1821.] 



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259 



est diamond in Europe except the Pitt 

 (now the Russian) and perhaps the 

 Saucy belonging to France. In the 

 suite of the King of Portugal, whose 

 magnificent diamonds are worfh little 

 short of three millions sterling, Mr. M. 

 informs us there is one of tlie weight of 

 365 grains, and another which is heavier. 

 If the value of the present diamond 

 (which is of the finest water) were cal- 

 culated according to its weight, S9f 

 carats, it would amount to so large a 

 sum as few would find it convenient to 

 pay, and it is probable that it can find a 

 purchaser only in India, where gems 

 are more valued than they now are 

 in Europe. 



The upper figure is a geometrical view 

 of the diamond from its \ipper face ; the 

 lower figure is a perspective view taken in 

 the direction of the dotted Hue x,y, of the 

 upper figure. The letters A, u, c, set against 

 the angles of the figure, and a, b, c, against 

 the intermediate sides respectively, refer 

 the same parts of the two figures to each 

 other. D both in the geometrical and the 

 perspective drawing, marks the upper or 

 . flat face ; and the inclined position of the 

 latter in the perspective view, indicates the 

 direction of the plane. The engraving is 

 the exact size of the stone. 



We are enabled by Mr. Butterworth's 

 motion in ParliamenI, fo lay before our 

 readers an accurate statement of the 

 prodigious sale of the T^ondon Sunday 

 and Weekly Newspapers in the year 

 1820. The numbers will surprize them, 

 and will particularly excite the asto- 

 nishment of fonngners, who from their 

 own experience know so little of the 

 piienomena of tlie British press. We 



give the annual sale of each, leaving 

 it to our readers to divide the numbers 

 by fifty-two, and distribute them be- 

 tween the two editions of each paper. 

 We presume, however, that tho Sim- 

 day editions are to the Monday's, in 

 the proportion of four or five to one. 

 We have purposely omitted the papers 

 commenced within the year: 



No. of Stamps 

 used in 1820. 

 Bell's Weekly Messenger (Sunday 



and Mondav ... 551,650 

 Bell's Weekly Dispatch - - 132,000 

 British Neptune, Mercury, &c. - 2i),500 

 British Monitor - - 23,150 



Champion - - - 46,934 



County Chronicle and County 



Herald . - - - 239,000 



Englishman and Mirror of Times 173,800 

 Examiner - - - 194,500 



Guardian .- - - 137,500 



Intelligencer, or Luminary (May, 



1819, to May, 1820) - - 113,266 

 Literary Gazette (stamped copies) 41,177 

 Military Register - - 8,275 



Monitor and Imperial Gazette 77,550 



News - - - - 133,000 



Observer (Sunday and Monday) 992,500 

 Police Gazette - - 27,700 



Wooler's British Gazette 77,850 



Messrs. Donkin and GambI-e hav- 

 ing succeeded in improved methods of 

 preparing ships' victualling stores, have 

 favoured us vvith the following copies 

 of letters which must be decisive of 

 public opinion on this important sub- 

 ject. 



I. Letter from Thos. Welch, J. Aubin, and 

 J. Weir, Commissioners of the Victualling 

 Board, enclosing 2 and 3. 

 II. 

 Hecla, December 9, 1820. 

 Gentlemen, — In reply to your letter of 

 the 28th ultimo, I beg leave to acquaint you 

 that I feel it impossible to speak too highly 

 of the preserved meats and soups prepared 

 by Messrs. Donkin, Hall, and Gamble, and 

 supplied to His Majesty's ships Hecla and 

 Griper, employed under ray orders on the 

 late expedition for the discovery of a North 

 West Passage. 



Of the very lEU'ge supply we obtsdned, 

 not a single instance occurred of opening 

 a bad canister of meat ; four or five bot- 

 tles of vegetable soup, and two or three of 

 the concentrated gravy soup were found 

 unfit for use. With these few exceptions 

 they were excellent, and proved a most 

 invaluable acquisition to us in the absence 

 of all other fresh supplies. 



W. E. Parry, Capt. 

 III. 

 Hecla, at Deptford, Dec. 9, 1820. 

 Gentlemen, — In reply to a desire con- 

 veyed to me through Captain Parry for my 

 opinion of (he preserved mcat» and soups 

 Kuppliod 



