green, d-d green, indeed: tak' them awa', tak them awa," vociferated Dr. Hutton, starting up from table, and giving full vent to his feelings of abhorrence. H ANECDOTES of DR. ADAM SMITH.-(From the same.) DR SMITH is well known to have been one of the most absent men living. Mr. Mackenzie placed in his hand the beautiful tale of La Roche, in which he introduces Mr. David Hume, for the express purpose of knowing whether there was any thing in it which Mr. Hume's surviving friends could think hurtful to his memory. Dr. Smith read and highly approved of the MS.; but, on returning it to Mr. Mackenzie, only expressed his surprise that Mr. Hume should never have mentioned the anecdote to him. When walking in the street, Adam had a manner of talking and laughing to himself, which often attracted the notice and excited the surprise of the passengers. He used himself to mention the ejaculation of an old market-woman · "Hegh, Sirs!" shaking her head as she uttered it; to which her companion answered, having echoed the compassionate sigh, "and he is well put on too!" expressing their surprise that a decided lunatic, who, from his dress, appeared to be a gentleman, should be permitted to walk abroad. In a private room, his demeanour was equally remarkable: one evening, he put an elderly maiden lady, who presided at the tea-table, to sore confusion, by neglecting utterly her invitations to be seated, and walking round and round the circle, stopping ever and anon to steal a lump from the sugar-basin, which the venerable spinster was at length constrained to place on her own knee, as the only method of securing it from his most uneconomical depredations. When Dr. Smith was a commissioner of the board of Customs," that board had in their service, as porter, a stately person, who, dressed in a huge scarlet gown or cloak, covered with frogs of worsted lace, and holding in his hand a staff about seven feet high, as an emblem of his office, used to mount guard before the Customhouse when a board was to be held. It was the etiquette that, as each commissioner entered, the porter should go through a sort of salute with his staff of office, resembling that which officers used formerly to perform with their spontoon, and then marshal the dignitary to the hall of meeting. This ceremony had been performed before the great Economist perhaps five hundred times: nevertheless, one day, as he was about to enter the Custom-house, the motions of this janitor seemed to have attracted his eye without their character or purpose reaching his apprehension, and on a sudden he began to imitate his gestures, as a recruit does those of his drillsergeant. The porter, having drawn up in front of the door, presented his staff as a soldier does his musket: the commissioner, raising his cane, and holding it with both his hands by the middle, returned the salute with the utmost gravity. The inferior officer, The same; for an improved method of manufacturing hats and caps, with the assistance of machinery.-Septem ber 18. J. Riste, of Chard, Somersetshire, lace-manufacturer; for improvements in machinery for making net commonly called bobbin or twist net.-October 4. F. Halliday, of Ham, Surrey; for improvements in apparatus used in drawing boots on and off.-October 4. T. Jones, of Coleman-street, London; for an improvement in wheels for carriages.-October 11. W. Mills of Bisley, Gloucestershire; for an improvement in fire-arms. October 18. W. Church, of Birmingham; for improvements in printing.-October 18. S. Pratt, of New Bond-street; for improvements in beds, bedsteads, couches, seats, and other articles of furniture.-October 18. W. Busk, of Broad-street; for improvements in propelling boats and ships, or other vessels, or floating bodies. October 18. J. Viney, of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Colonel in the Royal Artillery, and G. Pocock, of Bristol; for improvements in the construction of cars or other carriages, and the application of a power hitherto unused for that purpose, to draw the same, which power is applicable to the drawing of ships and other vessels, and for raising weights, and for other useful purposes.-October 18. B. Newmarch, of Cheltenham; for improvements in fire-arms.-November 7. E. Thomason, of Birmingham; for improvements in the construction of medals, tokens, and coins.-November 9. H. C. Lacy, of Manchester; for an apparatus on which to suspend carriage bodies.