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If you were to agree with C possibly you might persuade them to let send you go and take a peep at the Venetian Galleys: when you were so far on your way, you might stretch on as far as Naples, & see whether you liked that place better.
16. Mittenda to S.B.
I shall send you a copy of Bergman's in Latin price 7 d 8 vo and I believe a little tract of his on the use of the blow-pipe. I think I may be able to send you a little acid of sugar discovered by him. Anderson will get me Schiller's book on first light from Saunders the lecturer & is just coming.
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I forget whether I mentioned in my last Fordyce the Bankers Manufactory at Shields for making Alkali (Barilla) from Common Salt. I believe he makes use of clay to diminish the attraction between the acid and the alk. upon application of heat, & so drive off the acid. Anderson has some of the residuum that is left after driving off the acid. I shall probably send you some.
18. Tourmalin Stones
The summer before last a mine of Tourmalins was discovered in the mountains of Tyrol (Pilak's country & Fontana's ) by Müller Counsellor of the board of Mines & Mint-works in Transylvania. Swede has just imported an account of this translated into French from Muller's German by one De Launay: of Bruxelles & presented at Brussels in 1779. pp. 35 4 to including the translators' notes. The Tourmalin you remember properly is a kind of inferior precious stone which becomes electrical by being heated, as glass goes by being rubbed. By applying thin a quantity of "moving "heat" you precipitate a quantity of the electric fluid (is that the case?) (if so the electricity should be negative. Qu) or dispose the stain to attract a certain quantity of that fluid from the atmosphere. Hitherto Tourmalins have not been known to come any where but from the Dutch Island of Ceylon in the E. Indies. Stones which have the electrical property of the Tourmalin but do not agree with it in some other properties
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I send today May 9th to Raikes to enquire when Ships go to Petersburgh.
20. Terms v.6.
In case of a rupture between this country and that, you must not continue in that service. Stipulate therefore for half-pay during such war. Do not engage without written articles signed by C. Ask what deductions there will be for fees of office. & c & make him guarantee you against such deductions. Don't engage in any expence for them, without writing, for fear of misunderstanding.
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What you said about my not liking Pet. gh was I hope ostensible only, not sincere. If she will give me that business to do, I don't see how it is possible I should not like it. I could bring more of my ideas to bear there in a month than here in my whole life. Those are the only terms, my Sam, upon which we shall ever meet there. Don't think I can bear to go about to foreign Courts, dragging about an obscure & insignificant existence. But more about this in my next.
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I have cut to pieces Ingenhouse's book to send you that part of the Preface which contains a summary of everything in it that is material. I wish I had done it before. I fear the Book may have reached you before now. The book itself will go with your things, and then you must patch it together again.
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properties are brought from Brazil Bergman has given an a chem: analysis of the Tourm. in Memoirs. Where entire it is brown like rosin, but unlike Muller by cutting it transversely & obliquely and grinding it as thin as paper has made it green. This with an account of the manner of its appearance in the place of its growth is all there is new in Muller's book. Ergo I don't send it you. 21 Welch Don't sell Welch's apparatus so as to lose by it. If you can not get what it cost, send it back: Sw. desires you will.
22. Spanish Sheathing Lohmen
Did I tell you in my last that Lohmen send me in a letter a small specimen of sheathing that was upon one of the Spanish prizes? I wrote the letter you desired to him directing it to him on board with Com. Walsinghame Torbay or elsewhere: but have received no answer.
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Anderson knows a Scotch Parson who will read a book through & remember it verbatim. Such an animal might be made of use. D'ailleurs
he is quite a ninny; as your great memory men frequently are.
