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boiling hot, stirring well all the time. The pearl-ash, if good, will be sufficient to precipitate the vitriol, which, falling to the bottom of the vessel, will produce a fine green colour. When settled, draw off the clear liquor; put the sedimeat into canvas bags to filter; when well drained, lay it on chalk stones, and then dry in a stove.

To prevare this paint for use, powder one pound of the genuine mineral green thus prepared, one pound of the precipitate of copper, one pound and a half of refiners' blue verditer, three pounds of white lead, and three ounces of sugar of lead: mix up the whole of them in linseed oil, and grind in a levigating mill till quite fine. This will produce a bright pea-green paint, with a blue tint, which will keep any length of time, and in any climate, by putting oil or water over it. For house or ship painting, mix one pound of the paint so prepared with one gill of pale boiled ol: this will produce a strong pea-green paint, the tiut of which may be varied at pleasure by the addition of white lead ground in linseed oil. JOHN HANBURY's, Bartlett's Buildings, Carpet Manufacturer, for a Method of weaving Kidderminster Carpets, by which a nero and finer Texture and larger Patterns can be produced, than by any other method hitherto known. -Dec. 19, 1813.

As it would be impossible to give any idea of this invention without transcribng the whole of the specification, we

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refer the curious reader to the work quoted at the head of this article.

Patents lately granted.

WILLIAM MOULT, Bedford-square, for an improved method of acting upon machinery.-Dated May 21, 1814.

WILLIAM NEVILLE, birmingham, coach and brass tounder, for a method of making hurdles, gates, palisades, virandas, balustrades, stair-case rails, espalier frames, &c.-May 26.

JOHN BUXTON, Great Pearl-street, Spital-fields, cotton manufacturer, for an improved method of twisting and laying cotton, silk, &c.—June 5.

WILLIAM SELLARS, Kempsey Elms, Worcester, engineer, for a method of spinning and laying of ropes, twine, bne, thread, mohair, wool, cotton, and silk, by machinery.-June 5.

GRANT PRESTON, Burr-street, London Dock, brazier, for a concavious cabinstove.-June 5.

JOHN STUBES JORDEN, Birmingham, copper sash manufacturer, for improvements in the construction and lights of horticultural buildings.-June 7.

GEORGE HEYWARD, Brocknor ironworks, Staffordshire, ironmonger, for an improved method of turning rolls, and of rolling gun and pisto! barrels previous to welding. June 7.

THOMAS TINDALL, York, gentleman, for improvements on the steam-engine, and also a mode of applying the same to the driving of all sorts of carriages and machinery.-June 18.

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, Patenices, and Men of Letters and Science in general. To such persons as wish to give publicity to their works, intentions, or discoveries, the advantages of such a channel must be suffi ciently obvious.

PROCEEDINGS OF UNIVERSITIES.

OXFORD, June 16.-The fullwing gentlemen were admitted to regular degrees in the Convocation-house:The Rev. W. W. Green, B. D. late vice-principal of Magdalen Hall, now one of the city lecturers, and rector of Husband Bosworth, Leicestershire, D. D.; the Rev. T. Brooke, B. C. L. of Exeter Coll. and the Rev. J. Addams, B. C. L. fellow of St. John's, D. C. L.-M. A. the Rev. N.

Cole, of Exeter Coli.; Sir T. D. Acland, bart. of Christ Church; the Rev. A. Lockhart, of St. Mary Hall; J. Fletcher, esq. of Brasenose, the Rev. G. S. Penfold, of Merton, all grand compounders; the Rev. J. Spurway, of Exeter Coll.; the Rev. J. Perceval, T. Granger, I. Austin, and T. Davis, of Wadham Coll.; Messrs. R. Marsham and R. Pollen, of Merton; Mr. W. Nassau, sen. of Mag

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dalen; Mr. J. Spicer, the Hon. J. Somers Cocks, the Rev. C. Cator, and W. Austen, of Brasenose; the Rev. J. Forter, of Magdalen Hall.-B. A. Mr. T. Mills, of Christ Church; Messrs. J. Evans and W. G. Hayter, of Trinity College.

