£70 Musical Pendulum Chronometer —Abolition of War. 
eed in excess of acid, Bat Kecames 
green by being boiled a few minutes. 
D. A small quantity when treated 
with nitrate of lime, the lime deposited, 
and the liquor became blue. 
Prussic acid.) 
E. A quantity was treated with caus- 
tic lime, until the liquor ceased to effer- 
vesce with acids; it was-then treated 
with nitrate of lime, and the lime preci- 
pitated. (Fixed alkali.) 
F, A quantity was placed in a,retort 
with caustic lime, and heat applied; am- 
mi oniacal gas came over, which was not 
only apparent to the Smell, but changed 
the colour of red paper to.a blue. 
The above experiments ({ think) pr ove, 
beyond the possibility of a doubt, that 
the substance found, when the hole was 
closed, contained vegetable alkali, volatile 
aikali, pees acid, and oxide of iron. 
After the tube was taken out of the 
hole, we observed, that much white 
dense vapour was extricated, which took 
fire at the extremity of the hole’; but if 
a piece of lighted paper were introduced 
three or four inches into the hole, it be- 
came extinguished, and would be changed 
to a black coal. The iron tube, when 
taken out of the hole, smelt strongly of 
ammoniacal gas, but, in four. or five 
hours, the smell was chanzed to the pe- 
culiar smell of Prussic acid mixed with 
ammoniac. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.- 
SIR, 
OME of your Corr espondents having 
regretted the want of a method, by 
which the performers of music should 
be able to ascertain, with exactness, the 
time in which the composers intended 
their pieces should be played, I re- 
guest you will inform them, that some 
years ago, I purchased a small musical 
pendulum chronometer, with which there 
wasa pamplilet describing it, and, if fam 
nat mistaken, directions, by which, if 
duly attended to, the object wanted 
would in future be accoinplished—that 
is to say, that composers now might 
point out the time they wished their mu- 
sic to be performed in. Not having the 
direcitons at hand, I do not exactly 
know what they are; but should your 
musical readers wish to be acquainted 
with the method, I haye little doubt, but 
that they-may meet with the chronome- 
ter, at Peck’s (stationer) in Lombard- 
street, where I procured mine. 
Your's, &c. 
May 12, 1809. A Constant READER, 
¢lron and — 
2 
_ tles. 
(Oct. Is 
To the Euitor of the Monthly Mupazine. 
SIR, 
N your last Number a Correspond- 
ent of your’s proposes a Society for 
the Abolition of War. Every one must 
concur m his wish for so desirable an 
end. War is a degradation to huma- 
nity. They, who boast of reason, as 
raising them above the brute. creation, 
break, in battle, through every bond of 
feeling and ofjustice, and slaughter each. 
other with the rancour of the most fero- 
cious ofanimals. And yetis this decked. 
with the title of giury. 
‘¢ One death makes a villain 5 
s¢ Thousands, a hero ! : 
Every attempt to check the continuance 
of such a custom, demands. our utmost 
respect and attention. » Yet am I under 
the necessity of differing in opinion with 
Mr. W. and to say, that such an attains - 
ment is impossible. A very material dif 
ference exists between the slave-trade. 
and war, The former was a practice in- 
troduced for the benefit and convenience 
only of mankind, and they might as easily 
relinquish it, throagh pity, as a rich man 
give aims to the puor: but the latter is - 
an offspring of bis nature and his pas- 
sions. Unconnected with despotism, it - 
is an excitement of national anger, to sa-_ 
tisfy which, the people’s most powerful 
means will be sought, to subvert, or an- 
nihilate, their enemy. Being a congres. 
gate body, their collective means will be 
the greatest, aad toahat they will advert. | 
Measures of conciliations may be ad- 
vanced, but there will never want des-- 
pots to refuse justice, and to_urge a tors 
rent of hazardous warfare upon surround-. 
ing nations. Besides, even were there 
no tyrants to ferment strife, and spread 
desolation, national partiality, which is 
certainly an ever-existing principle, will 
be a sufficient bar to concurrence. Every. 
kingdom, in some measure, Oversees its 
own right, and, in even submitting to 
equity, “frequently thinks it is rendering 
to tyranny what is due to itself... Nor 
can any effectual means be devised for 
the termination of such disputes. ‘Trea 
ties are already known, With the slave- 
trade it was different. The justice of 
relinguishment was clear to every one, 
and the concurrence of parties was-all to 
be obtained. But through the oppress 
sion of tyrants, the clashing of parties, 
and the partiality of states, the world 
will never cease to be embroiled in bat- 
To eradicate war, its causes musk 
be removed. And who ean so far as 4 
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