He now invokes her aid, who sings IL NIDO DEGLI AMORI. IF admiration be thine end or aim, Already, my Irene, is it thine; But quit the vain attempt, to waken love, In such a froward, captious heart as mine. Charming thou art, and amiable too; Nay, beauteous in my eyes thou e'er wilt be; But charms, nor beauty, of themselves alone, Have pow'r enough to weave a chain for me. If, in thine heart, the envied place to fill, (A boon of thine own off'ring), I decline; O still let Censure, hasty to decide, Suspend her judgment in a case like mine! For, sweet Irene, by my hopes of bliss! Within the dear enclosure of thy breast, Strangely prolific, beyond word or thought, A host of little Loves have built their nest. One little flutterer, with toil begins To poise himself in air, and win his way. ;" Another, from his narrow tomb, the shell, With lavish zeal, for this their callow brood; These too, in turn, a lesser offspring guard, Who cling to them, and clamour for their good. Een to the eye, the gathering croud appears, To swell its numbers, and increase the throng; Countless already, and enough to foil, The sage Archytas, theme of ancient song. They are of every colour, that the morn, When brib'd by Iris to restrain her tears, Puts on, half-pleas'd, and of a present vain, Which not a goddess in Olympus wears. One seems with violet to tinge his wings, Another's. lily pinions mock the snow! Some wear the "livery," of sober brown, Yet does it triumph o'er each other plume Of different humours are these stripling foes, And all at variance ever are they found; One ponders in his mind, and silent is, Another candid, prattles without bound. One, on his care-worn and suspicious brow, His sculptur'd grief, engraven deep, displays; Another's happiness, as firmly fix'd, Each smiling feature to the eye betrays. One, with the eloquence of grief, intreats, Another arms with threat his swiftly-moving eye; One haughtily demands, another takes; One dearly loves to steal, but fears to try. Each, of his fellow has a mutual dread, And didst thou hope that I cou'd ever In vain that idle hope, believe me, girl, My peace and blest repose I love too well. That chirping too, so shrill, that prattle loud, Which tire the ear, and everlasting are; That ceaseless flutter, which offends the eye; Not half a moment ever could I bear. IL NOME. DARLING object of Apollo's care! The name of her who causes all my smart; For whom I die, upon thy trunk I write, O! as thy leaves eternally remain, May beauteous Chloris keep her faith to me! But, ah! forbid that all my cares and sighs Should be unfruitful, and in vain, like thee! Now, now Ambitious Plant, if now thou canst, High into air thy new-born branches throw; So with thy honour'd trunk, her much-lov'd name, Together, and co equally, shall grow. Round thee, the Nymphs, whose mansion is the stream; Round thee, the Deities of woodbine bowers; VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL. THE Chemists of England have their THE attention at this moment directed to the very important experiments of Mr. Professor Davy, who has so ably investigated the decomposing powers of a principle, which, viewed in all its varieties, exceeds any heretofore suspected as capable of being employed as a chemical agent. Indeed, when we consider what has been already accomplished by the judicious application of Galvanism, and in hands so competent, there is scarcely room left for us to doubt, but that the science of Chemistry, or Chemico-electric Science, as this eminent analist terms it, will now proceed with a rapidity proportioned to the means, which can at length be brought to bear upon matter in every form. We cherish, indeed, the strongest hopes, that the next session of the Royal Society of London will commence a very brilliant career, and more auspiciously for sciences than any session which has yet preceded, as connected with the labours of that very learned body. The importance of the extension of these principles of just science is of the utmost consequence, not merely to the man of science, but to all the different departiments of the arts; and the important results, as connected even with the principles of various manufactures, will be from such extension incalculable. For it has been almost proved to a demonstration, that every compound concrete substance yields up with great readiness its elementary principles to this new power, which in many instances are separated and carried by invisible circulation to a distance from each other; and this occurs even where the materials of such unsuspected compounds were supposed to be united by the most powerful forces of affinity or