perpendicularly, and is kept in that perpendicular direction by another piece, winch performs two objects; for the interior of it forms the catch-work of the screw, whilst the exterior is fixed by two screws on the pillar plate. The reader must be referred to the specification itself for a more particular description corresponding to the drawings attached to it. To elucidate the nature and superior utility of his invention, Mr. B. observes, First, That the old repeaters contain five wheels more than the common watches, besides five pinions and a barrel and main spring, which are all necessary to put the motion in action; they have also two hammers to distinguish hours from quarters. But the new repeater is composed of the common plain move inent and wheel-work, with the addition only of a hammer, which is placed in an insulated situation, having no communication whatever with the wheel-work. Secondly, The old motions being so very complex, are in their nature liable to be out of order from the slightest cause, because the chain of the motion which winds the main spring of the repeating-work is easily broken by means of the pressure, its very structure, and its attendant friction: and lastly, because the action of it depends upon the main spring and wheel-work, the latter of which is apt to be disordered, and the former snaps and breaks of itself. Whereas the new motion acts in itself, and has no dependance on wheel-work, or any other piece that is subject to be broken; an endless screw sets the two chief parts in motion, which produces the effect of striking the hours and the quarters; and all the other pieces are designed only as collateral support to the principal ones. Hence the simplicity of construction in the new repeater, and a diminution of expence. MR. ANDREW BROWN'S (LONDON,) for Improvements in the Construction of a Press for printing Books and other Articles, part of which may be applied to Presses in common use. These improvements are on the press itself: on the use of barrels or cylinders for feeding the types with ink; and in the loose frisket and manner of using it. The press is made of cast iron, as is also the bed which must be accurately faced for the types to lie on. A follower gives pressure on the types, and is fixed to the screw. In using this press the cast-irou bed slides out below the roller or cylder, which roller or cylinder revolves round and feeds the types with ink. It is covered with flannel, or any other elastic substance, and then is covered with parchment or vellum, or other proper materials to prevent the ink from soaking too far in, and likewise to give it a spring, and afterwards is covered with superfine woollen cloth, for the purpose of receiving the ink to supply the types. There is a large barrel or cylinder, and also a smaller one: the former having received the ink from the trough underneath it, the latter rolls on the other and distributes or spreads out the ink on the face of it; or it may be necessary, with the small barrel or cylinder, occasionally to use a brush to distribute the ink, or lay the ink on the large barrel. The large barrel feeds the other with ink, and that revolves and feeds the types by the motion of the spindle, which moves the bed. Mr. B. is able to apply the barrels or cylinders, which he reckons his prin cipal improvement, to presses now in common use, by means of a fly-wheel and traddle, which give motion to the two barrels or cylinders, and distribute the ink over the types, to feed them with ink either by the motion of the band or flywheel, or by other methods well known to every mechanic. FREDERICK BARTHOLOMEW FOLSCH and WILLIAM HOWARD'S (LONDON,) for a certain Machine, Instrument, or Pen, calculated to promote Facility in Writing; and also a certain Black Writing Ink or Composition, the Durability whereof is not to be affected by Time, or change of Climate. The pen is made of glass, enamel, or other substance capable of admitting a bore, the point is small and finely polished, but the part above the point is large enough to hold as much or more ink than a common writing pen. The composition is a mixture of equal parts of Frankfort black and fresh butter, which is smeared over paper and rubbed off after a certain time. The paper thus smeared is to be pressed for some hours, taking care to have sheets of blotting paper between each of the sheets of black paper. When fit for use, the paper is put between sheets of this blackened paper, and the upper sheet is to be written on with common ink with the glass or euamel pen. By this method not only. the copy is obtained on which you write, but also two or more made by means of the blackened paper, REPORT REPORT OF DISEASES, Under the care of the late senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of April, to