ADVERTISEMENT. 
Er 
F Rom the commencement of this work, it has"been our aim to 
lay before our readers every thing new or curious in the objects 
embraced by our plan; and aided by the contributions of nu- 
merous respectable correspondents, to whom we are under many 
obligations, we have been enabled to present an instructive and 
useful miscellany. 
We have now to congratulate our readers on the cessation of 
war—the enemy of philosophical intercourse. For a long period 
jt has been with difficulty that even foreign Transactions and 
Journals could be obtained: indeed the publication of several 
of them had been entirely suspended. As to regular intercourse 
with the conductors of the continental periodical works, with 
many of whom we were years ago personally acquainted, and 
in habits of regular communication, it had, for a considerable 
time, entirely ceased. The return of peace has already renewed 
the correspondence; and without subjecting ourselves to the ime 
putation of boasting, we may be permitted to say, that the readers 
of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal will reap increased 
advantages from this source of information, as well as from the 
revived continental journals. , 
With the last number ‘of this volume two title-paged are 
given. It was intended to continue this practice, but on 
more mature consideration the plan has been altered. The re- 
ferences to future volumes could not, without confusion and the 
risque of many errors, be adapted to a two-fold numeration : 
and therefore, to bring The Philosophical Journal at once into 
series with The Philosophical Magazine, the extra title-page is 
adapted to serve for Vol, XXXVIJ. to XLIII. of The Journal jand 
those who are possessed of that work are requested to give di- 
rections to the binder to letter the back of the volume accord- 
ingly. When the present volume may be referred to in future 
numbers, it will be quoted as Vol. XLIII. 
Gentlemen whose sets of the Philosophical Magazine are de- 
fective, should make an early application for the numbers that 
may be wanting, as many of them are getting out of print. 
London, June 30, 1814. 
