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Speedily will he publLsIicd, the Faith 

 once Deliveicil to the Saints defended, 

 bfCini; the suhstaiice of three Sermons 

 on tlic consistency, truth, and iinpor- 

 ^tance, of the generally received opinion 

 concerning tiie person of Clirist, by 

 William France. 



We nnderstand tiiat Mr. Perkins 

 Las invented a new steam-engine, on 

 a newly-discovered property in steam, 

 by which more tlian seven-eightiis of 

 the fuel and weiglit of ensiiiio may be 

 saved. Mr. P. has constructed a 

 small one, with a cylinder two inches 

 in diameter, and a stroke of twelve 

 inches, which has the power of seven 

 horses. We hojte to give tlie further 

 particulars of this interesting and im- 

 portant invention in an early Num- 

 ber. 



The town of Halifax is now lighted 

 by gas on Mr. Grafton's new system, 

 by which the ntiisance from the tar 

 and annnonia, hitlierto so great in 

 gas works, is entirely remedied. This 

 great object has been efl'ected by the 

 fabrication of a clay composition for 

 retorts, on a peculiar plan, instead of 

 iron, which only partially carbonizes 

 the coal. 



Mr. J. SiMco, of Air-street, Picca- 

 dilly, has the following curious articles: 

 — Dell Arcano Dell Mare di D. Roberto 

 Diidlco, Duca di Northumhn<e e Conte 

 di Warwick, 2 tomes, folio, with many 

 curious plates: Firenze, 16-17. The 

 author was tlie natural son of Ro- 

 bert, the famous Earl of Leicester, 

 by Douglas Howard, daughter of 

 Lord Elfinghain; he had a great turn 

 for naval affairs. The plates are said 

 to be admirable for that period. In 

 the fifth volume of the " Biographia 

 Britannica" is a particular account of 

 the author; and, at page 473, an ac- 

 count of this book by Dr. Kippis : be 

 says he never saw a copy of it in any 

 Catalogue. — Also, the History of St. 

 Allans Abbey, published by the Anti- 

 quarian Society, illustrated with all 

 the different views published of it, and 

 drawings of the monuments and coats- 

 of-arms on the ceiling, also drawings 

 of the other churches, moiiuiients, and 

 painted glass windows ; as also the 

 monuments in Dunstable Priory 

 church, very finely executed, by an 

 artist who has been dead some years, 

 elegantly bound in russia, an atlas 

 folio. 



The following appropriate inscrip- 

 tion, upon a liandsonie monument, has 

 recently been erected in the chancel 



[March I, 



of Tunbridgc Church, to the memory 

 of that distinguished character. Dr. 

 VicEsiMUS Knox, the dauntless foe of 

 despotism, the reformer of the univer- 

 sities, and the preacher of peace : — 

 To the Memory of 

 ViCESiMUs Knox, d.d. 

 Master of Tuiibridge School, 

 and Rector of Rimwell and Karasdeo 

 Grays, in Essex. 

 Born Dec. 8, 175'2 : died Sept. 6, 1821. 

 A sound divine, 

 a polished and powerfnl writer, 

 an elegant and profoimd scholar, 

 a zealous, eloquent, an (I persuasive preacher 

 of the Gospel; 

 be employed his high endowments 



TO THE GLORY OV GoD, 



and the moral and intellectual improve- 

 ment of MAN. 

 Anxious ever to advance the happiness of 



his fellow-creatures, 



up on the purest principles of Christian 



philanthropy, 



with a lofty spirit of independence, 



and a rare disinterestedness in conduct, 



he disregarded the ordinary objects of 



worldly ambition, 



and showed himself, on all occasions, 



the enemy of pisblic abuses, 



the friend of civil and religions liberty, 



the opponent of offensive war, 



the promoter of peace, 



and the advocate of all the claims of 



humanity. 



"//f, being dead,— yd speakdh." 



Speedily will be published, an His- 

 torical Lssay upon the Art of Painting 

 on Glass, from its earliest introduction 

 into England by Cimabuc to the pre- 

 sent day. In which ^^ilI be described, 

 seriatim, the hei-al.dic cmblazonings 

 and portraits npon the principal paint- 

 ed windows in Fontliill Abbey, with 

 an engraving representing the southern 

 oriel in St. Michael's Gallery: the pro- 

 per absence of Grecian and Roman 

 sculpture in that princely mansion will 

 also come under consideration. Back- 

 ler's painted wiiidow for the Duke of 

 Norfolk, that in (he library of Sir 

 Richard Colt Hoare, bart. at Slour- 

 head, some of the tasteful^ perform- 

 ances of those ingenious artists, the 

 Pearsons and others, will receive every 

 attention: together with remarks on 

 historical painting in^oil ;'_by T. Adams,. 

 jun. Shaftesbury. 



The Christian Philosopher, or the 

 Connexion of Science with Religion, 

 is preparing for the press, by T. Dick, 

 author of a variety of literary and 

 scientific communications in this Ma- 

 gazine, Nicholson's " Philosophical 

 Journal," Thomson's " Annals of Ph'- 

 1 losophy'" 



