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'dal, for preserving anatomical prepara. tions in brine. The chairman observed, upon the former, that it would be of great consequence, as perfectly supplying the place of an article of costly importation; and upon the latter, that it would save a large consumption of spirits of wine; had preserved subjects for more than three years; and would be of extraordinary utility for the preservation of objects of natural history in distaut climates, where the ingredient hitherto employed could

not be obtained. The rewards in the class of Polite Arts amounted to no fewer than fifty seven.

NEW METHOD OF APPLYING THE POWER OF MAN TO THE MOVING OF MACHINERY,

By the Rev. Mr. Cartwright.

"The power with which a man can work through the day, and every day, is commonly calculated at 28lbs. or 30.bs. If, therefore, a way can be pointed out by which the whole of his absolute gravity can be brought into constant action, he will increase his power (calculating upon the average) as six to one. Now this is to be done by means so simple and obvious, that it seems nothing less than a miracle that the idea did not occur, even to the common knife-grinder, centuries ago. It is nothing more than having two cranks upon the axis to be moved, standing perpendicula.ly to each other, and the operator shifting his weight alternately from the treddle of one crank to the other. If the diameter of the crank's revolution does not exceed seven or eight inches, the muscular exertion will be triding. To bring the whole or such part of the operator's muscular force into action as may occasionally be wanted, he might have straps upon his shoulders, such as are used by chairmen, which, being fixed to any convenient part of the machine, would enable him to add to his weight double the power of his absolute gravity; and this additional weight, when not wanted, he could be relieved from by a very slight inclination of the shoulders. These ideas I have actually reduced to practice, and have had a four-wheeled carriage made, which has fully ascertained the principles that are here laid down. To this carriage I attached a plough. We had not, however, proceeded above 20 yards, when being impatient to try the full power of the machine, I ordered the meu to add their muscular force to that of their gravity; when the machinery which I had substituted in the place of treddles gave way, and terminated the business for that day.

"There is not the least shadow of doubt but that an able bodied man can in this way exert the power of a horse. I should

not despair of seeing, were I to live but a few years longer, carriages of every description travelling the road without the aid of horses. For mill work of every kind this mode of working will have a decided advantage over animal power. 'In the first place, it will not require a twentieth part of the space in the second place, not a tenth part of the expence of machinery; and lastly, it will save all the original cost of the horses, and their daily decrease in value:-the space required for four men to work in, need not be more than four feet square, and the expense of the machinery will not exceed 5. But the most extensive application of this principle I look for in navigating ves

sels. When we take into consideration the immense expence of a large steam engine, the space it occupies, together with the fuel to work it, and the combined dauger of fire and its blowing up, no prudent man would hesitate which he would adopt. In the fisheries it would be particularly useful; the fishing vessels would go out and return at pleasure, so as always to bring their fish fresh to market, to say nothing of the facilities it would afford of dragging their nets."

STUART PAPERS.

The Stuart papers, which were in pos. session of Cardinal York, of Rome, have been transmitted from Rome to England to the Prince Regent, who has appointed Dr. Stanier Clarke and four other gentlemen as Commissioners under his Royal warrant, and Mr. Pullen as their Secretary, to examine their contents, and to report to bis Royal Highness, from time to time, till the whole of their contents is ascertained. It is expected some very important information respecting the History of England, at those periods, will be obtained from them. The investigation is to be conducted in a private mauner, The papers are extremely voluminous, and filled several large packing-cases. They have been deposited in St. James's Palace, in the late Queen's drawing-room, where the Commissioners, with their Secretary, sit to examine and investigate the contents of these antient documents.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
New Pieces,

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. June 30. Half an Hour in England without Cozening, an interlude.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, LYCEUM. June 28. My Own Rival! or, Sophy, Lucy; and. Lucy, Sophy, a musical comedy. Well received,

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PROMOTIONS AND PREFERMENTS.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS, &c.
ཚ་ June 19. This Gazette notifies the
appointment of Sir S. Shepherd as Chief
Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scot-
land, also of Lieut.-col. Bosanquet, of
the London and Westminster Light Horse
Volunteers, to be Colonel, v. Herries, de-
ceased.

June 26. This Gazette notifies the
baptisin of the Princess Alexandrina Vic
toria, daughter of the Duke of Kent; the
appointment of A. Maconochie, esq. late
Lord Advocate, as one of the Lords of
Session and Justiciary, in Scotland; and
that of Sir W. Rae as Lord Advocate.

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Magdalen College, Cambridge, Longstan-
ton St. Michael's R. Cambridgeshire.

