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Books lately published'./ .1. MAWMAN, No. es, Poettg
t 1 IIIARACTEItS of the late CIiAItLES
Ni_./ JAMES FOX ; Selected, and, in part, Written,
By PIIILOPATRIS VARVICF:NSIS.
With Notes by the Editor. In two vols. ave. cos boards.
MEMOIRS of the LIFE and WRITINGS of Sir PHI-
LIP. SIDNEY. By Thomas Zoncb, D.D. F.L.S. Prebend-
ary of Durham.
" Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou he'd
" Live well . how lung or short, permit to Hen's."
MILTON.
Handsomely printed in demy 4to. With a fine Portrait of Sir
Philip Sidney, beelitifully engraved by C. Worsen. 11. SAL hula.
The HISTORY of FIAILIiADOES, from the first ditto.'
very of the Island, io the Year tens, till the accession of
Lord Seery, lb, t sot . By John Poyer. Neatly printed in
one large ato. volume, it. i ht. 64. boards.
A PICTURE of MADRID; taken ou the spot. Trans-
late.' from the German of Fiedler, Crown aro. 64. boards.
'the HISTORY of FRANCE., under the Kings of the
rare Valois from the OCCIWSiOII of Charles the Fifth, in
tint, to the sheath of Charles the Ninth in le-4. By Na-
thaniel William Woman, Esq. The Third Edition, with
very cossillernbie Augmentations, 2 Vol.. 891.1 (is boards.
By the vaioe Author,
..A TOUR THROUGH the WESTF.RN, SOI'TII ER N,
and INTERIOR Pitt/VINCI:8 of FRANCE, in the Years
1773 and 1771 i. Third Edition, correcied and augmeuted,
es. boards.
The TRAVELS of ANACHARSIS Ills Younger, in
Greece, during the Middle oil the Futirth Century, before the
Christian :Era; translated 'front the French of the late Abbe
Barthelemy.
To which are prefixed, Meninirs of the Life of J. 4. Bar-
thelemy, written by himself in 1792 mid nor ; with a Por-
i trait Si' the Author. Ilionlemarly mooed, he 7 Vols. aim.
and an eighth to ate. ruataiaing Maps, Plans, Views, and
Coins, illnetrativ s of the tieography and Antiquities I.f An-
cient Greece. A New Edition; being the Fourth, price at. as.
Luanda.
MEMORIALS of N Alt It E and ART; canned ms
a Journey in Greet fhitai.i, .lariig the Years 1402 and 1110 j.
By Christian _Aligns! ue tiattlie.. Gorde. Trauslated (rein the
original German, by 'Photo* llorue. La a vols. small ovo.
price Ills. 6id beards.
HISTORICAL. VIEW of the ENGLISH GO-
Yf 'MENT, trout the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain
to he Kermit Time; with soiree Dissertations connected
wi tipe History of the G.wernment. By John Millar, Pro-
fessor of Law iu the University of Glasgow.
4 Vols. bro. il. els. hoard*,
The-•HIS ft ttt 1' of SCOTLAND, from the Union of
the Corwae, on tit, Accession of daisies VI. to the lleruue of
England, to the Cutter of the Kiugilorus its the tango of
Queen Anne.
The Seemed Edition, corrected, Wills a Preliminary Di.-
sertatiou on the Participation of Mary Queen of Scuts in
the Murder of Darnley Its Malcolm Laing, Esq.
4 vids bvu. 11. the. boards.
•,,_• The Dissertation may be had separate, to complete '
the firmer Eilitioo, price Ins.
A GF.NEKAL VIEW of the WRITINGS of LIN-
PLEUS. By Richard Polteney, M.D. F.lt_S.
The Scrotni Edition; with Colrectione, enneiderable Ad-
JltiOllF, and Memoirs of the Autior. By William George
Mato n, M.D. F.IIS F.S.A. Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians, and a Vice- PresiZent of the Unita:au Society of
Loudon.
To which is anoexed, se Diary of Lettuces, written by
himself, and now translated into English, from the :wettish
Manuscript, in pnssession of the Editor. Handsomely
panted in One liege Volume, Royal (Marto, (onifierna in use
and type with The Trausactions of the Linterati Society of
Loadoa), and meilsoltished . with Ptomain. of- I..hewireessnwhi
Dr. Palteory, with a Rua Plate of Modals, and a Fac-
Simile of Linuarties hand-writieg. it. I is. lid. boards.
ANNALS of COMM EEC r., m A NUFACTI'REt,
FISHERIES, and NAVIGATION; with brief linfiees of
the Arts sod Sciences eunneeted with them. Containing the
Commercial Transactions of the British Empire, and other
Countries, from the earli"st Accounts to the meeting of the
Guinn Parliament, in January, tout. By Path" Slarpher-
toll. Neatly printed on mediem paper, its Four large Vo-
lumes, stn. price al es. in boards.
HOLI NSH ECeS and HALL'S CHRONICLES of
NGI.AND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND ; 7 vols. large
10. 151 1.5*. boards.
TOMB of ALEXANDER. A Dissertation oa the
Sarcophagus brought from Meow:olds, and now in the Bei-
! tisk Museum By Edward Daniel Clarke, I.L.D. Hand-
somely printed in Quash', with Five beautiful Plates, by
Medlaod, IRS hoards.
PLU'FARCHN LIVES. Translated from the Original
Greek ; with Notes, Critical and Historical; sod • Life of
Plutarch. By Joh* L.nghueue, D.D. and William Lang-
hone, A.M. A New Edition, in six volumes, with Correc-
tions and Additions, by the Rev. Francis Wraughain, M.A.
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SATURDAY, JULY 28. 18104

