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vonT-FOLIO. -40- Johnn!as Relb Summa, guar Catholicon, ftl. by , . _ . Gutientherst. 1459 The Com plotensian Polyglott, 6 vols. fol. without . - the Lexicon I:itltuu'4 Mlyglutt end Ca‘tell's LeN iron - fol. Alownit,lls , J, printed on velkim -- N!.V , llll4% • stainent, Latin, fol. 11nu.not. I 1;2 13 Matandi Rationale Div inornin Othcoirimi, t nu, printed on selMot • -- 13 I,trlar.lii Adversus autites de Ira Dei, &c. fol. 1 1 1144 • This. Agnina‘ Sectintla Seconday, fol. 11t',1 I I IttiVe, Moth illuminated wood cots, fol. I Iti7 Pctrarna-Sonettle Canzoin, itTrionfi, fol. I I;ft 1, Shakespeare, Ist edition, with a re •ptitited title, 1623 lloreacin, fd. Ulmre. I litt -- Meanest, Vv,liiti ill Roma, '2 loin. fol. Andrew's Health., 2 vols. lid. J. Trionti l'etrarea, oct. NIS. on vellum 11iblia Sacra, lot MS. on vellum, of the earls Part of the Fourteenth Century, illnatiuntcd. 'rids beaurifid manuscript of the Holy sleriptures • • knocked down at one linnilreit and seventy aii!rteas, and was resold by the purchaser, the following day, for 2401. Of the two block books, the" Historia S. Johan ins," sold for And the Itiblla Pauperum for 11 29 2'; 9 - 3? - 32 10 11 1., In the days of King Edward VI. in the chapel ad joining to Guildhall, then called " My Lord Mayor's Chapel," was a Library very well furnished, being all manuscripts. Stow says, the Duke of Somerset s•ar rowed them with a design never to return them, but fiarnished his own study in his pompous house in the Strand ; they consisted of' five cart-loads. In addition to this Library there was another at the Grey Friars in Netrgate-street, to which the celebrated Whittington was a benefiwtor. The Dooms-day Book is preserved in the Exchetpaer at Westminster, the Parliament Balls arc kept in a stone Tower in old Palace-yard, and the papers of State in the Office for that purpose, built by Hans Nolbein, over the gate leading to the Cockpit ; these readied as high us Henry VIII. Those in the TOwer of London have been newly modellised, and have new raiser, in the Wakefield Tower. Those in the White Tower relate to records of Monasteries, State Letters, &e. which will show an arrangement very ser viceable fin- the curious, and for the researches of legal enquiry. • At the last I.epzig nil., there were offered fiir sale upwards of '23-2:1 new works, published by :13.2 houses! —Also :170 new pieces of music, exclusive of' those in serted in the Musikalische Zeitung. Eighty-eight new novels ; and fifty-seven dramatic pieces. Among the manuscripts preserved in the public library at Lyon, in France, occurs a medical treatise in Swedish of the year 1-1.1'.?, in which the author, Johannes Arden's, of Siewark, has specifically 11,2 scri bed the venereal disease, which was once supposed to be of American origin. There are said to be at this time, •ipwards of 2.100 Book Societies, and Circulating Libraries in Gennany. Among the best musical productions, that have re cently been published, are " Beauty smiling through her Tears :"—" Sweet Lady !—leak not thus again :" —anal " Must I bid my love fiareavoll."—The Anthem " I will arise and go unto my Father" is .worthy the talents of the young Mozart. Among the most interesting works, soon to he pub lished, are Dr. Badham'r Itinerary from Rome to Athens, by the rout of Brundusium, Allxmia, and the lonian Islands. Mr. D'lsraeli's now volume of Curi osities of literature; and Mr. Fellowes's History of Ceylon, from the earliest period of their known history, to the year 181.5. This History will embrace charac teristic details of the Religion, Laws, anti Manners of the People ; and a collection of their moral maxims anal ancient proverbs. Junins.—The Mondeur contains a letter from a Mons. Bonne Carrere, who states, that in the year 1785 he was at Calcutta; when the celebrated Hugh Boyd (then on u visit to Sir .John Macpherson, in whose house M. Bonne Carrere lived ) confessed to M. Bonne Carrere in confidence, that he (Boyd) was the author of the Letters A new work, entitled Satan's Bastard, eanses• con siderable sensation at Berlin, it is by M. Schink, and consists of several dramatized scenes of the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. The tyrant of Europe is attacked in an ingenious and pleasant manner. M. De Kotzebue, who may be styled the indefatigable, has just produced another play at Berlin, called The Coitage qf the Alp. The French and German papers speak favourably of it. If M. Kotzebue does not equal the Greek dramatists in the excellence of his writings, he, is not much