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The whole of the Proceedings of the Board of Inquiry upon the Subject of the late Convention in Portugal. Published by Authority. 12s.

Narrative of the Siege of Zaragoza. By Charles Richard Vaughan, M.B. Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, and one of Dr. Radcliffe's Travelling Fellows from that University 2s. 6d.

A Refutation of Pierre Franc M'Allum's Remarks on the Royal Military College. By L. T. Peithmann, Professor of the R. M. C. 2s.

The Trial of Lieut. Colonel Mackelcan of the Corps of Royal Engineers by a General Court-martial held at Chelsea, in June 1808. By Adam Oldham, 3s. 6d.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Introduction to An Examination of the Internal Evidence, respecting the Authenticity of certain Publications said to have been found in Manuscript at Bristol, written by a learned Priest, and others in the 15th Century. By John Sherwen, M.D. 78.

The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1808, 11. 1s.

An Exhibition of the Errors, &c. of a Synopsis of Geography, for the Use of the Cadets of the Royal Military College at Great Marlow, 1s.

A Statement of the Duties of Customs and Excise, payable upon all foreign articles imported into, or exported from Great Britain; also the Duties Outwards, the Bounties and Allowances on British Goods, and those on the Fisheries; the Duties Coast-wise, the Quarantine and Tonnage Duties; together with Tables of Scavage, Baillage, Levant and Russia Dues, the whole brought up to 5th Jan. 1809. By Edward James Mas

call, 14s.

The School for Orators, or a Peep at the Forum, 2s.

An Essay on Sepulchres, or a Proposal for erecting some Memorial of the Illustrious Dead, in all Ages, on the Spot where their Remains have been interred. By William Godwin, crown 8vo. 45.

The London Female Penitentiary Defend ed, or a Reply to Mr. Hales's Pamphlet on its Dangerous Tendency.. By James Clarke, 1s. 6d.

An Attempt to ascertain a Theory for determining the Value of Funded Property, 2s. 6d.

A Dialogue in the Elysian Fields, between she Right Honourable Charles James Fox, and some of his royal Progenitors, royal 4to. 2s.

The Trial of Joseph Henry, esq. for Crim. Con. with Lady Emily Best, 2s. 6d.

British Liberty and Philanthropy, 1s. The Harleian Miscellany. Part I. and II. 8vo. 3s. 6d. royal paper, 6s. each.

The Plan and Terms of Instruction at Mr.

Thelwall's Institution for the Cure of Impe diments, &c. 5s.

A Defence of the London Female Penitentiary in reply to Mr. William Hale. By William Shrubsole, 1s.

NOVELS.

The Irish Chieftain and his Family. By Theodore Melville, Esq. 4 vols. 12mo. 11.

The Forest of Comalva. Containing Sketches of Portugal, Spain, and part of France. By Miss Hill. 3 vols. 15s.

Matilda Montfort. By Peter Peregrine, esq. 4 vols. 11. 1s.

London, or Truth without Treason. By T. Lathom, Esq. 4 vols. 12mo. 11. 2s. Tales of the Manor. 2 vols. 10s.

POETRY.

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan. Translated from the Greek into English Verse. With a preliminary Dissertation, and Notes. By Charles Abraham Elton, foolscap 8vo. 12s.

The Scotiad, or Wise Men of the North. A Serio-comic and Satiric Poem. 3s 6d. The Flowers at Court. By Mrs. Reeve. 2s. 6d.

POLITICS.

The Exposé, or Napoleon Unmasked, in a ocndensed Statement of his Career and Atrucities, crown 8vo. 6s.

Six Letters on the subject of Dr. Milner's Explanation, relating to the Proposal in the last Session of Parliament for admitting the King's Veto in the Election of Roman Catholic Bishops. 3s.

The Royal Veto, in the Appointment of the Irish Roman Catholic Prelacy, considered in Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Milner's Letter to a Parish Priest. 2s. 6d.

