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in a mill and sifts them as often as the process is found profitable. For the purpose of sifting, he uses a frame, about 6 or 7 feet long, two feet wide, and 5 inches deep, into which is fixed another frame or frames, with silk bottonis, through this by means of a velocity obtained by mechanical contrivances, the mustard is passed. The sieve is to be supplied by a hopper, placed above it, and to this Mr. Shotwell lays an exclusive claim. The sieve should be so hung that it may conveniently be brushed under the bottom, or brushes may be fixed the length of the sieve, to be moved by crank, by machinery, or any other way at pleasure.

Observations. The advantages described as belonging to this invention are, 1. That a considerable quantity of genuine mustard is obtained from offal, hitherto deemed of little value. 2. An article possessing a considerable degree of pungency, is obtained from the brown mustard-seed, at a smail expence. S. By connecting a hopper or other apparatus, with the upper end of the sieve, the labour of supplying the sieve with meal is very much lessened, and the supply is more regular than when done by the hand; and by fixing long brushes under the sieve, the labour of brushing is much lessened.

ME EDWARD DAMPIERS' (PRIMROSESTREET, LONDON,) for Machinery for reducing Drugs, &c. into fine Powder. This machinery consists of a large wheel or flat surface, of iron or other metal, fixed to a vertical shaft or arbor, to be driven round by the powers commonly used in manufactures. Upon the face of the wheel, I attach, by screws, keys, bolts, &c. certain cutters or raspers, with their edges or faces toothed and directed upwards; each of which is fixed so that its length shall be directed to wards the shaft, either precisely, with 2 such an obliquity, as that the line, of the length of each rasper, shall every where cross the circles described by the motion of its teeth; and close to each cutter or rasper, there is a perforation, or long hole, quite through the face of the wheel, for the purpose of permitting the rasped wood or other material to fall through In the use and application of this machi Bery, the drugs, &c. are placed and secu-~red upon the face of the said wheel, which by its rotation causes the teeth of the cutters to act upon the same, and to cut off portions or raspings off the me, which fall through into a proper

receptacle. The wheel may be bevelled inwards, or outwards, and admits of various forms, dimensions, and velocities; and by various contrivances, all the cutters may be fixed upon the wheel at once, or a part of thein may be separately attached, and taken out when needful. The drawings attached to this specification give a complete view of the business.

MR.

JOSEPH CUFF'S (WHITECHAPEL,) for a new Method of slaughtering Cattle, &c.

The title of this specification mentions cattle of divers descriptions, from oxen, downwards, but the drawings are confined to hogs. We have carefully examined the specification; and from that and the included drawings, we understand that Mr. Cuff keeps the animals to be killed in a certain kind of pen in the slaughter-house, and that two persons. three; the occupation of one person, is are employed in the business, or perhaps to catch the beast, or by some other manoeuvre to fasten a rope or hook, on one or both of its hind legs; another person is then by means of a wheel and pulley, or other apparatus, to draw the animal up to a certain height, and a third person is to fix the rope on the tenter hooks, and while thus suspended with its head downwards, the animal's throat is to be cut.

Remark.-The Patentee professes that the meat is better by thus mode of slaugh tering, than by the usual methods. We must, however, observe, that, if its suppo sed advantages arise from the mere position of the animal when killed, the invention is not new; it has been practised in a village within a mile north of London, some years. Nor do we see that there can be any novelty in the apparatus for dragging up the animal and suspending it by its hind legs, so as to warrant an exclusive claim. We are, from a view of the invention, induced to believe that the method will, in practice, be found much more cruel, than that usually adopted and therefore cannot merit the applause and patronage of the public, who should endeavour to miti gate the sufferings of creatures whose lives are sacrificed to supply their wants.

MR.

EDWARD THOMASON'S (BIRMINGHAM,) for a new Method of manuf¿cturing Umbrellas, Parasols, &c.

This gentleman has, we believe, been fortunate in his inventions which have been noticed in the Monthly Magazine.

