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Peerless charioteer of light, 
At thy approach the gloomy night 
Is chaced away ; 
Hail to the approaching dawn, 
Hail to the coming morn, 
Of endless day. 
Angels, lend your wings to fly 
Beyond the confines of the sky, 
To view in cloudless majesty 
The God of heaven. 
Hasten, hasten,—lend your wings,— 
Why retard my aspiring soul ; 
Let me haste where nature sings 
In harmony to God aJone. 
Lend your wings,—Oh! let me fly 
To bliss and immortality. 
—>>. 
SONNET, 
TO THE SHADE OF BONAPARTE. 
Napoxeon! from this far-distant strand, 
Where thou liest mould’ring, sacrific’d 
to please 
New Patents and Mechanical Inventions. 
[Sept. 1, 
Tgnoble minds, from that foul noxions Jand 
Where thou did’st diain life’s ¢up of 
bitterest lees ; ie 
Where thou dist feel ten thousand agonies, 
Twines of affection,—memory could not 
part; 
Where thou didst linger in’ uncheck’d 
disease, : 
Whilst a state’s minion, watching, wrung 
thy heart. 
Napoleon! thy spirit walks on ev'ry breeze 
That visits France ; thou hast a son, too, 
—when 
His mind shall sink in Sleep’s deep mys- 
teries, 
He shall behold thee, sire, as great as 
when 
Thon once didst drive leagu’d kings from 
off the field, 
And: twin’d them, like smali reeds, across 
thy conq’ring shield, 
. EnortT. 
NEW PATENTS AND, MECHANICAL INVENTIONS. 
—<T 
To Mr. Roxsy, for certain Improve- 
ments on, or Additions to, the Qua- 
drant. 
HIS invention and improvement 
consist, First, in substituting a 
rack and pinion in lieu of the tangent- 
screw, by which means an accurate 
observation may be taken with a qua- 
drapt having such an appendage in less 
time, and consequently with greater 
certainty, than by any other means 
hitherto known. Second, in construct- 
ing, combining, and applying, certain 
parts herein set forth and explained, 
called a finder or director, and also a 
part called a guide, by the use of which 
a more certain and effectual artificial 
horizon will.be obtained than was ever 
before used. 
The value of an artificial horizon at 
sea is best known to the navigator who 
has to conduct his vessel into the Eng- 
lish Channel after a long and perilous 
voyage in the winter season, or to the 
navigator who has to cross the banks of 
Newfoundland at any season of the 
year; but more particularly to those 
who are bound to Halifax or the Gulf 
of St. Laurence. Upon those banks you 
frequently see the sun as bright as pos- 
sible, while the ocean, not more than 
three hundred yards distant, is obscured 
by fog; the bold navigator, although he 
enannot obtain a correct observation, will 
frequently risk his life and his ship, and 
sometimes lose both, by attempting to 
make his destined port; but the cautious, 
navigator will keep at sea rather than 
run the risk of making the Jand ; yet in 
spite of all his caution he is frequently 
driven upon a lee-shore, and shares the 
same fate with the bold navigator who 
has been unfortunate. An artificial 
horizon, upon a simple and correct prin- 
ciple, will, in all probability, enable the 
navigator to keep clear of these dan- 
gers, and will oftentimes free his mind - 
from that intense anxiety, which is only 
known to those who have charge of so 
many lives and so much valuable pro- 
perty. 
The patentee has also affixed to this 
quadrant a small compass, which can 
be taken away and aflixed again ina 
minute; which, being placed close to - 
the horizon glass, enables the observer 
to discover the variation of the compass 
with great precision, without the assist- 
ance either of books or tables. When 
the sun (or any other heavenly body) is 
upon the meridian, the observer can 
take an amplitude or an azimath with it, 
and find the variation with as much pre- 
cision as he could with any amplitude or 
azimuth compass, and with more ease 
and facility. 
—— 
To Tuomas Sowersy, of Bishop-Wear- 
mouth, for a Chain upon anew and im- 
proved Principle, suitable for Ships’ 
Cables and other Purposes. _ 
THE common round-link chain con- 
sists of a number of Jinks united to- 
eether; the common oval-link chain 
consists of a number of oval links 
joined together ; and the oval-link chain 
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