The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-21 00:00:00

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CHRIST lIN.VPITIL, 4v.

Monday, according to ancient customs, the annual Sermon
before the Lord Mayor and the Governors of Christ's Hospital
wag preached in Clirist'S Cliurch,Nevrgate-street,hy the Bishop
of Chester.—The grand proerssion went from the Mansion-
house at one o'clock. About eight hundred or the Rridewell
and Christ's Hospital boys walked from the Royal Exchange
with one of the Marshals at their head, on horseback and in full
undo' in. The boys were followed Al the other City Mai shill,
four Mursisalmen, four men in state livery, the state coach, vi
the Lord and Lady Mayoress, ter. Aldermen ant! their Ladies,
Sir William Doraville, J. J. Smith, Christopher Smith, Goodbe-
liere,Heyeatc; the Recorder, Chamborlain, ;mil other City Offi-
cers, with the Sheriffs in their state chariots. Al t foer
o'clock the procession returned from Christ's timid; to lb
\l:utsiml Houses where the Egyptian Hall was most beautifully
illuminated with gas lights, introduced into the glass chande-
liers, with a Crown and G. R. over the grand velvet canopy,
under which sat the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, support-
ed by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of lent anti Stisst
Miss Wood end Itliss IVeoil, Loi Clifford, Lord Eiskine,
Lord liiimaird, fir. The tables were beautifolly ornamented
with three large I t niples, supported by 11 marble pillars, and
decorated by emblems of Peace aid Plenty; with many othi r
ornaments ef taste and ingenuity. The dinner was most sump-
t . A monk— of constitutional toasts were given ; and in
the eveeing there nas an index of between 2 and 301111 Ladies
and Gentlemen to a Ball, which continued to a late hour.
Tuesday, the children educated at Christ's Hospital a cut in
procession to the Man ion-House, and Were inspected by the
Lord Mayor, who ordered them to receive, according to tlo.
ancient enstion, two buns, a. glass of wine, and bd. each. tin.
;Monitors tril. extra. They then proceeded to Christ Church,
-Newgate-street, in the same order as on the day. ;
when an appropriate sermon was preached by his LordAnp's
Chaplain.

The account given in the Paris Papers of the manner
in which the ceremony of the Lord's Supper was per:brin-
ed by. Louis XVIII. is not a little extraordinary :
" The. ceremimy of the Lord's Supper being too fatiguing
for his Majesty, r.s it would require him to be a long
time upon his legs, his place was supplied by Monsieur
in this act of piety performed by our Monarchs trom time
immemorial. Thirteen children of honest poor people
had the honour to represent the Apostles. They were all •
in red waistcoats, and placed upon benches sufficiently •
high to be within reach of the Prince to wash their feet
and •kiss them without stooping. Each child received
from the hands of Monsieur a loaf of bread, a small pitcher
of wine. 13 dishes, and 1:i pieces of five francs. The
Dukes of Angouleme and Berry performed the office of
Strrants, and carried the bread, and wine, and the meats. .
All these ceremonies were performed with u piety worthy -
of the descendants of St. Louis."

General Lagar(le, who was wounded while protecting
the Protestants at Nimes, is now in Paris. He is reco-
vering from his womul, but his assassin has not yet been.•
taken.

