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Butt Thomas, Buckingham place, New Road, builder. (Wilkinfoo and Young. Cavendish fquare Orry James Bogley, Great Grimsby, Lincoln, grocer. (Roffer and Son. Bartlett's buildings, Holborn, and Dickinfon, Hult

Parker Samuel, South Lambeth, undertaker. (Hindman, Dyer's court. Aldermanbury

Philip Charles Allen, and Thomas Milford, Pembroke, bankers. Pillyard and King. Copthall court Billius Thomas Martin, and William. Twyford, Wilts, macalmen. (Bisss, Reading, and Eyre, Gray's Inn fquare

Powell John, Halifax, York, dealer in fait. (Wiglefworth and Thomfon, Gray's Inn

Bantal James, Dean Areet, Weaminter, upholsterer. (Seymour and Montricu, Margaret Areet, Cavendish Square

Read Thomas, Leeds, York. merchant. (Hodgson, Curry #treet, Strand and stead, Halifax

leimers John Chrition Henry, Oig London ftreet. Fenchurch freet, inerchant. (Palmer, Tumlinfons, and Thornfon, Copthall court

ichardon John. Huli, spirit merchant,

(Front, Hull, and Ruffer and Son, Bartlett's Buildings. Holborn Biddlettorffor George Adolphus, Whitechapel, linen draper. Asas, Old Jewry

How bottom Juhn, Field House, Sowerby. York, cottonmanufacturer. (Bafnett, Mancnetter, and Hux.cy,

Temple

(Kearsey and

Self George. Fenchurch freet grocer.
Sport Bishopsgate free: Within
Shaw Euclia. and Jacob Giddings Hitchcock, Bath,
⚫ bankers. Shephard and Adlington, Bedford row,
and Sheppard. Bath

Simplon John. Holbeck, York, merchant. {Blakelock,
Leeds, and Blakelock and Makinfon, Temple
Smith John, Moxon, Hants, grocer. (Warden, Salisbury,
and Luxmore Red Lion Square

Steele John, Llandaff, Glamorgan coal merchant. (Wood,
Cardiff and Price and Williams, Lincoln's Inn
Stevens George Morris, Alfred place, St. Giles's, upholder.
(Farren, Gower ftreet

Stroud John, Swanfea, banker. (Jenkin, James, and
Abbott, New Inn, and Wiltons, Glocefter
Taylor James Kings road white smith. (Young and
Hughes, Effex Areet, Arand

Taylor John Bacbury, Oxford, miller.

(Aplin, Banbury.

Taylor Philip Meadows, Liverpool, merchant. (Crump and Lodge. Liverpool, and Battye, Chancery lane. Tomiinfon Abel Little Droylsden, Lancafer, fhopkeeper. (Hurd, Temple and Hankin, Manchefter

Turner Thomas, Nicholas fquare, Cripplegate, victualler. (Jones and Green. Salisbury fquare nfworth John, Manchefter, jeweller.

(Annefley and

Bennett, Angel court, Throgmorton freet Wehead William, Liverpoo, victualler. (Phillips, Liverpool, and windle, John Atreet, Bedford row Wehlake John, Gofport, baker. Cruickshank, Gofport, and Bleafdale, Alexander, and Holme, New Inn Wheeler John Andover, Hants, messer and tailor. (Fontner, Andover, and aremridge, Inner Temple Whitmarth Thomas. New Sarum, Wifts, carrier. (Tinney, Salisbury, and Lowten Temple

Woodward Jonathan, Derby, lace manufacturer. (Empfon, Charlotte #treet, Blackfriars road

Uct. S

DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED. Alcocks, Jofeph, Nettlebed, Oxfordshi e, victualler, Arnold William. Leicester-fields, linen-draper, Sept. 39 Babh Juhn, Leidenhall street hofier, Oct. 20 Bains juhn, Ashford. Salop, farmer, Oct. a

Beale j. Camberwell, mathematical inftrument maker, Sept. 18

Beek William, Bishopfgare freet, dealer, Sept. 25

Beetlev Francis, and Thomas Owen, Ruod Lane, winemerchants. Sept. 11

lizard Jofeph. Broad freet, frock-broker, Oct 16 Bore John, Bishop's Castle, Salop, plumber and glazier, Sept. 19

