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abode of every other perfon propofing to become a Member, is to be delivered to the Secre tary, who is to read the fame and properly infert the name in a lift of Candidates, to be bong up in the Society's Room, until the next meeting, at which fuch perfous fhall be ballotted for; and if two-thirds of the Members then voting hali ballot in his favor, he thall be deemed a perpetual Member, upon payment of twenty guineas at one payment, or a fubfcribing member, upon payment of any fom not lefs than two guineas annually: every Member is equally entitled to vote, and be concerned in all the tranfactions of the Society.

The meetings of the Society are held every Wedne day, at fix o'clock in the evening, from the fourth Wednesday in Odober, to the firf Wednesday in June. And the feveral Com mittees, to whole confideration the various objects of the Society's attention are referred, mect on the other evenings in every week during the Seffion.

CLASS.

PREMIUMS FOR PLANTING AND HUSBANDRY.

1. ACORNS. For having fet teh acres, between October, 1787, and April,

3788; the gold medal.

2. For five acres the filver medal,

thoufand cuttings on each acre, the gold medal.

Certificates to be produced on the laft Tuef. day in December, 1788.

37. Upland or Red Willow. For not lefs

Certificates to be produced on the first Tuef- than three acres, planted before the end of day in November, 1788.

9. Raifing Oaks. Not fewer than five thoufand, from plants, or acorns, in woods that have been long under timber; the gold medal.

10. For three thoufand; the filver medal. Cert ficates to be produced on the first Tuesday in January, 1789.

15. Obfervations on Oak. For obfervations and experiments on the obftructions to the growth of oaks, with remedies for them, and afcertaining the proper time for felling the trees; the gold medal.

Accounts to be produced on the third Tuefday in December, 1789.

16. Spanish Chefnuts. For fetting fix acres between the first of October, 1787, and April 1788, mixed with feeds or cuttings of other trees; the gold medal.

17. For four acres; the filver medal. Certificates to be produced on the firft Tuesday in November, 1788. 24. English Eim. For eight thoufand, planted between June, 1787, and June 1788; the gold medal,

25. For five thousand; the filver medal. 26. For four thoufand; the filver medal. Certificates to be delivered on the first Tuefday in November, 1788.

30. Lareb For planting, from June 1787, to June 1788, five thoufand, to be between two and four years old; the gold medal.

31. For three thoufand; the filver medal. Certificates to be delivered on the laft Tuefday in November, 1788.

34. Silver Fir. For not fewer than two theuland, planted between June 1789, and June, 1790, in a mixed plantation of foreft trees; the gold medal.

35. For one thousand; the filver medal. Certificates and accounts to be delivered on the laft Tuesday in December, 1793.

36. Huntingdon Willow. For three acres planted in the year 1788, at least one

April, 1788, twelve hundred on each acre; the gold medal.

Certificates to be produced on the laft Tuefday in April, 1789.

39. Alder. For fix acres, planted in the year 1787, at leaft one thousand on each acre; the gold medal.

Certificates to be produced on the laft Tuef day in December, 1788.

41. Ah. For not less than fix acres, planted in the year 1787, the plants to be two years old, and the number on each acre, at least twelve hundred; the gold medal.

42. For not lefs than four acres; the filver medal.

Certificates to be delivered on the fecond Tuesday in December, 1788.

43. For fix acres planted in 1788, intermixed with feeds or cuttings of other plants; the gold medal.

44 For not less than four acres; the filver medal.

Certificates to be produced on the last Tucfday in December, 1789.

49. Mixed Timber Trees. For having enclofed, and planted or fown, ten acres with Foreft trees for timber, between October, 1784, and May, 1786; the gold medal,

Certificates to be produced on the first Tuefday in November, 1788.

53. Mulberry Cuttings. For raining not less than three hundred mulberry-trees from cuttings in the year 1785; the gold medal.

Certificates to be produced on the fir Tuesday in November, 1788.

54. Mulberry Cuttings. For not less than one acre of mulberry cuttings, planted in the year 1785, for the purpofe of feeding fille worms; the gold medal.

Certificates, that the plants are only threefeet alunder, to be produced on the firf Tuefday in December, 1788.

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Premiums propofed by the Society of Arts.

