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rown into, might also see things in a very different light from what ey really were. But it is a matter of consolation to me, that the at landed two cargoes-surely this accounts for her properties; en due attention is paid by those in her, to keep her in as near as sible a right position-viz. her head to the sea. It could never expected a Boat would live athwart the sea; and the probability her being overloaded, is in my mind a powerful reason for the untunate event."

We shall now, in the third place, proceed to shew how far th parties are borne out in their statement, by the testi ony of a by-stander who witnessed the event, and which, e shall faithfully extract, in his own words, from a very sa factory manuscript he has put into our hands:

When the Pallas frigate came on shore about two miles E. om Dunbar, the Life-Boat was sent to the assistance of the ew; every thing was going on well, the boat had brought shore two cargoes, and was alongside the wreck the third me, when by some fatal mismanagement the boat was alwed to drift round broadside to sea; the consequence as as might be expected, the sea struck the boat's broadde and overturned it.

"Moreover, the Life-Boat had not only to encounter a sea oadside on, and an overload of men, but also another werful stimulus to its disaster. It is well known that any =rge immoveable mass amongst water is surrounded by a great ux or vortex, owing to its resistive power against the moon of the water. By such flux was the Pallas surrounded, nd to the Life-Boat was this flux opposed. Is it surprising, r is it to be wondered at, that such a bark as the Life-Boat hould yield to these three forces combined, each of which ere able, and in fact did overwhelm it to a certain degree. The overplus weight of men made it sink-the flux drove it ound, broadside to sea-and the force of the sea on its roadside upset it." This, our readers must observe, very well accounts for the disaster that befel the Dunbar Life-Boat, nd our informant goes on to assign, in the same cool and disassionate manner, the reason why she did not recover. hape of the boat approaches to that of the moon in her first quarter; the boat's stems projecting up like the horns of the

moon.

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If these stems project up as they do to a great height when the boat has her bottom downwards, in like manner, hey must jut downwards when she is bottom up. Now, knowing that to be the case, although the boat is built on a onstruction which cannot fail of recovering its position in leep water, for the same reason, when it upsets in shoal wa ter it is impossible to regain its position. To this cause I scribe the reason of the boat never recovering; because, al

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though it was deep water where the boat upset; that dep water occupied only a small space between the ship and the rocks, which arose to less than two fathoms below the surface of the water; the flux carried the boat above these rocks, and them the stems were held fust, till the tide left the boat dry. T circumstance of the boat being held so fast as prevented its being drifted out to sea by an ebbing tide, and the pos tion in which it was left, must not only show, but explaini strong terms, the impractibility of its being able to reg its position, and at the same time dispel whatever blame na be attached to it on that occasion."

From all this it must be apparent, that no more happen than what, indeed, might naturally have been expected; that the accident that befel the Life-Boat in consequence of the requisite precautions not being taken or attended to, was no more surprising, than if the person who dis charged a ball with a rope attached over a vessel, were t have his leg carried off by suffering it to get entangled in the apparatus. Had the event turned out otherwise, it would have been surprising indeed, and shewn Mr. GREATHEAD himself that his boat was possessed of properties he never dreamt of.

We cannot conclude this subject without observing, that many boats have been constructed on Mr. GREATHEAD's plan, and great success appears to have attended them. Fareign nations have availed themselves of the benefit of his inven tion, and about the year 1803, he is said to have been honoured with an order, from that ornament to his country, ALEX◄ ANDER, emperor of Russia*.

In the Monthly Magazine for August, 1807, mention is made ef a Life-Boat, improved in Denmark by Capt. SCELLING, being sent to Petersburgh. In the xcii. number of Nicolson's Journal, a boat is des cribed, constructed by Mr. WILSON of London, which he calls the Neutral-built Self-balanced Boat; and in the xcvi number of the same work we have an account of a Life-Boat, contrived with considerable ingenuity by Sir l'HOMAS CLARGES. An invention of a metalic LifeBoat, by a Mr. DODD has also been announced, said to draw only to inches of water with 25 persons; and Capt. MANBY, in his pamphlet describes a method by which any common boat may be fitted up at a small expense, so as to answer the purposes of a Life-Boat. Besides these an ICE-BOAT, the invention of THOMAS RITZLER of Ham burgh, is said to have already saved many valuable lives from a wi tery grave, an accurate representation of which, with its description Bc. is given in WILLICH'S Dom. Ency. Vol. I. p. 299.

