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TEN BUILLINGS
Ill APTAICI.
"THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GOOD TO Tilt GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBgIt. i
VOLUME I.
Che f)uYon fignal,
m,onsron A's 001L$ 00 Iwai wilt*e
DT CHARLES DOLSE$.
gtAatu r-iensati. sowaletl.
• e 1•THOMAS MACQUEEN, Faros.
&Anbieflssl( Book sad Jobnet es, is t
re
Esplisb sad ?remelt tupages,
seets,ssed dispose.
The llevsmber..mbar of Bbekweid's MatA-
ii.., is which appears soother tnubtiea of iiia
ipee.m, Bassets the folbwiog jest aid striking
criticism es ttw .abieet of this poem. film
MadameM Steel :—" the wee is this ode the
•eves Maimed es a mortal by the pees i.ee• of a
Gad. Is met 8e grief e( the Prophetess that of
eg who peewees • sgwier intellect with ea int -
"aniseed bent? Bader a dupe wholly poetic,
Schiff hieadboard ei ides timidly toast, viz.,
dim the tree guile (dist of the dentiment) is a
victim se itself, eves woes 'pared by otbero.—
Them ere se .aptiab for Ceemedre—not salt
die is ia'eaeibl.—sot mat she is die:killed, but
the cleat psoetrries of her roil pause is ea
i..iie' ber Ills sed death, and can Daly repose
ie heav e.^—L'Alleasgwe, Fart II , c. 13.
CASSANDRA.
roar yto ei tams or tir.*Rtxa.
"For is Wadi wisdom ie grief ; and be who
iecreamth knowledge iocreaseth sorrow."
Joy Mt halt s( Troy surrounded,
Ere the lefty city fell ;
Golden byms' of gladieii noaaded
From abs hate's euluag swell
AU the wartime's ails are over,
Arnie as more the heroes bear,
Foe Pekoe., ,y.1 lever.
Weds with Priam's daughter fair.
Laurel wnuths their temples meaning,
Muy a festive trails, with joy,
Throng to supplicate a ble.sia,
Freon the deities of Troy.
Souk wink sad gbdesee oral y
Through the streets tamaltaws flow,
Save when, is its serum lonely,
Oat only bust beats with wow
Joyless, jys armed sahe.diag.
Deseladc abet to rove.
Bilestly, Cameos -dm, speeding,
Boeek% Apelte'e lased grove.
To the wood's remote recesses
The prophetic insides fled,
Ata, with wildly-flowiag trues,
Time with angry grief she said
" Joy omit brew smear' ass brightens,
Happiest, seek heart expands.
Hsu sty pareae's bases lightens,
As beide ray rimer stands
I aae se dreams eau cherish,
1N &lusiu lives for me,
O'er lases wwets, ;woe dossed to perish,
Veers tee bor'rieg sear I see.
"Teethes glow with brighter's splendid,
Net, alai, is Hymen's had—
With the elesde the flames are bleadid,
Not-ise sacrificial brsod ;
Ad a feat it spread in gladness,
Ad is mirth sad royal state,
Yet my heart, in gloomy sadness,
Hears the tread of coming fate.
"Ad they mails apes my segsish.
Aid they skids my Bowies were,
Is the desert I meat lugsi.h,
Lately is ay harem's fess
And the py, sab.diag. leave me.
The seerefal Ugh ony woes tome s -
Steady east thio d.seive me,
Pfau ltd l --cwt bitterly
"Ole I* fatal lot has hosed ran
Detkeniag oracles is till ;
Why, them all ars blend armed me,
Why asst I dieters w well ?
Silty. with wisdom file and irellrer,
Meet i, esvailiag, rsa?
rusks ieefel curse will fellow;
Thtt *fisc le deemed punt bio
Alp. ben sesame( Fief ad.i,,sa,
Birt the veil fall e[ far me ?
Life wee L the happy ewer,
is the knowledge death I me.
Tis, eh mks the gift Fe ever
Ilse dodoes* nosh* list wee.
Ihenthstb, lot • urea ewer
Tea ieesrral eta w Mew.
