442 
United Provinces, interfperfed with Anec- 
dotes and Obfervations, Hiftorical and 
Deferiptive ; comprifing a Tour through 
the Previnces, made in the Spring and 
Summer of 1802, embellithed with En- 
gravings. 
A great improvement in the coa- 
fruétion of lamps and reflectors, has lately 
geen made by Mr. NicuoLas Paut, of 
Geneva, who in conjunétion with Mr. 
SMETHURST, an eminent lamp-cont:ac- 
oP made a public experiment laft week, 
illuminating the upper part of New 
ll treet. Fifteen of the new lamps, 
with refleétors, were fubfituted in place 
of more than double tHat number of com- 
mon ones ; the effeét of which was, that 
the ftreet was enlightened with at leaft 
twice the ufual quantity. of light. This 
effet is produced, not by the ‘combuttion 
of an extra-quantity of cil, but by the 
feientific. conftruction of the apy paratus ; 
the lamp being for the frit time formed 
upon the princip! ‘es of the beft air-furnace, 
w hereby the whole of the combuitibie ma- 
terial employed is converted into light and 
heat, without fmoke; and this light is 
difributed, by means of the refleCtors, to 
thole fituations where it is required, in 
fuch a manner, that the frongeft and 
brightcft light is thrown to the greateit 
tanec. wrailit the milder is diftributed 
nearer at hand, and fome of the weakeit 
3s dire€ted underneath the lamp itieli, by 
this means equally enlightening the whole 
fpace required. 
Mr. Prartt’s clofing volume of the 
«¢ Gleanings” may be expected in the 
courfe of the next month. ~ 
On the 23d of December iaft, Mr."J. C. 
Walker, author of an Hiftorical Memoir 
on Itahan Tragedy, &c. &c. was unani- 
moufly elected an honorary member ci the 
Dublin Society 
The Committee of the Royal Inftitu- 
tion are pteparing to remove the ftigma 
which has fo long attached itieif to the 
metropolis by the want of a pubiic libra- 
ry ona grand and liberal fcalc. Nearly 
five thouland pounds are already fubferib- 
ec forthe purpofe, and that on would 
be doubled or trebled if it were needful. 
In cur next we will infert the plan at 
length. 
Specimens have juft been publithed of 
an entirely new art, denominated Polyau- 
tography, confifting of Impreffions taken © 
from original Drawings, made purpolely 
for the work. The drawing which is 
printed by means of this art, is madeon a 
fione, with a pen and a liquid reiembiimng 
Indian ink, or with a.compofition not un- 
Literary and Phila ophical Intelligence. 
[June t, 
like French or Italian chalk ; and bya fim- 
pie chemical procefs this fingle drawing — 
is rendered capable of yielding an indefi- 
nite number of impreffions, without ie 
interference of the graver or any other i 
firument whatever. Thus a drawing <a 
be multiplied, without lefing, even in the 
imalleft degree, that fpirit of freedom, and 
thofe nicer charatterific touches, which 
conftitute the great merit of an original 
defen, and which have ever diftinguifhed 
it from a copy. The inventor is a Mr. 
A ors Se wEF ELDER, a German, and the 
pateatee in this country is Mr. P. ANDRE, 
of Buckingham-fircet, Fitzroy- {quare. 
‘The age of Pi: r@ition has not paffed 
away!—-A Counr pz ROBAssOM:,’ 
refiding i in London, has circulated propo- 
fals for a fubfeription for Gold Rings, 
containing an exa¢t Imitation of a famous 
Labrador Stone, “ which’’ he fays, ** bears 
the precious refembiance of Louis XVI. 
The ftriking refemblance is perfeétly ma- 
nifeit 5 it has a wide fear on the neck, 
with the imprefiion of a drop of blood, as 
if Nature had taken pains to charaéterize ~ 
the manner in which the life of the bett of 
kings was terminated. The head of this 
unfortunate Monarch, of the brightett 
azure, is ornamented with a crown of the 
colour of the garnet, bordered by the hues 
of the rainbow, and decorated with a finall * 
filver plume, the whole on a moft bril- 
liar tly-thaded green and gold ground, 
which art w ball attempt in vain to imi- 
tate. If there be atreafure above all va- 
lue, it is furcly this; for the terreftrial 
globe might be fearciied to its inmoft re-. 
cefles without finding another production 
wherein Nature beret combined fo much 
fplendour with precifion to delineate fo 
precicus an object. This flone has been 
announced to be difpofed of by lottery at 
Fant hare on the Main for ten thoufand 
louis d’or: the drawing is to take place 
at Hamburgh in the canes of the month 
of September next.”? 11! 
We underftand that a French tranflation 
of Mr. WaLkEr’s Hiftorical Memo-rs of 
the Irifh Bards, is preparing for the prefs 
in Paris. 
We inferted in our Magazine, vol. xi. 
P- 259, ue communication of Dr. Mrt- 
CHILL, of New York, concerning the ef- 
fect oes excoriating apple-trees. A tree, 
peeled in the fummer of 1798, remained 
uninjured by the fucceeding winter, 
though a Seay fevere,one ; that another, 
which was ftripped in June 1799, had ~ 
Tcuiseals reproduced its bark before 
September, and bore a large crop of fruit. 
Our readers will be pleated to jearn the 
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