size in which they are executed, so favorable to the preservation of the character and expression, must be abundantly grateful to the admirers of our great historical painter. Whether they shall be required for framing, for the portfolio, or for studies for youthful artists, they are equally desiracle. Since the deaths of Schiavonetti and Cardon, and the removal of Bartolozzi, Mr. Scriven is certainly become the first engraver in their styles, (the stipple, or dot, sometimes called chalk engraving,) in England, and in which he often produces a singularly happy effect, by its union with the line manner: witness his admirable and highly Anished engraving after Gerard Douw, from the Marquis of Stafford's collection, which the Society of Arts rewarded with their gold Isis Medal, and many others. The prints before us, though not so highly finished, are more fitted to their subject, and evince a knowledge of drawing superior to most engravers, which rendered Bartolozzi, and the inimitable Schiavonetti, so eminent. If we should mention one plate that pleases us more than another in such an equality of merit, it is the Barabbas and condemned thieves. In a word, we cannot but congratulate Mr. West on being so ably represented, hoping for a continuation of such selections, by such an engraver, from such pictures. to It is with peculiar satisfaction we observe, at the present day, a general disposition to promote the Fine Arts. The encouragement bestowed by the public on the productions of the pencil has led corresponding exertions in the less original, but, in our opinion, equally interesting delineations of the graver. A praiseworthy spirit of emulation is also excited among the artists in different styles; and the contention, while conducted with a proper feeling, will ensure the most benencial results. The pacific state of Europe will open a mart for the sale of such performances, and there is no reason to doubt that the examples of English engraving will rank in the estimation of foreign amateurs. To those who are attached to a particlar style in the graphic art, tie rest stem of inferior merit; but whether it be line, mezzotinto, chalk, or the mixed manner, we think each has its peculiar chim to favour: for our part we confess that there is a powerful effect in mezzotinto that approaches nearest to the painter's intention, and renders it superior to the others for forcible expres Mr. M'Donald, of the poet's 143 Gallery, in Fleet-strcet, has recently published several very interesting specimens of this style: among the rest we notice with pleasure, REMBRANDT's Peasunt Girl, from the celebrated picture in the collection of the late NOEL DESENFANS. It is engraved by that very able artist Mr. SAY, and does credit to his talents for fidelity of representation and beauty of expression. The bold chiaroscuro of the master is given with effect; the light graduates in a most delicate manner, and the texture of the drapery and carnations is finely distinguished. It is a most pleasing specimen for the portfolio, or as an ornament for the parlour. The Gypsey, after WILKIE, by MEYER. The feeling of the painter is so well preserved in the engraving, that it wants nothing but colour to make it a perfect picture. This is evidently a subject from nature, and the artist has treated it with his usual felicity, which has suffered no diminution either in drawing or effect by passing through the hands of the engraver. The Roadside, by SAY, after W. OWEN, Esq. R. A. The original from which this beautiful engraving is made, excited great expectation in the public mind when first exhibited; and it is to be regretted that the author does not find it his interest to pursue a path so congesial to his powers. This is a very sweet example of mezzotinto; it is clear and transparent throughout. The tenderness of expression in the mother, and the interesting naiveté in the other characters are conspicuous: the lights are so finely managed, that while they charm by their brilliancy, there is not the smallest appearance of flutter and indecision. The following prints from some of Mr. Wrst's most celebrated pictures, have been published in the course of the last month by Boydell and Co. and will be noticed seriotim, at our earliest leisure, viz. Moses receiving the Commandments. Engraved by R. Earlom, size 36 in. by 25. Peter's First Sermon to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, and Christ Healing the Sick in the Porch of the Temple. Both engraved by B. SMITH. Also the celebrated Salvator Mundi, by CARLO DOLCI, in the collection at Burleigh. By EARLON, in colours, in a new and singular style of mezzotinto. Mr. HAYDON's picture of Macbeth now graces the walls of the exhibition at Liverpool, which has just opened, and IN the Repertory of Arts, No.CXLVII. are given the following specifications:JOHN BUDDLE'S, Wallsend, Northumberland, for a Fire-pan, or Fire-lamp, and a Fire-grate, or Fire-stove, in which small or inferior Coals may be consumed for all the same purposes as large or round Coals. Dated Feb. 21, 1814. The firc-pan or lamp may be made of any convenient shape, with a bottom formed into