behind in the number. Ile must begin t , i make the admirers of' the " multitudinous," I dape de Vega look about them a little. To be sure, his work is somewhat easier than that of the Spanish poet, fin he does not always write in verse. The sale of Mr. Roscoe's valuable and splendid li brary, occupied the auctioneer fifteen days. The books in general fetched high prices. The following was the produce of the underneath scarce and curious volumes: I. el. Mr. Coke, of llolkhatn, was the purchaser, nt Mr. 11, , ,5 , 0e's sale, of the fine portrait of Leo the Xth. for NATIONAL REGT; 500 guineas;. The library seld for 1.51.;0 ; for 1 I BSO ; and the drawings for £7:;8. It is a curious flict, that a rose tree in the garden of Wolfe Mace Neale, Esq. near Newry, in inland, has this summer borne upon one of its branches a perfectly while rose and a singularly beautiful red 1111 C. Ilad this plant flourished at the death of 'Richard the Third, it wunild doubtless have been deemed an omen of the union of the !louses of York and Law-ash-I% Bran Phrnomenon,—( Belfast, Sept. !..t ).--I.ast night. from eight to ten o'clock, a phenomenon of sin gular :3canty appeared to the inhabitants of this town ; it was in the fu•m of a very regular arch, of white tiiint light, of about five degrees breadth in the middle, and terminating to a point at each coil. At twenty minute past eight its East end seemed to originate in the Mei (art, which was then rising, palmed through the con stellation of ('na•io/mn'.t Chair, and through the zenith of Behlist, and terminated in the horizon to the West. Befhre ten o'clock the tap of the arch hail regularly de clined from the zenith, about ,►) degrees towarls the South, while the coils remained nearly stationary : it soon after disappeared. The stars were easily seen through it, but appeared somewhat fainter. Between the North and North-west the sky near the horizon appeared very bright, having the saute appearance as is usual on a line evening, scan after sun-set. It seems most probable that this beautiful phenomenon is to he ascribed to the agency of electric matter in the higher regions of the atmosphere. T'/I1 FISHERIES. The perinitical shoals of herrings, in their progress from the North Sea to the Channel, appear in wonder fi►l abundance in the Downs in the earl• part of Octo ber, and remain till the end of November, about which time they proceed gradually to the westward, and arc caught off the Isle of Wight till the end of February ; indeed, such is the profUsion ofjbese fish, while they continue between the Forelands, .where they are nece::- sarily condensed by the conthrmation of the straits, that the quantities taken on this part of the coast amount to ►nore than double the averal:N. catch of our great fishery at Newtimndland, in proportion to the time and number of hands employed in it. The Mackerel are also fimnd, during their season, in remarkable abundance in these straits, which appear to form the limits of their migra tion up the Channel. Considering the amount of our population and in how small a part of the country fish constitutes any material article of sustenance, there can be no doubt that if it could be rendered wholesome and desirable in quality, and cheap in price, so as to become accessible to the labouring classes, the demand for its consumption would increase beyond any calculation we can pretend to make ; though it must appear on the most cursory view, -that supposing the number of families in the united kingdom to consist of 3,600,000, and each family to consume only one barrel per annum, (equal to about four pounds of fish per week) the whole consumption would 'amount to 3,600,000, bls. and taking the present fishery at one-third of that quantity, the additional two thirds which might be computed to be produced from extending the fisheries, might be valued at 4,800,0001. sterling, aflbraing maintenance to 960,000 families in various departments of labour arising from this source. Parallel between the means purred l Holland and Great Britain to carry on the . isheries. lint.T.Awn 66 GiIEAT BRIT %IN " Possesses within herself nei- PrOdUCCY timber, iron, and Cher timber, iron, hemp, Och, salt, and possesses the same fad. tar. staves, nor salt, hut is sup- lities for obtaining the other or plied with every article, except tides as the Hutch ; and even the latter, from the Baltic, in re- staves of a quality adapted for turn for fish; part of the sale is packing fish for inland et a sump. obtained from France, Portugal, lion may he procured at home at and the Mediterranean, but a an inferior