MR. RICHARD WILLCOX’s (LAMBETH,) for 
~ sundry Apparatus or Machinery, for 
the Manifucture of Felt, or Stuf 
Hats, &c. 
The invention consists of a method 
of holding down, or confining, the fur 
or wool during the operation of cutting 
or separating the fur from the pelt, 
aud a method of effectually and con- 
veniently removing the same after it is 
so eut and separated. First: the skia 
being held down, or confined to the sur- 
face of the roller, on which it is advan. 
ced to the knife, “1 propose,” says the 
patentee, “to hold) or press down the 
tur by the -application of an apparatus 
which f call a drag, or some of the 
other 