•' Cb Mrs, free Gem ems ad sdseon,
lfndeeds ear arid emit he t
Nous mast mods, et gtaar _,
Mise the sea mer ti e.laoi by thee
Tres. the beam is Neu son,
B et 1 less tboprium day s
t hese/griads& shadowy est rm. —•
Take fag lasewh'ssse gift way t
Suer os icy Bowies trams
Did tis Wad garbed Weft
Sheet wad le the ._..na
01 i *du dame sed glum 1
Allwas grief ,.ssieg.
It 11:Nr wwgto but tet,.,
Ardseek era eeeel iupdaaleg
P y b1iag bo s with Masa
" All eswead w savww kaewieg.
Waft and height with life aid bee,
With the hose of path ,d glowing
I slue up/ e,m prase.
Vaisty Wing sew Our may bertew.
Peet With fsslide (towns lbs eanb
1its ihathele the essiatg sorost
C•• Wig? the /loan mirlit ?
GODF.RICH, HURON DISTRICT, (C. W.) FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1848.
Tt%F.l.Vly AND MIX PEN -
AT Tilli *so e0 ems ASAI.
NUMBER 8.
•• What bright hopes my Wows blemieg,
Fill MN hart with joy and pride,
Whom the melee Greek, eassmieg,
Claims berm his promised bride.
1a her hos,as's esaltetics,
Waite feed sinews glad be Seat,
Little caries she the s•tiea,
Phobic, d thy dvtellies Might.
" Ad I, too, have sees beiim me
Mire ary heart would fair approve,
All bio Fuses bright implore ow,
Bparbliog with the gnaw dine ,
Willingly, with him smiting,
Woad I use Ilk's varied ;mese,
But • Stygiu sbado.•ffrigbtiag.
Sternly, darkly glides between.
" All ber pallid writes' arraying,
Proeaerpiae has seat to toe ;
Whereeoe'er my etepe ice straying,
Spectres bootee's', sear I sr :
With the sperm of youth union,
Mingle so appellee, trona,
Joys and hopes for ever blighti•g,—
Peace I oe'er may know again.
" Now 1 see tbe wasps glitter,
And the eye of reorder glow ;
Fear and terror, dark and bitter,
le a tide *rotted me Bow.
Not a hope my sold can cherish,
Vainly fate I seek to.dy,
Deemed to sew ray cos.try penab,
lea stranger's land to die !"
Still ber latest wools vibrated,
When a murmured ;orad of dried
From the temple penetrated— .
Thetis' gallast. au lay dead
Erie o'er the city -towering,
Shakes her serpent locks with joy,
And the thunder darkly lowering,
Gathers o'er devoted Troy.
NAPOLEON'BONAPARTE.
himself a slave -to Christians, than have ac-
knowledged a reaegade Christian as a sharer
of the glories of hdlAhomet. 1t was sot • vi ed "me misses."—sr roes GALT. •
cooligh for Bonaparte, on this expedition,
to insult God, to show s■ impiety es foolish
as it was *nisi. N. proceeded to trample
on the ssstiments ad dictates 1 iatity
with equal hardihood. The amesof
Jaffa is eat Ily known. Twelve hun-
dred prisoners, and probably more, who bad
srrederod tborwelves to Napoleon, sad
'were 'apparently admitted to quieter, were
two days afterward. marched Get of the
fort, divided into small bodies, and tbes de-
liberately .hot, and,,in caw LM mossiest was
sot effectual, were dispatched by bayonets.
This was an outrage; which cannot be
.belt'lred by thelaws and usages of war,
barbarous so they are. It was the deed of
a bandit and .nage, and ought to be execra-
ted bygnpd men, who value and would pre-
serve the mitigations which Christianity
bas infused iota the conduct o1 stational
hostilities.
