takes place on strings, in the manner of a piano-forte, to whose tone it assimilates. It is provided with flutes and a triangle, forming a complete band; but, instead of requiring to be turned by a handle, the action is mechanically produced, and it only requires to be wound up occasionally.

La Lande's Journey to India.-M. De La Lande, associate naturalist to the king's garden at Paris, has just set out on his travels to the Cape of Good Hope, where he will pursue his researches in botany, zoology, and the various departments of natural history. He will proceed thence to India, to promote there the ulterior object of his mission in the Indian

Seas.

Turnip Fly. From experiments made by Lord Thanet and Mr. Grey, it has been ascertained, that lime sown by hand, or distributed by a machine, is an infallible protection to turnips against the ravages of this destructive insect. It should be applied as soon as the turnips come up, and in the same daily rotation in which they were sown. The lime should be slacked immediately before it is used, if the air be not sufficiently moist to render that operation unnecessary.

New Mode of Grafting Trees.-The common method of grafting, by making a transverse section in the bark of the stock, and a perpendicular slit below it, is frequently unsuccessful. It is, therefore, recommended in a late number of the Annales de Chimie, to reverse the operation, by making the vertical slits above the transverse section, and pushing the bud upwards into its position.

Mode of preserving Fruit from the Effects of Frost.-M. Bienenberg, of Leynitz, in Siberia, has contrived a sort of rope made of straw, or hemp, with which he envelopes fruit trees, for the purpose of protecting them against the frost; the ends of the rope being, for this purpose, put into and reaching to the bottom of a vessel filled with spring water. A single vessel will suffice for several trees, by winding the same rope, or many united ropes, round all of them, and placing the two ends in the vessel, which should be four or five yards distant from the trees, care being taken that the branches do not touch the ice upon the surface of the water. From the use of this remedy its inventor has for several years derived great advantages. It has also been proved in many parts of Prussia and Poland, and always been successful. Its adoption will be particularly useful for apricots, which blossoming early, are more exposed to the destructive effects of late frosts than most other trees.

New Mode of Fattening Pigs.-A pig, belonging to Mr. Fisher, of Seresby Inn, lately gained, by feeding on Indian corn, in the course of six weeks and three days, the enormous weight of 15 stone. This mode of feeding has long been known to the Neapolitans, whose pigs are so fat as hardly to be able to move.

Dry Rot.-It is asserted in several respectable journals, that this most destructive enemy of buildings, which generally commences its ravages in the cellars, may be prevented, or its progress checked, by whitewashing them yearly, mixing with the wash as much copperas as will give them a clear yellow hue.

Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres at Paris.-This academy has proposed the following subject for the prize to be awarded in 1821:-"To compare the monuments which remain of the ancient empire of Persia and Chaldea, either edifices, basso relievos, statues, or inscriptions, amulets, engraved stones, coins, cylinders, &c. with the religious doctrines and allegories contained in the Zend Avesta, and with the indications and data which have been preserved to us by Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Oriental writers, on the opinions and customs of the Persians

and Chaldeans; and to illustrate and explain them, as much as possible, by each other." The prize is a gold medal of 1,500 francs value. The essays are to be written in Latin or French, and sent before the 1st of April, 1821. The prize will be adjudged in July following.

Italy. The search of the Tiber for remains of antiquity has commenced at Rome, though it is said with little success. The excavations at Pompeii, however, are carried on very successfully; and several new edifices are said to have been discovered in the street which leads to the Temple of Iris, to that of Hercules, and to the Theatre. Some surgical instruments of good workmanship are said also to have been found amongst the ruins.

Andre Mustoridi, well known as a respectable historiographer, especially by the publication of the fragments of several Greek unpublished authors, has fixed his residence in Venice. He had formerly been for some time at Vienna, to consult the rich cabinet of medals in that capital, previous to the completion of the third volume of his great work, entitled Illustrazioni Corcyrese, the first volume of which was published in 1811, at Milan, where it was followed by a second in 1817. The third is appropriated to the moneys of Corcyra, now Corfu, the birth-place of the author, who had been appointed, by the public authorities of his country, historiographer of the Ionian Isles.

Oriental MSS.-A collection of nearly 500 Persian, Arabic, and Turkish MSS. has lately been added at once to the treasures already possessed by the Asiatic Museum of St. Petersburgh Academy. They were collected in Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia, by M. Rousseau, formerly the consulgeneral of France at Aleppo, and afterwards at Bagdad, a gentleman well versed in the different languages of the East. On their arrival in France they were purchased by the Russian agents, before any competition could arrive from other countries. The Asiatic Museum, which was previously distinguished by its fine collection of Chinese, Japanese, Maritchon, Mingol, Thalmuck, and Tungusian writings, has, by this sudden and important addition of Mussulman MSS., gained as much in utility as it has acquired in rank and reputation among similar collections in foreign countries.

