The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-04-05 00:00:00

TUN FLNK :MTS.

We were arnonglbe first 1,, ,Ali Ow adroit irn of air ruhhe j
to Sir JOHN Letersitit'i Gallery of Picker. a by llitlll9lll
41111.1,P1, null to hail the opeuisuf of thia tine Collection
is no nespiciou. omen Dram progress of the Fine ,14-1• of
our euttutry. %Ye milieipatral that the liberal p 'trend; •
iltample of die lion. flail. would nut Ind soh twae the unveil-
pion whirls it ought upon dirt class of society ...hose waits
siuti taste peculiarly enable them to tiair•iiiise, wad pro.
nude those liberal Arta which materially tend to rolichten •
thepuldie lailitl, nod advance Ike rilUtArleT 4.1 the riostAry.
i• with plcaaure nr nod die f NAti4tlV itOIN 1.1114:111
?i!1 41re'clY for .",..11 by eliletuo,. Collort.os of Works of
11. and ell.tl MC. IV4l,Tik rAu Ey e.pcsi lua i
lo.wiurice, Tuesday. the Ott ieslsol, 10 Ili!
.elf the Fine Ads.
The Collredrip of Mr. FAWKES contains ilanif ofshy
finest Irsolscape•hawinf..4% in the I. try. lie hre. st"'l"l4 ;
Mr. To tit's, the bluynl Academician, who is, ere
the finest landscape paititie tieing, and stow of the most
finished specimens by oilier British Adios. It i• isndifyiug
iu find that with pease we find the arts of peace eisiliY•llA
in the matinee which is mod Idxly to cosine then general
pationnge Dud success. The %limpid; of STAII4ORD'iI
Mr. Hope., Med Mr. A!.:GCRSTs.t%'s, had °molder.
able effect in calling the Edelstein of the kielsiuswible world
in the splendour which the Arts were c,cleulsted to shed
upon their Patrons, and the amide dec.-undone they fad uislied
to the mansions of the. great. The britisla Institution in a
fursl degree conlouelied toe pisiiht fatten for the Flue Aria.
and augmented their patronage. We see every dry Ore effect
of the liberal and 1;01680m intention. of the Ours • t•irs of the
luslituitun ; we see it in the landiable sieschry-tit the lovers
of Art to pste before the public the Cullertions they have
formed, and in the iu 11111 ithltrailif Of Ott patronage
whir:, our Ai lists are uuw daily rceciliog.

HISTORY OF MALIN.

