The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-16 00:00:00

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Moog,. proposed at a very early period, the steam-
rackets lime beets but recently brought into use. l'aitt•
ltiss •r:. • in 1702, utentions the application of ICs engine
but gircs co account of the scanner of r.irry-
inr it into exectition: prob.shly he only intende.l it fir
kamping out leakage ureter.
.!.r..bilnatlsati lIuPl a patent of 1736, for carrying ves-
sels ur ships into or out of :lily harbour, port, or riser,
against aide or title, or in A ralw, is the first idea of
aeplring the Omni-engine to :h.• purpose of propelling
re-goas: hot there is no account of 3n}• actual trials by
Mr. sea.

The etsgine of Newcomer' Was made to actuates wheel
placed in a frame princeling from the head of the boat,
and the oars or paddles of the wheel welt. to strike in
the water, and adrenar the boat sir YesSel riitital;illlg the
engine, which would draw atter it the ship or vessel
that was to be rowed into or nut of the harbour.
The amount which 11r. Itttchanan gist's of the hitt-o-
ast-this of steanadmats, in his treats..r on propeiliog ves-
sels, iv. that Mr. 11iller, of thrisvinsom who made many
tomb!, anti experiments es kb a ‘ir‘t. to thr issitsrovement
of &Laval a:rhiteetun, appears to have mailelhe !blot at-
tempt at it orking a les-el will ste MI. The vessel was
ssouble, if :tit the 1/3.!.1ir-ts heels in the middle. The ex.
pertinent. however, did not succeed iss Isis 'satisfaction.
About the scar 1;:i:r. Lora Stalk:loisr roust:soled a
vessssl, whirls was tried 1:1 tirreohn't thick : the paddles
sr...re made in iniitation of the feet of a duck, and were
plared tinder the tistarttrs of the vessel, but the metisa-
!Mani did not avower his Lordship's expectation.
In ISA, mington tried a vessel, propelled by
..tenu:, on oar Forth awl l vile inland navication: but it
was laid aside sin arruunt isi the injury tylillll it tlirea•-
ened to the batiks of the canal, 11)- 1:1e surge of water
which it made. It dues nos appear that he tried this
v4sel on am riser. 31r. !.zsisingtott's stern-bosat is
slightly described in the Journa:, of the Vital
fist 1,03, from which it appears, that Ilse inetilod
7riployeil hy Lim for making the 1111 l wetion :ietivven the
itistori and the water, sir rowing-wherl, was by plaripz
the cylinder nearly its a horizontal position. This is at-
tended with several advantages ; the neressity fur a beam
is atuideti„ which has es er been a troublesome and es-
rewire part of the c tttttt tots engine. Tie piston is suit.
ported in its position by friction-wheels, and commu-
elicstes, by means of a roil, with a erank connected with
a u el. is gises a motion to the rowisia-a heel. some
what shorter th.sts its (mil, the water-wheel ser% ifig at
the same titsse as an addition to the tly. The steal:l-
- flith•rs but little in its artists frosts that iwproted
y att : there is, however. an apparatus for open-
%R, and dinning the cock at pleasure, in order to reverse
Or motion of the wheels, anti put the boat back
nbest-
veer it may be necessary. The water-oiled is situated
bear the stern, and in the n.ithae of the hreaiitls of !hotel
kW• ita that it bralitneS necessary to hate two rudders
I fins:tried IngTillurr hy roils, which are mowed by a %f inch
rear ;be head of the boat ; by this rbrans the person who
attends the entails', is able to steer also."
Another part of blr. Symingtots's invention consisted
in the applicatiod of stampera at the head of the boat,
for the ',impose of breaking the ice on canals: ,brae
we-e to be raised in snecession by means of levers, the
ends of which were depressed Lv the pins of wheels
turned by au axis ermuunnirating with the water-wheel.
Mr. Syridtsgian stated, in a CAlrillidimi he made, that
B.lwat doing. the work of twelve horses vonisl be built
for 1„ or 91401. f awl he had ascertained, by experience,
shit it travel at the rate of two miles anal a half
,er hour. This issarasp,alair tamales), coastpared with
t e present stessowslimeats, as we shalt see.
In 1997 Mr. Yahoo, of New York, introduced steam-
It %at, info America, which were the first that sneceetled
in a large way, so as to bre profitable : they had lie-
tore this been used in America, and were begun there by
Dl-. Symington.
In kit a large steam-boat was set to work on the
4 's.lc, in Scotland ; and since that time great untidier%
I ay.: been made both its Scotland and in different parts
of England, and Lave been brought to list greatest
re-'ertion.

iti4ILINCD TAXtS.--To this distressed district h will
a.!vrti consolation to find an Asivertisemeut, announcing
that the commencement of the payment of the Assessed

'I ix :I hti4 been postponed to tiie2ltli of July.—(!!'a-
t ..4rd Mirror.)

As!. this ii'.4 AND Lo ri..t.er.—The expressions
o Wto the duel that took piper between Mr. Grot-
tos and Lord Clare, were used at j public dinner given to
.Uderman M'Kenny, the late Loral Mayor of Ituhlin.
A. she time, they were thus reported by the Ihrblirs
It • Irister t---
" tie d.) not," said Mr. Grattan " assemble here to
r btl)rate the memory of such oleo, or of such twin-
Liplus as those that marked the conduct of our Irish
Je:trics (the late Lord I'lare)--.10, who Orr traducing
1. countrymen, sold his country--hr, us ho prostrated
himself and fell down at the feet of a corrupt Minister
---acid himself and his country, your inheritance, his
ittLeritaucr, my JUST inheritance, our free Constitu-
tion, and transmitted to posterity a name dedicated to
infirny—l say again, a nauie dedicated to infamy.—

Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the
Est Judie Douse, when Charles Elton Prescott, Esq.
took the usual oaths and his seat as' a Director, in the
roam of Sir John Jackson, Dart. deceased.
Extract •of a private letter from Liverpool, dated
June 12 :—" Our pie:: were crowded this day to wit-
ness the sailing of the vessels whirls had been detained
by the contraty winds and the late tempestuous wea.
.tier. . The river was covered with masts, and the tine.
u •;s of the day added greatly to the beauty of the
• n.. The.e have sailed to foreign ports ;3 vessels
(1.1,113 tons), and about 140 coasters. The river, for
about two miles, appeared as though there was not
r run for a small boat."

H•DICALR IN lisvii.--We understand that a puhlie-
house in this city has bees presented to the Magis-
tracy on.the alleged ground of the landlord's haring
entertained company disaffected to the Constitution in
t.h.itch awl State! From .thelnformation we have
p:,_cived, we tronlii.Tctfully beg leave to-suggest
eb to the Magistrattbe. notice of ascertaining whether
this information be rendered from a consciendons dis-
charge-of duty orrthe part of the informers, orwhetiser
it does net ariestufsout motives of revenge, in conic-
. (reface of monk/ respectable trailipmen having been
anxious to illipense with the company of the said-in-
formers wlliiridli a atateof letosication. We grieve to
thii'thet eity of Beth is likely to furnish cotnps-
'taloa for -Otis, Castles, Oliver, &c. &c.—(Bath
I ii,
. . ~,d of .i Curette.)
A. hi - *as fought is(iit week, for forty guineas,
tow 1101014ter, betertest;itaieeeti the heinials runner,
and a eselingif the natee:of Weakens, when the termer
proved lbe.sictor, after lighting twenty-three,rosuots„.
which occupied twen.y-eig t minutes, in a gallant •tyle.