-November 18. B. Woodcroft, of Manchester; for improvements in wheels and paddles for propelling boats and vessels-November 18. T. Machett, of Berners-street; for improvements in apparatus applicable to the burning of oil and other inflammable substances. December 1. R. Dickinson, of Southwark; for the formation, coating, and covering of vessels or packages for containing, preserving, conveying, and transporting goods and products, whether in liquid or solid forms, and for other useful VOL. LXVIII. purposes. Communicated to him by a foreigner-December 8.2% C. Pearson, the younger, of Greenwich, R. Witty, of Stanley, and W: Gillman, of Whitechapel; for a new or improved method or methods of applying heat to certain useful purposes. December 13. ་ C. Harsleben, of Great Ormondstreet; for machinery for facilitating the working of mines, and the extraction of diamonds, and other precious stones, gold, silver, and other metals, from the ore, the earth, or the sand, which ma chinery is likewise applicable to other purposes. December 13. J. Costigin, of Colton, Ireland; for improvements in steam machinery or apparatus. December 13. P. Mackay, of Great Union-street, Borough; for improvements, by which the names of streets and other inscrip-" tions will be rendered more durable and conspicuous. Communicated by a fo reigner.-December 13. W. Johnson, of Droitwich; for improvements in the mode of process and form of apparatus for the manufacturing of salt, and other purposes.December 18. Maurice de Tongh, of Warrington; for improvements in machinery, or apparatus for preparing rovings, and for spinning, twisting, and winding fibrous substances. December 18. C. Harsleben, of Great Ormondstreet; for improvements in construct. ing or building of ships and other vessels, applicable to various useful pur poses; and in machinery for propelling the same. December 20. -** T. Quarrill, of Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons; for improvements in the manufacture of lamps.-December 20. W. Kingston, Portsmouth, and G. Stebbing, of Portsmouth; for improve-" ments in instruments, or apparatus for the more readily or certainly ascertaining the trim and stability of ships or other vessels. December 20. M. Wilson, of Warnford-court, London; for improvements in machinery for cleaning rice. Communicated by a foreigner.-December 20. C. Seidler, of Crawford-street, Portman-square; for a method of drawing water out of mines, wells, pits, and other places. Communicated by a foreigner. December 20. F. Andrews, of Stanford Rivers, Essex; for improvements in the construc M* YE field flowers! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true, For ye waft me to summers of old, When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight, I love you for lulling me back into dreams Of the blue Highland mountains and echoing streams, While the deer was seen glancing in sunshine remote, Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune Than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June: Where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, Ev'n now what affections the violet awakes; What landscapes I read in the primrose's looks, Earth's cultureless buds, to my heart ye were dear, Had scathed my existence's bloom ; Once I welcome you more, in life's passionless stage, And I wish you to grow on my tomb. tention, and he, with a boldness which greatly enhanced the respect I bore him, expressed his willingness to push our research in that direction, though we had been hitherto so unsuccessful." Proceeding, therefore, to the southward, in about the latitude 65°, they thought they had discovered land, which showed itself in the shape of a black rock; but, on a nearer approach, it proved to be only an ice-island, covered on one of its sides with black earth. Their disappointment, however, was somewhat soothed by the consideration that it must have disengaged itself from some high land possessing a considerable quantity of soil, and the possibility that this land might not be far distant. From this place, however, till their arrival in latitude 69°, detached islands of ice were constantly occurring, so numerous indeed, about the latter point, as almost to impede and prevent their passing further. "Sixty-six," says captain Weddell, were counted around us; and for about fifty miles to the south, we had seldom fewer in sight." Arrived at 70° 26' S., the wind became moderate, the sea tolerably smooth, the weather pleasant, and the ice-islands had almost disappeared. Unfortunately the two thermometers had been broken, and the temperature from this time CAPTAIN PARRY'S A new expedition is projected for captain Parry. It has for its object to reach the Northern Pole; to make known to us what the inmost point of the ice-bound Arctic circle is. Captain Franklin had offered to undertake a journey over could not be ascertained, but we are told it was fully as mild as in the latitude 61°, in the month of December (34° to 36°) and they were now near the parallel of 73°. The sea was literally covered with birds of the blue peterel kind, but nothing like land nor any indication of land appeared. The weather continued mild and serene, and "not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen;" and this absence of ice continued till the 20th of February, when in latitude 74° 15', longitude 34° 17', three ice-islands were in sight from the deck, and one more from the mast-head. Having attained this high latitude, which is three degrees and five minutes farther south than captain Cook, or any preceding navi gator had reached; and the wind blowing fresh from the south, the season too fast advancing, captain Weddell deemed it prudent to re |