Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-28
ENGLISH MISCELLANIES.

U,,derhiPs Patent Machinery for passing
Boats from higher to a io,cer lereL-The in
vention of conveying vessels or floating bodies
from one level to another, is carried into effect
BY the following means:-Supposing that a boat
or barge was proceeding from higher to a lower
level Of a canal, cradle or frame with wheels is
TO be lowered down below the surface of the wa
ter, and the boat or barge iloated Immediately
over it. The cradle is then drawn out of the wa
ter BY means of chains and powerful machinery,
having the barge resting in it; and the running
wheels of the cradle being guided against inclin-
ed railways, are made to run up the railway
by the power already mentioned, carrying the
cradle with the barge in level position on to a
platform Just above the surface of the water
From this platform the cradle and the barge are
lowered again, by the agency of the power, and
the suspension chains above mentioned, the
wheels of the cradle running down other inclined
railways to the water, al the lower level of the
canal where the barge is again set ahoat, and the
cradle drawn up to the platform, ready for ST.
milar operation. The improvements are also APP
plicable to the raising or lowering of weights up
on land.
A Smgu!as Feature IN the East India Compa-
Hy's M0nopOy-There is one remarkable cir
cumstance attending this particular departure
bited in the East India and China case, and which
we recommend to the notice even of those who
bewail SO loudly the breaking up of ordinary mo-
nopolies-viz. that inasmuch as other prohibitory
and exclusive systems have been maintained on
behalf of the British merchant and against the TO-
reigner, and have, therefore, some show of do
nestle preference and patriotic spirit to excuse
them, this extraordinary system, for whose over
throw the whole kingdom now unites, is actually
a monopoly established by England herself. in
trcor Of all foreign merchants and against her
OocnL For every trader of every country under
Heaven, and every flag th:t navigates the seas,
enter unmolested all the ports to the eastward
OF the Cape, and drive 4 lucrative commerce
there-save only the merchant and the flag of
England, which, under penalty affixed to them
by English laws, and selfmade the victims of
close anti-national monopoly, are held to be con-
traband OF peace and war, and in derision of their
boasted pretensions to the character of a CONNER
cial power, are stigmatiZed as the ONLY outcasts
from privilege enjoyed at pleasure by the whole
community of mankind.
London Solitude.-In London, any thing NAV
be had for money; and one thing NAV be had
there in perfection without it. That one thing is
solitude. Take up your abode in the deepest
glen, or on the widest heath, in the remotest pro-
vince Of the Kingdom, where the din of commerce
is not heard, and where the wheels >of pleasure
make no trace, even there humanity will find YOU,
and sympathy under some of its varied aspects,
Will creep beneath the humble roof. Travellers
curiosity will be excited to gaze upon the recluse
or the village pastor will come to offer his reG-
gious consultations to the heart-chlled SOLITARY or
some kind spinster who is good to the poor, will
proffer her kindly aid in medicine for sickness
or IN some shape of relief for poverty. But in
the mighty metropolis, where myriads of human
hearts are throbbing-where all that is busy in
commerce, all that is elegant in manners, all
that is mighty in power, all that is dazzling in
in splendor. all that is brilliant in genius, all that
is benevolent in feeling, is congregated together
there the penniless solitary may feel the depth
Of his solitude. From morn to night he may pen !
sively pace the streets, envying every equipage
that sweeps by him in its pride, and coveting tho
trusts OF the unwashed artifcer. And there