price. . considerable proportion from Li verpool. " Has no herrings near her " Every part of our insular own coast, but takes them on the coast abound, with herrings, as coast of Britain, from Shetland to well as other fish, at different the coast of Sussex, commencing seasons. so that there are but few at the distance of Win leagues,and months in the year in which the ending at 50 leagues from her shoals are not found on sonic part own ports. • of our shores. " flee wet population is tam- " The population of the united pitted to - be between two and kingdom being stated at f 2 mil three millions • a large proper- lions, the demand for fish for tion her kill has therefore al- borne consumption, if cured in a ways to depend on foreign mar- manner equal to the Dutch, may ket, for conshmption, and, in be stated at six times thia of I led ltu-sia, her fish is subject to a lend, while her commercial inter higher duty then British. course with other states atlards superior facilities fur foreign thele. _ . " Iler fi heries are expoted to " her marittmc power affords interruption, and even total sus• full security' to any national in pension, in time of war with stittition oil the most permanent (iron Britain, front the di ticieney and extensive plan, for carrying of her maritime force fo: their on the tislicrie ." dtfence. With advantages so decidedly in our favour, it con stitutes a wonder almost miraculous, that we should so long have permitted the Dutch to rob us of a trade jn every way so important : particularly when hundreds of our own sailors are starving at home, that Govern ment should not have paid an earlier attention to this is almost inconceivable ! We fish in tlr2 South Seas and on the coast of Newfoundland at an enormous ex pence, and yet permit another nation to rub us of fish that swarm upon our own coasts. OCTOTIER Y I. CI 7'Y BC'S I NESS. • Tue+dny a Common was held, fur the dispatch ofve riot's Soon after one o'clock the Court appeared on the !Instinct, and the Common Serge:int derlared the slate of the poll at int close on Saturday hist ; and utter enuuu•ratimt the nosit hers fir the several eauditate•, declared. that the eiertioa of the Lit ery had fallen nu the !sort 4111 Mr. Al•lernt: u t „ p a th a t iho•e too prisons had neeordinely been it. turned to the Court of Aldermen, as tit persons from whom t o appoint a l'el'Soll f 0 serve flu lAN! of Lord Nlayor for the year.—( pnlurtai s, mid laud crira nj '6 Wand Wood!" The Lord Nlayor.and Aldermen then rt tired, and after an ab•enre of an hour and a 11311., 'the Recorder minmaneed, that the election of tho C:mrt of m ermen 1 1 ,0 fallen ou the ore%ent 1.nr• . 1 Mayor. inti• m Uiun Ica! , followtd by loud applanyies, vtit.ch continued for bt-veral minoteg. On his Lordship coining forma , ' to be invested with the gold chain, and other emblems of office., the applause re doubled. At lesiglb silence having been obtained, he ad dressed the Livery, and begged to return them his warmest Mean's% for the honour they had Pm, conferee"! noon him, by which they had imposed upon him a debt of gratitude, whirl,hr felt. he should oev(st be nhlo to repay--t •laphvis , It "%vie, now oniony years show a Chief Alagostrate of the City had Iwo, doubly ironed, eloaiiied he 11112d111-01 1112 now was; hut he assn red them that thee e was 11 0 want o f a chain to bind his, to them ; the rivets of gratitude were already strong enough to bind his, to 'tent : that gratitude lie should endcavonr to /Mew, by imitating. for the year to come, the conduct of the year gone by, a nil, it possible, to doable his efforts to pro mote the interest, peace, safety. wel fare and happiness of the Citizens of Louthon—( :fppeaute.)— tht this °erasion also, he must acknowleilze his thin of gra titude to his brotlwr aldermen, whose kilotons he wished publicly to avow ; for never in the course of the discharge of the :n.4110814 ditties of his office had he lacked their assistance when he craved it : they had, with the greatest kindness, at tendee, him at the Mansion House, and relieved him from the necessitv of coming down to After the result of th e Court of Aldermen, he should respect them more than he eve r had done—tattle:it) -not front ally ant bitioo: It, (- law of his own, hot because they hail this day shewu the de frent e which was disc to the opinion of the Livery. Before he reflected on the subjeet, had he been asked. lie should have said, his strength was not equal to support the fatigues ofienother year's service ; but lie now hoped, if Providence gave him his health, that, with the assist:nice above :Alluded to, lie shonlel ho able to di.charge his duties so as to 'novel himself not unworthy of their confidence—(,tpptaase.)