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completion of fets, to accommodate thofe 

 •viho puvcliafed the two tirit volumes be- 

 fore the third v.as pablilhcd. 



Mr. Chillies K.ight, ot' Haminei-fmith, 

 whofe profollitmal abilities have been 

 ■long known to the public, has in great 

 forwiirdr.cfs an engisived portrait of the 

 late Lord Kelibn, as large as life, copied 

 froui the mar'iily buit prcfcntcd to the 

 City of Londju by tiie [louoin-able Mrs. 

 Duiiier, and now placed in the Council 

 Chamber at Guildhall. 



Subfcribcrs names fat one "uinea, to 

 Le paid on ddivcry of the print,) are 

 taken by l^Ir. Clarke, bookfeller, Bond- 

 ftrcct, and by ?'Ir. Ku'2;ht. 



The Lord Cha-ribcrlain, and feveral 

 other noble rerfoiuiiics who are on the 

 Committee for managinc; the Monument 

 to be erected to the memory of Lord Nel- 

 foi', laft month attended at St. Paul's, 

 with i\ir. Milne, the Mn-veyor, to airanee 

 the proper iituation for it to be erected 



in, and we have been ip.formed that th« 

 centre was the mod approved. 



Though the Marquis of Stafford has 

 left London for Stafford Ihi re, we are in- 

 formed that orders are left with the do- 

 mcftics to continue the weekly admilfion 

 of amateurs and perfons of diltinction un- 

 til the lalt Weduefday in this month in- 

 clufive. 



Mr. Cromek intends to publifh in the 

 courfe of the eniiiins; winter a feries of 

 twelve en«iravings, etched in a very fupe- 

 rior ftyle of excellence, by Louis Schiavo- 

 nctti, from the oriffinal inventions of Wil- 

 liam Blake, illuftrative of Blair's popular 

 poem " The Grave." In confequence of 

 the oricinality of the deli-^ns, and the vi- 

 gorous expreifion, the work has been ho- 

 noured with the patronage of the rirll pro- 

 feffors of art in the metropolis, and by 

 the fubfcriptions of upwards of 250 of 

 the moft diftinouiflied amateurs. 



VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical, 



Including Notices of Wgrks in Hand, Domejlic and Foreign. 

 \* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 



EARL Stanhope has juft printed at 

 the Itereotype office, lur private 

 circulation araoni; liis friend.s, a fniall 

 work entitled, Principles of the Science 

 of tuning Indruments with fixed Tones. 

 Among many other obfervations that feem 

 to merit the notice of munciaus, his 

 Lordlliip fays, " Muficians and tuners 

 are in the hubit of talking of the zcolf m 

 the fingular number. I fhall, liowever, 

 fliew in the fcquel that there are as ma- 

 ny as fve wolves, in the quints, and 

 major thirds, taken together, in all thofe 

 inllruments which l^ave exactly tv.elve , 

 fixed keys, or exatil^ twelve fixed tones 

 in each leptave." He then gives direc- 

 ^tions how to dilliriguilii tliefe fi\e wolves, 

 with a table founded on them : and adds, 

 " We have been in the habit of confider- 

 ing what is commonly termed the wolf 

 as an inherent imperfection in every in- 

 ■ilrument which has exactly twelve fixed 

 keys in each feptave, whereas it is clear- 

 ly proved, that, fp far from tlxe five 

 wolves being iinpcrfedtions, it is precifcly 

 the proper diftriliution of thofe wolves 

 w'hicji produces that charming and ef- 

 fcatiiii variety of chai-aCter, betvveea dif- 



ferent keys, which is one of the chief 

 requilites in a wcll-tnned inftrument." 

 His Lordfliip gives the follov.ing as the 

 peculiarities of what he calls the Stan- 

 hope monochord : — 1. The wire is not 

 made either of brafs or of iron, but of 

 fteel, which is very f;u- fnpcrior. For, 

 fleel wire does not keep continually 

 lengthening, as brafs and iron wires do 

 when they are fti-etched coiiCderably, 

 2, The wire in this monochord does not, 

 as ufual, pull downwards on the bridges, 

 but the v\ho!e wire forms oneilraight and 

 horizontal line, by wliich means the 

 moveable bridge, which determines the 

 exa/'t length of the wire, can be moved 

 without altering the tenfion of the wire. 

 This is not the cafe when the wire pulls 

 downwards on the bridges. 3, The ends 

 of the wire are not twilled round the 

 two Itout fteel pins which keep it ftretch- 

 ed ; but each end of the wire is foft-fol- 

 deicd in a long groove formed in a piece 

 of iicel which goes over its correfponding 

 pin. This is a great iinpiovement. 4, 

 One of thofe two fteel pins is ftrongly 

 faftcned on. a brafs fiidcr which is moved 

 by meanb of a ibraw with very fine 

 threads. 