Strictures on the Present Government, Civil, Military, and Political, of the British Possessions in India; including a View of the recent Transactions in that Country, which have tended to alienate the Affections of the Natives. 3s.

Reflections on the State of Public Affairs, at the Commencement of 1809. By an Englishman of the old School. 2s.

A Letter to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, on the dangerous Tendency of the Assertion that there exists in the Country a Conspiracy for the Subversion of the Monarchy. 15. 6d.

A Memoir upon the Affairs of Spain. 1s. 6d.

A Letter to S. Whitbread, esq. M. P. on the late Occurrences in Spain and Portugal.

A View of the Natural, Political, and Commercial Circumstances of Ireland. By Thomas Newenham, esq. 4to. 11. 78.

THEOLOGY.

Intolerance the Disgrace of Christians, not the Fault of the Religion By the Rev. Christopher Wyvill, 2s 6d.

Hints to the Public, and the Legislature on the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching. By a Barrister. Part II. 4s. 6d.

A Sermon on the Roman Catholic Ques

tion, preached by the Rev. W. Boycatt, M.A. at the Archdeacon's Visitation at Norwich, the 19th May, 1808. 1s.

Remarks on the Nature, and Design, of the Sufferings of Christ. By the Rev. J. Harris.

A Sermon Preached before the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of England, in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington, on Monday June 27, 1808, by the Rev. Edward Barry, M.D. Rec

tor of St. Mary's Wallingford, Bucks, and Grand Chaplain to the Fraternity. 2s.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807, by Sir John Carr, 4to.

21. 2s.

Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, made during a residence in those Countries in 1805, 6, 7, and 8. By Robert Ker Porter, S.K.J. with forty-one engravings, coloured. 2 vols. royal 4to. 51. 5s.

NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED.

MR. CHARLES SEWARD'S (LANCASTER), for Improvements in the Construction of Lamps.

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HE reservoir of the oil may be made of any shape, so that it is very shallow, or at least as shallow as it conveniently can, in order that the oil may be always near the flame, and have as little as possible to ascend up the wick: the body of the lamp should be made no larger than to contain a sufficient quantity of oil for each time of burning. The tube that contains the wick is flat, and reaches to the bottom of the lamp; and in order to give room to the wick, a little on one side of the wick-tube is cut away, or doubled up at the bottom. The advantages attending this construction of the tube are, that the oil is warmed and kept from coagulating, especially that part of it which im mediately surrounds the wick, and is in contact with the tube; which, in consequence of its conducting power, soon becomes warm throughout its whole length. In a tube of this kind, the wick is not liable to slide down, and extinguish the light: it is soldered, or otherwise fixed into a small round plate of tin, brass, or other metal, the edge of which rests upon a shoulder on the inside of a brass screw. The chimney, or lamp-glass, is not much different from those already in use, in some improvements of the organ lamp : it is placed about a quarter of an inch above the top of the wick-tube, leaving a space from the bottom of the chimney, to the top of the brass screw, of about half an inch for the adinission of air: the chimney is supported by a wire of metal, capable of springing an opening so as to embrace the lamp-glass.

After Mr. Seward's directions for using the lamp be enumerates the improvements which he claims exclusively as his own. 1. The additional length of the wick-tube, or its reaching to the bottom

of the lamp. 2. The contrivance at the bottom of the wick-tube, for giving room to the wick, and preventing it from sliding down. 3. The additional width of the wick-tube. 4. The shape of the chimney or lamp-glass. 5. The manner of placing the chimney, or its application to lamps of any construction. 6. The manner of supporting the same. The advantages of these lamps are enumerated by the patentee, who says, they will burn the most common oil without the least smell or smoke, and give a clear and bright light. They may be used in any situation, and are equally adapted for the manufac tory and drawing room. They are also very simple, readily managed, and capable of assuming the most elegant forms.

