The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-07 00:00:00

STATE OF POETS-il FRAGMENT.

We bum not where smug the same ■ember of
usu. occupied Is the sum pursuit, so sissy in.
stamen of •nhappissea amid be discovered. Some
iftdeed have been the merited victims of their own
intemperate follies ; but to the lovers of good old
times, who shriek heck when they hear of a modern
Bard receiving 3000 pions for the copy-right of
o sun lisp poem, it rosy afford some casuistic's to
review thou who hove been tenants of the cell or
the garret, and whose stomachs have kept an invert.
ed Sabbath of sin days out of the seven. Greene,
it is true, died of a surfeit of pickled herrings sod
old Rhenish; Marlowe aid Moreau: were killed
in drinkers quarrels at a brothel ; Feolon drink two
bottles of Port every afternoon, in his rosy chair,
and died by attempting a reduction; Randolph, So.'
mervillo. Parnell, fell saaificos to Beeches; Geo.
Etheriess broke his neck down stairs, while bowing
his friends est after dinner; and Msy was so de.
lighted with the seems of his " Breviary," that ►e
wool to bed ono sight after having dusk freely, in
*merest health. and was found dead in the morn-
ing. Some, kicked. assert, that his night-cap was
tied is tightly soder his ct.io. but Andrew Mar-
vel 'Wahines his death to an equally probable cause
of saffoutioo. Look now on the shadowy lido of
the picture: Nahum, Nat. Leo, Collins, Cowper,
!Gut, Brook, G. A. Stevens, Ilampfylde, and
Ferguson, all died in idiocy or aridness ; of the
last a most touching incident is related:—When
committed to the receptacle of the insane, a con..
*cis sssss 9 of his dreadful fate seemed to come over
hint. At the moment of his entrance, he utter.
rd a wild cry of despair, which was re echoed
from oil the Nadu of the dreadful man-
sion, and loft an impression of inexpressible
horror ow the friends who atisadeti." lo a few risys
his poverty.strickes soother, who had reluctantly
romositiod her son to a public hospital, from her
inability to support him, received remittances sul-
fides:l to defray the eipenco of hie attendance et
lose; but they arrived too late—the poor maniac
was already dad. Otiosy wss suffocated from the
repacily of hunger; John Brown (the author of Her
bonus.) and Chatter's'', were suicides. George
Wither, Decker. Cotton, Savage, and Lloyd, breath-
ed their last in jails. Lovelace, once the pride of
Courts. after liming his Imatreas, like Hires. in Ise.
&U., escaped a prime only by concealment, and
died in a miserable lodging near Shoe-lane. Boiler
sad Ben Johnson, esch esperieuced the worst ex-
tremes of poverty. Andrew Marvell is supposed to
lasso boss poisoned. Quilts died heart•Mekes at
the destruction of his whole possusions (among
which be most regretted his books and MSS.) by the
Puritans. Drummond is .mid never to ban reenter-
ed his shock on hearing of the murder of Charloi 1.

Shirley and his wife died of fright at the Are of Lon•
den; sod poor George Scoot!, after writing in the
Sr-at:tor, sod living in a pollihed circle, had not a
single friend In cithe his eyes. He was buried mean.
ly under a holly tree in the boundary of Hampstead
Cburch-yard, sod however misled in his life-time,
has not now oven a turf-hillock to point oat the spot
of his repose.

OPTICAL Lester has brought
his new discovery in optics to perfection, and from
it simplicity sod utility, it promises to be of great
impulsive*. Two cones of light produced from
the !luminary being pieced near to their respective
apes's. and is opposite directions, base to base, form
a parallelogram of iodeiinito dimensions, that would
till the largest room with an equal light of the Same
tensity its every pert of its space, mod as the Nen.
fain of light would be in opposite directions, the
bodies equally divided, would have bet tiro sides as
opposed to the Hoes of vision ; no shadows can be
produced by the eppikatioo. Rooms of all descrip.
ties. may be lighted by the Ilene being placed on
the outside of the wall. and its reflections thrown
through as aperture, by which means the smoke
milting from the combustion will pass off Into the
•Insostphore without entering the room. By this
means the light will have the most beautiful effect
by illesioatiog a spear void of smoke, which is far
from being the Cass with POMP lighted in the common
way. it has be.. clearly ascertained that one of
Mr. Lucia's mirrors, 131 inches diameter, placed
before one of the lamps, commonly used to light
stages, end deed to the footboard of the driver, will
render the smallest past legible et the distance of
100 yards before the leaders' heads.—(lrish Piper.)
Bosesa.—The following is gives as an improved
method of preventing the bitter taste which butter
has at this period of the veer, from stile feeding on
turnips, cabbages, leaves of trete, fee. Bail two
ounces of salt pets* in a quart of water and pot two
or more spoonsfel, according to the qoaolity of
into a pall, before milking; if this is does ceostiutly,
it will prevent the test, of turnips, bet it will not be
effected if eves once neglected. This has berm
proved by twenty years' esperience, and if it does
not steeled, the farmers may rest &swell that the
Gott arises from the neglect of the dairy-meld.—
(A/arisen I'aper.)

,
TO HATE AND TO DE,—.ThIP distinction M toorlterl
in a beaetifol Initiated of a German poet.—Hart
shoe any thing? Share it with re, end 1 will pay
Ore, the worth of it.—Art doe any thing ? 0 then
let es euhsngts

DERIVATION OE TIIR WORD GROG.—This is AM-
IE/go lot row and water. and originated from Admi-
ral Weemon. Om first introduced it on board ship:
I,e out called by the 'rumen old Grog, from hie wee 7.
it s rerun teat la bad wee'Ler.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Javes.
'll ARPIN AND ANOTHER V. ARRAN 134.1.

The Plairitiffs in this case were the Astignees of a
Dinkrept named Fitzgerald. The prewint was an
action of hover to rezone the •stem of a vessel named
the Grace, assigned over by Fitzgerald to the De.
feodant. Th. noly question for the derision of the
Jury was, whether the assignment hsd been ande
previous to the act of bankruptcy on the part of
Fitzgerald or sot.
_ _

After beads% astral mass of evidence, the Jury
were of opinion, Ike @alignment was m.de fobs*.
qwently to the act of bankruptcy, and accordingly
they found for the Plaintiffs for the sons laid in the
declaration.