Rev. James Donne, B. A. of St. John's
College, Cambridge, licensed to the Per-
Petual Curacy of South Carleton, Lincoln-
shire.

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Rev. J. J. Brasier, LL.B. of Trinity
College, Cambridge, Rector of Whitmore,
co. Stafford, Cleobury North R, Shrop-
shire,

Rev. Orbel Rey, Wyverstone R. Suf-

folk.

Rev. J. D. Churchill, Erpingham R.
Norfolk.

"Rev. Edward Owen, M.A. Chislet V.
Kent.

DISPENSATION.

Rey. John Henry Sparke, M.A. -- Pre-
bendary of Ely, to hold the Rectory of
Cottenham, in Cambridgeshire, together
with the Rectory of Stretham, in the Isla
of Ely.

BIRTHS.

June 22. Mrs. Douglas, relict of the
late Lord Reston, a dau.

24. In George-street, Edinburgh, the,
Lady of Rear-admiral Otway, a dạn.

MARRIAGES.

May 24. Capt. Sir Thomas Staines,
R.N. K.C.B. to Sarah Tournay Bargrave,
youngest dau. of Robert Tournay Bar-
grave, esq. of Eastry, Kent.

25. Lieut. William Bohan Bowyer, of
the Royal Navy, to Frances, dau, of the
late Capt. Beck, of the East India service.

Lately. W. G. Williams, esq. of Cefn,
Anglesey, to Anne, youngest dau. of H. N.
Willis, esq. of Kensington Palace, and
Sunning Hill, Berkshire.ch 195556

Wm. Ingelow, jun. esq. of Boston, Lin
colnshire, to Jean, second dau. of George
Kilgour, esq. of Highbury-grove, Mid-
dlesex.

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June 2. David Carruthers, esq. As
sistant Commissary-general to the Forces,
to Sarab, only dau. of John Proctor, esq.
of Grandra House, Monmouthshire.

At North-cray, Kent, the Rev. Frede-
rick Cox, of Folkestone, to Matilda,
youngest dau. of Wm. Holship, esq. of
North-cray.

4. The Rev. James Gibson, rector of
Worlington, Suffolk, and late Fellow of
Wadham College, Oxford, to Mary Eliza-
beth, second dau, of John Phillips, esq. of
Pall Mall.

5. John Leader, esq. of Quendon, Es-
sex, to Elizabeth, second dau. of W. Wil-
liamson, esq. of Buntingford, Herts.

8. Lieut. N. Newnham, R. N. to Mary,
youngest dau. of Dr. Cooke, of Gower-st.

9. At Dublin, the Rev. Francis Rutt-

ledge, of Cornfield (Mayo), to Margaret,
second dau. of the late Col. Bruce, of Oak
Park (Carlow).

10. The Rev. J. H. Bradney, of Har-
cot, Somersetshire, to Elizabeth, eldest
dan. of Rob. Kekewich, esq. of Sidmouth,
Devonshire.

"George, younger son of Joseph Clarke,
esq. of Wanstead, Essex, to Sarah, elder
dau. of A Bryson, esq. of Snaresbrook
House, in the same county.

14. Capt. R. Cust, knt: St. Fd. of the
31st regiment, to Marianne, dan, of the
late Col. Ward, of the Hon. East India
Company's service.

17: Robert, eldest son of Ninian Lewis;
esq. of West Plean, Stirlingshire, to Mar-
garel, eldest dau. of David Hunter, esq. of
Montagu-street, Russell square."

21. Andrew Basilico, esq. of the Navy
Pay Office, to Miss Martin, of Piccadilly.

22. Edmund Hungerford Lechmere,
esq. eldest son of Sir Anthony Lechmere,
bart. of the Rhyd, in Worcestershire, to
the Hon. Maria Clara Murray, Maid of
Honour to her late Majesty, and second
dau. of the late David Murray, esq. bro-
ther to Lord Elibank.

C. P. Grenfell, esq. son of Pascoe Gren
fell, esq. M. P. to the Right Hon. Lady
Georgiana Isabella Frances Molyneux,
eldest dau. of the Right Hon. the Earl of
Sefton.

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Crewe, to the Hon. Harriet Smith, dau. of
Lord Carrington.

The Rev. R. Williams, Prebendary of
Lincoln, &c. to Miss Round, eldest dau.
of the late Steph. Round, esq. of King's
Beech Hill, Berkshire.

29. The Rev. C. D. Brereton, rector of St. Edmund's, Norwich, to Frances, youngest dau. of Jos. Wilson, esq. of Highbury Hill, Middlesex.

