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OF A

NEW PERIODICAL WORK,

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EARL SPENCER,

ENTITLED,

THE NAVAL CHRONICLE.

"In native Vigour bold, by Freedom led,
"No Path of Honour have they failed to tread;

"But, while they wifely plan, and bravely dare,

"Their own Achievements are their latest Care." HAYLEY.

To the Public.

WE are at length enabled to prefent our PLAN at your Tribunal-as it professes to occupy a space, hitherto greatly neglected, to contain the principles of a Work, new both in its tendency and defign; we request that Patronage, which it shall be our pride to merit by our exertions, and to fecure by the liberal mode in which our Work will be conducted.

In common with the rest of our Countrymen, we have long beheld, with exultation, the progrefs of our NAVAL POWER. It has grown up with the dignity of the British Name, and has attained a Coloffal Stature, that appals our Enemies, and awes the furrounding Nations. What the venerable CAMDEN, in the year 1605, faid concerning Britaine, is ftill, and we truft ever will be, descriptive of its character:

It is walled and guarded with the Ocean, most commodious for trafficke to all parts of the World, and watered with pleasant fishful and navigable rivers, which yeild fafe havens and roads, and furnished with fhipping and failers, that it may rightly be termed The Lady of the Sea.

A Work, therefore, comprehending all the Naval Circumftances of Great Britain, must be interefting to its inhabitants. We have la id an extenfive bafis: and can affure our Readers, that the structurę we fhall

fhall raise upon it, will, at leaft, be fuch as every true and loyal fubject shall approve.

Mr. N. Pocock, of Great George-Street, Weftminster, having engaged in the undertaking, Engravings by able Artists, from his Designs, will be given in each Number, which will always contain Two Plates, or One and a Map, or Chart. Thefe defigus of Mr. Pocock will present to our Readers correct VIEWS OF NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS-DRAWINGS, with Shipping, of different Coafts and Harbours-PORTRAITS of celebrated Ships-Different Parts of the Ship in detail-&c. To give fufficient fcope for the Drawings of this Gentleman, we have determined to print the Work on a Royal Odavo Paper; and we truft that the Price of Half a Crown for each Number will not be thought unreasonable.

Our LITERARY Department embraces every fubject connected with THE NAVY; and, we prefume, will often be enriched by the Communications of Naval Friends.

Our BIORGAPHY fhall be executed with delicacy, and correctness, and poflefs all the variety which a periodical Work will allow. PORTRAITS of NAVAL OFFICERS will occafionally be introduced, when we have an opportunity of making Engravings from original Pictures. To fteer clear of error will be our anxious wifh and confant endeavour; but as we may fometimes be deluded by wellintended but inaccurate Information, we will immediately and thankfully correct any faults that may be pointed out, or add any improve ments that may be communicated, to us.

The difficulty which a Naval Officer experiences, when confined to the limits of his ftation, of becoming acquainted with what is going on amid the Literary and Philofophical World, will induce us to give a Review, with Extracts, of the principal Works that are published, interefting to the Naval Profeffion. We truft that the Leisure of the Mariner will be cheered, and improved by that variety of Information which we fhall be enabled to furnish. Whatever tends to elucidate THE HISTORY OF THE NAVY, will be conftantly brought forward; and we hope, by this means, to preferve and make known many papers, that would otherwise be irrecoveraly lost.

The Proprietors have it in contemplation, as opportunity offers, and fuccefs encourages them, to give, in the courfe of the Work, a correct

- correct HISTORY OF VOYAGES. We intend alfo to trace the Progrefs of our Maritime Power from its Origin, to the fplendid Achievements of the present day.

Whatever notice is fent us of New Publications relating to the NAVY, will be immediately inferted; by which means the Authors of them will be enabled to make their Works generally known.

NAUTICAL POEMS, and other POETRY, on Naval fubjects, which have long formed a peculiar feature in our National Character, and come home to every British Heart, will be carefully collected.

The Commerce of GREAT BRITAIN is intimately connected with our prefent Subject, and will occafionally come under our confideration.

To call the attention of the Mariner to fuch objects of NATURAL HISTORY, as may often prefent themfelves to him, will also be a part of our Duty.

