threw it about his neck; 
\ 
a 
in its progress, that the most enthusiastic 
admirer of this interesting county will 
rot be disappointed, 
Mr. PRavrr is in great forwardness 
with his Poem called the Lower World, 
occasioned by the Speech GP Lond tere: 
kine in the Llouse of Peers on the read- 
tug oF the Bill for preventing wanton and 
wutiions. Cruelt¥ to Ahinats. 
erie. same gentleman announces his 
inteution also of giving the’ puldic the 
lbhg-promised specimen of the Poetry of 
Jostrm Bracket, a seli-educated- ge- 
nius of great power and richness; with 
# portrait, that offers avery striking re- 
semblance | of that extraordinary young 
man. 
-Henxry Hinpe Petry, Esq. of Upton, 
Essex, a gentleman advanced in years, 
and who used to be laid up annually ar 
three or four months with a violent fit of 
the gout, having read in some old book 
that z a. jdnids stone worn next the skin was 
@ sure preservative 
efating disease, and knowing that some 
of the 
are found in Golconda, employed an 
agent in India to procure him one from 
that province, This stone chipped into 
a convenient shape, he constantly wears 
sewed in a little flannel c 
from a black ribbon round his neck next 
hig skin. ft is about two inches long, 
gn inch and a half broad, and two-tenths 
ef an inch thick, and its magnetic virtue 
#§ very great. It much resembles a piece 
of slate, such as school-boys learn to 
eypheron.. Mr; Pelly says that he now 
aan then has some slight twitches, which 
ealy serve to remind him of the foaritile 
paroxysins to which he once was subject, 
Bie ha pcs one day to omit hanging 
this-aniulet about his neck ; another ‘and 
auother day passed, and as ‘several years 
bad claps sed without a fit, he began to 
think that the magnet had Afered his 
system, and rendered him intangible by 
gout. One night however he awoke in 
torment; he called for his safeguard and 
he escaped 
witha slight attack, and bas never since 
been with sout’ his piece of loadstone, 
which he wears night and day, and en- 
joys perfect freedom from at the pains 
TAilicted by his old enemy. . 
The first meeting’ of the Wernerian 
Natural History Soctety, this season, was 
Held on the 4th of Rovein ber in che: Col- 
lere Maseum at Edinburgh. On this 
occasion were read, a fea hed botanical 
paper, by Mr. R: Brown, of London, 
proposing ng 2 subdivision of "che apocingse 
Literary aud Philosophical Intelligence. 
against that excru- 
finest and most pow erful magnets: 
case, suspended: 
in folio, 
[Feb) 3,” 
of Jussieu, to be called asclepiadex 
the first part.of an. essay on meteorié 
stones, by Mr. G. J. Hamilton; and the- 
couctuding part of an account of fishes 
found in the Frith of Forth, by Mr. Neill. 
At the next ineéting of the society on 
the Oth of December, Professor Jame- 
son read an account of a considerable 
number of animals of the. class vermes, ° 
which he had observed on the shores of 
the Frith of Forth, and the coasts of the. 
Orkney and Shetland Islands; and also 
a series of observations on the different. 
precious stones found in Scotland, par= 
ticularly the topaz, of which he exhibited 
a series of interesting specimens front 
Aberdeenshire; aud among these was. 
crystal we eighing nearly eight ounces, 
which is probably: the largest crystallized 
specimen hitherto discovered im any 
country. "The secretary laid before the 
meeting, a communication from the Rev. 
Mr. Fleming, of Bressay, describing” 
several rare verines lately discovered by. 
nur in Shetland, and a catalogue of rare’ 
plants, to be found within a day’ s excur~ 
sion from Edinburgh, by Mr. Robert. 
Maughan, sen. 
RUSSIA. 
The skeleton of the Mammoth found 
in the ice, at the mouth of the river Lena, 
in Siberia, which has’ been for some * 
time publicly ‘exhibited at ade 
said to be intended for the Tduseam of 
the Imperial Academy of Sciences, at 
Petersburg. » Professor Tilesius has made 
forty drawings of the skeleton, and its 
various parts, which he means to: publish | 
with observations. On some * 
points he differs from Cuvier. 
The greatest cold ‘of last winter ob- 
served at Moscow, was in the night of 
the 11th of January. Mercury exposed 
to the openair, in a cup, by Dr. Rehmann, | 
was frozen so hard, that it wight be cut” 
withsheers, and even filed. Count Bou- 
tourlin found the mercury in three there _ 
mometers withdrawn entirely into the” 
ball and frozen; but in another it wag 
“seen by himself and four other persons, - 
from six o’cloek till half after, at 35° R. 
(462 F.) Mr. Rogers, of Troitsk, is said” 
to have seen it at $4° (444 + F.) before it 
froze and withdrew into ele ball, 
GERMANY. 
The last October book fair at. Leipsic, 
although it boasted of as numerous a col- 
lection of literary novelties as usual, was 
by no means so well attended by. pure 
chasers as on former occasions, 
The names of 478 booksellers appear 
yn the ofticial catalogue, published dur 
ing 
