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London, England, 1804-10-06 00:00:00

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at Chelsea Water.kVorks, was the second which
was ere(letl,tmder Bolton and Watts's Patent, in or
near this Nlttropolis; 'and serves., when-compared
with a capiW new engine erefted.ahout two months
ago, to slim the progress of improvement in this
machine, now" hectithe so essential to our manufac.,
tures, during the- last twenty-six years. The new
engine hai a cast iron beam, which with the cylin.
tiers, pumps, and every part of the was'
cut and prepared' at the 'SAlto manufactory, at Bir-
mingham. This engine is not double, that'is, the.,
steam only aas on. the 'top of the piston,- which is
returnedtagilin by a- large weight hung at the other
end of the-beam uptln theputtntli-hth The cylinder
is forty-nine inehes.diameter, witfra stroke of eight
feetin length ; the Pump at the' other end 'is a fore.
ing pump, acting upwards through. a Stufßog-box,
tile., stroke is eight feet long, and "the internal dia--
meter of the pump barrel seventeenand'a half inches.
Near to the ptimp'is a strong iron cylinder,' or airs_
vessel; into which the water is forced, that the'
elastic pressure of the air therein* may equalise the
motion of the 'water in the pipes laid 'under the
streets ; which 'otherwise would proCeed by'starts,i.
at each stroke'of the. paMp, 'as the pulse or blood(.
does "in our a rteries.--;=-Tlte 'highest' place' at which
this new' engine 'and 'pimip delivers. its 'water, is
into a.ciaterti at the top of the water-house in Hyde'
Park, near the round reservoir on the ground ; and'
this height iS•about tSo Lett' from the surfaceof the
water in'Clielsea- Creek. This.slicws a power equal
to' More than' twelire pound's -and' a half upon each
square inch of the piston Upon which the steam aelsi
and'proves the great'petfeetion and complete opera::,
tioh of this new enkine.. It is esteemed Ley& to
the power of forty-four horses, and makeififteen*or
sixteen strokes in a Minnie. tolitard-againSt any
sudden acceleration of the 'going orthe' kngille on-
opening any of the nurrierciuS conks of' the pipes
under the streets, a ccippeepipe, conne&ed' with'the
condensed water in 'the air-vessel,, cotninulticates -
with the bottom of a' small cylinder,. in which is a
piston,!: kept down by a large weight,•_and this is'
connected by levers•with' the steam cock;, and thus
the stipPly of steam to the cylinder is regulated by
the atTual pressure on the in the:
pump.

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-..Siortr,io.—The Baron ilomuscii. a few days,
• ' since made a ',Miitell with' Mr. l'lymAN, a fell•
intinger, living neat him in Battersea-fields, .to
• drive a match for 160 guineas a side, and the win.
net to have also the loser's On Friday.
they started ;
.the Baron with his b!iCk horse in
his gig, Mr. FL vs4AN with his grey poney in his
chaise, at Av.; o'clock in the mari,in, to run right
miles below .Maidstarie, and back again to Batter.
sea, a distance of x. 06 miles ; which Was won by
the, Baron, he coming in .a t nine o'clock the same
eVening, two hours before'Mi..tiA•rmArr the latter
having, by a wrong chilling; gonesix Miles a con.
trary way---:Of course he loit his.loo-guineas and
his paney. About three months'sinhe the same par.
ties...had• a driving match for fifty guin6its and, P
hot 4y.tti run ‘roo. miles. On'Aliar oce.isiOn the
Baron's horse was knocked up at the 70 tellies end,
ariti. he loSi his'horse and nioneY. .M. •".
To*.rw, a Neapolitan dietnist of some
celebrity, rho has been severed years at Paris, has
lately rnade,many ye3tperimenrs to pfave the priwer
of the muriat ~..,f-ac)clA,,oi, kitchen:salt,. in destroying
the long white. worms which -are found in the in.
testinal-canal. he put those worm, itito a
solution olan moice Of salt in 50 ounces of Water,-
they did not)iycipore. tlian-24 minutes; but whim
;the same quantity Was dissolved in eight ounces 9(
water, they lived oijiy eight minutes.' -Hence be
`infers, that the method of curing malady is easy
akreffe.i!tual. •• •-' -I:_cri , •
The common people are in general so prone to ex.
'travagance, that, wheel they,happen to get in posses.
sion 9fa little money, th*ey.are too apt 0-. lay it out
in the most profuse manner for theielijoymmt of
some temporary gra!ification. A poor *woman,
however,, lately had,- the sense to know her,elf so
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far ;s;to.44lifoiovineed that. if she hail nv):lry in her
p9sseision, she .w.is incapable 1;e4.114: :It by her ; ;
sfje therefore
.revil,viti On an eiiptli:snt reserve I
her ratwcy,. according . as tine
.coutVsiVe a tittle,
if
have an adual octossity tor the diS.
posal Accordingly she put, .a guiiC3,
tWO at)ti two crown pieces in
lbeitands. of a Pawnbroker, in pledge fot zs. which
she borrowed of hir,.and,got a, ticket expressive of.
the fa}. She: then. went: down to a place near
tYlaijstone, iu Kent, with a tfeterinination to save a
little ,IliureJult, w:i.it she could earn at hop
In order to guard ,igainst any accident
sire gave tile.: tipk.et Cu rite overseer of the working
people to keep for tier. When the
,work was finish.
cd, the poor woman came up to London again with-
out thinking of her ticker,- she was so well pielsid
with sonic atiditiOnal saving which she had Made in
the cOunti'y. The Overseer knowing that there was
only one 'person on the estate 'who knetv any thing
of where the woman had' gone fo,.and that.she was
an intimate emnpanickn'of the Wornan Who had left
the ticket in his`hailds, gate it to her to deliver it)
file • owner. She promised faithfully to perform
t7viiett lie required ; boti when she-Came to Lintitsti,.
she released the money and.applied it to het own
user --)3i some ,fortuiroutt el(ent, the woman who
owned the iiioney= became acquainted with the trans.
ihiOn, made diligent search .after her, anti she is
now in. custody. The Prisoner is, a single young p,
woman, and the other poor woman has a tathericss
child to suppott.