Bryfon David, New road, Tottenham Court, tone-mafon, Sept. 25

Burwell John, Union Areet, near North Shields, uphol Beter. of 9

Clive Theophilus, and Samuel Richardfon, Token house yard, merchants, Sept. 1

Clough George, Derby, grocer, 08. 13

Cooper Richar, Paradife street, Mary le-bone, plafterer, Sept. 22

Cox James, and John Smith, Mancheter, auctioneers,

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Davies Thomas, Wheelock, Chester, victualler, Oct. 8 Levenih Ann, and Henry Newport, Villiers treet, Strand, pholterers sept 22

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Dixon William and Henry, Rotherhithe, timber-merchants
Sept 22

Douglafs william. Ware, Herts. cheefeinonger, Sept. 25
Dove Richard, Monument street, victualler, et 9
Downes Thomas, jn. Here ord. money fcrivener, Sept. 15
Doyle James. Covent Garden, giafsman, Oct. 13
Duthin Edward. Buckinghom, linen-draper Sept. 18
Evairs Thomas, Worcester merchant, Sept. 20
Farnell Martin, Afhby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester, banker,
Sept. 18

Fenwick George, Mary-le-bone, veterinary furgcos,

Oct. 13

Fly William and John, Croydon, bricklayers, Sept 1 Fowler William, thefford, Beds, merchant, Nov. 6

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Harding Anne, Bristol, haberdasher. Oct. 9

Harker Matthew, Oakham, Rutland. haberdasher, Oft.I
Harvey Charle, Monmouth, ironmonger, Oct. 8
Helems Christopher Watson, Plymouth, linen draper,
Oct. 10

Hill Osborn, Shoreditch, cbeefemonger. Sept. 25
Hitchcock james, other wife David James, Seulcoates,
York, white lead merchant. Oct. 9

Hitchcock Jame otherwife David James. Jofue de Prade
and Peter Graves, white lead me chants, Oct.
Hodfon William, Manchester, cotton manufacturer,
Sept. 29
Hoffmas Andrew Burgers, Charles freet, Covent Garden,
tailor, Sept. 19

Hopkins Samuel, Leeds, Yor merchant, Sept. 16

Hudf n John Hanifter. Hackney Grove, and Old City Chambers, merchant, Oct. 13°

Jefferfon Richard, and William Dickinson, Hull, woollen drapers 0.9

Jenkins D vid, Llantriffent. Glamorgan, fhopkeeper, oct. 2

Johnfon William, and Nevill Browne, Fith freet hill, grocers. O&. 30

Keyfe Thomas, and Charles Pratt Wyatt, Langbourn Ward Chambers merchants, Sept. 23

Killick John Shepherd, Hackney Mills, Lea Bridge, miller, Sept. is

Kimpton Richard, Marfeet, York, Horfe-dealer, of 13 King William Newport, Ife of Wight miller, Sept. 20 Lloyd John, and william Wydown, Upper Thames ftre to grocers, Sept is'

Lobban John, Great Wild street, coach plate founder, 08.9

Lund Benson, Spolforth, York, fax dreffer. Oct. 9 Macauley John, Patrick Whytock, and John Duncan, Li verpool.nierchants, Sept. 26

M'Donal William, Tottenham Court road, linen-draper, Sept. 18

Morris William, Birmingham, timber merchant. Sept. 15 Mofely Henry, and Ifaac Whieldon, Lawrence Pountney hill, merchants, v. 10

Murray Thomas, Paternefter-row, Spital-fields, shoemaker, oct.g

Myers David Thompson, Stamford, Lincoln, draper, Sept. 26

New num John, Bishopfgate areet without, linen draper, ott. 16

Pawlett Paniel, Nottingham. tallow chandler, Oct. 17
Pears Samuel, John Watfon, John Watton, jun. and Jofeph
Watfon, Prefton, cotton manufacturers. Oct. 6
Poppletone William. Plymouth, grocer, về.9
Folter William, jun. Nottingham, grocer, Sept. 17
Prins Philip, Brewer freet,jeweller, "ept. 18. 19
Pugh George, and James Davis, Old Fish street, chemifts,
Sept. 22

Ramlay Samuel, Bifhop Stortford, Herts, upholsterers oct. 16

Ramsey Samuel, and Peter Aldrich, Bishop Stortford, Heris, upholsterers. Oct. 16

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Richards Mary Vauxhall, Birmingham, dealer, oft. is
Roberts William, Bristol, linen-draper, о&.
Roper William iddock, London, merchant, Nov. 6
Sadier Robert, South Shields, Durham, merchant, Oct. 1#
Scott Jofeph, North Shields. grocer, Oct. 9
Bellon Andrew, Honiton. Devon grocer, Oct 11
Sevill Jofeph, Saddleworth, York, cotton manufacturer,