one or more vertical tubes, or such tubes should be fixed in the bottom, and provided with valves or dampers to regulate the admission of air. A funnel, or funnels, should be placed on the side of the fire-lamp from which the wind may happen to blow, to be used as occasion may require. The fire-grate is made with a pervious back, between which and the wall, at the back of the fire-place, a space must be left for the admission of air, for the regulation of which this aperture is provided with a damper. EMANUEL HEATON's, Birmingham, Gunfinisher, for Improvements to the Locks and Breeches of Fire-arms, by rendering the Pans of Locks and Communication between the Priming and Loading of Fire-arms Water-proof. Mar. 23, 1814. The pan of the lock, instead of being open-mouthed at the end next to its barrel, must have its edge raised all round, and a rim lower than the edge must be left at the end of the pan next to the touch-hole, between the edge of the pan and the barrel of the piece. The touch-hole may project about one sixteenth of an inch towards the lock, but this is not necessary, and be let into an orifice made through the rim and edge of the pan to receive it. Round this orifice, and also round the touchhole, must be formed a small groove, into which insert a piece of leather or other elastic substance impermeable to water, that when the lock is screwed to the gun-barrel, the projecting edges of the leather may be pressed close by the barrel and nill of the lock. The seat of the hammer must be of the same form as the pan, project beyond its elevated edge all round, and be hollowed out, or made concave, to the extent of the exterior of the edge of the pan. Insert into the cavity of the seat of the hammer a piece of leather or other substance which, when pressed by the hammer spring, will closely adhere to the edge of the pan. This must be kept in its position by a plate of iron or other metal, fastened on the leather by a small screw passing through the seat of the hammer, and received by the plate. By the pressure of the hammer-spring upon the pan, the latter will be forced into the leather; the admission of air or wa ter into the pan will be prevented; and the projecting edges of the leather, in the grooves of the rim, will have the same effect; so that the communication between the priming and loading will be water-proof. Mr. Richards, of Birmingham, to whom this patent has been assigned, states, that a sportsman, to obtain complete evidence of the effect of this invention, undertook to discharge a fowling-piece twenty-four times at some swallows on the banks of the canal, near Birmingham, immersing the stock and lock in the canal after reloading, between each discharge. The experiment occupied little more than an hour; the piece never missed fire; and nineteen birds were killed out of the twenty-four shots. A more decisive proof of the certainty of the success of the invention could not be desired. EDWARD HEARD'S, of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex, Chemist, for new und improved Processes for the Manufac ture of Plate-glass. Aug. 19, 1815. These processes consist in the use of flints reduced to a granular state, in stead of sand, for grinding plate-glass, and after the operation, re-melting the ground flints, thus intermixed with particles of glass, together with a due proportion of the requisite fluxes for the re-production of plate-glass. ROBERT ADAMS's, Holborn, Shoemaker, for a new and improved Method of making Blacking, by which a higher Polish is given, and the Leather better preserved, than by any hitherto known. July 7, 1813. To make 40 gallons of blacking, Mr. Adams takes 40 gallons of vinegar, (known by the number 18,) 90 lbs. of ivory black, 5 gallons (wine measure) of sweet oil, 28 lbs. moist sugar, 18lbs. of oil of vitriol, and 26 oz. of gum arabic. Procure a tub with a tin strainer, full of small holes, fixed under its lid, which 145 should likewise have a hole large enough to permit liquid ingredients to be poured through it by means of a funnel or otherwise. Into this tub put the ivory black, sugar, sweet oil, and four gallons of vinegar, and mix them into a thin paste; then pour half the oil of vitriol through the lid and strainer, and after the mixture has stood about ten minutes, add in the same way about two gallons more vinegar. Take off the lid, and gradually pour in the remainder of the vinegar, at the same time keeping the whole constantly stirred. This done, pour the remainder of the oil of vitriol through the strainer, put the mixture into a copper, and throw in the gum arabic; as soon as it begins to boil, draw it off, and when cold it is fit to be bottled, but while bottling it should be continually stirred. INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. On all the different subjects comprehended in this highly important department communications are earnestly requested from Authors, Booksellers, Artists, the Secretaries or other members of Learned Societies, Patentees, and Men of Letters and Science in general. To such persons as wish to give publicity to their works, inventions, or discoveries, the advantages of such a channel must be suffisiently obvious. PROCEEDINGS OF UNIVERSITIES. OXFORD, JULY 26.