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Mr. Thelwall purpofes to establish in London, a Seminary for the Inftruction of Perfons who are affli&ted either with Natural or with Habitual Impediments; and to give Private Inftructions in the different Branches of Elocution-Reading, Recitation, and Oratory.

We are enabled to ftare, that the new Planet defcribed in the news-papers, as having been recently difcovered by Dr. OLBERS has not yet been feen in England; and the astronomers of this country confider the paragraph to be a fabrication.

A Mr. GELL has advertised a new work, on the fubject of the well known work, by Mr. Chevalier, relative to the Scite of Troy. The fubject appeared to be exhaufted by various writers; but it is ftated, that Mr. Gell has colle&ted fome facts that are likely to interest many lovers of claffical antiquities.

For feveral months paft preparations have been making for a new Periodical Work, upon a plan at once fo novel and interefting, as to challenge the attention of all patrons of literature It is intend ed to publish, monthly, a General History; or, Collection of New Voyages and Tiavels to confift of the Productions of eminent Modern Travellers in every quarter of the globe. One feature of the work will be, that a confiderable portion of each volume will confit of Voyages and Travels which have never before been publifhed, and the copyright of which will belong exclufively to the undertaking in queftion. It will alfo contain Tranflations of the Works of celebrated Travellers from every European language, and a full analyfis of all interefting publications of this class, which may henceforward appear in our own country, but in a form too expenfive for general circula

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Directory, a work that will be very useful in the beau monde, will be ready before the king's birth-day. It will be accompanied by a fhort Introduction to Heraldry, the Arms of the Nobility, and several ufeful Lits of Tables.

An entertaining book on the various Qualifications of the Dog, is nearly ready for publication, illuftrated by a great num ber of curious anecdotes of that truly animal, by Mr. JOSEPH TAYLOR.

The numerous MSS. collected by the late Rev. JAMES GRANGER, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire, for a continuation of his Biographical History of England, we underland, are now under revifion by the Rev. M. NOBLE, F. A. S. L. and E.One volume, containing the Reigns of King William and Mary and of Queen Ann, will be published with all convenient fpted. The continuation will come down to the end of King George II.

The Anti-Corfican; or, War of Liherty; a series of Letters addreffed to the Inhabitants of the United Empire, and first published in the Star, under the fignature of Galgacus, is in the prefs, and will be published in a few days. Thefe patriotic and well written letters have been collected into one publication, to gratify the wishes of numbers who had not been able to procure copies of the papers in which thev first appeared.

The amateurs of fine printing may now be gratified with copies of the Philofophical Magazine, printed on 1oyal paper, and embellished with proof impreffions of the plates, which are chiefly by Lowry, and luperior to any thing of the kind ever before given in a periodical publication. Only about so copies have been printed off on the large paper, and they have not made their appearance fooner, because the idea of printing a few fine copies did not occur till after the 8th number was pub. lifhed.

Mr. BYERLY has in the prefs a work under the title of Continental Sketches, comprizing a portrait of Revolutionary Holland, and an Effay on the Ancient and Modern Hiftories of the Low Countries, and an Enquiry into the Political and Commercial Interests of the Dutch.

Mils HAMILTON has another work in great forwardness.

Mr. GEMINGHAM, Mr. CLARKE, Mr. HOLDEN, and Mr. PALMER are Candidates for the Arabic Profefforship, vacant by the death of Profeffor CARLISLE. The Oriental languages are now much in fashion at Cambridge.

An Analysis of Dr. PALEY'S Natural 3 P 2 Theology,

Thology, after the manner of the analyfes of his "Moral Philofophy," and Evidences of Chriftianity," will be pub. lished in the courfe of the prefent month. Thefe analyfes have been found very ufeful to lecturers and pupils, who study the valuable originals.

Mr. CROWE, lecturer at the Royal Inftitution, is printing a new edition of his Leweldon Hill," with additional poems, in a pocket volume.

Dr. LEMPRIERE is engaged in printing a new and improved edition, in 4to. of his "Bibliotheca Claffica."