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Shake haft James, Jun. Widegate &reet, Bishopfgate freets

Oct. 10

Shilbeck John, Hudersfield, York, merchant, Sept. 16
South John, Cardiff, ironmonger, Oct. 22

St pieton Thomas, Sheeruef, boat-builder, Sept. 21
Stevenfon David, Strand, fhoemaker, Sept. 29
Stratton George, Piccadilly, ironmonger. Sept. 18
Symonds John Ramfden, Oxford, horfe-dealer. Oct. 5
Timfon John watfon, and John Baxter, Leicester, liner
drapers, Sept. 24

Towell John, Tetney. Lincoln. vietuailer. Oct. 13.

Tutin Ralph, Chandos ftreet, Covent Garden, cheesemonger, Sept. 22

Vernon Thomas, Towcester, Northampton, grocer, Septe 24, Oct. 8

Waghorn Thomas, Romford, draper, uct. 20

Walker, Roger, Hull, grocer, Sept. 15

Weightman Thomas, Newgate ftreet, mercer, Sept. 18
West Robert, Oxford ftreet, draper, Sept. 15. Oct. 20
Wefton John, Lane End. Stafford potter. sept. 26
Wetherby Thomas, Great St. Thomas Apoftie, ironmonger,
Sept. 29

White Thomas. jun. Stroud. Kent, coal merchant, Sept. 32
Whitelock Edward, Perronville, infurance broker, Oct. 6
Wilcocks Thomas Exeter. tallow chandler, Oct. 11
Williams Roger, Beowely, Monmouth, hopkeeper, Sept.

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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL.
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign.

Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received.

HE late fire at Mr. GILLET's, the printer's, in Salisbury-square, consumed upwards of twenty-five thousand pounds' worth of the stock of Sir Richard Phillips, estimated at the wholesale price; and among other works, nearly two thousand sets of the splendid Bible, by Mr. Hewlett. Owing to this catas trophe, therefore, that superior work is likely to become very scarce, few sets having escaped the flames; and it not being worth while to re-print the twenty parts which were destroyed of so expen. sive a work. Unfortunately, a considerable part of the manuscript of the seven concluding parts was also burnt, so that the continuation is unavoidably delayed for a month or two, till Mr. H. can reprepare his manuscript.

The following works of the same pub.

lisher were destroved at the same time:
3,000 Mortimer's Dictionary of Commerce.
10,000 Joyce's Arithmetic.
250 Neale's Spain.
600 Military Essays.
1,000 Cooper's Surgery.

1,100 Letters of a Nobleman to his Son at Eton and Oxford.

1,000 Crocher's Land Surveying. 2,000 Mavor's Natural History. 1,500 Smith's Geography.

700 Lambert's Travels in America; besides other works of inferior magnitude.

The Messrs. STOCKDALE lost also about two thousand five hundred pounds worth of books; and Mr. Gillet nearly ten thousand pounds in books and printing stock, besides bis buildings.

The conclusions drawn by Mr. Davey in his late publication on the Muriatic Acid, will serve to extend and enlighten the theory of chemistry to a greater extent than any of the brilliant discoveries formerly made by this illustrious chemist. The following are his conclusions:

1st. That the oxymuriatic acid is (as far as our knowledge extends) a simple substance, which may be classed in the same order of natural bodies as oxygen gas; being determined, like oxygen, to the positive surface in voltaic combinations, and like oxygén, combining with inflammable substances, producing heat and light.

2dly. That its combinations with inflammable bodies are analogous to oxides and acids in their properties and powers of combination, but they differ from them in being, for the most part, decomposable by water.

Sdly. That hydrogen is the basis of the muriatic acid, and oxymuriatic acid its acid fying principle.

MONTHLY MAG. No. 204,

4thly. That the compounds of phos. phorus, arsenic, tin, &c. with oxymuriatic acid, approach in their nature to acids, and

neutralize ammonia and other salifiable bases.

5thly. That the combination of ammonia is a peculiar compound, having properties like with phosphorus, acidified by oxymuriatic acid, those of an earth, and is not decomposable at an intense red heat.

6thly. That oxymuriatic acid has a stronger attraction for most inflammable bodies than oxygen; and that on the hypothesis of the connection of electrical powers with chemical attractions, it must be highest in the scale of negative power; and that the oxygen, which is supposed to exist in oxymuriatic acid, has always been expelled by it from water or oxides.

