LONDON. 



lefturcron chcmiftry, have conferred no fmall degree of cc- and Imperial academies of BrufFels, Li/bon, Sec. and a long- 



lebrity on this eftabiilhment, while they will not improbably lifl of private individuals, too numerous to be particularized- 



be the means of effecting a complete chaniJC in our views of The va(l variety of articles uliich this mufeum contains its 



chemical analyfis. (See Koxal Injlilution.) The Lon- extent and value, entitle it to be confidered equal to any in the 



don Inftitution, as well as the Surrey IniHtution, embrace world. Under the word Musrim will be given further 



(imilar objefts to the one preceding. The former was particulars of this national repofitory ; in the mean time the 



founded in l8oj, and the latter in 1808. Both have e>:- reader is referred to a "Synopfis'of the Contents of the 



tenfive libraries and reading rooms, furnifhed with many of Britilh Mufeum," 8vo. i8cS; and to a quarto work of 



the foreign and domeliic journals and other periodical works, 

 together with the bed pamphlets and new publications. 

 The views of the Rulfel Inllitutiou are the formation of an 



" Engravings from the Gallery of Antiquities in the Britirti 

 Mufeum," by Mr. Taylor, Combe, and Mr. Alexander. 

 J'li'.s very handfome and intcrcfting work is now in the pro- 



extenfive library, confiding of the mod valuable books in grefs of publication, and is very creditable to the trultecs 



ancient and modern .literature, to be circulated ainong the 

 proprietors, the delivery of leClures on literary and fcicntilic 

 fubjedls, and the cftablilhnient of a reading room. In Grediam 

 college, founded by fir Thomas Grediam, le(fti:res are de- 

 livered gratis twice a day during the terms, on divinity, law, 

 phyfic, adronomy, geometry, mufic, and rhetoric. As it hap- 

 pens in all inftitutions on a fimilar plan, the lefturers, having 

 no dimulus to exertion, conlider their duty as a mere matter 

 of routine, and are confequently ill attended. Some idea is 



who have commenced it, and to the draftfman and author 

 by whom it is chiefly executed. 



Public Juices and Pnfnns. — The general tendency of the 

 preceding ftatements only fliew the bed and mod intereftin"- 

 features of the metropolis. It is our duty alfo to dep.'S 

 its vices ; and to fliew the numerous places that are fet apart 

 for the ])unidiment of crin:!es. In Colquhoun's work on 

 " the ;)olice of the metropolis," is fuch a deplorable dif- 

 play ot profligacy and criminality, that an inexperienced 



entertained of transferring them and the funds to the London reader, who knew London only tii'rough the medium of this 

 Inditution, where it is hoped they may be more efficient, publication, would conclude that its inhabitants were modly 

 and anfwer belterthe defign of the benevolent founder. The compofed of vagabonds, (harpers, pickpockets, and profti- 

 Britifli Mineralogical Society was edablidicd in 1799, for the tutes. It diould be remembered, however, that the work 

 exprefs purpofe of examining'gratuitoufly the cwmpofition is chiefly devoted to this fubjeft ; and that, amidd fo vad a 

 of all fpecimens of minerals and foils, lent for that purpofe population, and where there are fo many opportunities for 

 by the owners of mines, agricalturalidf, or others intereded in rogues to practife their depredations, and fcreen themfelves 

 the enquiry. The feience of entomology will probably be from detedtion, it is not furprifing that fo many are collected 

 much forwarded by the inditution of the Entomological together, and that out of a great number fo few are brought to 

 Society, which took place in 1 806, and which chiefly directs condign punifliment. To this great hive of human focietv 

 its attention to the iiivedigation of the properties of fuch in- tlie mod vicious, and alfo the mod learned refort, as the 

 feiis as are natives of the united kingdoms. The London bed place for action and exertion. The worthy magidrate 

 Architectural Society has publillied a volume of ElTays, already named, has enumerated and dcfcribed eighteen dif- 