Remarks. We cannot help observing that Mr. Seward has claimed more than he can well defend, if put to the test. From the figures attached to the specification, we are pretty certain that the shape of the chimney has no claim to novelty; nor is there sufficient novelty in the mode of supporting it, to justify an exclusive claim. We heartily concur with him in recommending the chimney to be of roughened glass.

MR. SAMUEL CRACKLES (KINGSTON UPON
HULL), for a Method of manufacturing
Brushes from Wholebone.

He takes bone, which comes from the mouth of the whale, and having cutit into lengths of nine, twelve, or eighteen inches, boils or steeps it in water for such a length. of time, as the nature of it may require, to make it soft and flexible. In this state it may be cut with a plane, knife, or other sharp instrument, into thin shavings, slices, or substances, which may be split, cut, or torn, by having lances fixed in front of the plane, knife, &c. into small pieces resembling bristles of all sizes, and

degree

degrees of strength. When the bone is thus reduced into substances, resembling bristles, it must be laid in a convenient place, that it may become perfectly dry, and then it may be worked up into brushes; those that are to be set with pitch, may be seared or singed at one end with a hot iron, to make them resemble the roots, and beat at the other to make them resemble the flag of the bristle.

MR. RALPH DODD'S (CHANGE ALLEY, LONDON), for improved Bridge Floorings, or Platforms, and Fire Proof Floorings, for extensive Dwelling Houses, Warehouses and Mills.

This invention consists of a certain method of applying malleable iron, and other metals, and condensed earth, or artificial stone. As the right understanding of this specification depends on figures, which we cannot introduce into this work, the most we can do is to describe the objects of the figures. The first is meant for a tubical rib, to be used either empty or filled, or partly filled with condensed earth, or artificial stone, to be applied from one pier to another, or bearings, either straight triangular, or curved. The second repre, sents an upright shaft, or column, for sus taining heavy weights strengthened with condensed earth or artificial stone. Ano ther figure shows the same with flanges or joints for attaching one to each other, to stand upright, or to be laid horizontal, for bearing heavy pressures,or conducting fluids, or air, in a cold or heated state, through them, when part of the centre is left void of condensed earth, or artificial stone. The next figure shews a square tube, to be coated internally, or externally, with condensed earth, or artificial stone, to be used as a beam, rafter, joist, girder, pile, &c. This is varied in its shape, size, and other particulars, and is represented with the variations in other figures. We have likewise the figure of a tubical beam, made of the same materials, with two upper ears or flanges, to fasten down platforms, decks, and floorings, or other attached parts, to be formed of any figure, from the square to the segment, taper, twisting, angle-wise, made watertight to prevent their sinking. The thirteenth figure shews the various parts when combined in the formation of houses, ware houses, or mills, coated or not, internally, or externally, with condensed earth or artificial stone; and the last figure is the representation of the vas

rious parts, when combined and applied to vessels floating in, or on water, or to contain any fluid, coated or not, internally, or externally with condensed earth, or artificial stone.

MR. ZACHARIAH BARRATT'S (CROYDON) for a Machine for washing Linen, &c. to which may be attached a Contrivance for pressing the Water from them, instead of wringing them,

The machine consists of a wooden trough, of a convenient size, for one perthe inside surface is made uneven, by sen to stand at, with an inclined bottom, grooves, or projections, about an inch assunder. The ribs of the grooves are hollowed, so as to give them a wavy appearance, and into the hollows may be introduced small pieces of buff or other elastic substance, which in the operation of washing are supposed to act in a similar manner to the human fingers. A hole is made in the bottom of the trough to let off the suds when done with. On the inside of the trough, and parallel with its ends, a roller is fixed on centres, covered with cork, leather, or other soft substance, to prevent noise in the operation of washing, which operation is performed by a person pressing the cloaths in the trough, with a loose board called an agitator, the under side of which is supported by, and moves on the roller above-mentioned. This agitator is constructed of one or more pieces of board, two feet six inches long, fra med together so as to form a flat surface, nearly of the width of the interior, having two holes or spaces cut out in the upper end, for the operator's hands. The lower end, about an inch high, is covered with leather, cork, or other fit elastic soft material, with one or two pieces projecting at the bottom, similar to those in the hollow parts of the grooves, in the inside of the trough. Across the top of the trough is a strong bar, or shelf of wood, on which may be placed an apparatus of any proper construction for pressing out the water, to be used as a substitute for wringing: this apparatus is a box, or tube, into which the wet things may be put, and the water pressed out by a piece of wood, of the size nearly of the interior of the box, attached to the end of a screw fixed in a frame. A lever, or other means of creating a pressure, may be adopted, but if a screw is used, it should be encircled with a cylinder of leather, to keep it free from wet, which would render its action stiff and unpleasant,