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His hearth-brush is now frequently seen in respectable houses; the object of which is, as our readers will recollect, by means of a neat apparatus to conceal the brush part, except at the time of using. The principle of the invention before us is something similar, and the spreading part of the umbrella is, when not used as an umbrella, parasol, &c. concealed in a walking-stick. The con

trivance adopted is very simple, and well explained by the drawings attached to the specification. Not having seen one of the umbrellas, we cannot speak positively on the subject; but we should be led to suspect that the cane, stick, &c. which is to include the head of an umbrella, must itself be almost too large for the purpose of walking with.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN MARCH.

As the List of New Publications, contained in the Monthly Magazine, is the ONLY COMPLETE LIST PUBLISHED, and consequently the only one that can be useful to the Public for Purposes of general Reference, it is requested that Authors and Publishers will continue to communicate Notices of their Works (Post paid), and they will always be faithfully inserted, FREE of EXPENCE.

AGRICULTURE.

OBSERVATIONS on the Utility, Form, and Management of Water Meadows, for Draining and Irrigating Peet Bogs; by William Smith, Engineer, 8vo. 8s.

DRAMA.

Patus and Arria, a Tragedy; with a Letter to Thomas Sheridan, esq. on the present State of the English Stage. 2s. 6d.

LAW.

A Treatise on the Defects of the Debtor and Creditor Laws, and the Consequences of Imprisonment for Civil Debt; by W. Menchen, esq. 5s.

Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery; by F. Vesey, esq. of Lincoln's-inn, Barrister-at-law, vol XIV. part II. 7s. 6d.

A most interesting Case, in a Letter addressed to Sir Samuel Romilly on the Bankrupt Laws; by George Baillie, esq. 1s.

MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Observations on some of the most important Diseases of the Heart; on Aneurism of the Thoracic Aorta; Preternatural Pulsation in the Epigastric Region; and on the unusual Origin and Distribution of some of the large Arteries of the Human Body. Illustrated by Cases; by Allan Burns, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery, Glasgow.

Cases and Observations on Lithotomy, including Hints for the more ready and safe performance of the Operation. With an Engraving. To which are added, Observations on the Chimney Sweepers' Cancer, and other Miscellaneous Remarks; by W. Simmons, Surgeon. 75. 68.

Anatomico-chirurgical Views of the Nose, Mouth, Larynx, and Fauces; with appropriate Explanations and References; by John James, Surgeon, folio. 11. 11s. 6d. plain, or 21. 2s. coloured

MISCELLANEOUS.

Strictures on Dr. Milner's Tour, and on

Mr. Clinchs's Inquiry, with a new Plan for obtaining Emancipation for the Catholics of Ireland. Humbly submitted to their Friends in Parliament; by the Rev. Edward Ryan, D.D. 2s. 6d.

The Dangers of the Edinburgh Review, or a brief Exposure of its Principles in Religion, Morals, and Politics. In Three Letters addressed to its Readers; by Mentor. 1s. 6d.

The New London Review; conducted by Richard Cumberland, esq. No. I. 5s.

A new and original Comedy in Three Acts, called Valentine's Day, or the Amorous Knight, and the Belle Widow; by Anonymous. 3s. 6d.

The Quarterly Review, No. I. 5s. State of the Foreign Affairs of Great Britain, for the Year 1809. 25.

Political, Commercial, and Statististical Sketches of the Spanish Empire in both In dies. 4s. 6d.

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Europe: Lines on the present War; by the Charges exhibited against his Royal Reginald Heber, A.M. 2s.

English Bards and Scottish Reviewers, a Satire, with Notes. 4s.

Latin and English Poems,Translations, &c. by the Rev. Richard Barnett. 8vo. 8s. The Holidays, or Application Rewarded, and Indolence Disgraced. 1s. Military Promotions, or the Duke and his Dulcinea; a Satirical Poem. 2s. 6d.

