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mencing Michaelmas Term 1798; by Christopher Robinfon, L. L. D. No. I. (to be continued). 55. Butterworth.

MEDICAL.

Practical Remarks on the Medical Effects of Wine and Spirits; with Obfervations on the Economy of Health, intended principally for the ufe of parents, guardians, and others entrusted with the care of youth; by William Landford, furgeon. 2s. 6d. y

Cadell and Davies. Notice of fome Obfervations made at the Medical Pneumatic Inftitution, by Thomas Beddoes, M. D. Is. 6d. Longman and Rees An Inquiry into the Symptoms and Caufes of the Syncope Anginofa, or Angina Pectoris ; illuftrated by Diffections: by Caleb Hillier Parry, M. D. 8vo. 4s. boards.

Cadell and Davies.

MILITARY.

Hiftory of the Thirty Years War of Germany, by Frederic Schiller; tranflated from the German by Captain Blaquiere. 2 vols. 8vo. with a Portrait. 12s. boards. Miller. Campaigns of General Buonaparte in Italy in 1796 and 1797, by a General Officer: tranflated from the French by T. E. Ritchie, 8s. boards. Crosby and Letterman.

An Epitome of Military Events, tranflated from the French periodical Work published at Hamburgh. No. I. (to be continued). 2s. Egerton. Memoirs of Tippoo Sultaun, including his Campaigns, &c. 3s. boards.

Weft and Hughes.

MISCELLANIES.

The December Fashions of London and Paris; containing Twelve beautifully coloured Figures of Ladies in the actually prevailing and moft favourite Dreffes of the Month; intended for the use of milliners, &c. and of ladies of quality and private families refiding in the country; to be continued monthly. IS. 6d. Phillips. The Cambrian Regifter for the Year 1796. 9s. boards. Williams. The English Enchiridion, being a selection of apothegms, moral maxims, &c, by John Feltham. 3s. 6d. boards. Dilly.

Reflections on Men and Things, tranflated from a French Manufcript of the late J. G. Zimmermann, author of Solitude, &c. 8vo. 5s, boards. H. D. Symonds. An Examination of the Merits and Tend. ency of the Purfuits of Literature; Part I. by W. Burdon, A. M. 25. Clarke.

NOVELS and ROMANCES. Bahar-Danush, or Garden of Knowledge; an Oriental Romance; tranflated from the Perfian by Jonathan Scott, of the Eaft-India Company's Service. 2 vols. crown-octavo. Cadell and Davies.

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A Sermon preached in Lambeth Chapel at the Confecration of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, September 1, 1779, by the Rev. Thomas Lom bard, M. A. IS. Rivingtons.

A familiar Survey of the Christian Religion, and of History as connected with the Introduction of Chriftianity, and with its Progrefs in the prefent Time; intended for the ufe of young perfons: by Thomas Gisborne, M. A. 8vo. Cadell and Davies.

Wifdom, Religion, and Courage, effential Requifites in a Magistrate; a Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, September 28, 1799; by Thomas Bowen, M. A. IS. Rivingtons.

A Commentary, with Notes, on the Book of the Revelations, by the late Rev. Dr. John Snodgrass, one of the Minifters of the High Church of Paifley. 7s. boards. Ogle.

Two Difcourfes; the firft preached on occafion of the Death of the Rev. James Alice, of Paifley; and the fecond, in the HighChurch of Paifley before the Friends of Sabbath-Schools, by the Rev. W. Ferrier. 1s. 6d. Ogle.

TRAVELS.

Letters from Italy between the years 1792 and 1798, containing a view of the Revolutions in that country from the capture of Nice by the French Republic to the expulfion of Pius VI. from the Ecclefiaftical State; likewife pointing out the matchlefs works of art which still embellish Pifa, Florence, Sienna, Rome, &c. with copious inftructions for the ufe of invalids and families who may not choose to incur the expence attendant upon travelling with a courier; by Mariana Starke, author of the Widow of Malabar, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 14s. in boards. Phillips

NEW

NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED.

