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SAM-ER*li IFt LLS Vidor the Pat•nnv;.• of 1111 S ROYAL 111GHNESS THE DUKE OF CL lIRENCE THIS aid EVERY EVENING this WEEK, NEW BROUS'S, JACK THE GIANT KILLER, TOWARD AND SUSAN Mr. Towasssin, late e ow Theatre Royal, Covent Garden wrielerful Per &mailers of S:viior Groeatixt BVTISTA RItt.Z.,NI. the PsTationi \N Ss union, and the Comic Pant:mihne of FIRE: and SPIRIT, or Ilarterptin.—The Pmprictors, hippy to fiat the Wines,. much a:mei:nett of, assure the P,ihhe the! sitar depend wain nxtiving the same neat as importial at 2.. a bottle, or Is a pint. Ccttnuatt., .gait 14, 1803. TO UP H OLDERS, C %/11NET MAKERS, &c. THE COM‘IITTEE for General Purposes, WM meet at GUILDHALL, on THURSDAY, the 21st of April, 1801, at Ten o'Cluek in the Forenoon, to re:one Pro- Josiah, sealed up. frown Persoas so iliing to rontr.i:t for providing sundry articles of Furniture, consisting of Chair-, ear thling, Carlieaug ait.l Hearth Rug: fur ate Anti Room and Drawing Roan at the Manion Housr. 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Joseph Bodeen, Rnl,ert Shedd- n, Joseph Marryst, Lawrence Bruce, alit' John IWitnarol, tw requested to continue their exertions in following up the convietimi of George Ea.terby and William Nlacf.trlane ; awl ttking such father 111C13.1rri es may be deemed netessaiy to bring them to punishment. 3.!, 'I Ir. t the Thanks of this Merlin:: are due to Sir Isaac Pocock, a:tel John Julius auger-tan, Liq. for their usetui communications. 4th, Th.it tit : Thanks of th s M^el ine are also due to Captain Robert it ga io is, Mr JUllfl filackett, and Mr. James Charles Michell, for their importint asr..tor.ce and ai tire services ; and that Ca:natti Rotten Ibtoglas bo presented with 100 gui neas front the funds of thts 11.1 , 11; as a Reward for his meri curious services, without whizh Captain William Codling wtosid have escaped justice. ,th, That the Thaults of this )feeting are emine..tly due to Gonion Lsviv. Fon, fur bit great attsition ac..l 4Yility in eon ouctuig the proseeut.on, and that he be presented with 100 ;lioness from the funds of this House, as a token of the high Wage entertained of his services tith, That the Resolutions now posed, he publishes! in such Newspapers as the Committee of this House thiuk proper to Ma. ORME'S HISTORY OF INDoSTAN. ii.:. Day ia published, in Three Volumes, Quarto, printed .ero a fine Dern, Paper, a new Edition, with Corrections by the Author, with Indexes, and illustrated with a great Ta rtly ut Maps, Plans, and Views, from original Surveys and btAwings. Price 31. 7s. in boards. A HISTORY of the MILITARY TRANS LIL AGTiONS of the BRITISH NATION in INDOSTAN, fiteat the Year 1743. To which is prefixed a Dissertation on FAtabliiioneuts made by Mahunitatan Conquerors in In &man. /Iv ROBERT ORIIIE, Esq. F A S Prints.' for F ‘tita g ..ve, t,usa.snaor to Mr. N,urse, in the Mr trid. N B The Ir.deees mar be had separate to complete former Iristasaa. Where ma, he had, Doles History of me Mahoinedaii Conquerors in Wooten, Isaustatol moo th- ret.L.ut (hissing of Ferishta, in J vols. sso. Fuca l' 7.. In The w ho buylC , printed on isle Roynt Piper, price 21. in bails Sa‘ftosit Rmiectiorts uo nos Government <4ll4,st:in, with Slreveh ri the Mow,' of Ret.c..! . and all ACV.. lett the I rigtst .1111 r. re 17:r4 Ovs• d`• 04. . .1 . . . . .... . , . . % . . . .., • , ...... .. . - ..) )r. • —.e . , 7p . ....0 .4 .0106.0r5.-4.1%( •' • 4•• ' ' ft . •• . . ' " . ..MP. P ..... '• " .• .....1 1 11111b; . ).... 4.. 7 ' 1 6 " M. • T . / • irifi :• :i7' 04,. 4 ,... ~ •,$ , - .„.._ s th... . • ...• • ./ t ts- A lir 4. 4 p.i. •2.•.. ...,..., lb ...t . "" '.- ' • . if* /;••,r., • i r ".. , :• • • 4 --, IU r ils)r . .. . , .../. ..?:::....:....,......, .. . . i.. - 4 . F . 4.,.- ._ .„ ........... , :...--. • ',.. '• -;.: ' ...:Ik. - .. * l-= •i':- .- • .....; . . , -:;,. '.. ..-..;.t.',.. 0 ./... , ;•..., ....; OR, r• - . ( L . . *. : - . .....• v + . 3 . / , ' 7.. c ) 0 , r • c.a . . , . ..