The next great event in Bonaparte's his-
tory, was the usurpation of the• supreme
power of the state, and the establishment of
military despotism over France. On the
particulars of this criminal act, we have no
desire to enlarge, nor are we anxious to as-
certain, whether our hero, on tbts oeca.ioa,
lost hi. courage .nd self-posaessioo, u be
is reported to have done. tVe are more
anxious to express our coovictiuns of the
turpitude of this outrage on liberty and
justice. For this crime but one apology
can be Offered. Nepoleen, it is said, seised
the rein., when, had he let them slip, they
would have fallen into other bands. 1-16
enslaved France ata moment, when, had he
spared ber, she would have found another
tyrant. Admitting the truth of the plea,
what is it but the reasoning of the high-
wayman, who robs and murders the travel-
ler, because the booty was about to be
seised by another hand, or because another
dagger was ready to do the bloody dedd 1 —
We aro aware that the indignation, with
which we regard this crime of Napoleon,
will find a response in few breasts ; for to
the multitudes throne is a temptation
which no virtue can be expected to with-
stand. But moral truth is immoveable
amidst the sophistry, ridicule, and abject
reasonings of men, and the time will come,
when it will find a meet voice to give it
utterance. Of all crimes against society,
usurpation is the blackest. lie who lifts a
parricidal head agaiwt his country's rights
and freedom ; who plants his foot on the
necks of thirty millions -of hie fellow -crea-
tures ; who concentrates in his single hand
the powers of a mighty empire ; and who
wield. its powers, squanders its treasures,
and pours forth its blood like water, to make
other nations slaves, and the world his prey
—this man, as he unites aft crimes in his
sanguinary career, so he should be set apart -
by the human race for their unmingled and
unmeasured abhorrence, and should bear o0
hes guilty bead a mark as opprobrious as
that which the first murderer wore. We
cannot think with patience of one man fas-
tening chains on a whole people, and sub-
jeetiog millions to his single will ; of whole
regions overshadowed by the tyranny of a
frail being tike ourselves. in anguish of
spirit we exclaim, flow long will an abject
world Mee the foot which tramples it?—
How long. shall come find shelter in ire
ver]aggravations and excess 1
erliau it azay be said, that our iodigna-
DORt)UGH MONGERiAiG.
IT W. sht.ati taata'lsro $v:D• _
[co,emerran moat we L*rr.1
We return to Napoleon. His splendid
victories in Italy spread his name lake light-
nug through the civilised world. Unhap-
pily, they emboWeoed him to those unprin-
cipled and open aggressions, to the indul-
gence of that lawless, imperious spirit,
which marked his future course, and kept
pace with his growing power. In his vie -
ionises career, Ice soon came in contact with
states, some of which, as Tuscany and
Venice, had acknowledged the French Re-
public, whilst others, is Parma and Modena,
bad obseried a strict aeutrelity. The o!:1 -
fashioned laws of nations, under which such
states would have found shelter, seemed
never toilers crossed the mind of the young
victor. Not satisfied with violating the
neutrality of all, he seised the port of Leg-
horn, and reined the once flourishing com-
merce of Tuscany; and having exacted heavy
tribute frpm Parma and Modena, he compel-
led the powers to surrender what had before
been held sacred in the utmost extremities
of war, some of their eboiceist pictures, the
chief ornaments of their capitals. We are
sometimes told of the good done by Napo-
leon to Italy. But we have beard his name
pronounced a indignantly there *a here.—
An Italian cannot for 'ye him for robbing
Marren. v. ••
n
Thewan something which struck me in
*at eoarerr•tio. with Mr. Curry not alto.
tether conciliatory ; and after pondering
over it for some thee, I came to a conclu-
ifon that perhaps Mr. Probe would come to
IMP witb • pew oar. .I thereupon resolved
• bide in the eo/be-bosp6 all day, that I.
sngbt net be wanting la lite needful season.
£heday, no doubt, was so temptation, In-
psmtleh as it wits rainy, and the streets in a
very slobbery cgsditton, and I had no petit -
Misr bullies' to call me abroad. Accord-
ingly, it fell out just as 1 expected. About
e heel of the evening, the waiter carne to
t I would have for dinner, end said to
se, a kind of parentheele, as 1 wee look -
ng er the billaf fare, that he supposed 1
thoeId not want the private room that etc-
hing'.
