Ann. Ann. India Stock India S. Sea DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN APRIL, 1801. Long Short Bonds. Stock. New Aon. Ann. Bills. Old Exchq. Om- | Irish Imp. Eng. Lott.flrish Lott. English nium.5 perCt 3perCt. Tickets. Tickets. Prizes. 194 4 dif 64 574 194 194 15 167 192 1924 665655 194 444454 57 22 10 ཀྱེེནྡྲ།23 C J. BRANSCOMB, Stock-Broker, at the Lucky Lottery Office, No. 11, Hulbourn, Wind. Barom Thermom. Hygrom State of Weather in April, 1801. I. 2. feet in. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for May, 1801. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. May 49 94 44 30,20 fair 12 53 45 62 46 ,zo lfair 13 47 56 44 47 62 44 ,12 fair 14 44 59 48 46 63 60 29,90 cloudy 16 64 52 53 ,62 showery ,78 fair 970 rain 66 97 fair ,83 fair 52 64 48 30,05 fair 194 fair 46 60 44 ,06 fair 68 53 ,80 fair 59 63 fair 852 66 48 29,86 fair 60.69 57 ,60 fair 53 60 46 30,03 fair 70 fair ,05 fair 60 ,08 fair ,69 fair 60 51 56 fair W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand. THE THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For Mr. URBAN, A MAY, May 7. S it forms a part of your liberal and extenfive plan to notice the progreffion of the arts as well as of fciences, allow me, to point your attention to an improvement which has just been effected in that higher effort of mechanical fkill which is immediately connected with fcience in fome of its molt noble and useful branches, thole, I mean, of Aftronomy and Navigation. You will be aware, fir, that I allude to the TIME-KEEPER; which, having engaged the talents of a Harriton, a Mudge, and an Arnold, was ftill confeffedly fhort of its attainable, perfection. To this perfection it is at length advanced by the fuc cefsful efforts of Mr. Haley, of Wimpole-ftreet; and it may now be confidered as having reached that point of accuracy which not only will be equal to all the demands of practice, but beyond which nothing but the idea of the artift, prohibited as is his hand by the imperfection of matter, can poffibly proceed. To preferve the ifochronism of the balance, only two means can be fuggefted by the imagination; either to apply a maintaining power, the action of which thall be at all times equal, or to render the vibrations of the balance independent of the inequalities of this power. As the first of these means is impracticable (for who can expect to obtain a main fpring which fhall not be fenfible of heat or cold, which fhall not be deprived of fome portion of its clafticity by time?) the laft has been the object to which the attention of artifts has been directed. It has been attained, 1801. however, only by Mr. Haley, and by him it has been accomplished in a manner equally fimple and efficient. A model of this mechanical improvement for the infpection of the curious, and an explanation of it for the publick, are preparing by its ingenious author; and moit earneftly do I hope that his merits will experience an ample reward, not only from the celebrity which muft neceffarily be the confequence of their being known, but from thofe pecuniary advantages which the liberality of Government offers to exertions of this nature, and which it has conferred on subordinate claims. My acquaintance with Mr. Haley is of very late date, and was entirely the effect of accident. It has afforded me, however, confiderable pleature, as it has difclosed to me a character of much worth; and has impretted me with as much interest for the man as refpect for the artift. Retired, unatuming, difinterested, and intent wholly on the enjoyment of his profeffion, he has advanced to the limits of age in attempts for the improvement of his art, and has left the more gainful exercife of it to his lefs enthusiastic contemporaries. I could fay much more, Mr. Urban, of this eminent mechanick, his character, and his works: but the publick will foon be made fully acquainted with the refult of his fuccefsful ingenuity; and for himfelf I cannot, as I am perfuaded, do him a lefs grateful office than by bringing him perfonally forward to the notice of the world. I have only now then to obferve, that, with truth alone for my aim, and actuated folely by the with of throwing fome little funthine on fecluded merit, I am confcious of an object, and of feel ings, which you will be ready to Kempfon, with a portrait of the acknowledge for your own. King; reverse emblematic of the new Century and the Union. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, F CINNA. May 7: N an era when our naval exploits have covered the nation with glory, and when Painting and the filer art Engraving are exerted to pourtray the gallant acts of the Hero of the Nile, and our other brave Commanders; it has been referved for an individual, remote from the capital, to publifh a feries of Medals difplaying portraits of feveral naval officers, with emblematic and appropriate reveries. Already I poffefs thofe of Nelfon, St. Vincent, Duncan, Bridport, Onflow, and Trollope; confidering myfelf and the community indebted to Mr. Kempfon, of Birmingham, whofe public fpirit conceived the idea; and to the ingenious artift Hancock, who is carrying it into execution. I anticipate Sir Sidney Smith, the gallant defender of Acre, and a medal to commemorate the brilliant exploit at Copenhagen. May our countrymen continue to acquire fresh laurels and may their glorious deeds be thus perpetuated! Whence, Mr. Urban, whence is it that the artifls, paid by our Mint eftablishment, feem torpid while there are fuch fubjects for their abilities? Whence is it that the only coinage that has done honour to the country, fince the days of Croker, was not the production of our Mint, but of Soho? Why have we fuch miferable fcratching impreffed upon our gold coin as a boy fcarcely nine years old, a fon of the Birmingham Hancock, would blufh to own? And, finally, why have we not the long-talkedof and much-wanted filver coinage? Are the artifts at our mint inadequate to the talk? Let the filver coinage alfo be given to Bolton: hé will neither degrade himfelf or the nation in the execution of it. I fhould not omit to mention a very fine medal, ftruck allo by Mr. URBAN, MY May 11. Σ. re Y letter to you on the fubject of wills and executors having met the approbation of two of your correfpondents, I am induced to ftate fome farther obfervations thereon. Nothing quires greater nicety and attention than the drawing of wills; for it cannot be faid there are precedents for them as in other conveyances, and yet there is not any writing more fhamefully neglected by reafon of the fanie being prepared by perfons unacquainted with the profellion; and it is to me aftonifhing to find many people, to fave the expence of a guinea or two to a genleman in the profeflion, thall place the whole concerns of their families under the direction of ignorant hands. I have a will now before me prepared by a tradefman for an elderly lady, which it is impoffible fully to comprehend; and, having offered my fervices gratis out of respect to the memory of her late husband (for I was brought up to the profeffion, but have declined practice), am preparing to make the fame better underfood. Some years ago I had an idea of fettling in my profeflion in the country with my friends, but I found the fchoolmofter of the village and another perfon not brought up in the law, engrofled the whole bufinefs; and, I believe, made wills and leafes without number. I was prefent at a court held for the manor, where one of the fchoolmafter's wills was produced by a widow, and the fame had been fo very improperly. prepared, the fteward was obliged to admit the heir at law to the teftator's eftates, in total exclufion to the reft of the family. I have been folicited feveral times to be nominated fole executor to teftators' wills, but have always declined ftanding alone in that |