
97.) Varieties, Literary Intelligence, Sc. 383 
Mr. Cartwright propofes to apply 
tiles, fuch as are the leaft liable to be 
cracked by fire, in lieu of laths, reeds, 
or boards, in the making of the ceilings, © 
partitions, or floors of rooms. Each tile 
is tobe of fuch fize that it may be extend- 
ed from the centre of one joilt, {par, or 
fleeyer, to the centre of another, and. 
the intertices are to be accurately filled 
up with mortar, plafter-of-paris, fparg- 
ing, tempered brick, earth loam, or any 
other cement. The tiles are then to be 
plaflered over, and the room finifhed as 
in the ufual manner. 
Mr. ParisH’s COMBINATION. 
Mr, Joun Parisa, dyer, of Road in 
Somerietfhire, procured letters-patent, 
on the 31ft of October, for a method of 
rendering all kinds of woollen cloths, 
ftuffs, hats, &c. water-proof. 
To effe& his purpofe, he combines 
alluminous earth with the metallic parts 
of a fuperfaturated folution of tin, and the 
colouring particles of the refeda major ; 
he then mixes fuch a portion of this com- 
bination as the, fubftance requires, with 
water, that is, about fix degrees below a 
boiling heat, and immerfes the cloth in 
the mixture about half an hour, when 
it will have acquired a degree of impene- 
trability to moifture which will con- 
tinue while the cloth, &c. endures. 
Mr. EckHARDT’s Carpet-Loom. 
On the 4th of July, letters patent were 
granted to Mr. ANTHONY GEORGE 
ECKHARDT, of Charinyz-crofs, member ' 
of ihe Society of Haerlem, and of the 
Royal Society of, London, for an im- 
provernent in the Carpet-loom. 
Tn the carpet-looms hitherto ufed, no — 
more than “#ve: colours could be introduc- 
ed. Thefe were deemed infufficient co 
produce fufficient thade and yariety in 
the more expenfive carpets. In general, 
one colour has been diofed of for the 
ground, and two for the edging; only 
two, therefore, have remained for the 
inner ornaments. 
The great obliquity obferved in the 
manner of placing the benches, and their 
diftance afunder, made it impofiible for 
more than five of them to be introduced. 
Each of the bencties contained a bobbin 
with diferent coloured threads. ‘Vhe 
patentee has, however, added four addi- 
tional benches; and, by placing them 
clofer together, and by the aid of a 
bridze, fimilar to that of a violin, upon 
which the four threads of the four addi- 
tional benches are made to reft, the de- 
feét which has hitherto exifted, has been 
completely removed, and as many co- 
lours as can be withed for may now, 
therefore, be introduced into carpets. 
Wf ets A im ia 
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Including Notices of Yorks in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*..* Authentic Communications for this Article ave earneftly folicited from all our Friends. 
ELECT Sermons, never before print- 
ed; by the late Rev. W Enfield, 
LL.D. correéted for the prefs by him- 
felf, are now preparing for publication ; 
in three volumes oftavo. “The price to 
be one guinea in boards, to be paid on 
delivery. Subfcriprions (for the benefit 
of the widow) will be received by Mr. 
Johnfon, St. Paul’s Church-yard. 
The long expeéted work of Dr. WIL- 
LAN on Cutaneous Difeafes, which 
has been delayed on account of the difficul- 
ties attending the coloured plates, with 
which it is to be illuftrated, is now in 
fuch forwardnefs, that the firft order may 
be expected this month. 
A very important work on _pratti- 
cal education, by RicHarp LOVELL 
EpDGEWORTH, etq. of Edgeworth town, 
Ireland, in one large volume in quarto, is 
fo far advanced in the prefs, that its pub- 
lication may be expected in January or 
February. Mr. Edgeworth has been 
ailited in this work by his- daughter, 
Mis EpGEWORTH, author.of a valua- 
ble book for children, entitled. the Pa- 
rent’s Affifiant, in three {mall volumes. 
Mi‘fs Linwoon, of Leicefter, whofe 
excellent colleétion of her own piétures 
is well known to the nobility. and gen- 
try of the> midland counties, and to 
artifts in general, has cugaged, for the 
feafon, the rooms of fir. john Gallin:, 
in Hanover-fquare, in which fhe pro- 
pofes to gratify the public at large by 
an exhibition of thofe chefs d @uures of art 
which have hitherto been confined to a 
provincial circle. ; 
Mr. Alderman BoyDELL announces a 
defign to publifh, by fubfcription, five 
prints, from part of the colleétion of — 
pictures which he. fome time fince- libe- 
rally prefented to the corporation of the 
-city of London. The piétures from 
which 
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