1800. |. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
H AVING met with the following account 
of a game at chefs, which is denominated 
the Perfian game, I have formed a fimple 
relation of it in a ballad., ** Two Perfians 
had engaged in fuch deep play, that the 
whole fortune of one of them was gained by 
his opponent. He who played the white 
was the ruined man, and, made defperate by 
his lofs, he offered he Peete wife as his 
faft ftake. The white has the move, or he 
would have been check-mated by the next. 
The lady, who had obferved the game from a 
window above, cried out to her hufband in 
a voice of Ge ipait, © to facrifice his caftle, and 
fave his wife.’ For the entertainment of 
your readers who are chefs-players, I have 
fubjoined the fituation of the game, which 
being ingenioufly conftruéted, may afford 
them fome gratification, saul explain the 
circumftances, and, perhaps, Leon the re- 
lifh of the ftory. It may be fufficient to 
inform thofe who are unfkilled in this de- 
lightful exercife of the intelle@, that by an 
unexpected movement in the game, occafi- 
oned by the facrifice of a piece. called the 
saftle, the. decifion turns in favour of the 
party whofe game appeared irrecoverable, 
SITUATION OF THE GAME. 
BLACK, 
King at queen’s knight’s {quare. 
Mueen at king’s kni ight? s fecond fquare. 
Caftle at King’s knight’s fquare. 
Caftle at queen’s lence’ s feventh fquare. 
WHITE. 
King at his caftle’s fourth fquare. 
Queen’s caftle at his own fecond. 
King’s bithop at his king’s fourth. 
Queen’s knight’s pawn at his own fixth. 
Queen’s bifhop’s pawn at his own fixth. 
White moves, and by facrificing his caftle 
‘to his opponent’s king, and ‘then advancing 
his queen’s bifhop’s pawn, gives check-mate. 
. CHESS, 
I. 
WHERE the ftream of Solofrena 
Winds along the filent vale 5 
Where the palm-trees foftly murmur, 
Waving to the gentle gale, 
New Patents lately trolled, 
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By the myrtle-woven windows 
Of anold, romantic feat, 
Sat at chefs two noble Perfians, 
Shelter*d from the f{corching heat. 
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Here, with beating breaft, Alcanzor 
View'd the deep eventful play, 
‘here with black o’er-arching eye-brows 
T Sat the Caliph Mehmed- Bey. 
IV. 
But with wary eye the Perfian 
Marks each paflion of the heart 5 
And the gallant, brave Alcanzor 
Yields, a victim to his art. 
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Soon his ancient ftore of treafures, 
Soon his wealth and wide domain, 
Soon the glories of his fathers, 
Fall,—the crafty Caliph’s gain. 
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Now he maddens as the lion 
Raging thro’ the defert groves; . 
Now with defp’rate oath he pledges 
Zaida’s beauties, Zaida’s love. 
VII. 
Mehmed-Bey the offer feizes, 
‘Triumph gliftens tn his eves. 
Ah! rafh youth, that thou had’ never 
Dar’d to riik fo fair a prize! 
VIII. 
For impending ruin threatens 
To devote thy haplefs love :—= 
But! what piercing accents iffue 
From the lattic’d height above ? 
Ix. 
Tis the beauteous Zaida crying, 
Half diftraéted—<‘¢ Oh my life, 
To thy foe concede thy caftle, 
And from death preferve thy wife.” 
Middle- Temple 
M..E. ¥. 

THE NEW PATENTS 
LATELY ENROLLED. 
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MR. STUART for STARCHING ‘and PRE- 
PARING COTTON YaRN. 
PATENT was granted,March1800, 
aX to RoserT Stuart of Blantyre 
Cotton- Mills, near Glafgow, for a method 
of ftarching and preparing cotton-yarn in 
that ftate called the Cop, by which means 
it is fytted for being made into either the 
warp or the. woof of the web, 
undergoing certain operations ar pr efept 
in uf, 
without. 
The firft procefs of {pinning cotton 
winds it upon fpindles, which, when-full, 
have the form of a double cone joined 
bafe to bafe; but in the common mode of 
manufacture it is neceflary, that it fhould 
undergo the operation of roving, or a 
fecond fpinning,-in order to render the 
thread more fens compact and {mooth. 
The patentee faves this procefs by fub- 
jecting the fpindles to confiderable preffure, 
which he thinks anfwers the fame purpole 
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