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And all persons tolto may think proper to snake Tenders upon the said occasion, are desired to take notice, that no regard till he had to nay Tender m whirl the price shall not be fainted in words at ki,gth, or that shall not be delivered to the Board before one o'clock Lk the slid Monday the 14th March next; nor unless the person L•ho makes the Tender, or some perms on his behalf, attends to an.:..er when calledfor. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. 2871 JAIIVAIRT, 1803 THE GENERAL COURT having resolved, if any surplus Balance should arise, to appropriate such part of the same as maw appear prudent, for the establishment of a Fund for gradually Rebuilding this Itispital, the Governors take this mode of stating, that the necessity thereof has arisen from the vet!, heavy annual charge of keeping in repair an an cient Erection, which has been professionally declared incapable, in many parts, of being long upheld, and from its having there fore been Rewind, " That it is far radmithe interest of the Hospital to expend " any Sams that may'heteafter be voted upon vplan for the " gradual and uniform Rebuilding of the Hu '..than to " enter into a further Repair of the present BtriArt7s." The first object in view by the Governors, is as much as pos sible to prevent a decrease in the number of Children annually admitted—The securing this object has hitherto prevented airy appropriation to the Building Fund; and it is not probable that the general expencos will ever permit any considerable poi non of the Income of this House to be so applied: a former Coneral Court therefore Rev>br. d unanimously, " That a Subscription be immediately opened, to rond.i " effectual aid to the Fund which may arise from the appro " priation of the surplus Revenue towards the gradual Re " building this Hospital on its present scite, and that which 41 the Governors arc enabled to purchase under the autho " rity of Parliament, fur the improvement and enlargement " thereof in London." Which Resolution. has already received the countenance of many Governor:, whose names, and the sums they have sal scribed, appear hereunder, and to whom the General Court thus make their public acknowledgments. Two other Royal Hospitals, those of Saint Bartholomew and St. Thomas, wine Rebuilt by publk Subscription ; and after the liberal ' l appe t s . this Charity has experienced for two centuries and an half, the Governor: entertain the confident expectation, that a Royal Seminary, rendered important to the Kinrdom at lime by its magnitude, and by the liberal Education and Main tenance it affords, will also receive favourable attention from the Generous and Opulent upon so interesting an occasion : and sills General Court embrace the opportunity so early *Sordid, 41( voting Their unanimous Thanks to the Corporation of the City of London, for their unanitnrius Resolution " to subscribe the " sum of One Thousand Pounds towards the gradual Rebuild " ing of Christ's Hospital upon its present scite :" St which a further proof of the accustomed protection and at tention of that respectable Body to the Orphans of this City and others, is eminently conspicuous ; and an example held forth worthy of imitation. By order of a General Court holden this day, RICHARD CORP, Clerk. ACCOUNT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Corporation of London, as above.. L lOOO The WorshipfUl Company of Grocen lO5 4 light Worshipful Sir J. -- Wm. Anderson, Bart. Alderman, President 100 Worshipful Jas. Painter, Esq. Treasurer lOO Ileac Walker, Esq lOO John Walker, Esq lOO George Godwin, Esq 2OO Charles Pieschell,Esi lOO James Clitherow, Esq lOO Richard Clark, Esq lOO John Atkins, Esq. lOO C. S. Strong, Esq. lOO Thomas Roberts, ES.I.•• • 100 Francis Gosling, Esq lOO Archibald Paxton, Esq lOO William Dent, Esq 100 John Brickwood, Esq..-- 100 Hon. Gen. W. Hervey lOO Richard Godwin, 100 Thomas Coles, Esq. ICO T. F. Freeman, Esq lOO William Wilcox, Esq 5O Edmund Wilcox, Esq 5O Samuel Bosanquet, Esq lOO J.ihit Whitmore, Esq lOO John Turner,Esq. ( Fleet street) William Eligginson, Esq. 100 William Gosling, Esq._ 100 J. J. Angerstein, Esq lO5 Francis Wilson, Esq lOO A.ntluxiy Rucker, Esq. 200 D. H. 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" His book demands our commendation. It is clear and comprehensive, and contains some very useful rules, not usually given, or not with equal brevity and distinctness." Ville 1. Monthly Mirror, Nur. 1797; Y. Monthly Review, Jan. 1797 ; 3. Analytical Revievr ) Dec. 179% 4. Iritish Cri tic, Nov. 1116. SIXPENCE. LITERA TURE. Ea °pro preterin cognortere. Hoe. • In our prospectus of the literature of the last ) we noticed a third volume of Doctor Shaw's G • NEHAL ZOOLOGY," which had been publisiied d.:- ring that period. No new volume has since ap peared ; but as the public must necessarily be inte rested on the subjeA of a work, so popular in its na ture, and so scientific in its execution, we will de part a little from our accustomed rule, to notice and extra& from it. The Author's short advertisement will supply a very clear and full view of his plan ; and will leave us only to remark, that lie has as yet condueted his work only to the Amphibia. ADVERTISEMENT. " In the course of this work will -be Uniiiiiired the whole. of what is termed 4001i00•1 9. - 2r the His tory of the Animal World. It will commence