VARIETIES,

VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL,
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign.
Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received.

edition is in the it appears to be so

will speedily be published, of the Works of the Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; including the best Translations of the Classics. It will form twenty-two volumes, royal octavo, printed in two columns, and will, in every respect, constitute one of the handsomest library books that has appeared for several

years.

Mr. BEWICK, of Newcastle, so deservedly celebrated for his skill in engraving in wood, has for a considerable time, been engaged on a System of Economical or Useful Botany, which will include about 450 plants, the most useful in the Materia Medica, in Diet and Manufactures. The text has been prepared by Dr. THORNTON, and will contain a body of valuable information relative to the His tory and Uses of the several Plants. There will be two editions, one on royal paper, of which only a small number has been printed; and the other on demy, neither of them inferior in beauty to Mr. Bewick's former productions.

Mr. Rose has announced some Observations on the Historical Fragment of of Mr. Fox, and an Original Narrative of the Duke of Argyle's Insurrection in

1685.

Mr. ALEXANDER WALKER, of Edinburgh, has in the press a compendious, but very complete, System of Anatomy; of which report speaks highly.

Mr. MARTIN, who has been diligently employed in the study of extraneous fossils for some years back, is about to pubfish under the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, a 4to Volume of Plates and Descriptions of the Petrifactions of Derby. shire. A work, by the same author, has just been printed off, containing an Ele mentary Introduction to the Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils; an attempt to establish the study of these bodies on scientific principles. It forms an 8vo, volume, and will be given to the public in the course of the succeeding month.

A work will be published in March, under the title of the Ecclesiastical and L'uiversal Annual Register; the object of which is to furnish an opportunity for the preservation of documents which may obtain permanent interest with the

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Mr. PARK'S edition of Warton's History of English Poetry, is in a state of great forwardness. The editor's plan is not only to revise both text and notes, and free the extracts from the charge of inaccuracy to which they have hitherto been subjected, but also to supply a Continuation in furtherance of Mr. Warton's plan.

The very copious Annotations on Warton's History by the late learned antiquary, the Rev. GEORGE ASHBY, together with various Manuscript Observations left by that acute critic Mr. Ritson, are in the hands of the present editor; and so far as the purposes of correction and illustra tion can be served will be appended to the notes of Mr. Warton.

A new edition, corrected and enlarged, of Dr. Milner's History of Winchester, will be published in the course of the en suing month.

The Reverend Mr. DIBDIN's new edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities, by Herbert, is gone to press. The first volume will be devoted to the books printed by Caxton; with copious notes including the mention of almost all contemporaneous foreign publications which have any connection with Caxton's pieces. New and curious extracts from some of the rarer Caxtonian books will be introduced to the reader's notice. The whole of Lewis's Life of Caxton, a scarce work, will be incorporated in this first volume; as well as the Lives of Ames and Herbert; with a preliminary Disquisition on the Introduction of the Arts of Printing and Engraving into this country; adorned with fac-simile cuts.

