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FERGUSON'S LECTURES on SELECT SUB-
JECTS, in Mechanics, Hydroftaties. Hydraulics.Pneum mks,
Optics, Geography, Agronomy, and Dialing, with Notes, and au
Appendix adapted to the prefent hate of the Arts and Sciences.
By DAVID BREWSTER, A.M
The ad Edition, correeted and enlarged, two volumes Odtavo,
with a volume of Plates, 11. 3s.
The following commendations of the firft Edition of this work
are refpedtfuUy fubmitted to the Public
Mr. Brewfter's Appendix contains much ufeful information,
under the different heads of Mechanics, Hydraulics Optics. Dial•
ing, and Agronomy—nearly r oo psges are devoted to the fubjeet
of Water mills and Wind mills, in which many of Mr Brzwiter's
rules and ohfcrvations cannot fail to be beneficial to the Millwright.
There are three articles in this Appendix, which it would he
unjuft not mention with commendation—they treat of the Steam
Engine, the method of grinding and polifhing Inlet, and the me-
thod of cutting, grinding, and polifhing the mirrors of Refieeting
Telercopes. The defcription of Watt's Steam Engine, though con-
cite is very perfpictious; the engraved reprefentation of the Steam
Engioe, with the laceft improvements, will be found highly ufeful,
and conveys a better idea of the Engine as a whole, than any thing
we have vet met with.

"Altogether this Work may be lately recommended al prefenting
many judicious and adol additions to a book of eltabliihed repo- •
cation "—Literary Journal, March rBo6.
" It being needle(' for us ro deferibe or to examine the fubjedts
of thole Le:tures, we (hall confine our obfervations merely to the
stew parts of his pub.ication, the Notes and the Appendix.
" fhe Tradt on the formation of the Teeth of Wheels, mutt
prove very ufeful to the pradtical Mechanic. The mechanical, as
well as the geometrical, defeription of the curves, proper for the
(lives of the teeth of wheels, ate clearly (hewn in this craft, and
the rules are exemplified by proper figures. In the differtation on
Carriage Wheels, this Author principally treats of the formation
and paid an of the wheels, of the line of tradtioti, aid of the me-
thod of difpofing the load; but thole divifions are accompanied
with much collateral information, tonic new ideas, and very clear
illuftratio.'s.
" Mr. Brewfter deferibes very minutely Mr. Watt's lateft and
molt approved Steam Engine, in all its parts, with proper re-
ferences to the figures. The mode of calculating the power of a
S4=l Engine, and of comparing it with the power of horfinh
with which Mr. Brewfter concludes; chi: diere: tation, is peculiar:y
clear and fat isadtory.
" Thus we have taken a corn:valet:l6re view of the additions
made by the Editor to the prefent edition cf Fergaim's Ledures,
sod have bristly expreffed ror urluion rdie.:litig their merit. X% e
•
may. upon the whole add, that they undoubtedly render the work
much mere valuable, and n- eel more ufeful to the pradlical 'Me-
I ckanic. as well as to the Scientific reader. As fuch, therefore, we ,
may confidently recommet.tl them Hattie patronage of ike•Public."
—britith Critic, May IS 6. _ _ _

Edinburgh: Print, Ll tor Muncl.ll, Doig, :In 1 Stevenfort ; ad
foW by T4umar (Jll.-1), No.J, Avc Mari.•:ay.e, London. •

TO-MORROW MORNING a Chatity Sermon
will be preached at Pere! Chapel, Charlotte ftreet, Rath
bone-place, by the Rev. W11.1.1.‘M TOMICNNS BRIGGS.
A. M. of Penibroke•haU, Cambridge, Affißant Preacher a'
St. George's, Bloomfbury, for the benefit of the St. Pancras Fe
male Charity School. Te Demi' and the Jubilate will be chanted
by the Gentlemen of the Choir, and a fultable .tnthem performed.
Prayers to begin at a quarter palt eleven o'clock. The Truftees
to this Inßitution. molt particularly call the attention of the No
bility, Gentry, and others relident in the Parifb. to patronire thi•
Charity, by becoming fubferibers ; and have to lament, that in fo
extenfive and opulent a Para, they have not been enabled to
preferve the eltablithment on its original foundation ; an objeet
they wigs much to accomplifh, and, if poffible, to increafe the
number of the Children.—Subfcriptions will be received by Mr.
Moore, Percy ftreet, Secretary.

FOREIGN INTEL LIGEIv CE

BRLANGEN, FEB. 3.

