556 Contrivance for unpeding the Velocity of Carriages. [July 1, 
casions as it may be reckoned,) compleat 
and noble instrument. Indéed, since 
these annual meetings have been esta- 
blished, one cannot but lament that the 
proposal of Mr. Renatus Harris, men- 
tioned in the 532d number of the Spec- 
tator, of erecting an organ of the greatest 
powers and dimensions over the great 
west door of the cathedral, has not since 
been carried into execution. The pre- 
sent organ, however, might be enlarged 
for this occasion, by the exchange of the 
trumpet stop for one of more power than 
the present, and addition of a double 
trumpet bass, with likewise (if room 
should be found,) a clarion, or octave 
trumpet. With these powerful reed 
stops, and additional voices proposed, 
there would be something considerable 
left when the childrers’ voices_cease in 
the Coronation Anthem, &c. and in ’ 
the full chorus the great’ force. of the 
trebles would be qualified and contrasted 
by a bass bearing some proportion to it," 
and a grandeur would be given to the 
whole, which would wonderfully improve 
the general effect. Should however the 
additions to the organ here proposed, be 
not found practicable or expedient, then 
perhaps one or two bass trombones, 
used merely when all the children sing, 
might answer the purpose. 
I cannot conclude without paying my 
small tribute of approbation to Mr. 
Page, as well for the very great pains he 
must have taken, and time he must have 
bestowed, in preparing the children at 
the different schools so as to enable them 
to perform by ear, and without the least 
knowledge of the science, with such great 
accuracy and precision; as for his clear, 
distinct, and animated manner of con- 
ducting so large an assemblage of voices, 
actuated as it were by one mind; thereby 
producing an effect that is probably not 
equalled in Europe. Your’s, &c. 
M. 
——— 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
BEG the favour of you to insert the 
following, as I flatter myself it will 
prove of geneva! service. It is a little 
contrivance, costing a mere trifle, which 
is attached to a two or four-wheeled 
carriage, for the purpose of impeding the 
accelerated velocity of the vehicle down 
hills, or when the horses run away. A bar 
of iron with two.steel shoes to its ends 
is attached, under the futchels or shafts, 
the shoes facing and fitting the wheels, 
go that when the contrivance is to be 
used, the coachman puts his foot on a 
pedal, and in an instant the two shoes 
rub violently against the wheels, not 
locking them (which by the way is 
the best method that can be devised for 
tearing the strongest wheel to pieces,) 
but producing on the tire or iron rim of 
the wheel a friction that I venture to 
affirm is sufficient to stop the most un- — 
ruly horses, even when attempting to 
run away down hill. 
{ feel justified in recommending this 
simple devise from two years’ experience 
of its effect, down some of the steepest 
hills in the Isle of Wight, and should it 
but prove the means of preventing one 
accident, now when every body will be 
_ thinking of their country excursions, I 
shall feel ample compensation for any 
trouble 1 may have taken in bringing it 
about, and making it public. 
There is a yellow sociable at Tatter- 
sall’s at present, which your mechanical 
friends would perhaps after this descrip- 
tion like to see; though it, being the first 
to which the bar was fixed, is certainly 
not so simple as I could have wished. 
Your’s, &c. 
May 25, D. F. WaLkeEr. 
5 Gloster-street, Portman-square. 
: a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, , fi 
N your Number for April last, p. 225, 
I have perused with great pleasure 
Mr. W. Marshall’s paper on the excel- 
lence of Handel. It has not yet been in 
my power to make such research into the 
particular methods by which Handel ob- 
tained the words of his Oratorios, being 
too fully occupied in the musical analysis 
of those grand compositions. I shall, 
however, be happy to contribute a few 
remarks on such beauties of expression, 
as the union of poetry and music in those 
works present to the feelings of all who 
have a true taste for harmony in the most 
extensive signification of the term. 
It has often occured to my mind, that 
a regular criticism on the excellencies of 
Handel, associated with their chronologi- 
cal order in the Sacred Seriptures, would 
have a powerful effect in heightening their 
energies to the auditor, and of impressing 
their succession on the memory. 
For this purpose Isend you a specimen 
of my design in some remarks on the Ora- 
torio of Joseph, which is the first in 
order of time, heing the only one selected 
by Handel from the book of Genesis. 
~The overture of this Oratorio, like that 
of the Messiah, is composed in E minor; 
a key for which Handel seems to have had 
sone 