30. Mr. John Collingwood, of Oxford, to Eliza, eldest dau. of Wm. Hale, esq. of Homerton.

OBITUARY.

LORD CHIEF BARON DUNDAS. We noticed in p. 582, the death of this most excellent character. His Lordship had been for a long time in a very delicate state of health, and although he occasionally recruited strength, his friends for a

considerable period felt great alarm for the fatal event which they all now so deeply deplore. Mr. Dundas was the eldest son of the late Lord President Dundas of Arniston, by Miss Grant, youngest daughter of the Honourable William Graut, Lord Prestongrange, and was born on the 6th June, 1753. He entered advocate in 1779, and at a very early age was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland, at the time the now venerable Sir Ilay Campbell got the situation of Lord Advocate; and at the promotion of the latter as President of the Court of Session in 1789 (on the death of Sir Thomas Millar) Mr. Dundas succeeded to the office of Lord Advocate, while his friend Mr. Blair, the late president, was ap pointed Solicitor-General. Mr. Dundas continued to hold this high office till 1801 (during which period he sat in Parliament as Member for the county of Edinburgh), when, on the resignation of Chief Baron Montgomery, he was installed into that office which he held till within a short period of his death.

It is so common to eulogize public men, when the silence of death has hushed all hostile feelings of which they might have been the object, that it may be thought we only beat the common track when we speak of the amiable and valuable qualities of the late Lord Chief Baron. It is, however, the universal feeling that few public men have descended to the grave with stronger claims to the respect and affection of all who knew him. His Lordship certainly was not endowed with those brilliant talents which were conspicuous in many of his family; but, joined to very respectable abilities, he possessed, in an eminent degree, those graces of mildness, moderation, and affability, which blunt all personal and political animosity,

and were so particularly displayed in the very trying times in which he held the situation of his Majesty's Advocate. We allude of course to those recently after the French Revolution, when the minds of men in Scotland, as well as in other parts of the country, were agitated with feelings of no common interest. At that eventful period it required, in the person holding the powers and responsibility of Lord Advocate, decision and firmness-command and moderation of temper; and men of all parties now agree that Mr. Dundas, in that situation, possessed and displayed those qualities in a degree salutary to the publick, and most honourable to himself. Firm in his official duties, he blended the discharge of these with a spirit of tenderness to those whom he thought misled, and of conciliation to all who differed from him in the opinions at that time agitated; and it has been generally allowed that his Lordship's conduct on that occasion, aided by the like decided and temperate measures of Mr. Elder, then Lord Provost, preserved the city of Edinburgh from the scenes of turbulence and violence which so strongly threatened it.

As a Judge in the Exchequer the late Chief Baron was equally valuable. In the limited range of public cases which come before that Court in Scotland, the delinquency of parties arraigned for breach of the revenue laws, is generally so clear and apparent, that there is little room for doubt or hesitation in a Judge's charge to the Jury; but, when it appeared that a defendant had acted from no improper motive, or when a doubtful law was endeavoured to be interpreted to the prejudice of the fair trader, his Lordship displayed a zeal and even fervour for the cause of the latter, which evinced that no length of service, as a functionary of the Crown, could weaken his attachment to the rights and liberty of the subject.

If the qualities, of which we have given a feeble outline, rendered his Lordship so respectable in public life, it may easily be conceived how much they endeared

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him in private. His character, indeed, as a private individual, in all the relations of life, was most exemplary, and is universally acknowledged. It may be well repeated of Chief Baron Dundas, what was said by an eminent Judge, on concluding the character of one of his brethren: "He has died, leaving no good man his enemy; and attended with that sincere regret which only those can hope for who have occupied the like important stations, and acquitted themselves well."

His Lordship married his cousin, Miss Dundas, daughter of the late and sister to the present Lord Viscount Melville, by whom he has three sons and two daughters. -Robert, his successor in the estate of Arniston; Henry, an officer in the navy; and William Pitt. His eldest daughter was lately married to John Borthwick, esq. younger, of Crookston, and the youngest Js unmarried.

JOSEPH MOSER *, Esq.