55. Mulberry Cuttings, or Trees. For not fewer than three hundred planted in 1787; the gold medal, or twenty pounds.

56. For one hundred and fifty; the filver medal or ten pounds.

Certificates to be produced on the first Tuesday in November, 1789.

58 Mulberry Trees in Hedge Rozus. For one hundred planted in 1788; ten pounds. 59. For fifty; five pounds.

Certificates to be produced on the first Tuef-* day in October, 1789.

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The candidates for planting all kinds of trees are to certif, that the respective plantations are properly fenced aud fecured, and particularly to ftate the condition the plants were in at the time of figning fuch certificates.

Any information which the candidates for the foregoing premiums may chufe to communicate, relative to the methods made use of in farming the plantations or promoting the growth of the feveral trees, or any other obfervations that may bave occurred on the fubject, will be thankfully received.

60. Tries for ufe when exposed to the weather. For the beft account, to determine which of the following trees is of the greatest utility for timber, when expofed to the weather, viz.

Larch, black poplar, afh, Spanish chefnut, willow, aider, Lombardy poplar, or beech; the gold medal.

To be produced on the second Tuesday in December, 1783.

62. Planting boggy or morally Sails. For the best experiments to afcertain the advantages of planting boggy or moraffy foils; the gold medal.

Certificates to be produced on the first Tuesday in January, 1792.

67. Comparative culture of Wheat. For the beft fet of experiments made on eight acres, to determine the comparative advantages of cultivating wheat, by fowing broad-caft or drilling; the gold medal.

The account to be produced on the first Tuesday in February, 1789.

68. Comparative culture of Wheat. For the best fet of experiments made on eight acres, to determine the comparative advantage of cultivating wheat, by broad-caft or dibbling; the gold medal.

The accounts to be produced on the first Tuesday in February, 1789.

71. Beans and Wheat. For planting or drilling between December 1786, and March 1787, ten acres, with beans, and for fowing the fame land with wheat in the year 1787, ten guineas.

Certificates to be produced on the first Tuesday in November, 1788.

73. Turneps. For experiments made on A acres, to determine the comparative advantages of the drill or broad caft method in the cultivation of turneps; the gold medal.

To be delivered on the third Tuesday in

April, 1789.

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75. Green Vegetable Food. For the belt account of vegetable Food, that will most increase the milk in mares, cows, and ewes, in March, and April; the gold medal. Certificates to be produced on the fecond Tuesday in November, 1788.

77. Comparative Culture of Turnep rooted Cabbage, for fatisfactory experiments, on the drill and broad-caft culture of turnep rooted cabbage, made on four acres of land; the filver medal, or ten pounds.

Certificates to be produced on the first Tacf day in October 1791.

79. Turnep-rooted Cabbage. For raifing in the year 1788, not lefs than ten acres, and for an account of the effects on cattle or theep fed with it; the gold medal.

80. For not less than five acres; the filves medal.

Certificates to be produced on the laft Tuefday in October, 1789.

82. Cure of Gurled Potatoes. For discovering the caule and pointing out the core of the difeafe, verified by experiments; the gold medal, or thirty pounds.

Accounts to be produced on the third Tuesday in November, 1789.

83. Potatoes for feeding Cattle and Sheep. For cultivating, in 1788, not lefs than four acres, for the fole purpose of feeding Cattle and theep; the gold medal, or twenty guineas.

Certificates to be produced on the second Tuesday in November, 1789.

85. Cultivating Roots and Herbige for For experifeeding sheep and black cattle. ments made on two acres of land, between Michaelmas, 1787, and May, 1788, to ascertain which of the following plants can be fecured for winter fodder, to the greatest advantage, viz.

Turnep rooted cabbage, carrots, turnep cabbage, parfneps, turneps, potatoes.

The accounts to be produced on the first Tuesday in November, 1788; the gold

medal.

87 Stocks of Bees. For not fewer than thirty ftocks of Bees, and giving an account of the manner of supporting them; the gold medal, or twenty pounds.

The accounts to be delivered on the first Tuesday in November, 1789.

89. Cultivating the true Rhubarb. For raifing, in the year 1788, not less than three hundred plants of the true rhubarb; the gold medal.

90. For two hundred plants; the filver

medal.