the 20th of May, 1809. Phthysis... Tussis et Hæmoptoe Icterus Hypochondriasis. Vermes .... Hooping - cough has, amongst children, been a kind of epidemic, not unfrequently connected with violent and alarming convulsions. To relieve either the cough, or the apparently painful 3 spasm, opium and digitalis are in danger of being applied to the exquisitely irritable constitution of infancy, with too little caution and reserve: a circumstance, of which parents and other unprofessional prescribers are not sufficiently 1 Fevers, attended with bilious symptoms have, in consequence of the late season, extraordinary temperature of the been more than usually prevalent. In more than one instance, the disorder was aggravated by the administration of tonics and stimulants, without having previously rinced the stomach, and intestinal canal; a circumstance which ought never to be omitted in the first instance, especially in fevers connected with any hepatic derangement. For this purpose, and to preserve during the continuance of the disease, a due and regular evacuation from the bowels, calomel is, perhaps, one of the best remedies in the store-house of the pharmacopeia; although this mercurial preparation may have been too extravagantly extolled, 'and too indiscriminately applied. bile" is the fashionable complaint, and against it calomel is the antidote principally in vogue. It has, certainly, in many "The conditions of the human frame, a most happy and extraordinary effect. But as any agent from which we have derived great and invaluable advantage, we are apt to elevate beyond its intrinsie merit, and almost to deify, so the zeal for this inestimable medicine may, in some instances, have approached the boundaries of an excusable fanaticism. This, like other preparations, of mercury may, when its use is long continued, whilst it apparently cures a particular aware. Scrophula, which has lain dormant, or more properly latent, during the winter months, begins in general to make itself visible upon the opening of the summer. It is then in full blow. This disease sweeps into its comprehensive circle almost every straggling indication of disorder which is not found within the precincts of any other specific difinition; and, under its name of vague and vulgar import, may include nearly all the miscellaneous affections, which originate from a generally relaxed and debilitated tone of the constitution. Of this malady the essence is not local, although the appearance of it may be so; and, of course, is not to be removed by extracting a morbid part, or separating from the trunk a diseased extremity. By lopping the branches, we implant more deeply, or more firmly fix, the ra dical fibres of the evil we would destroy. Without an ultimate necessity, or motives the most urgent and imperious, seldom ought we, in such cases, to seek relief in the desperate resource of a surgical ope ration. J. REID. Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, ABSTRACT ABSTRACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED BY THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE. B Passed in the 49th Year of the Reign of George III. (Not Annual, or of an Official nature.) Y the 49th Geo. III. c. 21. the interest on Exchequer Bills, under 47th Geo. III. s. 2, c. 73; 48th Geo. III c. 7; 48th Geo. Ill. c. 97; and 43 h Geo. II. c. 114; carried to the lixchequer Office before March 20, 1809, shall be paid; and the holders of such Exchequer Bills shall receive certificates to the Bank entting them to exchange the same for annuities at the rate either of 1031. 55. in the 51. per cents. to commence from 5th of January, 1809, or 81. 8. in the said 51. per cents. together with 261. 5s. in the 41. per cents. to commence from April 5, 1809, for every 1001. provided the amount of the Exchequer Bills exchanged shall not exceed 8,000,000; and such certificates are assignable until August 1, 1809. By 49th Geo. III. c. 21, ali spout wash which shall be fermented, or re. fermented, for the purpose of being distilled into spirits shall be deemed to be new wort, or wash, and shall be charged with all the duties to which wort, or wash, brewed for extracting spirits may be liable, and all such spout-wash which shall be so fermented, or re fermented, shall be liable to all the rules of former Acts. The Distillers having got into the Practice of re-fermenting and re-distilling Wash, after the same had been through the Still, to the great Injury of the Revenue, has occasioned this new Regulation. By 49th Gen. III. c. 25, until the 25th of March, 1811, any person, or persons, may import from any port whatever in any foreign state, or from Malta or Gibraltar, any sort of unmanufactured tobacco in any British ship, or vessel, navigated according to law, or in any ship, or vessel, belonging