cookery that can be demanded by the aid of single fire. The range contains a perpetual boiler, ironing and stewing stoves, hot plates for boiling, baking, and broiling, and a place for steaming meat, which by some is preferred to the process of boiling. For the additional expence of a few shillings, an apparatus may be added, which shall give a constant supply of distilled water, which in many situations is an article of essential importance

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to a family who may be destitute of sweet and wholesome water. Mr. Deakin assures us that the cost of his kitchen range is much less than that of any before invented; that it answers, in most cases, as many or even more useful purposes than the generality of improved ranges; that it is symmetrical in its appearance, and so easy to manage, that no servant can mistake the application of its several parts.

R. BUSBY (Mus. D.) has issued proposals for publishing his new Translation of Lucretius, in rhyme, by subscription, in two elegant volumes in quarto; the price to subscribers four guineas, to be paid on the delivery of the work. We formerly announced that Dr. Busby had invited the literati of the metropolis to his house in Queen Ann'sstreet, West, on successive Saturday evenings, to hear this Translation recited by his son, Dr. Julian Busby. Nothing could have been more brilliant than these assemblages, or more gratifying to the genius of the translator; they also did credit to the taste of the town, and indicated that the author would be liberally requited for a labour which has occupied the intervals of a long life.

About three years ago, our correspondent COMMON SENSE published in the Monthly Magazine, the Principles of an Art of Short Memory, which he had practised for nearly twenty years. He did this in consequence of a recent application of his principles by some professor of mnemonics, as it was called at Paris, and he foretold that great sums would hereafter be made by teaching the same Art in London. This has taken place, and the Professor has actually heen giving lectures to considerable numbers of our scientific amateurs, who are pledged or sworn to secrecy! As, however this art is of English, and not of French, or German, invention, we feel it due to our readers to refer them to the article signed COMMON SENSE, as they will there find an exact detail of the principles lately exhibited in London as a Novelty of Continenta: Discovery.

We are gratified in being able to introduce into our Poetical Department

some specimens of a new volume of Poems, which will be published in July, by Miss MITFORD.

The Rev. DAVID BLAIR, author of many deservedly popular school books, announces a volume of Familiar Juve nile Letters, which include the elements of that necessary art, for the use of schools.

We learn from the interesting volume published by the PRINCE REGENT, rela tive to the Herculaneum MSS. that several of those works will forthwith be given to the world by Mr. HATTER, through the medium of the Clarendon press.

The poetical remains of the unfor. tunate BLACKET, the interest of whose Orphan Child has been so benevolently espoused by Mr. PRATT, will be published by that gentleman early in July; and no work ever more justly claimed the universal patronage of the lovers of genius.

A History and Description of the Church of St. Mary, Redcliff, Bristol, is preparing for publication, illustrated by several engravings, displaying the interior and exterior architecture, with plan, &c. of that building; from drawings by Mr. CHARLES WILD.

Mr. J. F. WILLIAMS announces by subscription a Patriotic Address to the British Nation, and a Poem to be called the British Lusiad; the object of which is to celebrate the deliverance of Portugal by the valour of the British army under the direction of Lord Wellington.

In a few days will be published, in two volumes 12mo. a new edition of the Orator, or elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, for the use of schools and academies; to which is prefixed, a Disser

tation on Oratorical Delivery, with an appendix, containing outlines of gesture, and examples of the principal passions and emotions. By JAMES CHAPMAN, Teacher of Elocution in the University of Glasgow.

Mr. MILLARD will publish in a few days, his New Pocket Cyclopædia, or Elements of Useful Knowledge, methodically arranged; designed for the higher classes in schools, and for young persons in general.

Mr. DYMOCK, of the grammar school of Glasgow, has in the press a school copy of Caesar, with English notes at the bottom of the page, and a copious explanation of the proper names at the end of the volume:

Dr. SMITH, president of the Linnæan Society, has nearly ready for publication Tour to Lapland, translated from the original unpublished manuscript itinerary of the celebrated Linnæus. It will form two octavo volumes, and be adorned with above sixty wood cuts from extemporaneous sketches of the illustrious author.

In the press, and will speedily be pub lished, for the use of schools, the third edition of Elegantiæ Latinæ, or Rules and Exercises illustrative of elegant Latin Style; by the Rev. E. VALPY, B.D. with considerable improvements and alterations.