"ltry lad." quo' i, "that's very correet
f you, for I had forgot that maybe the
me gentleman who was with me yester-
sight may call again ; 1 therefore think it
hill be just as commodious to have my -din -
tor laid in the parlour as in this, the c"fi'ce-
pom ; so you'll just attend to that."
" Very well," said he, and did as I desired:
.nd well it was for me that he had keen so
snaiderate, for, before the dinner was
,eady, who should come in but Mr. Probe ;
ted after various hither. and yens, I invited
um to dine with me, the night being very
vet ; to the which, after some entreaty, the
consenting, and thereupon we went up
the private room, and had a couple of
lei and our dinner duly nerved.
or some time, and especially while we
eating, I thought that it was judicious
owy nothing to him concerning the manor
I Humbug ; but when we were satisfied,
he cloth withdrawn, and Chrbonell again
pion the table, we opened the debate.
" Mr. Probe," said I, '• Since I had the
licity of conversing with you concerning
at weak plan of my friend's about going
to Parliament,—for weak I say it is, as 1
ne, whereby he can make profit of his
tlay,-1 have thought I cannot better do
friend's part than to advise him to have
othing to do with such tin inconvenience."
"My good Mr. Jobbry," said hc, "no one
o dispute your prudence in that matter.;
no man in be unsex, I mean in his sober
w, would ever tbiik of spending bis
lets in hearing young men, of a very mo-
d td' capacity, talking by the hour ; but
de is not our pre=ant purpose : my busi-
net Is, as they say in the house, to report
prlress ; and what 1 have to mention is,
thi I have seen my client and communicat-
edrour offer." -
My offer, Mr. Probe'? what do you
mem ? surely you could, never consider our
temreliminary words as a serious over -
tui?" ,
Mr. Jubbry," replied the ruddy little
m "did not you tell me that you would
gid a thousand pounds per session .for I'll
nosey what?"
Most certainly 1 did, Mr. Probe ; most
calpioly i gave it av my opinion that a thou -
t,1 pounds was quite enough ;but there is
a de difference between giving an opinion
o e value of a thing, and buying that
t Now, I was clearly made up in my
m that a thousandP ound. vias the full
v,e of your client's sitting,part ; but the
with to my friend was another question."
Mr. Jobbry, I considered we had done
. 4e business together ; you made au offer
1 reported that offer—and you have your
alwer.
'Very right, Mr. Probe, you speak like
man of business ; f like to deal with off-
bd people—there is nothing like frank.
M ; but if you thought that I made a
Tuve offer, you never were more mis-
s in your life." r
You don't say so 1—this is very awk-
u Oh, not at all, not at all ; we were only
tiling upon the general question ; and I
Mk, Mr. Probe, considering it as open -
ug conversation, we advanced pre, well
, .he point : but you must know, air, that
`told not bind my principal without his.
+jt consent."
At these words, 1 observed Mr. Probe
baring at me with a kind of left banded
pries , which left no doubt in my mind
It Mr. Curry had reported progress too,
d asked baso to sit again ; but I was on
r "nerd.
' I shall not cnntrovert that, Mr. Job,
Y," said Mr. Probe ; " but time mistake has
In committed, certainly."
"if you think so, Mr. Probe, i shall vert
;eh regret it on your account; but with
1, in my usual war, all wee plain sailing,
tied if you will milt our mutual friend, Mr.
wry, who was here with me in the morn -
1,.M will teal yo. that 1 told hien fire
sdred guineas was the full and adequate
re of the article."
"That is surprising ! To what purpose
1 we speak, i( you did not authorial' me to
ler . (boosted pounds t'
*Mr. Probe, 1 am a greenhorn, and not
toed is the diplomatics1s ; but it was not
lser.►b to come upos me to that way
(boot eves knowing the name of the b-
yb, and who were to be my constituents.
et simple feet, Mr. Probe, allows you
1. ►sett greatly mistaken in supposing
• weeds of course contained a specific
M„ .