 8vo. 1S08 : alfo-an ElTay on the Doric order. The Horti- ferent clafies of cheats and fwindlers who infelt the me- 

 cukural fociety was founded in 1S04. A Geological tropoli.';, and prey upon the honed and unwary: befides 

 Society is edablidied by fome fcientiiic gentlemen in Lin- perfons who live by gambling, coining, houfebreakino-, rob- 

 coln's-inn-Fields ; they have recently publillied an intered- bery, and thofe who plunder on the river. He deduces tTje 

 ing volume of their tranfactions. Before we quit thele in- origin of mod of the crimes from alehoufes, bad education of 

 ftitutions it may be proper to remark, that the number and apprentices, fcrvants out of place, .lews, receivers of llolen 

 variety of lectures that have been read in them mud have goods, pawnbrokers, low gaming-houfes, fmugc'hnff, aflb- 

 proved ber-.ciicial to feience ; by exciting inquiry, and in- ciations in prifons, and prevalence of proditution. No lefs 

 vedigating tacts by experiniLUt. Till thele indituiions were than 50,000 prollitutes are fuppofed to live in the metro- 

 edabliflted, there were but few public lectures given in Lon- polls. An amazing number, and a didreffi.no- circum- 

 don; fuch, however, liave been the indigence and effect of them, llance to contemplate: for it is prefumed that eii^ht- 

 that during the winter of i8il-l2, it may be aflerted that tenths of thele die prematurely of difeafe and in wretched- 

 no iefs than fourteen courles have been given at the Royal, nefs, having previoufly corrupted and contaminated twice 

 RuiTel, and Surrey Inditutions. We fubjoin the names of the their own number of young girls and young men. The 

 principal profeffors : Dr. Davy, Dr. Roget, Dr. Crotch, following is a lilt of the public prifons. 



J. M. Good, efq , Geo. John Singer, cfq., Dr. Shaw, F.Ac- i. Newgate, being the city and county goal for debtors, 

 cum, efq., Sim. Wediey, efq., Mr. Hardie, Robert Bake- felon.s, libellers, and other offenders againlt government. Sec 

 well, elq.. Dr. Brandc, James Quin, efq., John Pond, efq., Newga IE 



and Wm. Hailitt, efq. 2. Giltfpur-ftreet Compter was ereftcd in 1791, for 



The Britilh Mufeum, fituatcd m Great RufTel-ftreet, is a debtors, felons, and perfons committed for mifdemeanor.';. 

 grandnationaldepofitoryof antiquities, MSS. and books, with It is fituated near Newgate, and is a large, commodious 

 various natural and artiScialcurioiities. It was eftabliflied by building. 



aftof parliaT.ent in 17J3, in conl'equence of fir Hans Sloane 3. Ludgate, adjoining to the lad mentioned, is appro, 

 having left, by will, his mufeum to the nation, on condition priated only to debtors who are freemen of the city of Lon- 

 that parliament paid 20, coo/, to his executors, and purchafed don, clergymen, proCtors, or attornies. 

 a houfe fufficiently commodious for its reception. Since 4. The Poultry Compter is chiefly for debtors. It is 

 that period many valuable collcdtions of manufcripts, books, fituated near the ^Ianl^on-lloufe,and has one ward fet apart for 

 &c. have, at different times, been added to the Sloanean, be- Jews : the only prifon in England tliat has fuch a provifion. 

 fides ii'.numerable prefents from our own monarchs, foreign 5. The Fleet Prifon is for debtors, and for fuch perfons 

 princes, the bijjards of Admiralty and Longitude, the Eaft as are committed for contempt of the courts of chancerv. 

 India Company, the various literary focieties of London, 6. The Savoy Prifon, in the Strand, is c.xclulively de- 

 Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge, and Leydcn, the Royal voted to dd'erters and military deliiic^uents. 



7. The 