Among-recent Gazette appointments, is that of Sta.-
jeant Ewart, to an Emig:lcy in the third royal veteran
battalion, in consideration of, the bravery he displayed
on the ISth of June. In the afternoon ot'tthat eventful
day, the 92d regiment, reduced to 200, chargtal a column.
of the enemy, from 2000 to 3000 strong; they broke
into the centre of the column; and the moment they
pierced it, the Scotch Greys dashed in to their support ; •
when both these gallant corps cheered and buzzaed,
" Scotland for ever !" The enemy, to a man, were put
to the sword, or taken prisoners. The (;revs afterwards
charged the second Ile, which: outmoded to nearly
5000•luen; it was in the first that &crjeant Ewart cap-
tured the French eagle ; the aflitir is thus modestly de-
tailed by himself I bad a hard contest fin. it ; the
officer who carried it thrust fir my groin: I parried it
off, anti cat him through the head; after which I was
attacked by one of the !weeny who threw his lance at
me, but n69ed his mark, by my throwing it off with my
sword by my right side ; then I cut him from the chin
upwards!, which went through his teeth. Next, I was
attacked by a foot so:dier, wlm, after firing, charged me
with Lis bayonet ; tntt 1 parried it off, and cut him
through the head—so• that finished the contest the
eagle."
The Duke of Leeds has purchased Lord Spencer Chi-.
chester's magnificent library for the su:n of 10,0001.-

The Duke of Northumberland's tenants in the North
l+ave.resol•.ted to erect a column out of gratitude for the
mans, liberal benefits they have retativca from their Noble
Landlord.

A Bath Paper mentions the marriage of a Mr. Good
to Miss Evil. The lover, on the morning of his imp-
tial4, might have addresaed his Leloved iu the words of
Ltleifer—" F:4l, be thou my Good !"

sir Richard Keutes is immediately to strike Lis flag ac Com-
mander in Chit r on the Nen rotinflisind station , and is to he
soceeeded on that .fation by Mosiral Piamore, who will pro •
reed lii.s destinadou as suua as the ship in which 'he is to
twit his flag is ready. _

Admiral Sir W. J. Hope is to atvc a command on the roust
of Scotland, embracing a very extenshe line to the Orkney
and Sae''add Isles, the llnail.% I St of Scotland, and, holt lA, all
the cunt of the nordiein part of oar island.
As n proof of the distresses of the times, the Collector of the
Poore' Hates iu the rural pal isleof Stidbory, Middlesex. v, a.•
lately i.n.lor the • necessity of sosseoPuing eve! y fanner io
paroh fit,: non-payment of rates. They all ni: prated, dlid %WC
Jiletved time fur payment.
MTMDES.—An InquiTithm wa understand Hs been sittinr for
nearly a week, by ai,:oornment, at the l'arish We, k.licuae in Hulbort,
aeon the hotly of Alien SoNtr, wi,o tired e.....w.,ecmonee of bier
ms in-
tied upon her by a nun nanU:4l niche, d Guedo, with whim co-
', 1:No6. The jury gt a late hour Friday night, under 'he dh-enlatt
'e Mr, FTIRIANC, the Coroner, found 3 Vertet Warm... Nut.
DEB %alma .the said Gugum, who b. 4 fled from .

APRTL 11.

L.i.J4k Q• S(1 t,A I ItIC INTELLIGENCE.

rim pc being now restored to a state of tranquillity, and the public:
mind kr: at more fr•etlom to duvet its attention to the arts of
a small prtion of this paper will in future be devoLid to litz:rary and
scientific intelligence, statistical it. f. tio,n, end extra.ts front new
books. To render this hold mote interesting, the best sources, both
6,eoign •and domestic, will be consulted; and in mal.ing scLetions
from them, preference will be given to tuck articles as may appear
no.st likely to gratify the public curiosity, or to ditfun.t maid: khow-
I tlge.

