cloths are made in imitation of nankin, without dyeing; 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 certificates, signed by the Secretary of the Board of Trade of Bengal or Bombay, on or before the last Tuesday in February, 1818.

ANNATTO.

197. To the person who, in the year 1817, 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 Feb. 1818.

TRUE COCHINEAL.

198. To the person who, in the year 1814, 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 three hundred weight; the gold medal.

A quantity of the cochineal, not less than three 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 February, 1818.

N.B. The Premiums from No. 192 to 194 inclusive, are all extended two years further, on similar conditions.

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, require an expense or trouble too great for general purposes, the Society will not consider itself 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. All candidates are to take notice, that no claim for a premium will be attended to, unless the conditions are fully complied with.

The models of all machines, which obtain premiums or bounties, shall be the property of the Society.

The Premiums of this Society are designed for the United Kingdom, unless expressly mentioned to the contrary.

The claims will 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, or for which he has obtained any premium or reward from any other Society.

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 premium or 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 advertisement, and be signed by disinterested 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 candidate, not a member, shall be present at any meeting 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.

The Society, anxious to promote the Arts of their country, have adopted the resolution of forming a Collection of Prints, to be open for public inspection; and, having arranged those already in their possession, invite engravers to send etched or finished proofs of their plates; and hope that amateurs, collectors, and publishers of works of art, will also contribute to the undertaking.

Prints of machines, or maps, will also come within this arrangement.

This Society further invite the communications of scientific and practical men, upon all subjects connected with the views of this Society, although their experiments may have been conducted upon a smaller scale than the terms required by the premiums; as such communications may afford ground for more extensive application, and thus materially contribute to the advantage of the public.

The Library of the Society, which has already become very valuable, may yet receive considerable additions and improvements from the presents of members, or other persons who may be inclined to place useful books or valuable manuscripts in a repository at once permanent and conducive to the national benefit.

All communications are to be made by letter, addressed to ARTHUR AIKIN, Esq. the Secretary, at the Society of Arts, &c. Adelphi, London.

And where articles are sent by Sea for the Society, the Bills of Lading are to be addressed to the care of WILLIAM VAUGHAN, Esq. Mincing-lane, London, who has undertaken to receive them for the Society.

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, 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, and explicit, fit for publication; and that descriptive Drawings may be sent, with the Models and Machines laid before the Society.

* 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.

BRITISH MARBLES.

N. B. The Society considering that it would be beneficial to the Commerce of the United Kingdom to bring the British Marbles into general use, and that the most effectual method of accomplishing their object would be, for the present, to make them more generally known in the Capital, have come to the following resolution:

Resolved, That specimens of British Marbles be exposed in the Society's Rooms, in the Adelphi, for the inspection of the public, under the following regulations:

1st, That all the specimens be exact to a given size, viz. eight inches high, six inches broad, one thick, and polished on one face.

2d, That a book be kept, containing the number of each specimen, and describing the situation of the quarry, the name of the parish were situated, the distance of the quarry from a beaten road, and the distance of that road from water-carriage, with the name of the donor and proprietor. Any remarks on the qualities of the marbles, or on the lime produced from them, will be gratefully received and preserved by the Society, as materials for future inquiries.

As the exertions of the Society can be generally beneficial only inasmuch as their views are seconded by the public, the Society request, that all proprietors of marble quarries will favour them with a specimen of the marble, worked to the exact size above mentioned, with the description of the quarry as above, that the same may be entered in the book to be preserved for the use of the public. By such arrangements, it is expected that the interest of the proprietors of the quarries will be promoted, and the use of British marble much extended. A variety are already exhibited in the £ociety's Rooms.

The Society take this opportunity of returning their thanks to the several Societies and individuals who have favoured them with Presents for their Repository and Library.

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BESTOWED BY THE

Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce,

ADELPHI,

DURING THEIR SESSION,

WHICH COMMENCED ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1816,
AND CLOSED ON THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1817.

On Tuesday, May 27, 1817,

His Royal Highness the DUKE of SUSSEX, President,
distributed the Rewards then adjudged.

