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struction of every article connected Mr. R. Baylis, a churchwarden, was with the manufactory.

July 1. The foot-toll on Worcester bridge ceased. This toll has been levied for nearly forty years, the act for the erection of the bridge having passed in 1769; it was laid on the old bridge for some years, until the new one was opened in September, 1781. At the last letting of the tolls, the foot-toll was let for 1390/. and the

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indicted for two libels against the Rev. G. Waldon, rector. The libels were borrowed from scripture, and were posted up near the pulpit: "Thou hath let thy mouth speak wickedness, and with thy tongue hath set forth deceit." My house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves." The defendant, when called upon for his defence, justified his conduct by saying, that a churchwarden had a right to put up any thing in a church, so that it was taken from holy writ.

The court, however, thought otherwise, and sentenced him to be fined and imprisoned.

A person was fined in the penalty of five pounds, by the magistrates of the county of Worcester, for taking off one of the horses drawing his cart along the turnpike road leading to the city of Worcester, before its arrival at the turnpike, and by such act defrauding the gate-keeper of his toll.

III. BIOGRAPHY.

Earl of Coventry. army; George Viscount Deerhurst, Aug. Died, at his house in Picca- who succeeds his father, and is now dilly, George William Coventry, Earl Earl of Coventry, was married, at 19 of Coventry, Viscount Deerhurst, years of age, to Lady Catharine HenLord Lieutenant of the county, and lev, a daughter of. the late Earl of recorder of the city of Worcester. Northington: the mariage was with-His lordship was born in April, out the consent of his father, and the 1722: he was educated at Win- lady died in less than two years (in chester, was afterwards of University Jan. 1779); a few months after which, College, Oxford; and with his eldest as Lord Deerhurst was hunting in brother, Lord Deerhurst, (who died Worcestershire, attempting a dangein 1744) was created master of arts in rous leap, his horse fell on him, beat 1739. He succeeded his father, Earl his face nearly flat, and though he was William, in March, 1751. The fol- miraculously preserved, he has ever lowing year he married Maria, the since been totally blind. In 1783, he eldest of the three daughters of John married Miss Pitches, second daughter Gunning, Esq. the most celebrated of Sir A. Pitches, by whom he has a beauties of that day. The issue of this numerous family. The first wife of marriage have been remarkably un- the late Earl died in 1760, and in fortunate: the first born daughter died 1764 he was united to Barbara, daughyoung, Mary Alicia, the next child, ter of John, Lord St. John, of Blestoe, was the first wife of the present Sir who died in 1804, leaving him several Andrew Bayntun, to whom she was children. Lord Coventry was a lord married when 23 years old, in June, of the bedchamber to his late and 1777; was divorced in 1789, and died present majesty, which office be rein January, 1784; Ann Margaret, the signed in 1770. He supported the next child, was married in 1778, when prerogative in the American war, 21 years old, to the Hon. Edw. Foley, though he deprecated the exertion of from whom she was divorced in 1787, force. In 1788 he voted with ministers and the following year she married on the regency question; and in 1795 Samuel Wright, Esq. a captain in the voted Mr. Hastings “not guilty” an

all the charges against him. On the government of the country with zeal 27th March, 1796, he opposed the ne- and integrity; but when, during the gotiation with the French directory; American war, he could no longer apand, in 1803, spoke against the motion prove of the then minister, Lord for censuring Lord Sidmouth's admi- North, he resigned the place of one Distration. of the lords of the bedchamber, though The memory of this venerable noble- contrary to his majesty's wishes, reman will deservedly be held in high solving that no private consideration respect by all who had the honor and should shackle his public conduct pleasure of his acquaintance. In the He was a highly polished gentleman, long period of 59 years, during which an elegant scholar, and a man of suhe held the high office of Lord Lieu- perior taste. That he possessed this tenant of the county of Worcester, the latter accomplishment in an eminent integrity of his public conduct, ever degree will be manifest to every one directed by a sound judgement, ac- who recollects what the Croome detive in promoting the public good, mesne once was, and what it now is;. and adorned by a fability and polite with few natural advantages, it has ness, ensured universal esteem. Nor been layed out and adorned, under his was his conduct less worthy of imi- lordship's immediate direction, with tation as a peer of parliament; he so much judgement, as evidently to well understood the principles of the show what art and industry can per 'constitution, and acted at all times in form, "when science marks the proconformity with them, supporting the gress of their way."