Thos.: fond of lIIIII.TOGRAPIIY, and early spechnensofthetypographie
art, have faint' a nett treat in the Bib!brawn S rims;punt: or, lk-
seriFtivt- Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Centuty, and
of many valuable first cdttions, in the library of Earl Spencer, drawn
up by the Bev. I'. F. flilx!in. This work i+ distingtushesi by every
cob,llishnient that art art and materials couhl supply; but the great
price, we believe fifteen guineas, will retitler its circulation linottel,
mid confine it to att. hands of a chosen few. The foundation of the
valuable collection which it ia.nicant to describe, VI L. laid in the ar.
qui. Ilion of that belonging to ('ount Rewitzly, a -Hungarian noble-
man, who studied at Vienna. and nth:twat& travelled tilt...twit various
itam of Asia, Italy, and other countries. Ile lied a wonderful facility
languages, and spoke and wrote with equal readiness the
Latin, Greek, Gentian, Hungarian, Italian, French, and
English. He first made hinurd known to the public by translating
stall.: Persian peems into Latin; and he was a king time Envoy. Ex-
traordinary front the Empress Queen to the Court of Warsaw. He
held a sinart sittritoi at Berlin, in the raign of Joseph IT.; and, as
he possessed a choice library, ct ntaining many rare and valuable edi-
tions ache ancient classics, and other worts, he contributed, it is said,
to introduce into the Prussian slates a h.:her typographwal taste. The
first specimen of elegant printingy, that appeared at Berlin wo• alt eJi
tion of Petronius, undr the taunt's instwetten; the proof
studs of which were real ,e.I either by I.inodf or his chaplain, the
Abbe Gruber. He after cards pe;rted a catalogue of his Creek and
Latin classics, with hotas and illaftratit.4s; which was so much sought
after, that it went through a seroial edition. In the year 1786, he was
sent as Envoy to the Uinta of London; Lilt, nit ardent of his bath,
or some taller mot ive. he Wm.. anointed to a sin ilar sit dation at Naples;
on this otals.ionehe said his valuable library, or the greater part of
it. to Lora :Tows:. leis destination, however, being afterwards
elianged, he resid.itl alga three in a i.rivate captieityat Landon; and,
returning to Vicuna, died there in the month of August, I'7o. Be-
sides the Kewitsky collection, this library contains many articles since
added at a very larrx espenc:: and it is to be taped, that the whole
will 1w long press nett, a., montinient of thenotle owner's taste, know-
ledge. anti liberality. Among the Literary ettriositirs in this treasure,
we shall notice only the halm, tng :
Two scarce warks. entitled !Mina Pa uperu yor , The Poor Man)
Bible," one in the Gentian ko.p,otage, and the other in Lain; the dab
of both about I ft.:2. They are usually supposed to have been executtil
an wooden bloeks; but Mr. llibdin minks that they were primed wit'
mineable rap s.
trerata Ingo. of .yrrtni Nieolre; Pc nl. M. mere `/,r. each
en a small sheet of parchment. These letters of indulgence. one tif
which lass the original Papal seal still altiNtil to it, ore the cull;
known. instances ut the impression of metal types with a date sohjoinis I.
Bui;,,j,,t;ml l'utzoto, supposed to have been printed by (Witenbel
between the years Ivo I and 1153, in two volumes tislio. This is coo
eall.ll the %vadae hill., because the copy first discovered vies
found in the library. Cardinal Niaiarine, at Pau,

