SOS Copernktis, 



Mr. Eyton, at 11 guineas. Lot 39, to Mr. Knowles, at 

 7 guineas. Lot 40, to Mr. Beckingham, at 8 guineas. 

 Lot 41, to captain Macarthur, at 11 guineas. Lot 42, to 

 Mr. Campbell, at 9 guineas. Lot 43, to colonel GreviUe, 

 at nine guineas. Lot 44, to general Robinson, at 7 guineas; 

 and lot 45, to Mr. Hallet, at 6 guineas. . 



The sale ended about a quarter past four o'clock, when 

 Sir Joseph Banks stated, that the prices at which the sheep 

 had been sold exceeded his majesty's and his own expecta- 

 tions and wishes on the subject; his majesty never having 

 before sold a Spanish sheep for more than six guineas, (they 

 were always before sold by private contract) while he had 

 given away more than 17b sheep: but from the eagerness 

 exhibited this day in bidding, he had no doubt but his ma- 

 jesty's intentions, of placing the sheep in those gentlemen's 

 hands who would most value and attend to the increasing 

 of the breed, would be fully answered. It was stated, that 

 the sheep might stay three days in his majesty's pasture, 

 or even a longer time, at the risk of the purchaser, if 

 jiot convenient to remove them sooner ; but such was the 

 eagerness of the buyers to bear off their lots, that two or 

 three carts appeared in the field in a few minutes, and were 

 loaded with the sheep ; and one gentleman took away a 

 sheep he had bought in a post-chaise with him! Besides 

 the gentlemen mentioned above, as present, we noticed 

 Henry Hugh Hoare, Esq. Mr. Chute, Mr. Snart, superin- 

 tendant of his majesty's farm at Richmond, Mr. Lawrence, 

 Mr. Farey, &c. This show and sale of sheep is intended to 

 be annual ; and next year a larger number of ewes are in- 

 tended for sale, his majesty's flock having now arrived at 

 the number intended to be kept. 



COPERNICUS. 



The following letter of count Thadaeus Czacki and colonel 

 Molski, who have been employed in collecting information 

 respecting this celebrated man, has lately been published in 

 one of the foreign journals : 



" During the tour which we undertook with a view to coir 

 kct monuments of our country, now become extinct, we 

 sought for the remaining traces of Copernicus. Our disco- 

 veries have not been great ; but, agreeably to our own 

 wish, and the desire of our society *, we have deposited 

 tbem in the hands of a person who has resolved to make 



* Of the Friends to the Sciences at Warsaw. 



particular 