*Well, let that pass ; sal 1 had to say
A that my a lieet was sot iudsspesed to
re to yew offer "
• Now, Mr. Probe." mid 1, " don't your
word, confirm what 1 was ruing 1 le
rind* an offs., would not your diem
!IM ea answer either ite the anemia
K it ib segues* t And yet yes say
hawse net, pot indispood to beteg to
1."
ell, emit," sold Mr. Probe, " you Id -
that country of its noblest works of art, its tion seems to light on Napoleon, not so
dearest treasures and glories, which had meek because be was a despot, as because
trade it a land of pilgnlmaf to sate of tate he eremite a despot by usurpation ; that we
and genius from the whole civilised world, sees not to hate tyranny itself, eo much as
a particular node of gaining it. We do
•dsId regard usurpation as a crime of pe=
euliar bfackseee, especially when com-
mitted, aa is the case of Napoleon, in the
name of liberty. All 'despotism, however,
whether usurped or hereditary, is our ab-
horikence. We regard it as the most gree-
vMls wrong and insult to the human race.
But towards the hereditary despot we have
more of compassion than indignation.—
Nomad and broeght up in delusion, wor-
shipped from his cradle, never spoken to in
the tone of fearless truth, taught to look on
tbe great mass of his fellow -beings as an
iofener race, and to regard despotism as a
law of nature and a necessary element of
social life ; such a princes whose edoeation
and eosdition almost deny him the poesibli-
ty of aogairag healthy moral feeling and
manly virtue, most not he judged 'evenly.
Still, io 'bodying the despot from much of
the guilt which seems at first to attach to
his unlawful and abused power, we do not
the less account despotism a wrong and a
curse. The time for its fall, we trust, is
coming. it cannot fall ton soon. it has
loo` enough wring( from the labourer hie
hard .areipga ; long enough ugoandered a
satimee wealth on ue parasites and minions:
against the (readout
law
,the mind, me
i arrested the progress
of truth. it has filled dungeons enough
with the brave and good, and shed enough
of the blood of patriots. bet its ted come.
it mismet Game toe WWII.
and which had upheld aid seleeed its pride
under august •std buailati.s. From this
nee of power in the vary laws of hu for -
tepee, it might easily have been foretold,
what part be would act in the stormy day
which weeappre•ibieg, wbes tb. sceptre
of Frau" a14 Dsreps was to be offered to
any .tretg hard, which should M darisg
t.
'nogg\ to ltsly,o pup lEgypt became the •tslge
for the display of Napoleon ; Egypt, a pro-
vissee of ttit• Grimed Seignior, with whom
Fraser was is profound peace, and who, se-
eordisag to the long established relations of
Europe, was her sateral ally. • It would
seem, that this expedition was Bonaparte's
ossa prgamect. Hie motives aset very dis-
0001ly .fated by Ins biographer. We dost
set list hm greet um was oosepiceoesses..
He chose • theatre when all eyes could be
turned eyes bion.He saw that the time for
.e
orp.tles bad mot come le France. To
nee his owe laugoage, . the fruit was not
yet ripe." He wanted a field of settee
which would draw epos him the game( the
world, and from which be might retort at
the favourable onomest for the prosecution
of his enterprises at home. At tbe ;sane
tiros hesedoubtdly admitted into his mind,
which dioceses had already intoxicated, Rome
vague wild bops of .eating as nwpreedoe
oe the testees world, white milyht phut He
dssthirs et hie ssttstrsd, mad give Won •
throne stere svtabis dins llisesps meld be-
stow. His ewe's is this Me exhibited
the nip lswlesssw, the silom costeept
ef ell es be power, which we
h•ve 1wMd.
He best., 'Mab pro-
gleelei , were thought the wore* for
Ike VIMR tough wwisot tsgh fee him to
Vit.
telsla/bs out the arras, or to
prs4ss
Midiestestesiom. He claimed inapt -
radon, said s sassislsiee fusion Gel. rend was
assisee joie the to
Hat of hero Thie vi. the ter betisolagt of
thereat weeks...;s sad errors oto which
he was betrayed by that spirit of self -ex -
aggerstie s, wb$eb, etch tbe fetuses M
Pest (Mediu sed of ustbsssd.d Sssleary, urns
aleady erudite tote a kind of jssssiby. la
hie ewe wis r be wee It to M aforepaw
lilalilaMehemet. His greatna*N hie ewe
pas well haws Mid to the fly of rgfag
W s WOSt.rsl e!•bss at the Torii who
ed, eels niers thus A. t..11wrd, ■
std whit wild mauve bate UM
Psnxeotaesc.a Boasts or Entsmtraes.