June 22.-Lord Crewe's Annual Commemoration of Founders and Benefactors, was celebrated in the Theatre, when the honorary degrees of D. C. L. were conferred on Lord Viscount Dillon; C. O. Bowles, esq. of North Aston, Oxfordshire; C. Berners, esq. of Woolverstonepark, Suffolk; J. P. Paul, esq. of High Grove, Gloucestershire; and on T. Perrot, esq. of Kingston-house, Berks. The honorary degree of M. A. was also conferred on Sir A. Hood, knt. and J. S. Graves, esq. of Exeter Coll.; and on G. B. Crossman, esq. of Magdalen. The Crewian oration was then delivered in a very animated manner by the Rev. W. Crowe, LL. B. the public orator.-The prize compositions were recited by the gentlemen to whom they have been adjudged, viz.: Chancellor's Prizes-The Latin Verse, "Germanicus Cæsar Varo Legionibusque suprema solvit," by Mr. W. A. Hammond, of Christ Church. The English Essay, "A Comparative Estimate of the English Literature of the 17th and 18th centuries," by Mr. R. Burdon, of Oriel College. The Latin Essay, "De Ephororum apud Lacedæmonios Magistratu," by Mr. R. D. Hampden of Oriel College.-Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize-English Verse," Niobe," by J. L. Adolphus, of St. John's College. The Rev. B. Dent, M. A. and the Rev. J. G. Villar, M. A. were elected fellows; and Mr. J. N. Harward, and Mr. W. R. Davies, scholars of Worcester College, on the foundation of Sir T. Cookes. The Rev. J. Moore, M. A. was elected fellow, and Mr. J. Strange, scholar, on the foundation of Mrs. S. Eaton,

June 23.-The following gentlemen were admitted to degrees in the Convocation-house-M. A. the Rev. T. Walsh, of Oriel; Rev. J. P. J. Parry, and Mr. G. R. Chinnery, of Christ Church; the Rev. T. Carr, of University Coll.; Rev, J. Brigstocke, of Jesus. B. A. Messrs. J. Vernon, of Worcester Coll.; J. Bassett, of Christ Church; M. Harrison and T. Atkinson, of Queen's; W. Sutton, of Baliol; and J. Rawlins, of Merton.

June 25.-The Rev. W. C. Frith, fellow of St. John's College, and chaplain in his majesty's service in the garrison of Zante, had the degree of D. C. L. conferred on him by convocation. Rev,

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Thos. Pennant, M. A. fellow of All Souls,
was admitted B. D. grand compounder.
Messrs. J. L. Adolphus, Philip Wynter,
James Davenport, and W. II Bury, were
admitted fellows, and Mr. Wm. L. Da-
vies, scholar, of St. John's.

June 30-The following gentlemen
were admitted to degrees:-M. A. J. Os-
born, esq. of Christ Church, grand com
pounder; Rev. W. Harriott, of Exeter
Coll; Rev. H. Bradridge, of Wadham
Coll.; the Right Hon. H. G. (Bathurst)
Lord Apsley, Mr. R. Peel, and the Rev.
J. Rolleston, of Christ Church. B. A.
Mr. D. Evans, of Jesus Coll.

The same day was instituted, by the Rev. W. Tournay, D. D. warden of Wadham Coll. (commissary for the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells,) the Rev. George Swayne, M. A. fellow of Wadham College, and chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Hood, to the rectory of Langridge, in the county of Somerset, void by the death of the Rev. Jonathan Cope, and on the presentation of Mrs. Blathwayt, of Dyrham-park, in the county of Gloucester.

July 1. The university seal was af fixed in full convocation to two dutiful and loyal addresses, to be presented to the Prince Regent; the one of thanks for the honour of his late visit to the University, and the other of congratulation on the peace. At the same time a delegacy was nominated, who, together with the chancellor, vice-chancellor, and proctors, presented these addresses to his royal highness on the 12th July.

July 2.--Rev. J. Sleath, of Wadham College, and head master of St. Paul's School, London, was admitted B. D. and D. D.; Rev. J. C. Palmer, of St. Mary Hall, was admitted B. C. L. grand compounder; Mr. A. W. Hare, of New College, was admitted B. A.

July 4.-Messrs. Wm. Dalby and Edw. Elliot, were admitted B. A.

July 5.-In a congregation, Rev. W. Williams, of Jesus College, was admitted B. D. and D. D.; Rev. J. C. Palmer, of St. Mary Hall, was admitted D. C. L. grand compounder; Mr. J. Eastwick, of New College, was admitted M. A. The number of regents in the act was as follows:-D.D. 13; D.C. L. 9; D. M. 3; M. A. 135.

