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go by default, has done signal service to the 
cause of truth. 
3. That, taking into consideration the per¬ 
sonal suft'erings he has undergone in his bar 
nishment from society in a distant goal 5 the 
expences incurred in the support of himself 
and printer, in their three years’ confinement, 
and the consequent difficulties to wliich he is 
now exposed j it is earnestly recommended to 
the friends of constitutional treedom, in 
whose cause the sacrifice has been made, to 
follow the example of the present meeting, 
and generously step forward to afford him 
that remuneration, which he appears to be so 
jnsdy entitled to. 
JVlr. Seppjkgs, the master shipwright 
of Chatham dock-yard, has discovered a 
new mode of constructing ships of war, 
hy which a considerable saving of oak- 
timber is effected, (from 100 to 150 large 
trees in a 74 gun ship) while additional 
strength and durability are obtained. 
The experiment has been made on the 
Tremendous, and has been found to an¬ 
swer most completely. She not only 
out-sailed the whole of the North sea 
squadron, hut stood several violent gales 
of wind without complaining, and con- 
t.mued a firm, dry, and wholesome, sliip 
during the wliole season. 
Pr. Adams’s spring course of Lectures 
en the Institutes and Practice of Me¬ 
dicine, will be commenced at his house, 
No. 17 , Hatton Garden, about the mid¬ 
dle of January, 1812. 
Dr. Clarke and Mr. Clarke will 
begin their spring course of Lectures on 
Monday, January 27. The Lectures are 
read evei'y day at the house of Mr. 
Clarke, No. 10, Upper John Street, 
Golden Square, from a quarter past ten 
o’clock in the morning till a quarter 
past eleven, for the convenience of stu¬ 
dents attending the hospitals. 
Dr. Sutton has nearly ready for the 
press, “Observations on the Injurious 
Etfects of Mercury, in various Diseases.” 
jMr. Rose lately stated in the House 
of Commons, that by the improved re¬ 
gulations of admission into the British 
Museum, 29,000 were admitted in a sea¬ 
son, instead of 15,000 as before; and 
with liberty to remain in any of the 
rooms as hmg as they pleased. 
The brain of the human subject is 
computed to weigli about one pound ; 
but a man died lately in Chelsea Hos¬ 
pital, apparently in full health, on open¬ 
ing whose skull, the brain was found 
to w'eigh Iflb. 
A printing-press has been constructed 
at Philadelphia, by a Mr, Wait, The 
distribution of the ink over the types, as 
well as the printing, is performed by cy¬ 
linders, which, with tlie tyinpan and 
frisket, are all operated by machinery, 
to which, motion may be given by a 
horse, steam, or water. The same power 
can work several presses. The only at¬ 
tention necessary, is that of a lad to 
each press to place and remove the 
sheets. 
Two young Persians are now in Lon¬ 
don for education. They are sons of 
the prime minister of Persia, and are 
finely grown sensible youths, about 
eighteen and sixteen. Tljey are accon^ 
panied by an Indian preceptor, and go¬ 
vernment has taken for them a house iti 
Half Moon-street, and directed that 
every respect and attention be paid to 
theiii. 
A patent chain foot-bridge, invented 
by Mr. John Palmer, of Shrewsbury, 
has been erected at the factory of Messrs, 
Marshal, Flutton, and Co, the width 
5 feet, heighth 30 feet, span in the clear 
37 feet. The chains are of w'roiighc 
iron, and five in number, on tliese are 
laid 19 cast-iron plates, forming the 
path-way. The balustrades are vvrought- 
irun, 3 feet 3 inches high. The materials 
having been prepared and brought to the 
spot, the bridge w'as erected by two men 
in 14 days; the total expence was 
8 OI. 8s. 
RUSSIA. 
The Russian Chancellor, Count Ro- 
MANzoFF, has caused to be printed at S'". 
Petersburg, at his owm expence, a col¬ 
lection of Charters and State Papers of 
the Empire, from the remotest periods of 
the monarchy. 
Ill the course of last August there left 
Asiatic Russia, for Koulgi, the frontier 
town of China, a caravan of merchan¬ 
dise, in value 30,200 rubles, laden on 
sixty-six horses, and a second caravan 
was in preparation. The traffic witR 
China, in this direction, began in 1303, 
they succeeded in carrying safely goods 
to the amount of 25 000 rubles. The 
Chinese city of Koutscha, w'ith some 
other Chinese forts and establishments, 
form a line at the ftot of Mount Tara- 
bagatay, extending to Little Buckharia, 
along the limits of the kingdom of Kou- 
taisclia, which was conquered by the 
Emperor of China, about the year 1750. 
FRANCE. 
The French minister of the interior 
lately addressed the following letrer to 
M. Appert, author of a work on the Art 
of 