Some time ago a Scotch phvsieias, named
Robertson, who lived in Paris for may
yeate, loft, at hie death a ousiderahM mem
oft, (about LI 4,000) te the Pbreno-
logtesl Society of Edisbergh j but, from
the defective wordia of the will, the gen-
eral legatee, a 1)r. Verity, believed himself
waranted 1. retaining the money for Aimee!?
sod ,Dem of the dseeased's relatives, which
ggaave hoe to some prneee4Mgs before the
Freseh courts against Dr. Verity, who
resides le Paris. The last stage of the
Batter wee an order to the doctor to pay a
carton sum into Cowl: but a appeal to
the Boprems; Court, which appeal came os
for argsmeet a few days age, ill. Darr was
set Wel Se dad to law. (.ongaree'nfy, the
Pbees.gsgk•l Seefety of pdisbarryb trey
be heti es Mw dMsit ly loot its sues.
tach a little more importance ti the seni-
etental word 'indisposed' than 1 inte^ded
Ind therefore you will excuse me if I re-
quest you to say in few wnnfs what 'yeses
will give, that there may be nu mi.anke this
time."
"My principal," said i, "lea prudent
man."
" Se i perceive," said Mr. Probe.
And 1 added that, " 1 had t1lld Mr. Corry
1 thought, and did think, fire hundred gui-
neas a !ketal price.
" 1 shall 'report that," said Mr. Probe;
"but it is too little."
"Then, if you. think an, let the business
end. I am very indifferent about the sub-
ject : and besides, I have good reason to
think that, under parteeular cirenmmtnnces,
scats Can be had chcsper„ Mr. Probe."
"My object, Mr. Jubbrv, in beim+ with
you is to do bootee's : rt is nothing to me
what you know or wbat'you oder ; 1 am but
an agent."
' "1 seethat,' replied I ;"you aro the go -
bet ween. '
"lifelt, Well, that office must be done by
somebody : let us make a minute of agree-
ment fur seven hundred pounds."
"No, no ; five hundred guineas is the
ultimata"
" You are a strange gentleman," said he.
"Make it six hundred guineas, to end the
matter."
" No,weaid I ; " no guineas above the
five hundred : but I'fl make it pound, which
you will agree is very extracagant,'
Thur, from less to more, we came to an
agreement, and signed mutual missives to
that effect ; and a pawkie laugh we had 4o-
gether, as well as a fresh bottle of Carbo-
nell's, when it came out that Mr. Curry
was " my client," as i had jaloused ; and
that I was to succeed I:cm as the hononra-
ble member for Franiton, when he had taken
the Chiltern Ilundreds.
COM-ETS.-
Tke fallacy of tke opinion. tkot they will at
some future period effect the Earth.
In the forty-third year before the Chris-
tian era, a comet was seen by day with the
naked eye, and was looked upon, by the
Romans as the -met•inorphosed soul of
Cesar, who had been assassinated a'short
time preceding the event. In 1404 there
appeared two very remarkable' comets,—
The.first so brilli,:nt, that, ire March, the
sight of the sun at meridian day did not pre-
vent its being visible, as contemporary
authors express it, to the extent of two
fathoms. The second appe;iretl in June,
and was seen.* tg ng time before sunset: It
was pretended 'that thio comet agncunceJ
the approaching death of Jean Galeas Viii
cull. This prince who had got his horo-
scope calculated is youth, was so .strut:;
with the fear ir1cident upon this that ii no
doubt contributed to realise the prediction.
Cardan relates- that, is 15S9, a comet ap-
peared at mid -nay, which greatly excited
the eurios,ty oft the inhabitants of Milan.—.