MR. JAMES KNOWLES'S FOR TANNING.

Mr. Knowles defcribes this invention in the following Terms. First, as foon as the wool or hair is pulled or taken off the skin, the fkin or pelt (a name ufually given to the fkin in that state) is fimply dipped into water, and undergoes the operation of fleshing.

Secondly. The fkin or pelt is then dip ped again into water, and it undergoes another operation, called fkudding; after which it is in a state fit to be tanned, tawed, or dreffed.

This procefs occupies much less time, and occafions lefs labour and expence than that hitherto practifed, which confifted first of immerging the fkins in lime-pits, where they were depofited for feveral weeks, and were afterwards neceffarily obliged to be drenched or purified.

The fpecification of this Patent was dated the 27th of April, 1799, and Mr. Knowles refides in the parish of Lambeth.

MR. ECKHARDT'S FOR GRATES.

On the 3d of October, Mr. A. G. Eckhardt, of Knightsbridge, obtained a Patent for an improvement in the construction of grates, by which they accommodate themselves to any propofed confumption of fuel, or any required degree of heat.

The principle of this invention confifts in the new application of fpindles or racks, or wheels and pinions, or worms, or levers, by which the back of the grate may be moved in a horizontal or vertical direction, and the bottom in a vertical direction. The cheeks are moved horizontally in the ufual way, and they accommodate themfelves to the horizontal motion of the back, by being conftructed of various plates which open or fhut, dilate or contract, in the manner of a fan.

MR. BISHOP'S FOR A NEW POWER. Mr. John Bishop, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, enrolled a fpecification on the 23d of September, for a new method of creating a power by means of fire, water, and fteam, with or without condenfation.

Ths machine confits of three parts, 1. A wheel fimilar to an overfhot water wheel. 2. A large close vessel or case, made of copper or iron, in which the wheel is fixed, and is to work in a vertical direction. 3. An air or team pipe and valve, which paffes out at the top of the

clofe copper veffel, through a fmall refervoir of cold water, for the purpose of condenfation, if necessary.

Motion is given to the wheel, and to any connected machinery, by the power of afcending fteam, in the following manner : The clofe copper veffel in which the vertical wheel is fixed, is filled with water above the axle of the wheel. The application of fire at the bottom of the veffel will raife the fteam; and the fteam in its afcent, by entering into and acting upon the bucket of the wheel, will give it a vertical rotatory motion. The power thus produced, will be equal to nine pounds for every gallon of water employed.

The quantity of fuel is confiderably reduced by the production of a vacuum by means of the air or fteam pipe, or by ufing spirits of wine instead of water.

MR. HOTCHKISS'S FOR A MECHANICAL POWER.

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On the 3d of October, Mr. Hotchkifs, lieutenant in the navy, obtained Letters Patent for a new mechanical power for raifing weights, anchors, &c.

Mr. Hotchkifs defcribes his power as acting on the principle of the fteelyard, put in motion and inverfed by means of a lever.

Its practice he exemplifies in an upright fhaft, the lower end of which is made thicker than the upper end. A lever or power is then to be applied to the thicker part, and the two ends of the rope to which the weight is affixed, are made to turn in oppofite directions upon the thicker and thinner ends of the upright fhaft. The weight is thus made to affift in raifing itself by its own action, in the smaller part of the fhaft, and the power required may be diminished in the proportion in which the diameters of the two ends of the shaft approximate.

He gives another inftance of its more ufeful application, by two parallel cylinders of unequal diameters; one of which is turned by a windlals or other power, and this turns the other cylinder, by means of toothed or cogged wheels of equal diameters. The increase of power is great, and is determined by the difference of the diameters of the cylinders, and by their approximation in fize.