„ ... a, 7, 1/ / ai : 71/ r; 1, ITF, I? 6.4 -1? Y .4 DVERTISEP .. ~:. . . - - . . . • . . . . , i .l ii 'i , ' ! • ! . . t r • . ! , t , . .. I .. _ 4 . ... , t.., , 4 •) i . / 4a. [PRICE SIXPF.ti Lisbon, who had consulted Toscanelli, on the part of the King of Portugal, as to the possibility of finding the Indies. It was afterwards sent to Chris topher Columbus, in answer to a letter that he had written to Toscanelli, relative to the voyage he pro posed to undertake. The letter of Toscanelli, re fers only to what appeared to hint to be the shortest course to the Indies, and those parts of the Indies which he thought the richest and the most worthy' of being explored. The shortest course. in his opinion, was, on leaving Lisbon, to go directly to the West, across the Atlantic Ocean, and to pro ceed in the same direction, or on the parallel of Lisbon, nearly a third of the circumference of that parallel ; at that distance they would find, said he, the city of Guisay or Quinsay, the capital of China, in the time of Marc-Paul ; they would also find the island of Cipango (now Japan) extremely fertile in gold, pearl, :Ind precious stones • it was in this course he placed the island of Antillia, when he said, And of Mr island ofAnti.'lia, which you snow, and which pu call SET T E-CiT A, to She famous island Cifrango there are ten spaces which ma& 2.500 mi'es, or '2.25 leaguer. It results from this passage, that at the epoch of l 474, the i s l a nd o f Antalia was known at least to the King of Portugal, for wham the letter of Toscanelli was written, and that it passed for one of the richest countries in .the world. It further results, that in the opinion of Toscanelli, it was sheeted in the eastern parts of the Indies, which were then thq countries of the most precious and wonderful productions. It is proba ble, that it was from the idea of Toscooelli, that. Christopher Columbus gave the name of Antilla's to those islands of America, which he found in his first voyage, and which he supposed to be the east ern part of the Indies. It was from the charts of his time, that Toscanelli made his calculations re speCting the course he pointed out ; and the Antil ha of the chart of Bianchi, can be no other than the Antillia mentioned in the letter of Toscanelli ; it therefore can represent no part of America. . • To dissipate entirely the doubts founded on thhi chart of Branchi, it would have been satisPaanry to have discovered in the ancient Continent the namet of Antillia and De la Man Satanaxion, which tine chart presents. Citizen Buache ha; made every pas sible research on this subject ; he first examined, after the opinion of Toscanelli, at the islands of the Archipelago, of the Indies, but without success ; considering then, that the islands of Antillia was known to the Portuguese, according to Toscanelli, which coals! not be said of the Indian Is! mils at that epoch ; considering also that the King of Por tugal had paid no attention to the information of - -or to the proposition of Christopher Columbus, and that several authors had confound ed the island of Antillia with that of the famous San Borandon, or Brandon, which was supposed to be near the Canaries; Citizen Buache 'direeted his attention to the Western Coasts of Africa, which the Portuguese were then occupied in discovering; after a variety of information furnished him by the itinerary Alundi of Peristol. From a manuscript chart of the national library of la and another of the library of the Duke of Parma, 13ti7, ho thought he had ascertained that the names of "flue and De la Man Sasanaxi9, were the - result of the first acquaintance the Europeans had with the rich countries of the interior of Africa, or of the country of the blacks, which the Arabs named Sudan ; the name Sudan, appeared to him to have some refe rence to that of Satanaxio, the name of Sette-Cita, which the Portuguese gave to Antillia, according to Toscanelli, and which they translated by Svern. Civitates, the seven cities, appeared to him to he the Regis, Sepiem Mont urn, which the chart of Sanas, in the Gala del, perfrancos, places on the western side of Africa, at the extremity of an island, and rye the country of Gaulolia With regard. to the name of Antillia, he considers it analogous to the name of Cautin, which Peritsol points out between Cape Bo jockr and Cape Bloat, where there is a coast called. the Seven Mountains ; and to the name of Ansilrr Angel, otherwise called the Seven Hills, on the coast of Senegal ; and to the name of And, a pore adjacent to the hills of Angel, from which they have made Poriandie. It is to be remarked, that it is on - the coast situated bet Ween the Canaries and Senegal, that they began to carry on the corn nerctt of gold, before the discovery of the coast of Guinea. If these observations do not amount to proofs, they are at least satisfactory indicia, in favor of the opinion