taken to be an admittance of fuch officer. 2. That the prefent ftamp duty upon the admiffion into any corporation or company be repealed. 3. That inftead thereof a ftamp duty of 25. be charged upon the entry, minute, or memorandum, made of fuch admittance, in their court books, roll, or record. 4. That the prefent allowance for prompt payment at the stamp office be repealed. 5. That inftead thereof an allowance at the rate of 41. per cent. per ann. be for the future made. 6. That an additional ftamp duty of 20s. be charged upon every policy of affurance, in which the properties of more than one perfon, in any ship cargo, or both, or more than a particular number of perfons in partnership, or more than one body politic, to a greater amount in the whole than 100l. fhall be affured." 7. That of the monies agreed to be paid by a convention, between his majefty and the French king, concluded and figned at London the 27th of February laft, for the maintainance of the late French prifoners of war there be applied a fum not exceeding, 308000l. MAY 7. r. That out of the monies which fhall arife of the produce of the duties laid in this feffion, upon the importation and exportation of gum fenega and gum arabick, there be iffued and applied a fum not exceeding 12000l. 2. That the 2s. ftamp duty to be impofed by the third refolution of yesterday, be applied to the ufes, to which the stamp duty repealed by the fecond refolution of yesterday was applicable. 3. That the additional stamp duty of 20s. impofed by the fixth refolution of yesterday be applied to the like ufes to which the duties upon policies of affurance are at prefent applicable. 4. That the fame bounties be allowed upon all linens to be made in the Ifle of Man, and imported into Great Britain, which fhall be exported from thence, as are allowed on the exportation of British or Irish linens, and under the fame reftrictions and limitations. 5. That the Inhabitants of the Ifle of Man may import into any lawful port of Great Britain or Ireland, the bestials, or any other goods, wares, and merchandizes, of the growth, produce, and manufacture, of the said ifle, except woollen manufacture, beer and ale, without pay. ing any cuftom, fubfidies, or duties, for and in respect thereof (except such excife or other duty, as is now, or shall hereafter for the time being, be due and payable for the like goods, wares, or merchan. dizes, of the growth, produce and manufacture of Great Britain) liable to certain limitations and reftrictions. MAY 9. 1. That towards making good and fecuring the payment of the fums of money directed by an act of 32 Geo. II. to be applied in augmentation of the fal laries of the judges and juftices therein mentioned, in England and Wales, there be granted an additional ftamp duty of 41. upon every piece of vellum or parchment, or fheet or piece of paper, upon which any admiffion into any of the four inns of court, fhall be ingroffed or written; and an additional stamp duty of 61. upon every fuch piece, on which fhall be ingroffed or written, any re gifter, entry, teftimonial, or certificate, of the degree of utter barrifter, taken in any of the four inns of court. 2. That out of any of the furpluffes which fhall arife upon the funds eftablifhed for payment of the faid augmentation, and upon the faid additional ftamp duty, after the payments charged thereupon, are, from time to time, fatisfied, a fum not exceeding 36251. be applied in augmentation of the falaries of the faid judges, and justices, from the 5th of January to the 5th of July 1759, according to the proportions appointed by the faid act, with refpect to the augmentation therein mentioned. 3. That out of any of the duties and revenues in Scotland, which by an act of 10 Anne were charged, or made chargeable, with the payment of the fees, fallaries and other charges allowed, or to be allowed by her majefty her heirs or fucceffors, for keeping up the courts of feffion and jufticiary, and exchequer court in Scotland, a fum not exceeding 2100l. be applied in augmentation of the falaries of the judges in the courts of feffion and exchequer there, from the 5th of January to the 5th of July 1759, according to the proportions appointed by the faid act of 32 Geo. II. with refpect to the augmentation thereby granted of the falaries of the faid Judges. Total Total of the liquidated fums provided for by the committee of ways and means Excess provided by the faid committee more than granted by the committee of fupply omitting the fractions as they are very near equal To this we ought to add the fum provided as well as granted by the fecond refolution of April the fecond of the committee of fupply, being Total excefs [To be