
.dars. 
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, interefting experiments introduced, and 
the whole calculated to give an idea of 
thofe fubjeéts to thofe who have not had 
leifure or cpportunity for inveftigating 
them, and to fefrefh the memories of 
thofe who have. It is intended iikewife 
as introductory to the f{cientific courfe. 
The third is a popular courfe on che- 
miftry ; which takes up, for the firft part 
of the {feffion, one evening; and in the 
latter part, two evenings every week. In 
this courfe, the principles of chemiftry, 
with its application to the arts and do- 
meftic economy, are pointed out, and il- 
luftrated by experiments*. | 
Befides thefe courfes, during the fum-. 
mer, I give a fhort courfe on botany, and 
the theory of agriculture; and the next. 
winter, I propofe a courfe on the philofo- 
phy of natural hiftory: the following out- 
line of which has been laid before the ma- 
nagers. 
The courfe is to begin with a general 
view. of the univerfe, in which I thall de- 
{cribe the different nebulz, or fyftems of 
fixed ftars, and point out the probability 
of their being funs, round which different. 
worlds revolve. We fhall next fix our 
attention on one. of them, our fun, and 
fhali examine the different plamets which 
revoive round it, with the various pheno- 
mena which they exhibit; and fhall then 
confine ourfelves, through the remainder 
of the courfe, to the planet on which we 
are placed, and in which we are moft in- 
terelted. We fhall firft examine the dif- 
ferent theories concerning its formation, 
the changes which it appears to have un- 
derzcne trom volcanic fires, and the waters 
of the ocean: this will give an opportu- 
nity of introducing tome interefting fa&s 
on mineralogy, on exifting and extiné 
volcanos, and coilleétions of bafaltic pil- 
After this we fhall examine the at- 
moiphere which furrounds the earth, and 
point out its mott ftiriking properties, both | 
chemical and mechanical; and fhall then 
deferibe the feveral changes this fluid un- 
dergoes from winds, thunder, &c, and 
give an account of the formation of mifts, 
clouds, rivers, and Jakes. 
. Wre thall next take a view of the dif- 
ferent living beings on the furface of the 
earta; and firft, of man, in-which we fhall 
trace his pregrefs from infancy to old 
age, the unfolding oi reafon, the faculty 
called inflinét, &c. Next will follow 2 
re eee 

* T have printed a text-book for this courfe, 
under the title of ‘* Outlines of a Courfe of 
Lectures on Chemiftry ;” which is foid p# 
Cadell and Davies, Londgn. 
Dr. Garnett’s Account of his Leétures. 
[ November, 
view of the philofophy of living matter, ~ 
with a general outline of phyfiology; the 
_effe&ts of different climates on the colour 
of the human fpecies; the progrefs of mar 
in fociety from rudenefs to refinement. 
After this, will be pointed out the moft - 
remarkable particulars with refpect to 
other animals, fuch as their modes of life, 
migration, &c. The courfe will be con- 
cluded with a view of the vegetable king- 
dom, or the philofophy of botany, with 
the theory of agriculture and gardening. ~ 
—=P 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . % 
N anfwer to the queftion of your corre- 
fpondent M. J. whofe cafe I lament, 
as he ftates that he has been obliged, by 
the Commiffioners of the (Surry, I pre- 
fume) Court of Requefts, to pay the ex- 
travagant demand of an impertinent fer- 
vant—His faid cale I confider as a de- 
{perate one; for, being well acquainted 
with thofe tribunals, I can aflure him, 
that the judgment of the commiffioners is 
final; and conifequently it is impoffible 
for him to appeal to one that is fuperior. 
At the fame time I muft obierve, that the 
commiffioners are, as all magiftrates ought: 
to be, liable to perfonal a&tions, fhould 
they have fo far forgotten the félemn obli- 
gation of their oaths, as to have ftepped 
beyond the correét line of their duty, and, 
either wilfully or malicioufiy, aéted ille- 
gally or corruptly. . 
Of all the petty litigation that comes 
before the commiufiioners, there is, perhaps, 
none that gives them fo much trouble as 
the continual difputes arifing betwixt 
mafters, miftrefles, male and female fer- 
vants; and, it is but fair to ftate, that 
there is generally in the two former 
grounds to complain againit the two latter 
claffes of fociety. Moralifts muft attri- 
bute- their behaviour to the licentioufnefs- 
of the times; but I have never obferved 
that the commiffioners have made any al- 
lowance for the depravity of the age, and 
the effeét which bad example may have 
upon the mind, and confequently manners 
of thofe fervants that have appealed to 
them; on the contrary, they have always 
taken the character and behaviour of fuelt 
perfons into coniideration, and have never 
fuffered them to have the advantage of 
their own wrong, or to make imperti- 
netice and irregularity of conduct the in- 
fixuments of litigious extortion. 
With refpe&t. to the original of the 
Courts of Confeience, now fo numerous 
in this kingdem, they unqueftionably in 
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