to any country jo amity with his Majesty, navigated in any manner whatever, subject to the duties payable on tobacco of the produce of the British plantations. § 1. Tobacco imported, or exported, under this Act, shall be subject to the same regulations as tobacco of the growth of the British plantations. § 2. Unmanufactured tobacco of the produce of the East Indies, or South AmeMONTHLY MAG. No. 185. rica, may, by order in council, be permitted to be imported. §3. By 49th Geo. III. c. 26, salted, or pickled salmon, or salted dry cod fish, having been taken and cured on the coast of the Gulph of St. Laurence, the coast of the Bay of Bundy, the coast of Cape Breton, or the coast of Prince Edward's Island, by British subjects, may be imported, and upon the same bounties as if from the Island of Newfoundland or coast of Labrador. By 49th Geo. III. c. 28, the clerks of the coroner and attorney of the Court of King's Bench, who have been, or may hereafter be, regularly admitted as such clerks, may be approved, sworn, and admitted to practise, and may practise as attornies in the Court of King's Courts of Record, in the name, and with Bench and also in any other of the the consent, of such attorney thereof, such consent being in writing and signed by the clerk. By 49th Geo. III. c. 29, the Irish Treasury may pay to the trustees of the linea and hempen manufacturers 29,000l. to be applied in bounties for the encourage. ment of the sowing of flax-sced of the growth of flax-sted of the present year; but no person is entitled to any part of the bounty for flax-sced sowed, unless such seed shall, on the 1st of January, 1810, be in the possession of the party, or his representatives, who shall have raised the flux whereby such seed was produced, nor unless such seed shall be certified by some inspector of the trustees, upon examination thereof, after the said 1st of January, to be sufficiently clean, sound, and fit for sowing. By 49th Geo, III. c. 35, benevolently and truly entitled An Act for the more convenient Payment of Pensions to Widows of Officers of the Navy, IT IS ENACTFo, that," from December 25, 1809, the Court of Assistants of the Charity for the Relief of Widows of Offices of the Navy may direct, the pensions to be paid to such widows at the place of their resi dence in any part of his Majesty's dominions, or in any foreign parts, by persons appointed by them to pay the same; and those widows may apply for their pen 3 T sions, sions, paid by the Receiver-general of the Land Tax, Collector of the Customs, Collector of Excise, or Clerk of the Cheque of the District; and the Court of Assistants may order and direct the Pay-master to make out two admittance bills payable by them to such widows, one of which shall be sent to the widow, and the other to the Receiver-general, Collector, or Clerk of the Cheque, who shall, on the widow's producing the duplicate, pay her the sum contained therein. The penalty on such persons delaying payment, or taking any fees or discount, is 50l. to be received as penalties under the excise laws. On certificate of infirmity being produced, the Receiver-general, Collector, and Clerk of the Cheque, are authorized to pay the contents of the bill to the order of the widow. But all assignments, bargains, sales, orders, contracts, agreements, or securities whatsoever, which shall be given or made by any widow entitled to receive pension, shall be absolutely null and void. Letters and packets are to be sent free of postage. Persons personating widows in order to receive pensions, or forging bills or certificates, are guilty of felony, and may be transported for not exceeding fourteen years. Bills and certificates are exempted from the stamp duties. By 49th Geo. III. c. 38, non-commissioned officers and soldiers are to allow 1s. 4d. per day, for diet and small beer, in quarters in England; and for articles which have hitherto been furnished gratis one halfpenny per day shall be allowed, and for horses quartered, 1s: 2d. per day shall be paid for hay and straw. [Passed 28th April.] By 49th Geo. III. c. 40, deficiencies and vacancies in the LOCAL MILITIA, may be directed to be supplied by order of the Secretary of State without his Majesty's warrant, but volunteers are allowed to enter whether any order be given for supplying deficiencies or not, until the local militia be completed, Vacancies are to be filled up, not withstanding the number of local militia and volunteers exceed six times the quota of the regular militia. Where the local militia shall exceed such quota, no deficiencies shall be supplied until the number be reduced below the proportion of the county. Local militia-men may enlist into the regular inilitia, except during the period of annual training; and no officer, or other person, shall enlist a local