A new edition of Pennant's British Zoology, with additions both to the text and plates, is in the press, and will appear early next season.

Mr. THOMAS MAC GILL has completed an Account of the Kingdom of Tunis, containing a view of the present state of the country, its government, productions, antiquities, the manners and employments of the people, manufactures, commerce, &c. in two duodecimo volumes.

Mr. PEARCE, of Walsall, will shortly publish, by subscription, a Directory for the Town and Parish of Walsall, together with an Account of the Post-Coaches, Carriers, Boats, &c. and all such information that may be useful to the mer chant, manufacturer, and tradesman.

The edition of Dryden's Poetical Works, with notes, by the two Wartons, in four octavo volumes, is nearly finished. A volume of some of the Letters of the late Rev. JAMES HERVEY, dated from 1736 to 1752, will speedily be published. Dr. NOTT, of Bristol, has in the press Nosological Companion to the London Pharmacopoeia.

In a few days will appear a translation from the French, entitled Modern Biography, or Lives of remarkable Characters who have distinguished themselves from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the present time.

A new edition of the London Catalogue of Books will be soon put to press. It will include the catalogues of 1800 with some rejections, and 1809 with corrections and additions to the present time, and is expected to be ready in three months.

STRYPE'S Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer, in two royal octavo volumes, and Bishop Sherlock's Discourses, in three volumes, are printing at the Cla

rendon Press.

The third and fourth Cantos of the Plants, a Poem, by WILLIAM TIGHE, esq. will speedily be published, with notes and observations.

The public may soon expect some Critical Remarks on Dr. Adam Clarke's extraordinary Annotations on the Bible.

Mr. JAMES P. TUPPER has in the press an Essay on the Probability of Sensation in Vegetables, with observations on Instinct, Sensation, and Irritability.

The Rev. SAMUEL CLAPHAM will shortly publish, in an octavo volume, Sermons, selected from minor Authors, adapted to the Saints' Days, Festivals, &c.

The long promised re-publication of the very curious volume attributed to the pen of JULIANA BERNERS, prioress of Sopewell Nunnery, circa 1450, will be ready for delivery to the subscribers at an early day. Our readers will recollect our announcement of this work at a former period, since which time, and when the volume, as originally print ed, was upon the eve of publication, the editor was induced, at the solicitation of his subscribers, to enlarge his plan, and to prefix an historical and bibliographical disquisition, illustrative of the volume and of its various treatises. These researches, which have necessarily created much laborious investigation into early records, and amongst our national repositories of early literature, are at length concluded.

The literature of the era of Elizabeth has of late years received considerable illustration from the researches which have been made into the writers of that age, principally with a view to the ill is tration of our favourite dramatic poet; and we are happy farther to obscive an

announcement of the re-publication of Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie, one of the most curious and entertaining productions of that age. Its copious intermixture of contemporary anecdotes, and specimens of coeval poetry, give it an interest surpassing most publications of the age of Elizabeth. The editor, Mr. HASLEWOOD, has condensed the slight notices which we possess of the author into a connected biographical memoir, and prefixed them to the volume.

Cambridge, April 13. The subject of the Seatonian Prize Poem for the present year is, The Sufferings of the Primitive Martyrs.

Cambridge, April 26. The subjects for the Prizes given by the members for the university for the present year, areSenior bachelors, Utrum in optimá Dialogorum ratione, Antiqui Recentioribus sint præponendi?-Middle bachelors, Studiorum quæ in Academia sunt instituta laus et utilitas.

Cambridge, May 6. The Norrisian Prize is this year adjudged to the Rev. JOHN TADDY, M.A. late fellow of Trinity College, for his essay on the followng subject-The divisions of Christians are not inconsistent with the truth of Christianity.

