abe 
Religion, very widely differed from it; 
as what the fyftems and formulas of many 
anedern Churches fet forth for the Chrif- 
tian Religion, dogs differ from what is 
teply fuch.’"* 
~ One or two quotations more fhall con- 
elude this article.“ Julian appointed 
the aét of facrifice to be a religious teft of 
his fubjects’ loyalty: but whether it is 
gconfiflest with the ,honour or the con- 
{ciences of Chiittian Bithops to copy from 
the example of an apoftate Emperor, and 
employ the Sacrament of the Lord's Sup- 
per to the very fame purpofe as he em- 
ployed facriftcing to his gods, let thofe, 
whole province it is, judge. He made ita 
gvalification for citizenfhip and for ma- 
giftracy, and for civil honours ; and de- 
prived many of them when he had no other 
yeafon for it but ghetr. nonconformity.”+-— 
“How ftrongly Mr. Mole could exprefs him- 
: * The Groundsof the Chrifian Faith rae 
gitona), p. 12 Tey Gee: abr ihe: } 
1 The Cafe of a Diffent, p. 121, 122. 
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felf on an interefting practical fubject, the 
following fentences will thew :—‘* To 
deliberate with ourfelves whether we fhall 
be pious or no, is the fame thing as to de~ 
liberate whether or no we fhall be atheifts 3 
fince we muft be one of them to act con- 
fittently with ourfelves ; for if we are con- 
vinced of the chara&ter of God, we mult, 
to act confiltent, behave to him with pi-' 
ety, and become devout ; or if we deter- 
mine againtt a godly life, we maft, to be 
confiftent, deny the character, and fettle in 
atheHim. True piety is of fuch excellence, 
that iris a blemjh to the otherwile fineft 
character in the world to want it. Abae 
ting our fenfibility, the tender appellations 
of a father, or a brother, or wife, or chil- 
dren, have no more to plead for the kind 
affections of humanity in our breafts, than 
the character of a God has for thafe of 
piety apd goodnefs in the heart’"* 
— JosHya TOULMIN. 
Taunton, 416 GF. 1803. a 
* The Tra& on Piety, ps 20, 22, 23. 
MR. RICHARD TREVITHICK and ANDREW 
VIVIAN'S (CAMBORNE, CORNWALL) 
for improving Steam Engines, and the 
Application of them to driving Car- 
riages. 
N this, as in our account of many Pa-, 
tents, we are not able to do juitice to 
the talents of the inventor, for want of 
plates. In the {pecification befcre us, the 
drawings are fully adequate to explain the 
merits of the difcovery.. The alternations 
of aétion are made by the fucceffive pref 
fore of the fteam above and below the pif- 
ton, which are effected by turning the 
cock a quarter turn at the end ot each 
ftroke ; and'the fame turn which brings the 
fteam upon the top of the pifton, affords 
alfo a paffage for the fteam to efcape from 
beneath the pifton. Every firoke, whe- 
ther upor down, produces this eff: ct, and 
reverfes the fteam-ways as before deicribed. 
The cock may be turned by various well- 
known methods, fuch as the plug with 
pins and clamps ftriking on a lever in the 
uiual way, ana the effcét will be the fame 
-whetber the quarter turns be made back 
wr forward, or by a Gireet circular motion, 
sis produced by the machinery delineated 
in the {pecification before us ; but the wear 
of the cock will be more uniform and ree 
gular if the turne be all made the fame way. 
+ 
In fleam-engines conftruéted according 
to the principles laid down by the paten- 
tees, the fleam is ufually let off or con- 
ducted out of the engine; and in this cafe 
no vacuunvis formed in the engine; but the 
fteam after the operation is or may be ufe- 
fully applied again, But whenever it is 
foxind convenient or neceffary to condenfs 
the fteam by injection-water, a new me- 
thod is ufed of condenfing by an injeétion 
above the bucket of the air-pump; and by 
this invention the condenfer,’ or fpace 
which is ufually left between the faid 
bucket and a foot-valve, ig rendered unne- 
ceflary, and the admiffion of any elaftic 
fluid from the injeétion-water inzo the in- 
ternal working {paces of the engine is 
perfectly excluded. In one of the figures 
is reprefegnted a method of heating the 
water for feeding the bailer by the admife 
fion of fteam; after its efcape into the 
ciltern, the fteam paffes under a falie bot, 
tom perforated with fmall holes, and heats 
the water therein, a portion of which 
‘water is driven, .at every revolution 
ot the fly, by the fmail pump into the 
boiier. 
_The remaining parts of this invention, 
with the application of it to the driving of - 
cairiages, cannot be comprehended withe 
out a reference to the diawings. 
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