At the tine ito
shone (about rho pizrioel of
Sforza IL's .death) Venus was not in a
favourable position to bo seen in presence
of the sun. The star of Carden ryall then
a cornet, and is the fourth mentioned by
tor'visible at mid -da .
historians u y The fa-
mous cornet of 1377, was discovered by
Tycho Brahe before sunset.
But to come 10 a more modern Jami
nary, the observations upon which have
been properly detailed. On the lot of
February lire comet of 1744 was, according
to Chezeaux, more Immune than Sarins,
the brightest star in the heavens. On the
8th it equalled Jupiter ; and some days aft t
it did not yield in splendor of Venus. At
the commencement of, the following month
it was seen by several persons at one
o'clock of the day. e
:According t" all philosophical principle•,
a comet can act upon the earth only in three
wan,—hy attraction—by reflecting hunt -
opus and caloric revs and by the garcons
matter which composes its nebulosity, or
its sail, which, in certain positions may
happen to invade the terrestrial atmos-
phere.
The eomet of 1811 had a brilliant tail
with a maximum length of forty -ono ml -
cions of leagues : but it could not possibly
touch the e*tth, for at its nearest approach
it wee distant forty•seven millions leagues.
At the height of its splendor it did not
throw upon the earth a Tight t al to one-
tenth ptrt of that we receive full
moon. The rays were concent To the
teen• of the largest lens, and acted en the
blackened h"Ib of a thermometer, and yet vee
ren,ible.e1T•et was produced. Now. since
by this mode ofesperI nenttpg.an hundredth
part of a degree of an nrd,nary thermometer
e•o•,! t be perceptible, we must ler ever
+ban.! •n .he idea of the calerc m8nenee of
the c -fa being capable of effecting the
earth.
Lest na now consider the attractive pow-
er of comets. The tides of the ocean are
comma by the attraction of the moon, and
upon Iho power of this attractiun depends
the else of the tide. Now the comet of
1811 exercised not the alighteet eiflaence
over the waters of the deep ; hence the .c
lion of the eomet upon the earth eon unounu
Ina very trifling part et Ih,t of the moon.
The attrheuve Influence of the 'non .anon•
fail to produce 14mnapberie t, e, the
►tower*strength of w,ch would be tower* fined by
the barometer ; and yet. Irmo an lateens,
number of ohresvattons made le dame*,
plseeend with the ulmeet rss'•Inrss, /he
'strength of the Inns alinnopher,c into was
scarcely perreptible en the reale of the n,.
.trument. After this, it would lie mate
loos to melees* that a eoraet ewld esoreue
any uo8'ence epee 11s earth.
From the B•thont Courier.
ELECTRICITY—Nes3.
10 my bet communication on this subject
1 described the a top:mit anode by uh•clr
Electricity might be elicited, the effects
produced, and the the •ry of two Mode t"
account ler Ibe phenumeaa—I w•11 nuw
briefly stale the theory of a single fluid.
We commence thea with the.opposti•,n
that therecxiets In all bodies ■ subtle,elaeur,
imponderable fluid which is called Electri-
city—that its particles repel each ether with
a force varying inversely as the square of
the distance—that it has a powerful at-
traction fur the particles of all other bodies,
according to the same law of the inverse
square of the distance—that it is dispersed
through the pores of all others bodies, and
can mote through them with diRer.n( de-
grees of facility arciedtng to their con-
ducting or non conducting power.
A body is said to be in its natural state
with regard to Electricity when the fluid it
contains to exactly balanced by the Electri-
city of surrounding bodies. When a body
coutai• s more than this it is said to be post-
ticnly electrified ; when it contains less, it
le negoeirely•electrifed. In the former case
the flied is red,indant : in the latter ease,
the matter is the redendant principle, i• e.
it is deprived of its natural electricity.
When a body is positively electrified, 1.
e. when it contains more than its natural
proportion of the electric fluid, from the re-
psl!ant nature of the clectrieparticles, they
will overflow, and the fluid will escape, if
such escape be possible, until the b.•dy is
again left in its natural condition. When
a body is negatively electrified,tbe redundant
matter will attract Electricity from sur-
rounding bodies nett! it is maturated with its
natural proportion of electricity. A body
in its natural state presents no electrical
phenomena.