May 22. At Romney Terrace, Westminster, Joseph Moser, Esq. late one of the Police Magistrates at the Public Office in Worship-street. This gentleman was descended of a Swiss family, and was born in Greek-street, Soho, in 1748, being the son of Hans Jacob Moser, an artist. Mr. Moser was taken when young from school, and placed under bis uncle, G. M. Moser, Esq. late keeper of the Royal Academy, who inteoded him for the profession of painting in enamel. The nephew, however, had not the same inclination, though he continued in the academy till his mar riage, in 1780, with the daughter of an eminent surgeon in Holles-street, Cavendish square. From that time Mr. Moser relinquished painting, and devoted himself to literature; but about the year 1794, he was appointed a magistrate for the city of Westminster. He sat first in the office in Queen-square, but on the death of Serjeant Kirby, he removed to that in Worship-street. Mr. Moser was a leading Correspondent in the European Magazine and other periodical publications. His separate per. formances are, Lucifer and Mammon, an historical sketch, 8vo. 1793.-Thoughts upon Cash Credit, and Country Banks, 8vo. 1793.-Turkish Tales, 2 vols. 12mo.

1794.-The Adventures of Timothy Twig, Esq. in a series of poetical epistles, 2 vols. 12mo. 1794.-The Meal Tub Plot, or Remarks on the Powder Tax, 8vo. 1794.Anecdotes of Richard Brothers, with some Thoughts on the Credulity of N. B. Halhed, Esq. 8vo. 1795.-Somerset House, a vision, 8vo. 1795.-Reflections on Pro

* A Portrait and Memoir of Mr. Moser were given in the European Magazine, vol. XLIV. p. 83.

fane and Judicial Swearing, 12mo. 1795.Observations on a Letter to the Prince of Wales, 8vo. 1795.-An Examination of the pamphlet entitled, Thoughts on the English Government, 8vo. 1796. - The Hermit of Caucasus, an oriental romance, 2 vols. 12mo. 1797.-Moral Tales, 2 vols. 12mo. 1797.-Tales and Romances of Antient and Modern Times, 5 vols. 12mo. 1800.-The Minced Pie, a drama, 8vo. 1806.-The Gipsies, 12mo. 1807.-The Comet, a farce, 1807.-The Best Heart in the World, dram. sketch, 12mo. 1807. -The Bubbles, com. Svo. 1808.-Don Quixote in Barcelona, farce, 12mo. 1808.

Nourmahal, Empress of Hindostan, melo drama, 8vo. 1808.- British Loyalty, dramatic effusion, 8vo. 1809.-Adelfrid, an historical drama, 12mo. 1811.

SIR WILLIAM HEATHCOTE, BART. June 26. At Hursley Park, Hants, Sir William Heathcote, bart. He was born July 2, 1746, and married in 1768, to Frances, daughter and co-heiress of John Thorpe, esq. of Embley, Hants, by whom he had five sous and three daughters. Sir William succeeded his father, Sir Thomas, June 27, 1788. He represented the County of Southampton in three successive Parliaments, but retired from public life in 1806, on account of ill health. He is succeeded by his eldest son, now Sir Thomas Heathcote, bart. born in 1769.

DEATHS.

1818. AT Mussulipatam, in the house Nov. 5. of James O. Tod, esq. Judge and Chief Magistrate there, Lieut. Alex. D. Coull, of the Madras Artillery, eldest son of James Coull, esq. of Ashgrove, in the county of Muray.

1819. Jan. 5. At Kandy, Major Coane, of the 73d regt.-The following "General Orders," so highly to the honour of Major Coane, were issued from Head-Quarters on the occasion:-" In the course of the recent arduous service in the interior, the Commander of the Forces has had much too frequent occasion to lament the loss of gallant Officers; but at no former time has his feelings of sorrow been more sensibly excited, than in performing the painful task of announcing to the Army the death of Major Coane of the 73d regiment, which melancholy event took place at Kandy, on the 5th inst. after the best hopes had been entertained of his recovery. The Lieutenant-general has in so many instances extolled the bravery, intelligence, and spirit of enterprize of this accomp lished Officer, who in an eminent degree possessed all the best qualities of a Soldier, that there have been ample manifestations of the high opinion which the Commander of the Forces entertained of him-and it is with the keenest emotions

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of grief that the Lieutenant-general condoles with his brother Officers on a dispensation of Providence, which he knows will afflict them all; heightened as such affliction will be, from an intimate knowledge of Major Coane's distinguished merit, and deprived as they now unhappily are, of his animating example, and of his society, in the prime of his life. br.

"G. W. WALKER, Dep. Adj. Gen.” April 26. At his farm, Arnolds, Mount nessing, Essex, aged 48, Mr. Thomas English, of Arundel Wharf, Strand. 909

April 28. At Lisbon, Capt. Nicholas Pocock, of his Majesty's Packet Service, third son of Nich. Pocock, esq. late of Great George-street, Westminster.

