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List of New Works. 



The Captive of Fez; a Poem, in Five 

 Cantos. By Thomas Ami. 12mo. 6s. 



Poems, chiefly Lyrical. By Alfred Ten- 

 nyson. 12mo. 5s. 



O'Donoghue, Prince of Killarney,a Poem, 

 in Seven Cantos. By Hannah Maria Bourke. 

 I2mo. 6s. 



POLITICAL. 



An Inquiry as to the Expediency of a 

 County Asylum for Pauper Lunatics. By 

 William Palmer, D.D. 



RELIGION AND MORALS. 



Baxter's Works. 23 vols. 8vo. 121. 12s. 

 Ditto Life and Times. 2 vols. 8vo. 21s. 



The Gospels ; with -Moral Reflections on 

 each Verse. By Pasquier Quesnel. With 

 an Introductory Essay. By the Rev. Daniel 

 Wilson, A.M. In 3 vols. 12mb. 18s. 



Discourses on the Millennium, the Doc- 

 trine of Election, Justification by Faith. 

 By the Rev. M. Russell, LL.D. 12mo. 

 7s. 6d. 



. Essays on the Lives of Cowper, Newton, 

 and Heber ; or, Examination of the Evi- 

 dence of the Course of Nature being inter- 

 rupted by the Divine Government. 8vo. 

 10s. 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



M. PRU.DHOMME. 



This gentleman, the oldest of the Paris 

 journalists, editor of Le Journal des Revo- 

 lutions de Paris, which commenced in 

 1789, was born at Lyons, in 1752. Ac- 

 cording to report, he, at his outset in life, 

 was a bookseller's shopman. Afterwards, 

 removing from Lyons, he set up as a book- 

 binder at Meaux. A few years before the 

 revolution he fixed his residence at Paris. 

 There he ardently embraced the new prin- 

 ciples, and was extensively instrumental in 

 diffusing them ; having, it is said, between 

 the commencement of the year 1787? and 

 the 14th of July, 1789, published upwards 

 of one thousand five hundred political pam- 

 phlets, of some of which one hundred thou- 

 sand copies were thrown into circulation* 

 It was a remark of Prudhomrne's enemies, 

 that he wore out all the pens of all the 

 Parisian gazetteers. 



It was, as we have intimated, in 1789, 

 that M. Prudhomme established Le Jour- 

 nal des Revolutions de Paris, the motto of 

 which was " The great seem to us to be 

 great only because we are on our knees : let 



us rise !" In this journal the government 

 was incessantly assailed, and the revolu- 

 tionary measures were most zealously incul- 

 cated. Prudhomme, however, was far from 

 being a servile partizan. He was disgusted 

 with the sanguinary ferocity of Robespierre, 

 and he attacked the tyrant and his measures 

 with great spirit. The consequence of this 

 was his arrest on the charge of being a 

 royalist. The fallacy of this charge being 

 apparent, he soon obtained his liberty ; not- 

 withstanding which, he thought it advisable 

 to quit Paris with his family. After the 

 downfall of Robespierre, he returned to the 

 capital; and from that period until his 

 death, he constantly followed the trade of a 

 bookseller. 



M. Prudhomme was the author of " The 

 General History of Crimes committed during 

 the Revolution," in six volumes ; and of 

 various other works, chiefly of a geographi- 

 cal nature ; but his talents were not consi- 

 dered to rank above mediocrity. He died 

 at Paris, of apoplexy, about the close of 

 April, or commencement of May last. 



PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 



.To Robert Hicks, Conduit-street, Hanover- 

 square, Middlesex, surgeon, for having invented 

 an economical apparatus or machine to be applied 

 in the process of baking, for the purpose of saving 

 materials. Sealed 26th June ; 6 months. 



To Edward Turner, Gower-street, Middlesex, 

 M.D., and William Shand, of the Burn, Kincar- 

 dineshire, Scotland, Esq., for having invented 

 a new method of purifying and whitening sugars 

 or other saccharine matter. 26th June ; 6 months. 



To Moses Poole, Lincoln's-inn, gentleman, for 

 improvements in the apparatus used for extract- 

 ing molasses or syrup from sugar. 2Gth June ; 

 6 months. 



To Samuel Parker, Argyle-street, Oxford- 

 street, Middlesex, bronzist, for improvements in 

 producing mechanical power from chemical agents. 

 29th June ; 6 months. 



To Samuel Parker, Argyle- street, Oxford- 



street, Middlesex, bronzist, for an improved 

 lamp 1st July ; 6 months. 



To Richard Roberts, Manchester, Lancaster, 

 civil engineer, for improvements in the mechanism 

 employed to render self-acting the machines 

 known by the names of mule, billy, jenny, jack- 

 frame, or stretching-frame, and all other ma- 

 ckines of that class, whether the said machines be 

 used to rove, slub, or spin cotton, or other fibrous 

 subntances. 1st July; 6 months. 



To John Henry Clive, Chell-house, Stafford, 

 Esq., for improvements in the construction of and 

 machinery for locomotive ploughs, harrows, and 

 other machines and carriages. 1st July ; 6 

 months. 



To John Harvey Sadler, Praed-street, Pad- 

 dington, Middlesex, engineer, for improvements in 

 looms. 1st July; Smontus. 