chemical attraction. We heartily wish, (what with no ill-grounded hope we trust must speedily happen,) that a continuation of success may attend such honourable labours. And we congratulate ourselves, that in their department the philosophers of our own country have deservedly and decidedly the lead; and they have gone too far to stop! While Mr. Davy, and most of his philosophical and chemical contemporaries, are ardently pursuing the novel powers thus furnished, of separating bodies into their constituent parts by the Galvanic influence, or attempting to approximate towards the real elementary principles of all matter, whether in organic or or ganized, others are as strenuously engaged in maintaining some very remark able theories; and when we look at the character of the party to whom we allude, and his just eminence as a chemical operator and inan of science, we cannot but give every attention to the indefatigability and ingenuity of Mr. Hume. This gentleman, from some peculiarities in the characteristics of silex, appre hends ought to be expected that apparatus of so simple, safe, and certain a nature, could be devised, as would render the application of this principle part of our constant domestic economy. It was requisite that cheapness should be connected with simplicity, utility, and effect. A graduate of the university, and a wellknown public lecturer, J. STANCLIFFE, M.B. of Cambridge, has completely ac complished these objects: and the means by which his end has been attained, are applicable to other departments of practical utility. We can at present only simply announce, that the results of his labours are about to be laid before the public. We shall take the earliest opportunity of communicating what cannot fail to be interesting on this, or any other novelty, which may come to our knowledge, and that at the earliest possible period. dictionary in the Encyclopédie Methodique. It will include the antiquities of all ́nations, as well as those of Great Britain, and will be illustrated with plates. A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution is nearly ready for publication: it is methodically arranged, with an alphabetical index, and will serve for an index to any library. hends that this substance is not a simple earth, as it has been hitherto supposed and classed by modern chemists, but the acidifying principle, oxygen, in an actually concrete state; since he conceives that not only lime, but the whole list of the earths, differ so manifestly in their nature and properties from silex, that, according to our author, it would appear preposterous to associate them in the sanie class The earths possess the powers of alkaline bodies neutralizing the acids, and forming with each species peculiar neutral salts; having all that distinctly marked attraction for acids which the alkalies themselves have. "Silex," says he, "on the contrary, has not only no such character, but in all its combinations it acts rather the part of an acid, and prefers evidently an alkali, an earth, or a metal, to any acid whatever; and the most complete combinations are those in which this The Rev. T. D. FOSBROOKE has in the element predominates." See Monthly press a Dictionary of Antiquities, geneMagazine for June, p. 185. The aural and local, on the plan of the French thor is, we apprehend, right in conjecturing that any controversy to which this perfectly novel notion might give birth, will be speedily dissipated by the transcendental, the omnipotent powers and agency of the Voltaïc Electricity. However it may terminate, Mr. Hume is entitled to every praise for his persevering in a course so eccentric, and for giving a new and quite opposite character and designation to silex than has heretofore been thought of by chemists; and which, though it may not be just, yet such is the present condition of the science, that the contrary of what he has advanced cannot be maintained. But more are busied on this important topic; and the dispute must be speedily put to rest. We shall think it altogether premature to offer our opinion, in the present state of the question. Severe experiment will, as it ought, decide. With the conclusion of the session of parliament, the hopes of Mr. Windsor, and those who had applied for the certain exclusive privileges, under the name of the Gas Light and Coke Company, were suspended, by the Bill having been lost. We are, however, well convinced, that this subject is by no means condemned to eternal oblivion. The potent and gratefully-splendid illumination, producible by a hit employment of the purified gaseous combustible products of common Coal, has excited the