Certificates to be produced on the second Tuesday in February, 1789. For Rhubarb of British 93. Rhubarb. growth, twenty pounds weight; the gold medal.

Certificates, and five pounds weight, to be produced on the first Tuesday in November, 2788

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94 For ten pounde weight; the filver medal. 97. Afcertaining the component parts of arable Land. For the most fatisfactory experi'ment, to afcertain the due proportion of the feveral component parts of Arable Land, by an accurate analyfis of it; the gold medal.

The accounts to be produced on the laft Tuesday in November, 1788.

102. Improving Land lying wafte. For a method of improving foils, lying waste or uncultivated; the gold medal.

103. For the next in merit, the filver medal.

The accounts to be produced on the fecond Tuesday in December, 1788.

108. Manures. For the beft account, on what foil the application of marle, chalk, lime, or clay, as manures, be most beneficial; the gold medal.

The account to be delivered on the firft Tuesday in January, 1789.

110. Manures. For the beft fet of experiments, to ascertain the comparative advantage of foot, coal-athes, wood-athes, lime, or night-foil; the gold medal.

The account to be produced on the firft Tuesday in December, 1788.

112. Improving wafte Moors. For the improvement of not less than one hundred

acres of wafte moor land; the gold medal. Certificates to be produced on the first Teefe day in February, 1789

115 Gaining land from the Sea. For an account of the best method of gaining from the fea not less than twenty acres of land; the gold medal.

Gertificates to be produced on the firft Tuefday in October, 1788.

119. Machine to reap or mow Corn. For a Machine to reap or mow grain, by which it may be done cheaper than by any method now practifed; ten guineas.

The machine with certificates to be produced on the fecond Tuesday in December, 1788.

120. Improved Hoe. For the moft improved horfe or hand hoe, for cleaning the spaces between corn fown in equidiftant rows, and earthing up the plants; the gold medal, or twenty guineas.

To be produced, with certificates of its work, on the first Tuesday in December, 1789.

121. Deftroying the Grub of the Cock-chan fer. For difcovering a method of deftroying the grub of the cock-chafer; the gold medal.

The accounts to be delivered on the firft Tuesday in January, 1789.

PREMIUMS FOR DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN CHEMISTRY, DYING, AD MINERALOGY.

122. Kelp. For four tons of Kelp, containing much more alkaline falt than any now made for fale; twenty pounds.

One hundred weight to be produced on the first Tuesday in January, 1789.

123. Barilla. For half a ton of merchantable Barilla, made from Spanish Kali, raised in Great Britain; the gold medal.

Twenty eight pounds, with a certificate, to be produced on the first Tuesday in January, 1789.

124. Differtation on Alkali. For the best differtation on vegetable and mineral alkalies; the gold medal or fifty pounds.

To be produced on the firft Tuesday in March, 1789.

125. Preferving Seeds of Vegetables. For a method of preferving the feeds of plants fit for vegetation; the gold medal.

To be communicated on the first Tuesday in December, 1788.

126. Deftroying Smoke. For an account of a method of destroying the smoke of fires belonging to large works; the gold medal. To be produced on the first Tuesday in January, 1789.

128. Candles. For difcovering a method of making candles of refin, fit for common ufe; the gold medal, or thirty guineas. To be delivered on the firft Tuesday in December, 1788.

• 129. Substitute for or preparation of Yeaft. For difcovering a fubftitute for, or preparation of Yeaft, that may be preferved

two months; the gold medal, or twenty pounds.

Specimens to be produced on the last Tues day in November, 1788.

130. Intreafing Steam. For a method of increafing the quantity, or the force of team, in fteam engines, with lefs fuel than is now employed; the guld medal.

To be communicated on the first Tuesday in January, 1789.

132. Preventing the Dry Rot in Timber. For difcovering the caufe of the dry rot in timber, and diclofing a method of prevention; the gold medal.

The accounts to be produced on the fecond Tuesday in December, 1788.

134 Fine Bar Iron. For making ten tops with coak from coak pigs, in England or Wales, equal to Swedith or Ruffian iron; the gold medal.

One hundred weight to be produced on the firft Tuefday in January 1789.

136. White Lead. For difcovering a method of preparing white lead, in a manner not prejudicial to the workmen; Fifty pounds.