New Astronomical Society.-An Astronomical Society, on an extensive scale, and very liberal plan, was established in London on the 8th of February last. Its first meeting was held on the 10th of March, at the house of the Geological Society, in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and was very numerously attended. A paper by the Rev. Dr. Pearson was read on the subject of a new micrometer, which he has invented for measuring small. distances in the field of a telescope. It is founded on the doubly refracting property of rock-crystal, and promises to be a great acquisition to astronomical instruments. Several valuable works on the subject of astronomy were presented to the society, as the foundation of a library, and many new members were proposed.

Singular Publication.-A letter from Berlin states, that the police have seized, in all the booksellers' shops in that city, the work of M. Brenneck, advertised some time since in several journals, under the title of " A Proof from the Bible, that Christ after his Crucifixion remained Twenty-seven Years upon Earth, and promoted in silence the good of Humanity.' difficult to say which ought to create the greater surprise, the writing of such a book as this, or the means resorted to for its suppression.

It is

Beauties of the Antijacobin.-We are tempted by its singular absurdity to extract the following initiatory sentences of the "Religious Retrospect" of the last Antijacobin Review :-" By the time this number will issue from the press, the election in England at least will be nearly concluded. In some cases the result has been gratifying. Public indignation has driven Sir

Godfrey Webster from the representation of the county of Sussex; and the city of London, by rejecting Waithman, has shewn that vulgarity and ignorance may succeed for a time only; but that the principles of the constitution are better understood than Waithman supposes, and more dearly cherished than to be committed to his care." These are the knotty points of faith discussed these the important proceedings in these extraordinary days of religious exertions recorded in the pages of a journal which professes to be the oracle of the high church and king party the very quintessence of orthodoxy in faith and in politics, and a main pillar of the established order of things.

ANECDOTES

OF THE LATE GEORGE III.

[Of our late lamented Sovereign we purpose from time to time to give a selection of the best and most authentic anecdotes that have been published, purposing in so doing to record and to preserve what is valuable, rather than aiming to give what is new in illustration of his character.]

LORD MANSFIELD, on making a report to the King of the conviction of Mr. Malowny, a Catholic priest, who was found guilty, in the county of Surrey, of celebrating mass, was induced, by a sense of reason and humanity, to represent to his Majesty the excessive severity of the penalty which the law imposed for the offence. The King, in a tone of the most heartfelt benignity, immediately answered, "God forbid, my lord, that religious difference in opinion should sanction persecution, or admit of one man within my realms suffering unjustly; issue a pardon immediately for Mr. Malowny, and see that he is set at liberty."

The same tolerant and liberal principles-the same truly Christian spirit, characterized him in private as in public, two or three pleasing instances of which are upon record. At the York Assizes, in 1803, the clerk of a mercantile house in Leeds was tried on a charge of forgery, found guilty, and condemned to death. His family, at Halifax, was very respectable; and his father, in particular, bore an excellent character. Immediately after the sentence was passed on the unfortunate young man, a dissenting minister of the Baptist persuasion, who had long been intimate with the father, ventured to address his Majesty in a petition, soliciting the pardon of the son of his friend. Fully aware that it had been almost an invariable rule with the government to grant no pardon in cases of forgery, he had little hope of success; but, contrary to his expectation, his petition prevailed, and the reprieve was granted. That the solicitation of a private individual should have succeeded, when similar applications, urged by numbers, and supported by great interest, had uniformly failed, may excite surprise, and deserves particular observation.-The following circumstances, however, the veracity of which may be relied upon, will fully explain the singularity of the fact. In the year 1802, a dignified divine, preaching before the Royal Family, happened to quote a passage illustrating his subject from a living writer, whose name he did not at the time mention. The King, who was always remarkably attentive, was struck with the quotation, and immediately noted the passage for inquiry. At the conclusion of the service, he asked the preacher from whom his extract had been taken? and

being informed that the author was a dissenting minister in Yorkshire, he expressed a wish to have a copy of the original discourse. The royal inclination was accordingly imparted to the author, who lost no time in complying with it, accompanying the work with a very modest letter, expressive of the high sense which the writer entertained of the honour conferred upon him. His Majesty was so well pleased with the production, as to signify his readiness to serve the author. The case of the above young man shortly after afforded this amiable and disinterested minister an opportunity of supplicating, at the hands of the Monarch, the exercise of his royal prerogative. The dissenting minister here alluded to was the late Rev. Dr. John Fawcett, and the discourse was his celebrated" Essay on Anger," which has since that period been often reprinted. The life of this excellent man has been lately published by his son, who, with peculiar diffidence, only makes a distant allusion to this anecdote. His motives for not emblazoning, whilst his late Majesty lived, the successful interference of his relation, will be appreciated by every lover of decorum and propriety.

