1821.] 



Literary and Critical Proemium. 



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hour of Port Patrick to be deepened and 

 cleansed, and Piers, Quays, and other Works 

 to be erected, aud all obstructions to the Na- 

 vigation to be removed. 



XXIV. The limits of tlie said Harbour of 

 Port Patrick shallbe deemed and considered 

 to be and extend from Dunskye Castle, on the 

 South, to the Rock called the Half-Tide 

 Rock, on the North. 



XXV. It shall aud may be lawful for the 



Harbour Master, as he shall think fitting and 

 expedient, to lay down Moorings or Mooring 

 Chains, and erect and set up Land Marks, 

 Beacons, and Buoys, in any place or places 

 in the said Harbour of Port Patrick, or ad- 

 joining Lands between Dunskye Castle, on 

 the South, and the Half-Tide Rock on the 

 North, for the guidance and safety of his 

 Majesty's Packets, and all other Ships aud 

 Vessels entering the said Harbour. 



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CHARLES LLOYD, Esq. author of finely engraved by C. Warren. Sliaks- 

 Nugae Canorse, and translator of peare is taken from the Stratford raonu- 

 Alfieri, has published an additional volume ment, and delightfully engraved by Fin- 

 of poems, containing Desultory Thoughfx den and Chaucer; is rendered one of the 

 in London, Titus and Gisippus, with other finest ornaments of the work by the ma- 

 Poemt. Though we cannot consider this gical graver of the same artist.— As a 

 ^ork as adding much to the reputation of whole, whether we consider the interest- 

 its author, owing to its excessive free- ing nature of the design, or the skill 



dom of style and versification, there are 

 bursts of fine poetry, aud a strain of kind 

 and animated feeling, with some beautiful 

 descriptions of scenery, which go far to 

 redeem the peculiar defects to which it 

 is certainly obnoxious. There is a Ciire- 

 lessness, and want of judicious thoughts 

 and revision, which no author should per- 

 mit himself to indulge, in presenting a 

 volume of more than 250 pages to the 

 opinion ef the public. It is but too ap- 



with which it is executed, we think the 

 present work may fairly be pronounced 

 unrivalled. We have not space to dilaie 

 upon particular beauties, or minute ble- 

 mishes. Of the latter there are none which 

 affect the general character of the work. 



We must make honourable mention of 

 a Chemical work, in one volume, from the 

 pen of Mr. Millar, of Edinburgh; which, 

 as an elementary work, is written on a. 

 very judicious plan. The first part is 



parent that many of these trifling errors devoted to the description and analysis 



and peculiarities are voluntary, or the 

 fesult of blameable inattention. We may, 

 however, assure our readers, that they will 

 find much pleasing poetry — much liVely 

 description,, and a strain of good feeling-, 

 in the work before us, which evince equal 

 genius, and amiableness of heart. 



of Chemical substances generally, and is 

 illustrated by interesting- experiments : 

 the second to the natural history and ana- 

 lysis [of the produutious of nature ; and 

 the third, a very copious aud interesting 

 detail of the several arts and manufac. 

 tures depeudent on Chemistry. From the 



The Portraits of the British Poets ; the author's practical acquaintance with hi* 

 first part of which we have before recom- subject, both as it relates to the prin- 

 mended to the attention of our readers, have ciples and practice of Chemistry, his 

 now pro<;eeded as far as the fifth part. Thej work cannot fail of accomplishing the 

 are in general executed in a style of the end he has had in view -. — viz. the in- 

 utmost excellence. — Those portraits are struction of the rising generation, in a 

 selected which have the strongest claims science, more interesting to a commercial 

 to authenticity — at the same time avoiding nation than any other. 

 as much as possible those with which the Mr. P. Le Count, of the national ship 

 public are already familiar. A great pro- the Conqueror,- has published some ex- 

 portiou have never before been engraved, periments on the supposed affections of 

 •ud of those which havo been, on very the compass, from local causes. Uufor- 



I few indeed have the same talents and la 

 hour been exerted as in this work. Perhaps 



I the finest specimen in the whole series is 

 the portrait of Dr. Darwin, engraved by 

 Wedgwood, It is at least the most nature, 

 breathing engraving which we have ever 

 seen. — There is also an interesting por- 

 trait of agility, which furnishes a rich 

 subject for the graver of W.C. Edwards, 



tunately he recognises the silly principle 

 of attraction for its own sake, or of super- 

 natural affection between bodies, without 

 necessary mechanical cause ; and hence 

 his deductions, philosophically considered, 

 are invalid. He has, however, determined 

 a new fact ; namely, that every mass of 

 iron has a polarity, of which the centre is 

 the centre of the mass ; and that its afiec- 



i The portrait of Burns by Nasmyth is al»o tion on a niajuet are determined by the 

 (1 MoKrni.T Mag. No. 5J.S0. K variable 



