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meditating on the errors of his predecef- 
fors ; and, with the heroifm which fnould 
animate all great efforts, he will be taught: 
to love that art from which fometimes he 
turns away in defpair, but oftener em- 
braces with enthufiafm. Inftructive to 
the artift, how delightful would this 
work become to thole who feck to be 
initiated im the arts, and in the ftrength 
of the human character. 
.*,% Mr. Puriiies the Proprietor of 
the Monthly Magazine, bas been entou- 
_ raged by many literary Gentlemen of the 
Sift relpectibility, whofe affifiunce cannot fail 
to fecure ibe credit and fucce/s of the under= 
taking, to avail bimjelf of is various 
. feurces of information, and to attempt the 
annual publication of A NECROLOGY, 
on the plan aad in the manner which have 
been fuggcfed in the preceding pages, by 
his intelligent covrefpordent, 
The krench Necrologue was confined to 
French men, and thofe chiefly of titerary 
characters. It is propofed, however, io extend 
a 
An Annual Biographyu..New Patents. 
[ Nove 
the Engli/b_Necrolozy to the natives of every 
civilized country; and to inivoduce into it 
the Biographical Productions and Curiofi- 
ties woich may appear, from time to time, 
in every language, 2 
To affif? ihis very important and intereft- 
ing defign, the EDITORS, with great re- 
Spee and deference, folicit the aid and cor- 
rejpondence of literary men in general; and 
they call, in| particular, upon Friends and 
Relatives, to communicate all the fa&is whicb 
may be neceffary to give value and accuracy 
to the notice of the Lives, and ibe illufiration 
of the Charaéters, of eminent Perfons re- 
cently decealed. | 
It is conceived, at prefent, that edeh of tbe 
volumes may be conventenily exicnded, by 
iuterefiing and valuable materals, to about 
£00, 600, or 700 pages, 1” odiauo. 
Communications, propolal: of afifrance,Sc. 
hould be addreffed to Mr. Philips, No. 71, - 
: i. 71, 
St. Paul's Church-yard, for the ufe af ibe 
Editors of tbe Necrology, any time befere 
the fut of February next. 2 

THE NEW 
> 
PATENTS, 
EFurolicd in Otober and November. 
This Article will, in futire, be confiderably enlarged and improved, under the Condu 
of a Gentleman of dyiinguifoed Eminence in the Coemical and Philofophical World. 
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Watts’s DRAINING IMPLEMENT. 
N the nineteenth of O&ober, Mr. 
Harry Watts, of Binley, in. 
the county of Warwick, obtained letters- 
patent for the invention of an impiement 
for draining, or foughing, wet lands. 
The principle of this invention con- 
fifts in the patentee’s mode of forming 
a fort of fubterraneous channels, cavities, 
foughs, or drains, trom every part of 
the ground to be drained, which channels 
run into a principal drain, or ditch, cut 
by the hand in the ufual way. Thefe 
fubterrancous channels he forms by 
means of a particular fpecies of fhare, 
foot, or wedge, affixed to‘a fort of plough, 
which is drawn by horfes in the ufual 
way- 
-In the beam of the plough 1s fixed a 
perpendicular or vertical plate of iron, 
about 24 inches long, called, from its 
fharp fteel edge, the cutter. To the 
bottom of this cutter is affixed a folid 
wedge, or foot, or foare, of cait fteel, or 
wrought-iron, 12 inches in length, 2 to 
3 inches thick, and 2% to’3% inches deep 
at the bafe, and terminating in a fharp 
t 
point. This wedge, before the plough is 
put in motion by the horfes, is intro- 
duced into the ground as deep as may 
appear to be neceflary; and, by its paflage 
under the fuiface, it forms the fubter- 
raneous channels or foughs which carry 
off the moifture to the main or principal 
drain. 
To leffen the refiftance formed againft 
the fharp edges of the cutter and wedge, 
in their paflage through fiff foils, a cir- 
cular or rolling cutter may be affixed im- 
mediately before the perpendicular cute 
ter ; or any other {pecies of fhorter per- 
pendicular cutter, may be affixed -im- 
mediately before the longer principal 
cutter, atthe pleafure of the maker. 

Mr. CaRTtTWRIGHT’s APPLICATION 
OF {Tr Besiak' s ; 
Letters-patent were granted, on the 
eleventh of Qétober, to the Rev. E. 
CarTwriGHtT,M.A.of Mary-le-bonne, 
) 
in the county of Middlefex, for a new 
application of a cheap and incombuftible 
fubftitute for any materials commonly © 
ufed in the fecuring of buildings from © 
fire. r 
Mr. 

