Stock. Bonds. 843 98 18 29 681 67 a 85 99 18 185 4 a 6 pr. 6 a 5 pr. 30 681 67 a 68 850 99 19 185 681 -2 683 3 681 4 243 691 5 68 6 68 EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN AUGUST, 1808. 4 perCt's perCt 5 perCt Long India India Cons. Navy. 1797 Ann. Exchqu. South Sea Old New Om- Irish Imp. Eng. Lott. English Stock. Ann. 5perCt. sperCt. Tickets. . Prizes. 4 a pr. 4 a 5 pr. 4 a 6 pr. 4 a 5 pr. 5 a 6 pr. 732 9 2431 68 67 84 983 18 4 a 5 pr. 3 a 4 pr. 1 pr. 10 243 67 67 a 663 83 98 18 180 4 a 5 pr. 5 a 4 pr. 67 11 2411 66/3 66 a 65 18 4 a 6.pr. 3 a 4 pr. 82 97 1 a 1 a 5 pr. 12 6623 65 a 66 97 3 a 4 pr. dis. dis. 13 67 66 a 83 98 185—-- 4 a 5 pr. 4 a 2 pr. 11 Sunday adis. Ditto 15 661 661a 16 240 661 66 a adis. 974 653 Ditto. 18 176 4 a 2 pr. 4 a 2 pr. 08 178 3 a 4 pr. 2 a 4 pr. 66 par dif. 66. Ditto. dis. 66 Ditto. 18 178 3 a 4 pr. 3 a 5 pr. 6665 182 -3 a 4 pr. 14 a 5 pr. 661 18플 179 4 a 2 pr. 5 a 3 pr.. 1 dis. dis. dis 1 dis. a 1 dis.. 65 Ditto [Printed by J. NICHOLS and SON, Red Lion Passage SIR JAMES BRANSCOMB and CO. Stock-Brokers, 11, Holborn; 37, Cornhill; and 38, Hay-market. THE GENTLEMAN'S LOND. GAZETTE CAMBRIDGE Canterbury 2 Carli.2.-Chefter2 ChelmsCambria. MAGAZINE Cornw.-Coventry] Dôrchet.-Effex Exeter 2, Glouc. 2 Northampton 2 Reading Salisb. Jerfey 2, Guern.2. Meteorological Diaries for August and Sept. 762 Longevity in Herefordshire-On Swallows 796 Embellished with Perspective Views of KNOWLE CHAPEL, WARWICKSHIRE; BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet, London; where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addreffed, POST-FAID. 1,808. The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight o'clock in the morning, are 3 65-31; those of the corresponding month in the year 1807, were 63 17-31; in 1806, 62 7-31; in 1805, 63 1-3d; and in 1804, 60 1-3d. The quantity of rain fallen this month is equal to 3 inches 6-100ths; that of the corresponding month in the year 1807, 2 inches 55-100ths; in 1806, 4 inches 27100ths; in 1805, 2 inches 25-100ths; in 1804, 2 inches 26-100ths; and in 1803, i inch 81-100ths. St. James's-square, Bristol, 9th mo. 7th, 1908. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for September 1808. By W. CARY, Strand. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Aug. Sept. 27 12 56 13 14 56 15 61 16 57 6-4 54 ,67 showery 82 showery 18 55 ,85 cloudy 64 19 60 66 58 29, 96 rain 57 ,97 fair 54 86 fair 5 55 64 55 78 rain 21 ,30 fair 67 54 4929, 68 rain 54 50 ,95 fair 54 30,08 cloudy 26 4.9 63 57 29,99 fair THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. For SEPTEMBER, 1808. Mr. URBAN, FOR Sept. 15. OR some time past, among other pursuits, during my leisure hours, I have tried a variety of experiments respecting the various and least expensive articles from which Paper can be made; and, partly with a view to this, I have travelled through the greater part of Scotland, England, and Ireland. The result of my experiments and observations is, that by far the cheapest and most ready articles from which Paper can be made, are the refuse of Hemp and Flax; and the hempen particles of the Hop and Bean plant. It is a fact that about the generality of mills for beating and dressing Hemp and Flax, a large proportion, in some inland places amounting to nearly one half what is car, ried thither, is either left there to rot under the name of refuse, or thrown away as of no use; because too rough and short for being spun, or converted into Cloth. Now, from the experiment I have tried, I have uniformly found that though too tough and short for being converted into Cloth, even of the coarsest kind, the refuse of Hemp and Flax, on being beat and shaken so as to separate the strawy from the tough stringy particles, which can be done in a few minutes by a mill driven by wind, water, steam, or even by an old blind horse, becomes thereby as soft and pliable, and as useful for making Paper, as the longest and what is reckon ed the most valuable part of the plant, after it has been converted into cloth, and worn for years, In its natural state, it is true, the refuse of Hemp and Flax is generally of a brown and somewhat dark coLour. But what of that? By the application of a little oil of vitriol, and other cheap ingredients well known to every bleacher, such refuse, with out being in the least injured for making paper, can in a few hours, if necessary, be made as white as the finest Cambric. By being beat when wet by a mill or otherwise, it also acquires a considerable degree of whiteness. There are at a medium published in London every morning 16,000 newspapers; and, every evening, about 14,000; of those published every other day, there are about 10,000. The Sunday newspapers amount to about 25,000; and there are nearly 20,000 other weekly papers, making in all the enormous sum of 245,000 per week, At a me dium, 20 newspapers are equal to' one pound. Hence the whole amounts to about 5 tons per week, or 260 tons per annum, But though this is not perhaps the one half the Paper expended yearly in London on periodical publications, and what may be called fugacious literature; and not one fourth of what is otherwise