CAMBRIDGE, June 17.-The vice-chancellor has this year adjudged Sir W. Browne's medals to Mr. J. H. Fisher, of Trinity College, for Greek odes-subject, Wellingtonus regionem Gallicum Pyrenais montibus subjectum despiciens; to Mr. J. J. Blunt, of St. John's College,

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for Latin ode, Germania Lipsia vindicata; to Mr. G. Waddington, of Trinity College, for the epigrams, Victor iterum fugiens. The following gentlemen have been admitted to the under-mentioned degrees:-B.D. The Rev. J. B. Hollingworth, St. Peter's; J. Kaye, fellow of Christ Coll.; H. Dixon, Sidney; J. Brocklebank, Pembroke Hall; R. Fiske and H. Pepys, fellows of St. John's; W. Par. ker, fellow of Emmanuel. M. A. D. J. Maynard, fellow of Catharine Hall. B. A. H. Wright, Emmanuel; C. Grove, Jesus; H. Smith, Trinity. B. C. L. H. C. Hare, Trinity-hall. Bachelor of Physic, T. P. Slaney, Trinity College.

June 24.-The annual prizes, of 15 guineas each, given by the representatives in parliament of this University, to two senior and two middle bachelors of arts, for the best Latin dissertations, are this year adjudged to R. M. Rolfe, fellow of Downing, and W. Wrightson, of Trinity College, senior bachelors; and to the Rev. J. Scholefield, of Trinity, and H. Downing Whittington, of St. John's College, middle bachelors.

June 28-The following gentlemen were admitted to degrees:-B. C. L. Henry Stephenson, Trinity Hall. B. A. Thomas Airey, of Trinity; Alfred Parrin, of St. John's; Francis Thackeray, of Pembroke. The Hon. Mr. Dawson, brother to Lord Portarlington, was admitted of Christ College.-The Rev. Thomas Hurst, senior fellow of Clare Hall, has been presented, by the master and fellows of that society, to the rectory of Brington cum Old Weston and Bythorn, in the county of Huntingdon. Richard Newton Adams, B. A. is elected mathematical lecturer of Sidney College.

July 2.-The Chancellor of the University, H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester arrived at Cambridge, and was waited upon by the heads of houses; and on the morning of the 5th, Field-marshal Prince Blücher honoured this seminary with a visit. After taking refreshment at Trinity Lodge, he procceded to the Senatehouse, where the University conferred on him the degree of LL. D., the public orator delivering a most eloquent oration on the eminent services conferred ou Europe by his consummate skill and bravery. He was accompanied by Lord Burghersh and Lord Charles Stewart,

who were

complimented with the same degree and similar harangues; and the chancellor next read an address, which was carried, to both houses of parliament, for the complete abolition of the slave-trade. Degrees were then conNEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 7.

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ferred on the following noblemen and gentlemen :-Hon. D. D. Rev. Geo. Thackeray, provost of King's. D. D. Rev. Wm. England, St. John's, rector of Came, Dorset; Rev. J. G. Hannington, St. John's; Rev. R. Venables, Clare Hall, rector of Ashwicken and Leziate, Norfolk, and vicar of Clyro, Radnor. D. C. L. Rev. T. Waite, Queen's Coll. Hon. M. A. Marquis of Exeter, St. John's; Earl of Euston, Sir Geo. Denys, bart. Hon. Mr. Lowther, Hon. H. Rodney, Trinity Coll.; Sir C. W. Farnaby, bart. St. John's; Sir W. C. Bagshawe, bart. Jesus Coil.; Hon. P. J. Stuart, Christ Coll.; Hon. H. Stanhope, Trinity Hall. M. A. Messrs. Taylor, Chambers, Evans, Brass, Adeane, Searle, Blacow, Tanner, Finch, Fox, Vickers, Dicey, Prowde, Mountain, sen. Poulter, Burrow, Dover, Peel, Fraser, Way, Philips, Webb, Woolfe, Platt, Mair, Rumbold, Davis, of Trinity Coll.; Messrs. Jenkins, Field, Hull, Allix, Ackland, Jackson, Carpendale, P. Johnson, Curtis, Hollinshead, Campbell, Bradshaw, Howson, Holcombe, Commeline, Royle, Johnstone, Edwards, Waddington, Prinsep, Pritchard, Rowlatt,of St. John's; Messrs. Lonsdale,Grove, Heath, of King's; Messrs. Rond, Everard, Plume, Bolton, of St. Peter's; Messrs. French, Watson, Wilson, Wilbraham, Fallowfield, of Pembroke; Messrs. Kitchingman, Sisson, Bedwell, of Clare; Messrs. Smyth, Bucke, Crabbe, of Caius; Messrs. Lamb, Maddocks,Spitty,of CorpusChristi; Mr. Storry, of Queen's; Messrs. Maynard, Baker,Phillips, of Catharine Hall; Messrs. Hustler, Abdy, Spilsbury,ofJesus; Messrs. Haggitt and Hayes, of Christ; Messrs. Clowes,Bushby, Wallis, Atkinson, of Magdalen; Messrs. Rogers, Clarke, Thistlewaite, Bourdier, Turmine, of Sidney; Messrs. Blomfield, Whish, Drage, Brown, Welby, Tuck, Tabberer, of Emmanuel; Mr. Willatts, of Downing.