Certificates that a ton has been prepared, and the process to be produced on the fecond Tuesday in November, 1789.

137. Subftitute for Befis of Paint. For the beft substitute for basis of paint, equally proper as white lead; thirty pounds. Fifty pounds weight to be produced on the fecond Tuesday in November, 1789.

(To be concluded next Month,)

The

Review of New Publications.

82. The Progreffes and Publie Proceffions of Queen Elizabeth. Among which are interSperfed, otber Solemnities, Public Expenditures, and Remarkable Events during the Reign of that illuftrious Princefs. Now firfi printed from Original MSS. of the Times; or colleed from carce Pamphlets, &c. Illuftrated with Hiftorical Notes, by John Nichols, F.S. A. Edinb. and Perth. 2 Vol. 450.

THE Hiftory of the glorious reign of this heroine is an inexhaustible fund of information and anecdote. It is a reign that abounds with state papers, which, together with memorials and letters in private families, contribute fo much to fill up the outline of general history." "The plan of popularity, "which Elizabeth laid down from the "beginning of her reign, is marked by "no trait fo ftrongly as her practice of "making PROGRESSES about her do"minions. The collecting them toge "ther was a favourite defign with the "late Mr. Tyfon, who communicated "his thought to feveral of his friends, "particularly to the Rev. Mr. Henley, "of Rendlesham in Suffolk." What death prevented Mr. T. from carrying into execution, Mr. N. has taken up; and from printed books and MSS. has brought together a complete and regular feries of them, and added a variety of other matter, which, if not abfolutely correfpondent with the others, is not al together heterogeneous, and will be a lafting monument of the Editor's induftry, as well as of the liberal affistance of his friends. The Progreffes here reprinted are thofe at Cambridge, 1564, 1578; Oxford, 1566, 1592; Kenel worib, 1575; Norwich, 1579; Cow frey and Elvetbam, 1591; Bifbam, Sudley, Ricot, 1592; Grays Inn, 1594. Leffer ones, first printed from MSS. or extracted from general works, from 1559 to 1581, and from 1588 to 1602, when he was entertained at the houfes of her nobility

and others. Thefe vifits are accounted for in the Preface, which contains a detail of the collection itfelf. The intervals between the Progreffes are filled up with a variety of curious matter that ftrongly paint the manners of the times, and bring forward many new traits of history. The work begins with the marriage and coronation of Anne Boleyn, the Queen's mother; the chriftening of Elizabeth; her fufferings in the Tower; her paffage through London to her coronation. Then follow her Progreffes; her maundy, ex, ences of her

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table; Sir Thomas Sackville's entertainment in France, 1570; ceremonial of invefting the Kings of Denmark and France with the garter; the Palatine of Siradia's vifit; entertainment of the Dutch, Danish, Polish, and Barbary Ambaffadors; Sir Philip Sidney's funeral; the Queen's new year's gifts, plate and jewels, and wardrobe; description of her palaces; her laft fickness, death, and funeral, &c. &c.-After the most diligent fearch, no will of her's can be found. Even that nuncupatory one, by which it is pretended the defigned her fucceffor, was fo manifeftly in her extreme moments, that it is more likely to have been what her courtiers wished and fettled for her, putting on her dying figns, which might mean just the contrary, the construction most favourable to her views.

All thefe are illuftrated with copious notes; and the two volumes contain XLV plates, among which are views of feveral houfes long fince pulled down, autographs, arms, devices, &c. &c.

The delays unavoidable in forming fuch a collection, where fresh matter was continually pouring in, prevented any other than a chronological arrangement, and occafioned fuch a repetition of new pages as rendered a general index impracticable, however effential, in fuch a publication. Should the compiler meet with encouragement to undertake a fecond edition, which, if we are not mifinformed, the fuccefs of the fale of these two encourages, we doubt not thefe difficulties will be removed. A THIRD volume is intended, and it is recommended to the purchasers of these to keep them in boards.

From fuch a mafs it is not eafy to make a felection fuitable to the limits of a review. We may, perhaps, occafionally infert fome extracts in the other pages of our Miscellany.

