DAILY PRICES

Bank 13 per Cts per Ct, 4 perCt 5 per C. Redu. Cons. Cons. Navy.

OF STOCKS, FROM SEPTEMBER 25, 1816, TO OCTOBER 25, 1816, BOTH INCLUSIVE. India So. Sea O.S.S. INew S Stock. Stock. Anns Sea An.

Long | Irish 3 per Ct Imp. Anns. 5 perCt Imp. Anns.

3 pm. 2

Ex. Bills.

5 pm.612

5 pm. 612

5 per Ct. Ind. Bon.

3 per Day 8 per Day Consol

Ex. Bills.

for Ac.

State Lot. Tickets.

6

8 pm. 2

231 19s od

182

6

7 pm. 2

3 pm. 2

Ditto

61

6

2

Ditto

All Exchequer Bills, dated prior to the month of November, 1815, have been advertised to be paid off, and the Interest thereon has ceased.

6 pm.162

N. B. The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices, taken from the Course of the Exchange, &c. originally published by John Castaign, in the year 1712, and not published, every Tuesday and Friday, under the authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, by

JAMES WETENHALL, Stock-Broker, No. 7, Capel court, Bartholomew-lane, London, On application to whom, the original documents for near a century past may be real.

No. 35.]

MR. EDITOR,

THE grand secret of modern mechanic art, I mean the division of labour, by which the most trifling object, a pin or a needle, passes successively through numerous hands before it attains the requisite perfection, may be said to be equally advantageous when applied to the cultivation of science. This is of course to be understood with the restrictions which the difference of intellectual and manual labour naturally impiies. Though an article of the manufacture of Sheffield or Birmingham derives its perfection from the labours of various workmen, each of whom is incapable of finishing the whole, a product of the intellect requires a directly opposite process, and cannot possess the unity and symmetry of design, and the regularity of execution, which constitute its chief beauty, unless it be begun and completed by the same man. Yet, considering the entire mass of human science as one whole, divided and subdivided ad infinitum, it is a happy dispensation of Providence that there are found in man sufficient varieties of intellect and propensity to furnish cultivators for every province in the dominion of knowledge. As, generally speaking, every one is here left to choose his own way, it might be apprehended that the most tempting paths would be overcrowded with competitors, while the thorny and uninviting would be wholly deserted. But here, again, Nature has been kind, and Chance, a word which it would be impiety to employ, except as a confession of our own ignorance, as an homage to that "Direction which we cannot see," Chance, I say, leads into every field labourers sufficient for its cultivation. Thus, even the most laborious enterprizes find persons who cheerfully engage in them-who, unappalled by difficulties which would make ordinary men tremble, boldly press forward with even increasing ardour, seeing in every new obstacle a new incentive, and regarding labour as its own reward." :

These reflections have been suggested to my mind by any receiving two new volumes from the prolific pen of NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 35.

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Mr. P. A. NEMNICH, of Hamburgh, of whom you have already spoken in your valuable publication. As I had the good fortune, during many years' residence at Hamburgh, to be particularly acquainted. with this industrious, indefatigable, and. intelligent writer, I imagine your readers may be pleased with some account of his literary concerns, which they may depend upon as authentic.

In the year 1791, Mr. Nemnich published, under the title of Catholicon, the prospectus of a work in which he designed to unite all known languages. As he did not receive sufficient encouragement to induce him to embark in so extensive an undertaking, the design was abandoned.

Having, however, once conceived the idea of an extensive lexicographic work, he could not persuade himself wholly to renounce it, though he had been reluc➡ tantly compelled to abandon his grand design. He still thought that scientific dictionaries on single subjects, with the names of the objects of them in many languages, would be welcome to the public.

In pursuance of this idea he published already in 1793 the first part of his Pos lyglot Lexicon of Natural History, in conjunction with the first part of a General Marine Dictionary by his friend Mr. JOHN HENRY RÖDING, lately de-. ceased, of which I shall speak in the sequel. The illustrious Empress Catherine II. of Russia gave, in 1796, a considerable sum for the promotion of this undertaking, and the Emperor Alexander afterwards honoured each of the authors with a diamond ring.