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STOUT LABOUR I saw, as he went to his work,
So cheerfully over the dale,

In his mouth was a pipe, in one hand was a fork,
At his back hung his wallet and flail.

Ruddy health in his countenance seem'd to have place,
For his mind was a stranger to care;
Contentment was seated, I saw, in his face:
Such happiness who would not share?

He brush'd off the dew as he pass'd on his way,
Which spangled the grass in the morn,

To the barn then he went, without further delay,
To thrash, for his living, the corn.

How industrious he labours from morning to night,

So happy is he with his lot,

And after his toil, he returns with delight,

To his cleanly old dame, and his cot.

POETICAL ADDRESS

TO THE EDITORS OF THE CHEAP MAGAZINE. WHEN your Prospectus came to hand,

And gave me first to understand,

That you had formed the intention,
To print a work of small dimension,
To chear the poor man's fireside;
Our youth in wisdom's ways to guide;
And warn the tender mind of beauty,
Wen tempted from the path of duty:

With

With ready will I did engage
To circulate your useful page,

And used my power and best endeavour
To win for it the public favour.

Now when your work begins to spread
And be by all our youngsters read,
And men of sense throughout the parish,
Who virtuous habits wish to cherish,
A storm of opposition blusters,

And Hell her active minions musters
To curb your efforts in their blossom,
And chain to vice the youthful bosom.

My neighbour JOHN, who loves a dram,
Begins your little work to d-n ;
Protests, if books like this be made,
Few'll join him in the tippling trade.

Hard by there lives an ancient dame,'
Who keeps a lodging house of fame,
The haunt of every rakish blade,
And bane of many a thoughtless maid,
Who'gainst you vents her bitter spleen,
And curses your Cheap Magazine
And beacons warning the unwary,
To shun the fate of BLUE-EYED MARY*.

Though you, no doubt, such condemnation
Esteem the highest approbation;

Yet while men's vices you oppose,
You'll ever find an host of foes.

But let not this abate your zeal
In toiling for the public weal;
Secure, tho' vicious folks may blame,
All honest men will laud your name;
And when the final trumpet's blast
Calls all t' account tor actions past,
Your time employed in virtue's cause
Shall have reward, and due applause.

*See the Poetical Beacon, No. 3. vol. I. Cheap Mag.

NOTES TO CORRESPONDEN ISs.

W.T

THE favours of H.-A. A.-and J C. are received. We refer the l ter to the cover of our last number.

HADDINGTON:

Printed and Published, MONTHLY, by G. MILLER & SON,

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e what comes of IDLENESS the fruitful mother of mischief, and of ISSOLUTE COMPANIONS, the unfortunate bane of youth.'

THE CHEAP MAGAZINE,

No. XII.]

DECEMBER, 1814.

[VOL. II.

THE FIERY CROSS:

(CONCLUDED FROM P. 447.)

CONTAINING

THE EXECUTION;

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

HE LAST MOMENTS OF TOM BRAGWELL, &c.

N the morning of the execution, the sun rose in clouds, and, as if nature herself wished to add to the solemnity the scene, a gloomy darkness, and unusual stillness in the , marked the approach of the hour at which ToM BRAG LL was doomed to pay the forfeit of his crimes.

I had taken my station in the window of a friend's house, at overlooked the place of execution, so that I could note that passed, without being exposed to the inconvenience a mob; and here I had not long remained before the gate death opened, and the mournful procession, in slow and lemn steps, moved forward from the jail to the scaffold. las! in what a pitiful plight appeared poor BRAGWELL.'virtue alone has majesty in death,' here I had a most-conncing proof of the pusillanimous appearance that vice puts in her last moments. How now was the crest of the astful hero fallen!-Unable to stand, he was borne forward VOL. II. betwixt

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