The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-04-01 00:00:00

The Eoterticoniesit to rnisclonle with
NOVFI. SPECINIEsiS OF imrrATIoN,

i '.}sorb I relebrated Tragic and Comic Performers
s.!! vvi• thrir die:Trot itiPILS how Hamlet's Advice to the
,t.i. sh,rsa M be spoken.
t,i be orris"! at Seven, and the Performance to
Ettflo
I; ..• 7..—Lovrer Galkry 21.—Hpper Gallery I*.
i'lar.v, and Erisste Mixes, to be taken of Mr.
~, «t the INecolfiee. Strand Entrance, from Ten till
I -s, : and at ‘lr Fearinale. Cir.-oilstone Library, No. 170,
a .ivromie istorkactois Hardens.

'l:► E 11'01tILING POOR.
TM F. •nt i, n t critical ling for lannts
Y. wli. nr, Tv. thing. i•i tonsil/4EIWe of the prevalence of
16 Nita'-h.*. and Chowough; (or >irtnlJ the initaiitin of Ore
1.11. r •wn 00 wl•ile thoi are suffering from those Dillow.
(1111.1ren oIU rprori.r. Mollwss oiled thrre-
bn the AMERICAN SOOTHING
11111IiP avian• lia ir an• elsibareii,a.i by only robbing
Garr• nitti Kyruti. it gore* immediate ease, thereby
IrT••rrnttlrg boll I evrr atACiiiivolstons.

JIINAatIN ri he% M. the ireful Pnor, ns usual. al
Mt lamw ever y Tarp's, nod Sri nrilay morning front Nine
I? I" a Letter from • respectable
n"*4. keep. r. •ing that they are real t Pieria of Cho.
',lt • awl •Ise pvUrularly rant those Mothers *hose
Children two, have any of Ilse above J), orders, oot to mot
cob tam.. a 6., are Orr, us she easimit separate her little
Nom., Ih,ll °ambers befog so (real. Jorista, the boors of
Its, whore. A 1,.. J. hope+ .1i great a Charity will out be
• ail is 10,011001/ Imola bar on 11 'WO/ Ala parse.
Ilse Span Io lw had of this WNW ',tors. J 01611,011 soil Wil-
k'. No. 114, Nrwin rn-sirnet, Oxford-street, nerd of all the
Pio,. ipal ileattetne fenders m town aid coaulty, al ist.
a book.

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swe lit ad'. (Jr Juhtisuu 3:44
Ilutok4:lB4.uti, •”,k:p

TO BANKERS, MERCHANTS, SCHOOLMASTERS,
SHOPKEEPERS, AND OTHERS.

UED-61:FICE PENS, at 154. per Than-
sand, wills a liberal allowance to the Trade, *old by
J. WALSH (late !krises, Walilt, and Son), Inner Temple.
lane. London. 1.3 W Stationer, Bookseller, and Pen Sta-
tioner to the Bank of England.
IVlsere may be had. in tine large Volume, price Wt.
A LIST of the PROPRIETORS of UNCLAIINIFID
DIVIDENDS nu BANK STOCK, aunt on 11w PUBLIC
FUNDS. transferable at the Bank of England, with the
Dala when the tint Dividend,: I tvectively became payable,
and the number of Unclaimed Dividends due to each Wa-
piti...

FRAC D PREVENTED.
To counteract the 'fumy attempts that ore &lay
made to Unpnse on the touvriry ft opearions compo.it lon
lacteal, of the GENUINE PLACKING itepase.l by DAY
an l NAttTlN,they have adopted a nets label, iu ahich their
Signature and

97. Huai iloi.noßN,
ig so conspicuously played sis the centre of the !Abel, that
they trust ro nticol t.o this, and the difference of the
pa, which Is unlike all letierpicss, will enable purcliascis
.It 1111 Ce to 111 tart the imposition.
'I. he Reid lAP.%N BLACK I NG. nyttle sad sold IVholi...ile
by HAY smi MARTIN, 97, nigh Holborn, and ortailed
by Ow pa liwipal Shopl.ccpers, an Bunks at 61.1, Is , and
Is 6J. c.stb.