The Prizes bequeathed by the late Provost of Eton, Dr. Davies, for the best compositions in prose and verse, on themes selected by the head-master, have this year been gained,-the one by Mr. DAMPIER, subject Moses servatus: the other by Mr. DANIELL, Subject Augustus de Populo Romano bene meritus

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of the nine stations established in Lon don have vaccinated, during the last year, 8108 persons, and that 23362 charges of vaccine lymph have been distributed to various applicants froin all parts of the kingdom, being an excess of nearly one third in the number of persons vaccinated, and in the number of charges of lymph distributed, above that of the preceding year. No case of failure has occurred in any individual vaccinated by the surgeons of the nine stations. la the Royal Military Asylum for the chil dren of soldiers, and in the Foundling Hospital, vaccination was introduced by order of government, and continues to be practised. The former institution, which contains more than 1100 children, has lost but one of them by small-pox; and that individual had not been vacci nated, in consequence of having been declared by the mother to have passed through the small-pox in infancy. Ia the latter institution, no death has occurred by small-pox. Every child has been vaccinated on its admission to the charity, and in no instance has the preventive power of vaccination been discredited, although many of the children have been repeatedly inoculated with the matter of small-pox, and been submitted to the influence of the contagion. Similar success has attended the vacci nation at the Lying-in Charity of Manchester, where, in the space of nine years, more than 9000 persons have been effectually vaccinated; and, by a report received from Glasgow, it appears, that of 15,500 persons who have undergone vaccine inoculation in that city, during the last ten years, no individual has been known to be subsequently affected with small-pox. The number of deaths from small-pox announced in the bills of mortality of 1810, amounted to 1198, which, although great, is consi derably less than it had been previously to the adoption of the practice. Board have been induced to address the preceding information to the committees of Charity Schools, and to submit to them the propriety of introducing vace cination into their respective establish. ments, and among the poor in general. They also state, that in the principal county towns gratuitous vaccination of the poor is practised either at public institutions or by private practitioners on an extensive scale; that the prejudices of the lower orders excited against the practice by interested persons, still exist, but appear to be gradually yielding to a

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conviction of its benefit. From Scotland it appears that the practice of vaccination is universal among the higher or ders of society; and that it is the opinion of the College of Physicians, the College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, that the mortality from smallpox has decreased, in proportion as vaccination has advanced, in that part of the United Kingdom. At Dublin, and in Ireland generally, vaccination continues to make progress. The Board have also received very favourable accounts of the progress of vaccination in India; and it appears that by vaccination the ravage of small-pox has been repeatedly prevented, and the disorder exterminated in the island of Ceylon. The Board declare their unabated confidence in the preventive power of vaccination, and their satisfaction with the gradual and temperate progress by which this practice is advancing, and that they are of opinion, that, by perseverance in the present measures, vaccination will in a few years, become generally adopted. The money granted by parliament during the last session has been sufficient to defray the expences of the year 1810; and they are of opinion that the same sum will be adequate to the expenditure of the current year.

Wrought iron has been proposed as an advantageous substitute for the materials now in use for many purposes in shipping. A mast of this metal, the cylinder being half an inch thick, and the same height and diameter as a wood mast, will not be so heavy, will be considerably stronger, much more durable, less liable to be injured by shot, and can be easily repaired, even at sea. It will weigh only 12 tons, and at 451. per ton will not cost more than 5401. while its strength will be nearly fifty per cent. above that of a wooden mast, that weighs 28 tons, and costs nearly 12001. This mast is made to strike nearly as low as the deck, to ease the ship in a heavy sea. Ships furnished with wooden masts are in such circumstances obliged to cut them away. Ships furnished with iron masts, will not, like others, be exposed to the risk of receiving damage from lightning, the iron mast being itself an excellent conductor: by using an iron bolt from the bottom of the mast through the kelson and keel, the electric matter will be conducted through the bottom of the ship into the water, without injury to the ship. Yards and bowsprits may also be made of wrought iron, at the MONTHLY MAG. No. 214.

same proportion of strength and expense as the mast; and chain shrouds and stays of iron, which may be used with those masts, will not cost half the expense of rope, while they will also prove ten times more durable. Even the whole hull may be made of wrought iron.

GERMANY.

A German, of the name of Routgen, a scholar of the celebrated Blumenbach, in Göttingen, has announced his intention to endeavour to penetrate into the interior of Africa, nearly in the track pursued by Mr. Hornemann, who, as he has not been heard of for nearly ten years, is thought to have perished in the enterprise. This young man is about twenty years of age, and seems to have obtained all that kind of knowledge which is particularly necessary for his purpose. He understands the Arabic language, is remarkably abstemious, and has accustomed himself to make raw flesh and insects his food. At Göttingen he submitted to circumcision, that he might appear to be a true believer in the Koran, and, in the character of a physician, travel through those countries where the name of Christian would infal libly lead to slavery or death. In his peregrinations on foot through Germany and Switzerland, he always chose the worst lodgings and accommodations to inure himself to hardships. In Germany and Paris he has collected a number of questions proposed by the literati, relative to the unknown regions which he intends to visit. He means to endeavour to accompany a mercantile caravan from Mogador to Tombuctoo.