The following letter is from an impartial perfon
on the frontiers of Gallicia

.‘ The affairs which took place within a fortnight
preceding the clofe of December, have had various
refults. From the loth to the 24th. the French
were by no means fuccefsful ; their paifage over the
Bug and the Narew proved very difficult ; in fame
places they were partly repulfed—and even where
they fucceeded, they Curtained a great lois of men.
On the z4th, a French corps was actually compelled
to repafs the Narew, and was purfued nearly as far
as Jablonna and Tarchomin. In the night between
the 24. th and 25th, another French corp. advanced
and patted the Narew, near Sierock, and drove hack
the Ruffians ; but they fell into a morals where they
could neither advance nor ad. Here they were at-
tacked by a part of General Bennigfen's corps, and
obliged to give way. On the fame day they were
rather more fortunate in other parts of the country,
where they made a number of prifoners. On the
2;•h and 26th, the French were more concentrated,
and Bonaparte put himfelf, at their head ; when,
after various changes, the Ruffians were obliged to
give way, both fides toting a great numher of men,
in killed, wounded, and prifoners, among whom were
many Generals, and other Officers. At &ft it was
reported that General Kamenfitoi WAS among the
number, but it proved to be one of his vela:ives,
who had received a fevere contusion on the head
Warfaw and the neighbouring villages, afforded a
flrong taimony of the unufual feverity of the aCtion,
being nearly filled with the wounded, and among
them a number of Ruffians.

" On the 26th and 27th, after a very bloody con-
Rift, the French forced the prdition of the Ruffians
on the Narew, and compelled them to fall back to-
wards Oilrolenka, feven miles to the eaftward of
pirltufk. Here the latter fuffered motl in their at..
tillery and baggage. Pultu(k and its environs re-
ceived confiderable damage in the confliEf ; the old
town was burnt, Ponacki, Lacki, and other villages
are nearly defiroyed. The dreadful weather and the
impailable Rate of the roads, added to the calamity
of the numerous wounded, prevented the French
from following up the purfuit of the Ruffians ;—the
army flood in great need of repofe. Among other
circumlances, which prove that none of thef affairs
were decifive is this, that both parties claim the vic-
tory. The failure of provifions is in a great meafure
removed, as the Court of Aufiria has permitted one
h elf of the flares in Gallicia to be difpofed of to the
belligerent Powers. It is now very probable that
both armies will gn into winter quarters. The Ruf
fians will eflablillt their head quarters at Grodno, fo
that their advanced guard may remain in the neigh-
bourhood of Byalyttock."
Another private letter from the Vißrila, dated Jan.
4, fays—" The whole French army is going into
winter quarters for the prtfent, and probably into
very c1.4.e cantonments. Where the Ritilians are
now is uncertain, but we know that they made a very
obftin rte rAißance at Nitta, and difputed every
inch of ground with the bayonet, though they were
at length obliged to give way to the valour and mill-
tary (kill of the French. A great part of their ar-
tillery remains funken about Pultulk, from whence
the continual rainy weather will not permit its re-
moval."

Litters from Lublin of Ole ad of January, !late,
that General Benigfin's troops upon the Narew were
attacked on the 2611 t, at fevtral points at once; hut
notwithltanding the valour they difplayed in defend•
ing themfelves, they could not finally refill the fury
ot the enemy, though it colt the laser a great num-
ber ot men; for when the French law the Ruffian
line was broken in one part, they milted on with
filch rapidity, that a number of them fell by the
quicknefs of their own firing. At Pultufk, which
had been very bandy fortified by the Rufnarp, the
battle was not lets fevere and fatal than in other
places; and towatds the evening the Ruffians were
compelled to make a partial retreat. Night at length
pin an end to the affair. The Emperor Napoleon
Lad endeavonred to carry his favourite plan of ope-
ration into effeft, viz. that of furrounding the enemy;
hut this plan proved advantageous to General Ben
Piglet', and completely failed. Impatient to learn
why the corps that was to effe6l this manoeuvre had
not fucceeded, and where it was, the Emperor, in
fpite of every danger, and the darknefs of the night,
rode in coca of it through the wildeft part of the
country, and at length difcovered the greaten portion
ot it flicking in a morals. General Benrigfen in the
mean while having learned the fituatinn of that wing
f his at my, fent it a reinforcement, and at day
on the 27th, the affirm was renewed with re-
do hied tory. Ott this occalion the Emperor Napa •
1: so lunk into a flough, in the midi} of a flower of
b ,lis bow the et emy from whence he was liberarod by
vile of his Mitillalikes, who pulled him fr.tm his horfe,
and care ied him off the fpot. Here the Ruffian artillery
had a full (cope, while the French, partly retreating,
and partly Ricking in the mud, could etre& rule or
nothing; and now !he Ruffians near Ofirolenkas.not.
withitunding the obllinate. oppotition they experi•
ehced, began to lie the viaors, and to drive the enemy
at all points. Here the French cavalry futiered molt.
After this vielot y the Ruffians withdrew to their firn
pofition, and the French to the Viiluia. The lots of
the Ruffians is !fated at 12,0c0, killed and grounded,
exchtlive of prifoners, but that of the French to
16,0c0. Five Ft erich Generals were made prifoners,
among them young Segur, the Emperor's Adjutant
General, and General Rapp loft an arm. But be
tiles this, the right wing of the French army had
been extremely unfortunate. Some veffels, with
6 i,t>co rations of bread, fent up the Viaula, return-
ed to Warfaw on the ad of January.