It is said to have been the King who first suggested to Mr. West the professional study of the Scripture history, in which that venerable artist has since so eminently excelled, and that he desired him to bring his drawings to the palace for his inspection. Mr. West did so; and came at a time when the Sovereign had with him some dignified clergymen of the higher order. The company were all gratified with the sketches, and particularly their accordance with the sacred text, affording proof of the painter's acquaintance with the Scriptures. "And do you know how that was?" said his Majesty to the prelate who made the remark. "Not exactly, your Majesty."- "Why, my lord, I'll tell you, Mr. West's parents were Quakers, and they teach their children to read the Bible very young--I wish that was more the case with us, my lord."

The King was one day passing in his carriage through a place near one of the royal palaces, when the rabble were gathered together to interrupt the worship of the dissenters: his Majesty stopped to know the cause of the hubbub, and being answered it was only some affair between the town's people and the methodists, he replied, loud enough to be heard by many, "The methodists are a quiet good kind of people, and will disturb nobody: and if I can learn that any persons in my employ disturb them, they shall be immediately dismissed." The King's most gracious speech was speedily recapitulated through the whole town, and persecution has not dared to lift its hand there since that period.

Notwithstanding this, however, intolerance crept into one of the royal palaces we believe Kensington. The King seeing a female domestic in tears, catechised her on the cause; and finding that her grief arose from being prohibited by her supérior from going to a dissenting meeting in the neighbourhood, his Majesty called that superior, and reproved her sharply, declaring that he would suffer no persecution during his reign.

The ardour with which his Majesty engaged in the services of the church could not but be remarked by all his fellow-worshippers. Bishop Watson, however, says, "The late Dr. Heberden told me, that the clergyman at Windsor, on a day when the Athanasian Creed was to be read, began with, Whosoever will be saved, &c. The King, who usually responded with a loud voice, was silent. The minister repeated, in a higher tone, his Whosoever, &c. The King continued silent. At length the Apostles' Creed was repeated by the minister, and the King followed him throughout with a distinct and audible voice." This we do not consider as an indication of the King's hesitation as to the doctrine of the Trinity, but to the uncharitable clauses too intimately connected with it, in this part of the liturgy of our established church.

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PRACTICAL Hints on Domestic Rural Economy, relating particularly to the Management of Kitchen and Fruit Gardens and Orchards. By William Speechly. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

An Essay on the Management of Hedges and Hedge-row Timber. By Fras. Blaikie, Steward and Land Agent to W. T. Coke, Esq. 12mo. 2s. On the Economy of Farm Manure, &c. with an Appendix of the Inverted Horse Shoe, invented by Mr. Blaikie. 12mo. 2s.

The Farmer and Land Steward's Assistant; or, a Specimen of Farm Book Keeping; from books of real business. By John Mather. 4to. 10s. 6d. boards.

A Practical Treatise on the Culture and Management of the Carnatian, Auricula, Ranunculus, Tulip, and other Flowers. By Thomas Hogg, Gardener.

An Essay on the Uses of Salt for Agricultural Purposes. By Cuthbert William Johnson.

A New System of Cultivation, without Lime, Dung, or Summer Fallow. By Major-General Beatson. 8vo.

Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. Vol. iii. Part 4. 11. 6s. 6d.

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Warwickshire Delineated. By Francis Smith. With a Map of the County, and Plates. Foolscap 8vo. 5s. 6d.

An Original History of the City of Gloucester, By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbrooks, M. A. 4to. 31. 3s. Royal 4to. 51. 5s.

Leigh's New Picture of England and Wales. 12s. bds. 13s. half-bound. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, in a Series of 100 Etchings. By John Sell Cottman. With Historical and Descriptive Notices. Part I. super royal folio, 31. 3s. Proof impression on India paper, 51. 5s. To be completed in four Parts.

An Historical Map of Palestine. 11. 8s. Canvas and roller, 11. 15s. A Statistical, Commercial, and Political Description of Venezuela, Trinidad, Margarita, and Tobago; from the French of M. Lavaysse.

Information relative to the United States of America and the British Colonies. By Wm. Kingdom, jun. 10s. 6d.

A Series of Views of the Abbeys and Castles in Yorkshire; drawn and engraved by W. Westall, A. R. A. and J. Mackenzie; with Historical and Descriptive Accounts by T. D. Whittaker, LL. D. &c. No. I. imperial 4to. 10s. 6d.

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Walks through Wales. By Thomas Evans.

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