Mr. SOTHEBY, is about to publish his Tranflation of Wieland's Oberon, in mall volumes, with engravings.

Mr. POLWHEELE is preparing a new edition of his "Old English Gentleman, with other poems.

A pocket edition of the late Bishop LAW's "Life of Christ," with Memoirs of the author, is about to be published.

The following is faid to be a good preparation for vinegar. To thirteen quarts of water, add half a pint of brandy, four ounces of tartar of wine, twelve ounces of fugar, and fix of yeaft. The tartar and fugar are to be diffolved in warm water, ading the yeaft, fo as to form a thick folution, which, being mixed with the brandy, muft be poured into the cafk, which is to be placed in a warm fituation for fix weeks. Before the cafk, which is to be made of cak, is bunged, the ingredients should be fhaken together.

The fell of garlic is fo inimical to moles, that, to get rid of them, it is fufficient to introduce a few heads of garlic into their 'fubterraneous walks. It has alfo been employed with fuccefs against grubs and fnails."

Citizen J. VIALARD, at the ci-devant College of Harcourt, Rue de la Harpe, at Paris, has been employed for several years on the art of restoring, or regenerating, books, defigns, outlines, prints, &c. The public is primarily indebted to the learn ed Chaptal for this valuable difcovery; but Citizen Vialard has carried it to a high degree of perfection. He acknow. ledges that he has had inftructions from the best matters; and that he has difcovered nothing peculiar in the art, but the improvement of it, both in the use and in the compofition of acid liquors, and in having been the first to render it applicable to the purposes of commerce. His first leflons were given by M. Roux, whose talents for the repairing of prints are above all cutogium. He is indebted to M. Ro

ger, an excellent artift in all that relates to the purification of oils, (of the Cloister St. Benoit,) for his acquaintance with the compofition of acids. M. Heraud, an apothecary, now refiding at Briondes, has likewife communicated the result of his obfervations; and the experiments which they have made together, have been fo much the more useful, in that they have conducted Citizen Vialard to the compo fition of a new liquor, indispensable for removing greafy fubstances, and recovering paper that is mouldy, rotten, and even damaged by fea-water. M. Bozerian, the elder, whofe talents are well known, has communicated the process of restoring to paper the ftrong tone which it had loft, either from its antiquity, or from its hav ing been tained by acids. His judicious obfervations have been of fingular help in difficult circumstances. Citizen Vialard has not been difcouraged in his career by difficulties, feemingly without number, and which might be confidered as almott infurmountable. His first experiments ferv ed to frengthen his confidence. The flattering teftimonies of the Confervators of the National Libraries, and of others, the moft diftinguifhed by their knowledge of ancient books, attracted the foftering regards of the learned focieties, all of whom have pronounced in his favour. Citizen Vialard can now, therefore, announce both to the amateurs, and to thofe engaged in trade, the infallible means of restoring valuable articles, the antiquity of which is a fresh call upon our gratitude to the inventors of the typographic art; but whofe bad condition feems to fay to the proprietors, Nolite nos tangere-Touch us not. According to Citizen Vialard, the manutention (or handling) of fpoiled paper is familiar to him. He is well acquainted with the difference of printer's ink, and the fuperior care that is required in meddling with what has been used in one age, to what has been used in another. The compofition of different acid liquors renders the application of them more easy and safe; and he avers that he can make a fplendid book of one that is worm-eaten, mouldy, rotten, and that has been even drenched in the fea-water; and that books in this deplorable state, which have been configned to him, have recovered their former beauty and freshness.

