1811.] 
Ah ! yes ? In it I plainly see 
A perfect simile of me; 
Of me and all mankind. 
Like it, alas! how soon we fade! 
How soon is ev’ry charm decay’d, 
Which captivates the mind I 
The spring of life which blooms so fair. 
With op’ning blossoms, beauties rare. 
And each attractive grace. 
How soon it fades beneath the blast - 
Of wint’ry age, approaching fast 
With desolated face ! 
S57 
Oh ! may I, whilst my spring yet blooms^ 
Prepare for winter’s awful glooms. 
When age shall dim these eyes; 
That, when, my mortal pow’is decay, 
My hcav’n4)orn soul may wing its way 
To glory in the skies ; 
Where blooms a never-fading spring 
Of joys immortal, fiourishing 
Around cn’ Almighty’s throne; i. 
Where angels bathe in seas of love. 
And tune their hcav'nly harps above. 
And nought but bliss is known. 
G. G— 
Patents lately Enrolled. 
PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
^ * 
Communications of Specifications and Accounts of New Patentsj are earnestly 
soUciicd, and will always command early Notice, 
MR. JOHN STANCLIFFE^S, (tOOKe’s COURT, 
LONDON,) Jfor certain Improvements in 
Apparatus for the Combination and 
Condensation of Gases and Vapours 
applicable to Processes of Distillation. 
^IlESE improvements, which are ap¬ 
plicable to distillation, consist in 
the means of dispensing with the ordinary 
modes of luting, as connected with the 
facility, freedom, and play, of several 
parts of the apparatus, and especially of 
rotatory motion, with comparatively little 
friction, by which the contents both of 
the still itself and refrigeratory may he 
kept in constant agitation ; and large sur¬ 
faces of fluids may be presented to va¬ 
pours or gases to hasten condensation. 
The necessity of stuffing boxes as applied 
to stills is thus done away. These im¬ 
provements farther consist in the means 
of operating with ease under considerable 
columnar fluid pressure, in every case, 
whether simple or compound distillation, 
without danger to the operator or liability 
to accident of the apparatus. The or¬ 
dinary refrigeratory and worm-tube used 
by the distillers need not be employed in 
many instances, but the new apparatus 
may be used as an appendage to this part 
of the old process, and with advantage 
in most cases. Although it is not possi¬ 
ble to describe the exact nature of this 
invention without the aid of plates, yet 
we shall mention to what purposes it is 
applicable; as in all cases of distillation 
in the rectification of various liquids, as 
of alcohol m the preparation of sther, 
and of the mineral acids, and volatile, 
but condensible vapours, and gases, se¬ 
parable by processes similar to distilla¬ 
tion ; as also the separating the pyroiig- 
Deous acid, and ether volatile matter, 
from coal, and obtaining the condensible 
from the uncondensible portions, as the 
tar, oily, alkaline, and saline, matters, 
from carburetted hydrogen. The appa¬ 
ratus is equally applicable for impreg¬ 
nating liquids with carbonic-acid-gas, as 
for other condeiisilile volatile products j 
it may be also employed with advantage 
in the depuration of linen, wool, wool¬ 
lens, cottons, &c, which may be intro¬ 
duced into the condenser, or refrigera¬ 
tory, and there be exposed, noit only to 
agitation, but to the vapour of volatile 
alkali, or steam of water, thrown off by 
the first process of distillation, and car¬ 
ried into the condenser containing the 
agitator. The solution of gums may be 
promoted by means of this invention; 
hence its importance, as well to the var¬ 
nish maker as to others concerned in 
operations, in which the principle of dis¬ 
tillation may be advantageously intro¬ 
duced. When the apparatus is em¬ 
ployed with a view to the condensation 
of the mixed gases, which are in part 
condensible, but some of them cannot 
assume the liquid >tate under known at¬ 
mospheric temperatures, as is the case 
with some of the products of common 
coal, when subject to di-itillatiou, the gas 
escaping may be collected in gasometers 
after the known rnetliods, and kindled 
for the purpose of yielding light and heat 
in contact with the atmosphere, or ap¬ 
plied to other uses, according to the na¬ 
ture of the gaseous product itself, d’iie 
condensing refrigeratory recipients may 
be also adapted to the ordinary stills and 
worms in use, or attached to the vessels 
similarly constructed, and which are 
placed over the furnace, water-liath, of 
ttthet SQuiT?§ of In all cases that 
tequirs 
