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Douglas, Loft, Lord Raymond, Salkeld; Strange, Willis, and Wilfon. By John Ilderton Burn, Efq. Large 8vo. 16s. boards.

MEDICAL.

Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt from India. By James M'Gregor, A. M. 8vo. 7s. boards.

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Good Tidings; or, News from the Farm. By Robert Bloomfield.

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Monody to the Memory of the murdered Duke of D'Enghien. By Dennis Lawler 4to. IS. 6d.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

An Inquiry into the real Difference between Actual Money, conlifting of Gold and Silver, and Paper Money of various Defcriptions; alfo, an Examination into the Conftitutions of Banks,

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THEOLOGY.

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A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Jofeph Priestley. By John Disney, D. D. A Sermon on the fame Occafion. By the Rev. J. Edwards. Is. 6d. Reafons for feparating from the Church of Scotland. By William Innes, Minister of the Gospel, Dundee.

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MR.

NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED.

MARCUS

HYMAN'S (EXETERSTREET) for a COMPOSITION for SHAVING without the USE of RAZOR,

SOAP, or WATER.

THIS compofition is prepared and ufed in the following manner: mix one pint and a half of clear lime water, two ounces of gum-arabic, an half-ounce of ifinglafs, an eighth of an ounce of cochineal, a quarter of an ounce of turmericroot in powder, an eighth of an ounce of falt of tartar, and an equal quantity of cream of tartar together; boil them for one hour at least (tirring up the mix ure during the whole time of boiling, and being careful not to let it boil over), clear it through a fieve; then add two pounds and an half of iron pumice stone finely pulverized; mix the whole together into one cake with the white of eggs. The cake fo made is to be divided into twelve fmaller ones; dry them in the open air for three days, put them into an oven of moderate heat for twenty-four hours, when they will be completely dry, and fit for ule. Apply them with a gentle friction to the beard, and they will produce the complete effect of shaving.

Obfervation.-As foon as we saw this patent composition announced, our expectations were raised, and we hoped that a portion of our daily labour would no longer be neceffary. How much we were disappointed every reader will eafily conceive, when he understands that, instead of the operation of foap and a razor, the ufe of a new-formed grindstone is recommended. What effect iron pumice-one will have on the lips and chin, we know not from experience; but we fhould not expect that the operation would be either very eafy or very quickly dispatched.

MR.

GEORGE MEDHURST'S (BATTLEBRIDGE) for a condenfing WIND EN GINË, capable of being applied to all KINDS of PURPOSES in which STEAM, WIND, WATER, or HORSES are used.

We shall find more difficulty in defcribing the merits of this invention, than we did thofe of the laft. The drawings that accompany Mr. Medhurst's fpecification, are neceffary to the illuftration of his machinery. He first condenses the air of the atmosphere, in a ftrong and clofe veffel, by means of a wind-mill, fo as to make it from ten to twenty times more denfe than it is in its natural state: the dense air from the magazine is conducted through a pipe

to the top of a cylinder, where it acts upon a pifton, by its elasticity, without the aid of fire, and by thefe means keeps the machine in conftant motion for a tine, proportioned to the capacity of the magazines though the wind do not blow. The object of this invention is to accumulate and preferve the irregular power which the wind produces, fo that it may be, ap lied to machinery, to produce an uniform and regular motion whenever it is wanted. The wind-mill fails are conftructed in the ufual vertical manner; but if a greater power is required than can be obtained in that manner, they are then conftructed according to a method defcribed in the fpecification.

By means of an inclined plane and fcrew, the condensing pifton is made to work a long or a thort stroke according to the ftrength of the wind, and the denfity of the air in the magazine. When the wind is ftrong, or the air in the magazine not much condented, the inclined plane is to be fet at a great angle, that the piston may make a long stroke, and drive into the magazine a greater quantity of air; but when the wind is weak, or the air in the magazine tiongly condenfed, the inclined plane must be fet at a lefs angle. Thus the full effect of the leaft wind will be obtained, as well as of the greateit.

