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of culture, of the plucking of the hemp, with a general account whether sown broad-cast or in drills, the expense, soil, cultivation, and produce to be transmitted to the Society, certified under the hand and seal of the governor or lieutenant-governor, together with 281b. of the hemp, and two quarts of the seed, on or before the last Tuesday in November, 1804.

193, 194, 195, 196, 197. The same premiums are extended one year farther. Certificates, &c. as before-mentioned, to be transmitted to the Society, on or before the last Tuesday in November, 1805.

198 to 208. Premiums exactly similar in all respects to those held out for the province of Upper Canada, are also offered for the province of Lower Canada, and are extended to the same period.

209. IMPORTATION OF HEMP FROM CANADA. To the master of that vessel, which shall bring to this country the greatest quantity of marketable hemp, not less than one hundred tons, in the year 1803, the produce of Upper or Lower Canada; the gold medal.

210. To the master of that vessel which shall

bring the next quantity, not less than fifty tons; the silver medal. Certificates satisfactory to the Society to be produced by the master of the vessel on or before the first Tuesday in February, 1804, to testify that such hemp was grown and prepared in Canada.

211, 212. The same premiums are extended one year farther. Certificates to be produced on or before the first Tuesday in February, 1805.

PREMIUMS OFFERED FOR THE AD-
VANTAGE OF THE BRITISH SETTLE-
MENTS IN THE EAST INDIES.

213. BHAUGULPORE-COTTON. To the person who shall import into the port of London, in the year 1803, the greatest quantity, not less

than one ton, of the Bhaugulpore-cotton, from which clothes are made in imitation of nankeen, without dying; the gold medal. A quantity of the cotton, not less than five pounds weight in the pod, and five pounds carded, to be produced to the Society, with proper ertificates, signed by the secretary to the board of trade of Bengal or Bombay, on or before the last Tuesday in February, 1804.

214. The same premium is extended one year farther. Certificates to be produced on or before the last Tuesday in February, 1805.

215. ANNATTO. To the person who, in the year 1803, shall import into the port of London, from any part of the British settlements in the East Indies, the greatest quantity of annatto, not less than five hundred weight; the gold medal. A quantity of the annatto, not less than ten pounds weight, to be produced to the Society, with proper certificates, signed by the secretary of the board of trade of the respective settlement, that the annatto is the produce of such settlement, on or before the last Tuesday in February, 1804.

216. The same premium is extended one year farther. Certificates to be produced on or before the last Tuesday in February, 1805.

217. TRUE COCHINEAL. To the person who, in the year 1803, shall import into the port of London, from any part of the British settlements in the East Indies, the greatest quantity of true cochineal, not less than five hundred weight;, the gold medal. A quantity of the cochineal not less than ten pounds weight, with proper certificates, signed by the secretary of the board of trade of the respective settlement, that the cochineal is the produce of such settlement, to be produced to the Society on or before the first Tuesday in Feb. 1804.

218. The same premium is extended one year farther. Certificates to be produced on or before the first Tuesday in February, 1805.

CONDITIONS FOR THE POLITE ARTS.

No person who has gained the first premium in any class shall be admitted a candidate in a class of an inferior age; and no candidate shall receive more than one premium in one year; nor shall they, who for two successive years have gained the first premium in one class, be again admitted as candidates in that class.

No person shall be admitted a candidate in any class, who has three times obtained the first premium in that class.

No more than one performance in any class shall be received from the same candidate.

All performances (to which premiums or bounties are adjudged) shall remain with the Society till after the public distribution of rewards in May, when they will be re-delivered unless mentioned in the premiums to the contrary.

No performance shall be admitted, that has obtained a premium, reward, or gratification, from any other society, academy, or school, or been offered for that purpose.

All performances that obtain premiums in the Polite Arts must have been begun after the publication of such premiums, except line engravings.

To encourage real merit, and prevent attempts to impose on the Society, by producing drawings made or retouched by any other person than the candidate, the Society require a specimen of the abilities of each successful candidate, under the inspection of the Committee of Polite Arts, in every instance where such proof may appear necessary.

All candidates in the Polite Arts are required to signify, on their drawings, their age; and whether the performances are originals or copies; and if copies, whence they were taken. GENT, MAG. June, 1803.

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ORDERED,

SOCIETY'S OFFICE, ADELPHI, JUNE 1st, 1802.

That the several Candidates and Claimants to whom the Society shall adjudge Premiums or Boun'ies, do attend at the Society's Office in the Adelphi, on the last Tuesday in May 1863, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, to receive the same; that Day being appointed by the Society for the Distribution of their Rewards: And before that Time no Premium or Bounty will be delivered, excepting to those who are about to leave the Kingdom.

