ROMAN CANDLE.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Sulphur	4	2	3	1	1	2	7	3	4	6	8	3	8	-
Charcoal	3	3	3	2	1	3	8	1	1	7	9	3	11	2
Nitre	8	2	8	4	3	9	21	4	5	18	18	10	32	1
Meal powder	8	8	3	3	2	4	12	5	4	4	4	7	-	3

ROCKET.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Sulphur	1	1	12	4	8	4	2	4	2	2	1	1	8	1
Charcoal	4	2	17	5	11	7	4	8	12	8	2	2	27	2
Nitre	8	5	50	16	32	16	9	16	20	16	4	4	36	4
Meal powder	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	1	1	1	2	6	2
Steel-filings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

BURSTING FIRE.

Number	1	2	3
Meal powder	1	1	8
Grain powder F	-	1	-
Charcoal	-	-	1

STARTING FIRE.

Number	1	2
Charcoal	1	3
Meal powder	8	16
Sulphur	-	4
Nitre	-	6

WHEEL AND FIXED CASE.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Meal powder	8	24	8	36	4	18	8	12	42	4	16	10	13	16	20	40
Sulphur	1	1	-	1	-	-	1	1	3	-	-	-	1	-	1	4
Charcoal	1	4	1	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Nitre	2	3	-	-	2	2	1	3	8	-	2	-	1	-	-	24
Steel-filings	-	-	-	-	-	5	3	3	5	1	5	-	-	-	-	6
Vegetable black	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	-	1
Realgar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
Litharge	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	2

SQUIB AND SERPENT.

Number	1	2	3
Sulphur	1	-	-
Charcoal	1	1	-
Nitre	2	-	-
Meal powder	8	8	4
Steel-filings	-	-	1

PINWHEEL.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Sulphur	1	3	5	3	7	14	4	4	2	2	3	2	-
Nitre	1	4	9	5	9	16	8	4	5	2	3	2	-
Meal powder	2	9	15	8	20	32	26	16	36	26	35	18	3
Sulphuret of Antimony	-	-	-	-	1	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Beech sawdust, fine	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Oxalate of Soda	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-
Litharge, fine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
Orpiment, or Realgar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	-	-
Vegetable black	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	-
Nitrate of Lead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	1

SAXON.

Number	1	2	3
Sulphur	1	3	5
Nitre	1	4	9
Meal powder	2	9	15

FIVE-POINTED STAR.

Number	1	2
Meal powder	3	-
Sulphur	8	2
Nitre	12	5
Sulphuret of Antimony	1	1

SPUR-FIRE, FOR FLOWER-POTS AND STAR-CANDLES.

Number	1	2	3	4
Vegetable black	7	2	3	4
Sulphur	14	5	4	16
Realgar, or Sulphuret of Arsenic	2	1	1	2
Nitre	32	16	10	32
Meal powder	-	3	-	17
Charcoal	-	-	-	4

TOURBILLION.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Sulphur	1	3	3	7	3	4	4	4	2	4	1	7	4
Nitre	4	5	16	10	8	32	17	17	4	8	8	20	14
Charcoal	2	3	8	4	3	6	4	5	-	-	-	-	3
Meal powder	1	11	8	24	16	32	-	-	4	9	10	23	13
Steel-filings	-	-	-	8	6	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Cast Iron Borings	-	-	-	-	-	8	6	8	3	4	7	14	5

BENGAL LIGHT.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6
Sulphuret of Arsenic, Realgar, or Orpiment	1	1	2	1	-	-
Sulphuret of Antimony	-	-	10	5	1	1
Minium, or Red Lead	-	-	1	1	-	-
Sulphur	4	2	6	3	4	2
Nitre	14	6	24	14	14	6

BLUE LIGHT.

Number	1	2
Nitre	12	5
Sulphur	4	2
Meal powder	3	-
Sulphuret of Antimony	1	1

WASP LIGHT.

Number	1
Nitre	14
Sulphur	5
Meal powder	3
Realgar	1

PORTFIRE.