By this theory, the phenomenno of two
bodies being positively electrified, repelling
each others, was easily explained ; it also
accounted for the attraction of two bodies,
In opposite states, for each other—but for a
lona!tune there was thought to be as in-
superably object b,n to the theory in the fact, A
that two bodies being negatively eleetrsfibd
manifested the wine repellant pbenomenee
u of they were in the pocttvo stale—be.
cause 11 was considered that two birdies
being deprived of their electricity should
have no influence upon each other.
To malty philosophers this difficulty was
at last thought to be overcome, and the
theory of a single fluid still maintaised, by
-the admission of an extra condition, vis.,
that the particles of simple m., tier repelled
each other in the sametoanncr :.r the parti-
cles of electricity.
Once en • time, et • aslebra•son, some-
where, • poor man oared the following
Here i a health to verty ; er
seeks by whoa all ether gritted, forsake w."' the tstupealy d its ends wits be
i must confers that this assumption never
animated satisfactory to my mind ; lifetime,
if the particles of simple matter have the
power of influencinjf particles of the same
kind at an appreciable distance, it must be
by rorty malias, and that medium might
as well be considered ano'her electricity ..
sot. seeing that -it pn"leced the same result.
Whets I censi'ler how many gloat In-
tellects bare been directed to the investig-
ation of this subject, I feel some MIMS-see
In advancaig an idea which has impressed
itself up—in tny mind,- and
one which
1 have
-not ;net with an any aurbor that I have reed
on th:a subject. It appears to be more in
harrnony with the simplicity of the laws of
nature than the idea 01 the reprIsioe of
matter ; and there ere objections to the
doableJlrid livery into which it would sot
bccomo me now to enter.
With due deference to all rational ebjec-
tient that may be brought against it, !submit
the fallowing solution of the difficulty ender
consideration.
Tice electric fluid is believed to exist in a
latent sate in all bodies 1hronghout the
universe, maintaining both chemical and
cohesive ■Ilrictions and combinations in
every department of nature. There is also
believed to be free eleetrieiry, surrounding
and pervading all bodies—•naintaining a
■nboolinate attraction between them is their
nature/ state. This nosy be eoas,dered
Analogous, If not identical. with grssi(atioe.
(Ve will ;oppose a body to be negsiively
electrified—it will be kept in ■ state of
egeilibrium by the attraction of the frac
electricity everywhere around it ; but let it
be broil -lilt centigno us to another body in
the some state, then it will not be repelled,
but drawn from it (to which It can have no
attraetton) bar the free electricity, which
can only t.t upon it externally from the
other body.
Wi wall suppose then that two bodies
positively electrified repel each other by the
elastic nature of the fluids by w h:eh they
are overcharged,—that two bodies, the one
et a positive, the other in a neg•t,ivo state,
will attract each other I•y the strong ',flinty
!'tat exists between the electric Hoed of the
one and the simple matt., of the whe►,—
led that two bodies .egetiv.ly electrified
are ,!rawn from each ollie►hy the free electri-
city that nurronnds them on ell eider), but
which e *
ach presents to the apposite body
%Vhetli r this ilea is new, or whether it i}
worth anything or not, 1 will not present*
to determine „b;t this 1 will say, that it is
o ,zinal as fit u 1 know ; and although
'her. may he .ltd objections 10 ir, 1 cannot
het think That it la less objectionable than
either of the other two modes of implanting
the pirtaomena.
A btrdy being electrified, if another bo.ly
IP brought wutlen its in/ueoce, 4 will segwe,
an opposite eiretric state upon the surface
or point whicla is next 10 the one%Nemec ,tieg
1,sly—this is called the ialectie*ef Nlctrt.
oily. When oeverisl bo.11.. are heught to-
gether. in the sante .canner, they Ora unto
acgo:re the same alanine power
',high receives the tlectreity
Ilse eeg,stisr. sad that oh ch
leis, as mitts/Half the peeitiN
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