The English, Greek, and Latin odes, were then recited, and the gold medals delivered by the chancellor to the gentlemen to whom the prizes had been adjudged. His royal highness and the other distinguished visitors left Cambridge the same evening.

July 11.-An address from the University to the Prince Regent on the peace, was presented to his royal highness at Carlton-house, by the vice-chancellor, accompanied by the deputation of the caput, proctors, &c. the Earl of Hardwicke, high-steward, the representatives, and about sixty other members of the University.

July 12.-John Griffith B. A. of E
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manuel college, was elected fellow of that society.

John Musgrave, B. A. of Gonville and Caius college, has been elected a fellow of that society, on the Perse foundation. The Rev. Joseph Gill, B. D. vicar of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, and one of the senior fellows of St. John's college, has been presented by the master and fellows of that society, to the rectory of Staplehurst in Kent.

DUBLIN. The provost and senior fellows will bestow three premiums of ten guineas each, or such inferior preinium as may appear to be deserved, on students, authors of the best poetical compositions in Greek, Latin, or Engish, on the subject of the glorious peace lately concluded. The composition to be sent into the senior lecturer, under fictitious signatures, on or before the 1st of November next.

At an examination lately held the premiums bestowed by the Archbishop of Armagh, for promoting the study of the Hebrew language, were adjudged to the undernamed students, bachelors of arts; Mr. Turner, Downes, Erck, Storey, and Cotter.

Mr. JOHN D'ALTON, of Dublin, will speedily publish in a quarto volume, Dermid, or Erin in the days of Boru, a metrical romance, in 12 cantos.

The Rev, HENRY HAYDEN, of Loughinislaud, in the diocese of Down, is preparing for the press, a new translation of the Cyropædia, or Institution of Cyrus the Great, from the original Greek of Xenophon, which will be illustrated with copious references and notes, critical and explanatory. The principal object of the translator is to point out the clear coincidence to be observed between the accounts given by the Greek author and those of the Jewish historians and penmen of the Old Testament, particularly referring to the completion of the prophecies of Isaiah and Daniel, relative to the overthrow and final destruction of Babylon by Cyrus.

We are glad to observe the editor of the Monthly Magazine affording a striking example of the truth of one of the mottos which he has borrowed from Mr.

Northcote's interesting Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds. That great painter," says the writer just mentioned, "on being questioned in regard to the cause of the inferiority of counterfeits and imitators, answered, that their being copyists was of itself a proof of the inferiority of their powers, and that while they continued

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to be so, it was impossible for them to attain superiority. It was like a man's resolving to go behind another, and whilst that resolution lasted, it would be impossible he should ever be on a par with him." The doughty knight is too well versed in the art of piracy, not to know his proper situation as a copyist, and we should have continued to suffer him to enjoy it without observation, but for the egregious falsehood with which he endeavours to cloak his literary thefts. In his last number, he has thought fit to copy, with some slight omissions, our memoir of Saint Pierre, impudently offering it as a translation from the Journal de Paris. Had it really been what he pretends, he would have taken especial care to have left the public in ignorance of the channel from which it was derived. Though we shall not be afraid to expose every species of literary as well as political quackery when it falls under our notice, yet we shall consider it complimen tary to our labours when cotemporary journalists make extracts from our publication, if, which common justice would seem to require, they merely acknowledge the source to which they are indebted.

Dr. WATKINS, author of the Biographical Dictionary, has circulated proposals for publishing by subscription, in one large volume 8vo, a Dictionary of Universal History and Chronology: exhibiting, under their appropriate heads of reference, the Public Events of all Nations, ancient and modern; the Rise and Opinions of various Sects, the Inventions and Discoveries of Science, the Narratives of Sieges and Battles, a Summary of Councils and Treaties, the Succession of Sovereign States, the Institution of Military and Religious Orders, and the most remarkable Phenomena that have occurred in the natural and moral world. The whole will be drawn from the best authorities, which will be specified at the end of each article, for the satisfaction of the reader and the direction of the inquirer; and accompanied with two copious Tables of Chronology, the one from the Creation to the Christian Era; and the other from that period to the present time.