In Cases where the Society may think fit to admit Excuses for not attending in Person, Deputies may be substituted to receive the Rewards, provided such Deputies are either Members of the Society, or the superior officers thereof.

GENERAL CONDITIONS.

As the great object of the Society in rewarding individuals is to draw forth and give currency to those inventions and improvements, which are likely to benefit the public at large, candidates are requested to observe, that if the means, by which the respective objects are effected, do require an expense or trouble too great for general purposes, the Society will not consider itself as bound to give the offered reward; but, though it thus reserves the power of giving in all cases such part only of any premium as the performance shall be adjudged to deserve, or of withholding the whole if there be no merit, yet the candidates may be assured the Society will always judge liberally of their several claims.

It is required that the matters for which premiums are offered, be delivered in without names or any intimation to whom they belong; that each particular thing be marked in what manner each claimant thinks fit, such claimant sending with it a paper sealed up, having on the outside a corresponding mark, and, on the inside, the claimant's name and address; and all candidates are to take notice, that no claim for a premium will be attended to, unless the conditions of the advertisement are fully complied with.

No papers shall be opened, but such as shall gain premiums, unless where it appears to the Society absolutely necessary for the determination of the claim; all the rest shall be returned unopened with the matters to which they belong, if inquired after by the mark, within two years.

All models of machines, which obtain premiums or bounties, shall be the property of the Society; and, where a premium or bounty is given for any machine, a perfect model thereof shall be given to the Society.

All the premiums of this Society are designed for Great Britain and Ireland, unless expressly mentioned to the contrary.

The claims shall be determined as soon as possible after the delivery of the specimens. It is expected that all articles for claims or bounties be sent to the Society carriage paid. No person shall receive any premium, bounty, or encouragement, from the Society, for any matter for which he has obtained, or purposes to obtain, a patent.

A candidate for a premium, or a person applying for a bounty, being detected in any disingenuous method to impose on the Society, shall forfeit such bounty, and be deemed incapable of obtaining any for the future.

No member of this Society shall be a candidate for, or entitled to receive, any premium, bounty, or reward, whatsoever, except the honorary medal of the Society. The candidates are, in all cases, expected to furnish a particular account of the subject of their claims; and, where certificates are required to be produced in claim of premiums, they should be expressed, as nearly as possible, in the words of the respective advertisements, and be signed by persons who have a positive knowledge of the facts stated.

Where premiums or bounties are obtained in consequence of specimens produced, the Society mean to retain such part of those specimens as they may judge necessary, making a reasonable allowance for the same.

No candidates shall be present at any meetings of the Society or committees, or admitted at the Society's rooms, after they have delivered in their claims, until such claims are adjudged, unless summoned by the committee.

N. B. The Society farther invite the communications of scientific and practical men upon any of the subjects for which premiums are offered, although their experiments may have been conducted upon a smaller scale than the terms of each require, as they may afford ground for more extensive application, and thus materially forward the views of the Society and contribute to the advantage of the public. Such communications to be made by letter, addressed to the Society, and directed to Mr. CHARLES TAYLOR, the Secretary, at the Society's Office, in the Adelphi, London.

The models required by the Society should be upon the scale of one inch to a foot. The Winchester bushel is the measure referred to for grain; and, as the acres of different districts vary in extent, it is necessary to observe, that the Society mean Statute Acres, of five and a half yards to the rod or pole, when acres are mentioned in their list of premiums; and they request that all communications to them may be made agreeably thereto.

The Society desire that the Papers on different subjects sent to them may be full, clear, explicit, fit for publication, and rather in the form of Essays than of Letters.

Presents to the Society of Books for their Library will be thankfully received.

**To persons inclined to leave a sum of money to this Society by will, the following form is offered for that purpose:

upon

Item. I give and bequeath to A. B, and C. D. the sum of

condition and to the intent that they, or one of them, do pay the same to the collector for the time being, of a Society in London, who now call themselves the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; which said sum of

I will and desire may be paid out of my personal estate, and applied towards the carrying on the laudable designs of the Society. By Order of the Society,

CHARLES TAYLOR, Secretary.

Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

ADELPHI, June 15th, 1803.

N Wednesday the 1st Inst. the Society held the last Meeting of that Session, and adjourned to the fourth Wednesday in October next.

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On Tuesday the 31st of May last, agreeably to the Resolutions of the Society, the Premiums and Bounties which had been then adjudged during the Session, were delivered to the Claimants from the Chair, by his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, the President, in presence of very numerous and respectable Assembly. The Business was begun by an appropriate Speech from the Secretary, noticing the Objects of the Society from its Institution, in the year 1754, to the present Time, and particularising the Rewards which had been then adjudged this Session.