Notice relative to certain animals brought from the cabinet of 'Meyer, and fent by M. VAN MARUM to the Museum of Natural History at Paris.-1. The Cephalotte (vefpertilio cephalotes). This

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Species of bat is in all refpects analogous to the roufette: it refembles it in the form of the molar teeth, in having a nail on the second digit of the fore paws, in the fhortness of the tail, &c.; but it feemed, however, excluded from that genus on account of the incifores, which Pallas found to the number of two in the upper jaw thefe teeth, which were altogether wanting in the lower jaw, had been broken out; an accident piety frequent with bats. This has been aicertained, by finding in the cephalotte that has arrived at the Museum, four incifores in each jaw, as in the whole tribe of roulettes. This obfervation leaves no longer any room for doubt with respect to the general determination of the vespertilio cephalotes. 2. The Weazel of Java. Seba is the only author that has made mention of this fpecies, and who has given a figure of it in his forty-eighth plate. Syftematic authors had not ventured to confider it as a diftinct species. It bears the ftrongest analogy to a ferret, but deviates from it in its fkin, or colour of a fallow brown, and by yellow fpots above the eyes.3. A Tatou with ten bands. This is only a variety of the cachicame, or of the tatou with nine bands. 4. A Hedge-hog of Malacca. The one just received at the Museum, is probably one of the young individuals defigned or figured by Seba; it has a clofer affinity to the hedge-hogs of Europe, than to thofe of Madagascar.-5. A new fpecies of fhrew-moule (forex alba). The figure of this Shrew-moufe is found in the Thefaurus of Seba, plate 33, fig. 7.; but as it is there given under the name of American Rat, it has been neglected, and does not occur in any fyftematic work, Its teeth refemble, in number and form, that of our European fhrew-moufe; it is three times greater, and all white; its tail is covered with long hairs, rare and verticiliated, or curled upward. Although preferved in liquor, it yields a very ftrong fcent of mufk. Seba obferves, that it feeds chiefly upon nuts.

Lately at Paris, in the School of Natation, the first experiment was made of a cloth-boat, impermeable to air and water) the invention of Citizen DESQUINEMARD, Mechanical Engineer and Member of the Society of Inventions and Difcoveries) in prefence of Citizen Bralle, Hydraulic Engineer in Chief of the Department of the Seine; as likewise of Citizen Magin, Infpector-General of Navigation, and of feveral members of diffetent learned focieties. The refults of thefe

experiments were fuch, that the directors of the manufactory were cogently induced to fubmit them to the infpection of the Clafs of Phytical and Mathematical Sciences of the Intitute, with a view to decide on the ufeful purposes to which this novel invention may be applied. In the interim, the boat is open every day to the inspection of all comers at the manufactory, in the Rue Notre Dame des Champs, at Paris, Fauxbourg St. Germain.

An experiment has lately been made at Lyons to try the effects of vaccination in preferving fine-wcolled fheep from the ravages of the fcab, which prevailed in the neighbourhood, and had already extended its pernicious influence to a flock of common fheep, belonging to M. FLANDRES D'ESPINAY. Another flock of the Merinos breed, belonging to the fame gentleman, was fubmitted to vaccination, which produced its ufual effect, and preferved the flock in the midst of the contagion. Forty of the fheep which had undergone the operation were placed among the infected flock, but they withftcod the attacks of the difcafe, while not one of those which had not been vaccinated efcaped.

The following is a prize question propofed at Paris: What are the characters that in animal and vegetable matter diftinguish the active and paffive fubftances in the operation of fermentations?”

M. DE LA HAYE difcovered, during his travels, a fpecies of wheat, a finge grain of which produces a trunk with from twelve to eighteen fhoots. Each fhoot has a bunch compofed of ten or twelve grains. This discovery has been announced to the Minister of the Interior in France, and from it much advantage is expected.

Baron D'ARETIN, librarian to the Elector of Bavaria, has difcovered an old manufcript of the thirteenth century, containing a Treatife on the Greek Fire, with an account of the method of preparing it, and a procefs for manufacturing gunpowder fimilar to that followed at prefent.

M. KLAPROTH has written a Paper on the Nature of a Saline fubftance obferved and collected in the Botanical Garden of Palermo, on the Bark of the (Morus Alba) White Mulberry Tree. acid from this fubftance he propofes to call moronilic, and its faline combination moronitates.