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The French chemists questioned the accuracy of the inferences drawn by Mr. Davy from his electro-chemical researches, respecting the nature of the alkalies and the earths; maintaining that the metallic bodies obtained from these substances, in place of being simple, as asserted by Mr. Davy, were compounds of the alkalies and earths with hydrogen; or, in other words, that the new bodies were hydrurels. Of this opinion were Gay Lussac, Thenard, and most of the French chemists. tholket among the rest warmly contested the correctness of Mr. Davy's inferences, French conclusions. At a meeting howand maintained the accuracy of the the end of June, Messrs. Gay Lussac ever of the French National Institute in and Thenard, read a notice containing the results of a great variety of experiments on the new metals; from all of which they concluded, after a most rigɔrous investigation, that professor Davy was perfectly correct in his inferences; and, with a degree of frankness honourable to themselves, renounced their for mer opinion that these new metals are bydrurets.

It is well known to mathematicians that the doctrine of solid angles was left in a very imperfect state by Euclid, and has been scarcely at all advanced by subsequent geometers; one of the latest commentators on Euclid, Professor Playfair, having remarked, that "we have no way of expounding, even in the simplest cases, the ratio which one of them bears to another." Dr. GREGORY, of the Military Academy, has recently invented a Theory of Solid Angles, which is at once simple, satisfactory, and universal in its application. By means of this theory, 2 M mceting

the relative magnitudes of solid angles may be ascertained, not only when they are of the same class as those formed by the meeting of three planes, those by the meeting of four planes, the vertical angles of cones, &c. but angles of one class may be compared with those of another, with respect to magnitude; and their mutual relations be determined by processes as obvious and elementary as the usual operations in plane trigonometry

The governors of Bethlem IIospital have recently informed the public, that the present hospital, which was erected almost immediately after the fire of London, upon an insecure foundation, and constructed in haste, as well as in a great degree with unseasoned materials, has long been in so decayed and dangerous a state, as to have rendered it at length necessary to pull down a considerable part of it, and to limit, in consequence, the number of the patients. The remaining part of the building is also hastening fast to decay; and it having therefore become necessary to meet such exigency, application has been made to parliament, in the last session, for an act to enable the gover nors to exchange, with the city of London, the present contracted scite of the hospital, for a piece of ground, containing nearly twelve acres, situate in St. George's Fields, on which spot, the unhappy subjects of mental derange ment will, in addition to their former advantages, possess such superior requisites of air and exercise, as they have never yet enjoyed, which are not only likely to add in a considerable degree to their comfort, but also to accelerate their cure. In addition to these circumstances, it is necessary also to observe, that the plan of the ancient structure is very capable of improvement, and has long indeed required it. The governors therefore trust, that, from the superior light which has been thrown upon the study of architecture within the last century, and the extensive improvements which the science of medicine has received within the same period, they may venture to predict the most favour able results from the combined talents of able architects, and experienced inedical professors. With this view, they have advertised for plans for the new building, and offered premiums of 2001: for the best; 1001. for the second; and 501. for the third best designs, in the full confidence of being adequately assisted in their anxious desires to erect an hospital which may be at once a monu

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ment of a benevolent and enlightened age, and an honour to a great and distinguished nation. The present inten tion of the governors, is to erect a building capable of containing four hundred patients, but not to confine themselves even to that enlarged number, if they shall be enabled, by the liberality of the public, to proceed farther in their de sign. The funds of the hospital which are applicable to the purposes of a new building, amount, however, at this time, to little more than 27,000l. while the cost of a new hospital, upon the scale proposed, can hardly be estimated at a smaller son than 100,000l. To effect therefore so desirable a purpose as that in view, it will be obvious, that nothing short of a liberal subscription on the part of the public at large, can suffice. The governors, therefore, most earnestly intreat the attention of all corporate bodies, as well as individuals, throughout the kingdom, to the present address, which has nothing less for its object than supplying more extensive means of relief and cure, than have ever yet been afforded, to the unfortunate subjects of, the most afflicting malady with which it has pleased the Almighty, in his wisdom, to visit his creatures; and they are induced to hope, that such assistance as they now require, will not be solicited in vain, in a country whose greatest characteristic is its noble and generous. solicitude to alleviate the miseries, administer to the necessities, and heal the diseases, of its people.