From those Reports, as well as from the evidence of
William Jackson, Esq. one of the Commissioners of Excise,
and Mr. M'Cu►quudak, • merchant concerned in the salt
trade at Liverpool, it appeared, that the great amount of
the bonds required by law of persons shipping salt for ex-
portation or coastwise, together with the diffiesillyof procur-
ing such bonds to be cancelled, especially in Ilse case of salt
sent to the fisheries, and the want of a tine allowance fur the
waste unavoidably taking place dnring the voyage, by the
leakage of the vessel, or other accidents, were f; the
most inconvenient of the regislationa imposed upon the
trade ; and that it was possible to give some indulgence
with respect to those p a, without materially increasing
the oppoitunities of fraud on the Revenue. These considera-
tions induced yinir Committee to come to the follu• iug Re-
solutions, vix.-
I.hat, for promoting soil encouraging the fisheries of
Gr. at Britain, and for the "lief of the merchants and agent a
concerned its proettrissz and supplying salt for the same, it
is expedient that bond ur security should be taken for the due
delivery of such salt, in the single value of the duty only.
Tim, in all cases its whirl. any salt shall he shipped ur de-
livered duly-free for the owe of the fisheries, it shall he las fill
for the principal unin r of excise, at the port at which such
wilt shall lie so shipped or delivered, to accept the hooded* auy
sufficient and responsible person., to be approved of by such
officer.

Thai, in all eases in whirls the dr ficienry of any iluty-fete
salt, delivered hi the ft•hrrirs, or carried coastwise, shall not
exceed one per cent of liar weight of Such salt, such defi-
ciency shall be allowed as oatmeal waste, on proof that it has
nut been occasioned by fraud Or rinhezzlement.
That six mouths shall be allowed for the production of
certificates fur cancelling iw discharging builds panted fur
the flue 4:slivery of duty-fiee
These Ite.olui your Committee submitted fir the
Ifoii4e in their former Report, and thi y have since been car-
ries' it O effect by the authority of Parliament.
Rut though your (' tire have reason to hope that
these indolgolices will, so fur as they operate, pi odor,. 3
beneficial disci, they arc fully smell& of their ii. (1.1.1 y

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Coticurr.iig entirely its these opinitms, but feeling at the
same iime most strime,ly the urgesit necessity of supporting
the public revenue, in a e. Sala like the present, by the most
vizorous excrtiona, your Committee have come to the fol-
lowing nesolutions, which they submit to the judgment of
the nome ; viz.—
Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
a eummutati 0000 4.f the dune. 011 Malt wool.' he productive of
toasty great and important ailvitiitazcs to all ili!scriptions 4.f
persons in this kinedont, 311,1 would be highly beneficial to
its agriculture. 'liken's, bade, mid itiniiiirsetures.
Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Cimitaittee, that
suds a Ctmlinlinicati cats only be slTceted by some general
tax, extending, as far as ci. citoistaitccs will admit, to all the
orders of the community ; all of whom would derive benefit
from such rontintitat

.
Resulted—'Pint it is the opinion of this Committee. that
it is expedient to Inuit poise the Gigglier consideration of tins
whirl t till the next Sessiuu ut Parltoulent.
301 k June, 18tH.

DOCTOR SICKLEWS EXPEIIIMENTS.

Helmet of the Committee appointed to ■uperintend the
Exiiweitn:site of Dr. Sick'. s, for the porpoise tvlpeoss.
hog' the edit:ley of • method, 100py... by him, for
unrolling mod 'key plitrinK The Herculaneum Jlu•
nuseripts.
O►dered, b the !rouse of ('onru,on.•, to be Printed,
1911. .11orrk, 18IN

Perviously to it detail of the procreiliiip of the Committee
charger; with the superintend, me of Dr. Sickler's experi-
ments, it appears moiler, fur a full alio-dation thereof, to
recapitulate the circumstances ler which the views of his
Majesty's Govt. •iit were alert rted to the tuters.tisig soh- •
ject of the Mei culane Hulls. It t.. well known that, frum
the first discovery of three I'l'lll3lllS of ancient literature,
among the ruin* of llrrcalaurum, a mint talcre method
of iiseertaining their contents has beam a alesialcrattons, the
attaiiiiiieut of which has iicesiliteil the ;Menton) of men of
lesrieing and ensure lot :I:most every country of Europe,
and much has alre.sily hr en d nae, though by a very laborious
and protiacted OperAil.lll, at Naptis, uitluu the last thirty
years; during a part of which period some prisons were
• mployed there by floral Ilizhness the Kilire [term. in
concert wills the establishment formed, for the purpose, by
hi. Sicilian Vlaj.ly.
Selma after she re-esialdishineut of peace, and she return of
his Sicilian Majesty to Naples. and while side .rest,* takinZ
at Pori- for ripply iutz the Nrovulitnio mg. 1114.11 to some
11,111.1131111etal %%Licit were w that Cylt3l, it