IV. POLITICAL ECONOMY,

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Pasture.
150,000.

Acres.
431,360. 200,000.

Houses. Inhabitants. | Males. Females.

Houses 139,333. 67,631. 71,702.

Poor's Rates in 1803.
£87,507—5s. 0§. in the £.

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Commons, Heaths, &c. &c.
81,360.

Engaged in Trade. In Agriculture.
30,290.
38,865.

Property Assessment in 1806.
£1,809,122.

Average Scale of Mortality for ten Years.

1 to 46."

We conclude with passing our de- index. Where there is such a mass cided approbation upon this volume, of miscellaneous information, it is and with expressing a sincere hope impossible to know always where to that the patronage of the public will refer to what we want. We recom warrant the publishers in continuing mend this hint to the consideration it. One thing, we think, would of the conductors.

greatly improve its value: a general

ORIGINAL POETRY.

To the Editor of the Universal Mag. whose defence he perished shall have

SIR,

The name and actions of NELSON can receive no embellishment, can beam with no additional lustre, from all that poetry, from all that eloquence can bestow. He has delivered it down to posterity himself, he has placed it on a basis which shall stand, unshaken, when the empire which gave him birth and the last remains of the people in

faded away.

The following lines were written and recited on a public occasion, just after the melancholy news of his deathThey are now offered you for insertion at the suggestion of those who have heard and read them, and think, with the partiality of friendship, that they deserve publicity.

Oct. 21st, 1810.

I remain, &c.

M.

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With look dejected, and with faded mien, The sorrowing Muse, descending from the sky,

Reluctant, deigns to hold this earthly scene, Pale with her woes, extinct her wonted fir, Awful, in solemn black, she sweeps along : On NELSON'S urn reclines her mournful lyre,

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And thus she weaves her melancholy song. "Immortal warriors of the night of time Whose deeds of valour fill the list'ning world,

Heroes! the ardour of whose souls sublime Oppression from her blood-stain'd empire hurl'd;

And ye of later age, the pride of Rome, And ye, whose names the Grecian story boasts,

Whose arms have paled a mighty nation's bloom [hosts; And crush'd to dust her proud enibattl'd Departed Great of every age and clime, Who swam to glory thro' a sea of blood, O'er whose exploits the mellowing hand of

time

Sheds the chaste glow of patriotic good;
In dusky grandeur sweep before my sight,
And listening bend around my vocal string,
Arrest the cadence in its airy flight,
And peal in chorus to the strains I sing!
Mourn pale Britannia mourn thy Hero
gone!
[breast!
Burst the loud sigh from every heaving
Thy glory now her bright career has run :
Thy NELSON's arm lies prostrate in the
dust.

Oh! he was all a nation's pride had known! Brave, generous, just, compassionate, and kind:

But Heaven has claim'd these virtues as its

own,

And only left their memory behind.

Oft did his arm his country's vengeance guide,

And proudly fix her standard on the main!
Oft did he, surging o'er the billowy tide,
The de, thful combat fearlessly sustain.
Yer, in the battle's fiercest, bloodiest rage,
MERCY alighted on the Warrior's form,
The mortal havoc of his sword t'assuage

Thrice when the sun rose pale on Britain's weal,

When her leagu'd foes assail'd her tow'ring prides

When mad Ambition bar'd her ruthless steel,

And thund'ring trod with Rapine by her side; Thrice did his arm avert the menac'd blow, And drive them trembling to their shores again;

Crush'd their proud hopes, and laid their navies low,

And o'er the scas confirm'd our wonted reign. Egypt's parch'd shores' beheld his warlike deeds,

Beheld the horrors of that awful day! Sco! how thro' all her strength pale Gallia bleeds!

