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‘Brougham are friendly to their opposi- 
tion, and that M. de Chateaubriand is the 
Mr. Cannivg of England? Between these 
divisions ‘of the people a treaty of peace 
must, ere long,,be signed. In ten years 
time, embassies from the numerous demo- 
craciés ‘of’ America will propagate their 
doctrines in all the courts of Europe,—as 
Franklin did at Versailles. What Tertal- 
lian ‘said of the Christians, in his time, is 
applicable to France in its lowest subpre- 
fecture :—‘ You will find us (opposition 
men) in the Senate, the Pretorium, the 
Circus, the Temples, the Forum, the Are- 
‘nas, and in all public places”’—A French 
Tertullian might address the adversaries of 
liberal ideas, urging such arguments as 
these,—“ You bear on your foreheads the 
distinguishing marks of decrepitude and 
old age, but would fain retard the career 
of the generation that is advancing. And 
how do you acquire proselytes? You em- 
ploy gold to seduce, the sword to intimi- 
date, vanity to divide, superstition and 
party spirit to bewilder, and, all this 
proving insufficient, you are forced to bor- 
row our language, our manners, our insti- 
tutions. You have all the instruments of 
power at your disposal, but what use have 
you put them to, except in displacing cer- 
tain official characters, whose situations 
you coveted? What institution have you 
founded? And can you attempt to esta- 
blish any, without incurring the risk of 
seeing it converted to our advantage? It 
we look for citizens among you, we find 
only the delegates of power. Security for 
personal liberty, respect for the domestic 
sanctuary, responsibility in the exercise of 
spower,—all this was promised, is due, is 
necessary ; but, so far are we from enjoy- 
ing it, that you dispute with us about 
words. Where is moderation, impartiality, 
benevolence, the signs, attributes, essential 
elements of power, &c.?” 
—>— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AM sure there is no man more 
anxious to give publicity to every 
subject that appears calculated to be- 
nefit society than yourself; and I know 
of no other Miscellany so widely cir- 
culated, whose pages are so liberally 
dedicated to disseminate information, 
‘as those of the Monthly Magazine. 
Under this impression, I have taken 
the liberty to address you on the sub- 
ject of a discovery I made some years 
ago, in my experiments on the alkalis, 
and. for which I have obtained letters 
patent. 
I am desirous that my discovery 
should be generally known, and regret 
1 have not before had leisure to make 
it public, and to secure it by patent, 
incombustible. 
Mr. Cook on rendering Wood, Cottons, Se. incombustible. [Oct. 1, 
as almost every man, I may venture to 
say, is interested init. It is a method 
of rendering all sorts of cottons, li- 
nens, muslins, &e/ as well as timber, 
For timber it will be 
of immense value, as it not only ren- 
ders it incombustible, but completely 
prevents the dry-rot from entering into 
it. For the navy it will be of the 
utmost importance, inasmuch as all 
vessels built with timber, prepared un- 
der my patent, are both incombustible 
and secure from the dry-rot, which has 
of late years much increased; and, al- 
though many plans haye been suggest- 
ed, and many experiments have been, 
and are now under trial by the Navy 
Board, yet there is no plan that I know 
of that has yet been found to be fully 
effective. : 
If my invention only went to render 
navy timber incombustible, I cannot 
help considering it as of infinite im- 
portance; because, what scene can 
there be in the world more dreadful 
than that of a vessel on fire, far out at 
sea, and at a distance from all help. 
I am quite certain that all timber pre- 
pared under my patent will effectually 
prevent it from being ever set on fire, 
either by accident or by intention ; as 
well as securing it from the dry-rot. 
But it is not only the navy to whom 
my discovery will be of advantage: I 
propose to prepare timber for building 
of houses,—so that a house built with 
my prepared timber cannot be burnt 
down; no incendiary can destroy: it, 
nor carelessness or accident effect it; 
and, when the expense of preparing the 
timber will be but small, I am inclined 
to think thatno public building, or in- 
deed any house of importance, will be 
built without having the timber first 
rendered incombustible. under m 
patent. a) 
I am more anxious to give publicity 
to my invention from.the circumstance 
of seeing an account in the Imperial 
Magazine for this month, stating that 
““M. Gay Lussac has found, that the 
most effectual solutions for rendering 
cloths incombustible are solutions of 
muriate, sulphate, phosphate, and bo- 
rate of ammonia, with borax, and also 
some mixtures of those salts. M. 
Merat Guillot, of Auxeres, has shown 
that acidulous phosphate of lime pos- 
sesses the same property; when li- 
nen, muslin, wood, or paper, are 
dipped. in a solution of that salt, of the 
specific gravity of from 1:26 or 1°30, 
they become incombustible ; they may 
be 