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May 2. At Henley-in-Arden, in his 39th year, Major John Hilton, late of the 25th Light Dragoons.

May 6. At Quebec, Canada, Mr. Gavin Major Hamilton, eldest son of Mr. William Hamilton, merchant, of New City Chambers, and of Clapton.

At Glasgow, Dame Elizabeth, widow of the late Sir H. T. Campbell, of Asknish, Sheriff Depute of Argyllshire.

May 8. At the Manse of Cultur, Eliza Howison Strachan, daughter of A. Strachan, esq. Assistant Commissary General.

In Park-street, Grosvenor square, aged 79, the widow of the late Hugh Dive, esq.

May 12. At Edinburgh, the Right Hon. Margaret, Countess of Buchan. She was a daughter of William Fraser, esq.; and was married in 1771 to David Stuart Erskine, the present learned and venerable Earl of Buchan.

Aged 86, the Rev. Thomas Hayes, M.A. Vicar of Oswald's, Durham, and one of the Minor Canons and Precentor of that Cathedral. He had held the vicarage 54, and been Minor Canon 61 years. May 15. At Annstown, Waterford, at an advanced age, Hen. St. George Cole, esq. one of the Land-waiters of the Port of Waterford, and Justice of the Peace for that county.

At Spenithorne, aged 86, William Chaytor, esq. Vice Lieutenant of the North Riding of the county of York, many years Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and an active Magistrate, during 60 years, for the said North Riding, and a Bencher of the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple.

May 17, At Kettering, în his 63d year, Mr. Wm. Stafford, gardener and seedsman. Although he had been deprived of his sight for many years, he pursued his avocation to the last with great agility.

At the house of his father-in-law, Thomas Miller, esq. agent victualler, Plymouth, Capt. George Jackson, R. N. late of East Looe, Cornwall.

May 18. At St. Bris, near Auxerre, in France, Euphemia Jane, daughter of the late J. Hunter, M.D. and F.R.S. and niece of the late Lieut.-gen. Hunter, Governor

and Commander in Chief in Upper Canada.

May 19. At Edinburgh, Thomas Ken-. nedy, esq. of Dumure, Ayrshire.

May 20. At White Windows, near Halifax, aged 23, Edwin, youngest son of the late Joseph Priestley, esq.

May 21. In bis 88th year, Mr. John Hendry, permit-writer in the Excise Office at Hull, leaving a widow (his second wife), to whom he was married in the year 1759.

May 23. At Paris, John Robinson,, esq. M. P. of Denston Hall, Suffolk.He was a Lieutenant-general in the Army, Colonel of the 60th Foot, brother-in-law of the Earl of Powis, and had represented the Borough of Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, in several Parliaments. He was buried in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, at Paris.

May 24. In Upper Grosvenor-street, Harriet, relict of the late Bernard Brocas, esq. of Wokefield House, Berkshire.

In Lansdowne - crescent, Bath, Mrs. Charles Moysey, wife of the Rev. Dr. Moysey, and daughter of Francis F. Luttrell, esq.

May 25. At Edmonton, Mr. Jonathan Bugg, solicitor, and of Addle-street, Aldermanbury.

At Upper Edmonton, in ber 84th year, Margaret, the relict of the late Rev. Dr. David Lloyd, of Lynu, in Norfolk.

At his seat, Chalfont House, Bucks, in his 75th year, Thomas Hibbert, esq. F.S.A. many years in the Commission of the Peace, and in 1798 High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. With abilities and accomplishments which might have qualified him for eminence in public life, his inchnation led him to retirement; but the seclusion in which he lived neither obscured the polish of his manners, nor confined his active benevolence. The regard and affection of respectable neighbours, and numerous dependants, followed him to the grave, and attested the general estimation in which his character was held by those who had experienced its worth.

At Lambeth, in his 62d year, Mr. Felton Mathew, late of Goswell-street.

May 26. At Islington, in bis 60th year, the Rev. Dr. Jerment, many years pastor of the Scottish Chapel in Oxendon-street.

May 30. Aged 83, Ruth Lord, of Stainland (Halifax); and June S, aged 83. James Lord, her husband. They had been married 56 years; and were both buried in one grave.

May 31. At Exeter, in his 40th year, the Rev. Richard Iremonger, Vicar of Wherwell, near Andover, Hants.

At St. Petersburg, Johm Statter, esq.

Lately. Aged 84, Mr. John Weeks, formerly landlord of the Bush Tavern, Bristol, and since contractor for the dail roaches. During the time he kept the Bush Tavern, he was celebrated for his PALLONC

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