IN AGRICULTURE.

No. 1. To Mr. C. Essex, East Acton, Middlesex, for a machine for cleaning Corn, the Gold Ceres Medal.

2. To J. Lawson Esq. Old Mill, near Elgin, for planting 212 Acres, with 985,300 Forest Trees, the Gold Medal.

3. To the Earl of Jersey, for embanking 300 Acres of Land, on the Gnoll and Britton Ferry Marshes, the Silver Isis Medal.

4. To Henry Grant, Esq. for embanking 300 Acres of Land, on the Gnoll and Britton Ferry Marshes, the Silver Isis Medal.

5. To Mrs. H. D'Oyley, Red Car, near Gisborough, for the culture of Bull rushes (Scirpus Lacustris,) for the use of Chair Makers, the Silver Medal.

IN CHEMISTRY.

1. To Mr. James Callender, King's Head Court, Holborn, for a method of Seasoning Mahogany, Fifteen Guineas.

2. To Mr. T. Stiles, Norwich, for a method of preparing an extract from Sprats, the Silver Medal and Ten Guineas.

3. To Mr. R. Wynn, Wellington Place, Vauxhall, for Receipts for Enamel Colours, and for staining and gilding glass, Twenty Guineas.

IN POLITE ARTS.

1. To Mr. W. C. Ross, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, for an original historical painting, the Judgment of Brutus, the gold Medal.

2. To Mr. J. H. Marvin, Duke Street, Manchester Square, for an Original painting of the interior of King Henry the Seventh's Chapel, the Gold Isis Medal.

3. To Mr. H. Harriot, West Hall, Mortlake, Surry, for an original landscape in oil, the Gold Isis Medal.

4. To Mr. G. Maile, Frederick Place, Hampstead Road, for an engraving of a portrait, the Gold Isis Medal.

5. To Miss Emma Eleonora Kendrick, Upper Mary-le-bone Street, for an original historical miniature, the Gold Isis Medal.

6. To Mr. G. Mills, Hadlow Street, Burton Crescent, for a Medal die, the Gold Isis Medal. 7. To Miss Cotton, Chichely, Newport Pagnel, for an original drawing of Flowers, the Silver Medal.

8. To Mr. Thomas Merrifield, Princes Street, Bedford Row, for an original model of one figure, the Silver Medal.

9. To Miss Smith, Cirencester Place, Fitzroy Square, for a drawing in water colours, the Silver Medal.

10. To Mr. J. Carver, Great Russel Street Bloomsbury, for a drawing on charred wood, the Silver Medal.

11. To Miss Mary Anne Say, Norton Street, Fitzroy Square, for a drawing, the Silver Medal.

12. To Master. J. G. Barlace, Frith Street, for a drawing, a portrait, executed with the left hand, the Silver Medal.

13. To Miss Eliza Phillipps, Wandsworth Road, for an Original Landscape, the Silver Medal. 14. To Miss Dutton, (now Mrs. Pearson,) Great St. Helens, for an original Oil painting, the Silver Medal.

15. To Mrs. M. A. Warren, Glasgow, for a Piano Monitor, the Silver Medal.

16. To Mr. J. C. Mead, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, for an original Architectural drawing, the Silver Medalion, in conformity to the Will of the late John Stock, Esq. of Hampstead.

17. To Mr. C. F. Taylor, Leadenhall Street, for a drawing, the Silver Isis Medal.

18. To Miss, Smith, East Street, Red Lion Square, for a chalk drawing, the Silver Isis Medal. 19. To Miss Eliza Wallace, Bath, for a drawing of fruit and flowers, the Silver Isis Medal. 20. To Mr. A. Harrison, Camden Town, for an original painting of a Parrot, the Silver Isis Medal.

21. To Miss E. M. Hunter, Birmingham, for an original drawing, the Silver Isis Medal. 22. To Miss M. Tomkins, New Bond Street, for a chaik drawing, from Rubens, the Silver Isis Medal.