This appears to be a very interesting and ufeful invention; but as it is difficult to defcribe a mechanical apparatus, without the ufe of plates, we would refer those of our readers who wifh for further information

formation, to the fpecification itself, as it is enrolled at the proper office.

with fish refufe, in the manner mentione in the former patent. Mr. Crook has also found, that by mixing volatile alkali with the common black foap, it is hereby con

MR. CROOK'S FOR SOAP-MAKING AND verted into a tranfparent yellow mafs, and

BLEACHING.

A Patent was granted October 21, 1799, to J. Crook, Chemift, Edin burgh, for a new foap, and new method of bleaching by volatile alkali; and a new method of preferving feeds, and destroying vermin.

in confequence its value much improved.

For bleaching Mr. C. has invented a very fimple circulatory apparatus in clofe veffels, by means of which the fteam, impregnated with volatile alkali, is brought into clofe contact with the cotton, &c. &c. by this procefs the goods are effectually bleached.

The liquor for the deftruction of vermin, and prefervation of feeds, is prepared by the diftillation of coal fchiftus, especially that kind which is impregnated with ful phur. The product of this diftillation is

We have before had occafion to notice Mr. Crook's Patent for the preparation of foap from fish; and the prefent may in part be confidered as a continuation of the former. The prefent improvement confifts in the substitution of volatile alkali, to the fixed alkalies which are commonly a volatile vapor of fulphur, which is renemployed. The real difcovery in this patent is an economical method of preparing volatile alkali: this is effected by digefting ftale urine, or foot, with quick lime the alkali thus procured, is mixed

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dered still more cauftic by the addition of quicklime: the feeds are fteeped in it, and the liquor itself is poured on places infefted with vermin, which it effectually deftroys.

MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE FINE ARTS.

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contemplate the Progrefs of the Arts in this commercial and fpirited country, affords fome exercife to a philofophical mind; for it is a curious circumstance that war, which in other nations hasgenerally overwhelmed and destroyed all the imitative and elegant arts, has in this only altered their courfe, and driven them into another stream, where, though they do not flow with quite fo rapid a current, they neither freeze nor stagnate.

Is an Admiral victorious,-the people whom his prowess has exalted, are eager to record his valour, and tranfmit his name to the latest posterity.-Sculpture and painting emulate each other in blazoning his achievements, which being thence tranfferred to the copper, are diffeminated over a large portion of the civilized world. This fame, though flattering to thofe on whom it is conferred, is, it must be acknowledged, of too flimfy a texture. of the defeat of the Spanish armada it was thought proper to give a general reprefentation in tapestry: the prefent age, with a fpirit which does it honour, defirous of enrolling the names and actions of its heroes on more durable materials, have entered into a very liberal fubfcription to defray the expene of erecting a naval pillar, to commemorate the victories of our naval commanders. The fubfcription goes on well, MONTHLY MAG. No. LII.

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and we hope this column, fo honourable to British courage and gratitude, will be creditable to the national tafte.

Mr. G. Riley, No. 65, Old Bailey, fome of whose Publications we have formerly noticed, is now publishing by Subfcrip.ion Four Prints of interefting Views (from correct nautical Plans, taken, on Board the Leander) of the memorable Victory of the Nile, in August 1798; the Whole being engraving from Drawings made for and under the Direction of Captain Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson.

Plate I. Reprefents the British Fleet in their Courfe of progreffively bearing down to the Enemy at Anchor, to take the Station in which they made the Conqueft.

Plate II.

Is a South-west View at Ten o'Clock, on the Night of the First of August, of the awful Situation of the English and French Fleets, at the Period when L'Orient blew up. Plate III. Exhibits a South-west View in the Evening of the Second of Auguft, at the Time Le Guilleaume Tell, La Fulice, and La Diane were escaping, purfued by the Zealous.

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A Portrait of Sir 7. Borlafe Warren is engraving by Henry Richter, as a Companion to the Print of Lord Nelfon.

For those who are not attracted by either fculpture, painting, or engraving, but who are yet defirous of feeing the naval glory of their country commemorated, Mr. Turner exhibits a new invented piece of animated mechanifm, 30 feet in length, by 12 feet in height, entitled NAUMACHIA, and reprefenting the action between the French and English Fleets at the Battle of the Nile.