The Rewards awarded were arranged under the following Classes:

IN AGRICULTURE.

To the Right Hon. the Earl of Fife, for his extensive plantations of forest trees, and other agricultural improvements in North Britain, the gold medal.

To Lord Viscount Newark, for encouraging the growth of oak timber, by sowing acorns and planting oaks, in Nottinghamshire, the gold medal.

To John Shirreff, Esq. of Captain Head, North Briton, for his plantation of osiers, class 9, the gold medal.

To the Rev. T. C. Munnings, of East Dereham, in Norfolk, for his experiments on the culture and preservation of turnips, the gold medal. To Mr. John Knapping, of South Shoebury, in the county of Essex, for gaining 230 acres of land from the sea, the gold medal.

To Mr. John Wright, of Pickworth, in Rutlandshire, for comparative experiments in agriculture, the gold medal.

To John Christian Curwen, Esq. M. P. of Workington Hall, in Cumberland, for his experiments on feeding cattle with potatoes, the silver medal.

To the Rev. Edmund Cartwright, of Woburn, in Bedfordshire, for a three-furrow plough, the silver medal.

To Dr. H. Ainslie, of Dover Street, London, for his plantations of timber trees, near the lakes of Windermere and Coniston, the silver medal.

To Benjamin Waddington, Esq. of Lanover House, near Abergavenny, for improvements of boggy land, in South Wales, the silver medal.

To Mr. David Charles, of Westmead Langhorne, Carmarthenshire, for a machine for laying land level, the silver medal.

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To Mr. Richard Austin, of Paul's Alley, Barbican, for an engraving on wood. The subject England, Scotland, and Ireland, receiving the offerings of genius, alluding to the rewards of this Society, extending to the united empire, the silver medal and ten guineas.

To Miss Jackson, of Hanover-street, Hanover-square, for a drawing in chalks, of a vestal, class 103, the gold medal.

To Miss Emma Farhill, of Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, for an original drawing, class 104, the death of Cleopatra, the silver medal.

To Miss Blackburne, of Park-street, Westminster, for a drawing of Jupiter Ammon, the silver medal.

To Miss Paytherus, of Norfolk Street, for an original portrait of her sister, the silver medal. To Mr. J. T. James, of the Charter House School, for a drawing of Worcester Cathedral, class 102, the silver meda!.

To Miss Mary Ann Gilbert, of Devonshirestreet, Portland Place, for a painting, a view of St. Mark's Place, in Venice, the silver medal.

To Miss Beauchamp, of Wimpole-street, for a painting, a sea view, a copy from De Vlieger, the silver medal.

To Miss Emma Smith, of King-street, Covent Garden, for an historical drawing of Achil

les and Thetis, an original composition, class 110, the greater silver pallet.

To Mr. James Hopwood, jun. Paradise-row, Islington, for a drawing of outlines, from a cast of the Atlas, class 105, the greater silver pallet. To Mr. Hugh Neill, of Warwick-street, Golden-square, for an original drawing of Breck nock Priory, in South Wales, class 107, the greater silver pallet.

To Mr. George Shepherd, of Radcliffe-row, City Road, för an original drawing of St. AlIban's Abbey, class 108, the lesser silver pallet.

To Mr. R. Horwood, of Liverpool, for a map of London, on a very extensive scale, fifty gui

neas.

IN MANUFACTURES. To Mr. Thomas Barker, of St. Mary-le-bone, for an improved mode of warping webbs for weavers, ten guineas.

IN MECHANICS.

To Dr. John Winterbottom, of Newbury, in Berkshire, for a machine for clearing turnpike roads from mud, the silver medal.

To Mr. James Woart, of Fulham, for his method of raising a roof sunk in the middle, the silver medal and twenty guineas.

To Mr. Edward Massey, of Hanley, in Staffordshire, for his striking part of an eight-day clock, twenty guineas.

To Mr. John Prior, of Nessfield, in Yorkshire, for his striking part of an eight-day clock, thirty guineas.

To Mr. Thomas Fothringham, of Alloa, near Stirling, in Scotland, for making mill-stones for grinding wheat, from the Abbey Craig Quarry, in that neighbourhood, fifteen guineas.

To Mr. J. D. Ross, No. 10, Bateman's Buildings, Soho-square, for a ring with a contracting and expanding power to fit various fingers, ten guineas.

To Mr. William Bowler, of Finsbury-street, for a screw press, with a peculiar expanding power, ten guineas.

