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liew compound Orrery* [Oct. 1, 
Tvith what is passing above, as the cattle 
are in the market; and as little able to 
help themselves; and this traffic is al- 
ioived of and practised both by ministers 
and their opponents ; both V>y whigs and 
tories; botli by reformists and non-re- 
forniisrts; and by ail the wealthy in ge¬ 
neral. 
Notwithstanding bribery is generally 
reprobated, it would, I think, be diffi- 
ctilt to make it appear that the poor man 
iias not a just title to what he receives in 
this manner. In the first place, it does 
cot appear that he derives any other ad¬ 
vantage whatever from the state ; on the 
contrary, that he receives great depriva¬ 
tions and wrongs. In the second place, 
neither does it appear that the state is 
injured by this his practice. It does not 
render the state more corrupt, or less in¬ 
clined to promote the general welfare, 
than it otherwise would be, Tlie person to 
wiiom he sells his vote, is not likely to 
be a worse member than one who re¬ 
ceives Ids election from a lord nr a duke, 
or from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 
In these cases he must vote as his patron 
Girects. Nor is he likely to vote less 
disinterestedly than the man who, by his 
property in and about a borough, can 
secure the vutes of it to himself, and is 
returned by tliem. The person who gets 
Ids seat by bribery, after he has paid his 
money, is at liberty to vote in the House 
as he thinks fit, without any controul: 
and the man who commands the votes of 
the borough can be no more. I do not 
know that it oftener happens that the 
latter possesses the virtues of disinterest¬ 
edness and true patriotism than the 
former. 
From all that has been said, it appears 
that the people (that is, perhaps, nineteen 
out of twenty,) have no concern in, and 
are not at all considered in, the proposed 
reform of the representation, eitlier by 
those who are for it or tiiose who are 
against it: the only cflect of it, with re¬ 
spect to the poor, would be tlie cliange 
of masters, not of their condition, c/oot- 
7nim miitent non soriein ; indeed their 
condition, if at all altered, would be 
reniiered worse, since they would be de¬ 
prived of the only benefit, the treats and 
bribes they receive. 
What then is to be dene?— Ans. There 
seems to be some more radical fault in 
the system than even this great one of 
the representation. 
Taviaiock, 
To the Editor of the, Monthly Mugazine^ 
SIR, 
THINK it right to inform the scien¬ 
tific world, through the medium of 
your exeelient Miscellany, that a country 
schoolmaster, in this neighbourhood, 
w ho has for m.any years bad a remarkable 
turn for astronomy, has lately invented, 
and made himself, a singularly curious 
and non-descript machine, termed by the 
professors at Oxford, “ A new and cu¬ 
rious compound Orrery;” which, among 
other phenomena of the heavenly bodies, 
illustrates and displays the following, 
viz. 
1. The nodes, anomalies, andeclipsesj 
of the sun and moon, with their annual 
and diurnal motions. 
2. The true equations, diameters, and 
attractions, of the sun and moon, 
S. The theory of the tides. 
4. Tlie rise and fall of the tide up the 
river Thames. 
5. The transit of Mercury-and VenuSj, 
with the cause of the apparent retrograde 
motion of the latter planet. 
6. Illustrations of the distance from 
the sun, and comparative rapidity of the 
motion in the comets in each and every 
part of their orbit. 
The whole most clearly and beautifully 
displayed in a series of twenty-four dial 
plates, calculated from ihe-year 1800 to 
1820. 
Every wheel in the above machine 
has been cut by hand, not one turned 
in the usual way; no strings of any kind 
are used; but all the wheels go by cogs, 
Jike clock-work, and are much admired 
by all who have seen the machine. 
R. P. CULHAM, 
Henley on Thames, Aug. 21,1811. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
An ANTICIPATION ^ the YEAR 3000, 
F Great Britain be doomed, a second 
Rome, to fall under the attack of 
the modern Franks, if our fieets be des¬ 
tined to ruin, or our colonies to extinc¬ 
tion, if OUT population be fated to be 
dispersed into foreign countries, or to be 
employed in a state of servitude in foreign 
mines, the remarks of foreign historians 
on our national character and our impe¬ 
rial works, in a future age, will be sin¬ 
gular and, perhaps, fastidious. 
“ The proud islanders,” they will ob¬ 
serve, “ refused leave to their ambassa^ 
dor. Lord Macartney, to perform at the 
Chinese court the nine prostrations, 
which 
C. H. 