Among the marls topographical null statistical durerip.
lions of various parts of the British Empire, o hick
disihr
Rlllab the hi. retort of the present trines, we are el ul to 1110.
lice " A Ilistory of the City of Dublin." Of this ('icy,
which hold. au distinguishao Of mirk )) rig the roller of
Enrope, and whirls is so intimately eur:or scted o ith Fmetirod,
we have hitherto nu full or cut rrct account, (the partial and
ersperceut traits that may be glestrad from tour larders, are
au raw, inaccurate, anal contradicter), that ou reliausw east
he placed oat Orem; it is, lurked, r xtramdirrary, that a place of
such couseqoence should hSve rensimed whose untleveribed,
"lieu almost every parish in FtiValid has had its historian.
Ila )) i)) the Editor of bar lames Wire's Antieprities, it is
true, published about 60 years ago an 'pelmet uf
in one volume, tivo. but he died before he had half c •
pletril his plan, and his work pritscipally regards it.e rowieut
amials, mostly collected front Wart.
'The present With, we learn from the preface, was hrgrits
by the late I(rv. Mr. Whittling, consequent upon Hie 'midi-
Mimi of his rclebratrai Statistical Memoir ins the Pollute.
lion. He*was assisted jam his antiquarian researches by the
late Mr. Warburton, deputy keeper of the records in liir-
mioglrant Tower, who 41111i1110111111111elliiC &contrasts. Mr.
Whitelaw bad nut arranged his materials fur half the wesik,
*ben his lameuted death put • stop to it. After which,
intimate harlot, the Bev. B. Walsh, was traduced to under-
take the laborious task of liseishiog it.
Thus t iremarianced, "The History of Dublin" has been
recently published, its Iwo large quarto volumes. The first
cuntaius its ancient moods, end etch-situates! affairs. The
second, its modern establishments sal institutions. The
materials are island copious, and appear to Ire writ enamor%
4 wont them are biographical notices of 4111401 CW 11,4111C1,
Mese are numerous, but tiecessas`rly brief; fur the lives of
such men as Usher and Swift, and Broke and Sheridan,
would alone make a bulky voltorie.
The embollisliments of this Work are well ex. ruled toad
numerous. Noisy of the siesta of the public builelimss ass
Odom tram Melton, but several are qrsilleMs*--wis ehe imports
Post Orme, the Metropolitan Boman Catholic Chapel, the
New Harbour at Huth, the College of Mayitooth. Svc.
We are tempted to give extracts from these interestin;
volumes ; but, for the present, we must confine ourselves to
the account of a minute employed by the [Sauk of Irelaurl,
in stamping its notes.
In a questiou au impurtsal, and sit much agitated as that
of Bank paper currency, at is pinatas that nu reference has
beta made to the method used by the throb of 'relate! to pre-
yent forgeries. Ir. iris National Boni; Notes cannot be imitated
so as to escape immediate detection ; and %Mee this method
has been put in practice, although the forgeries tot Country
Banks are common enough, Sift forged notes ou the No-
tional Bank have born able to he circulated.
'f he following 'Kermit( of the ioveution and description
of the machine us more especially at this time interestina.
" Mr. Oldham, an eminent engraver, had lung turned his
mind to discover a means of preventing the fureery of Bank
motes, and he invented an engraving machine nn the princi-
ples of a diagonal motivu (something after the inarmer of
Writing Automaton), which hap since been
adopted its the Bank of Ire land. The important improve.
mesa of this inaeliiiie is, that it produces a species of osll.ll
mental engraving, at since compreheusable to all capacities.,
arid yet beyond she possibility of being imitated by any
manual operations. By a rotatory motion, it is capable of
nraviug treaty copper plates at the same time. His next
discovery was the applicatorn of steam to the department of
copper-platy printing. For this purpose a small engine of
eight-lose power lois been erected under Isis direction fur
the purpose of turning the priutisig presses of his Original
coustruction. Ifs these presses are a feeding inactine, iii
place of the accustomed prolix mode of chargiirg the plates with
colour, and also • method of regisleriuo the notes, by !hid;
the superiutendant, though trot it/verso, ntay ascertain the
number struck off, and thus prevent the pumibility of frauds.
The same steam which sets the instrument in motion is stair
used iostead of charcoal braziers to heat the plates. It like.
wise gives motion to so air-pump, which heats anal 'mutilates
the entire of the printing establishment. It taros a paper-
mill and colour-machine ; the latter consists sal a tattle and
cylinder; three motions are communicated to both ; the
table turns slowly upon its axis, whilst the cyliuder revolves
quietly on its surface, and has a lateral moSielp front side
lo ride of the table in a horisontal direction. By these
means a complete levigating Ara is produced, its aro part
of the colour can mare unground. The advantage of this
to the preset !mom of the plates is very ismtortant, as the
friction on their surface id reduced to aothime Et' the tena-
city of the materialy eouspnaiog the Mk. las additicia tol
three services of the engine, it works forcing isotope lo sap.'
ply water fur the whole erliohtlehment, mud curt be applied!
as an ermine to extinguish fire is. any mitt of she edilep.—;
The niontwriag purees are also of %%Oldham), isisreatiell.l
The cumber mot dates, formerly written with a pew, ore!
now printed boa mar brue, after the aulebas liesitabstamn•
off front She copper Oak. Thor sciarlailie is • pities of elpck
pork, which produces the riumhers in successive order from.
I to 100,41410, by its own iirternal operation, and oittiontl
any atteution to *orb changes on the part of the operator,
who has only to eleinge the hype accolyting to the accustom-,
ed le of pritti.tig The whole mews of i.untlwrs cu-
pied eight weeks na throwing off. By these Incas,. 06.% buy
performs the operation of eight cleaks."--I/Ofory-tif the
of ,Peldisa, rot ii. p. I Ifitt.

Wednesday was o viand gala day at Nottingham,
rin scetinnt Li. etINCI9Fr •ug firmly fixed
in lur rf at as Brie of 'tb„,e:iteitresentatives its Paritg-
went for that town,' Hif I.ird,hjp %FA? escorted
front his gnu wry seat, ten wilts much of tiotling-
ham, by thousoills of the. and drawn
into the town by wen about
of orange uud yellow Qahr, 1111Ubje .girl lug, 41111011
beating, and bell; itgi U.,. 41 fyur 4:0,04 die
SisTost and the thinstudy corr./Idly. 111..4016"
with very large nunitur of Ids 140,41"1"11.'
dined together in
the F.scliaiie,