1797-) 
aéts on the fide-pin and brings it up to 
its place, while it acts by ftriking as before 
defcribed. ‘The teeth of the pinion, and 
of the rack, are calculated for the turns 
ef the fufee of different watches, and are 
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numbeted accordingly. The exercife of 
the patent has been affizned to Mr. 
Ifaac Courts, clock-maker, of Henly 
in Arden, and to Mr. William Bartlett, 
of Reddith. | : 

ViAo kT Eoab<! ES, 
LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*,%* Authentic Communications to this Article will always be thankfully received. 
R. Wiriram. NicHotson, well 
known for his various ufeful publi- 
cations on fubjeéts of experimental phi- 
lofophy, propofes to publith, monthly, a 
Journal. of Natural Philofophy, Che- 
miftry, and the Arts. It will be printed 
in quarto, at two fhillings and fixpence 
per number. 
Mr. WILBERFORCE, the Member 
for the County of York, has in the 
Prefs, a work on the prevailing religious 
fyftem of profeffed Chriftians among the 
higher orders, contrafted with real 
Chriftianity . , 
A tranflation of the. BARON DE 
WIMPFEN’s Voyage to St. Domingo, 
will appear in the courfe of a fortnighr. 
The original, although never printed, 
is faid to conta'n much information re- 
fpefling the real ftate of that devoted 
country. . 
Mr. ALEXANDER, Draft{man to the 
late Chinefe Embafly, will fpeedily pub- 
lith, in twelve numbers, a feries of Plates, 
on the Coftume of China, illuftrating the 
various dreffes, cuftoms, and ceremonies ; 
the civil, military, and naval archi- 
ve€ture, and other fubjects peculiar to 
that extraordinary empire. Hach num- 
ber will contain four coloured prints, on 
royal quarto paper, and four pages .of 
letter-prefs. 
Mr. ANDREWS, of Piccadilly, propofes 
to publifh an Hiftorical Atlas of Eneg- 
land,—Phyfical, Political, Civil, Eccle- 
fiaftical, &c. from the earlieft periods to 
the prefent time; with geographical and 
fcientific defcriptions, elucidatory of the 
Natural Hiftory, Antiquities, &c. of the 
kingdom. It is to confift of forty-eight 
Maps, and to be completed in about 
twenty-eight numbers, at 7s. 6d. each. 
The firft and fecend numbers are now 
publifhed. , 
@ Mr.C. F. Baptini, under the patro- 
nage of the Directors of the Bank of 
England, and of the principal Bankers 
in London, has announced a work, -by 
which he propofes to explain an art of 
his own invention, for detecting every 
fpecies of forgery or falfification in 
Writing. .He ‘flates, that ‘ by this 
criterion, a Bank-Note may be verified 
in an inftant, and that a genuine Note 
may be difcriminated from a forged one, 
with the fame facility that a guinea is 
weighed.” 
Mr. ApAms, of Fleet-ftreet,’ has 
made {ome confiderable improvements in 
Eleétrical Machines by an ingenious 
addition of Springs at the back of the 
Cufnion, which produce an equal and 
uniform preflure ; and by conftruéting 
his conductors on a principle fimilar to 
that which was pointed out in pages 111 
and 112, of the Firft Velume of this 
Work. 
Mr. JAMES SALMON, who was twelve 
years a refident in Rome, has announced 
a work, in two volumes o€tavo, under 
the title of Ancient and Modern Rome ; 
to contain Defcriptions of all the Edifices, 
and of the Cities and Towns in the en- 
virons of Rome, interfperfed with up- 
wards of 60 engravings, under. the 
direction of Mr. Byrne. 
‘The Spanifh Botanift, Cav aNILLEs, 
has publifhed, in three volumes, in folio, 
the Defcription, with Enegravyings, of 
Three Hundred Plants, collected in the 
neighbourhood of Madrid, and in the 
kingdoms of Valentiaand Mexico, among 
which are included feyenteen new, fpe- 
cies. | 
Ruizand Pavon have alfo publithed, 
at Madrid, Novorwin Generum Plantarum, 
Peruvianarum & Chilenfum Defcriptiones 
& Icones. This work, on feventeen large 
folio plates, exhibits one hundred and 
thirteen new {pecies. 
Proteflor Wax, of Copenhagen,. has 
juft printed. the third number of his 
Symobole Botanice, with twenty-five new 
plants. 
In a latefitting of the Lyceum of Arts, 
at Paris, Citizen Hawi, director of the 
inflitution for inftructing perfons dor 
blind, repeated fome experiments with 
his mechanic tablets, by means of which 
any two of hjs pupils can write what- 
ever they wifh on paper, and underftand 
each other. One of them recited a fable 
of his own compofition, which was much 
applauded. : 
A Correfpondent 




