stitution undergoes at the cessation of the catamenia, may render subsequent alterations less perceptible. Of the various immediate causes to which this malady may owe its com. mencement, there is none more frequent than a common cold. When the body is predisposed to this change, any occa. sion of feverish excitement, and a privation of rest at the same time, will readily induce it. I have known an act of intemperance, where intemperance was not habitual, the first apparent cause of it. A fall, which did not appear of consequence at the moment, and which would not have been so at any other time, has sometimes jarred the frame into this disordered action. A marriage contract ed late in life has also afforded the first occasion to this change; but above all, anxiety of mind and sorrow have laid the surest foundation for the malady in its least remediable form. Physicians will not expect me to propose a cure for this malady. In fact, I have nothing to offer with confidence, in that view, beyond a caution that the symptoms of the disease he not met by too active a treatment. It is not very improbable that this important change in the condition of the constitution is connected with a deficiency in the energy of the brain itself, and an irregular supply of the nervous influence to the heart. Whatever, therefore, would weaken the general system must be detrimental; and it seems in all cases of this kind more prudent to direct local than general evacuations for the relief of occasional congestions in the blood vessels. For the torpor of the stomach and digestive organs the warmer pu gatives are generally preferable to those of a saline kind; and I have often been better satisfied with the effect of the decoctum aloes compositum than that of other evacuants. If the system appear to be surmounting its difficulties, the Bath water may be recommended with probable advantage, particularly if the stomach has been weakened by intemperance, and still more especially if symptoms of gout shall have been blended with those of the cli macteric malady in its course. PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. MR. WILLIAM BRUNTON'S, of Butterley Iron Works, Derbyshire, Engineer; for Machinery for propelling or drawing Carriages upon Roads or Railways, without Horses; also Vessels upon Canals. Dated May 22, 1813. Na waggon, cart, or other vehicle, fit for roads or railways, or on a boat, barge, or other vessel, employed upon canals or navigation, Mr. Brunton proposes to place the moving power, (say a steam-engine,) by which the said waggon, cart, boat, or other vehicle or vessel, is to be propelled or drawn. And he effects the progressive motion of the same by means of one, two, or more bars or legs; but he describes only two, which act against the ground or against a rope, chain, bar, or rod; and which bars or legs are attached to, or connected with, the said moving power in such manner as to receive from the said moving power a reciprocating motion, something similar to the motion of a man's legs when in the act of walking; which reciprocating motion may be communicated from the said moving power, to the said bars or legs by any of the usual and fit mechanical means employed by machinists to give a reciprocating motion, nor can any com petent machinist err in rendering the said bars or legs, to which he communicates such reciprocating motion, efficient for the purpose of propelling the wheel carriage or floating vessel, that carries the said moving power, if he take care not to make the angle too great or too small, at which the lower extremity, or what he calls the feet of the said bars or legs, act or press alternately or conjointly (but the alternate action will generally be found most convenient) against the road or railway when the body to be moved is on land, or against the bottom or sides of the canal or navigation, when the body to be moved is on water. The lower extremities of the said levers, bars, or legs, should be furnished with one or more pieces, which he calls feet, made of wood or of metal, of a breadth proportioned to the material or materials against which they are to act. The more soft or loose these materials are, the broader should be the soles of the said feet; and the said feet will be found to act best when they are attached to the said bars or legs, by means of joints, in such a manner as to allow the feet to adapt or accommodate themselves to the various inclinations or inequalities es which the road or material may present, that they may the better keep hold of the road or material against which they are to act, with the whole or with the greater part of their surface.. He constructs the said bars or legs of metal or of wood, and of such length, that during the act of propulsion, the angle formed by the said bars or legs, and the surface of the road, may be such as to afford sufficient resistance from the materials propelled against to overcome the friction of the body to be moved. This angle admits of considerable latitude, but will be found to answer best when between fifty and seventy degrees. On the foregoing