with • , Quadrupeds,- and will-proceed in systematic order through all the remaining braitchel, viz. Birds, Antphibia, Fishes, Inseas Vermes, •Testaceous Ani mals, Zoophytes, & c. T he number of volumes will probably amount to ten or twelve. • • • TheLinnzan arrangement, with sotto occasional - variations, will in general be pursued, as on the who t le the most -eligible ; though his arrangement of quiikupeds may to many appear,: lit not quite so easy and natural as that of Mr. Pen nant?' We will now select for our reader's entertain ment, an extra& from that of this systematic work, which describes the .giants of the serpent tribe, as they are classed under the genus, BOA. The fact, recorded in authentic history, with which this de scription is conneaed, will probably justify us fur giving it the preference. " The genus Boa is remarkable for the vast and almost unlimited size of some of the principal spe cies, which in India, Africa, and South. America, arc occasionally found of not less than twenty, thirty, and even thirty-five feet in length, and of a strength so prodigious, as to be able to destroy cat tle, deer, &c. by twisting around them in such a manner as to crush them to death by continued pressuret, after whrola they swallow them in a very gradual manner ; and when the gorged with their prey, become almost torpid with repletion, and if discovered in this state, may without much diffi culty be destroyed by shooting or other methods. There is reason to suppose that these gigantic -ser pents are become less common now than some cen turies backwards, and that in proportion as culti vation and population have increased, the larger species of noxious animals have been expelled from the haunts of mankind, and driven into more distant and uncultivated trans : they are still, however, occasionally seen, and sometimes approach the plantations and gardens of the distries nearest to their residence. " Of all the larger Bon, the most conspicuous is the Boa Constritbar, which is at once pre-eminent • from superiority of size and beauty of colours : in this respell indeed it appears to be subject to consi derable variation from age, sex, and climate, but may be distinguished in every state from the rest of its tribe by the peculiar pattern or disposition of its variegations. The ground-colour of the whole ani mal, in the younger specimens, is a yellowish grey, and sometimes even a bright yellow, on which is disposed along the whole length of the back a series of large, chain-like, reddish-brown, and sometimes perfealy red variegations, leaving large open oval spaces of the ground-colour at regular intervals; the largest or principal marks compos►ng the chain like pattern above-mentioned are of a squarish form, accompanied on their exterior sides by large trian gular spots, with their points dire&ed downwards ; between these larger marks are disposed many smaller ones of uncertain forms, and more or less numerous in different parts : the ground-colour it self is also scattered over by a great many small specks of the same colour with the variegations the exterior edges of all the larger spots and mark ings are commonly blackish, or of a much deeper cast than the middle pact, and the ground-colour immediately accompanying the outward edges of the spots is, on the contrary, lighter than on other parts, or even whitish, thus constituting a general richness of pattern, of which nothing but an actual view of a highly-coloured specimen of the animal itself can convey a complete idea. In the larger specimens the yellow tinge is often lost in an uniform grey cast, and the red tinge of the variegations sinks into a deep cheenut ; and ►n some the general regularityof the pattern before described is disturbed by a kind of confluent appearance ; ehe head is al ways marked above by a large longitudinal dark band, and by a narrower lateral bend passing across the eyes towards the neck. " The Boa Conetri&or is a neve of Africa, In dia, the larger ladian islands s , A nd South America, Amphibia ought to have be e n mentioned in this placc betoe Birds. In the work itsotahe proper arrangement is uo served. Thii praaiee er the Larger Serpent seems to have been• wall known to the aneonva : thus Lucan, speaking of the monstrous African snaJr,ei (which he also reps eats as fur niched with wiur), tells us they destroy Oxen, and even Elephants, by " Vos quo u ,,. q ui cunctis irmoxia numina ternswrit/M.4lround and crushing them to d eath. SerlAtis, a 4,40 nitidi fulgore Dracones, Peebles.,. 4rdelis facit Africa, ducitis altum Aera cum permit, armen ague tots secuti Rumpitis ingenues amplexi verhere tauros. Nec tutus spat o est Ele.phast datisornnia leto : Nec vobis opus est ad noxia fats veneno.” Ye too, in other climes who harmless rove In gilded scales, the guardians of the grove, In horrid Afric's pestilential air Acquire new natures from the burning glare Ride thro' the bl,tze of noon on sable wing, Quick on tit affrighted herds with fury spring ; And gathering all your folds in writhings due, Bid the huge Ox beneath your crush expire s Th' enormuns Elephant by force can slay, And need no poison to secure your prey. The tale of Laocoon in Virgil Plight be 4,189 aimed At at exanapV of this particular. On Monday next will be published, and delivered Gratis, The Eighth Number of A MONTHLY LIST of NEW PUBLICA TIONS. 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