Number	1	2	3	4
Meal powder	3	1	1	5
Sulphur	4	2	2	8
Nitre	12	4	6	25

SHELL FUSE.

Number	1
Meal powder	4
Nitre	2
Sulphur	1

GERBE.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Sulphur	2	3	-	1	-	2	3	2	2	2	-	-
Nitre	2	2	-	-	-	10	6	4	9	4	-	-
Meal powder	16	36	4	8	16	-	9	16	2	2	8	3
Steel-filings	1	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cast Iron Borings	5	8	1	3	8	7	5	8	5	3	-	-
Charcoal	-	-	-	-	1	2	2	1	2	2	-	-
Coke grains	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Porcelain grains	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

TAILED, STREAMER, OR COMET STARS, FOR ROCKETS, SHELLS, AND ROMAN CANDLES.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Vegetable black	1	3	3	6	-	-	-	-	3
Charcoal	2	8	2	3	1	3	6	12	2
Sulphur	5	24	2	-	2	4	1	2	2
Nitre	5	24	9	-	8	9	10	20	9
Meal powder	8	30	6	16	-	20	5	7	6
Oxalate of Soda	-	-	-	-	4	12	-	-	-
Sulphuret of Antimony	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4

OILED TAILED STARS FOR ROCKETS AND SHELLS.

Number	1	2	3
Charcoal	9	6	2
Sulphur	9	5	2
Nitre	32	18	9
Meal powder	24	12	5
Sulphuret of Antimony	16	9	4

To 1 ounce add twenty-four drops of boiled linseed oil: rub them thoroughly together in a mortar; then spread out the mixture, for a few days, to dry. When dry, mix with starch, dextrine solution, or gum water, and chop into ³/₈ or ¹/₂ inch cubical blocks.

STEEL STARS FOR ROCKETS AND SHELLS.

Number	1	2	3	4
Nitrate of Lead	8	24	28	-
Chlorate of Potash	3	5	6	5
Charcoal	2	6	6	1
Steel-filings	2	6	6	3
Nitre	-	4	3	-
Shellac, fine	-	-	1	-
Sulphur, washed	-	-	-	1

Mix together on paper, damp with lac solution, and chop into cubical blocks. The composition may also be pumped into roman candle streamer stars.

PEARL STREAMER.

Number	1	2	3	4	5
Nitre	12	26	2	-	-
Charcoal	5	11	1	-	-
Zinc-filings	14	28	4	10	15
Meal powder	-	-	1	8	12
Vegetable black	-	-	-	1	1

GOLD RAIN.

Number	1	2	3	4	5
Sulphur	1	1	1	-	-
Nitre	2	2	2	-	-
Charcoal	6	1	5	1	3
Meal powder	16	6	18	4	8

SILVER RAIN.

Number	1	2	3	4
Steel-filings	1	2	2	3
Meal powder	4	7	8	-
Nitre	-	1	-	2
Sulphur	-	-	1	-
Charcoal	-	-	-	3
Nitrate of Lead	-	-	-	10

WHITE OR BRIGHT STARS.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Meal powder	3	3	-	1	1	1	1	1	3	-	-	-
Sulphur	4	6	4	2	3	2	2	1	11	5	7	-
Nitre	8	14	14	5	10	6	9	4	48	24	-	18
Sulphuret of Antimony	-	-	1	-	3	-	2	1	10	5	6	3
Sulphuret of Arsenic, Realgar	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	3	5	-
Minium, or Red Lead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-
Nitrate of Lead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Chlorate of Potash	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	28
Shellac	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5

SUGAR BLUES FOR STARS AND LANCES.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Chlorate of Potash	8	36	40	40	36	9	44	40	6
Calomel	4	18	24	24	12	3	12	-	5
Sugar	3	12	9	12	4	1	12	9	4
Sulphuret of Copper	5	22	22	12	4	3	12	22	-
Stearine	-	1	2	1	3	1	1	2	-
Oxychloride of Copper	-	-	-	3	4	2	5	-	-
Sal Ammoniac	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-
Copper-filings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

No substance combines better with salts of copper, than sugar. Sugar, put into the bowl of a tobacco pipe, and placed in the fire, burns fiercely, and is converted into caramel. This, poured on to a plate, slightly smeared with butter, to prevent its sticking, hardens on cooling; and is used for colouring brandy, vinegar, gravy, porter, coffee, &c. Stearine must be scraped very fine from a composite candle.