arrangement it is only necessary further to remark, that the machinist, who may wish to make use of his said invention after the expiration of the term of years mentioned in the said letters patent, will see the propriety of so constructing the machinery, that when the one leg and foot is brought to the ground, or about to take the ground, the other, by a suitable contrivance, may be raised up and suspended until it is again to be brought into action, and so alternately with each leg and foot, if he adopt the alternate action; but if he prefer the conjoint action, he must cause both legs to rise when they have reached the extremity of their propelling range, and keep them both suspended till they are again required to act for the purpose of repeating the propulsion. In circumstances, when suitable machinery, as a rack, indentations, teeth, or pins of metal, or of any suitable material, or ropes, chains, rods, or bars, are attached to roads or railways, to, in, or over, canals or navigations for the purpose of facilitating the movement of carriages, or of floating bodies, by mecha-. nical means, the lower extremes of the aforesaid legs, or the feet of the said legs, may be made to act against such rack, indentations, teeth, or pins, or against such rope, chain, rod, or bar, in the manner before described; or the said legs, in place of having such feet as have been described attached to them, may be furnished with any of the usual and fit contrivances, by which a rope, chain, bar, or rod, is allowed to slide freely one way, but locked or griped when the motion is reversed. In this kind of arrangement, if the bar or leg, with its foot, (or in this case it may be compared to an arm with its haud,) slide easily forward on any rope, chain, bar, 63 or rod, provided for the purpose; and on being drawn back by the mechanism that connects it with the moving power, gripes or catches the said rope, chain, bar, or rod, then the waggon or other carriage, or the boat or other vessel, will be drawn forward in the direction of the said rope, chain, bar, or rod; and, on the contrary, if the leg act behind the body to be moved, it must be made to gripe or catch the rope, chain, or bar, as it. moves outward behind, that the body to be moved may be propelled forward. When, by such an arrangement as has just been described, the bar, or lever, with its foot or hand, is made to gripe or catch a rope, chain, bar, rod, rack, or similar contrivance, the smaller the angle which the said bar or lever makes with the said rope, chain, bar, rod, rack, or similar contrivance, the better; as the forementioned angle of between fifty and seventy degrees, is requisite only when the foot has no other means of taking hold of the road or material against which it acts but its own friction. Of course, one waggon or boat being propelled or drawn forward, as many more may be attached to that one, as the power employed may be able to move forward with suitable speed. The figure represents a side view, of an efficient mechanical travelier. On the body of a wheel carriage (or in a boat, as the case may be) is placed the moving power, namely, a steam-engine. To the lower extremities, or propelling ends, of the legs a b and c d are attached, by joints, the feet a and c, which act against the ground. From an inspection of the drawing, it will be perceived, that the piston-rod, being attached by the joint b to the leg a b, and to the reciprocating lever be, and the said reciprocating lever be being joined by the joint i to the rod in, the said rod i n must always have its motion nearly parallel to that of the pis ton, ton, and always in the direction of the piston. And the said rod in being connected by the joint n with the sliding rack n o, which receives the teeth of a horizontal wheel, cannot move without causing the said wheel to revolve, and so giving a contrary motion to the opposite sliding rack connected by the joint s with the rod st, which communicates motion to the reciprocating lever d e, and so to the other leg d c. For the purpose of raising one foot from the ground during the progression of its leg, any contrivance, similar in its effects to the following, may be employ ed. Attach to the reciprocative lever, or rod of the opposite leg at d or e, or to any part of the machine having a suitable motion, a roller, made moveable on its axis in one direction only by means of a ratchet and catch. In the groove of this roller put another roller moveable easily in either direction; fasten the broad end of a strap, made of leather, or of some suitable material; and from the said pin carry the said strap over the roller, and suspend a small weight to the other end of the strap. Things being thus arranged, while the leg moves from its position to another position, the compound roller will move also. The broad part of the strap acting upon the roller, and aided by the small weight, produces sufficient friction to raise the leg, till prevented by a stop, from rising higher than necessary; and when it has attained this elevation, the strap slips upon the roller, but still sustains the weight