a different caufe, by an author whofe pen has generally been employed in in ftructing, not misleading, the publick. And "Who fhall decide when Doctors difagree?" In Warton's "Effay on the Life and Writings of Pope," vol. II. p. 109, in the margin, occurs the following paffage: "There is fomething remarkable in the circumftances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets. "Orway had an intimate friend who was murdered in the street. One may guess at his forrow, who has fo feelingly defcribed true affection in his Venice Prejerved. He purfued the murderer on foot, who fled to France, as far as Dover, where he was feized with a fever, occafioned by fatigue, which afterwards carried him to his grave in London." Now, Mr. Urban, as the laft-quoted author has not thought proper to produce his authority for the statement of a fact fo different from all preceding accounts of it, your clearing up the difficulty, or inciting others to it, by the infertion of this paper, will much oblige, R. N. Hodfbreve,near Brighton, Mr. URBAN, Suflex, April 3. ΤΗ HE Machine, engraved in Plate III. will drili any kind of grain or feeds, whether beans, peas, wheat, barley, oats, rye, or rye-grafs, turnepfeed, rape-feed, clover-iced, or any other feeds whatever, with equal facility, and without bruifing them; and, after the corn is un, is equally ufeful as a horfe-hoe. It is as plain and fimple in the conftruction as it is poffible for a machine to be that will aufwer fo many different purpofes; in half-an-hour, a common ploughman may be made to understand it, fo as to be intrufted with it a whole feafon. One horfe in common will be found fufficient; but in going up a steep hill, or on very ftiff land, two will be neceffary. This machine is fo conftructed, that a man, by the handle, has power to hold or guide it ftraight, without any attention to the going of the horfe more than is neceffary in a common plough, and whether it be drawn up or down a hill, or horizontally, that is, on the fide of the hill, it depofits the corn with equal regularity, and at any given depth; fo that none of it can be buried in the earth, or left to perifh on the top of it. In general, one-third of the ufual quantity of feed may be faved, and, in fome cafes, more than half. The wheels on which the machine moves are half a rod in circumference; and, by counting the revo lutions of the wheel in once going over the field, it will be eafy at all times to calculate what portion of feed the machine is fowing per acre, provided it be fupplied with a given quantity. The number of acres the machine will drill in a day depends, in fome degree, on the diftance the rows of corn are planted at from each other. If five tines are placed in a machine of this dimenfion, they will be nine inches apart, and drill a fpace of three teet nine inches. In that cafe, if the machine be driven at the rate of two miles an hour, it will go over fomething more than eight acres in nine hours. It four tines only are placed in it, at a foot from each other, at the fame rate it will do nearly an acre in an hour. But when beans or turneps are fown, from a foot and an half to three fect diftance in the intervals, it confequently goes over the ground much fafter, as it then clears a space from four feet and a half to fix feet; and the fame number of rows of corn that this ma chine drills in the ground at one time, it will hoe at another, in a much more effectual manner than is poffible to have it done by hand, and at lefs than a tenth part of the expence. Stones are no obftruction in drilling the corn if they are not too large to pafs between the tines. In the plate annexed, Fig. 1 reprefents a front view of the machine. aa The hopper fixed by the two upright pieces in the timber zz. It contains two buthels; and, if the corn be properly cleaned, it requires no care but to fupply it. bb The axletree. It goes through a bridle or curved iron at each end of the hopper, and through the great wheels. According as this is fixed towards the top or bottom of thefe bridles, by pins which go in fome holes made for that purpose, the drill will move deep or fhallow in the ground. When the pins are placed in the loweft holes, and the axle under them, the tines dddd will be fufficiently raifed above the ground for the machine to be drawn out into the field, or from one field to another. Each of the wheels is made to extend on the axletree, from the machine, halt the diftance of the space occupied by the whole of it, for purpafes hereafter mentioned. A long iron