In recording the scientific improuementsiof the present day. it woul
be improperto omit sa tire v eaNTE it?: constructed by sir 11. Ito y ;
he which it appears, that those fatal explosions which are apt tie telt
Oar:: in mines, may in future be prevented. The principle on whisiii
tuns lantern is contriiad, will be last conceived from what the: Memoir
says in the It
communicated by him on the subject to the Vonial
Society. "Itin a dose lantern," says the ingenious author, •• supplied
with a small aperture below, and amain r above, a lighted lamp, having
a eery swan wick, be placed, the natural genie gradtudiv diminishes
till it arrives at a point at whir the supply of air is sufilcient for the
combustion of a certain small quantity of oil: if a lighted taper be in-
arothiced into the hunt re, thninglist small door in tile side a-Mavis in-
stantly dosed, both hens will burn for a few seconds, and be extin-
guished together.
•• A similar ',hem mcnon orairs, if. in a chute lantern supplied with
a quantity of air. merely sugicient to support n certain flame, a mixture
of fire-elamp and air is gradually admitted: the first dent of the fire
dunip is, to produce a larger flame rosin' -that of the lamp ; and this
flame consuming the oxygen ought to be supplied to the game
of the lamp, lead the tandard, or power cif the :or to support game
being lowan:a by the nehnixture of tire-damp. and by its rarefaction,
both the flame of the tire-damp and that of the taper are extinguished
t ogethes• and as die air contained a certain (tummy of ;vote and car-
bonic acid before the admiasitin of the fire-damp. their effect, by mixing
with it. is such as to pro ent an c :pi )) s(( in in any pit of the lantern.
•• I tried several cxp. rid ents on the burning of a liana-. in atmos-
pheres containing tire-damp. I inclosed a taper in a little ekoe lantern,
haying a saudl aperture below, and a larger one above. of such size
that the taper burnt with a flame a little below its natural size. I
p: iced this lantam, t..e taper being lighted on a stand tinder a tlarge
glass receiver standing in water, having a curved tube comaining a
little water. adapted to its top, to confine the air, and which was of
such t•opa,i•y as to enable the candle to turn for some minutes; I then
rapidly threw a timothy of fireidemp into the receiver from a bladder.
sa as to make the atmosphere in it exolosive. As the tire-damp mixed
with die air, the flume of the taper gradually enlarged. till it half tilled
the lantern; it then rapidly diminished. and aas suddenly extinguished
without the shuhtest esidosion. I examined the air of the receiver
after the experiment, anti fourd it highly explosive.
•• 1 tried similar experiments, throwing in mixtures of air and fire-
damp, some containing the maximum. ar.dotheirs the minimum of fire-
damp ntcessary for explasiam and always with the same satisfactory
results. The Mune considerably increased and was soon extinguished.
•• I introduced a lighted lantern, to which the :Ur was supplied by
two glass tubes one-tenth of an inch in diameter, and half an' inch long,
into a large jar containing an expinsive miature of one part tire-danip
and ten parts of air: the riper burnt at first with a feeble light, the
flame roost became enlarged, and was then extinguished. I repeated
taste experiments several times, anti with a perfect constancy of malt.
"It is evident then. tort, to prevent explii,ions in dial mines, it is
only necessary to use airoyht lanterns, supplied. with air from tubes
or canals of small diameter, ur from apertures covered with wire gauze
placed below the flame, ttiough which eaphrsions cannot be comintuit-
haviag a chimney at the upper p.m on a similar system for carrv-
ing off the foul air ; and cenimon Imo ns may F.c t a.ily milepost to tile
purpose, by being made air-tight at the door and sides, by beine; fur-
nished with the chimney lard system of nutty apertures below and
above."
The simplest apparatus. howeyer,of this kind described by the author,
is a close lamp or lantern, into which the air is admitted• and from
which it passes through %sutures covered with brass wire gauze one two
hundredth of an loch in thickness, the apertures of which should not be
more than one Moth of an inch in width. Explosion is prevented by
these means, as well as by lung tubes or casuals, and isutficient
gtwl-
t.n of air is admitted.

The following curious instances of en: TIFFIN); tvn are recorded in one
of the Dublin rs : There is now in the hands Daw-
son, of Woodbank, l sq. near Gifford, a of yarn spun by Catherine
Woods, of Dumnore, unit Itallynallinci!, agrti fifteen years. It wvigikb
exactly ten grains, which, taking the pound avoirdupois at 7.1)04 Mini/.
would require above ;co hanks to die potihd, making a thread
V,511 40 yards or 1,414 miles, Sfurlon:.s..+ perches. 31. yards long. A
quantity of this yarn equal to 171 b. G oz. or 31 des. would limn a thread
24,911 English miles long, which is Null to the circumfe.-sues of t!Ar
earth.
" Mary Jane M Twice, residing in the neighbourhood of 13allymahit:l.,
spun r2so a hank of y :1111 haeL s no sr.uic that gr.s:ns."

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