of the leg until the narrow part of the strap coming upon the loose roller, reduces the friction, and allows the leg to fall to the ground by its own gravity. Upon the next propulsion, the leg resumes its position, and the roller its position; the small weight redrawing the strap over the compound roller preparatory to a repetition of the movement. The feet may be made of any convenient form, as like a horse's foot; and to prevent this part from being rendered Soon unserviceable by wear, it should be furnished with some kind of shoe, which may be renewed when necessary. The soles of the feet should be of an extent proportioned to the materials on which they are to act, and in some cases for the purpose of gaining encreased sur For drawings illustrative of these passages we refer the interested reader to that aseful work the Repertory of Arts, No. 140. face, and a greater facility of adaptation to inequalities, it may be of advantage, that instead of one foot, two or more feet, with proper joints, should be attached to each leg. Where circumstances may render it desirable, the cylinder of the steam-engine may be placed vertically upon the carriage or boat, and be made, by a suitable arrangement of the mechanism, to give the required motion to levers or bars intended to act as legs or propellers, or as hands to gripe or catch a rope, chain, rod, or bar. In some observations by the patentee, he states as the result of actual experiments made upon one of his machines, that the boiler is five feet six inches long, three feet diameter, of wrought iron, and constructed in a peculiar manner, by which all acute bendings of the plates are avoided, and is capable of sustaining an internal pressure of four or five hundred pounds upon the square inch. The feet are constructed as in the specification, and the step is twenty-six inches long. The cylinder of the steam-engine is six inches diameter, and the piston rod has a stroke of twenty-four inches, and the weight of the whole, including water, &c. is about forty-five cwt. The machine has been tried upon the railway at the Crick lime-works, belonging to the Butterley Company, and performs very well, and will be set to work there regularly in the course of a few weeks. Other Patents lately granted, of which we solicit the Specifications. ISAAC WILLSON, of the city of Bath, gentleman; for certain improvements upon stove-grates, to prevent smoky rooms, and for obtaining an increased heat from the same quantity of fuel.-Dated' November 29, 1813. SAMUEL TYRRELL, of Peddinghoe, in the county of Sussex, farmer; for a broadcast sowing machine.-Dated December 4, 1813. JOHN BATEMAN, of the township of Wyke, in the county of York; for an improvement on musical instruments.-Dated December 9, 1813. JOHN SWARBRECK ROGERS, of the city of Chester, merchant; for a mode of spinning or making a species of wool into yarn, either by itself or with any other material, which yarn may be beneficially used in various branches of manufacture.-Dated December 14, 1813. 2 NEW REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. The celebrated Comic Divertisement entitled ORANGE BOVEN, or MORE GOOD NEWS, as performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The Words written by Mr. T. Dibdin; the Music composed and selected by John Whitaker. 8s. HIS piece, which consists of an eight songs, was evidently furnished in such haste, (to flatter the effervescence of a moment) that even if we were disposed to the severity of rigid animadversion, such a circumstance alone were sufficient to disarm criticism: but Mr. Whitaker, though we do not award him our unqualified praise, has succeeded too well not to claim a considerable degree of our approbation. The overture is spirited and characteristic; the greater portion of the songs are easy and vivacious; and the finale, though trivial, is appropriate. In a word, if the texture of the whole is slight, the materials are ingeniously manufactured, and have already proved lasting enough for the occasion. A Sonata for the Piano-forte; composed and dedicated to Muzio Clementi, by his Pupil, Louis Berger, of Berlin. 5s. Mr. Berger, in the present piece, has presented to piano-forte practitioners an agreeable and improving exercise. It is but just to add, that it abounds with evidences of real science; and that, although it cannot boast of any very striking instances of original fancy, it is, taken in the aggregate, truly inge nious, and calculated to invite the attention of every cultivated ear. Nine Variations on the favourite Air of "The Bay of Biscay." Composed and inscribed to M. Clementi, by Samuel Wesley. 3s. The ingenuity with which the variations to this popular air are conceived, is perfectly consonant with our elevated opinion of Mr. S. Wesley's taste and science. While a free and pleasing fancy pervades the adscititious matter, the ingenious conduct of the inner and under parts, particularly that of the bass, at once points out the musician and the man of talent. We cannot better conclude our remarks on this valuable, though circumscribed production, than by recommending it to the attention of young piano-forte practi tioners. MONTHLY MAG. No. 251. A Pyreneese Melody, with Variations for the Pianoforte. Composed by Gelinex. 