1823.) 
- mentsin various manufactures, particu- 
larly where the health and comfort of 
individuals are interested, by means of 
your entertaining and almost-univer- 
sally-read miscellany. You have con- 
veyed infermation far and wide, how to 
prevent the offensive smell of tallow 
and stufl-melting, by a cheap, eflica- 
cious, and economical, plan. By the 
account sent you, Mr. Gilbertson 
gains the credit. You, sir, I am confi- 
dent, would give the merit to the right 
individual. I beg leave to give you 
the following statement; if any doubt 
should arise, I have given you my 
name and address, and you may refer 
any one to me who is desirous to en- 
quire into the facts. I have no object 
whatever but justice to the ingenious 
and meritorious individual ; who, per- 
haps, has not seen your miscellany, and 
is ignorant of my advocating his cause. 
Lexpended much time and expense 
in a variety of plans to obtain so desira- 
ble an object, all of which were un- 
successful: but the attention of Mr. 
London, of Cannon-street, was di- 
rected to it; and, after a variety of 
plans, much labour and science, he 
completely succeeded ; and the altera- 
tion is so cheap and simple, the princi. 
ple being quite new, he was advised to 
take out a patent forit. Its simplicity 
is his injury ; and any workmen em- 
ployed, or any person, once seeing the 
pian, can immediately adoptit, and he 
is unjustly defrauded of the profit he is 
fairly entitled to. Several persons have 
adopted it, not knowing it was a patent- 
right; and, being informed of it, have 
handsomely sent him the small gratuity 
of 101., which he moderately requires. 
I erected, about three years since, 
the first on his plan for melting of 
kitchen-stuff, and found it so com- 
pletely efficacious, that I erected also 
one for tallow-melting, under his direc- 
tion. So complete is its effect, that, 
when these operations are going on, the 
smell arising is scarcely perceptible. 
Any person using this process without 
forwarding the small gratuity, is, in 
my opinion, doing him a manifest act of 
injustice: had it been 2001. instead of 
201., I should gladly have paid it, 
rather than be deprived of it. 
It is of great importance to those 
families, who wash or brew at home, 
the steam from the coppers producing 
a damp all through the house; by Mr. 
‘London’s plan, the family would not 
know when these useful operations are 
‘going on. 
Asmodeus in the Country. 
517 
1 hope, sir, if Mr. Gilbertson, whom 
I am acquainted with, has derived the 
great benefit (of which I have no 
doubt,) from this plan, and has not re- 
compensed Mr. London, and has sup- 
posed the person who erected it was 
the inventor, he will, I have no doubt, 
immediately render this act of justice; 
if not, it is in Mr. London’s power to 
prosecute him for an invasion of his 
patent. 
There arebricklayers who, by a partial 
alteration, vainly suppose they do not 
invade his patent; but, where I have 
seen such alteration, considerable dan- 
ger exists, and are invasions of the 
patent-right. 
For the sake of rendering justice to 
the inventor, your candour will readily 
admit this communication from a con- 
stant reader. Ben. Hawes, 
Old Barge-house. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ASMODEUS tn the COUNTRY. : 
IRED and disgusted with the 
eternal din and turmoil of the 
metropolis, where I was born, and had 
resided all my life, I (one fine morning 
last month,) clambered to the top of a 
Stage-coach, which was going sixty 
niles into the country. I had read 
much of the beauties of rural scenery, 
and more of the charming simplicity 
and happiness of the rustic state, and 
was now determined to have my fill of 
them. I pleased myself,as we bowled 
along at the rate of ten miles an hour, 
with a variety of pleasant anticipa- 
tions; now, thought J, human nature in 
its purest, noblest, happicst state, will 
gladden my eyes; none of the dirt and 
filth of London will be found, none ot 
its manifold distresses will be met with 
to disgust one, none of its scenes of 
bitter want will be found to harrow up 
the soul. Cockney as I am, how 
miserably did I deceive myself. 
Having reached my destination, I 
slept one night at a paltry inn, where I 
found they could charge as expensively 
for bad accommodation, as I should 
have been charged at the London 
Coffee-house for good. I jumped out 
of bed before six on the following 
morning ; the sun was beaming beauti- 
fully in at my latticed window, and [ 
determined to have a long stroll before 
breakfast. I was soon in the fields; 
harvest was ended; and, as I had un- 
derstood, well-ended: the ricks of 
corn stood abroad in the fields; the 
barns, also, I presumed, were full, and 
the 