Mr. FAREY, sen, whose time for three years past has been occupied in the Survey of the County of Derby, in arranging his materials, and preparing an elaborate report on its minerals, manufactures, and agriculture, which is now understood to be in considerable forwardness, has favoured us with the following extract from his manuscripts:

"It appears, that in all England, Wales, and Scotland, there were, in 1801 rather more than 1 one-fifth families to a house, or every fifth house has two families in it and more; but in Derbyshire very little less than 1 one-seventh, or every 17th house only is thus doubly occupied; which may be accounted for from the cheapness of stone, slate, and lime, to build with in most parts, and the plentifulness of coals and clay in others, and from the comparative comfort in which the cottagers live, to what is observable in some other districts. In Great Bri

tain, the number of persons to a house is ra ther more than 5 four fifths, while in Derbyshire, it very little exceeds 5 one twentieth. In Britain the number of persons to a family

is rather more than 4 four-fifths, in Derby

shire rather less than 4 four-fifths."

"In Britain, one individual out of every 5 one-eighth, is employed in agriculture; in Derbyshire 5 one twelfth are so employed. In Britain, an equal proportion of the popula tion is employed in agriculture as in manu factures, or 1 in 5 one-eighth in each case; but in Derbyshire, 1 in 4 one twelfth are employed in manufactures; which last, strikingly shews the spirit and industry of the people of this fine county: though they devote rather more labour than is done on the average of Britain to the cultivation and improvement of their soil, yet have they one person in about every twenty-one more of their whole population, employed in manufactures and handicrafts, than on the average of Britain is the case. If we take Eugland and Wales to contain 37,267,000 acres, then there is 23 three fifths acres to each inhabited house, and 4 one-fifth acres to each indivi. dual; while Derbyshire, containing 622,030 acres, gives a house to each 19 acres nearly, and a person to less than every 3 four-fifths acres of its surface, much as has been said to its disparagement in the national scale, by former writers, who have expatiated on its bleak and steril wastes, and on the inhospitable climate of its alpine mountains."

Dr. ADAMS's next course of lectureson the institutes and practice of medi cine, will be given at Dr. Anderson's lecture rooms, No. 47, Frith-street, Soho, commencing on Monday, October 8, at eight o'clock in the morning. On the same inorning at nine o'clock, Dr. Anderson will begin his course of scientific and practical chemistry.

JOHN STEWART, esq. author of "The Pleasures of Love," "The Resurrection," &c. has in the press a new poetical work, entitled "Genevieve, or the Spirit of the Drave;" with odes, and other poems, chiefly amatory and de. scriptive, in four books.

Mr. WILLIAM WALTON, who has been long resident in St. Domingo, is engaged in drawing up a statistical account of what is called to distinguish it from Hayti,

head, and some apendages, that it is difficult to discover the meaning of; it is a mass balancing the head, that is divided into four compartments, by a cross. The head is capped by an ornament, representing a thunderbolt, or two tridents linked together by a bar. The whole is worked with great correctness and truth, like the Egyptian idols, but the character of the head is Mexican. He has also a specimen of their earthenware, very hard baked, being the legs of a vase that represent a monkey's head; the whole much like Etruscan, or early Greek, and manifesting great regularity in the mould, as well as a systematic style of art that is very original, but approaches more to the Egyptian than any

other.

Mr. HoGo has lately edited the posthumous works of Mr. Roberts, a young man who evinced, it is said, great genius. These poems will be sold for the benefit of his family, who reside in Bristol, and are accompanied with a very interest. ing account of his life. He died at the age of 25, of a consumption.

A very exquisite etching by Barden, has lately been made, and given away to antiquarians, for the Rev. Mr. Thornbury, of Avening, near Stroud, in Gloucestershire. The plate is a representation of three ancient sepulchres lately discovered in Avening, and now removed into the home ground of that gentleman, where they are placed as nearly in the same position in which they were found, after the tumulus or hillock of loose stones which covered them, was cleared away.

SCHIAVONETTI's merit was never duly appreciated before his death; his best monument will always be that chaste engraving which he made of Mr. Howard's copy of the picture at Mr. Coke's, from Michael Angelo; the eternal subject of envy and praise duly merited: where the Florentine soldiers are springing

three chiefs, viz. governed by from the Aino to encounter their ene.

Petion, and

Phillippe Dos, a relation of Toussaint. This gentleman, whose research has been general, and whose labours promise to be of great utility to our trade, has, among other curiosities, brought over a specimen of South American mythological sculpture, of great singularity; it is an idol of granite, of the hardest texture, and represents a disk gently curved at the bottom, so as to enable the image to roll, on which reposes a ring, put of which issues a sort of phallic stein, that is crowned with a fierce human

mies. The plate makes a part of the Rev. Mr. Forster's classical publication.