1s. 6d. The melody which forms the theme of this little production, was deserving of the composer's choice. It is pleasing and interesting; and neither its novelty nor simplicity is lost in the variations by which Mr. Gelinex has given it the amplitude of a respectable and useful exercise for the instrument for which it is here adapted. Most of the practicable advantages have been embraced for diversifying, without disguising, the subject matter, and it displays much in this species of composition. Though the latter variations are not without brilliancy, they are tolerably well accommodated to the juvenile finger; and may be practised, with advantage by those who are not prepared for more difficult exercises. A Grand Triumphal March, for two Per formers on one Piano-forte. Composed by Ferdinand Ries. 2s. 6d. Mr. Ries, who has the honour of holding a seat in the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden, has furnished, in the composition before us, a piece which, besides the merit of conveying a wellearned compliment to our victorious, countrymen on the Continent, exhibits the author's talents and science in a very favourable point of view. The subject, as well as the general cast and spirit of the music, is truly martial; and, by the novel manner of opposing the parts in some particular passages, a pleasing and striking effect is produced. The whole is bold, free, and flowing; and the connection of the ideas bespeaks a prompt and well-regulated fancy. A favourite Air by Rode, with Variations for a Flute and Piano-forte, by F. Eley. to be a master of those instruments, at least as far as regards the knowledge of their characters and powers; and the combined effect demonstrates his skill in design and disposition. A Trio for the Piano-forte, Flute, and Violoncello. Composed and dedicated to Miss Littlejohn, by T. Haigh. 2s. 6d. This trio, which the composer has founded on the well-known air of "When War's alarms," is far from being devoid of merit. The prelude is fanciful and ingenious; and the principal movement, excepting that its combinations are, perhaps, a little too organical, is managed with an address creditable to Mr. Haigh's talent and judgment. Prelude, Variations, and Rondo, for the Harp or Piano forte. Composed by Bernard Romberg. 3s. The contents of Mr. Romberg's present publication are as ingenious as va rious. The prelude possesses much wellarranged execution; the succeeding movement is free and masterly; and the concluding rondo, while agreeable in its subject, presents, in its digressive matter, proofs of a florid and ductile fancy. Pyrenean March for the Piano-forte. Composed and dedicated to the brave Armies under Lord Wellington, by Louis Berger, of Berlin. 18. If this march does not possess all the novel character and martial ardour the particular subject to worthy of which it is applied, still it is entitled to our acknowledgment of its ranking above the generality of modern military pieces, and offers a promise of future excellence in this species of compo sition. Freedom's Tree; a Patriotic Bass Song. Composed with an Accompaniment for the Piano-forte, by John Whitaker. 1s. 6d. We find, in this song, some bold and energetic passages; and though a fine and masculine turn or two, which lay in his way, have escaped Mr. Whitaker's attention, yet no inconsiderable com. mendation is due to his effort, which certainly breathes, in a great degree, the generous and redoubted spirit of a trueborn Englishman. ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced between the 14th of December and the 18th of January, extracted from the London Gazettes. N. B.-In Bankruptcies in and near London, the Attornies are to be understood to reside in London, and in Country Bunkruptcies at the Residence of the Bankrupt, except other, wise expressed. Duke M. York, comb manufacturer. (Thorpe and Gray Denman J. Croydon, bricklayer. (Lee, Southwark Edwards M. Ofweftry, Salop, milliner. (Exley and co. Evans J. Margate, Kent, victualler. (Lewis, Canter. bury Fulloon J. Suffolk place, Hackney road, corn dealer. (Barker, London Fletcher L. and J. Smithurft, Stockbrook Mill, Chad- London Firmling J. Chislehurst, Kent, coach mafter. (Sheppard, London (Ashfield Ferne C. H. St. John street, baker. chardfon Godney W. and R. Hutton, Kingston upon Hull, corn. factors. Roffer and Son, London Gregory J. Neath. Glamorgan, linen draper. (Cardale and Young, London Gray E. and T. Laver, Newgate treet, worsted trimming manufacturers. (wann Greenwood. Huddersfield, York, fhuttle-maker. (Shep hard and co. {Robins Grove J. Great Ruffell ftreet, fishmonger. Hand 8. Oxford, linen draper. (Ware and Young Stevens Ingall T. Bawtry, York, grocer. (Sykes and Knowles Ingledon . Wood Street, Cheapside, warehoufeman. (Battye Iddon W. Crefton, linen draper. (Winde, London Ireland R. Eaft freet. Sr. Mary-le Bone, cheesemonger. (Greenwell and Lloyd Ifaacs J. Hackney Crefcent, jeweller. (Ifaacs, London. |