ADDRESS TO THE SPIRIT OF A DEPARTED FRIEND.

By J. Connor.

BLEST spirit of my sainted friend,
Which, in this vale of misery,
So oft with mine was wont to blend,
With all an angel's sympathy;
Bending from Heaven's exalted sphere,
Ah deign again my voice to hear.

When gloomy Sorrow gives her tear,
Deep o'er my darkened eye to roll,
O then, as thou didst oft, appear

To tranquillize my troubled soul;
For soon as I perceive thee nigh
I know the shades of grief will fly.

When, as calm evening o'er the bowers,
From golden clouds her dews doth shed,

I cull the loveliest, sweetest flowers,

And, weeping, wreathe them round thy bed;
O then, light hovering o'er the soil,
With smiles of love reward my toil.

And, when my voice and lyre combine
To swell the vesper hymn of praise,
O let me hear thy harp divine,

That sounds on high to Zion's lays;
And through the silent air, my song
In strains of sweeter tone prolong.

When on thy monumental stone

I lean, and mourn in accents low,
Whilst o'er the church-yard still and lone,
The watchful stars of midnight glow;
O then on Pity's wing descend,
To whisper comfort to thy friend.

And let me hear thee softly say,

"Repress those tears, and hush that sigh,

"Soon will arrive the happy day,

"When here by mine thy dust will lie;

"Then in the beams of endless light,

"Our blissful spirits will unite."

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

Europe is about to be presented with all the science of the Arabians, in grammar, rhetoric, and logic, in some translations from the elementary books of the east, by Lieutenant Lockett, assistant secretary in the college at Fort William. The three sciences will fill a quarto of five hundred pages.

Thomas Myers, A. M. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, author of a Compendious System of Modern Geography, historical, physical, political, and descriptive, intends soon to publish, elegantly printed on a large sheet, a Statistical Table of Europe, uniting all that is most interesting in the geography of that distinguished quarter of the globe, and showing at one view the territorial extent, the military strength, and the commercial importance of each state.

Dr. Brewster, of Edinburgh, is about to publish a Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments for various purposes in the arts and sciences, with Experiments on light and colours, in one volume 8vo. with twelve plates.

Mr. Thomas Forster has now in press Meteorological Researches and Journals, with engravings, 8vo.

Dr. Wollaston has read to the Royal Society of London, a description of his newly invented single lens micrometer. This instrument is made like a common telescope, but the focus of the lens is only 1-12th of an inch: this glass is placed behind a brass plate, through the centre of which an eye-hole is drilled; the subjects to be viewed are placed between glasses serving as object glasses, and the measure of the magnifying powers and of the subjects examined is taken by means of a certain number of wires fixed near the object glasses. The measure and number of the wires being determined, the objects may be extended to such distances as to give their dimensions by making a wire the two hundredth part of an inch to cover them. The description was illustrated by designs of the micrometer, which the author adopted in consequence of his experiments on drawing very fine wires, some of which did not exceed the thirty thousandth part of an inch; but they were incapable of supporting themselves at this fineness, and were broken in very short pieces. He found wires, 18,000 of which covered an inch, to be the finest and strongest for any useful purpose.

A paper by Dr. Pearson, on the tinging matter of the bronchial glands of the hungs, and on the black, or tinging matter of the lungs themselves, was read. From his researches it appears that this black matter is prineipally charcoal in an uncombined state, or, at least, that it is only intimately mixed with a small portion of animal matter. He conceives that it is derived from the atmosphere in breathing; that it is first conveyed into the air-tubes, and from them, by means of the numerous lymphatics, into the bronchial glands, and, therefore, that it is not a secreted substance. This subject being so novel, Dr. Pearson declined entering into much reasoning, or drawing many conclusions until more facts are brought to light.

Mr. Carmichael of Dublin has made several ingenious experiments, and conclusions respecting the electric fluids, considered as different compounds of the solar

rays.

Professor Berzelius continues his experiments upon the combinations of metals with sulphur and oxygen, with a view of ascertaining the truth of Sir H. Davy's theory of definite proportions.

The dispute between Mr. Murray, Lecturer on Chymistry, in Edinburgh, and Sir H. Davy, on the subject of the existence of water in muriatic acid gas, still remains undecided.