continued in our Compofition of Ink deduced from the Experiments. By Dr. Lewis, Author of the Philofophical Commerce of Arts, &c. HE foregoing experiments point ingredients, one part of green vitriol, one of powdered logwood, and three of powdered galls. The beft menftruum appears to be vinegar or white wine, tho' for common ufe water will fuffice. The quantity of menftruum admits of great latitude: To make an ink of a full body of colour, it should not exceed a quart, or at moft three pints, to three ounces of the galls, and one ounce of each of the other two ingredients. The proportion of gum may be varied at difcretion, according as the ink is wanted to be more or lefs gloffy or fhining, or as the nature of the paper may require the fluid to be well gummed to prevent its finking: Half an ounce to a pint is in moft cafes fufficient; though the more gum we can employ, confiftently with due freedom of writing, it is probable that the ink will be the more durable. The ingredients may be all put together at once, in any convenient veffel, and well fhaken four or five times a day. In ten or twelve days, and fooner if fet in a warm place, the ink will be fit for ufe: though both its colour and durability will be improved by standing longer on the undiffolved ingredients. The ink thus prepared though it flows pale from the pen, turns to a good black in a day or two after writing. Or the logwood and galls may be first boiled in the liquor for half an hour or more, with the addition of a little more liquor to make up for that which evaporates in the boiling. Strain the decocti next. 1 7783068 4 11 h 19977 11 11 251740 2 7 3 271717 14 6 on while hot, and having put it into the veffel which the ink is to be kept in, add to it the vitriol and the gum : As soon as thefe are diffolved the ink may be used. By this way of managing the process, we the feparation of the grofs feculence, without daubing any other veffels or utenfils than the ink-veffel itself: the ink is expeditiously made, and writes of a pretty full colour. Common pale ink, prepared by cold maceration, may be improved, fo as to write black at once, by evaporation. It may be fet in fuch a heat as will make it visibly fteam, not greater: and the heat continued until, on trying the liquor now and then, it is found to be of fufficient blacknefs. On the fame principle, when ink is kept in an open ink-stand, till it begins to grow fomewhat thick from the exhalation of part of the watry fluid, it writes as black as can be wished; and when grown too thick to be conveniently written with, it gives blackness to a certain quantity of fresh ink. Hence, when we have pale ink to be thus improved, it will be fufficient in many cafes, to evaporate to blackness only a part of it, and to dilute this occafionally, as it thickens in the ink-ftand, with fome of the reft, ftirring them well together after each addition, as the thickened and dilute inks do not very readily unite; if the evaporation was fuffered to continue till the black remained dry, it would fcarce diffolve at all in common ink or in wa ter. As the galls and logwood ought to be in pretty fine powder, that their virtue may be more readily and effectually extracted, it is expedient to have the ink feparated from them, as in the second of the X X X 2 above above proceffes; because otherwise the ink will often be loaded with the finer parts of the powder in fubftance, which being mixed up by thaking the veffel, remain long fufpended in the liquor; it is proper, however, in order to fecure against any danger of a deficiency in the aftringent materials, to add to the ink feparated from its feculence, fome galls in coarfe powder, freed from the fine daft by a fieve. On the fame principal, an oaken cafk is one of the best vessels for keeping ink in, this wood having a manifeft aftringency, and answering nearly the fame end with the additional galls. Besides the galls, fome pieces of iron may be put into the veffel. Experiment for proving that Wood, when impregnated with Salt, is not inflammable. By M. Jacob Faggot. Extracted from the Memoirs of Stockholm, Tome I. Year 1740. These Memoirs, together with the Acts of the Academy of Upfal, have never before, as we can learn, been imported into this King dom. Hi there few years to vifit the alumAving been, fays our author, withmine of Lofwers in the province of Calmar, I took notice of fome attempts made to burn the old ftaves of tubs and pails that had been used for the alum-works. For this purpose they were thrown into the furnace: But thofe pieces of wood which had been penetrated by the alum, did not burn, though they remained a Fong time in the fire, where they only became red; however, at