23. To Miss C. H. Evatt, Wandsworth, for an original Landscape, the Silver Isis Medal. 24. To Mr. C. Smith, Norton Street, Fitzroy Square, for an original model of one figure, the Silver Isis Medal.

25. To Master S. Hanning, Glass house Street, Piccadilly, for an Intaglio, the Silver Palette. 26. To Mr. J. Monroe, Adelphi Terrace, for a drawing, the Silver Palette.

27. To Miss Nonnen, James Street, Buckingham Gate, for an original portrait, the Silver Palette.

28. To Miss M. Mainwaring, Chancery Lane, for a chalk drawing, the Silver Palette. 29. To Mr. C. Robinson, Devonshire Square, Mary-le-bone, for a chalk drawing, the Silver Palette.

30. To Miss Cook, Rotherithe Street, for a drawing, the Silver Palette.

31. To Master W. Powis, Pentonville, for a drawing, the Silver Palette.

32. To Mr. Blanchard, Queen Street, Lincoln's inn fields, for a pen and Ink drawing, the Silver Palette.

33. To Mr. F. R. Say, Norton Street, Fitzroy Square, for a drawing, the Silver Palette. 34. To Miss Leonora Say, Norton Street, Fitzroy Square, for a drawing, the Silver Palette, 35. To Mr. W. Edwards, Goswell Street Road, for an outline drawing the Silver Palette. 36. To Mr. W. Watts, Northampton Square, for an outline drawing, the Silver Palette. 37. To Mr. F. Bock, Birmingham, for an engraving of a portrait, the Silver Medal. 38. To Mr. D. Dick, Vauxhall Walk, for an Instrument for drawing in perspective, the Silver Medal.

IN MANUFACTURES.

1. To Mr. T. Saddington, Shadwell, for a machine for covering wire with silk or thread, Fifteen Guineas.

IN MECHANICS.

1. To Mr. Conolly, Rolls Buildings, for a Telegraphic Dictionary, the Gold Isis Medal. 2. To Mr. Jones, Holborn, for a self adjusting Crane, the Gold Isis Medal.

3. To Mr. William Wynn, Farnham, for a Time keeper and compensating Pendul the Gold Isis Medal, and Twenty Guineas.

4. To Mr. R. Onwin, Oxford Street, for a Banding Place, the Silver Isis Medal, and Guineas.

5. To Mr. Farnham, Borough, for a Steam Trap. the Silver Isis Medal, or Five Guinea 6. To Mr. G. Preston, Burr Street, Wapping, for a portable Deck Glass, and Ventila the Silver Medal.

7. To Dr. Davis, Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, for a Craniotomy forceps, the Gold Me To Mr. W. Burchard, Waddon, near Croydon, for a Cylindrical traversing rake, Silver Medal.

8.

9. To Mr. C. Wilson, Union Street, Borough, for a machine for sweeping chimnies. T Guineas.

10. To Mr. W. Aust, Grays-Inn-Road, for a machine for Freeing the shaft horse, wh fallen with a loaded cart, the Silver Medal, and Fifteen Guineas.

11. To Mr. W. Warcup, Dartford, Kent, for a Curvagraph, the Silver Medal and T Guineas.

12. To Capt. G. Bray, Charmouth, for a life Boat, the Silver Medal.

13. To Mr. J. Prior, Nessfield, near Skipton, for the striking part of a Clock, the Silv Isis Medal and Twenty Guineas.

14. To Mr. F. Coad, Drury Lane, for a machine to enable shoemakers to work standin Ten Guineas.

15. To Mr. George Wood, Chapel Street, Curtain Road, for a Parallel rule, the Silver M dal or Ten Guineas.

16. To Mr. William Hall, Lambeth, for an instrument for Laying down angles, the Silva Medal and Ten Guineas.

17. To Mr. W. Caslon, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, for an improved Gas Lamp, th Silver Medal.

** Since the public Distribution, the following Medals have been awarded by the Society 1. To W. R. Clanny, M.-D. Bishops Wearmouth, Durham, for a steam safety lamp; the gold medal.

2. To Mr. Joseph Farey, junr. Howland Street, for a Double ball cock, the Silver Isis medal.