The Fifteenth Number of Boydell's Shakespeare is published. Three Numbers more, which are in great forwardness, will complete this fplendid

Work.

Mr. Alderman Boydell, who, if not the father of the arts, may very fairly be denominated the father of the artifts in this country, has, by his extenfive and fpirited plan of the Shakespeare Gallery, given birth to other commercial undertakings, which have held out to fuch artifts as had the power, an encouragement that was never given by the nobility, whofe tafte for English pictures has gone little farther than portraits. The Alderman, in his zeal for an art in which he is himself fo deeply interested, has endeavoured to introduce a tafte for paintings into the city; and, as a foundation for future contributions, has prefented a number of very fine pictures for the Council-room at Guildhall. The late Prefident's admirable picture of Lord Heathfield would of itself be a school for portrait-painting it is indifputably the fineft head Sir Joshua Reynolds ever painted.. His full length of Lord Camden was never worthy of the artist: he disliked his first painting of the head,-cut it out of the picture, and then, on a patch of canvas which he introduced in its place, painted another head. This becoming glaringly apparent, and the teeth of time having made other ravages in the painting, the Alderman employed a perfon to clean it and this fpecimen has been fo much approved, that the fame perfon is now em. ployed in cleaning the portraits of the King and Queen after which he is to be employed in repairing the portraits of the able and virtuous Sir Matthew Hale, and eleven contemporary judges, which now hang round the great room in Guildhall, and are literally fallen into decay. To thefe twelve judges, but principally to Sir Matthew, the city owe every tribute of gratitude and refpect; for, after the dreadful fire in 1666, they regulated the re-building of the city of London by fuch wife regulations, between landlord and tenant, as to

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prevent the endless train of vexatious lawfuits which might have enfued, and would, if managed with proper legal procrastination and delay, have been nearly as much expence as re-building the whole city. Thefe portraits were painted by a good artist (Michael Wright), who died in the year 1700. He was paid fixty pounds for each portrait. It was intended that they fhould have been painted by Sir Peter Lely, but he faftidiously refused to wait upon the Judges at their own chambers.

In the year 1779, they were found to be in fo bad a condition as to make it an even queftion with the committee of city-lands, whether they fhould be continued in their places, or committed to the flames? To the eternal honour of Alderman Town

end, his vote decided in favour of their prefervation. He recommended the late Mr. Roma, as a perfon qualified to reftore them to fome part of their original brightnefs, and by him they were then repaired and beautified. Mr. Wilder is the perfon recommended to the fame office by Alderman Boydell, and we may hope that by his fuperintendence of the artist's labours' they may be fo repaired, as to refift the ravages of time, live a little longer, and remain another century honourable monuments of the rectitude of the Judges, and the gratitude of the city of London.

Samaritan and the Pool of Bethesda, at Hogarth's two pictures of the Good St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, have also been recently cleaned by the fame perfon-and fo well cleaned, that it was with great pleafare we faw our old friends with a clean face.

A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln, comprising the principal Towns and Churches, the Remains of Cafles and religious Houses, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; with topographical and biftorical Accounts of each View. Publifhed by Bartholomew Howlett, GreenWalk, Blackfriars-Road.

This work, to adopt the phrafe of the bookfellers, is got up with uncommon elegance. The engravings are very neat, and the printing, which is from Bulmer's prefs, is peculiarly fine. The defcrip. tions of the Abbeys, Caftles, &c. of which there are engraved views, are fhort, but contain much that may be both curious and ufeful to the lovers of English antiquities..

In the defcription of Langton Hail, the family feat of Dr. Johnfon's valued and valuable friend Bennet Langton, is an anecdote which trongly marks the Dector's curiofity to attain fome criterion by which he could form a judgment of the fpace and comparative degrees of accommodation in which the houfes of our an

ceftors.