The claims of Zerah Colburn, the American boy, to extraordinary talents, and originality of discovery, have been denied by several English mathematicians, but successfully defended by others; they both agree in the discovery that his mode of extracting the square and cube root depends merely on the two first and two last figures of the number.

Madame Perpenti has succeeded in the manufacture of incombustible cloth and paper, from Asbestos, in the manner of the ancients.

Mr. Fournay has shown by experiment that the clay pyrometers of Wedgewod however accurately made, and uniform as to the composition and mode of mixture of the ingredients, cannot be trusted to as a faithful standard of measurement of every degree of heat:

Dr. Brewster has been for some time employed in experiments on the proper ties of light, more particularly on the effects produced upon it by such bodies as possess a double refractive power.

Mr. Clarke's dissertatious on the foot of the living horse promises to be of use to the world in leading the way to some inquiries into some new mode of guarding the hoof of that noble animal, whose life is now shortened one half by the pernicious and cruel practice of shoeing with iron at an early period. The horse, by the law which all the irrational animals appear to observe, should live from 40 to 50 years.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

A valuable discovery has been made by some German travellers in the Isle of Egina, under the ruins of the temple of Jupiter Panhellenius. They have found 18 marble statues, nearly as large as life, and in the most antique Greek style. They had been placed on the pediment of the temple, and may be easily restored. Several interesting fragments have also been found, by digging in the same place; and on clearing away the rubbish, the pavement of the temple was discovered in perfect preservation. The French consul at Athens, M. Fauvel, having been informed of this discovery, immediately repaired to the place. He is in possession of a truly valuable collection of antiques, which is every day augmented by new researches. Among these are a great number of cinerary urns, in each of which was found an obolus. One of them is the boat of Charon. The statues above mentioned represent different heroes of the Trojan war.

The Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds are preparing for publication by James Northcote, R. A. and will contain a number of original anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, Dr. Goldsmith, and other distinguished characters with whom he had intercourse and connexion.

A third volume of Dr. Clarke's Travels is in preparation, forming the Second Section of the Travels in Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land; and completing the Second Part of the whole work, according to the plan originally proposed by the author. It will contain his Voyage up the Nile to Grand Cairo; his Observations upon the Pyramids of Djiza and Saccara; a Description of the Remains of the City of Sais, in the Delta; an account of the Antiquities of Alexandria, particularly of Pompey's Pillar and the Crypte of Necropolis; and his subsequent voyage and travels in Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, &c.

Letters from the Mediterranean, by Edward Blaquiere, Esq. will shortly be published, comprising a particular account of Sicily, Tripoly, Tunis, and Malta, with biographical sketches of various public characters.

The Memoirs of Margaret de Valois, Queen of Navarre, the first wife of Henry IV. of France, containing the secret history of the court of France, from 1565 to 1582, during the reigns of Charles IX. and Henry III. including a full account of the massaere of the Protestants on St. Bartholomew's day; written by herself in a series of letters, and translated from the French, with a preface and notes by the translator, will appear in the ensuing month.

Speedily will be published,

Translations from the Anthologies, by the Rev. Mr. Bland, 8vo.
Don Quixotte, splendidly embellished from pictures by Mr. Smirke.
Mr. Playfair's Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth.
Account of the Russian Embassy to Japan.

A new edition of Mr. Turnbull's Voyage round the World, forming a supplemental volume to the Voyages of Cook, King, and Vancouver. To which will be added, from a manuscript never before made public, some account of the Voyage of the Geographe and Naturaliste, the two French ships lately sent out on discovery by Buonaparte

Travels through Denmark and Sweden. To which is prefixed a Journal of a voyage down the Elbe from Dresden to Hamburgh, including a compendious historical account of the Hanseatic League. By Louis de Boisgelin, Knight of Malta. With views from drawings taken on the spot by Dr. Charles Parry. 4to. 2 vols.

[From the Monthly Review.]

M. DE BOISGELIN prefaces his narrative by ample acknowledgments to various literary and political characters, to whom he is indebted for information. We have heard it whispered that these declarations are sometimes inserted as much for the sake of giving consequence to a book, as to gratify the persons thanked; and our readers may be disposed to apply this suspicion to the present work, when they find M. de Boisgelin ranking VOL. II. New Series.

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