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" On the Sth of Tanuary, Matflial Bernadotte was'
at Lobau, three miles and a half South of O(lerode,l
and twenty from Koningfberg. In Poland all thee,
tleinents teem to have confpired againfl the French,
slid compelled them to undergo privations beyond
all example. The Bridges upon the Bug, the NA-
rew, and the have been carried away by the
ice, &c. According to letters from Munich, Mar-
(hal Mairena is appointed to command the allied
army."

EXTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE SECRETARY np
STATE'S OFFICE. AT THE PALACE OF WARSAW, THE
25TH OF JANUARY, 1807.
" NAPOLEON, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, &c.
" Tn our decree of the 201 of November, which
declares the confifcation of all Englilh merchandife,
in whatever hand) they may be found ; in our decree
of the 15th of December, which orders that all Eng-
li(h merchandife or property in Hamburgh and the
Hanle Towns, fhnuld he fent into Franc,.
1, We have decreed and do decree as follows :
Article T. The mcrchandize fubjed to confifcation, under our
decree of the 2t fit of Nevember, will he depot-tied in a magazine
appropriated to that purpofe, under the cuftody of a French Cuf-
:um.houfe Officer.
2. An inventory will be taken of them, which will be addreffed
to our Intendant General; a copy of which he will tranhuit to
our Minifter of Finance.
a. Colonial produce, materials of the firft neceffi'y to the mane-
fent-mini, fine fluffs, and articles of cottly workwanthip, (hall be
fent into France, under the diredlion of our Minitter of Finance,
and fubjed to his difpofal.
4. Provilions, liquors, fluffs, fit for the ufe of the army, and
other ufeful articles, fhaU be placed in the Military hingriiinrs.
S. The more bulky merchand'ze, Inch as iron, wood, coals,
beer, and earthen ware, Iliad be fold on the (pot where they have
been fequefirated.
6. The produce of the fairs made in the territory of the army
fh.,11 be added M the general we( unt of contributions; and that
of the (ales made in France to the finking fund.
7. Our Minifter of Finaneet anct our Intendant General, are
charged with the execution of this Decree.
(Signed) " NAPOLEON.
" By order of the Emperor, the Secre-
tary of State ROGUES I MARE'''.
(A true Copy) " The Intendant Ge-
neral of the Army DARU."

PRIVATE LETTERS,
BANKS OF THE EI.BE, FEB 14.

u Generals Bue.nvden and Namenfki have retired from the
Polifh Icene of warfare. General Buithovdeil, it i; faid, will take
the command in Tut key Concerning General Kamenfki, very
ftrange reports are in circulation. Some of the papers fay, he is
returned to Peterfbargh on account of ill health ; while private
accounts add, that his difeafe was a fit of infanity. which broke
out in the field of battle fuddenly, and, in it. confequences,proved
very difaftrous to the Ruflian army. It is reported, that he enter.
ed the field [tripped to his fhirt over which he had hung his rib-
bon', (tars, &c. This was confidered merely as an imitation of
Suwarruw. But he now committed a variety of excelfes, which
threw the army into confufion. It was thit, they fay, which °eta-
nutted the teeming milliliters of Buithovden, in not coming to the
affiftance of Bent; igfen, and through which the French were raved
from a total defeat."

DANT ZIC, FEB. 3.

" For the firft time we are again in a fituation to write to you
with freedom on political fubjeets. The molt favourahle ac-
counts reach this plate every day from the theatre of war. The
French have received at length a complete drubbing ; and that
they will very fpeedily be driven from this neighbdurhood, we
have not the leatt doubt. We look with Confidence this fpring
to the renewal of our trade and commerce with you, in an in-
creafing ratio. That the French army are in a very Getty and
diftreffed fituation, you may relt affured and it is fuppored that
nothing but the abfolute neceffity o% leaving an immenfe body of
lick foldiery to the mercy of the Ruffians has prevented the retreat
of the French ef bore this period."

F.I.SINEUR, FEB. to.

About fa- days agn the Fr-nth forces in Pomerania attempted
to trots from thole to the ifiand of Rugen, in ;to 'each, bit
they were vigorouilv att.,cked by (mile Swediih gun boats,
which deftroyed 24 of them,. This intelligence was received
from Yltadt and Lamifcrona, At Hellingberg, and front thence at
Elfine ur.

PAALL4MEIVTART PROCECDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, FEB. 26.