A Society of Physicians in London has been engaged, for some time past, in collecting materials for a new work, to be entitled the Annual Medical Register. They propose to comprise, in one volume, a complete account of the medical literature of the preceding year, together with an historical sketch of the discoveries and improvements in medicine and the collateral sciences; a report of the general state of health and disease in the metropolis; and a brief

detail

detail of such miscellaneous occurrences within the same period, as may be deem ed worthy of record.

mance,

Mr. RYLANCE is composing a roto be entitled, Francesco, or the Fool of Genius, founded on the extraordinary life of Mazzuoli, celebrated as a painter, by the name of Parmegrano.

Dr. ADAMS's work on Epidemics, is almost through the press. It is an address to the public, particularly the legislative body, on the laws which govern those diseases, and on the late proposals for exterminating the small pox.

Mr. WEBBE is about to publish an edition of his most admired Glees, in three volumes, folio; containing each about one hundred pages.

ing body of the principal blood-vessels, nerves, &c. concerned in surgical operations; to be illustrated with plates.

At a meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, on the 14th of January, Dr. Thomson read an interesting description and analysis of a particular variety of copper-glance, from North America. At the same meeting, Dr. John Barclay communicated some highly curious observations which he had made on the caudal vertebræ of the great sea snake, mentioned in a former number, which exhibit in their structure some admirable provisions of nature, not hitherto observed in the vertebræ of any other animal. Mr. Patrick Neill read an ample and interesting account of this new animal, collected from different sources, especially from letters of undoubted authority, which he had received from the Orkneys. He stated, however, that, owing to the tempestuous season, the head, fin, sternum, and dorsal vertebræ, promised some weeks ago to the University Museum of Edinburgh, had not yet arrived; but that he had received a note from Gilbert Meason, Esq. on whose estate in Stronsa, the sea-snake was cast, intimating, that they might be expected by the earliest arrivals from Dr. CLARKE and Mr. CLARKE will Orkney. In the mean time he submitted begin their Spring Course of Lectures on to the Society the first sketch of a Midwifery and the Diseases of Women generic character. The name proposed and Children, on Monday, March the for this new genus was Halsydrus, (from 20th; from a quarter past ten o'clock in, the sea, and igos, a water-snake ;) the morning till a quarter past eleven, for the convenience of students attending the hospitals.

Dr. CROTCH intends to read Lectures on Music at the Hanover-square Rooms in April. His third volume of Specimens of the various Kinds of Music will be published shortly; and he is engaged in preparing some other publications which are expected to be interesting to the musical world.

Dr. REID will commence his Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, at his house in Grenville-street, on the 15th of March.

A new edition of Lardner's Works is in considerable forwardness, and is to appear in monthly parts. The first part will make its appearance on the first of March, and the others in succession, on the first day of every month, or carlier, at the option of subscribers. It is calculated that the whole works will be comprised in about thirty-two parts, and that this will be the cheapest edition of the Works of Lardner ever published.

The Rev. ROBERT BLAND, author of of Edwyn and Elgiva, and Sir Everard, has in the press a poetical romance in ten cantos, entitled, the Four Slaves of Cythera.

The Rev. J. GIRDLESTONE, is about to publish by subscription all the Odes of PINDAR, translated into English verse, with notes explanatory and critical.

Mr. C. MACARTNEY is preparing for publication a set of rules for ascertain ing the situation and relations in the live

and as it evidently appeared to be the Soe-Ormen described by Pontoppidan, in his Natural History of Norway, it was suggested that its specific name should be H. Pontoppidani.

Dr. KENTISH, of Bristol, has formed an establishment where the faculty may order heat or cold in any proportion to be applied to a patient either locally or generally.

The following account of a shock of an earthquake felt at Dunning in Perthshire, on the 18th of January, about two o'clock, A. M. is given by Mr. Peter Martin, surgeon of that place. He was returning home, at the time, on horseback, when his attention was suddenly attracted by a seemingly subterraneous noise; and his horse immediately stopping, he perceived that the sound proceeded from the north-west. After it had continued for half a minute, it be came louder and louder, and apparently nearer, when, suddenly, the earth heaved perpendicularly, and with a tremulous waving motion, seemed to roll or move in

a south

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