superior merit, for proficiency in Sanscrit. Having already received the gold medal for his acquirements in that particular branch of learning, he was precluded, under the college-regulations, from again receiving a similar mark of honor. The Gold Medals. To the same gentleman, for history and political economy, for classics and for mathematics: also the first prize for theology and law. To Mr. John Fendall, for Persian and Sanscrit.-To Mr. Andrew Anderson, for law and mathematics-To Mr. Paul Andrew Wynch, for English composition. Prizes of Books To Mr. Henry Chastenay, the first prize for mathematics, classics, and Bengallee, among the juniors. To Mr. Charles Norris, the second prize for composition, theology, and classics, among the juniors. To Mr. John Young, the first prize for classics, history, and political economy.-To Mr. Richard Clive, the first prize for Persian, among the juniors, and ditto for Hindoostanee.-To Mr. Henry Lacon, the first Sanscrit prize. To Mr. Montague Ainslie, the first Hindoostanee prize. To Mr. Charles M'Sween, the second prize for political economy and history.-To Mr. John Macleod, the second mathematical prize, among the juniors. To Mr. William F. Larking, the mathematical prize.-To Mr. Joshua Carter, the first Bengallee prize.-To Mr. Alexander Dick Lindsay, the second Persian prize.To Mr. William Wilkins, the first Persian prize. To Mr. J. B. Pybus, the second prize for law. To Mr. James C. Dick, the second Hindoostanee prize.-To Mr. Charles C. Hyde, the third mathematical prize, among the juniors.

A Tour through the central Counties of England, namely, Worcester, Stafford, Leicester, and Warwick, including their topography and biography, will shortly appear in a royal quarto volume, with twenty-four engravings.

Dr. WATSON has nearly ready for publication, a Theoretical and Practical View of the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb; containing hints for the correction of impediments in speech, and illustrated by numerous plates.

A Translation of M. de Luc's Travels in the North of Europe, will appear in a few weeks.

Dr. SMITH is printing a Translation of
Le Roy's instructions for Gouty and
Rheumatic Persons.

Dr. LATHAM has in the press, Facts
and Opinions concerning Diabetes.

Mr. LEE, surgeon, of Shields, will shortly publish an Essay on Mortifica

tion.

Mr. HAMILTON's Travels in Syria and Egypt, may very soon be expected to appear.

The Rev. Mr. BICHENO has in the press, his Sermon preached on the late Fast-day.

The Rev. W. P. SCARGILL, is preparing for publication, a Hebrew and English Dictionary, without points, on a new plan particularly adapted to young stu

dents.

In the course of March will be published, The Prison, or Times of Terror; from the French, by the author of the Letters of the Swedish Court.

Mr. MARRAT, of Boston, has in the press a Treatise on Mechanics, chiefly designed for the use of schools and public seminaries; it is publishing by subscription: and will appear about Midsummer next. The subscribers' names will be printed.

The author of the Husband and the

Lover, has in the press a Romance,
to be entitled the Daughters of Isen-
berg.

Mr. T. WOODFALL, assistant-secretary
to the Society of Arts, has announced
his intention to publish, by subscription,
in two octavo volumes, the whole of the
valuable papers on Agriculture, which
have been brought before that So-
ciety.

Mr. AYSHFORD, assistant-surgeon in the Royal Artillery, has in the press an Epitome of Anatomy, comprised in a series of tables. The work will form a thin quarto volume; and as its object is to furnish a copious vocabulary for the student of anatomy, perspicuity and simplicity of arrangement have been chiefly aimed at by the author.

Mr. BENJAMIN TRAVERS, demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's Hospital, has in the press an Experimental Enquiry concerning Injuries to the Canal of the Intestines, illustrating the Treatment of penetrating Wounds, and Mortified Hernia,

Dr. REID will commence his Spring Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, on Monday, the 19th of March, at six o'clock in the evening, at his house, Grenville-street, Brunswick-square; where the course will be continued until its conclusion in the latter end of May.

A third edition of Lord BYRON's satire, entitled English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, is in the press.

A silver medal has been voted by the Board of Agriculture, to the Rev. G. T. Hamilton, minister of Harbottle, in Northumberland, corresponding member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, &c. for a communication on

the

the important subject of a General Inclosure Bill for Great Britain.

A gentleman of Aberdeen, recently deceased, has, by his will, directed his executors to offer a sum of not less than 12004. for the best treatise on "The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists; and, particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and good. ness of the Deity: and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written Revelation; and, in the second place, from Revelation; and from the whole to point out the inferences most necessary for, and useful to, mankind." The ministers of the established church of Aberdeen, the principals and professors of King's and Marischal colleges of Aberdeen, and the trustees of the testator, are appointed to nominate and make choice of three judges, who are to decide, after the 1st of January, 1814, upon the comparative excellences of such treatises as shall be laid before them. There is also left, by the same testator, a further sum, not exceeding 4001. for a treatise on the same subjects, which shall be thought, pursuant to the same decision, next in merit to the first-premium treatise.