admiration of all who have beheld it. There are, it is true, many obstacles to conquer, before it MONTHLY MAG. No. 188. The Rev. RICHARD CECIL being disabled by his infirmities, has entrusted the publication of his works to his friend, Mr. PRATT. They will form three volumes octavo, each independent of the others. One will contain the Memoirs of the Hon, and Rev. W. B. Cadogan, John Bacon, esq. R. A. and the Rev. John Newton. This volume is considerably advanced in the press, the Memoirs of Mr. Cadogan being finished. It will contain portraits of Mr. Cecil's three friends, and will appear in the autumn. A second volume will consist of Miscellanies; and will contain the different sermons and tracts which have been already separately printed, with a few pieces which have not yet appeared. A third volume will contain a selection from a very considerable number of Sermons, taken down accurately in short hand, from Mr. C.'s preaching, by a friend. The Miscella nies will probably be published about Christmas, and the Sermons in the spring. The Works of the neglected and despised, but illustrious, JAMES Barry, exprofessor of painting in the Royal Aca H demy; demy; containing his Discourses at the Royal Academy; his Observations on different Works of Art in Italy and France; his Letter to the Dilletauti Society; and his Correspondence; is in the press. Dr.CLARKE's expected Travels through Russia, the Territories of the Don Cossacks, Kuban Tartary, the Crimea, &c. &c. will be published without further delay. The Second Volume of Caledonia; or, an Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present times; with a Dictionary of Places, chorographical and philological, by GEORGE CHALMERS, F.R.S. and S.A. is in forwardness. A complete Collection of VOYAGES and TRAVELS, from Columbus to the present time, will be published in twenty-eight volumes. Mr. BENTHAM has two works in the press, one under the title of Elements of the Art of Parking, as applied to Juries; and the other under the title of Perils of the Press. The Royal College of Physicians have given a recent instance of liberality, not less creditable to themselves than honourable to the object, by electing Dr. Adams, the author of a well-known treatise on "Morbid Poisons," with no other acade. mic form than the customary examina tion. modern writers, are clearly pointed out, and confuted, upon mathematical princi ples. A new edition of Rowe's Doctrine of Fluxions, is in the press. A second edition of Mr. Davis's Key to Bonnycastle's Algebra, corrected to the last edition; and a fifth of the same gentleman's treatise on Land Surveying, are also in the press. Mr. J. WILSON, surgeon, late of Guy's Hospital, will speedily publish Pharmacopeia Chirurgia, or Formulæ of the different Hospitals. The Rev. JAMES WILMOT ORMSBY, chaplain on the staff of the army, will shortly publish, in two octavo volumes, an Account of the Operations of the British army in Spain and Portugal, and of the State and Sentiments of the Inhabitants during the campaigns of 1808-9, in a series of letters. In a short time will be published, in one volume, small folio, Cromwelliana, or Anecdotes from Authentic Documents, illustrative of the character of Oliver Cromwell and his Family. The Posthumous Works of the late Rev. JoHN SKINNER, of Longside, Aberdeenshire, will shortly be published in two octavo volumes. A third, containing a collection of the author's poetry, will also speedily appear. Translations of the Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas, by order of Mr. CYRUS NEDDING has a volume of Bonaparte-of the Journey to Pekin, of Poems in the press, which will make their M. de Guignes, French Resident in China appearance early this month, in a fools--and of the Travels in Turkey and cap octavo size. Persia, by M. de Gardanne, brother of the French ambassador in the latter country, are in the press. A Vindication of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, commanded by Lieutenant-general Sir John Moore, by his brother, JAMES MOORE, Esq. is expected to appear next month. Mr. THOMAS VAUGHAN has in the press a third volume of the work entitled Fashionable Follies, published by him in 1781. Mr. ROCHE, of Sudbury, has nearly ready for the press, a novel, in two volumes, entitied Alfred, or the Victim of Perfidy. The Assassin of Glenroy, or the Axis of Life, a novel, by the author of Sir Owen Glendour, and other tales, will speedily make its appearance. The Pulpit, or a Biographical and Literary Account of eminent popular Preachers for 1809, will appear in a few days. It It is computed, on the lowest calculation, that there are not less