BLUE STARS AND LANCES WITHOUT SUGAR.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Chlorate of Potash	5	40	18	40	6	8	48	40	24	16	30	24	8	22	40	6	16	24	2	5	40	40
Calomel	4	20	8	28	2	2	12	12	6	8	10	8	1	8	20	3	1	8	-	-	-	-
Sulphuret of Copper	4	20	10	28	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	6	25	5	-	-	-	1	20	22
Shellac	1	5	-	-	-	-	2	2	1	-	-	1	-	-	5	-	-	1	-	-	5	-
Oxychloride of Copper	-	2	-	-	-	-	8	9	6	5	10	4	1	2	-	-	2	-	1	1	-	-
Dextrine	-	-	5	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sulphur	-	-	-	-	3	4	4	-	1	2	3	2	3	5	-	-	4	2	1	2	5	5
Stearine	-	-	-	3	-	-	1	1	2	2	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Black Oxide of Copper	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Copper-filings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-
Sal Ammoniac	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6

CRIMSON AND SCARLET STARS AND LANCES.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Chlorate of Potash	16	8	16	16	24	16	5	16	8	16	25	4	32	6	16	28	32	26	96	8	24	8
Nitrate of Strontian	16	16	32	32	-	16	4	24	5	6	30	7	48	5	-	-	42	10	72	12	18	12
Sulphur, washed	5	6	9	12	6	5	2	-	1	-	10	1	6	-	-	-	13	5	24	2	-	2
Charcoal, fine	1	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Shellac	-	1	4	2	2	-	-	7	1	4	3	1	12	1	-	-	4	3	21	4	5	3
Calomel	-	-	7	-	6	1	-	14	2	2	9	2	12	5	-	12	12	10	42	-	-	4
Sulphure of Copper	-	-	3	1	-	-	-	1	1	1	3	1	-	1	-	-	4	1	4	1	5	-
Realgar, or Orpiment	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Vegetable black	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1
Loaf Sugar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
Carbonate of Strontian	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	5	-	-	-	-	-	-

It is impossible to powder shellac sufficiently fine, by hand; and, twenty years ago, it could not be procured. About that time the drug-grinders, finding a demand for it, submitted it to the action of the stamping mills, (mechanical pestle and mortar), and now it can be obtained at most shops. Chertier mixed it with salt; melted the two together; powdered the mixture; and washed out the salt. Such process is needless now. It is useless, unless as fine as wheaten flour. Page, of 47, Blackfriars Road; and Chubb, of 29, Old Street, St. Lukes, London, supply it.

GREEN OR EMERALD STARS AND LANCES.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Chlorate of Potash	16	8	132	32	144	8	3	1	-	16	6	12	16	3	48	22	24	108	24	16
Nitrate of Barytes	16	8	108	54	160	21	2	-	-	8	7	5	8	3	42	22	32	108	32	48
Chlorate of Barytes	-	-	-	-	-	3	2	2	4	8	3	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sulphur, washed	5	4	6	6	4	7	1	1	1	5	-	-	1	-	-	-	10	18	8	12
Charcoal, fine	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Sulphuret of Antimony	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
Calomel	-	-	48	27	100	-	-	-	-	-	5	2	2	2	-	10	-	48	-	8
Shellac	-	-	-	24	12	12	2	-	-	-	-	3	4	-	7	1	-	24	-	5
Vegetable black	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
Loaf Sugar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	2	7	14	-	-	-	-
Salammoniac	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-
Orpiment, or Realgar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	3	-
Sulphuret of Copper	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2

If powdered nitrate of barytes, and shellac crushed by being hammered in a bag, are mixed together, and melted in a pipkin, over the fire, the mixture, when cold, may be reduced to a powder in an iron mortar, with patience. Take Number 6. Weigh out 21 parts nitrate of barytes, and 2 parts of coarsely powdered lac; melt them together; when cold, powder them; and add the other substances in proper proportion. Shellac may be melted with nitrate of strontian, in the same way.