The Hulsean premium has been adjudged to the Rev. William Heath, fellow of King's college, Cambridge, for his dissertation "On the advantage of dithculties in religion; or an attempt to show the good effects which result, or which might result,from the proofs of Revelation being of a probable, rather than of a demonstrative, kind."

The late Bishop of London, a short. time before his death, directed that all the graduates, as well as under-graduates, of Christ college, Cambridge, should, in future,be admitted to be candidates for the two annual gold medals which he has given for ever. The subjects for the present year are, for the Latin dissertation: "Beatitudo humana non pendet tantummodo ex hac vitâ, sed expectanda est alia." For the English-Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul."-1 Pet.

ii. 14.

Mr. SPENCER SMITH, late minister plenipotentiary at the Ottoman Porte, and brother of Sir Sidney, has presented the university of Cambridge with two very valuable Greek marbles, to be added to the collection in the vestibule: namely, the body of an amphora, about three feet in length, from the shores of the Propontis; and a votive tablet, or cippus, from Cyzicus. The first exhibits à bas

relief in a very high style of ancient Sculpture, which is remarkable for the pileus, or Athenian hat, still worn by patriarchs of the Greek church; and of which, only one other representation is preserved in ancient sculpture,

The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's prizes at Cambridge, verses: "Pyramides viz.-For Latin

Egyptiace."-For an English essay: "What are the arts, in the cultivation of which the moderns have been less successful than the ancients?"-For a Latin essay : "In Philosophiâ quæ de Vita et Moribus est illustranda, quænam præcipuè Sermonum Socraticorum fuit excellentia ?" The first of the above subjects is intend ed for those gentlemen of the university who have not exceeded four years from the time of their matriculation; and the other two for such as bave exceeded four, but not completed seven years.

Sir ROGER NEWDIGATE'S prize, for the best composition in English verse, not containing more than fifty lines, by any under-graduate who has not exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation: "The Statue ofthe Dying Gladiator."

The late Dr. SMITH's two prizes of 251, each, for the best proficients in mathematics and natural philosophy, among the commencing bachelors of arts of Cambridge, were adjudged to Messrs. William Henry Maute, and Thomas Shaw Brandreth, of Trinity college, the first and second wranglers.

The subjects for Sir William BROWNE'S three gold medals for the present year, are, for the Greek ode

Latin epigram

-Brevis esse laboro,
Obscurus fio.

The

One of the most remarkable facts in the history of geography, is communica ted by letters conveyed in the last ships from the Cape of Good Hope. island of Bossen, or Penguin, sometimes called Seal Island, at the western extremity of Table Bay, has entirely disappeared beneath the waters. quake was felt at Cape Town, in Decem ber, only two leagues distant, by which some damage was occasioned to the houses, but we do not find that any lives were lost at that place; and it is suppo sed that the convulsion extended to Bos

An earth

sen.

sen. The island was about two miles
in length and one in breadth, and was,
although flat, somewhat more elevated
above the surface of the sea, than the
The
contiguous island of Elizabeth.
Dutch, when in possession of the Cape,
kept a guard of twenty-four men on Bos-
sen; and it was employed as a place of
banishment for criminals, to the number
of from seventy to a hundred, who dog
June-stone to supply materials for the
buildings on the adjacent continent.
No women were then permitted to reside
here, not even the wife of the port-mas-
ter. It was not allowed that strangers
should visit it, since a Danish ship which
and was
had lost great part of her crew,
refused assistance at the Cape, sent a
boat on shore, dispersed the guard, and
received on board as many malefactors
as were necessary to navigate her to Eu-
rope. At the southern extremity of the
island, a flag was hoisted on the approach
of any vessel.

FRANCE.

M. VAUQUELIN, in the name of the Committee of the Chemical Arts, has a manufacture of lately reported on tallow for candles, professed to be purified from all animal substances of an injurious nature, to be free from all moisture, and not at all discolored. "The tallow," says he, "which I carefully examined, is demi-transparent, perfectly It is indeed so very dry, and sonorous. dry, that when a blade of iron is passed over it, only lightly touching it, it gives an extremely lively phosphoric light, occasioned, according to all appearance, by an electric motion; for when this tallow is recently melted, and the surrounding air is extremely dry, the mere passing of the hand on it is sufficient to produce sparks. The dryness of this tallow is still farther demonstrated by its perfect transparency when melted: at the temperature of boiling water, neither bubbles nor clouds are discernible. This tallow, it is affirmed, may be kept without any discoloration or rancidity for two years. The candles made of it are extremely white, their light is very pure, they emit little or no sinoke, they do not gutter or run, and require snuffing less frequently than others. They are about five per cent. higher in price than those of common manufacture."

