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New Patents and Mechanical Inventions. 



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Hymn /or Christinas Day; composed Covent-Garden company. The »ew 

 with, an Accompanimtnt for the Organ musical piece at the same house (the 

 or Piano-Forte. Is. words of wliich are from the pen of 

 The spirit in which the melody of Mr. Howard Payne, and the melodies 

 this hyinn is conceived, is perfectly from tlie ferlile imagination of Mr. 

 analogous to the joyful occasion for Bishop,) is in its plot and dialogue a de- 

 whioh it was expressly produced; and greeortwoahovelhoseof the generality 

 combines, with its jubilatory style, of modern operas, and a few of the airs 

 much of that dignity and importance are original and striking; but, we are 

 inseparable from the subject. It is debarred from asserting, tiiat either the 

 but proper to observe, that, although prose, the poetry, or the music, is 

 the air, as well as its choral repetition, much above mediocrity, or from ad- 

 is as ricii and solemn as it is lively and mitting that their merit bears any com- 

 impressive, it is the most simple in its parison wilh the beauty of the scenerj'. 

 cast ; and, in its execution, perfectly 'J'he Travellers (though we must con- 

 familiar and easy. fcss the piece does by no means, on 



the whole, rank high in our estimation,) 



THE DR4M.4. is heightened wilh a kind of Spirit, and 



The national theatres, during tiie past distinguished by a singularity, which 



month, have produced three novelties 

 worthy of our notice : a new Rosalind, 

 in the person of a young lady of the 

 name of Jones ; a new opera, enlitled, 

 Clari, or the Maid of Milan ; and the 

 revival of the opera of the Travellers. 



has carried it forward with a success 

 that argues much for Mr. Ellisfon's 

 judgment in bringing it again before 

 the public. The elegant and manly 

 singing of Braham, and the delicate 

 and finished warbling of Miss Ste- 



«r Music's Fascination. The appearance phens, have seldom been heard to 



of the first (at Covent Garden,) excited more advantage tiian in this musical 



and repaid the attention of the public, drama ; and, w ere the nmsic somewhat 



Her acquaintance with stage-business, new, and more distinct in its character, 



and clear and accurate conception of and the dialogue less burthened and 



the character she had to sustain, soon deteriorated wilh national conipli- 



became obvious to the audience, and 

 were warmly acknowledged; her re- 

 ception was so favourable and so de- 

 serving, as, in our opinion, to do 

 honour both to the abilities of the 



ments, we should be among those who 

 wish it to keep the stage, especially as 

 it has been prepared at a liberal and 

 heavy ex pence, and adds to its poetical 

 and musical (pialities the attraction of 



young London candidate for fame, and a most brilliant spectacle, a spectacle 



to the taste of her admirers ; and we too costly to be repaid by any thing 



nee no just reason to doubt of her short of the highest public patronage, 

 becoming a valuable accession to the 



NEW PATENTS AND MECHANICAL INVENTIONS. 



To Sami;el Hall, of Bnsford, Not- 

 tinghnmshire. Cotton Spinner ; fur an 

 Improvement in the Manufacture of 

 Starch. 

 % ■ H. HALi.mannfacturestbe starch 

 iTJL by the usual processes, till it 

 has arrived at the stage in which it is 

 ready for boxing. He then calculates 

 liow many pounds of starch, the quan- 

 tity he has in process Mill produce 

 u'lun in the finishtMl state; and to 

 e\ery such pound (after having stirred 

 it u)> well with as much water as will 

 make it about the ccmsistency of 

 cream) he adds one gallon of bleach- 

 ing licpior, and agitates it sul1ici<>nlly to 

 cause it to act upon the colouring mat- 

 ter of the starcli, so as to bleach or 

 whiten it. The bleaching liquor may 



be made by taking a quantity of water, 

 and adding to every gallon thereof 

 about two ounces ol oxygenated muri- 

 ate of lime, which must be well stirred, 

 and then left to rest till the sediment 

 has subsided to the bottom, from which 

 the clear bleaching licjuor must be 

 caretully poured off for use. When 

 the starch and bleaching liquor have 

 been sullicientl} agitated tog(;tlier, as 

 above directed, lie adds to the mixture 

 a quantity of water, in the proportion 

 (jf about four gallons to every pouml of 

 starch (;ontaiiicd (herein, calculated as 

 aforesaid ; and, alter W( II stirring it, he 

 leaves it to rest till the starch, and 

 other insoluble jiart.s of the mixture, 

 have subsided to th(! bottom, from 

 which he draws off the liquid ; he then 



adds 



