136 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Oct. 



of the Emperor and Empress- 

 Dowager, the grandees and weal- 

 thy individuals study to contri- 

 bute to the progress of instruc- 

 tion, by donations, and very con- 

 siderable foundations. The Count 

 de SchouwalofF has given a sum 

 of 150,000 roubles for the forma- 

 tion of a Gymnasium at Moscow. 

 The Counsellor of the Mines, M. 

 Demidow, has given a sum of 

 100,000 roubles to the Univer- 

 sity of Moscow, and a similar 

 sum to the seminaries of KieiFand 

 Yarosloff. The Count de Sche- 

 remetjew has granted for the 

 foundation of an establishment 

 for poor persons, a fund of a 

 million and a half of roubles, and 

 another very considerable sum to 

 the University of Moscow. 

 JExtract of a Report upon the 

 state of the Islands of Scillu, 

 which has been made to the 

 Council of his Royal High- 

 ness the Prince of Wales and 

 Duke of Cornivall, by Ben- 

 jamin Tucker, Esq., the Sur- 

 veyor-General of the Duchy 

 of Cormvall. 



" I cannot conclude this Re- 

 " port, without entreating of the 

 " Council to direct their most 

 " serious attention to a subject 

 " of the highest import to these 

 " islands and to the empire at 

 •' large. In the former part I 

 ** have shown that the Trinity 

 *' Board receive a profit of full 

 " 3,000/. per annum from the 

 " light upon St. Agnes, without 

 " either the proprietor or his 

 " lessee deriving the least benefit 

 " therefrom. 



" In my fomcer report upon 

 *' the Scilly islands, I have shown 

 " (page 21) that the tide does 

 " not, under any circumstance of 



wind or weather, either at flood 

 or ebb, set upon any one of the 

 rocks, or islands, from the sea, 

 but forms a complete circle 

 round the group ; it is, there- 

 fore, scarcely possible that a 

 ship can be wrecked upon 

 Scilly, in her approach from 

 the westward, if she can have 

 the least intimation of danger 

 before she has actually struck 

 upon the rocks; which (as I 

 have stated in that report) was 

 proved by Sir George Byng, in 

 the Royal Anne, one of Sir 

 Cloudesley Shovel's fleet, who, 

 after the signal of danger had 

 been made, got some sail upon 

 his ship, and weathered the 

 islands ; and in like manner did 

 Lord Dursley succeed in saving 

 the St. George, even after she 

 had struck upon the same rock 

 with the Admiral: nevertheless, 

 what a feai'ful picture of cala- 

 mity and distress is exhibited 

 in the annexed list of vessels, 

 which have got entangled 

 amongst the western rocks, in 

 thick weather, when they have 

 not been able, at the distance 

 of between three and four miles 

 to see eitlier the land of the 

 islands by day, or the light 

 upon St. Agnes by night; it 

 however, happens, that the 

 westernmost rock, the Bishop 

 (see the Chart in former re- 

 port), which extends more 

 than a mile beyond all the rest 

 into the Western Ocean, as if 

 there placed by Providence for 

 the express purpose of receiv- 

 ing the first beacon to warn 

 the mariner of his approach to 

 the entrance of the British 

 Channel — it providentially hap- 

 pens, that that rock has a large 



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