All Treatifes, or Effays, which relate to NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, and the IMPROVEMENT of NAVIGATION, will be particularly con◄ fidered. Nor will any subject that may render

The Maval Chronicle

an USEFUL, INSTRUCTIVE, and INTERESTING WORK, be omitted.

SUCH are the Outlines of our PLAN; and we fhall leave the Public to judge by what we perform, and not by what we promise. Much of our fuccefs will neceffarily depend on the Patronage and Affiftance of Profeffional Men: yet, as our WORK comprifes what is fo calculated to invite a general attention, we truft its pages will prove acceptable to all ranks.-Our defigns of SEA VIEWS and NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS will, from their accuracy, prove an excellent fource of inftruction to all who wish to perfect themselves in NAVAL PERSPECTIVE. They will also enable others, whose avocations have not allowed them to contemplate the Grandeur of THE OCEAN and the WOODEN WALLS OF OLD ENGLAND, to form a more juft idea of thefe fublime objects.

In the prefent critical fituation of GREAT BRITAIN, it behoves every one to afford whatever affiftance is in his power to promote the

general

general welfare, that the evil Defigns of turbulent and restless Spirits may be defeated. Our principles are from THE OLD SCHOOL: they are decided and firm :-and we truft, that the Patrons of our Work will have no reason, in its progress, to disclaim them; or to withdraw the encouragement which they have promised.

Our FIRST NUMBER will be published on the FIRST OF JANUARY 1799; and the fucceeding Numbers on the First of every Month.

ORDERS are requested to be sent, as early as poffible, to Meffrs. BUNNEY, THOMPSON, and Co. CRANE-COURT, FLEET STREET; by whom all Communications directed to the EDITOR (Poft paid) will be received.

Orders for the above Work are also received at the following Bookfellers: Meffrs. ROBINSONS, Paternofter-Row; Meffrs. CADELL and DAVIES, Strand; Mr. DEBRETT, Piccadilly; Mr. WHITE, FleetAtreet, Meffrs. BYFIELD and Co. Charing-crofs; Mr. CLARKE, Bond-Street; Mr. BELL, Oxford Street; and at the principal Bookfellers in all the Sea-ports and large Towns throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

THE

ANALYTICAL REVIEW.

FOR NOVEMBER, 1798.

TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES.

ART. 1. Tranfactions of the Society inftituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; with the Premiums offered in the Year 1798. Vol. xvi. 8vo. 464 pages. 4 plates. Price 5s. in boards. Robfon. 1798.

THE last time we noticed the transactions of this valuable fociety, we stated ourselves to be particularly pleafed with one of the general conditions which it established, refpecting the diftribution of premiums, namely, that no perfon fhall receive any bounty or encou ragement for any matter, for which he has obtained, or purposes to obtain, a patent. A very difgraceful circumftance occurred during the laft feffion of the fociety, which ought to be made as public as poffible: P. XIV. pref.

In the year 1797, a bounty of thirty guineas was given to Mr. Adam Scott, (fee vol. xv, p. 226), for his invention of an inftrument, called by him a Mole-Plough, on condition of the plough being left with the fociety, for the ufe of the public; and it was stated, that thefe ploughs could be fold in London at the price of two guineas and a half each. Many months had not elapfed, before an inftrument, very fimilar in its conftruction to that of Mr. Scott, was offered for fale at the enormous price of ten guineas, under the idea of a patent having been granted for the fole making and vending fuch inftrument; and it appeared, by a letter received from Mr. Scott, that he had himself acted as an agent in the fale thereof. This induced the society to resolve, that Mr. Scott cannot, henceforward, be admitted a claimant for any reward from them.'

We proceed, as usual, to ftate the particulars contained in the prefent volume.

AGRICULTURE.-John Sneyd, efq., of Belmont, in Staffordshire, received the gold medal, which the fociety offered for planting larch, in the years 1794 and 1795. Mr. S. planted out fix thousand, that were four years old, and five thousand that were three years old: no particulars are ftated concerning them, except that they had been Branfplanted from the feed-bed, and afterwards from the nursery;

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