1809.] 
preparatory exercises in scanning; it con- 
tains practical exercises in versification, 
progressively accommodated to the 
various capacities of youth, in the suc- 
cessive stages of scholastic education ; 
the whole calculated to produce correct- 
ness of ear, and taste in reading or wri- 
ting poetry.——For the convenience of 
teachers, a Key to the Exercises will be 
added. Dr. Carey is also preparing for 
the press, an Easy Introduction to Latin 
Versification, on a nearly similar plan. 
Letters of Mrs, Fx1zanerH Montacu, 
with some of the letters of her corre- 
spondents, will shortly be published by 
Martrrew Monrtacu, esq. M.P. her ne- 
phew and executor. 
The Travels of Lycurgus, the son of Po- 
lydectes, ito Greece, Crete and Egypt 
in Search of Knowledge, is printing. 
The Rev. Tuomas Gisporne_ has in 
the press, an octavo volume of Sermons, 
chiefly designed to illustrate Christian 
Morality. ioe 
Dr, Epwarp Poprnam, of Chilton, 
Wiltshire, has nearly ready for publica- 
tion, Remarks on various Texts of Scrip- 
ture, in an octavo volume. 7 __ 
A Series of Letters on Canada, will 
shortly appear from the pen of a gentle- 
man lately resident some years in that 
country, 
Mr. Graname, author of the Sabbath, 
aud other Poems, has in the press a new 
poetical work, to be entitled, The Bri- 
tish Georgics. 
Ata general meeting of the subscribers 
to the African Institution, held at the 
Freemason’s Tavern on the 25th of 
March, the Eanzt of Morra, in an im- 
pressive speech, informed the company of 
his ; aging recently learnt, that Sir Sidney 
Smith had been presented by the Prince 
Regent of Brazil,with an estate, and with 
a number of negro slaves, to be employed 
in cultivating it; and that the use which 
he had made of this gift, was immediatel; 
to liberate the slaves, and to allot co each 
of them a portion of this estate, to becul- 
tivated by them as free laborers for their 
own exclusive benefit. Othe motion of 
Mr.. Wilberforce, it was unawimously re-- 
solved: that his Royal Llighness the 
Duke of Gloucester (patron and .presi- 
dent) be requested to communicate to Sir 
Sidney Smith the high sense entertained 
by this meeting, of his admirable judg- 
ment and liberality in the above instance, 
and to return him thanks for a line of con- 
duct which is so truly honorable to the 
British name and character, aud which 
Montuiy Mac. 184. 
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377 
may be expected to be productive, by the 
way of example, of the happiest effects. 
Tn the year 1774, the Rev. W. Hetu- 
‘erincton enabled the governors of 
Christ’s Hospital, London, to pay annui-' 
ties of 101. each to 50. blind persons. 
“Other benevolent individuals have since 
made such additions to this fund, that 
the governors are now enabled to extend 
this annuity to four hundred other per- 
sons. ‘The governors have recently ad- 
_vertised, that from the 15th of October to 
the 3d of November, in every year, they 
are ready to issue from the counting- 
house of their hospital, upon the applica- 
tion of a friend, petitions for any blind 
persons duly qualified; the great extent 
of the charity rendering it impracticable 
to attend to letters. The petitioners 
must be persons born in England, to the 
exclusion of Wales and Berwick upon- 
Tweed, aged fifty or upwards; who have 
resided three years or more in their 
present abode; who have been totaily 
blind during that period; who have never 
begged, nor received alms, nor been 
deemed objects of parochial relief; but 
persons who have been reputably brought 
up, and who need some addition to whaé 
they have, to make life more comforta- 
ble. 
Mr. Parxtnson has discovered in se. 
veral species of marble, which he treated 
with muriatic or nitric acid, membraneous 
substances, which hung from the marble 
in light, flocculent, elastic membranes. 
These marbles were of a species formed 
by tubipores, madrepores, and corallites. 
‘In Kilkenny marble, the structure of the 
madrepores, and other testaceous sub- 
stances which enter into its composition, 
is beautifully-conspicious, from the 
ground of the marble in which they are 
imbedded being of a deep black. This 
circumstance, in Mr. Parkinson’s opinion, 
proves that two distinct lapidifying pros- ~ 
cesses must have occurred in the for- 
mation of this marble; and that its coral- 
line or testaceous part had acquired a 
strong concretion previous to its being 
unbedded in the including mass of cal- 
careous matter. A specimen of this 
marble; which Mr. Parkinson examined, 
in conformity with this opinion, exhibited 
no membranes when treated with die | 
luted muriatic acid; but a black matter 
was deposited during the solution of the 
marble, which being dried and projected 
on melted nitre, immediately deflagrateds; 
which circumstance shews the curious 
fact, that charcoal in substance entered 
, inte 