latt they were confumed by the intenfeness of the heat, but they yielded no flame. The author concludes from this experiment, that wood or timber for the purpofes of building may be fecured against the action of fire, by letting it remain for fome time in water, wherein vitriol, alum, or any other falt has been diffolved, which contains no inflammable parts. To this experiment it may be added, that wood which has been impregnated with water wherein vitriol has been diffolved, is very fit for refifting putrefaction, especially if afterwards it was brushed over with tar, or fome fort of paint In order to this the wood must be rubbed with very warm vitriolic water, and af. terwards fet to dry, before it is painted or befmeared with tar. Wood, prepared in To preferve the Spokes of Wheels from The fame M. Salberg found that, by boiling for fome hours the spokes of wheels in vitriolic water, they are not fo fubject to rottennefs in the parts where they enter the stocks. After boiling them in this manner, they are dried as perfectly as poffible, and then in the accustomed way, painted with oil-colours. To keep clear of Bugs. rubbing wood with a diffolution of viM. Salberg difcovered alfo that, by triol, infects and bugs are prevented from there need only be boiled fome quolo quinharbouring therein. When the ftrength of this remedy is required to be increased, tida apples in water, in which afterwards vitriol is diffolved, and the bedsteads, with the wood about them, and wainscotting, being anointed with this liquor, will be walls may be likewife rubbed with this ever after clear of worms and bugs. The compofition, and fome of it may be dropped into the holes where thefe infects are fufpected to be harboured. As to the walls, they require only to be washed over with the vitriol water. Method to build Chimnies to prevent their W tional principles, and it will be Orkmen feldom proceed upon ra found for the most part, that those chimnies which smoke, are carried up narrower near the top than below, or where they go zig-zag all in angles: In fome cafes, indeed, it is owing to accidental caufes, but, for the most part, to those two above-mentioned. Where they are carried up in the pyramid or tapering Form, especially if the House be a confiderable height, it is ten to one but they fometimes fmoke; for the air in the rooms rooms being rarefied, is forced into the funnel of the chimney, and the fire caufes another addition of force to drive up the finoak. Now it is evident, that the further up the fmoak flies, the action of the powers is lefs; but in this cafe, the refiftance is encreased, by being gathered clofer and closer together; whereas, inftead of that, the lefs the forcing powers act, the less should be the refiftance, or the fmoak have more room while the force diminishes. This method of carrying them up will be objected to fome thus: The wider it is at the top (fay they) the more liberty has the wind to blow down. Very true; but is it not refifted in going down, both by the form of the chimney, and other evident caufes, fo that it returns again? In the contrary way, when the wind blows down, the refiftance being lefs, the wind and smoak (if I may use the expreffion) are imprisoned, and make the fmoak puff out below. We were much troubled in my houfe with that bad companion, to remedy which a great many things were devifed by different workmen. A kind of barrel was fet upon the top of the chimney, and a fane to turn the vent fide from the wind; but it did not answer expectation. About the grates alterations were often made, in the methods commonly made ufe of, but to no purpose: The chimnies even pulled down to as little advantage, every workman pretending he could infallibly remedy it: One of them was made with crooks this way and that way, as if that would adminifter relief. At laft we were refolved to have it done in another way, and this appeared to be the only rational one. We carried up the vent as perpendicular as poffible, at least with no angles, made it about three or four inches wider at top than bottom; and I must add, that the funnel must be gathered in a throat directly above the fire-place, and fo widened according to this direction. This fame method has been made ufe of feveral times fince, and never failed. What is remarkable, this houfe is fituated directly under a high mountain, to the fouthward, from which we have ftrong blasts blowing down upon us, but now find no inconvenience from them. When the doors ftand open, the draught is fo ftrong that it will carry a piece of paper out at the head of the chimney. I know that fome of our best workmen follow this method, but it is far from being general: On this account I choose