POLITICS.

A Letter to Mrs. Clarke, on her late Connection with the Duke of York, and the Charges brought against his Royal Highness in the House of Commons by G. L. Wardle, esq. 3s.

The Investigation of the Charges brought against his Royal Highness the Duke of York by G. L. Wardle, esq. M P. for Oakhampton, Devon; with the Evidence at large, and the Remarks of the Members. In Numbers, 12mo. 6d. each.

A Summary Review of the Charges adduced against his Royal Highness the Duke of York. 1s.

A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings upon the Charges preferred against his Royal Highness the Duke of York, in the capacity of Commander-inChief, by G. L. Wardle, esq. M.P. before the Honourable House of Commons: with Portraits. 8vo. 12s. 6d.

An heroic Epistle to G. L. Wardle, esq. on his Charges preferred against his Royal Highress the Duke of York. 2s. 6d.

Observations on the Conduct of Mrs. Clark; by a Lady. 2s. 6d.

A correct and Authentic Copy of the Evidence taken before the House of Commons on

Highness the Duke of York; in which are included several Documents that have not yet appeared before the public, copied verba tim from the Minutes of the House. 8vo. 12s.

The Reign of Cytherea, a Defence of his Royal Highness the Duke of York.

An Attempt to elucidate the pernicious Consequences of a Deviation from the Prin ciples of the Orders in Council. 2s. 6d.

State of the Foreign Affairs of Great Bri tain for the Year 1809: by Gould Francis Leckie, esq. 2s.

A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Henry Petty, by a Member of the University of Cambridge. gs.

Hints to both Parties, or Observations on the Proceedings in Parliament, upon the Petitions against the Orders in Council, &c. 2s. 6d.

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

THEOLOGY.

A Sermon Preached in the parish Church of Stillorgan, on Sunday October 30, 1808, at the request of the Stillorgan Charitable Institution for promoting the Comfort of the Poor; by the Rev. Robert Dealtry, L.L D Prebendary of Wicklow. 13. Cd.

Sermons by the Rev. Sidney Smith. Two vols. 18s.

The Alexandrian School, or a Narrative of the first Christian Professors in Alexandria, with Observations on the Influence they still maintain over the established Church; by M. Jerninghan. 2s.

Hewlett's Bible, Part III. Royal 4to. 9s. demy 7s.

MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. The Use of all New Prints, and Communications of Articles of Intelligence, are requested under COVER to the Care of the Publisher.

Pictures, the Works of British Artists, placed in the Gallery of the BRITISH INSTITUTION, Pall Mall, for Exhibition and Sale, 1809.

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HE BRITISH SCHOOL of the Fine Arts, though still in its youth, is certainly the first of the present day, and making progressive strides towards the goal of perfection. The French School may perhaps possess more anatomical learning, and be perhaps better skilled in the grammar of art; yet the British School, falling short only in that point (which character it behoves her iminediately to retrieve),surpasses her neighbours in every other essential quality. For sariety, for style, for beauty, for truth, for character, for conception, she MONTHLY MAG. 183.

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is unrivalled, and her elevated charac ter has reached beyond home. celebrated French writer (Mr. Millin) in a short history of the different acknowledged schools of art, sums up a brief character of each, and concludes that of the English school thus. "Mais on a remarqué dans ces ouvrages une composition suge de belles formes, des idées clevées de l'art. La beauté doit entres dans le caractère de l'école Anglaise, purce qu'elle est assez commune en Angleterre pour frapper sans cesse la vue des artistes.""Such is the high opinion of one of the greatest critics of the Fine Arts in the French empire. To continue the parailel with other schools: if grandeur was the characteristic of the Roman school;

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colouring, of the Venetian; pathos, of the Lombard; or humour of the Flemish; each of these varieties is discoverable in the different artists of the English school. With West, Copley, Singleton, Fuseli, Howard, for the first; with Shee, Lawrence, Westall, Turner, De Lowtherbourg, for the second; with Opie, Northcote, Howard, Londsdale, Phillips, for the third; with Wilkie, Sharp, Cook, Mulready, for the next; with the first landscape and animal painters that ever dig nified any school of art; with the schools for design and drawing, that the Royal Academy and Town Museum present; with the school for colouring, that the Patriotic Institution now under notice has founded; what may not be hoped from the future exertions of the British school of the Fine Arts? The limits of this department will not admit even the titles of all the pieces worthy of notice in this exhibition; many of them have been exhibited before at the Royal Academy, and are consequently well known to the public.