than thirty converted Jews of both sexes in his Majesty's dominions. At the last meeting of the missionary society was read a letter from Berlin, acquainting them that two learned Jews had embraced Christianity in that city, and were desirous of coming to England, for the purpose of preaching to their brethren. The London Society for promoting Christianity am ng the Jews has advertised a premium of 30 guineas for the best refutation of the late Mr. David Levi's Dissertation, on the Prophecies, to be produced within the present year. In the committee of the House of Commons, on Mr. Winsor's proposed Bill for forming a company to prosecute his scheme of gas lights, Mr. W. Cox, an eminent chemist, delivered a report, from which it appears that many tons of human bones are annually sent by sea from the metropolis to the North, where they are ground, or rather broken small, in mills contrived for the purpose, and then used as a manure. A mine of zinc ore has been discovered on Lord Ribblesdale's estate, in Craven, Yorkshire, where there were formerly copper mines. This ore has been used as a substitute in painting for white lead, the color of which it attains by long exposure: it does not blister, is more adhesive, and is not decomposed by salt water. This mineral is found in strata at the bottom of caverns, about 8 fathoms from the surface, in some places 6 feet thick. One of the caverns is 104 yards, another 84, a third 40 yards in length, and about 14 yards wide. It is supposed to have been sublimed by a volcano, as the stones surrounding it have been vitrified. About 2000 tons of it have been sold at from 51. to 10l. to make brass when mixed with copper, exclusive of what has been used for painting. If this discovery should be followed by others of a like kind, so that there should be a full supply of the mineral, and it should be found to answer the purposes required, it is possible that the use of white lead as paint, with its deleterious effects, may be in a great degrce superseded. Dr. WOLLASTON has been led, by Mr. Davy's experiments on the separation and transfer of chemical agents by means of the Voltaic apparatus, to imagine it probable, that animal secretions are effected by the agency of a similar electric power. In this opinion he is supported by the following experiment:-He took a piece of glass tube about three quarters of an inch in diameter, and nearly two inches long, open at both ends; and covered one of them with a piece of clean bladder. Into this little vessel he poured some water, in which had been dissolved of its weight of salt; and after placing it upon a shilling, with the bladder slightly moistened externally, he bent a wire of zinc, so that while one extremity rested on the shilling, the other might be immersed about an inch in the water. By successive examination of the external surface of the bladder, he found that even this feeble power occasioned soda to be separated from the water, and to transude through the substance of the bladder. The presence of alkali was discernible by the application of reddened litmus paper, after two or three minutes, and was generally mani fest even by the test of turmeric before five minutes had expired. This experi ment tends to confirm the conjecture, that similar agents may be instrumental in effecting the various animal secretions which have not yet been otherwise explained. The qualities of each secreted fluid may hereafter instruct us in the species of electricity that prevails in each organ of the body. Mr. JAMFS THOMSON, of Church Bridge, near Blackburn, in Lancashire, has made various experiments on the sulphate of barytes. His analysis of that substance confirms with trifling variation the results already obtained by Withering, Kirwan, Clement and Desormes, and prove-1. That carbonate of barytes, both native and artificial, is composed of carbonic acid 21, 75, barytes 78, 25.2. That nitrate of barytes is composed of acid and water 40, 7, barytes 59, 3.3. That calcined sulphate of lime contains sulphuric acid 58, lime 42.—4, and lastly, That calcined sulphate of barytes is composed of sulphuric acid 33, barytes 67. From a series of experiments on the germination of seeds, instituted by Mr. J. AcroN, of Ipswich, it appears, that when germinating seeds are first placed in oxigen gas, a considerable absorption takes place; the quantity being regulated by the state of the seeds and the tem perature of the atmosphere. In one experiment the absorption in eleven hours was 1, 60 cubic inches, being nearly one third of the quantity employed. An observer states, that the white smoke arising from a lead furnace, during the |