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Kor calm is oft the ocean’s breast, 
Though ’neath its deep blue waters lie 
A thousand wrecks: so’ sorrows rest 
In still and silent misery. 
Remember me,—remember me,— 
My latest thought shall be for thee. G.S. 
NAPOLEON’S GRAVE! 
FROM AN UNPUBLISHED NUMBER OF 
FRENCH MELODIES. 
T saw him, in his morn of fame, 
When brightly beam’d his fortune’s star; 
I saw him, in his night of shame, 
When hurl’d from glory’s glitt’ring car. 
Supreme he sat on Europe’s throne, 
Mid subject-kings, and proud parade : 
He died in exile—distant—ione! 
He sleeps beneath the willow shade! 
His dawning fame—a fatal light !— 
But led young Freedom half-way o’er 
The gloomiest paths of Slavery’s night ; 
Then left her—darker than before ! 
For empire, he exchang’d esteem, 
Disgrac’d his brow, and stain’d his blade; . 
And Freedom mourn’d her faith in him 
Who sleeps beneath the willow shade! 
Against Ambition’s dazzling sun 
Too long he urg’d his eagle-flight ; 
And was, like Tcarus, undone, 
By daring so sublime a height ! 
Though fow—in narrow dwelling pent— 
No trophied tomb is o’er him laid, 
All Time shall be the MonuMENT 
Of him beneath the willow shade! 
L.L.T. 
Spirit of Philosophical Discovery. 
[July 1,” 
HORACE—Book I. Ode 4. 
TO Le SEXTIUS. 
From breath of Spring the wintery clouds 
retire, 
And our great navy must her work renew. 
The flocks desert their stalls, the clown the fire, 
And hoar-frost, glittering, yields to fra- 
grant dew. 
Her choir the Cytherean Venus leads, 
As Cynthia spreads her horns—the nymphs 
are glad: 
While one-ey’d Vulcan his rough labour 
heeds, 
Forging dire thunderbolts to crush the bad. 
Now must you, with fresh boughs, your 
forehead grace, 
Of myrtle, or some 
hands; ; 
And now upon the votive altar place 
A kid or lamb, whiche’er the faun com- 
mands, 
shrub from Nature’s 
The foot of Death is heard at every door, 
And high and low his summons must obey. 
O Sextius, Fortune’s child! life’s stinted hour 
Bids us but stretch our hopes a little way. 
Not long will Death the chilling grasp forgo, 
But drag us to grim Pluto’s dreaded shore; 
And there when plac’d, the dice we cannot 
throw, 
Nor praise the girl whom rival youths adore. 
J.R. 
SPIRIT OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOVERY, AND OF THE 
VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 
—<— 
HE Latitude of a Place may be deter- 
mined, by a transit-instrument or tele- 
scope, moving vertically, east and west, or 
in the plane of the prime-vertical, used in 
observations on the times when given stars 
pass the middle wire, before and after 
their passing the meridian, respectively: by 
means-of theorems which Professor Bessel 
has invented, and communicated in Schu- 
macher’s Journal (see also the Phil. Mag. 
No. 325); concerning which method, the’ 
professor says, success solely depends on 
the goodness of the telescope and the 
accurate levelling of its axis, so that it may 
traverse a vertical plane: and astronomical 
amateurs, who possess but indifferent in- 
struments for measuring angles, may thus 
determine their latitude with precision, by 
means of a small portable transit-instru- 
ment, and a good watch. 
Telescopic Sparks, or the movements of 
the luminous points called Shooting Stars, 
across the field of a telescope, when em- 
ployed during the night, in observing the 
stars, or other celestial bodies, are not of 
very rare occurrence; but it is supposed by 
M. Hanstien, that, until the 13th of August 
1823, no one had witnessed this phenome- 
non in the day-time. At about 114 hours, 
in the vicinity of the pole-star, a luminous 
body, about equal in brilliancy with this 
star, passed across the field of the tele- 
scope, in the space of one or one and a half 
second, in a downward direction ; but 
neither with a uniform nor a rectilinear 
apparent course. Without hesitation, we 
refer the body occasioning this appearance 
to the class of Satellitule, which, in count- 
less myriads, and in all directions, are re- 
volving round our earth, in elliptical orbits, . 
which intersect our atmosphere only during. 
the time these bodies appear luminous, and 
the period of a few seconds preceding their - 
appearance ; during which, by the resistance 
and friction of the atmosphere, they are 
acquiring sufficient heat to shine, and be- . 
come visible : and owing to this invisible 
part of their course, across the atmosphere, 
it is, that a considerably greater number of 
shooting stars appear to descend, and so 
(though improperly) are called falling stars ; 
but.a sufficiently large number of shooting 
stars may be observed, in any clear and 
mooenless night, and distant from the planets 
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