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works worthy of the prefs. Amongthefe 
ts a finifhed performance intitied ‘* The 
Expedition of Bacchus to India.” His 
lateit tragedy, ‘* Attila,”* is not complet- 
ed. His papers promife’ a rich hawveit 
for univerfal hitory. His refp¢éted bro- 
ther-in law the privy counfiéllor Von 
Wolizogen, perhaps with Go “we’s affilt- 
ance, wi! undoubtedly take the neceflary 
meafures for giving this rich treat to the 
world.” 
Schiller did not die rich. He was nei- 
ther narrow-minded nor profaic encugh to 
{crape money together. As the mafter of 
a family, in which he maintained ‘the ut- 
moft regularity, his condugt was unbie- 
mifhed :. he was an excellent hufoand, and 
the father of four children. But the ftate 
of his health, and his entire mode cf lite, 
which was regulated by the rooted difor- 
gers with which he was afflicted, rendered 
neceflary a proportienably greater expence, 
thovgh 1n his exterior he obdferved the ut. , 
moft fimplicity, and was a decided enemy 
to oftentatien. Schiller was made a citi- 
zen of France, and was elevated. by the 
Emperor to the rank of a no>dleman of the 
German empire. Both theie privileges 
were conferred unfolicited. During the 
hhit four years of his life he refided at 
Weimar, in a houfe of his own, fituated 
jn an alley that runs through the midit of 
the town, and combining a variety of 
eonveniencies. The purchafe of _ this 
houfe, and the elegant ityle in which he 
furnifhed it, coft him coniiderable fums. 
48 _. New Patents lately Enrolled. 
[Feb. 1, 
A few years before his death his penforn 
was increafed by the Duke, bur 15 return 
he performed very effential fervices to the 
theatre. He fufferes all his plays to be 
fi. t reprefented there, for which he re- 
quired no compenfation, and acted on all 
oceafions in the mott difinterefted manner. 
The Hereditary Princefs of Weimar 
has not a litile increaftd the enthufiafm 
which every heart eels for ber, by the 
declaration that fhe will provide for Sehil- 
ler’s two fons. ~ D 
We fhall conciude this -fketch of the 
life of Schiller with the words of his illuf- 
trivus friend Gothe, who fays :—‘* We 
have reafon to think it a happy cirewm- 
ftance for him that he afcended froin the 
pinnacle of human exiftence to bli‘s,—that 
a thort a@ition fnatched him from among 
the living. He. was nzt daomed to expe- 
rience the infirmities of age, the decay ef 
his mental powers. He lived as a man, 
and has gone hence in the perfe&tion of 
-manhood. He now enjoysthis advantage, 
that his virtues and his energies will ever 
live in the memory of pofterity ; form 
the {ame=form in which man quis the 
earth, he wanders among the fhades ; fo 
that Achilles &il]l retains all the vigour of 
youth. His early departure will likewife 
be a benéfit to us. From his grave the 
emanations of his energy will invigorate 
us, aud will excite within us the moft 
powerful impulfe to continue, with una 
bated zeal and love, the work which ke 
begun.” 
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NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
MR, JOHN GREGORY HANCOCR’S (BIR- other part of it, he affixes a pre ‘ tion, 
_MINGHAM), for a Method of forcing 
or working the Bolts of Preffes, or of 
Engines ufed for the Purpofe of cutting, 
prefjing. and fqueexing of Metals, Horn, 
Tortoife_faell, Leather, Paper, and other 
Subfiances. 
| ‘HE bolts for thefe purpofes are com- 
monly forced or worked by the ap- 
plication of fcrews, which neceflarily 
have the fame alternate advancing and 
retrogade motion which is required of the 
bolts: in order, therefore, to force cr 
work them by a power which has a con- 
tinued rotatory motion, 2s well as bya 
power which has an alternate advancing 
and returning, or vibratory motion, in- 
ftead of a fcrew, the patentee ufes a fhaft, 
fpindle, or axle, to one or both ends of 
wibich, er to the circumference, or fense 
, 
called an iclined plane, curve, or w 
or Ite otherwife fo forms and Mi: 
fhatt, fpindle, or axle, that, by ifs rotation, 
dt ovill irfelf a& as an inclined plane, 
curve, or wedge, and prefs upon the bolt, 
as the thicker or more projecting part of 
ge inclined plane, &c. advances, This 
yilane may be of*any angle or curve, not 
making an angle of more than thirty de- 
grees or thereabouts with the bafe line. 
¢ part of the bolt upom which 
the inclined plane, curve, &c. works may 
be either flat, or of any prominent angle 
or curve. In general, Mr. Hancock 
makes the end of tke bolt a little convex ; 
or elfe he fixes a roller into the bojt upon 
which the inclined plane werks; this 
diminifhes the frition. The imclined 
plane, wedge, &c, may be made of any — 
é Petal 
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