Citizen Buache has adopted, namely, that the island of Antillia was not America. " A thick veil," says hi, " still covers the geography of all Africa ; the names of the different points of that coast, which is alone known, are for the most part. new names, which have been given them by the Portuguese, afid it is difficult to ascertain the ob je...as which ate pointed out by the natives of the country. UN THE DIFFERENT MANNERS OF WRITING HISTORY. NY CITIZEN TOVEONGENON. Citizen Toulongenon, occupied with the history of our times, has been led, by the nature of the work in which he is engaged, to consider, even more par ticularly than Citizen Levesque, the diferent ma , ,esere of euribmg b;story, and particularly contemporaneous history. His Memoir will be read in the. course of the sitting. He insists on the .necessity of those de tails which can alone discover or afford a conjeaure of the causes of events, and describe characters with fidelity. Modern history, as well as ancient history, is com posed of two epochs—times of calmness, and times of trouble. He distinguishes civil history, which comprehends military events, as the cause, and his tory purely military, which excludes civil events al foreign to the history of the art. In times of tranquillity, civil effeas having but little or no influence on military events, there arc consequently some very good histories which are purely military ; such arc those of the campaigns of Turenne, of Condi, of Luxemburgh ; technical works, which include the grand lessons of the art. But . 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The distin guished authors of these pares will, he flatters 'Moir ap prove of li;4 taking this method of reiiileiin,; their public spi rited exertions more genet-oily known ; fir it cannot be ex perAcd that a number of high-priced books, 43 of theme some pa en of useful intomation, C. 411 be the übjtct of ge neral porrliat-. Printed fort. Mawman,Poliltry, and .1. White, Fleet-stre,t, London ; Wilson and Spence, J. Todd, Sotheran and Sun, and J. Wolsteuhuline, York. Uf whom also may be bad, just published, by the same Author. The Third Edition of FN'ELYN's SILVA, or rt Discourse of Forest Trees, in 2 vole Stu. price 31. 3s. in boards. N.I TIONAL INSTITUTE. REVIEW OF THE WORKS OF THE CLASS OF SCI ENCES, Molt AI. %ND POLITIC 11., FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS OF THE TENTH YEAR. By Citizen GINGUENE, Secretaire. MEMOIR UPON HISTORY. Citizs'n Levesque, in a Memoir upon History, has considered it as a science, and as an art. As a sci ence, it is the register of &Els ; every day it makes some nem/ progress, for every day it becomes en riched by some new fads. Contemporaries are ca rious to learn whatever is passing around them. In times of calmness, this curiosity adluates the minds of those who have leisure, but it is the univig sal passion, during periods when all are in agitation and inquietude, to satisfy their impatient avidity ; re course has been had to journals which offer them daily the history of the day. They affea to de spise them, hut they are far more f.tithtill than the tradition, and public reports, which have for a long while been the only materials of history. Those steril fans, which have no influence on the future. incessantly lose their value; they are abridged, and thine who preserve them form them into an ; contemporaries esteem them, the more detailed they are. "If the annalist is possessed of taleins, it will be long before thoy have any obligation to him, because taleat is not what they require. Dif fusion is a vice, which they will pardon in him, be cause it renders him trifling, like the most part of his readers." History considered as a science, furnishes mate rials to history considered as an art. It is the latter which is called history, properly sodenominated, and of which the Greeks and the Romans have left us such fine models. Itisdestined to posterity,and preserves only what is calculated to instruB or please. Many events which fix the attention of contemporaries will lose all their importance ; it will red them ; many men who enjoy a high reputation during their own period, will diminish into ordinary chara&ers. It will not deign to mention them ; it requires two sorts of criticism ; one, which among the contradic tions, the exaggeration - s, and the falsehoods of the annals shall develope the truth ; the other still more difficult, which from a chaos of events, knows