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A NIGHT SCENE. . 
Now is the fhadowy hour fo pale, 
When reftlefs ghofts perplex the gloom; 
Or fighing in the whiftling gale, 
Or mourning o’er the fullen tomb: 
Now is the time for me to ftray, — 
To figh my woes as well as they ! 
And thou, pale Moon, with beams fo fhorn, 
INuming fcarce this chaos drear ! 
O light me by the blafted thorn, 
To yon hoar pile, which rifes near ! 
There, while the world lies huth’d in fleep, 
My eyes fhall wake—and wake to weep ! 
Original Poetry..New Patents. 

[ Apr ily 
Above, thy dear and alter’d form, ._ 
My murder’d love! thy Lucy lies t 
Unheeding every fweeping ftorm; 
And fhiv’ring "neath the wintry fkies ; 
Chill as thy icy cheek beneath, 
And blighted as thy bed of death ! 
While yon dark yews, that thade the dead, 
In mitty moonlight, paly gleam, 
My Edward! to thy grafs-grown bed, 
‘Touch’d by the dim moon’s quiv’ring beam, 
From Pleaiure’s blazing haunts I flee, 
To come by night, and weep to thee ! 
March, 1797. - AUGUSTA. 
NEW PATENTS 
Enrolled in the Months of March and April. 
ON’ the roth of Auguft, letters pa- 
tent were granted to Mr. SAMUEL 
Guppy, of Briftol, merchant, for two 
- engines, to cut and head nails of any di- 
menfions. 3 
The cutting machine confifts of a mill, 
capable of being worked by the ordinary 
methods of water, mufcle, or weight ; 
in which isa vertical wheel, that aéts on 
one end of alever. To the lever is af- 
fixed a weighty apparatus, which firikes 
a fheet of iron, placed on an-anvil, and 
cuts the nail out of it. The anvil clofes 
immediately, by means of a {pring, and 
being conftantly fed with fheet iron, per- 
forms the operation 250 times in a mi- 
nute. A boy can feed fix mills at one 
time. 
The heading machine confifts of a plain 
Jever hammer, aéted upon by the fame 
means, as the vertical wheel of the 
cutting mill. 
‘The nails produced by this machine 
cannot be’ fo good in their quality, as 
thofe made in the common way, becaufe 
they are more brittle, from receiving co- 
hefion at two fides only. 
We would, therefore, recommend, 
that the ingenious inventor fhould con- 
trive, by means of his collifion-hammer, 
to give the nails an equal cohefive qua- 
litv on every fide. They will then, no 
doubt, prove not only of much public 
utility, as a cheap article, but the exer- 
cife.of this machine may fuperfede the 
‘unhealthy and laborious trade of nail- 
making. . 
Mr. CoaTes’s MACHINE FOR MANU- 
FACTURING HorsE-SHOEs, NalILs, 
Gots . 
On the 1ft of January, letters patent 
were granted to Mr. G. Coares, of 
Edward-fireet, Chrift-Church. Surrey, 
carpenter, for a machine for expediting 
the manutacture of Horfe-fhoes, Nails, 
fills it 
Brads, and other articles of iron manu- 
faéture. 
A frame, fimilar to thofe ufed in flat- 
ting and rolling mills, with rollers, is 
adopted by Mr. CoatTés, which may be 
worked by fteam, or horfes. Between 
thé rollers he introduces a mold of the 
article intended to be ‘produced, and 
with the iron for manufac- 
ture ; the preffure the mold receives, in 
paffing through the- rollers, gives it the 
defired form. | 
Each article has a different mold, 
‘which can be enlarged or diminifhed at 
pleafure, by means of fcrews, with which. 
every mold is conneéted. 
Mr. FERRYMAN’s Hann Corn- 
MILL. 
On the 24th of January, letters. pa- 
tent were granted to the Rev. RoBERrT 
FERRYMAN, rector of Iping. in Suf- 
fex, fora Hand-Mill to grind Corn. 
The objeét of this mill is, for the more 
convenient grinding, blanching, and 
drefling of cornina domeftic manner. 
Mr. Ferryman has projected a large 
cheek trame, through its middie paiies 
an iron axle, on one end of which is af- 
fixed a fly wheel, and on the other, a 
common wince and lever handle, by | 
which it is turned; and by means of a 
fluted roller in-the middle, the corn is 
ground ; the firft aétion brings the corn 
through all its proceffes, until it is re- 
ceived by a drawer at bottom ; in this it 
has an advantage (by avoiding fhifting) 
over all other hand-mills now in ufe; but 
its neceflary dimenfions, which are confi- 
derable, will probably, we fear, pre 
clude its adoption among thofe for whom 
it was originally defigned. 
Mr. FALCoNER's REFRIGERATOR, 
Onthe 7th of Feb. Mr. JoHN FatL- 
CONER, of Atlee, Wandfworth, Surrey, 
received 
