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Lilnarij and Philosophical Intelligence, 



[June ], 



itinerant inncnlatfirs for (lie small pox, Exertion; are making by the Mi s- 



in spite of their gross ignorance cf all sionary Society, to excite the a!tent"-on 



disease, and of (lie nii'e'ncss and inap- of the Christian world (o the (iipsics ! 



titude of the instrimieuts which they The object of these indiviiliials is the 



employ to insert the poison. The, re" formation of a society lor nteliorating 



ports of the Vaccinators at the several tiieir condition, and leading them into 



stations in the metropolis give only the pathsof indnslry and religion. For 



fight cases of small ])ox, out of nearly more than :iOO years th(>se people liare 



67,000 vaccinated by them, since the wandered throngh tiie country, frowned 



first establishment of (his Board. npon by law as rogues and vagahoids, 



Early in the n)onlh will bepoblished withont anv effort being made in their 



(he ease of the President of Qneen's belialf. 



College, Cambridge, containing eopiesof An ingenious macliine has been in - 



thei)eti(i< n, allithivits. and original re- vente:l. whidi can be aflixed to a gig 



cords prcdiiced in evidence in the High or other carriage, f(;r measuring dis- 



Court of Chancery, together with the tanees from one to a hnndred miles, 



judgment of the Visiter in that matter, with the furlongs and rood*;. 



A novel tcatiireof (be month, is the We have pleasure in ca' ling attention 



presence of (he Madagascar Prince, to Messrs. FjIIowrll and Co.'s dis- 



Rataffe, brother of Kina Radama, of cc.very for the prevention of Mildew in 



that island, M-ho has been introduced to Canva^;, at a time when the immense 



the King. His per'^on is good. his man- pioperty vested in shifiping is siifier'ng 



ners not unworthy of his rank, and he severely from the ruinous diminution 



converses in tolerable French. His of freightage. Their process prevents 



brother has likewise applied for mis- mildow in flaxen and hempen canvas 



sionaries and mechanics to instruct his of evciy description: not only in 



people not only in religion, but in (be (ho'^e kinds of canvas which arc 



arts of civilized life. By these means whitened by bleaching, but the browner 



we may acquire some knowledge of the kinds are also secured by this process 



interior of that vast island, which is from mildew, whetlier in use or laid up 



now an utter blank in geography. It in store. An opportunity is thus given 



iserroneously stated in tlie newspapers of using with safety those kinds of 



(hat he is king over the Mhole island, brown canvas which, when made of 



but (bis is a mistake. It contains two good materials and evenly woven, are 



or three sovereignties and numberless stronger than the Coker canvas, and 



chiefs, who are in a great measure in- have been excluded from use on 



dependent. For some curious particu- board the superior cla<'s of ships 



lars of these people, we refer the reader solely from their liability to mildew, 



to the tenth number of the Journal of Messrs. Aikin, IJabington and Marcet, 



Voyages and Travels. certify in regard to the just principles 



A small volume has just been pub- of the preparations, while experiments 



lished, in which Kempelen's Aufoma- made in the Boyal Navy for several 



ton is proved to be an iinpos(ure. M. years, conducted by the orders of the 



Kenipelen was said to have invented an Navy Board under the care of their own 



automaton which moved entirely by olVicers on the coast of Africa, America 



machinery, yet was capable of playing and Newfoundland, amply prove the 



at chess, in such a manner that it never efficacy of Messrs. BrowelPstliscovery. 

 lost a game. This piece of mechanism A return to the llcuse of Commons, 



was first exhibited at Vienna; and states (he number of persons admitted 



afterwards made the tour of Europe, to view the British Museum, from the 



confounding and astonishing all Mho 27th of March, 1820, to the 2;)th of 



beheld it. \t is now proved to have March, 1821, at G2,.143. The days of 



been regulated by a person concealed public admission are, the Mondays, 



in its body, and who surveyed the Wednesdays, and Fridays, in every 



chess-board tbrougii a thin waistcoat, week ; when, between the hours of ten 



guiding the fingers of the automaton and two, visitors rre admitted imme- 



by sprmgs. diately upon their application. 



In the lately published transactions Mr. CoRNELirs Webb has in the 



of the Literary Irociely of Bombay is press a second small col led ion of Poems, 



an account of a surgical case, in which consistingof Summer; an Invocation to 



the loss of a portion of lione in the arm Sleep; Fairy Revels; and Songs and 



of an x\rab has been supplied through San.nets. 



tbe dexterity of a native surgeon, hy a, Mr, iv;,-n(. of (ilasgo\\, has iiwculed 

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