how to distinguish those which deserve the attention of an enlightened reader. It paints with strong fea tures and makes more impression than the annals, because in the latter, vulgar fa&s obscure great events, and vulgar men great men. It is very difficult for contemporaries to write I lis tory. The author is desirous of meriting the title of an historian, while his readers wish him to he merely an annalist. He is desirous of being impar tial, and his readers ate influenced by their passions. It he struggles against the opinion of his own age, he will miry have admirer s in those ages, in which he will no longer exist. • But, says Citizen Levesque, those who have been witnesses of our revolution, ought to he aauated by a disposition favourable to the writing the history of past ages. They have seen so many great convul sions, so many great calamities, so many grand con ceptions, so many great anions, and so great a man, that whatever is nut sublime, must appear to them beneath their notice. From the grand objets continually presented to their sight, they have learnt to contemplate things in a grand point of view ; to sze things in a grand point of view, is to embrace at a single glance many objeas. It is to reduce many obje&s to unity; when they see things thus, they express them in a few words. MEMOIR ON THE ISLAND ANTILLIA AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. BY CITIZEI3 BUACIIL. Hitherto it has been supposed that the discovery of America was due to Christopher Columbus. It was one of those points of history on which all au thors were agreed, and as one which might be con sidered the most certain. However, doubts have lately been raised upon this subjecct ; doubts, which to many learned men have appeared to have some foundation ; doubts which they have judged at least worthy their attention. Among the papers which remaht in the library of St. Marc, at Venice, is a chart of Andre Bianchi, made in 1436, in which there is described a large island, called Antillia, situated in the west of the Azore islands, which proves, say they, that America was known before the discovery of it by Christnplier Columbus. It is added, that the learned Morelli, Librarian of St. Marc, intends to puhlish this chart. This intention has induced Citizen Bitache again to examine the chart of Bianchi, which was known since 1783, by the edition and the commentaries on it, given by For in:Jenne, in the appendix of his work entitled, “ Sag gio sully Nautica antica de Veneziani." The first idea which presents itself at the sight of this chart, Where in fang we find the large island named Antillia, placed in the west of the Azores, and the beginning of another island, situated to the North of Antillia, and called Ysola de la Man Sata- Dario, is,' that these two idands, are parts of Ante- rica, or some of the islands at present known under the name of the Antilles. Since there exists no other land in the whole space comprised between the Azores and America. The chart of Bianchi having been made in 14136, it appears then natural to con clude, that America, or some parts of it, were known before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. It is also the opinion which has been adopted by For maleoni ; but this opinion cannot be supported after a serious examination of the chart of Bianchi, and compared with other monuments equally authentic, which he has thought it necessary to consult. Thi...! exists a letter • of the learned Paolo Tosca nelli, author of the Gnomon de Sainte Marie de Florence, dated 25th June 1474, in which, mention is made of the island of Antillia. This letter was first addressed to Ferdinand() Martinez, canon of This Day war published, in Silo, price 3s. &I. &It'd, A TREATISE on the FUNCTIONS and IX DITTIES or a CONSTABT.E : Containing Dontils :iu't (*serrations interesting to the Public, as they relate to th Corruption of Morals, and the Prottxtion of the peaceful Sub jesit against Penal and Criminal Offences, dec. Ry P. COLQUIIOUN, I.L. D. To those who .m desirous of knowing without much trouble how the p-.aceful Subject is, or ought to be, protected avilist those public wrongs which reinter life and prnpzrty insecure ; and Ivivr to proceed on every emergency when an injury cog nizable by the criminal law is experienced ; this Work (ir is humbly presumed) will be found an interesting Compundium, and an useful Directory. 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