If the appren•
t 4 e shall not
have served tee
years in the ie.
&rice class.

in all other respects equally qualified: at all salmemirot con.
minations, however, the caudidates %CH be require:l to read
and translate French with/Cie:toy.
After 'drain:sing into the superior class, the apprentices
shall attend rit the Royal Naval College three or fair hours
on the morniegs of every day in the week, except Sunday and
the:eniablished holidays: where they shall be instructed in such
parts of the tollowing subjects as shall appear to the Profes-
sor of the College to be best adapted to the object of the
eatablishment, viz. the formatiou of able and useful ship-
builders

Geometry, Flexions,
Alg<•hra, Theory of Naval Ar-
Plane l'.iganorartry, chiieeture,
Mechanics, Malkin,
Hydrostatics, The French Language,

On Munslays, Tuesdays, and Wedneedeys, the apprentices
Phan he employed at the College daring the hems shove-
mentioned, is the study of mathematics' seder the pretests*
or the iustrnetur ; ou Thursday and Friday mornings, in
drawing, snider the drawing-mneter ; the art of perspective
being most particularly applied in &anise the different mots
of a ship; and the rooming of Saturday shall be appropriated
to the study of such ao exercises tistbe French lan-
guage, seder the French 'raster, as may perfect them therein,
and at the same time advance their professional kuow -Jge.
This divitiou of time allotted for their studies, as, how-
ever, to Ise subject to such alterations as shall appear to
the profiteer .last eiticalated for promoting the (+Nee/ of
the institsithm.
In the remaininx part of the day, when not attending at
the college, they shall be rinpl oe, .1 tinder the master ship-
wright ur Mat' actor of naval ArClll tc:tnie, in the moulilduft,
in the •arieres kinds of mutual ta.miir cony-fled with ship-
linilding ; in the arquiniunted of a complete knowledge of the
different parts of a ship, and of the method of constructiog
mid (*meninx the same, as *ell as iti discriminating her df
fereut properties deducible from theorettcal calculatinsa i
stun in the manaeconeot and convention of timber, and gene-
rally in such other wooer as the maser-shipwright sun/
consider us hest ails to retake them fully acquainted with
all the detail of thug 'duties of a practical ship.sright
To insure the punishment of offences committed by them
Jima: their stietsdasice at the college, a hook shall he kept
by the Mat actor, iu which suet' olfesices shall be entered ; and
at the cad of each week, or oftener if there lit occasion, this
book shall be seal to the office of the Commissioner, who
will (mike suck imeishuient to be inflicted, as may be con-
. forinahle to the 011%131 treatment of apprentices in the dork-
yard.
And at the end of each year, a politic examination shell
take place, is the presence of the oflicers mentioned is th•
third Article, sad a general stateineut of the improvement
of the respective appreutiecs in the theoretical part ..f their
poems , shit'l he transmitted by the Professor of the Cul.
lege ; and of. their prime-et in the practical past, by the
master shipwright, !hymnal' the COlllO6/SSIOIWf of the Deck-
yard, to the Ailinirolka.office ; to the evil that, if it shall tip•
peer hat an epprestice hey eartieulerly distinguished him-
self in any of the department of has profession, the Locale
Conimi,niusen of the Admiralty may confer on limn such
mark of their approbattuo as their Lurdshipe may drew ex,
pedieut,
The last year cf their apprenticeship, or such part there-
rof es the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may thiuk
proper, shall he served at ma, Mauch of His Majesty's ships
as their Lordships aliall direct, wills a view of obtaining
some practical knowledge ill the steering, sailing, ti intinitie,
and hallastine of a ship; in making remarks on the unititin
and sail king of a ship, in all her parts, in bad scathes., and
on a high sea ; the standiog aad straining of the masts and
yards, ender sorb reevaluates ; the placing of the axed
blocks, with a view Is the proper leading of ropes, Sac ; and,
generally, in übtaining such information as the etiolate,
emperfter, autd other Officr rs of the ship 'May, by their rx-
------"----, and tomb as their own observations

prrirucc,
way suggest.
Darin; the tone that ont.l an spm entice shall be on holt d
a ship, be will he required to keep a journal of hi. remarks
and uhoirmatione, arranged under distinct L 11.15, noting such
improvements is any part of the ship, or an, this; cusnect-
eil therewith, :.,1 in my suggest themselves mina, front a mi-
nute attention to the circumstances Ity which a skip Is affect-
ed at sea; a copy of which journal is to be transmitted to
the Admiralty.
A cabin, or birth, will he allotted to bins in the gun-
room, or in sonic other ...lush!, port of the ship; he shall
MCP, n ith some of the Officers, awl be treated, in all respects,
111/ a gem Irmau.
Salaries to he allowed Apprentices of the Superior Clau :
If the appren- If the appren.
lice shall hare tee Isbell hare
served two years served three S.
.a that rlabs. I years in that
clan. I