Hark! how she groans with anguish and

dismay !

On these same shores, in ages long ago, Heroes have battl'd, of illustrious name, Whose sacred shades beheld, with kindred glow,

The BRITISH HERO emulate their fame. What fresh dismay thy kindling soul decreed,

deed,

What countless numbers still inglorious fell, What new-gain'd honors grac'd thy former [tell. The blood-drench'd shores of Copenhagen Again! again! the power of Gallia falls! Falls! with Iberia leagu'd beneath thy sword! TRAFALGAR's bloody day Britannia hails, TRAFALGAR's day her history shall record! But ah! the Muse 'midst revelry unblest, Profusely sheds the unrestricted tear; While sighs of anguish heave her lab'ring breast,

And loud proclaim the victory too dear.
Yes! Sons of Britain! a price too dearly
giv'n;
[grave;
For victory triumph'd o'er thy NELSON'S
He-now a spirit in his kindred heav'n-
Fell-nor was conscious of the boon he gave.
Let joy with grief divided empire claim;
Let tears and smiles commingle on the brow;
These, when Trafalgar's glorious day we
name,

Those, with its hero's let profusely flow.
Oh child of Victory! nursling of her hand!
Oft did her charms thy youthful eye arrest!
Her war-clad form, her port of bold com-
mani,

vest.

And spare its victims in the infuriate storm. Her dazzling lustre, and her blood stain'd
Mild as the sun of morn in earliest spring;
Mild as the western zephyr's balmy breath;
He bade her spread her broad, white foster-

ing wing

To shield her thousands from insatiate death.

Twas Victory rais'd thee to a nation's pride; 'Twas Victory blest thy last, thy parting sigh;

And as thou fell'st, the goddess at thy side, Receiv'd thy form and clos'd thy dying eye.

NELSON, farewel! around thy laurell'd bust,
Thy country,weeping,hails thy sacred name!
Wets, with her tears, thy consecrated dust,
The first in virtue, and the first in fame!
And now my lyre assume a bolder strain:
Awake thy strings to notes of higher peal;
With kindling warmth resound the skies
again!

Bid human breasts prophetic fury feel.

Oh! may we never from our hearts efface,
In peril's darkest most foreboding hour,
But, as a blessing leave it to our race,
As richer far than all the pride of power.
The signal NELSON to his champions gave
When first the haughty foe appear'd in sight;
While his proud fleet, careering o'er the

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E'er emulate my Hannah's artless hues!
Can plaster'd canvas with such graces glow,
As clothe the clouds, or blend in show'ry
bow?

All varied shapes and vivid shine express,
That earth unveils in all her vernal dress;
Or vain embroidery vie with flow'rs and
fruits,

That ornament her finish'd summer suits!
The painting art affords not like delight,
By It gratifies no other sense but sight,

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My passion, Hannah, for the nymph I [ties moveHow much my breast her matchless beauHow much her charms, unblemish'd, I pre[her. For, when I'm clasping thee, I'm courting All mimic arts, with richest pomp array'd;

fer,

And sight deceiv'd, like every other sense,
Feels disappointment propagate offence;
While all its pleasures grow more pure and
faint,

By repetition, from the pow'rs of paint-
For human eyes, with everlasting lust,
Find all but novelty produce disgust,

Or, with a weak and told indifference, view
All charms of beauty when no longer new.
Paint's rude creation, sketching creatures

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No single grateful object e'er observe-
Tho' subtlest fingers o'er the surface slide,
All soft sensations to the nerves denied
The utmost diligence of smell or taste,
Would find their best endeavours void and
waste,

All whims indulg'd, exorbitances paid; Nor can the keenest ear, or sharpest eye, Afford not feasts for man's exalted sense, One tone distinct, or obvious act descry. Like her's, without constraint, or doit's ex- Its flow'rs diffuse no fragrance round the [sight, plain

pense.