militiaman during the period of such training, on penalty of 201. Vacancies by men being made corporals and serjeants, and enlisting in the regular militia, are to be filled up. Deputy lieutenants may make new appointments in case, from the returns made, it be found the quotas are not in propor tion to the rotation numbers liable to serve. General meetings of lieutenancy are to fix, by ballot, the order in which subdivisions shall stand as to the supplying deficiencies on account of the appointment of persons to be serjeants or corporals, and deputy lieutenants are to regulate any inequalities of numbers that may arise in divisions. So much of the former act 48th Geo. III. c. 111, as relates to bounties to persons voluntarily enrolling them selves (except members of volunteer corps) is repealed, and parties may agree to give two guineas bounty. The whole of the bounty paid to persons enrolling in the local militia shall be deducted and repaid out of the bounty which they may receive, if within one year they enlist into the army, navy, or inarines, and half if they so enlist after one year and before the end of two No serjeant, corporal, or drummer, of any local militia on permanent pay as such, or as a musician in the band, shall be allowed to enlist in the army, navy, marines, or regular militia. Men shall not change their regiments in consequence of removing from one part of a county to another, and men shall not remove from one county to another while the regiment is assembled. No commissioned or non-commissioned officer, or private man, shall be subject to the mutiny act, except while he is receiving pay. [Passed the 12th of May.] STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN MAY. Containing official Papers and authentic Documents. SWEDEN. Letter from the Emperor Bonaparte to the Duke of Suder mania. "MY BROTHER-I have received your Royal Highness's letter of the 17th March. You are right to believe that I wish Sweden to enjoy tranquillity, happiness, and peace with her neighbours: neither Russia, Denmark, nor myself, were eager to wage war against Sweden; but on the contrary, did every thing in our power to ward off disasters which it was easy to foresee. I have taken the earliest opportunity to acquaint those courts with your Royal Highness's sentiments and views, and trust that they will perfectly agree with me in opinion, and that it will not be our fault if Sweden should not be restored to the enjoyment of happiness and peace. As soon as I shall be informed of the intentions of my allies, I will not fail to communicate them to your Royal Highness. In the mean time, you will not entertain a doubt of the respect which I entertain for your nation, of my wish for its happiness, and of the high esteem with which your character and virtues have inspired me for your Royal Highness. I pray to God to keep you, my brother, in his holy guard. "Your good Brother, ceremony, received the Princes, ministers, great officers of the empire, the senate, the council of State, all the public functionaries, and, finally, the diplomatic body.-The audience which he gave to the diplomatic body was rendered remarkable by a long discourse his Majesty held with the Austrian ambassador, of which I shall at least transmit you s short sketch. Austria means to make war upon us,' said the Emperor, or she means to frighten us. M. de Metternich bore testimony to the pacific dispositions of his government. If so, why such enormous preparations? They are merely for defence, said the Minister. But who attacks you, that you provide for your defence in such a way? Who threatens you, that you should think of being attacked? Is not all around you quiet? Has there been the least dispute between us since the peace of Presburg? Have I asked any thing of you? Has not the whole of our intercourse been friendly? And yet all on a sudden you have set up a cry of war. You have put your whole population in motion. Your Princes have been running through the provinces, and you have sent abroad the same proclamations, and taken just the same steps, you did when I was at Leoben. Were this only a new organization, you would have done all this more slowly, at less expence, with less violence, without creating such a ferment at home, or raising such a disturbance abroad. But your measures are not merely for defence. You have added 1300 men to each of your regiments. Your militia will furnish you with 400,000 men, which you can dispose of as you please. These men are put into regiments. A part of them are cloathed, your fortresses are supplied with provisions. In a word, a sure sign that you are preparing for war is this; that you have been purchasing horses. You already possess 14,000 for the artillery. Such extraordinary expences are never made in the bosom of peace. |