to write to you my fentiments, if peradventure it may be of any fervice. Dumfries, Aug. 9, Your's, &c. 1765. [Museum Rufticum.] J. M. C. Some Account of the late Dr. James Bradley, D. D. Royal Professor of Aftronomy at Greenwich. DR. R. James Bradley was the third fon of William and Jane Bradley, and was born at Sherborne in Dorfetfhire in the year 1692. He was fitted for the university at North Leach by Mr. Egles, and Mr. Brice, who kept a boarding school there, and from North Leach he was fent to Oxford. His friends intended him for the church, and his ftudies were regulated with that view; and as foon as he was of fufficient age to receive holy orders, the bishop of Hereford, who had conceived a great efteem for him, gave him the living of Bridtow, and foon after he was inducted to that of Welfrie in Pembrokeshire. But, notwithstanding these advantages, from which he might promife himself till farther advancement in the church, he at length refigned his livings that he might be wholly at liberty to purfue his favourite ftudy, the mathematics and particularly aftronomy. He was nephew to Mr. Pound, a gentleman who is well known in the learned world by many excellent obfervations, and who would have enriched it with more, if the journals of his voyages had not been burnt at Pulo Condor, when the place was fet on fire, and the English who were fettled there cruelly maffacred, Mr. Pound himfelf very narrowly escaping with his life. above proceffes; because otherwise the ink will often be loaded with the finer parts of the powder in fubftance, which being mixed up by fhaking the veffel, remain long fufpended in the liquor; it is proper, however, in order to fecure against any danger of a deficiency in the aftringent materials, to add to the ink feparated from its feculence, fome galls in coarfe powder, freed from the fine duft by a fieve. On the fame principal, an oaken cafk is one of the best-veffels for keeping ink in, this wood having a manifeft aftringency, and answering nearly the same end with the additional galls. Befides the galls, fome pieces of iron may be put into the veffel. Experiment for proving that Wood, when impregnated with Salt, is not inflammable. By M. Jacob Faggot. Extracted from the Memoirs of Stockholm, Tome I. Year 1740. Thefe Memoirs, together with the Acts of the Academy of Upfal, have never before, as we can learn, been imported into this Kingdom. Hi there few years to vifit the alumAving been, fays our author, withmine of Lofwers in the province of Calmar, I took notice of fome attempts made to burn the old ftaves of tubs and pails that had been used for the alum-works. For this purpose they were thrown into the furnace: But thofe pieces of wood which had been penetrated by the alum, did not burn, though they remained a long time in the fire, where they only became red; however, at lalt they were confumed by the intenfeness of the heat, but they yielded no flame. The author concludes from this experiment, that wood or timber for the purpofes of building may be fecured against the action of fire, by letting it remain for fome time in water, wherein vitriol, alum, or any other falt has been diffolved, which contains no inflammable parts. To this experiment it may be added, that wood which has been impregnated with water wherein vitriol has been diffolved, is very fit for refifting putrefaction, especially if afterwards it was brushed over with tar, or fome fort of paint In order to this the wood must be rubbed with very warm vitriolic water, and afterwards fet to dry, before it is painted or befmeared with tar. Wood, prepared in Rotting. The fame M. Salberg found that, by boiling for fome hours the fpokes of wheels in vitriolic water, they are not fo fubject to rottennefs in the parts where they enter the ftocks. After boiling them in this manner, they are dried as perfectly as poffible, and then in the accustomed way, painted with oil-colours. To keep clear of Bugs. M. Salberg difcovered alfo that, by rubbing wood with a diffolution of vitriol, infects and bugs are prevented from harbouring therein. When the strength there need only be boiled fome quoloquinof this remedy is required to be increafed, tida apples in water, in which afterwards vitriol is diffolved, and the bedsteads, with the wood about them, and wainscotting, being anointed with this liquor, will be ever after clear of worms and bugs. The walls may be likewise rubbed with this compofition, and fome of it may be dropped into the holes where thefe infects are fufpected to be harboured. As to the walls, they require only to be washed over with the vitriol water. Method to build Chimnies to prevent their Workmen feldom proceed upon ra- rooms |