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Black Rod's apartment, in the Donee of Lords. on the '..!7:1;
of Janie last, whi u the fotlowing 'Members wert pr. sent,
via—The Lord Colcl.ester, S•r Thomas Tyreshitt, Sr 11112 n.
p!sry Dtvy, the late Rev. Dr. Varney. and William Hamil-
ton, Esq. At Ibis meeting Dr Sickler gate an e%itliveitiout
of the machine used by him in carrying Ins his imerations ;
after which, in conformity ton stipulation in the Slbletsir
before ret reed to, lie selected, front innolig the in else ma-
nuscripts recently received from Naples, a roll, whirl,
delivered into his hands for the purpose of emnmesseing It's
experiments: and it wits then notified to hint that the C -
mittee, at their teilssequent meetings. 1,0111111 be ready 1., re-
ceive any written or other communicat ~,,, which he toielit
have to make in the progress of his labours.
At their second Ineetisig, tin the 311 of hely, Dr. Slekle r
presented two Ileinoirs, the first containing his °lista vat ions
upon the roll nhich had been delivered to Ilil/1, 211.1 the se-
cond upon the coi ttttt esieemeot eit his operati,is ; hell, f
which were faltered on their minutes, mid the C ..... mime
adjourned to the following day, when Dr Sickler sot t,‘,l
to their inspection the proeess of his meth's:.
At the foetath meeting of the Committee Dr. Sickles. pro.
(lured several pieces whirl, he lia.l detached (tom llie. roll,
hilt upon which ito chararters weir discoverable. A second
and a third machine were, its consequence of a suggestion of
the Doctor, directed to he prepared, in order that he might
employ himself upon two or more rolls at the same time.
The further result of Dr. Siekler's operations was sob-
mittel to the Committee, at their fifth meeting, on the 1811 i
of July, when it appeared that, of the first roll, Ole poem;
taken off cautioned to nfi,rd no trace of el:mem:term; bill
second roll, which the Doctor had selected at the last meet-
ing, appealed by leis M. mow presented thereon, to be
much better state of preset vatiou than the preceding, both
with respect to its carbonitalion and to the seittitet of the
papyrus—the paces detached therefrom containing orrice!
Greek characters, and some entire auras easily made nal,
611.1
huvfethiret Iwneritt"ellmclsal'arsiscidi leirsl4:
from which csi cuinst mice,
s the prrlrc
P.Diaprpa.:S:iuttcs'hilsearr.aewixitplintiesai
aa
infestimethe.raotipetaalm y
ght be prudurttrr of
result. At this meeting the Committee, roosi,lerjug the. st;,.
favourable colour and feature of the list roll, slits...led Dr.
Sickler to discontinue his operatioas thereon, and he psi.-
ceedeil to select a third toll, srlsich. iu Ins elpitelois, maitre its
external appearance, must resembled that which hail already
exhibited written characters.
At (heir subsespneut, meetings, on the 7..15t and lith of
July, Dr. Siekler reported the progress of Iris basuers; I,lit
the hopes which had heel, entei tamed, of rortlser.racre,•4
of his operations upon the we I roll, having been disap-
pointed, by the loud absence of characters oa the ph (es
which bad recently been detached, together with the eosin-
yourable appearance of the interior of tins real ; as well as
the injured state or the thin' roll a lrich hail been plated in
his hands : the Committer, coneteha tog the whole, in Can,er-
lion with the (abaci valious of I) sokki. tit his several AI
'twin down to this time, did not led themselves in 'tosses.
'ion of sufficient evidester upon w Ism h to t,,uod 2 !tercet of
the lIIICLTSII of the toetho.l, setthtsi the ,tiput.ited period of
one moath after the cutioneneesse:ut uf the Doctor's tsPerl•

• The Girl of Alo riken, eresitlent of the Society of An •
liquaries, the lord Gruncille, Chancellor of the University
of Oxford, the Lind Colchester, the Right lionuartlitv Sir
Joseph Hanks, G.O 11. Pceriilt ut of the R.**, %with,
Sir Thomas Tyro hitt, Kat. Sir II iimphry Davy, Kiit
of the Royal S.,..iety, the Rev. Charles Buriicy, %Vil-
liam Ilatnitton, Eaq, his Majestly'v Coder Sr:ref:4ly of SIGN
fay Uorcio Affairs.