M. TARENNI has discovered, that the slimy juice of snails is a specific for the cure of heruia, when the ruptured part can be returned, and it is not dangerous When this to confine it in the body.

point is ascertained, he directs that a
truss be made, having the ball at the end
concave instead of convex, as usual, for
the reception of a cup of equal diameter
with the orifice of the hernia. The cup
must be of porcelain, glass, or earthen
ware, that the liquor may not penetrate
it, or undergo any alteration; and the
edges of it should be turned, that they
may not incommode the patient. It is
to be filled with wool, which must be
changed every other day. Two, three,
or four, hundred snails are then to be
procured, and kept in a place where
they can procure food, as only two or
three, or if they are small, six or eight,
are to be used every day. The patient,
before he rises, and after he has been in
bed, removes the cup from the truss, and
pricks the snail in different places with
a pin. From each wound the snail gives
out, through the opening in his shell,
sometimes a bluish, sometimes a grey,
liquid, which must be caught on the wool
in the cup. If only a thick froth oozes
out, the snail must be thrown aside, and.
another taken in his stead. The cup
being sufficiently filled with liquor, must
always be placed exactly in the same si-
tuation, on the affected part, then co-
vered with a white linen cloth, and the
bail of the truss applied on it. The
latter must be sufficiently tight, to pre-
vent the fluid from escaping. During
this treatment, which will last three or
four months, or more, the only precauti
ons necessary to be taken are to shave the
part once in four days, and not to leave
it long uncovered for fear of cold. If
the cup rubs off the skin, it must he
removed till the place is healed.
this case the patient may remove the
truss altogether at night, if it can be done
without danger; and in the day-time be
may wear it dry, filling the cavity with
wool, and covering the hernia with a bit
of cloth. By this treatment, a common
hernia may be cured in two, three, or at
most four, months; after which, however,
the patient should continue to wear the
truss for six weeks, or two months, till
the wound is sufficiently healed, to per-
mit the muscles to resume their natural
action.

In

M. AMATUS GOUJON BONPLAND, the companion of M. Von Humboldt, in Lis travels, has been appointed chief inspector of the domain of Malmaison, with a considerable salary. He will probably continue the splendid work, entitled, "Le Jardin de Malmaison," interrup ed by the death of Ventenat, as soon as the

second

second part of his "Plantes Equinoxiales" is finished.

In the second part of M. VoN HUMBOLDT'S collection of Astronomical Ob servations, he has given the latitude and Longitude of a great number of places, which he determined during his travels along the Oronoko, Atabapo, Tuamini, Temi, Cassiquiale, and Rio Negro. Maps of this portion of the South American continent, that is of the Oronoko, the river Magdalen, the province of Joren de Bracomorros, and of the western part of the river of Amazons, which M. Von Humboldt took on the spot, and made drawings of in the years 1801-1802, during his residence at Quito and Mexico, are in the hands of the engraver. With these the author intends to publish the bases of his maps, and various astronomical and geographical enquiries, by M. Oltmans. The third part of the same collection contains the elevation of five hundred points of Spanish America, which M. Von Humboldt determined by means of the barometer.

RUSSIA.

Petersburgh, Dec. 6.-A merchant has sent to Petersburgh from the coasts of the Frozen Sea, the head of an animal of extraordinary size, and in very perfect preservation. This head has been presented to the emperor by the minister for commerce: and his majesty has rewarded the merchant with a gold medal.

In the government of Simbitsk, in the circle of Korssun, four versts from the crown village Kassaur, there is a district where the earth has been burning for three years. No fire is seen; but much smoke, which issues at various places. The ground sinks in sensibly; and on pressing it at the edges, flames burst out. The inhabitants of Kassaur say, that not far from that place, the earth had burned in the same manner twelve years ago, and had become extinguished of itself. Where the ground was dug into, a spring of water was found.

GERMANY.

minutes after five in the evening, a rather violent shock of an earthquake was felt throughout Vienna, and its suburbs. In most of the houses, objects that did not stand firm were thrown down, the bells rang, and all the effects usual on such occasions, were observable. At the observatory, Mr. Triesnecker noticed the following particulars of this phenomenon:-The duration of the shock was about a minute. There were two very distinct oscillations in the direction of from south-west to north-east, and reciprocally: the wind was north-northeast. Reaumur's thermometer stood at eleven and a half degrees below zero, and the barometer twenty-eight inches six and a half lines. Of three pendulum clocks, one was stopped; the other two continued going: their isochronism only was deranged.

M. SIMON, of Berlin, has recently made some experiments on the laws of electric repulsion. Coulomb, by means of the torsion of wire in his electrical balance, seems to have ascertained that the electrical repulsion is in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance. To prove this law to his audience by a more simple and firm apparatus, M.. Simon constructed a pair of scales, all the parts of which were made of glass, and coated with gum lac. Though inferior in sensibility to Coulomb's apparatus, it appears sufficiently sensible for experiments of this kind, since each degree of deviation of the tongue of the balance from 0, was equal to the weight of 04 of a grain. The result of M. Simon's experiments, the circumstances of which he varied in every possible way, was, that the electric repulsion was in the simple inverse ratio of the distance. In trials with the gold leaf, electrameter, this law was established with still more precision, than in those which he made with the pith balls. It is to be observed, that Volta has always denied the truth of Coulomb's law; and asserted that experiments with the electrophorus, show the electric repulsion and attrac tion to be simply in the inverse ratio of

On the 14th of January, at fifty-three the distance.

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