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erom the many farms which will undoubtedly be offered, that which is moſt flügible.. The names of the ſubſcribers are made Public, and are certainly highly reſpectable.

Natural Phenomena.

M* WILD of Mulkum in the Briſgau, has diſcovered and verified, by repeated obſervations, that the winds have very confiderable influence on the barometer, and conſequently on the meaſuring the heights of places with that inſtrument. A new ſimple earth has been diſcovered in Germany, which poſſeſſes various properties that diſtinguiſh it from other earths; it is white and inſolúóble in water, in a freſh(tate, and, a little maiſtened, it is duttile zit becomes ſo hard in the fire as to ſcratch glaſs, but remains taſteleſs and indiſoluble in water.

Fine Arts, Science and Literature.

ANE Exhibition of the Royal Academy opened the 28th of April; this is

the thirty-ſecond year of exhibiting. The artiſts had, as uſual, theic anniverſary dinner on the Saturday previous, and were honoured with the pre- ſence of the Prince of Wales, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbiſhop of York, the Lord Chamberlain, and many others of the nobility.

The exhibitjon of the preſentlyear is judged by the connoiſſeurs to be ſuperior to any preceding year in the general charaéter and ſtyle of the works. There are, however, few grand produdtions in hiſtory, but, on the whole, the ex hibition ſhews that the Arts have advanced in this country, The preſident has no very large pi&ures, Hoppner, as uſual, excels in his portraits of la- dies; he has no leſs than eight pi&aures; that of the Princeſs of Wales is an excellent likeneſs, Laſſeronu has alſo ſome excellent portraits; Opie this year; exceeds all his former attempts; two of his paintings, the Cozfz/ſion and Fugi- live, are two as good piétures as were€cver painted. Hamilton, Sir William Beachy, Mr. Copley, Notcut, Weſtal, Smirke,&c. have each exhibited ſome very good performances,

A new Acádemy of Axchite&ure has been eſtabliſhed at Berlin; the objet of which is,‘to form able land tig PA and archite&s,

The fine copies of the cartoons o Raphael, painted by Sir James Thorn- hill, for an anceſtor of the duke of Bedford, has, with great generohity, been preſented by the preſent Duke to the Ruyal Academy; as(oon as the preſent Exhibition is over, they will be conveyed to their rooms at Somerſet Place.

The King of Sweden has lately direéted, that his academy of paintings ſhould have a profeſſor of archite@ure.

Law. y. ts Lincoln aſfizes, a cauſe was tried, wherein Sir Joſeph Banks Bart. was plaintiff, and a tenant of his defendant; the a&ion was brought for removing manure from the land he rented of Sir Joſeph, to ſome land of his own. The Jury gave a verdict to the amount of two years rent of the premiſes, and coſts of ſuit.

At Warwick. aſlizes, the clerk of an aftorney was tried and found guilty of a paltry fraud, of applying to the poſtmnalter, and procuring returns on letters charged double, on pretence that they ſhould have been charged ſings only,‘:;