To Mr. John Autis, of Fulneck, near Leeds, for a method of ascertaining the number of times that minerals or other things have been brought up from a mine in any given time, ten guineas. To Mr. Edward Massey, of Hanley, in Staffordshire, for detached escapements of pendulum clocks, fifty pounds.

To Mr. William Bowler, of Finsbury-street, for preventing accidents to horses and carriages, in going down hill, ten guineas.

IN COLONIES AND TRADE.

To the Hon. Joseph Robley, of Tobago, for a considerable addition to his plantation of bread-fruit trees, in that island, the gold medal.

An Account of the Number of Noblemen and Gentlemen elected Members since October last, whose titles and Names are as follow:

His Grace the Duke of Bedford, the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Newark, Sir Francis Laforey, Bart. Major General Sabloukoff, of Petersburgh, Mr. John Barwise, Edward Weatherby, Esq. William Kitchener, Esq. William Crippen, Esq. Stephen Freeman, Esq. Rembrandt

Peale, Esq. Samuel Mellish, Esq. Hugh Edwards, Esq. James Esdaile Hammett, Esq. Dr. William Dickson, James George Upham, Esq. John Thomas Barber, Esq. Edward Simeon, Esq. Mr. Robert Wright, Mr. Joseph Stutely, jun. John Trelawny, Esq. Mr. Thomas Mellish, Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, Esq. Mr. William Stapleton, Peter Warren, Esq. William Sherwood, Esq. Mr. Samuel Miller, Mr. Charles Richardson, Mr. John Woodburn, Wilhelm Bernhard Linstow, Esq. of Copenhagen, Claus Eduart Wiinholt, Esq. of Copenhagen, William Hawes, M. D. Jens Friedenreick Hage, Esq. his Danish Majesty's Commissioner, Copenhagen, Henry Hoste Henley, Esq. Thomas Talbot Gorsuch, Esq. Azariah Pinney, Esq. Peter Cox, Esq. Christopher Johnson, Esq. William Cowper, Esq. Mr. John Beaumont, Mr. Charles Baldwin, Mr. Joseph Wright, John Parke, Esq. Edward Rogers, Esq. Mr. Alexander M'Cauley, John Scott, Esq. John Sidney, Esq. Luke Ho gard, Esq. Mr. John Berkeley, Mr. Roycroft Wrather, Titus Hibbert, Esq. Lewis Loyd, Esq. Edward Swaine, Esq. Mr. Richard Tapster, George Naylor, Esq. Stephen Shewell Hunt, Esq. Mr. R. B. Wilson, Mr. William Roper, Arthur Aikin, Esq. G. Bentley, Esq. Charles į Pearson, Esq. Lawrence Francis Dillon, Esq. Mr. James Harrison, William Bentley, Esq. Thomas Joues, Esq, Richard Firmin, Esq. John Wilkes, Esq. John Curwood, Esq. John Capel, Esq. Thomas Gill, Esq. Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Hodgkinson, John Simeon, Esq. Mr. B. Hooke, Mr. James Peter Kingston, Mr. John Sharpe, D. Hopkins, Esq. Mr. James Bevans, Mr. Joyce Gold, James Thompson, Esq. Mr. Nicolas Paul, Geneva, Peter Richardson, Esq. Charles Platt, Esq. Thomas C. Palmer, Esq. jun. Mr. John Hatchett, Rev. Jeremiah Joyce, James Hebden, Esq. Samuel Greig, Esq. George Duckett, Esq. Edward Morgan, Esq. John Bruckshaw, Esq. Mr. Josiah Rhodes, Captain John Hall, Mr. George Moneypenny, John Roberts, Esq. Richard White, Esq. William Strutt, Esq. Joseph Strutt, Esq. George Benson Strutt, Esq. Stephen Lee, Esq. John Riland Mander, Esq. John Wharlton Bunney, Esq. Mr. John Miers, William Motfatt, Esq. Rees Goring Thomas, Esq. Philip Antrobus, Esq. William Little, Esq. James Akers, Esq. John C. Weguelin, Esq. Thomson Bonar, jun. Esq. Mr. William Cary, Thomas Watts, Esq. Robert Pierce Cruden, Esq. John Edwards, Esq. Mr. Robert Bancks, Philip Beaver, Esq. Theodore Morison, Esq. Henry Browne, Esq. George Silver, Esq. Patrick Milne, Esq. Mr. John Fowler, George Leame, Esq. James Green, Esq. George Friend, Esq. George Jernegain, Esq. Thomas W. H. Woodthorpe, Esq. George Smith, Esq. Mr. William Fuller Pocock, John Collin, Esq. Sealy Fourdrinier, Esq. David Davis, Esq. Robert Isherwood, Esq. Edward Smith Foss, Esq. Hubert Cornish, Esq. William Pell Rew, Esq. William Upshaw, Esq. William Vondenbelden, Esq. of Quebec, (a corresponding member,) Nicholas Gillbee, Esq. Thomas Jervis, Esq. M. P. Mr. J. G. Fontain, John North, Esq. John Lloyd, Esq. Adam Oldham, Esq. Charles Stewart, jun. Esq. Mr. John Plowman.

