The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-29 00:00:00

1111tCHAAISM.

A my curious piece of inechanion, of the nature of a
proolatuin cluck, the completion of which has coat the
ii.t, M. (tow; twenty-five years' labour, is now exhibiting
lit Paris.

It 'dray In the eye thirteen dial-plates, great or small,
•l:irb indicate, Ist, the age of the moms, the phases of that
lammary, her rising, setting, and passage to the meridian ;
the epacts, and the golden number, fur which the indices
make their revolution in nineteen years. 2.1, the diurnal
lemur, cirete, subdivided into minutes and aerowits of time;
the Isom:, and setting of the sun, in regard to the inequality
of every day in the year; the differences between true and
mesa time; the donsinical letters; the solar cycle; fur
sloth purposes the indices make their revolution is twenty-
eight years. 3d, The annual motion of the earth round the
mi.; that of the moon round the cal th ; and the revolution
or 110 celestial signs in their natural order. 4d,The difference
of linicituile fur four hundred and thirty-Iwo cities, ex-
pre•std by the diurnal movement of a circle of copper gilt,
to the centre of which is a dial-plate divided into twenty-
four homy, with a pointing oh the minutes from Ave to Ise,
mitt carrying the situ 111 the middle, in such a manner that
on mailing the name of these cities, you see at a look
tie hum that it is in each of them at the moment you make
the examination.

rho. iugriaious piece of machinery is put in me by •
cointerdellancrug weight of wily six poutids. For ordinary
%Isar, it sounds the 'routers and hours, butt that can be
stopped nt will ; and in case the pendulum were furgutic•
to In wound up. it suffices, after baring, repaired this omis.
+ion, to tiring the minute-hand to its place. Tbis simple
upri %thou rectifies all the other dials.

It lc mid that a foreugn Mince IP in treaty with M. Roves
to at-vine this splendid specimen of mechanical skill.

All those who value genius, or. what may be
mote to many, their own aniusetnent, will learn
aiih ektreine regret, that WALTER SCOTT now lies
on u sick hed, in Scotland ; and that a long time
'lily. perhaps. intervene before he is again able to
Jrligl t the public.
The reports on the state of Sir ..-MARK STILES'S
health continue to he favourable. His present des-
tination is said to he for Italy, as the climate best
suited to his complaint.
TOE Tuar.—From the extreme want of rains,
all the horse* that were in traiuiug on the wolck and
other high grounds of Yorkshire, have been obliged
to he taken up to Hambleton hills, where the turf
is id it soft spongy nature, being ou the edge of the
moors.

Tlx mortality from small-pox has unfortunately
nut yet abated, 43 deaths from this direase being
recorded in last week's bill of atonality. The total
cumber of deaths from the beginning of this afflict.
ink sisitation is now 357.—(/I'one/eh Paper.)
A Gentleman ►ode yesterday through Islington
upon a grey horse, which it was supposed had taken
fright, as the horse was going very fast, rod just
"lure lie reached the Turnpike-gate, he lost his
'rat and fell with his head foremost on the•ground.
Ile was taken to the house of Mr. LANE, surgeon,
Kith little hope of recovery.

kmr.
The following is a letter from floc'Male, dated
'July 26 :
" The proemial began to move about two o'clockt
and was headed by at least 5,000 female reformist%
Mid followed by 30.000 men. bearing but too Sad
an evidence of the distresses of the times, bnt withal
so terrible in their appearances as to make the
boldest tremble. Only figure to yourself 5.000
desperate women. with six times that number of the
other sex, whose situation could not, perhaps; by
any change, be made much worse, assembled in
one mass, with not above 100 military for the de-
fence of the loyal and peaceable inhabitants, or to
repress ally tumult that might be expected to oc-
cur. I hardly need inform you, that all the shops
were closed, end business of every kind entirely et
at a stand. The cap of liberty was carried in
front, with other banners, bearing inscriptions: on
one was ' Des/radio* to ail Legitimate Covens.
ands ;' on another, • Amaral Parliaments, tr. or
Death to those its Authority who oppose their adop-
tiot on a third, 'The Memory of Paine, Braa-
dreth, ; on a fourth, 6 Sateeeu to &oak So-
cieties.'

Some trifling insult. or some pretended one.
being offered by a drunken fellow, who had
been bawling out I Church and King for ever—
Colfeision to all Reformers r caused such a
scene of terror, and I may add. mischief, as
never before occurred in this place. What win-
dows were left exposed were shattered in an in-
stant. particularly those which were graced by
females of respectability; insults of the grossest
description were offered to the latter by those of
their own sex who were in the mob; and nothing
but the appearance of the few military we had could
have prevented the most alarming consequences.
Thanks, however, to the judicious arrangements of
our two Magistrates. Major Berwick and Captain
Ouaeley, and to their presence upon the spot.
the threatened danger was avoided. The red
cap of liberty was torn down in an instant, and
all the other flags followed, as it' a sudden pa-
ralysis had seized the standard-bearers ; the mob
filed off in every direction, and, as was thought,
not to re-assemble. But the minds of these mis-
guided men and women were too thoroughly im-
brued with sedition, conspiracy, and rebellion, to
be driven otf the field with so little ceremony.
They assembled again, at the place originally fixed
for the meeting, viz. Cronkayshew Moor, about a
mile from Rochdale. Parson Harrison was the
prominent character on the occasion. The Old
Major's Bill was to be proposed as a rallying point,
and to be their answer if asked what they wanted.

ii The port I t five, sod prevents me from
giving you the finale of the dry's business."

FIRE.

Between three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon. a fire
broke out in doe sugar-house of Messrs. Crier,, and Bow-
man. Duncau-stsert, Red Lion-street, Whitechspel. The fire
is supported to have originated from au over-pressure of the
•tearer-engine, which burst. The premises were considerably
damaged. Before the fire.engines arrived the back part was
entirely burned duwu. The differeat carts and waggons of
the neighbourhood were employed in carrying away whatever
of the property they could. The premises were imsured.