The Spirit Drawback Bill, the frith (tut-Rent Bill. and
Turkey Tobacco Bill, pafled through Committees, and wcre re-
ported.
Mr. CALCR AFT, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, and feveral other
Members of the Houle of Commons, brought up the German Yarn
Bill, and a Private Bill, which were read a Brit time,
In the Appeal 4‘ Merckk v. Dick," the Solicitor-
General was further heard on the part of the appel-
lant, and the Attorney-General on the part of the
ltefpondent. Evidence was tendered on the part of
the Appellant, with refpeet to certain fags contain-
ed in the cafe, hut the parties did not agree as to the
faels to be laid before the Houk.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in commenting
upon this cafe, adverted to the great inconvenience
which frequently Ault from the Appeals to that
Ha.nfe from Courts of Eql)ity, involving quellions
of fait upon which it wait-car...4y poilible to come to
a decifion, and gave notice that flu intended, in the
courfe of the Se:lion, to tubmit to the Houle a mo-
tion for the appointment of a Contmitle;,•to confider
of Tome regulations relpthing Appeal:i to that Houle
from Courts of Equity. • .
Lord REDESDALE adverted to the ancient prac-
tice of initituting.aaions of account in the Courts of
Law, in which r, being found that jutliee could not
be duly adminiflered, thole fuits fell under thelurif-
diElion of Courts of Equity, where alone foch ac-
counts could be properly taken. Even in thefe Cisurts
it was frequently extremely cEilicult to adminiTler
jtiftice to the parties, mucla leis could it be, done in
Courts of Law. He therefore doubted the praEticabi•
lily. of making any regulation relpetting that fubjeel.
His Lordihip commented upon the points :of the
cnroplicated cafe, which had been at gtied before the
Houle, and was of opinion that the evidence moil be
printed, in order to enable the Honk to decide upon
the fa4l!.

The LORD CHANCELLOR Paid, he had not
the remotea idea of makinj; any propofiuon, having
for its tendency to draw a line of feparation between
the law and the faCts in Courts of Equity, or to affi-
milate the decition upon fats in thole Com is to the
praetice of Courts of Law. He was well aware that
was impraOicabie. He wiihed it to be diftinetly un.
derhood, that his object was the appointment of a
Committee, to confider whether Lome regulations
might r.ot he made refpeeting the time within which
Appeals thruid be brought to that Houfe, from
Courts of Equity, the fecurity to he given by Ap.
pellants, in order to prevent frivolous and vexatious
Appeals, and other regulations which might be fug-
gelled for the ptirpofe of enabling that Houle m-re
effectually t
..adminifter jullice in the exercife of their
appellant jurildittion. Even if it were found impof-
fible to make any effectual regulations of that nature,
it would Rill be a gi cat coafolatiou to their Lordfhips

to know, that they had done every thing that mule
be done to effejt fo defirable au objeft. With refpea
to the cafe hjore the Houfe, as the parties had not
come to any agreement with refpea to the fa,tls to be
laid before the Houfe, for its decition, be was ot
opinion that the further confideration of the Appeal
thould he pnflpnnedjne die, in order to give time for
the parties to come to Inch agreement.
Lord REDESDALE explained.
The further confideration of the Appeal was or-
dered to be deferred fine
On the Motion of the ARCHBISHOP of CANTER-
BURY, the Thanks of the Houle were voted to the
Bithop of Exeter, for his Sermon preached before
the Houfe yetlerday, in Weliminfler Abbey, and he
was dated to print and publilh the fame.
Adjourned till tomorrow, this day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The following are the names of the Gentlemen on the reduced
LIR for trying the merits of the Malmfbury contetted Eltdtioa :
R. Ferguffon, kfq. R. Mortis, Erg.
Lord Vll Mahon H. Swann, Ef I.
James Dawkins, Efq. J. Balzer. Efq.
James Simmonds. Efq. Lord Vi( Newark
William Wingfield, klq. ). Buller (Weltioc), Efq.
M. P. Andrews, Efq. T. Stanley, CET
Samuel Boddingron, Efq.
Lord Vii. Martham and H. Joddrell, Efq. Nominees.

Sir E. KW ATCHBULL withdrew the Notice he gave on
Monday.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the thanks
of the Roure to the Rev. Michael Marlowe, for his Sermon
preached before the Houk on the Faft Day, and that the fame be
printed ; and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Can•
Wig do acquaint him therewith—Ordered'

The Irifb Sugar Drawback Bill was read a third dime. Paireds
;nd ordered to the Lords.

The Dublin Paving Bill went through a Committee, and the
Report ordered to be received to morrow.
The Iris Escife inland Duty Bill was read a fecund time, and
committed for to morrow.

The Report of the Sierra Leone Company Bill waa brought up,
and the Bill ordet,ed to be read a third time on Weducfdly next.
The Pelham houfe Bill waa read a fccond time, and ordered to
be committed.