—He toe-geel leave to state, that party and politics should tic ver •perate impost his conduct ; indeed, he had never been of any party--t Hiss, 6-11 e had never joined Whig or Tory,— He would slot ,l 'peed upon, or b: biassed by any set of men. He would for another bear, exclude politics, and net only as the ft tend of the people—( J pplanges.)-1 le wished Andy to he respected by the Lively of London ; and to live in their re innnbrance was all the reward lie desired--(L•ad and con t iaurd Plaudits.) Mr. Alderman C. Smith came Airward amidst minded shouts of applause and disapprobation. He wished to thank his friends again for the exeytioos they had mad e i n his f a . sour, owl to assure the Livery, he felt no dis.ippointinent or dissatisfaction, with the decision of this day.—( , fpplawes. lie rrspceted the Lord Mayor as much as any man could, awl aprroved of his conduct as Chief Magistrate.- - (Appnovres.) Nest year lie should again pees( 01 himself to the Livery, as in rotation, and trusted the present contest would lease no ill will behind it. He was not very desirous to serve the office of Chief Magisti ate—hut should the choice of his fellow-citizens call I • to that situation, he trusted lie should so conduct himself in it, as to prove he was hot un worthy of their confidence ; and Ihsot tl.e office would go flout him to his successor as unsullied as he received plauses Mr. White then stepped forward, and after warmly congra tulating the Livery on the victory they hail gained, lie pro posed a sinew* thanks to the Mee riff , whiets was seconded by Mr. Waithinaii, who milt ease I the Live.ry at eons:durable length ; lie expressed his happiness at this signal triumph, and acknowledged that he had been most agreeably cl,„ a p. 110111ted by the decision of the Court of Aldermen, which lie had all atieig fedi eil wonld have hieu ditiereat. In his opi nion. Alderman Smith cught beset. to sit in the Chair--not on account ul•ltis politics. but on afeemat of his apostacy. 'There ha i l not been a Cuuuuuu Kali for fourteen years past, that the um Illy Alderman hail not retired with his friends 1111111 U. iliat6y ul•terwards, anti signed counter resolutions, vilifying the Livery as disloyal men. He acknowledged. with shame, that lie hail on some occasions formerly acted it ills the worthy Alderman; but at that lime the worthy Alderman thenglit differently to what lie did at present. Then the Alderman was the very champion of what lie hail since called Jacubin ism 11111041,80 Warm had the worths Alderman been, that it was with difficulty lie (amid be held back within the bounds of prudence. How the worthy Alderman got acipisititiA with Mr. Pitt, lie knew not ; but lie immediately afterwards was Minot], eil with an Alderman's gown—and then, those with whom lie had pre% Musty acted were vilified and tra dnced.--Mr. Wanton:in having concluded, the motion of thanks to the Sheriffs was carried unanimously, its were like wise thanks to Mr. White, tin• his e‘ertions during the contest. Tlll. business of the election being finished, another C - mon Hall was held to hear the report of the late Sheriffs Heil and Thorpe, regarding to the prl.Sellintll/11 of the petition to the Prince Regent, agreed upon on the 21st of Ananst, rela tive to the distresses. The pare°, tof the report that the front.e Regent would out tee, i ve flit petition on the throne, that being a privilege tliA only be:ongs to the City of Lon.lon in its corporate capacity, awl to the Unit ersities of Oxford and Cambridge. Mr. Hunt (of Bristol) then came f , rfs ard, and proposed some strong Resolutions on tht rejeetiwi ut the petition, which sVCI , seconded by Mr. Waddington. A long personal altercation ensued in consequence neto een Mr. flout, Mr. Flower, Air. Wadllama, Tlnente•on; the three lattur complain of toilian•bonne cotwau OH the pail ut r. in bringing foi ward his rcsoifition., when h e knew that . B. Flouter had other rehollitior.% to pi Nora., suit that oy tunrtes,, as the mover of t . ..e onigiust Aiiiirt,s, he hail it tight to be hen d first. A great dal of reer;niiiiation took place bet wren the above named patties; in %finch some ;illu sion by Mr. Hunt to a dentliess with which Mr. host ca is Itll - bro•ight &ion on the runner such a volley of his-es, as compelled hint to retire. The follow ins solutions were then pi °pored by Mr. Tlndnson, second e d by Mr. Flower, and C.lt ried in prefetesice to those of Mr. tilni, after which the chasolved.