No garnish'd galleries, rapture tasteful With lustres, lamps, and girandoles bedight, Like Heav'n's immense, inimitable cove, Where worlds, innumerable, nightly rove. When lunar beam and brilliant starry train Illuminate the polish'd sapphire plain; Much less can all arts pow'rs, combin'd, display

The feeblest semblance of meridian day.

Its fruits no touch, or palate entertain—
Its utmost skill can make no motion seen,
O'er tracts of sky or variegated green-
Its winged insects, and its feathery race,
Seem all suspended, dead, in open space;
Or on trees, shrubs, and plants, like statues,

stand

As beasts and reptiles on the solid land. [To be continued.]

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TRANSACTIONS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES.

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ROYAL SOCIETY.

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age of the tremors usually produced by the number of stones in the regular pavement of London passed over by carriages moving quickly. If the number of vibrations be twenty-four in a second, and the breadth of each stone be six inches, the rate of the carriage would be about eight miles in an hour, which agrees with the truth of the facts on which the estimate is founded.

R. WOLLASTON being appointed to read the last Croonian lecture, commenced his discourse, by obsery ing that the remarks which he had to offer on the occasion might be thought to bear too little direct relation to each other for insertion in the same lecture, yet that any observation respecting the mode of action of voluntary muscles, and every enquiry into the causes which derange, and into The doctor was led to the investigathe means of assisting, the action of tion of the cause of sea-sickness from the heart and blood-vessels, must be what he himself experienced in a voyallowed to promote the design of Dr. age. He first observed a peculiarity Croone, who had instituted these an- in his mode of respiration, evidently nual disquisitions. He accordingly connected with the motion of the ves divided his discourse into three parts, sel: that his respirations were not viz. on the duration of voluntary taken with the accustomed unifor action;" on "the origin of sea-sick- mity, but were interrupted by irregu Dess," as arising from a simple mecha- lar pauses, with an appearance of nical cause, deranging the circulation watching for some favourable opporof the blood; and then he endeavours tunity for making a succeeding ef to explain the advantage derived from fort; and it seemed as if the act of riding, and other modes of gestation, inspiration were in some manner to in assisting the health under various be guided by the tendency of the ves circumstances, in preference to every sel to pitch with an uneasy motion. species of actual exertion. This action, he thought, affected the In speaking of the duration of mus- system by its influence on the mocular action, he observes, that besides tion of the blood, for, at the same the necessity of occasional intermis- instant that the chest is dilated for sions from a series of laborious exer. the reception of air, its vessels betions, and the fatigue of continuing come also more open to the recep the effort of any one voluntary muscle tion of the blood, so that the return of without intermission, which are obvi- blood from the head is more free than ous to every person, there is a third at any other period of complete respiview of the subject, viz. that each ef- ration. But by the act of expelling fort, though apparently single, con air from the lungs, the ingress of the sists in reality of a number of contrac- blood is so far obstructed, that when tions repeated at extremely short in the surface of the brain is exposed by tervals, so short that the intermediate the trepan, a successive turgescence relaxations cannot be visible, unless and subsidence of the brain is seen in prolonged beyond the usual limits by alternate motion with the different a state of partial or general debility. states of the chest. Hence, perhaps, The existence of these alternate mo- in severe head-achs, a degree of temtions he infers from a sensation per- porary relief is obtained by occasional ceptible upon inserting the extremity complete inspirations: in sea-sickness of the finger into the ear, because a also the act of inspiration will have sound is then perceived which resem- some tendency to relieve, if regulated bles that of carriages at a distance so as to counteract any temporary passing rapidly over a pavement, and pressure of blood upon the brain. their frequency he estimates at twenty The principal uneasiness is felt during er thirty in a second; and he adds the subsidence of the vessel by the that the resemblance of the muscular vibrations to the sound of carriages at a distance, arises not so much from the quality of the sound as from an agreement in frequency with an averUNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. XIV.

sinking of the wave on which it rests. It is during this subsidence that the blood has a tendency to press with unusual force upon the brain. This fact is elucidated by reasoning, and by 2 R

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