498 Dr. Carey, onhis Invention fo rRelef of Ships in Distress. (Jan. By 
lity of the bills discounted, as real ones 
and payable at fixed and short periods. 
They could not much exceed the proper 
bounds in respect of the quantity and 
amount of bills discounted, so as thereby 
to produce an excess of their paper in. 
circulation, without quickly finding that 
the surplus returned upon themselves in 
Gemand for specie. ‘The private interest 
of the bank to guard themselves against 
a continued demand of that nature, was 
a sufficient protection for the public 
against any such excess of bank paper, 
as would occasion a material fall in the 
relative value of the circulating medium. 
We should do injustice to.our readers, 
and to the able authors of this valuable 
Report, if wecuriailedit farther ; we pro- 
pose, therefore, to finish it in the usual 
Supplementary Number, published on the 
15th of January. | 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
- , SER 
r AM happy in being able to satisfy the 
enquiries of your correspondent E, 
E. M., relative to a method of pre- 
paring pencil drawings so as fo pre- 
vent their becoming obscured, or the 
strength of their shades. lessened, by 
rubbing or exposure. The best known 
method (and which is in use by many 
artists) is to wash a solution of the best 
jsinglass in warm water, ail over the sur- 
face; to be of a gelatinous consistence 
when cold, but used warm, and applied 
with a soft brush, This will preserve 
them perfect, and at the same time im- 
prove their appearance. — Ris 
Some artists wash their sketches with 
milk, to prevent the effects complained 
of, which answers the purpose so far; 
but prevents all tinting, or any applica- 
tion of colour to them pasa a . 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR 
‘ SHALL be much obliged to any of 
your numerous correspondents who 
may be well acquainted wi 
whist, to answer the follow 
I have beard them much 
The rubber is usu® 
of five points: I w 
pose A.A. and 
A.A. win two double: ga 
one single, how many par 
got?) When A.A. win 
B.B. one double, how mi: 
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have got? And in the same manner, 
how many points A.A. get in the follow. 
ing instances: when A.A. win one dou- 
ble and one single, and B.B. one single; 
when A-A. win one double and one sin- 
gle, and B.B. ene double; when A.A. 
win two doubles, and B.B. one double; 
when A.A. win two singles, and BB. 
another single; when A.A. get two dou- 
bles, and B. B. none; and whea A.A, get 
two singles, and B.B. none: and whether, 
in any instance, it is possible for A.A. to 
get only one point. W HISTENSIS. 
——— : 
Lo the Editar of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
AVING observed in the pages of 
a # your Magazine,* that Captain 
Manby has lately exhibited an invention 
for the relief of ships in distress, by 
means of a ball and rope thrown from a 
mortar on shore; for which invention he 
has been rewarded by a parliamentary 
grant of two theusand pounds, I hope 
that, with your accustomed candour and 
impartiality, you will permit me to state, 
that, with the exception of a small and 
not necessary addition, the invention 
originated with ge, and was by me gra- 
tuitously communicated to the public 
above seven years ago, through the mes 
dium of the Monthly Magazine for 
November, 1803, in a letter signed with 
my name. 
Captain Manby’s addition to my in- 
vention, appears to be only a grapple, . 
which I consider as not necessary, for 
the following reasons: ist. If the ball do 
not exactly reach the ship, the grapple 
is wholly useless ; whereas, according to 
my original plan, if the ball and rope 
come any where near the ship, the crew 
may grapple them from on board, 2ly.If 
Captain Manby’s ball do reach the ship, 
in this case too the grapple is nearly 
useless, because, without 
people on board will, of 
sufficiently alert in catch 
the rope, as the means | 
At all events, Sir, 
Manby whatever 
hin for his addit 
has so fortuna 
parliamen 
that the i 
y Mag. for September, p. 154. 
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