An extremely interesting little volume has just appeared, under the above title, front the pen of Mr. Arum, so well known for his talents as a Practical Chemist. It particularis;!s upwards of one hundred entertaining experiments, illustrative of the most striking facts, which th

It touched at Madeira, Rio Janeiro, the Capes, and Batavia ; upon each of which places, Mr Ellis furnishes maoy interesting put ticulara, especially of .the From Batavia, the vessels sailcstlirr4He Chineie sea, which they reached. in July, and after receiving on beard Sir 'Georg

In a few days *rill be published, in Or.e Vol. Syn. 1311YSIOLOGICAL LECTURES, ex!libiting a general View of Mr. Hunter's Physiology, and of his Researches in Comparative Anatomy, delivered Wore the Royal College of Physicians, in the Year 1817. By JOHN AbERNL I'HY, F.R.S. &P. Su

ROLL. t',e C 'tut:actor, is happy to perceive, frnm the rapidly-increasing Sale, that tee Scheme Lottery is apprgeed. I his, ind.:ed, Is no: stird, when is co•sodere.l that there are 8,542 PRIZESur are £30,000 eats—arid only 5,650 BLANKS.

A courier, dispatched by Count Loewenhielm, from St. Petertburgh, has brought the new Treaty of Coasmerce concluded between our Court and that of Rusin', which will probably be soon published. This clsy in which our vencrable Monarch, King Charles XIII, who h.ss been for eight y

countvract the gutty _gitsimpts that ate daily made impose oo she spurious composition In stead of the Genuine Blacking prepared by Day and Martin, they ere induced to adopt a new Label, in which their address, 97, Hi,:h H Ih. rn, Is placed so conapicoously, that :hey trust as a

CIly BUSINESS. ' :YOierday a Court of Common Council was held at Guild- vl; fdr the general dispatch of public business. It was referred to the Committee for General Purposes, to cohsidertand report whether any, and what sum should be sub- scribed as the gift of this Court, in ai

PAltS PAPP!S. ,IAItts, SrPT. Rs.-The King yesterday transacted business with several of his Ministers. They write from RlsodeZ, that 25 prisoners, having been pro- visidnally assemlbled in one of the tiew prisons formed out of the Old Church of the C6 nchins, who were to be tried

The following official communication respecting the power half-pay officers of the British army to hold offices or places of emolument under their own or any foreign Government together with their half-pay, has been* just addressed from the War-Office to the several army agents:

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