The regulator for railing or depreffing the inclined plane is next defcribed by. means of drawings: and the form of the magazine is faid to be spherical, or cylindrical, with femi-fpherical ends, according to the fituation and circumstances. The materials are copper, plate-iron, or caftiron; and when large, caft or wrought into fegments, and fcrewed together, being painted or varnished in the infide, to make them air-tight. Where it is practicable, fays the patentee, "I make an excavation under ground, fo much below the furface, that the incumbent earth may be fufficient to refift the force of the confined air, and line the excavation with lead, copper, or caft-iron, or with bricks or tiles cemented together, and covered on the infide with pitch, paint, varnish, or any bituminous matter, to render it air-tight; and to and from the magazine I conduct the air by a firong cast iron pipe, on or near the top of which mult be a fafety valve, for the fecurity of the magazine, and a stopt cock, to close the pipe occafionally.”

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MR. W. H. WOLLASTON'S (BUCKING- proportion as the perfon is more longHAM-STREET) for an IMPROVEMENT fighted. in SPECTACLES, by the APPLICATION of CONCAVO-CONVEX GLASSES to them.

The object of this invention is to remedy a defect that has long been complained of in fpectacles, viz. that no objects appear diftinct through them but fuch as are feen through the centre of the glaffes, or nearly fo, but are indiftinct in proper tion to the distance of the part of the glass through which they are teen from the centre, whether fide ways, or upwards or downwards; that is to say, the indistinctnefs is greater in proportion as the rays of light paffing from an object to the eye pals more obliquely through the glafs.Mr. Wollaton having obferved, that the portion of any glafs employed in any one pofition of the eye is finall, he perceived that by making the fubftance of a glafs curved in the manner of a hollow globe, each portion of it might be fituated nearly at right angles to the direction of the fight, and would thereby render lateral objects diftinét, without impairing the diftinctness at the centre. Mr. Wollafton has applied this principle in fuch a manner, that the form of his glaffes is fuch that the outer furface of each is fpherically convex, and the inner furface fpherically concave. For fhort-fighted perfons, the concave furface of each glafs is more, curved than the convex furface, by which the rays of light paffing through the fame are diverged, and the degree of curvature of the concave furface is to be increafed in proportion as the perfon is more fhortfighted.

For long-fighted perfons, the form of each glafs must be fuch that the convex fu: face fhall be more curved than the con.

cave, by which the rays are converged; and the degree of curvature of the convex furface of the glass is to be increased in

Obfervation.-This patent has occafion ed fome controverfy between the patentee and Mr. Wm. Jones, who not only denies the advantages which Mr. Wollafton conceives to be attached to the meniscus glafs, but avers, that fo far from being a new invention, he has long been poffefied of a fpectacle glafs made in the form for which this paten was obtained.

MR. JAMES BENNET'S (MANCHESTER) for a METHOD of FELTING WOOLLEN CLOTH, &c.

After the cloth has been manufactured by the weaver, and has gone through the proceffes of cutting, fcouring, and cleanfing, as it may require, it must be immersed in hot water, a little below the boilingpoint. It is then to be taken out, and laid on a large flagged ftone, placed on a frame, having a roller at each end, for the pur pofe of receiving the cloth, which must be wound tight over one of the rollers, the flag-ftone having been heated with hot water. One end of the cloth must then be drawn tight over the furface of the tone, and fixed to the rolier at the other end; when fo fixed, hot water, just below the boiling point, must be poured on the cloth as it lies on the ftone, and he furface of the cloth is to be rubbed or worked in that ftate with a polished marble, or fome other hard body having a polished furface, until the workman perceives a stiffness in the friction, by the cloth becoming nearly dry: the procefs is to be repeated until the felt required be produced; which proceffes will produce a fel, and caufe the body of the cloth to unite in a found subftance. This method may be used either with or without foap, but the latter is found to be moft beneficial to the substance of the cloth, which may then be dyed and finished to any colour.

MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS.
(Communications and the Loan of all new Prints are requefied.)

The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA

IN

DEMY, 1804.

N the exhibition of this year, there are many good pictures, though few of any very ftriking or leading defcription. The prefident has ten: No. 30 is marked with genius and fpirit. No. 37, the portrait of himfelf, is a refemblance, but we do not wifh to fee his pencil so employed. The Tomb of Archimedes is an address to the

mind; but, though it may be materially altered, we think this picture has been in a former exhibition; the fame has been faid of his Hagar and Ishmael. His Moonlight, Venus and Adonis, and Phäeton, are claffically conceived, and forcibly painted.

Sir George Beaumont has three pictures, which, confidered as the production of an amateur, are very extraordinary indeed :

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