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A new periodical work has been establifhed at Petersburgh, under the title of the Petersburgh Imperial Journal of Trade. From it we learn that the trade

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of that city is in a rapidly increafing ftate. The exports in 1742 were equal to 2,479,656 roubles; in 1802, they were equal to 30,498,663 roubles.

M. DIEUDONNE has difcovered that the feeds of goofeberries, washed, dried, and roafted, are a good fubftitute for coffee. When mixed in equal parts of real coffee, the tafte does not all differ from that of ordinary coffee.

It has been difc vered, from the Tranf actions of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, for the year 1700, that animal electricity, or Galvanism, was known at that period.

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COLLET DESCOSTILS has announced a new metal found in the black duit left by platina, when diffolved in the nitro-muriatic acid. The principal properties of this metal are it gives a red colour to the triple falts of platina; with the triple ammoniacal falt of platina it is precipi. tated; it is cafily reduced; it diffolves readily in acids, when in the metallic ftate; the cxides are green and blue, or at least communicate thefe colours to the acids in which they are diffolved, and they feem to be volatile. C. Defcoftils found that the fand which accompanies platina contains titanium, when susceptible of attraction by the magnet; and, that when not fo, it contains chrome. Fourcroy and Vauquelin have written on the same fubject, and admit the di'covery to belong to C. D-fcoftils.

Profeffor VALLI and Dr. PEZRONI have left Constantinople for Natol a, to make further experiments on the means of extirpating the plague.

The following is M. WOOLF's method of measuring the contents of any pipe: Square the diameter in inches, and the product will be the number of pounds of water in every yard length of the pipe; or, if the last figure be cut off, or confidered as a decimal, the remaining figures will give ale galons in the yard.

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A new Philofophical Journal has been Jately established at Madrid, the object of which is to treat of phyfical and mathematical sciences, natural history, agriculture, the different branches of literature, and the fine arts.

A curious Petrifaction has been difcoveredat Vaucelles, in the north of France. A workman, in breaking a ftone that came from the ruins of the Abbey, divided it into two parts, one of which prefented the impreffion of a fish, and the other the fame fish in relievo. Upon careful examination it was found to be a fish in the most excellent state of prefervation. It

appears to be of the abdominal class, and a falmon. The fcales are of a violet colour mixed with yellow; the colours of the impreffion and of the relievo are the fame. The tone was originally taken from a quarry in the neighbourhood of Vaucelles, which has been long abandoned. But if further obfervations were made upon the ftones of this quarry, they might exhibit the fame phenomena as the mountain near Verona.

The late Mr. HUMBOLDT defcended into the crater of the volcano of Torcello, which still burns, to the depth of feventy toifes; being only about fifteen toiles from the bottom. He ftated, in one of his letters, that the examination of this volcano would enable him to throw confiderable light on the nature of these terrible phenomena.

A root of jalap, brought originally from Charlestown, is in a very flourishing ftate in the garden belonging to the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory in France.

The Aguft Earth, hitherto fuppofed to be a fimpie earth, has been difcovered by C. F. BUCHOLZ, to be only photphate of lime.

The Royal Academy of St. Petersburg have received letters dated the 25th of latt October, at Santa Cruz, in the island of Teneriffe, from their correfpondent M. VON KRUSENSTERN, the commander of the two Ruffian fhips, which have failed on a voyage round the world. Their voyage from Falmouth to this place was extremely expeditious. On the 25th of O&tober, the hips had already taken on board a fupply of water and wine, and were preparing to fet fail the following day for Rio Janeiro, in the Brazils, where they are to remain fome weeks. On the voyage, in north lat. 37° 40′, and 3° 28a eaft long. from the firft meridian, the expedition had an opportunity of obferving a moft remarkable meteor. On the oth of October, in the evening, they saw in the fouth-weft a large fire-ball, which, at the height of fifteen degrees, took a direction, completely horizontal, towards the north-weft, when it burft. It had a very long tail, which was so bright that that the whole fhip was for the space of a minute illuminated by it. The most remai kable circumftance, however, attending it, and which indeed is almoft without a parallel, was the uncommon power of the luminous matter; as bright streaks continued vifible in that quarter for upwards of an hour after the fire-ball had burit.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN MAY.

