PROSPECTUS 
OF THE 
EMPORIUM 
OF 
ARTS AND SCIENCES, 
{NEW SERIES.) 
THE Emporium hitherto published* having been relin* 
quished by its Editor and Publisher* I have undertaken 
to continue it under the same title ; and the public will of 
course expect that I should give some account of the plan 
on which it is meant hereafter to be conducted.. 
I do not see, at present, any material objection to the 
plan originally proposed by Dr. Coxe : for what more 
Useful work could the public desire, than one which 
should contain a judicious selection of practical papers 
on manufactures and the arts, from the more scarce and 
voluminous among the foreign publications, and a reposi- 
tory for original papers of the same description, furnish- 
ed by men of research in our country ? 
I had prepared a volume of papers on manufacturing 
processes, which the publishers of the present work were 
to have published separately, had not the new series of 
the Emporium been undertaken. The matter I had 
meant for that work, I shall now employ upon this ; and I 
will make, if I can, the Emporium a repository of pa- 
pers on manufactures, that shall be worth preserving* 
They will consist of a series of essays drawn up and ar- 
ranged by myself, but with the assistance of every thing 
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