DEEP AND PALE YELLOW STARS AND LANCES.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Chlorate of Potash	8	4	12	16	12	16	4	4	16	3	8	16	16	4	8
Oxalate of Soda	3	2	8	4	4	4	3	1	4	4	4	5	-	1	-
Bicarbonate of Soda	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	3
Nitrate of Strontian	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	16	-	4	-	-
Carbonate of Strontian	-	-	-	3	2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nitrate of Barytes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	10	-	-	3	-	-
Sulphur, washed	-	-	-	4	4	4	-	1	2	-	6	5	-	-	-
Shellac	2	1	3	-	1	1	5	-	2	3	1	-	4	1	-
Stearine	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Charcoal, fine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-
Orpiment, or Realgar	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Sugar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3

MAUVE AND LILAC STARS AND LANCES.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Chlorate of Potash	28	17	60	40	25	24	24	25	12
Calomel	12	-	-	-	10	12	12	-	-
Shellac	4	-	-	-	5	5	5	-	-
Nitrate of Strontian	4	4	25	14	-	4	-	16	16
Sulphuret of Copper	2	7	20	-	5	2	2	-	-
Stearine	1	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-
Sulphur, washed	-	7	35	16	-	-	-	12	2
Chloride of Lead	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
Nitrate of Lead	-	-	-	-	10	-	12	1	-
Oxychloride of Copper	-	-	8	12	-	-	-	6	-
Salammoniac	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vegetable black	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1
Nitre	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	2	1
Carbonate of Strontian	-	-	-	-	5	-	4	-	-
Orpiment, or Realgar	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1

PURPLE AND VIOLET STARS AND LANCES.

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Chlorate of Potash	42	28	48	16	6	16	3	6	26	30	96	24
Nitrate of Strontian	42	14	48	-	4	-	-	1	-	-	24	-
Sulphur, washed	13	-	28	2	1	6	1	3	-	3	-	2
Calomel	12	14	28	7	2	6	2	2	20	8	48	8
Sulphuret of Copper	4	1	40	8	1	-	3	-	3	12	1	-
Shellac	4	5	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	4	-	1
Vegetable black	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Black Oxide of Copper	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	1	-	-	-	-
Carbonate of Strontian	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	12	-	-
Sugar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	-	42	-
Oxychloride of Copper	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Stearine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2

MAGNESIUM COLOURS FOR STARS AND ASTEROIDS.

Colours.	Crimson.	Scarlet.	Green.	Blue.	Yellow.	White.
Nitrate of Strontian	8	6	-	-	-	-
Chlorate of Barytes	-	-	12	-	-	-
Oxychloride of Copper	-	-	-	2	-	-
Oxalate of Soda	-	-	-	-	2	-
Sulphuret of Antimony	-	-	-	-	-	1
Chlorate of Potash	2	4	-	5	4	-
Nitre	-	-	-	-	-	12
Sulphur	2	2	1	2	-	4
Charcoal	1	-	-	-	-	-
Shellac	-	2	3	1	1	-
Calomel	-	4	-	2	-	-
Magnesium-filings	2	3	2	2	1	2

SLOW FIRES, TO BE HEAPED UPON A TILE IN SHAPE OF A CONE, AND LIT AT TOP.

Colours.	Red.			Green.			Purple.		Yellow
Nitrate of Strontian	16	24	108	-	-	-	108	72	20	-
Nitrate of Barytes	-	-	-	16	16	16	-	-	-	10
Oxalate of Soda	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	5
Sulphuret of Copper	-	3	30	-	-	-	24	3	-	-
Chlorate of Barytes	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-
Chlorate of Potash	1	3	12	1	1	-	9	4	2	2
Charcoal, fine	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Calomel	-	6	24	-	5	9	24	18	-	-
Sulphur, washed	4	8	39	4	2	7	39	24	4	1
Shellac	-	1	2	-	2	1	2	3	2	6
Vegetable black	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	2	-	-