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Langton Hall is understood to have been built in an early part of the last century; a former dwelling-houfe of this family having been burnt down in the reign of Edw. VI. Early in the year 1764, Dr. Johnson vifited this place, and being told what had been the fate of the former manfion, expreffed a with that the foil within the moat which furrounds the fituation of the former houfe, fhould be dug up for the purpofe of Exactly tracing its foundations; by which might be judged what were the dimensions of the dwelling-house of a private gentleman, in times as remote as were probably thofe when that structure had been erected. He did not repeat his vifit at the time this fearch, was to have been made; ser indeed would a fingle admeasurement of one fcite, afford much certainty on which to build a calculation ;—but were the inquiry extended to a number of ancient buildings, the comparative refult would be useful,

at least it would be curious.

Dr. Hunter's Tianflation of Lavater's Effays on Phyfiognomy is now completed; and, in this new and hitherto little travelled walk, may be confidered as a valuable and highly interefting addition to the arts, and as affording much matter for cu rious and novel fpeculation to the inquifitive and philofophic mind, and many ufeful bints to artifs of every denomination. The proprietors have published a profpectus, in which they give a lift of the plates, comprising portraits, with phyfiognomical analyfes of the most illuftriouscharacters in Europe, of the laft and present century. Among them the British characters make a diftinguished figure; and, in this edition, are given in their full fpirit. Mr. Lavater has availed himself not only of the works of the great mafters of modern times, but has fuccefsfully recurred to the most valuable Grecian and Roman antiques; and he reafons on the human figure, not only as it is prefented individually in portraits, but as difplayed in the interefting and animated groupes of hiftorical painting. His plan comprehends, not the human face only, nor even the human fpecies, but takes in the whole extent of animated nature-birds, beafts, fishes, infects, and he applies general principles to all the external appearances of animated life, in every part of the animal frame; in order to prove that the Lord of Nature has established an unvarying correspondence between the outward form and the fpirit whereby it is actuated.

This English edition is enriched with many highly finished and improved dupli

cates, befides the exact fac fimile of the original, and with a few portraits of dif. tinguished charaders not introduced by Mr. Lavater. Mr. Fufeli has retouched, corrected and improved many of his own pieces, which had been too haftily copied by the foreign artist; and Mr. Holloway has availed himfelf of original pictures and drawings to which the author, could not have access, to affift him in either fuperintending or executing the engravings. The editor has on the whole endeavoured to give a faithful tranfcript, both of the fenfe of Lavater, and of the defigns produced in illuftration of it, and enhanced the value of this edition by every addition and improvement, confiftent with the plan of the work, which British genius, art and industry could fupply.

The proprietors in their profpectus farther inform the ublic, that, after fulfilling their engagements to their numerous fubfcribers, they remain poffeffed of fome very fine copies of the work. Thefe, when properly arranged, make five fimilarized royal quarto volumes; the fecond and third of the French original being divided into two each, with a feparate title page the fecond part.

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The five volumes completely arranged, and put into boards, price 271. or elegantly half bound with Morocco backs and corners, 30l.

In this great work, the author profeffes to give,a feries of fragments; and if they are thus confidered, though there is much that is vifionary, it must be acknowledged there is alfo much that is valuable.

He does not promise to give entire the immenfe alphabet neceffary to decypher the original language of nature, written on the face of man, and on the whole of his exterior; but flatters himself that he has been fo happy as to trace a few of the characters of that divine alphabet, and that they will be fo legible, that a found eye will readily diftinguish them wherever they

Occur.

Mr. Jukes has lately published the following prints in aquatinta; they do great

credit to the artift and the branch of arts which he profeffes.

Four Views in North Wales, from Pictures by T. Walmefley.

1ft. Pont Norvid near Bala. 2d. Pont Yr Eden, over the river Mowddr dep 3d. Dolyminyllin on the river Mowddrdep. 4th. Nant Mill-After La Port.

Thefe views are in the ftyle and manner of the highly favoured River Dee Views, but on a larger fcale. The three first are after the fame draftsman. 522 Price

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