box on the arm of the axle. It has ledges on the outfide, to which the infide of the wheel is made exactly exactly to coincide, fo as to flide over any part of the box; but whenever the machine is drawn forward, or the wheel revolves, the box must move with it. w A fcrew that reaches through the nave, and preffing on the iron box, p, fixes the wheel on any part of it. A groove wheel in which there works a chain. This wheel is made faft on the end of the iron box, p, and confequently turns round with that and the great wheel!. ddddd Fig. 1. and 2. are five hollow tines, or tubes of iron, placed in grooves between two pieces of timber (zz of Fig. 1, and y of Fig. 2), and made fast by iron collars with nuts and fcrews. As the grooves are continued the whole length of the timbers, by unfcrewing thefe iron collars, the tines may be placed nearer together, or farther diftant, as may be thought moft conducive to a crop; or any of them may be taken away, or more added, if neceffary. Fig. 2. A back view of the machine. eeeee Seed-boxes placed over the tines. The wheels in the boxes are fet with fmall pieces of iron or tin, to take the corn out of the hopper. It is regulated by a hair-brush, that is moved horizontally to or from the wheel by a forew fixed in a collar, fo that the greateft precifion with regard to the quantity of feed may be attained, though the machine will fow from a gallon to fome quarters per acre, could it be required. And probably this feemingly ufelefs qualification may be attended with fome advantages, as rape-duft, foot, or other strong manures, may be put into the ground with the corn or turneps, and in very great quantities, if the machine were made large for that purpose. ffff A fquare iron rod that goes through all the boxes; at the end of it is fixed a cog-wheel. g A cog-wheel with a fquare focket, placed to flide eafily on the fquare part of a fpindle. The teeth of this wheel take in thofe of the cog-wheel on the fquare rod ffff; but they may be inftantly drawn apart by a wire from the crank k. b A groove-wheel fixed near the end of the fame fpindle. It is put in motion by the chain from the groove-wheel c of Fig. 1, and with it the cog-wheel g, which, unless it is detached by the wire (abovementioned) from the cog-wheel at the end of the fquare rod ƒƒƒƒ, will put that, with the wheels in the boxes eeeee, in motion, which will throw the coin out of the hopper through the hollow tine into the ground at ddddd. See Fig. 2. k A crank connected with the cogwheel g on the fpindle. b A curved piece of wood, that fupports one end of the fpindle on which the wheels g and turn. At the point of it there is a fcrew to regulate the diftance between the cog-wheels, and likewife the groove-wheels in which the chain works. iii The handle, made fait to the machine by an iron bolt or pin. At the centre of the timber y on this pin the handle turns. n A femicircular piece of iron, with holes or notches, fixed at each end to the timber y, on which the handle flides when it turns on the iron pin at the centre of the faid timber. m The lever. At one end of it is an iron pin that reaches through the handle into the notches in the femicircular iron. By depreffing this lever, the pin is withdrawn, and the handle is released; but if railed, or fuffered to be thrown up by the fpring under it, the handle is imme diately fixed. Thus the man who holds or guides this machine may walk behind any part of it he fhall chufe. When the wheels are fixed on the arms of the axletree, at the fame diftance from the outmoft tines that the tines are from each other, the man at each end of the furrow, by means of the lever m, will fix the handle fo as for him to walk behind one of thofe wheels, and, by alternately returning them on the impreflions the outfide tines made in the ground, the rows of corn, &c. muft confequently be equidiftant. A circular piece of wood, to which is fixed a wire from the crank k. When this wood is moved round, it turns the crank, and draws the cog-wheel g from the other cog-wheel at the end of the fquare rod ff, fo that no corn would be fown if the machine moved forward; but, when the wood is put back again, the two wheels are thrown into contact by a fpiral wire fpring. The principal occafion for this is at the end of a turrow, while the machine is turning. s A piece of tin, made to flide in a groove in the hind part of the box, to direct the corn down into the tines. When this tin is withdrawn, as reprefented in the four other boxes, it may be inftantly placed over the top of the wheels, fo as to prevent the corn from defcending out of the hopper into the feed-boxes. Thus any number of them, either fe parately or together together, may be prevented from throw ing out the feed while the others are at work. This is very convenient often at the finishing of a piece of land, when the whole length of the drill is not wanted. 