The Rev. T. F. DIBDIN is preparing for publication the Bibliographical Decameron, or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon the early state of the Fine Arts, ancient and modern Typography and Bibliography, embellished with numerous engravings.

The Rev. Dr. HERBERT MARSH is printing a Comparative View of the Churches

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of England and Rome, in an 8vo volume.

Mr. EDW. PLANTA has in the press the Stranger's Guide to Paris, containing notices of every thing interesting to strangers in the French capital, together with a Gazetteer of France, and a concise History of the Kingdom.

Mr. JAMES WATHEN will, in a few days, publish his Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812 to Madras and China, and Return by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena.

The Rev. FREDERIC NOLAN has just completed a Vindication of the received Text of the Greek Testament, which will shortly be submitted to the public.

Mr. JAMESON has in the press a work on the Nature of the Terrestrial Globe and Maps, the Principles of Projection, and the Construction of Maps, illustrated by eighteen plates of diagrams.

Mr. J. I. MAXWELL will soon commence the publication of the Aquatic Tourist on the banks of the Thames from Westminster to Windsor.

Mr.STEPHANOEGIDIO PETRONI, an Italian Professor of Belles Lettres, has come to London for the purpose of publishing a poem in his native language, descriptive of the Naval Engagements of the English Monarchy, froin Alfred the Great to the present time, accompanied with notes and observations, by Mr. Joseph La Vallée. This work, we are told by the author, will form two 4to. volumes, for which the subscribers will be charged the very moderate price of sixteen gui

neas!

Among the works of which this Mr. PETRONI announces himself the author, is a "Translation of 32 Fables of Phadrus, recently discovered at Naples." The merit of this discovery is claimed by Mr. CASITTI, of Naples, who asserts, that he found this treasure in the royal library of that city. He in consequence prepared a new edition of all the Fables of Phædrus, accompanied with many learned annotations. This work he sent to many foreign literati, and among others, to the late celebrated Professor HEYNE, of Göttingen. From most of them Mr. Casitti received congratulations on his discovery, and thanks for his present; but Heyne, than whom, from his extensive erudition, well-known acumen, and unbiassed opinion, there could not, perhaps, be a more competent judge, candidly assured him, that he thought the thirty-two new fables very pretty, but could not find in them the elegance of expression and ingenious

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turns of Phædrus, and was therefore disposed to consider them as the production of some more modern scholar.

Mr. THOMAS MYERS, A. M. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, will shortly publish an Essay on Improving the Condition of the Poor; including an attempt to answer the important question,-How men of landed property can most effectually contribute towards the general improvement of the lower classes of society on their cstates, without diminishing the value of their own property.

The same author has also in the press, A Practical Treatise on finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea, with tables designed to facilitate the calculations, translated from the French of M. de Rossel; to which an extensive series of practical examples, adapted to the various rules given in the work,-an introduction to the tables, explanatory of their construction and use,--and some additional tables are added by the translator. The whole will form one volume in 8vo., and comprise the most simple and commodious methods of performing all the astronomical calculations requisite at sea, with the assistance of the Nautical Almanac only.

Speedily will be published, The Restoration of Israel, by R. JOSEPH CROOL, Teacher of the Hebrew Language in the University of Cambridge: and an Answer, in which the whole Argument from the Fulfilment of the Prophecies contained in the Old Testament, in proof that Jesus, the Son of Mary, is the promised Messiah, is brought, under consideration, and the objections of modern Jews are distinctly answered: by THOMAS SCOTT, Rector of Aston Sandford Bucks.

Mr. BоHTE, of York-street, Coventgarden, has lately returned from the celebrated literary fair held annually at Leipzig, where he has made considerable purchases, not only of the best modern German productions, but also of continental editions of the classics. To the lovers of German literature, as well as the general scholar, this must, therefore, prove a most favourable opportunity for supplying their respective wants.

Messrs. LONGMAN & Co. will publish next winter a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur. The text of this edition will be a faithful transcript from the Wynkyn de Worde edition, in the possession of Earl Spencer, with an Introduction and Notes, tending to elucidate the history and bibliography of the work, as well as the fictions of the Round Table chivalry

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