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Title: [Friday Augs 25. 1780 In my last which]Description: Friday Augs 25. 1780 In my last which was of the 9th inst t: I told Anderson is gone back to Scotland: nothing would serve you I should write again before I went to Thorpe: him, poor man, but he must engage in an attempt to set and so here begins. Anderson up a weekly magazine; which failed after 6 numbers. The plague of it is I do not recollect what I have wrote to you in my last about Schiller. I had heard his translation of Smith's Wealth of nations highly spoken of by a multitude of Germans: and in particular Raigersfeldt recommended it to me to get my book translated by him if I could. I accordingly called upon him at his lodgings No 73 High Street Mary-bone about 10 days ago, taking with me the three first sheets of Code with a corrected copy of the Prospectus. I had appointed a time of meeting by letter: I chose to go to him that I might judge of the man the better by the stile he lived in. A mean lodging though on the first floor: and though not dirty fetid to the highest degree ; and the appearance of the man quite that of the Grub street Post, tall thin and ugly and seemingly half starved. He turns out after all to be a more responsible man than one should easily meet with, having been 19 years in this country. I never saw a man enter more into the spirit of any book than he did into that of mine, stopping short every now & then and reading aloud with an emphasis which plainly shewed him to have a thorough comprehension of the contents: the passages which seemed to strike him the most were those which I myself should have pitched upon as the most striking and watched his countenance, & saw in it all along marks of the most unfeigned satisfaction. He asked me with great eagerness PEAKE Pray, is it true that Old Peake paid you Harrison the Taylor's bill upon Jack Peake? Do not fail to answer this. eagerness for the rest of it: making abundance of speeches about not making an improper use of it, and referring me to people for his character. While I was there came in a packet to him from which he took occasion to inform me that he was employ'd to write the foreign articles in the Critical Review : I looked at the sheet, and upon my word no bad stile even in English. He says he writes in French with the same degree of facility: but in that language I think I should be almost afraid to trust him. Upon my mentioning Raigersfeldt, he caught at the name and asked me whether I were upon an intimate footing with him: after some little discourse on that head, at last out it came that he wished I could introduce him to R.t I told him I would try. I thought it could be a good thing for me in several respects: 1. R. upon the supposition of his having a good opinion of my book, would contribute to impose the like opinion into Schiller: 2. the fear of losing any he might form with R. by my means might be a sort of security for his good behaviour. 3. I could set R. to pump S. upon occasion in matters in which I could not so conveniently appear myself. This I think was on Monday the 14 th. I told him at the same time how I was circumstanced with regard to Leonardi, but declined mentioning his name. He seemed anxious to know, pressed me upon the subject rather more than with civility, and at last it appeared that it was not of apprehension lest
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Title: [1 Who would have thought, my dear Sam; that]Description: 1 Who would have thought, my dear Sam; that I should have had to date my letter from such a scene of desolation! Will you believe your own eyes when I tell you that London is in the condition of a beseiged town. If I open my window I see two fires before me at a view: one is the King's Bench Prison, the other is somewhere to the Eastward. How many more there may be God knows | When I wrote the above I thought to have given you a narrative — But there was no finding time for it. 2 Oars = Sweeps It seems that Oars are used on board of our small ships of war. In the Whitehall Evening of 23 d Oct.1779 mention is made of their being used on board the Atalanta of 16 guns. They are called Sweeps. This I find upon looking over my Index — I forgot to mention it at the time. 3. Mirrors burning An apparatus of proposed as a kind of pre-arms. Each Soldier to carry one Button to melt lead at 120 feet distance and 400. See Brydon's Travels in July & March . I. 284. 4. Mortars Mortars at Malta made by hollowing out the Rock. The charge a barrel of gunpowder at a time ib. 330. You have no rocks I believe that would do any where in the Russ. dominions. Anderson says he has heard of such a thing being at Gibraltar. 5. Schule. Heat & Light — Inflam. Air. The translation of Schule is not out yet, but will be soon. His positions according to Bergman are, to that the matter of heat is nothing but resperable in combined ( intwine) with a determinate portion of phlogiston: 2. that inflammable air is resp. air combined with a greater proportion of phlog: and 3. that light again consists of the same elements only the proportion of phlogiston greater still. And that the hepatic air (of which Bergman ) consists of sulphur dissolved in the matter of by the intermediation of phlogiston. These positions Bergman says agree admirably with the phenomena hitherto known under Volume 2.201 June 20 Kit I agree with you and Plesch. perfectly in some of your remarks, and do not disagree with you in any. It shall be new-doctored according to the best of my poor abilities in conformity to your good pleasure. Perhaps you may have it by next time I write. The letters to the other people whom you mention you shall likewise have time enough for me to have the benefit of your observations. You will find them fierce enough for you I imagine. After all, it is not a cursed thing that I must not say to that sermon what is true, because other people in whose mouths perhaps it might not be true might perhaps be for saying the same thing. Parcel for S.B. Here's another plague has happen'd about your things. Mair was applied to about them by Wilson to give him notice when the fleet would sail. Mair chose not to say a syllable about the matter till Sunday on which day he called on W. and told him that the fleet was allready gone down to the Hove that it was uncertain whether a parcel could be sent after them, but that however he would try, if it was sent to his counting house in Cloak Lane Dowgate-hill. On that day there was no such thing as sending it. For you are to know that Q.S.P. an age ago had been making a roul about the , and nothing would serve him but he must have them unpacked for him to pore over and sit in judgement on. Being completely tumbled I did not choose to trust to any repackage I could give them, but determined to send them to M r Ramsden for that purpose. I thought the later this was done the better, in order that whatever other things there might be might go with
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