As the List of New Publications, contained in the Monthly Magazine, is the ONLY COMPLETE LIST PUBLISHED, and confequently 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, (poft paid), and they will always be faithfully inferted FREE of EXPEnce.

ANTIQUITIES.

Rural Economy. Illuftrated. with Plates.

A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities. By the Author of a Puzzle for a curious By Samuel Lyfons, Efq. F. R. S. &c. Containing 110 Plates, feveral of which are coloured. Folio, 61. 6s. boards.

ARTS, FINE.

An Accidence or Gamut of Oil Painting, for Beginners; in which is fhewn the most eafy Way of imitating Nature, by means of a fimple Syftem, the Refult of many Years Practice. By Julius Ibbetfon. With a Lanfcape, painted in Oil by the Author, and all the Tints in Patterns. 21. 25.

BOTANY.

The Annals of Botany. By Charles Konig, F. L. S. and John Sims, M. D &c. No. 1. 7s. 6d.

BIOGRAPHY.

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, during the War which established the Independence of his Country, and firft Prefident of the United States. Compiled under the Infpection of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, from original Papers, bequeathed to him by his deceafed Relative. To which is prefixed, a View of the Colonies planted by the English on the Continent of North America, from their firft Settlement. By John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, &c. The firft or preliminary Volume, (it being fuppofed that the entire Work will extend to four or five Volumes, to be published as fast as the Publishers of the English Copy-Right fhall receive the Manuscript from America), dedicated, by Permiffion, to the Marquis of Lanfdowne; embellished with a Portrait by Fittler from Stuart's Picture, a View of Mount Vernon, and Maps of the United States. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d. boards. The fame Volume in 8vo. 10s. 6d. boards. Phillips. A new Edition, with Improvements, of the Third or Supplementary Volume, of Hogarth Illuftrated, by John Ireland, is just published, price il. 16s. in boards.

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Girl. 2s. 6d. half-bound. Tabart and Co. A Genealogical Table of the different Parts of Speech, adapted to the French Language. By R. Juigné, M. A. of the Univerfity of Paris.

A Concife Treatife on the French Tongue; or, a fhort Expofition of the General Principles of that Language; being an Explanation of the Genealogical Table of the different Parts of Speech, for the Ufe of Schools as well as private Families. By R. Juigné.

A general Table of the French Verbs, regular and irregular, by which the Formation of any Tenfe or Perfon may be immediately found. By R. Juigné.

HISTORY.

Celtic Refearches on the Origin, Traditions, and Language of the Ancient Britons. With introductory Sketches on primitive Society. By the Rev. Edward Davies. Royal 8vo. 12s. 6d. boards.

An Account of the Cape of Good Hope, containing an hiftorical View of its original Settlement, &c. Alfo, a Sketch of its Geography, Productions, the Manners and Cuftoms of its Inhabitants, &c. With a View of the Commercial and Political Advantages which might be derived by its Poffeffion by Great-Britain. By Captain Robert Percival. 4to. 1. boards.

Hiftorical Outlines of the Papal Power. Addreffed to the Roman Catholic Priests of Ireland. By Henry Card. 8vo. 3s. 6d.

A compendious View of Univerfal History, from the Year 1753, to the Treatyat Amiens, 1802; with Notes to verify or elucidate the Paffages to which they refer. By Charles Mayo, L. L. B. 4 vols. 4to. 61. 6s. boards. The Hiftory of the Spanish Invafion, and the Armada styled Invincible. Tranflated from the Latin of Grotius. 62.

An Account of the Fall of the Republic of Venice, and of the Circumstances attending that Event; in which the French Syftem of undermining and revolutionifing States is expofed, and the true Character of Bonaparte faithfully pourtrayed. Translated from the original Italian. 5s. fewed.

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