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PROCEEDINGS IN THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

H. OF COMMONS.
March 22.

Mr. Tierney moved for an account, shewing the increate or dimination in the falaries of lerks in the public offices in Great Brtain for the year 1802; and alto a like account from Ireland, for the years 1801, and 1802. Ordered,

In a Committee on the Militia Officers' Bill, the Secretary at War obferved, that the temporary meafures of the prefent bill were only the fame as thofe reforted to laft

war.

Several amendments were agreed to.

March 23.

Sir J. W. Anderfon, in confequence of an

amendment made to a money claufe in the St. Giles's Burying Ground B, moved to bring in a new one. He faid, this was a fubject of the utmost moment, as the ground was now fo full, that no more bodies could be interred in it. Leave given.

In a Committe of Supply, the Chancellor of the Exchequer faid, the fum which he fhould propofe to vote was 911,000; of that fum 868 90cl. was to difcharge the intereft of Exchequer Blls. They were to have been difcharged out of the inftalments of the loan of last year; but, as a very inconfiderable part of that loan was paid up at an early per od after the contract, a great interest accrued upon thofe bills; he therefore moved, that a fum, not exceeding 868,903/. hc granted for the above purpote. Agreed to. He alfo moved the following fams; viz. 1910l. to the Committioners for the difcharge of the National Debt, for fakeries of Officers, &c.; 50cl. to the Officers of Exchequer, for preparing Exchequer Bills, &c.; 23,564. to make good money advanced to the Bank, for the dif count of the Loan; 22,5287. to make good money paid to the Bank, for receiving contributions on the Loan of 1802; 371. to J. Wilmot, employed as clerk to the Commiffioners in fettling the American Claims; 3,600/. for incidental expences of 1802.

The Refolutions were agreed to.

The Majier of the Rolls faid, the object of his motion was only to remedy the inconvenience refulting from two Acts of Parliament, viz. that the Roman Catholics were obliged to take two oath, whereas one would now be fufficient. He took a view of the different ftatutes refpecting Rom in Catholics; from which he argued there was a certain incongruity, and moved to bring in a Bill to extend to Catholics the benefit of both the ftatures relative to the teft, upon their taking the oath contained in the first. This being a motion respectGENT. MAG. June, 1803.

ing Religion, it was referred to a Com mittee of the whole Houfe; after which the Bill was read.

The Attorney General moved to bring in a Bill for appointing Committion ers for dif triburing money agreed to be paid by America to certain claimants.

On the report of the Militia Officers' Bl, Mr. Windham made fome objections/ to the clante relative to the admition of half pay Officers; he thought nothing but the exigency of the moment could warrant the me.fore.

The Secretary at War fid, it was his intention to move a provi, to the chaufe, that, if the Lord Lieutenant could not hil the vacancies wr qualified men within two months, half-py Officers fh uld not be advanced to a higher rank in the Militia than a Captain: this would fitisfy the gentlemen who had opposed the clufe in quel on.

In answer to a question from Mr. Kinnaird, the Secretary faid, this Bill did nut extend to Scotland.

H. OF ORDS.

March 24.

The Royal Affent was given, by Com miffion, to the Prince of W des's Annuity, an eight other public, and 31 private Bills.

In the Commons the fame day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer prefented a meffage from his M jeny, the purport of which was to recommend an annuity of 1.200/. to be granted to Sir J. Saumarez, for his eminent fervices in the late war.

H. O F LORD S.

March 25

The Royal Affent was given, by Commilfion, to the Irish Pottage, and three other Bills.

In the Commons the fame day, the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the subject of the King's Mellige, for granting an annuity to Sir J. Saumarez, was unanimouily agreed to; the annuity to Commence from July, 1801.

In A Committee of Ways and Means, the Chancellor of the Exchequer requested an authority of 4,000,000. in addition to 5,00,000/ that had been permitted to be rated by leans on Exchequer Bilts. The fum now demanded was for the purpose of funding part of the outstanding bills, and for paying off the refidue. The refolution was agreed to.

The Bill for regulating the office of Surveyor-General of the Forefts was pailed.

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