Taking them from the catalogue seriatim: — Richard Sass's Shipwreck (No. 6.) displays much knowledge of effect, and is an excellent picture. The Academician Westall's Belisarius (No. 19) is not unworthy of his fame, but is not equal to some of his other pieces in the present collection. The Peasants of Subiaco in the Ecclesiastical States, returning from the Vineyard on a Holiday, by H. Howard, R. A. is an admirable picture, well composed and forcibly coloured. The Zephyr (No. 31) by Westall, is beautifully delicate; and a Holy Family, by the same Master, in the highest style of excellence. The Death of Nelson, by Devis (No. 70), is a national picture of such merit as makes every British heart glow: it suffers from its situation amidst so many brilliant pic tures of a different character, and from the injudicious colour of the walls. Never was a story better told than this. The heroic, the regretted Nelson is in his last moments; every man is in the act of doing his duty; and every figure is a use ful accessary to the affecting tale.-There is a tolerably successful effort at humour in Cosse's picture of a Private of the 17th Regiment endeavouring to inlist a Tailor (No. 73); but a little more attention to the model, and a higher degree of finish, will enable this artist to pursue such subjects with more effect.-Cook's Cymon and Iphigenia (No. 99) must not be passed over; it is an admirably well com.

posed picture, the vis comica is excellently kept up in the figure of the fool of nature, whose gaping mouth and stupid eyes are so truly expressed, that it would be impossible to mistake the love-struck idiot.-Drummond's Deserted Milk Maid (No. 101) possesses much merit, but there is too much affectation of colouring în this, as well as in some others of the same artist.—Barker's Maniac (No. 105) is hørror personified; it would serve to bring men to reason from the revels of Bacchanalian debauchery, or seduction.-The first Navigator (No. 113), by Howard, is a fine idea; it possesses the rare merits of grand composition, and a chaste unaffected tone of colour. Atkinson's Cossacks (No. 114) is a spirited characteristic design, though but slightly finished. Poor Freebairn's posthumous work of the Temple of the Sun is eclipsed by none in the

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Portrait of William Congreve, Esq. directing the Discharge of the Fire Rockets, invented by bim, into the town of Copenhagen, during the Bombardment by the British Forces, under the Command of the Right Hon. Lord Catbçait, in 1807; painted by J. Landsdale, engraved by G. Cliat, and published by J. Londsdale, 8, Berner's-street.

Mr. now Lieut.-Colonel Congreve, the ingenious inventor of the Fire-rockets, that proved so destructive to the metropolis of Denmark at the commencement of the present war, and so essentially contributed to our success in the expedition against that Power, is here represented in whole length, with a fixed and earnest attention directed to the flight of a rocket, which has just reached above the picture, and from the tail of which all the light proceeds that illumines his figure. Copenhagen on fire makes up the distance; and several attendant figures employed in preparing or discharging the destructive engines, form the accessaries of the picture.-Sir Joshua Reynolds has been much and justly praised for the dignified character with which he enrobed his por traits, and his Lord Heathfield might be mentioned as one possessing the highest claims to this praise. Mr. Lonsdale has, in this very interesting picture, adopted the same principle, and with the greatest success; for instead of being only the dull delineation of the human face on canvas, he has by this, as well as in many other well-known portraits, proved himself a truly philosophical painter. The management of the chiaroscuro, the drawing of the figure, the penetration, mind, and depth of thought, in the phy

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siognomy, constitute but a small portion of the merits of this admirable print. The engraving, in mezzotinto, by Cliat, is no less beautiful in execution, than correct in being a perfect copy of the original picture, which the public will remember hung over the door of the great room at Somerset Place, in the exhibition of 1803.