83. Letters written in Holland, in the Months of September and October, 1787. By Thomas Bowdler, Efq. F. R S. and S. A. To which is added, A Collection of Letters and other Papers relating to the Journey of the Princefs of Orange, on the 28th of June, 1787. 800

AN interefting and faithful detail of that important Revolution in the Politics of the United Provinces; from which, being written in the journal form, extracts cannot eafily be made.-Thefe Letters were written when they are

dated,

dated, and were fent to prefs in January laft, and would have been published in the following month, had not the writer of them been obliged to go to a diftant part of the Weft of England for fome weeks. Being disappointed in his intention of visiting Drefden and Vienna, he thought he could not employ his leifure better than in being an eye-witness to the interefting scenes which were going on in the Low Countries; but he had fcarcely been ten days at Bruffels, when he felt a defire of acquiring the best information with regard to what was likely to happen in a neighbouring country, only likely to be obtained by being prefent at the interesting moment. He foon tranfported himfelf to the fcene of action, and was at Gorcum on September 18, 1787, where, and in its neighbourhood, the Stadtholder had many friends. The town furrendered after the fecond fhell had fired a houfe; and the Duke of Brunf wick took particular care of the perfons and property of the inhabitants: nor was any place in North Holland plundered by its conquerors. Mr. B. was foon after, in the Pruffian camp, wit nefs to the Duke's fucceffes, and to his moderation.

"I never," fays he, "was more affected than with the Duke of Brunfwick's behaviour at this interesting moment, [when a train of fuccefs in favour of the Stadthoter was crowned with the news that the Orange flag

was flying at the Hague; that the States of

Holland had refolved to restore the Prince to all the diguities of his office; and that his Highness, in confequence of their invitation, intended to leave Utrecht, and was to arrive that night at Schoonhoven.] The Duke hoped that fuch a revolution would take place; but, I believe, hardly expected it would happen fo foon. After inquiring at what o'clock it was probable the Princefs would be at Schoonhoven, he fat down to table; but the news which he had just received would not allow his attention to be fixed on any trifling object. I never beheld the fovereign prince, the general, and the gentleman, fo perfectly united. Without defcending improperly from the dignity of his own rank, the utmost politeness was vifible in his manner of speaking to every perfon; and no one, I am perfuaded, went from his prefence without an earnest defire of executing his orders according to his wishes.There is one circumstance which appears to give the Duke particular fatisfaction; it is,

that not one Pruffian has hitherto been killed, wounded, or taken prifoner, except

an officer who was flightly hurt at Uptenneer *."

Our readers will recollect Mr. Bofwell's account of the Corsican hero, and compare it with the above.

"My pride," fays Mr. Bowdler, p. 134, "is flattered in the highest degree by the expreffions of gratitude with "which the friends of the Stadtholder "mention the conduct of Great Britain "on the late trying emergency. They "all acknowledge that the revolution "was not more the work of the King

of Prullia than of the King of Eng"land; and that it was by the exertions "of the British Cabinet that an oppor⚫ "tunity was given to the Duke of "Brunfwick to difplay thofe talents "which are now the fubject of univer"fal admiration."

We are forry Mr. B. did not record the name of the British officer who planned and conducted the attack upon the out-poft of Amstelveen, which decided the fate of Amfterdam, Oct. 1.

A journal of what happened in the neighbourhood of Amfterdam, by a Pruffian officer, is inferted. -"The "Duke's conduct after his victory was "not lefs worthy of imitation than it "had been in the earlier part of the

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campaign. It was marked by affabi"lity and politenefs; by attention to every perfon, of whatever rank; and, "which is not always the characteristic "of luccessful heroes, by a peculiar ex"preffion of kindness to all who had "been able to render him any service, “even in the most trifling instance.” (p. 160.)

Mr. B. explains how the Patriots obtained fuch abfolute power in the regency of Amfterdam, and in the affembly of the States of Holland,-by violently depofing fuch magistrates as were inimical to their defigns from the several affemblies. A kind of flying camp was formed of patriotic volunteers, who went from city to city through the whole province, purging the regencies." (p. 142.)

Why the Patriots did not attempt to owing to the difficulty of undertaking open the fluices round Amfterdam was it, from the tides in the Zuider Zee,

*In the attack on the poit of Amftelveen, the Pruflians afterwards lot about 50 men; in the other attacks about roo, and four offi cers, and as many feverely wounded. p. 113.

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