Mr. PETER HAWKER'S fossil alligator is now united, and set up in a fine style at his Parsonage, near Stroud, in Glouces tershire; it came from Weston Quarry, near Bath, and is an unrivalled recovery.

An Account of the great Sand-stone Crystals, discovered by Dr. Fox, at digging the Canal at Bristol, has lately been presented to the Geological So ciety.

Dr. CAREY has in the press, a new edition of Lis Practical English Prosod

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and Versification; or descriptions of the different species of English Verse, with .Exercises in Scanning and Versification, : gradually accommodated to the various capacities of youth, at different ages, and calculated to produce correctness of ear and taste, in reading and writing poetry; the whole interspersed with occasional remarks on, Etymology, Syntax, and Pronunciation, and accompanied with a Key, for the convenience of teachers, or of those who wish to learn without a teacher. In consequence of the demand for Mr. BROWN's two American novels, Wieland, or the Transformation; and Ormond, or the Secret Witness; uniform editions are preparing, and will speedily be published by Mr. Colburn.

"Ball-room Votaries, or Canterbury and its Vicinity." A second edition of this popular satirical poem will shortly appear, with the addition of several new characters.

An interesting novel, entitled "Julia de Vienne," from the pen of a lady nearly related to a family of distinction, is published by subscription. It is in scribed, by permission, to his Royal Highness' the Prince of Wales, who has, with his accustomed-liberality, generously con descended to patronize the undertaking. Mr. Colburn, of Conduit-street, is appointed to receive the subscriptions.

Mr. JOHN NELSON, of Islington, is preparing for the press, a quarto volume on the History, Topography, and Antiquities, of that parish, illustrated by several engraved views of antient buildings yet remaining there, and others long since removed, together with an old Plan of the village, and several miscellaneous plates, &c.

Mr. STEVENSON, of Great Russelstreet, Bloomsbury, who as pupil, is intimately acquainted with the practice of the late Mr. Saunders, is preparing a practical work on a frequent Disease of the Eye.

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A translation of Brectkopf's Remarks on the History of the Invention of Printing, together with a Summary of the contents of an enlarged work on that subject, will speedily appear.

Mr. SAINT, late one of the mathematical masters in the Royal Military Academy, is about to publish his four Letters to Lieutenant-colonel Mudge, on the inferior State of the Studies in that Institution.

Dr. FARRE and Mr. BENJAMIN TRA VERS will commence in January next, at the London Infirmary in Charterhouse

square, a Course of Lectures exhibiting the changes induced by disease in the several organs of the human body. The medical department of the Course will be conducted by Dr. Farre; the surgical by Mr. Travers. The whole will be il lustrated by preparations and original cases. A prospectus, including particulars of attendance, will be published in a few days.

Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim-street, Great Marlborough-street. The autumnal course of lectures on anatomy, physiology, and surgery, will be commenced on Monday, the 1st of October, at two o'clock, by Mr. BROOKES.

The Rev. Archdeacon CoxE has nearly completed a Life of Stillingfleet.

Mr. ROBERT KERR, of Edinburgh, is preparing for the press, in two octavu volumes, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of the late Mr. William Smellie, printer, of that city, secretary to the Society of Scotish Antiquaries, F.R.S. &c. This work will comprise a view of the literary history of Scotland from 1758 to 1795, with nụmerous anecdotes of learned Scotsmen of eminence; and accounts of many im portant publications in which Mr. Smellie was either directly concerned as sole or joint author, or which derived material aid from his acute critical skill and correct taste, in their progress through the press during the above-mentioned period.

Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, of the Inner Temple, is preparing for publication, in an octavo volume, an Epitome of the Laws relating to Commerce; with a sketch of the present state of Mercantile Practice and Customs, and the Duties of Consuls and Supercargoes.

Mr. MICHAEL FRYER, Secretary to the Bristol Philosophical Society, intends to publish by subscription, a General History of the Mathematics, from the earliest ages to the close of the 18th century, in three octavo volumes.

A translation of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, by the celebrated JOHN CALVIN, in three volumes octavo, may be shortly expected to appear.

The Copenhagen medal for last year has been adjudged by the Royal Society, to Mr. EDWARD TROUGHTON, for the account of his method of dividing astronomical instruments, printed in the last volume of the Philosophical Transactions.

It appears, by some recent experiments, that tiles are greatly improved, and rendered impervious to water and

frost,

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