The flourishing state of commerce at that period, and the constant intercourse between all the commercial nations, rendered a collection and just description of all the articles of merchandize almost indispensably necessary. To supply, as far as possible, this want, which was generally felt, Mr. Nemnich composed his Dictionary of Merchandize in Twelve Languages. So little had been done in this extensive field, and that little had been done so il!, that the difficulties to VOL. VI.

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be surmounted in this first attempt were numberless and inconceivable. He, however, succeeded in producing a nomenclature which, notwithstanding its unavoidable deficiencies and imperfections, was every where received with eagerness, as an entirely new work indispensably necessary in the counting house of every merchant of respectability. This Dictionary appeared in 1797, and procured the author a present from the Board of Trade at Hamburgh.

Encouraged by the success he had obtained, he undertook, in the year 1799, a journey to England, in order to acquire further knowledge of articles of merchandize. The ample information which he obtained enabled him to publish two Supplements to his Dictionary of Merchandize. Besides this he published, in 1800, an Account of his Observations on the Manufactures in various parts of England.

During his visit to London, some gentlemen of note in the literary world expressed a wish to possess the names of diseases in several languages, according to the plan of the dictionaries which he had already published. He immediately took up this idea, and executed it in a work under the title of Lexicon Nosolo gicum Polyglotton. This work was eagerly purchased, and has been long out of print.

Mr. Neinnich's reputation as an able and useful writer was now so well established, that he was sure of encouragement in any new literary enterprize that he might chuse to attempt. His active mind could not be long without pursuing some new idea. He began to collect the technical terms and phrases usually occurring in commerce and commercial jurisprudence, and having published a prospectus he obtained in a very short time no less than 2,000 subscribers. This work appeared in 1804 under the title of Counting-House Lexicon. It was dedicated to the Emperor Alexander, and the generous approbation of that august sovereign inflamed the author's zeal in the public service.

His zeal was further rewarded by the gracious manner in which his works were received by the King of Prussia, who conferred on him the Great Honorary Gold Medal.

Notwithstanding the avocations of a laborious profession, Mr. Nemnich being a lawyer of considerable eminence, he still continued to apply himself to the commercial sciences, and the knowledge of merchandize, as his favourite pur

suits. Desirous of giving all possible perfection to the works which had already acquired him so much reputation, and convinced that he could learn but little more from books, he resolved on a new tour, and accordingly made a journey, in the years 1805 and 1806, to all the commercial and manufacturing places of England, Scotland, and Ireland. One of the first fruits of this very productive journey was the interesting and well known account of it which appeared in 1807. It was dedicated to His Highness the Prince of Orange, now King of the Netherlands, who expressed his approbation of it in the most flattering terms.

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In the years 1808, 9, and 10, he travelled in the same view through the greatest part of Germany, all Holland, France, Italy, and Switzerland. account of the journey was published in eight small volumes. It was sent to many princes and sovereigns, who honoured and encouraged him by their presents and approbation.

Besides these more important works he published numerous smaller essays, as, for example: " On the various kinds of Tobacco, and the Trade in that arti cle"-" Contributions to the knowledge of Segars"-" Remarkable History of the Family Medicines in England”—“Mercantile Description of Tonningen," &c.

Above all, however, he employed his leisure during the period that Hamburgh groaned under the French yoke in arranging the materials which he had collected during bis above-mentioned travels. These studies were a real relief to his mind during the gloom of that unhappy period: "While my thoughts," says he," were employed upon England, I felt less severely the weight of the French tyranny."

Scarcely was the happy deliverance of Hamburgh and Germany from the French yoke accomplished, when he inmediately prepared to give the public the ripened fruits of so many years labour. The expences attending this great un dertaking are very considerable, and it is to be hoped that an adequate sale of the various works as they successively appear will enable him to finish the great and useful task which he has so happily begun.

What he has now published within these two years is as follows:

I.

(1.) The English and German, and German-English Encyclopedia of Merchandize. 1 vol. 4to. 1815.

(2.) The French and German, and