consumed in printing-houses in the country at large; yet there are materials enough in the refuse of the Hemp and Flax raised in Britain and Ireland for all this, and much more. Nor is this all; for the bine or straw of Hops contains an excellent Hemp for making cloth, canvass, ropes, cables, and a thousand other articles; also the very best materials for making all kinds of Paper, And it is a fact, that were even one half of the bine of the Hops raised in the Counties of Kent, Sussex, and, Worcester, instead of being thrown away after the Hops are prisked or burnt, as is commonly done, steeped for five or six days in water, and beat in the same way as is done with Hemp and Flax (independent of what might be got from scarlet runners, nettles, the haum of potatoes, &c.), there would be found annually materials' enough for three times the Paper used in the British dominions. While we admire the rapid progress that is making in Painting, Sculpture. Engraving, Architecture, Coach-building, and the elegant arts in general, one cannot help being astonished at the slow progress that is making in discoveries of the useful kind, in various departments. Though it has not been attended to, aor, so far as I know, has ever been mentioned by any one, yet it is certain that, according to its size, every Bean plant contains from 20 to 35 filaments running up on the outside, under a thin membrane from the root to the very top, all round; the one at each of the four corners being thicker and stronger than the rest. It is also certain that, next to Chinese, a seagrass, in other words the material with which hooks are sometimes fixed to the ends of fishing-lines, the filaments of the Bean plant are the strongest and most durable yet discovered. These, with a little beating, rubbing, and shaking, are easily separated from the strawy part, when the plant has been a few days steeped in water, or is damp, and in a state approaching to fermentation, or what is commonly called rotting. From carefully observing the mediuin number of stalks, or bean plants, in a square foot, in a variety of fields, and multiplying these by 4840, the number of square feet in an acre, and then weighing the hemp or filaments of a certain number of stalks, I find that there are, at a medium, about 2 cwt. of hemp on these filaments in an acre, admirably calculated for being converted into canvas, cables, cordage, and a thousand other things where strength and durability are of importance; as well as, with a little preparation, into Paper of all kinds, even that of the most delicate texture. Now, as there are, at least, 200,000 acres of ticks, horse and other beans, in Great Britain and Ireland; and since, where there is not machinery for the purpose, the poor of each workhouse, and others, both young and old, males as well as females, might (hemp having risen lately from 60 to 100 pounds per ton) be advantageously employed, and gain something handsome for themselves, in peeling or otherwise separating the fi aments from the strawy part of the Bean plant, after the beans are threshed out; I leave it to you, Mr. Urban, to judge of the importance of the idea here held out, not only to the landed proprietors and the poor, but to the community at large. And, as the insertion of the above in your useful Miscellany may be the means of preventing many, perhaps some thousand tons of valuable vegetable materials for making Paper, &c. from being thrown away as usual; your giving it a place, as you lately did the result of my experiments on the Pruning of the Vine, will much oblige him who has sent you a specimen of Bean Hemp; and who is, with respect and good wishes, Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, JAMES HALL. Sept. 24. HEN the happy exertions of ceeded in completing important discoveries, a considerable period must generally elapse before the real value of these discoveries can be duly appreciated. On their first promulgation, the truth is liable to be obscured, both by the misguided enthusiasın of their honest advocates, and also by the violent malevolence of interested opponents. The dispassionate and penetrating mind may indeed, at all times, discriminate between reality and misrepresentation; but to convince the multitude is no easy task. The generality of the world are far more influenced by ridicule than by reason. Scurrility and Invective carry greater weight than solid arguments; and vulgar jokes are more forcible than irrefutable facts. The most beneficial inventions are hence retarded in their progress, and the vilest impostures are not unfrequently received with the warmest encouragement. These observations have been occasioned by the consideration of the rise and progress of a modern discovery, which has justly excited an unexampled interest. I allude to the the system of Inoculation for the CowPox, which Dr. Jenner introduced into the world. The merits of this discovery have been discussed with an earnestness and solicitude proportionate to its confessed importance; and innumerable publications have appeared on the subject. The advocates of Vaccination have exulted in the prospect of exterminating the Small |