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ence, and the application of thefe to arts 
and manufactures. Pharmaceutical Che. 
miftry will form the fubjeét of fix Lec- 
tures to be given at the end of the Courfe. 
Thefe Le€tures will be delivered on the 
evenings of Mondays, Wednefdays, and 
Fridays, at eight o’clock, at No. 1,- 
They extend to four 
months ; the firtt Le&ture on Monday, 
gift O&ober, The fecond Courle is tobe 
conducted in a more popular manner, and 
to it ladies will be admitted. The firft 
Le&ure on Tuefday, 21ft November. 
This Courfe will occupy rather more than 
two months. 
A Tranflation will- appear insa few 
‘days of Mount Panfilippo ; or, a Manu- 
feript found at the Tomb of Virgil, a 
‘ govel from the French of F. L.C. Monr- 
yore, Author of the Hiftory of Four 
Spaniards. 
Love-letters in Verfe, to his Wife, by 
James WoopuHouss ; and alfo the Lite 
and Lucubrations of Crifpmus Scriblerus, 
collated trom his original MSS. by a 
Friend ; to be publifhed by fubfcription, 
in feveral volumes, are preparing for pub- 
‘lication. 
A gentleman whohas long conduéted an 
extenfive concern in the Birmingham trade, 
has in the prefs, a work intitled, ‘ Pra&ti- 
cal Englith Book-keeping, on a vontratt- 
ed Scale, intended for the ule.of Schools, 
with a copious Illuftration ofthe Nature 
of Profits and Difcounts.”’ 
Mr. Riuey, who has frequently gra- 
tified the public by his productions in the - 
fame line, purpofes to pubdlith fpeedily an 
elegant National Print, from the painting 
exhibited. in the Royal Academy by R. 
Corbould, Efq. painted for the purpofe 
of conveying to pofterity, in one faithful 
aflemblage, the portraits of thofe brave 
naval and military commanders, who, by 
their brijliant and giorious viétories, have 
fo immortally diftinguifhed themfelves, 
and fo nobly honoured the Britith flag, 
during the late war. The print has 
already been fix months in hand, and is 
the fize of the celebrated engraving of 
the death of General Wolfe. ~ The price 
to fubfcribers, wili be 11.18. proofs, 
2]. 28. 
Mr. Roperrtson, lately a furveyor in. 
Jamaica, in comptiance with the requeft 
of many of ‘his friends has opened a hift 
for fubfcribers to four Maps of that 
jfland, to confit of three maps of the 
three counties, on a large fcale; and 
alfo of a map of the whole ifland, on a 
fmalier fcale, making a complete fet of 
Varieties, Literary and Philofephical. 
(O&. 15. 
maps of Jamaica. In the county maps 
will be reprefented the fugar-e‘tates, with 
their names; and all other plantations 
and fettlements, of every delcription 
whatever, with the names.of their proprie- 
tors. The map of the whole ifland com- 
prifes all the eftates and fettlements, 
rivers, roads, &c.&c.and is a complete mi- 
litary map. In it will be delineated all 
the mountains and plains, bills and val- - 
lies, ridges and gullies, in a view which 
fuppofes the obferver to be fituated at fo 
great a height, that the furface of. the 
whole ifland, in all its variety, is at once 
prefented to the eye. The furvey of the 
ifland was performed purfuant to the or- 
ders, and by the authority of, the Hono. 
rable the Affembly ; of which thefe maps, 
after the moft careful examination, have 
re(pectively received unanimous approba- 
tion. Subfcribers’ names will be received 
by Mr, Fapen. — . 
Mr. Henery’s valuable Epitome of 
Chemiltry has been tranflated into the 
French language, and publithed at Paris. 
M. Lecuin has invented a new log, 
by means of which the way made by a 
fhip will be more eafily and more accu- 
rately obtained than by the common log- 
line. The new log is furnifhed with 
-wheel-work and an index: the former is 
put in motion by the water, and the 
latter fhews the way of the fhip, by the 
number of divifions it pafles over in a 
given time. The public is already in- 
debted to tiis gentleman for another me- 
chanical inftrument invented in the year 
1790, and approved by the Board of Lon- 
gitude at Amfterdam ; by which the ap- 
parent diftance of the center of the moon 
from that of the fun, is reduced to the 
true diftance, and confequently the caleu-. 
Jations for obtaining the longitude of a 
place are fimplified.—-See page 255, New 
Patents, 
It appears from the eftimates made by 
Mr.-RenwNik, of the expence of the exe- - 
cution of the intended London and Portf. 
mouth canal, and of its probable revenue ; 
that the cof will be 721,000]. and the an- 
nual revenue will exceed 100,000!. Sub. 
fcriptions are opened to raife 800,000]. 
in fhares of rool. each, and it is intended 
to apply to Parliament for an A& to 
carry the meafure into effect. ab 
Mr. Bevan, of. Leighton, Bedford-- 
fhire, has made a number of experiments 
with a view of afcertaining, the value — 
of different fleeps, in curing the faut in — 
wheat, and promoting its growth. The, 
following Table will thew the refult of 
trials, 
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