-Mr. T. Sheriffe, B. A. and Mr. T. Kilgour, B. A. demies of Magdalen College, were admitted fellows of that society; and Messrs. C. Miller and W. Morgan were admitted demies of the same society. Aug. 2, T. C. Glyn, B. A. of Christ Church; J. C. Compton. of Merton college; and the Hon. A. Herbert, of Exeter college, were chosen fellows of Merton college. CAMBRIDGE. July 21, John Griffith, B. A. is elected a fellow of Emmanuel college; and J. Musgrave, B. A. a fellow of Gonville and Caius college, on the Perse foundation. July 26, A grace having passed the senate to the following effect, that those to whom the Sunday afternoon turns, and turns for Christmas day and Good Friday, are assigned, shall, from the beginning of November, 1814, to the end of May, 1815, provide no other substitute than such as should be appointed in conformity with that grace, the following persons have been elected, each for the month to which his name is affixed: November, Rev. Dr. Maltby, Pembroke. The Rev. S. Berney Vince, M. A. fellow of King's college, and the Rev. William Henry Markby, M. A. fellow of Corpus Christi college, are appointed preachers at the Chapel Royal, White-. hall. Dr. MERRIMAN, physician-accoucheur to the Middlesex Hospital, the Westminster General Dispensary, and the Parochial Infirmary of St. George, Hanover-square, will commence his usual courses of lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, at the former place, on Monday, October Sd. A private course of lectures will be delivered for the accommodation of such gentlemen as prefer this mode of instruction. Dr. PEARSON, who during the last twenty-six years has annually delivered three courses of lectures on the 146 Intelligence in Literature and the Arts and Sciences. [Sept. 1 Theory and Practice of Physic, on Therapeutics, with the Materia Medica and Botany, as well as on Chemistry, proposes in future to corfine himself to the department of the Practice of Physic, with the Laws of the Animal Economy. This course will commence as usual in the first week of October, at his house in George-street, Hanover-square, at nine in the morning, The lectures in the other departments, viz.. On Therapeutics, with Materia Medica; on Clinical Practice with demonstrative Pathology; on Medical Jurisprudence, and a full course of Chemistry, will be given at the Theatre in Windmill street, by the united labours of Doctors ROGET, HARRISON, and Joun DAVY. Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS, to whose announcement of a Literary Gazette we directed the attention of our readers in our sixth number, (p. 555,) has since informed the world that he has not commenced the proposed publication for this truly curious reason: "because the public mind has not yet arrived at that repose of peace on which he calculated as the foundation of his project." It is truly lamentable that all the projects of this patriot should be so provokingly frustrated while the country was engaged in war, in vain did he raise his croaking voice to excite the dissatisfaction of the weak or the ignorant, for the purpose of forcing the administration to a peace upon any terms; and now that the repose of peace is actually arrived, he is prevented from enjoying it by a set of miscreants who are determined to lose no opportunity of exhibiting him in his true colours, and guarding the public against his specious artifices. To their vigilance it is owing, we presume, that the appearance of the embryo Review is adjourned sine die. Messrs. BooSEY, of Broad-street, having formed a personal acquaintance with many of the publishers and editors of German periodical works, are enabled to supply those publications at so low a rate as cannot fail to prove a most acceptable accommodation to the friends of continental literature in this country. The following works, of which the numbers published this year may be seen as specimens, are furnished by them at the annexed prices per annum:Annalen der Physik, edited by L. W. Gilbert (with engravings) Curiositäten der PhysischLitterarisch-Artistisch Historischen Vor-und Mitwelt (with engravings) Geographische Ephemeriden, edited by F. J. Bertuch Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, under the superintendance of the Roy. Soc. of Göttingen Journal und Bibliothek der 2 12 0 220 2 2 0 214 0 Journal für Litteratur, Kunst, 2 12 0 · (— Jenaische) 2 12 0 (Leipziger) Minerva, an historical and political journal Morgenblatt, of a miscella neous nature Musicalische Zeitung en 2 12 0 2 4 0 2 12 0 2 14 0 1 16 0 0 18 0 2. 