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a machine, by whicli Iw. is enabled to 

 walk on tlie surface of the \vu(er with 

 perfect safety, at (he rate of three miles 

 an hour. On the '2lk\ of Ajjril, Mr. 

 Kent walked on the Mouklaud Canal, 

 at the rate of three miles in the hour, 

 in the presense of 20() persons. 



Mr. R. Locke, of North Molton, has 

 invented a machine for furrowing tlie 

 ijround, ada|»ted to every >pecies of soil 

 that will admit of t)lough culture. It 

 Avill furrow the groimil at any j;iven 

 depth, from an inch and a half io eicht 

 inches, and from five to eleven inches 

 in breaddi, and will turn the furiow 

 against hills of any declivity that will 

 admit a po\\er of action. 



An Englishman of the name of 

 Cochrane, has readied Irkutsk on foot, 

 on his road to America, by the north 

 oust promontory of Asia. On the I3th 

 ill September last, lie had trafelled 

 8,000 vcrsts, in 123 days, entirely on 

 foot, and sleeps in (he open aii\, and 

 wears nothing but nankeen breeclics. 



Mr. J. llAMAGE. of Aberdeen, has 

 constructed a 25 feet reflectliig tele- 

 scope, the largest except that of Sir W. 

 Herschel ever made. The s|)eculiim 

 is 2j fc<'t local length and l.> inches 

 diameter ; (he power from 50 to 1500, 

 and the mechanism by which the ob- 

 server and the ins(rumeut are moved, 

 is simple and well contrived. 



FRANCE. 



M. Pk^e, naturalist, and in the em- 



British Lcndution. 



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l)loy of the French government, has 

 made a tour of the island of Martinico, 

 as a pedestrian. His object was to be- 

 come acquainted with the diflcrent 

 soils, and to discover such as may be 

 adapted to the culture of foreign vege- 

 tables. IM. Joijuin.duiiug his residence 

 of more than ayear in Martinico, had (he 

 j)lauts, of which he lias given a descrip- 

 tion, brought to liim I>y (he negroes. 

 The plan pursue;! i.y iM. I'lee, thougli 

 more faiiguiug, vvill ju'ove more useful. 

 lie had numberless uiiiicuKics to sur- 

 mount in crossing moors wi(h which 

 the ishmd is intersected. His excursion 

 round the island lasted six wc(;ks. The 

 catalogue of valua!)le objects which he 

 collected, has been addi-essed to tlie 

 minister of the interior. 



I'he births in Paris last year amount- 

 ed (o 24.S.')S, of which 8S70 were na- 

 tural children. Of the deaths, in num- 

 ber 24,211, 140 men and 50 women 

 have been unowned suicides. 



ITALY. 



The Abbe RlAio, whose researches in 

 the Ambrosian Library at Milan, have 

 so much gratified the lovers ofgenuine 

 rarities in literature, continues his re- 

 searclies in the Vatican, and has lately 

 made some discoveries of lost classics, 

 and fragments of ancient literaluie, 

 which, as soon as published at Rome, we 

 shall hasten to submit to our readers, 

 not only in substance, but by various 

 fae-similes. 



BRITISH LEGISLATION, 



ACTS PASSED ill the FIRST YEAH of the 

 the SECdNU SESSION of the SEVENTH 



REIGN of GEORGE THE FOURTH, or in 

 PARLIAMENT of the UNITED KINGDOM. 



CAP. I. For enabling His Majesty to 

 vitiu-e provision for Her Majesty 

 the Q(«?t'».— February 23d, 1S2I. 



His Majesty empowered to grant an 

 Annuity of 50,0001. to the Queen ; to com- 

 ineiiee Jan. 5, 1820. (32,5001. the Money 

 accruiuii- to be paid on April 5, 1821; 

 afterwards annuity to be paid Quarterly. 



(^AP. II. To amend an Act^ of the 

 Fifty-eighth Year of His late Majesty^ 

 for more effectuuliy discovering the 

 Longilude at Sea, and encouraging 

 Attempts to find a Northern Passage 

 between the Atlantic andPacificOceans, 

 and to approach the Northern Pole. — 

 February 23d, 1821. 



The proportionate rewards directed to be 

 allowed by recited Act, pursuant to any 

 Order iu Council, shall be held to be parts 

 only of the several bum.'» of 20,00O-aiiJ 

 f.,()0(il. 



CAP. III. }i'ur C07itinuing to His 

 Majisty certain Duties on Malt^ Sugar, 

 Tobacco, and Snuff', Foreign SpiritSy 

 and Sweets, in Great Britain ; and on 

 Pensions, Offices, and Personal Es- 

 tates, in England ; for the Service of 

 the Year One thousand eight hundred' 

 and twenty-one. — February 23d, 1821. 



CAP. IV. For applying certain Mo- 

 nies therein mentioned for the Service 

 of the Year One thousand eight hun- 

 dred and ttcenty-one. — February 23d, 

 1821, 



CAP. V. To indemnify such Persons 

 in the United Kingdom as have omitted 

 to (jualify themselves for Offices and 

 Employments, and for extenditig the 

 Time limited for certain of those pur- 

 poses respectively, until the Twenty- 

 fifth Day tf March, One thousand 



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