Hewlett's Bible, Part 3d.

The Plates in the present Number are the following:

1. Christ asleep in the Storm-engraved by Neagle, from a picture by S. de Vliegen. 2. Daniel interpreting the Writing on the Wall-engraved by Tomlinson, from a picture by

West.

3. Adam and Eve in Paradise-engraved by Nagle, from a picture by Gaspar Poussin.

4. Christ in the Garden-engraved by Tomlinson, from a picture by Rembrandt.

5. Mount Sinai-engraved by Neagle, from a picture by Breughel.

6. The Vision of Ezekiel-engraved by Warthington, from a picture by Raphael.

They preserve the character given of the two former parts, and are creditable proofs of the talents of the contributing eugravers.

INTELLIGENCE RELATIVE TO THE FINE

ARTS.

The encouragement and love of the Fine Arts is daily increasing in this country. The public will therefore hear with much pleasure of the foundation of a new Society, for the Exhibition and Sale of the Works of British Artists, to be called "The Northern Society." Its first exhibition will be at Leeds, and will open on the 3d of April: it shall be noticed in the ensuing month's Magazine.

The Artists are now all busy in preparing for the approaching Exhibition at the Royal Academy, which is to open on the 1st May: the 3d and 4th of April are the days appointed to receive pictures, and other works of art.

Mr. Phillips, the Royal Academician, has some excellent Portraits in preparation; one of which is of Sir Joseph Bankes, which, perhaps, for a single head was never excelled. Mr. Lonsdale has a whole length of Catalani, in the character of Dido.

Mr. Elnies has a Design for the Improvements of Westminster, from a se ries designed by order of the Commis sioners for the said Improvements, and some other Architectural Designs.

Many other ammunciations are omitted for want of room, which shall be noticed next month.

An elegant work, which has long been preparing for the press, is intended to be published on the 4th of June next, under the following title, The English School of Fine Arts, illustrated and exemplified, in a series of highly finished engravings, from paintings, architecture, and sculpture, by the most eminent English artists. Each print and subject to be accompanied by an ample critical and historical essay, or a biographical me

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cal parts, on a large quarto: and each The work to be published, in periodipart to contain: 1. A portrait of an eminent person, from the most esteemed picture; 2. An historical, or fancy composition, from a celebrated English painting; 3. A statue or group; 4. A specimen of architecture, in one or two prints from some grand or elegant public building.

This work is brought forward for the. express purpose of exhibiting in a series of highly wrought engravings, the peculiar or characteristic excellencies of English artists; and thereby manifesting and confirming their claims to the reputation of genius, science, and talent. Thus, though their paintings, and other productions, are mostly immured in private apartments, or fixed to certain spots; yet, by the aid of the skilful and accurate engraver, faithful copies and representations may be extensively disseminated. These will be rendered additionally interesting, by historical and professional anecdotes, correct descriptions, and liberal critical annotations. The literary department of this work will be supplied by such gentlemen as are best calculated, by their professional studies, erudition, or taste, to furni-h the most interesting and satis factory information on the respective subjects of painting, architecture, and sculp ture. It is indeed the unanimous wish of the proprietors to produce a work that shall satisfy the English artist, gratify the connoisseur, interest the discriminating part of the literati both at home and abroad, and collectively exhibit the mental and professional talents of our countrymen.

The present epoch, it is conceived, is favourable to this undertaking, as the productions of Englishmen are beginning to be appreciated, and the best works of Reynolds, Wilson, Gainsborough, Mortimer, Romney, Barry, Opie, &c. highly prized. A "British Institution" is also formed to promote and cherish them; the living artists are nobly emulous;

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