20 Die Zeiten, oder Archiv für die nueste Staatsgeschichte und Politik, edited by Voss A most interesting Memoir of the Conquest of JAVA, with an account of subsequent military operations in that quarter, a Survey of the Islands forming the Oriental Archipelago, and a variety of statistical and historical information, accompanied by several maps from actual observation, and views taken on the spot, will make its appearance in the course of the present year. Mr. SOTHEBY has in the press a corrected edition of the Georgics of Virgil, translated into English verse. Mr. JAMES, of Wells-street, will speedily publish a Treatise on the Principles of Projection, the Projections of the Sphere, and the construction of all kinds of Geographical and Hydrographical Maps, systematically arranged, and scientifically illustrated by eighteen plates of diagrams. A new edition is nearly finished, in 2 vols. 8vo. of Miscellaneous Poems, by £2 2 0 JoHN BYROM, M. A. F. R. S. some time Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and inventor of the Universal English 1814.] Intelligence in Literature and the Arts and Sciences. Short Hand; to which is added, a sketch of the author's life. Speedily will be published, the Life and Death of that excellent Minister of Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine, author of the Call to the Unconverted, late teacher of the Church at Taunton, in Somersetshire; with his Christian Letters, full of spiritual instructions. Dr. SPURZHEIM will publish, early in the ensuing winter, his Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Brain, as indicative of the Faculties of the Mind. The work is the substance of lectures lately given to a few of the nobility and professional men; but which it is proposed to deliver publicly next season. Mr. EDMONSON, of Newcastle upon Tyne, has announced a work on Hydrophobia, founded on the case of Catherine Taylor, mentioned in our last number, (p. 83.) The Rev. WM. ANDERSON has in the press a sketch of the History of the Hese of Romanoff, the reigning family of bussia, with a brief account of the present state of that empire. A translation of the Exile, a Russian poem written in England, from the original M.S. of the author, who fell in the battle before Dresden, with the anecdotes on which the poem is founded, will shortly appear. A Complete Digest of the Custom Laws, compiled by Mr. N. JICKLING, for the use of the Lords of the Treasury, will be published, towards the close of the year, in a large royal 4to. volume, containing above a thousand closely printed pages. A short Excursion in France in 1814, containing engravings of the Venus de Medicis, and Apollo Belvidere, pronounced faultless copies, by Messrs. West and Fuseli, will be ready in a few days. The Rev. JAMES KIDD, professor of Oriental Languages in the university of Aberdeen, has nearly ready for the press a work on the Trinity, on an entirely new plan. 147 works of ROGER ASCHAM, preceptor to Queen Elizabeth, containing-1. Report and Discourse of the Affairs and State of Germany, and the Emperor Charles his count. 2. Toxophilus, or the School of Shooting, with the original dedication to Henry VII. 3. The Schoolmaster. 4. Dedication to Queen Elizabeth of the Lives of Saul and David, a work which he appears to have meditated but never published, now first printed from the original M. S. in the possession of the publishers. 5. Familiar Letters. A life of the author, by Dr. Johnson, with notes, by Dr. Campbell, will be prefixed to the work, which will form an 8vo. volume. The impression is limited to 250 copies. Mr. JOHN FAITHHORN, formerly surgeon in the East India Company's service, has in the press Facts and Observations on Liver Complaints and Bilious Affections in general, deduced from long practice in various climates and illustrated by cases. A Selection from the M.S. Sermons of the late Rev. SAMUEL PALMER, of Hackney, is printing in an 8vo. volume. Messrs. WHITE and COCHRANE have announced a new edition of the English 1. Messrs LONGMAN and Co. are reprinting the following works of GroRGE WITHER, each in a 12mo. volume. Fidelia, from the edition of 1633. 2. Faire Virtue, the Mistresse of Philarete. 3. Abuses Stript and Whipt (Satires.) 4. Hymns and Songs of the Church. 5. The Psalms of David. No more than 100 copies will be printed. Mr. SAWREY has in the press in an 8vo volume, The Morbid Anatomy of the Brain in Mania and Hydrophobia, with the Pathology of the two diseases, and experiments to ascertain the presence of water in the ventricles and pericardium, collected from the papers of the late Dr. Andrew Marshall, with a sketch of his life. A translation of the Psalms of David, with Notes by that eminent prelate the late Bishop HORSLEY, is printing in two 8vo. volumes. The following novels are in the press : The Pastor's Fire-side, 4 vols. by Miss PORTER; Duty, by Mrs. ROBERTS; Christabelle, by Mrs. HANWAY; Castle de Courcy, 4 vols. by Baron Daldorf. The learned Dr. JARROLD has lately laid before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, a dissertation upon a chapter in Dr. Smith, on the Wealth of Nations, the object of which is the reduction of rural labour, and the expense attendant upon cultivation; especially that arising from the excessive consumption occasioned by the employment of horses in agriculture. The doctor observes, that in the nations of Asia which were first cival zed, oxen drew the ark, oxen trod the corn; and in countries where oxen were not known, or were scarce, other animals were domesticated, such as the camel in Arabia, and the lama (a sort of camel-shee.) in South America. The horse appears in |