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fprightly youtli {lie had once beheld him — The bloom of 

 health glowed not on his cheeks — Care had filvered over 

 his flaxen locks, and grief had marked his manly counte- 

 nance. A meflcngerwas difpatched to Mr. Roberts, who 

 arrived next day. In the midll; of a fcene, which difplayed 

 in the ftrongeft, the tendered, manner, the power of parental 

 and filial afFedtion, Edmund was ftruck with the appearance 

 of a gentleman who had accompHnied Mr. Roberts ; he 

 fuddenly quitted the embraces of his father, and ruflied with 

 ardour into the arms of the ftranger — It was Mr. Douglass; 

 he had been taken prifoner at Malplac^oet, but on his pa- 

 role had returned home, and called at Mr. Roberts on his 

 way to Scotland. Edmund was united to his Maria. Her 

 father removed along with them to Mr. Roberts, where 

 they were long blefled with wery domeilic felicity and feci- 

 al endearment. Heavenly p€ace dwelt in the bofom of Ed- 

 mund ; joy ever fparkled in his Maria's eyes. Happinefs 

 increafed with their increafing years, and diffufed his rich- 

 eft IWeets through their rural habitation. 



c. 



Intelligence refpeBing Arts, h'c. 



A new Hydraulic Invention. ' 

 The committee of agriculture and commerce in Paris, gave 

 a report to the National Afferably on the 3d of February 

 lalt, concerning an hydraulic difcovery, faid to be made by 

 a M. de Trouville, which is announced in the moll pompous 

 terms, by the reporter M. Herault Lumsrville, deputy from 

 the department ofCher, as one of the moft extraordinary dif- 

 coveries that has been made in the prefent age. " The 

 author, fays he, has deyifed the means of elevating water 

 to an indefinite height, by a iimple eflPedl of afpiration, of 

 balancing alternately of air and water. His machine is 

 not embarraffed with the apparatus of piftons, wheels and 

 levers. Refle£lion and praftice have lifted up to him the 

 veil, which ftill covers in many parts, the great law of na- 

 ture, and has given to him, thus to fpeak, the ufeful raecha- 