It appears from information received on this subject from different quarters, that almost all the great forests in the interior of Germany are infested by bands of robbers. One of them is reported to have established itself in the Wetteravia, and another in the Odenwald. These have communications with each other, and with the gang which during the winter has interrupted the public safety in the Spessart. Another troop resides in the forest of Thuringia, and has lately extended its incursions to the northern and eastern frontiers of the grand-duchy of Wurzburg. The duchies of Saxe-Coburg, Meinungen, and Ildburghausen, have also been disturbed by this band, which is divided into several detachments. According to the documents laid before the tribunal at Mentz, it is calculated, that the amount of the robberies committed by these organized 4 C

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bands, was in 1804 three millions and a half. Since that time they have inereased till they amount to a total, which it is not at present possible to ascertain. The sepulchral vault in the late ducal chapel, at Brunswick, has recently been rifled; the gold lace and gold fringe, which ornamented the coffins of the dukes have been carried off, together with four silver vases, containing the hearts of some of those princes. These remains were afterwards found thrown about in the neighbourhood of the palace.

The spirit which agitates a number of the vehement heads of Germany has taken a new turn, and the reveries of the illuminati have been quitted for those of extravagant devotion. Several fanatical works have lately been published, in which the Germans are exhorted put on hair-cloth, to turn hermits, and to impose on themselves the greatest austerities, and severest penances. One of these works, entitled "Halie and Jerusalem," proposes to renew the ancient pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

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There was lately for sale in the saleroom of M. SYLVESTRE, at Paris, a quarto Latin bible, printed in that city in 1497. It belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, whose name is written in the title-page, with her cypher M. S. and the following verses;

Meieux ne me peult advenir, Qu'a mon dieu tousiours me tenir. On the same title-page is the date, 1571, with the signature of the famous Besme, who the year foliowing assassinated the Admiral Coligny. He has also written some lines with his own hand, in which he intreats God "to grant him grace to derive the profit resulting from perusal of this holy book."

A whim has lately prevailed among the young men of the higher classes at Paris, which shews itself, in ornamenting their bed chambers, and particularly their bed's head, with arms and armour of all kinds; insomuch that the famous armoury of Don Quixote is completely outdone. Some are so particular as to group helmets and corslets on every pannel of the wainscot. Arms, offensive and defensive, of every country, are displayed with the most grotesque effect; the Moorish poignard and the Turkish sabre; the hangers of the Arabs, with the carbines of the Cossacks; the creeses of the Malays, and the zagayes of Ma

PRUSSIA.

M. CLAUDIUS has lately made at Ber lin, a promising experiment with his machine for flying. He raised himself several times to the height of fourteen feet in thirty seconds of time, by means of twenty-three strokes of his wings, carrying a weight of thirty-three pounds. He afterwards let himself down from the same height by means of twenty-five strokes of his wings, in twenty-five se conds, having a force of ascension of twenty-two pounds. The wings are furnished with pipes, which close when the air is struck, and open by their own weight when the air is allowed to pass freely. There are powers of different action in the machine for rising and for descending. The pipes of one set are quiescent, while those of the other are in activity. The motive powers for descent are smaller than those for clevation; that for elevation bas a surface of one hundred and sixty square feet. This machine, applied to a balloon, which possesses but feeble powers of rising, permits the aeronaut, who copducts the balloon to rise to a certain height, to remain stationary at that height, and to descend at pleasure with out emitting, and consequently losing, any gas; but the inventor does not pretend to work it against the wind, as has been reported.

Many of the inhabitants of this coun try at present make use of the seeds of lupines, roasted, to supply the place of coffee; and, if the price of the latter should again rise, it is probable that this substitute only would be used. It is called, Bishop's Coffee, because an an cient bishop made it his ordinary be verage.

An adventurer, named REIZENSTEIN, formerly an officer in the Prussian service, has collected an armed troop in the neighbourhood of Frankfort on the Oder. The newspapers lately contained an order from the Prussian authorities, directing his apprehension, because he had taken an active part among the in cendiaries, who have desolated the Mar

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