00 A board made to flide down and cover the feed-boxes. rr Two long on bolts, with a fcrew at the end, which ferve to help fix on the hopper. When thefe are unferewed, the upright pieces that go into the timber zz (fee Fig. 1) will lift out of their mortifes, and the hopper, feed-boxes, &c. may be all taken away together; the remainder of the machine forming as compleat a horfe-hoe as can be defired for hoeing any kind of corn or grain; but it is not neceffary to take off the hopper. Obferve likewife above dddad of Fig. 1, that the feet of the tines are made to take off, that wider feet or hoes may be placed in their flead, according to the width of the intervals between the rows of corn; or harp colters may occafionally be placed on the tines in the room of thefe hoes, which will fearify the land to the depth of fix or feven inches, and, in fome cafes, greatly benefit the crop. The complete plough, with five tines, five hoes, feed-boxes, &c. is fold for fourteen guineas. Y. Z. ** In Plate III. fig. 3. is an inedited token of Robert Little at the 3 Tuns in Croydon, 1667.” TH Mr. URBAN, Leiceßer, April 12. HE circumftance of a clergyman's being fentenced to tranfportation at the laft Leicester Affizes, for folemnizing a marriage contrary to the ftatute, has made to much noife as to demand an accurate ftatement of particulars. His name is Wragge. He is rector of Frisby, co. Leic.. of about 1251. annual value, which has been fome time under fequef tration. The parties were fervants to Mr. Hudion of Wanlip, of the fame county. Their mafter being averfe to their marriage, they applied to this compliant joiner of hands, who alked five guincas for his trouble, and, on a plea of poverty, agreed for three. The couple were, in the country phrafe, afked-out, in the parish church of Frisby, and regularly married. An entry was at the fame time as regularly made in the register, fpecifying, that the partics were refidents of that parifh, and married by banns. As the rector Qu. In what year was he prefented ? and who was his predeceffor? EDIT. of Wanlip is an acting justice of the peace for the county, distinguished at once by activity and difintereftedness, it was not likely he fhould overlook fo flagrant an attack on the laws of his country, without interfering. Accordingly he took a very proper, and yet a fpirited, part in the bufinefs, acting through the whole of it with the concurrence of the bishop of the diocefe, and the approbation of the clergy and county at large. The delinquent was committed to prifon by that magiftrate late in November laft. His trial was short, as the offence was ftatutable, and the proofs numerous and clear. The parties were afterwards legally married aț Leicester. VERAX. And Reply to RHISIART O DUYDED. it is acknowledged, that there is a deficiency in the plan of Mr. Owen's intended Welsh Dictionary; for we are informed by Rhifart O Duyded (vol. LIX. p. 977.) in what manner to fupply it. how, Sir, is this to be done? Why, by Wales, where, perhaps, you may meet fending as far as Carmarthen in South with a book, intituled, "A new English-Welsh Dictionary," price 4s. So that at beft you are to expend 4 s. for a remedy, befides all your uncertain trouble, for a defect in a book of 5 or 6 s. value, all which, as L. E. fuggefted, might have been prevented by Mr. Owen's adopting a better plan. I am no enemy to Mr. Owen, for I know nothing, either good or ill, of him; but I thall ftill be of opinion, that the plan of his intended publication is defective, and not fuch as we Englishmen could with. Yours, &c. L. E. Mr. URBAN, TH March 23. HE memoirs of Dr. Benjamin Mofeley, given by your Editor, p. 9, will afford fatisfaction to your readers in general, but will be more immediately acceptable to Gentlemen of the Army. The diftinguished ftation of Phyfician to the Royal Hofpital at Chelfea being given to the Doctor by Mr. Secretary Grenville, reflects mutual credit on both parties. This appointment, furely, ought always to be given as the wellearned reward of the arduous duties of a military furgeon, exposed to the feverest trials of fatigue and climate, as well as imminent danger from contagion, in the Mr. Burnaby. |