460° 
Caesars on horseback; the figures ‘as 
Jarge as life. What is to be augured of 
this mysterious treasure is uncertain, as 
the present owner ‘professes himself 
bound by the injunction of a nobleman, 
not to show them to any one before his 
arrival in town, 
Another wonder (for this is the age of 
discoveries) is the following; a large 
picture of King Charles I. on horseback, 
which has for a long time hung disre- 
garded in the hall of the Middle Temple, 
having lately been cleaned, is declared 
by the picture-cleaner to bea very fine 
original by Vandyck, and it is conjec- 
tured, that, as James the Second was a 
member of the Middle ‘Temple, he was 
the donor of this valuable work to the 
Society. 
The gallery of the British Institution 
closed on Saturday, the 12th. of last 
month. The result of the assiduous la- 
bours of the students is highly creditable 
to them, and promises to render this part 
of the institution considerably service- 
able in the progress of the arts. The 
supposed Titian and Bramante, mention- 
ed ina former Retrospect, as unequal to 
7 
New Patents lately enrolled. 
[Dec. 1, 
the rest of the collection, have been judi« 
ciously left uncopied. ite oe 
Mr. Branscomb, of Newbury, bas late- 
ly finished a portrait of the horse Mame- 
luke, the property of Mr. Eastcourt, in 
a style which would not have disgraced 
the pencil of Stubbs. : > ofa 
South-west View of Gloucester Cathe- 
dral: dedicated, by permission, to the 
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Glouces- 
ter, and the Rev. the Dean and Chapter; 
by J. Buckler. Drawn and etched by J. 
Buckler ; engraved by G. Lewis, aqua 
tint. Size of the print, 24 by 17: inches ; 
plain, one guinea; coloured, one guinea 
aid a half. “Published and sold by Jv 
Buckler, No. 2, Spa Road, Bermondsey, 
Surrey ; to be had of Taylor, Architec- 
tural Library, Holborn ; and Smith, print- 
seller, Oxford, This print forms one of 
Mr. Buckler’s views of the British cathe- 
drals, and it 1s fully equal to the preced- 
ing ones. ‘This beautiful edifice is one of 
the most magnificent. specimens of the 
Gothic style of architecture in the world; 
the liyltness and luxariant richness of its 
superb tower being unquestionably with- 
out a rival. : 
a) 
NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED, 
| ER 
MR. JOHN warson’s (BURY-PLACT, 
BLOOMSBURY) for Jnprovementa in the 
Art of Socp-maling, 
FYER the soap has been formed, 
A or made in the usual manner, by 
boiling fat or oil with soap lees, or the 
solution of a considerably pure alkaline 
salt, and separated by the addition of 
common culinary salt, the patentee does 
not put the same into the forms, in order 
that 1t may become indurated for sale, 
but diffuses the same ina large quantity 
of pure water, withor without the assist- 
ance of heat, as may for the sake of ex- 
pedition be preterred. And heagain se- 
parates the said soap by the addition of 
common culinary salt, and repeats the 
“process of solution and separation a great 
number of times, i necessary. The 
chief intention of the said process is to 
xender the soap more perfectly neutral, 
by separating any uneombined alkali 
which may have subsisted in the first 
making, and also to throw up any un- 
combined oil, in case the boiling should 
not have beensearried~ to, the precise 
point which is needful for the formation 
of good soap.. And further, he makes 
uee of the saine process for purifying 
and perfectly neutralizing such soaps as 
have been already made and completed 
in the common way, by himself or other 
manufacturers ; in order to which it is 
convenient that the solid soap should be 
rasped or seraped, or dried and pulver- 
ized, or otherwise divided by mechani é 
means, for the purpose of expediting the 
diffusion and solution, or suspens 
ihe same'in the fluid. He’also n anus 
factures a soap of icone? 
closeness, and uniformity of texture, by 
the use and application of alcohol, or 
ardent spirit, as follows ; namely, he 
makes a pure soap, or purifies soap al- 
ready inade, by using the processes here- 
in before described; or in case the soap 
is sufficiently pure, he takes the same 
without farther preparation, and subdi- 
vides the same into shavings, or small 
portions, and makes a mixture of about 
oue part, by weight, of the spirits, and 
two parts, or thereabouts, of the pure 
soap, and causes the same to unite b 
moderate boiling, and in this state he 
pours the'same into moulds, to be divided 
into lengths, or squares, cakes, &c. for 
sale; and exposes the said lengths, 
squares, cakes, ec, in a fit place or apart- 
, “ment, 
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