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~ Much as I love the approving smile 
That sweetly beams from Virtue’s eye ; 
Yet dearer far the gentle voice 
That bids my fainting heart rejoice, 
Beneath the poison’d scourge of Calumny. 
Ye favour’d few, to whom are given 
The heart and band to war with woe, 
Go on! oh most indulg’d by heaven! 
Unenvied taste the transports ye bestow. 
My steps unnumber’d ills assail, 
Vainly, alas! my hopes arise, 
Through dull Cbscurity’s heart-chilling vale 
My passage lies!, 
Forward I cast a doubtful gaze 
Along the lonely dreary way 5 
All seems a vast, a wildering mazey 
And threat’ning darkness veils each future 
day. 
Ob ! what is life ? a warfare that began 
Sson as my infant-being first drew breath’ 
And sin, the source af every ill to man, 
Will fight within me till I yield to death. 
Patents lately enrolled} 
[Jan. 1, 
Ah! let the world, the unthinking world, 
deride 
That inward strife they never knew 3. 
In vain Philosophy, in all its pride, ~ 
Holds up in scorn ‘ Enthusiast” toe my 
view. 
Such an enthusiast may I ever be, 
And live, my God, devoted more to thee! 
The man who feels a fever rage 
With burning heat thro’ every vein, 
Will he believe a titled sage, } 
Should he pronounce him free from pain # 
‘Ah no! he feels the deadly smart, 
And groans beneath the weighty load ; 
And thus my heavy laden heart 
Pours out her sorrows to her God: 
When wil! this painful conflict cease, ~ “ 
And all the ills I now deplore ? 
When will my spirit rest in peace, 
A prey to grief and sin no more! 
(To be continued. y 
7 PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
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NR. JONATHAN VARTY’S (LIVERPOOL), 
for Improvements in the Aale-trees of 
Carriages. 
-N making the arm of the axle-tree, 
| Mr. V. divides the bottori-half of 
the axle-tree into several parts, accord- 
ing to the weights intended to be carried. 
He then cuts out of the two upperethirds, 
supposing the under-half to be divided 
into three parts, sufficient to take the 
bearing of those’ parts; so that the fric- 
tion and weight rest only on the sixth 
part of the axle-tree. The bearing part 
is left larger or smaller, agreeably to the 
weight intended to be carried. In some 
cases two or more small rollers are fixed 
in,recesses, cut for that, purpose in the. 
bottom of the axle-tree. These rollers 
turn on their own axis in pieces of steel, 
or other hard metal; and in this case 
the bottomeof the axle-tree must be flat- 
tened,‘in order to throw the weight on 
the rollers. A groove is then to be made, 
the length of the arm on the top side, 
with small holes through the axle-tree to © 
admit of oil flowing through, to supply 
the axis of the rollers with sufficient 
moisture. In this case the box or bush 
must be made with a cap at the point 
or shoulder, ‘or with caps both at the 
point and-shoulder, to contain ail, as is 
frequently practised on different princi- 
ples. The axle-tree may, however, be 
supplied with oil through a pipe, intro- 
duced through the shoulder-washer; at 
she upper end of which pipe, a cau, cup, 
iy 
or hollow ball, is to: be screwed, to con< 
tain the oil. In certain cases, where the 
box or bush is a fixture, instead of cut- 
ting away the axle-tree, the alteration is 
made in the bottom-half of the box, in 
the same way as described for the axle- 
tree. When horizontal axle-trees are 
used, the arm should be of the same 
size at the point as at the shoulder, and 
the wheel made perfectly upright, withe 
out dishing. 
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MR. JOSEPH WARREN’S (AMERICA), for @ 
new and improved Method of splitting 
Hides, and shaving Leather, ; 
The operation to be effected by this 
invention may, in the absence ef figures, 
be thus described: There are two cy- 
linders of metal, or other hard substance, 
fluted or grooved longitudinally upon 
the surface of both of them, and con- 
nected by wheel-work, so as to move 
together by means of a winch, or an 
other first mover. These cylitilesaainee 
set at a proper distance from each other 
by means of screws, and at each end of 
the upper cylinder there is a spring, 
which, ‘by its re-action, causes the said 
cylinder to recede from the other when 
the screwsjust mentioned are turned back, 
A strait-edved ‘knife is firmly secured 
in a metallic frame, which, when in its 
place, can be brought and applied so 
that the heads thereof shall be disposed 
in the angular space between the two 
cylinders, “aaving the said edge parallel _ 
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