pose a rope; by which method the yarns of a rope have a better and more equal bearing than in other ropes.-August 23, 1806. Richard Ford, of the city of Bristol, Ropemaker; for a new kind of cordage, made by a process entirely new, from old rope or junk, or such short ends of new rope as are now commonly converted only into oakum or coarse paper; by means of which process the objections to cordage usually termed twicelaid cordage are totally obviated, and the newly-invented cordage is made nearly equal to cordage made from new materials.-Dated August 30, 1806. Rep. Arts, &c. No. 52. PROPOSITA PHILANTHROPICA. -homo sum Humanum nihil a me alienum puto. BIBLE SOCIETIES. Ir appears from the second (annual) report of the British and foreign bible society, May 7, 1806. That, The German protestant edition of the New Testament, printed by the Nuremberg society, has been delivered to their subscribers at 12 kreutzers (less than five-pence) per copy. The types are kept standing. The same society published proposals for printing the old Testament; but it collected in Germany, not more than 5,000 florins: the expense would be 11,000 florins. The British society voted as an additional donation £200. At Berlin, a bible society is formed, to which the King has given 20 Frederics d'Or. This society has received from England £100; and a promise of £100 more, in the event of its undertaking a Polish bible. The catholics at Ratisbon have subscribed for the reprinting of Mr. Schwarzel's New Testament. To a bible society established in Esthonia, for the Esthonian, Finnish and Swedish Provinces, the London society has remitted £150. Two thousand copies of N. T. in Spanish for distribution among the Spanish prisoners of war, with 1000 extra copies of the Gospel of St. Mathew, have been printed, and gratefully received. A number of French Testaments have been bought and distributed. The edition of the Gospel of St. John, in the Mohawk language, which was printed at the expense of the society, and forwarded to Canada, for the purpose of distribution among the native Americans, had reached Montreal at the close of last year; and there is reason to believe that by this time it has been conveyed to the Indian settlements. It will afford the well-wishers of the society satisfaction to know, that the interpreters in the Indian villages deem the translation to be very correct. A bible society is formed in Ireland, recommended by a catholic bishop, and 1000 copies of the stereotyped edition in 12mo. are ent from England for dispersion among the catholics. The general interest of the in stitution has been greatly promoted in Scot land. Out of 335,000 highlanders 300,009 comprehend the Gaelic language only; 20,000 copies of O. and N. T. are ordered for their use. The island of Jersey, has received 300 copies of N. T. in French. 20,000 copies of the bible in Welsh: 10,000 additional of N. T. are ordered: the latter are complete. The book of Genesis and the Gospel of St. Mathew are commenced in the Chinese language. The funds for this work are chiefly expected from Europe. We may safely report on the whole, That the society has made considerable strides towards the accomplishment of it's object but that object must be deemed imperfectly accomplished whilst any nations, to whoin the blessings of the Holy Scriptures caa be conveyed by means of the bible society, remain in want of them; and hence it will appear that subscriptions, donations, and collections, are more than ever necessary to enable the society to maintain it's engagements, and carry into full effect the wishes of it's supporters. In Dublin last year were distributed, at an expense of £952 9s. 3,000 bibles; 6,607 testaments; 2,228 prayer books; 17,934 moral tracts: the demand for further donations of a like kind is progressively and rapidly increasing. The public officers of this Society are, President, Lord Teignmouth; nine Vice-Presi dents; Treasurer, Hen. Thornton, Esq. M. P. Secretaries, Rev. John Owen, Fulham; Rev. Joseph Hughes, Battersea; Rev. C. F. Steinkopf, Savoy, London. State of the Society's Fund, March 31, 1806. L. S. d. RECEIPTS. Balance 31 March, 1805 Subscriptions to 31 March, 1806 Donations, to same time Collections from various con gregations in Scotland, viz. Presbyt, Glasgow £888 1s. 6d. other congregations 613. 7. 6. Presbyt. Edinburgh 666. 9. 9. Presbyt. of Paisley 626. 19. 11. other congregations 174. 13. 9. Presbyt. Hamilton 298 12. 3. Presbytery of Ayr 172. 1. 8. Presbytery of Irvine 253. 16. 8. Sundry other congre 107 7 11 1127 9 0 gations in Scotland 245. 1. 2. 3939 4 2 Collections in Wales 1837 4 24 Ditto in England 166 16 4 120 12 Interest on exchequer bills G4 7 2.11 3 8934 18 21 SOCIETY FOR MISSIONS TO AFRICA AND THE EAST, BY MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. Sixth Anniversary. THE establishment of this Mission is at Sierra Leone, on the Coast of Africa. The last letters received from the Missionaries are dated Jan. 14 and 15, 1806; and were accompanied by Mr. Hartwig's Journal from Nov. 25 to Dec. 29, 1805. They were anxious for the arrival of their brethren; but they purposed to quit the Colony, if a suitable opportunity offered, without waiting their arrival, and follow the direction of the committee in immediately establishing themselves up the country. Mr. Renner had baptized, since he had officiated in the Colony, forty-six children, thirty belonging to the Nova-Scotians and sixteen to the Maroons: none of them older than thirteen years. On the 19th of August, 1805, the following three brethren were presented to the committee, having recently arrived from GerMany: Rev. Gustavus Reinhold Nylander, a native of Revel, in Livonia, aged 29. Rev. Leopold Butscher, a native of Ueberlingen, on the Bodensee, in Swabia, aged 29. Rev. John Godofred Prasse, a native of Seif hennendorf, in Upper Lusatia, aged 28. These Missionaries were to have been accompanied by John Charles Barneth; but, "The committee, after frequent conferences with Mr. B., and having heard the report of the medical gentlemen who had attended his wife in a recent illness, and who represented her constitution as altogether unfit to encounter a tropical climate, resolved, that though they were perfectly satisfied of the personal piety and Missionary zeal of Mr. Barneth, and would have gladly engaged him had he obtained ordination, and had not the state of his wife's health precluded them from sending her to Africa; yet, after maturely considering all circumstances, they felt themselves under the painful necessity of declining to take him under their protection. In conse quence of this resolution, Mr. B. and his family returned by the first opportunity to Berlin, and your committee made him such compensation for any loss which he might have sustained by his engagement with the society, as the Rev. Mr. Jaenicke suggested." We record this truly honourable conduct with great pleasure. These Missionaries on their intended voyage were stranded on the Coast of Ireland; but were saved, and afterwards embarked at Bristol, for Sierra Leone. The committee has in contemplation a mission to the east, State of the Society's Fund, March 31, 1806. Bal. in hand, March 31, 1805 RECEIVED. 45 19 7 As the object of the following Societies is Benevolence; Donations, Subscriptions, or Favours of any kind, intended for them, will be received at the Office of the LITERARY PANORAMA, Hatton Garden, (or for others of a similar character, whose REGULAR OFFICERS will favour us with communications), and punctually remitted to the Managers. FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN DISTRESS. We feel a sincere, and we venture to say, a laudable pleasure, in announcing to the Public, an institution characterized by the purest benevolence. It has been customary among the Chaplains of the several Embassies residing in London to meet occasionally in a kind of Society, wherein, among other things, the state of the poor of their respective nations, was occasionally discussed. As may be supposed, each of these worthy ministers had received from his countrymen applications too numerous, to be satisfied by the personal benevolence of an individual; it therefore became the subject of discussion among them whether an appeal should not be made to the national generosity of Britons: and after circulating among their friends proposals to this effect, a meeting was held, at the London Tavern, at which Count de Rehausen, the Swedish Ambassador, presided. The purport of this institution being known, it has been joined by several highly respectable persons, and is likely to assume a regular form, and more decided operations in the course of the ensuing winter. The address printed by the Society observes, that, None, among all the children of misfortune, have a fairer claim to a portion of assistance from the feeling and affluent, than those who are destitute in a strange land; whose ignorance of our language and manners, precludes them from the means of gaining subsistence, or renders them a prey to the base and the artful; and who, when sunk in poverty, or worn by disease, seek in vain for consolation, or sympathy. The intention of the Society is to administer relief, without distinction of profession, of country, or of religion, to such indigent and distressed strangers, who may unfortunately be found in a city like this, the emporium of commerce and the favoured seat of the arts and sciences. The object of the Society, is to assist those who are not entitled to parochial relief; and also such as, having obtained a settlement in this country, may have a legal claim to a bare subsistence from a parish: to both descriptions relief will be given, as circumstances may require; and where the Society judges it proper, the indigent will be provided with the means of returning to their own country. The Secretary is Charles Murray, Esq. Bedford Row, Holborn. UNFORTUNATE FEMALES. There is no man whose heart is not absolutely inaccessible to a sense of human misery, but has contemplated with the deepest compassion, the number and condition of those unfortunate females with which our metro the sex. polis abounds. Ingratitude, and of the deepest dye, thank God, not generally to be found among men, can alone undervalue felicities which attend the society of the virtuous part of the sex; and the consideration of what those individuals might have been whose depravities degrade them to a different character, had they never departed from the paths of virtue, must affect every mind endued with sensibility. It would be for our honour were every woman honourable; for our virtue, were every woman virtuous; how many are lost to society who in the various domestic offices of life, as wives or as mothers, or in the various stations and ranks of the community, might diffuse joy and gladness, might alleviate the sorrows of distress, might smooth the bed of pain, and honourably discharge those hourly tendernesses for which God and nature have so eminently qualified The contrast of what might be compared with what actually is, engages the finer feelings of the mind, and calls the best passions of our nature into exercise. And if, extending our view beyond the present life, as becomes rational creatures, we consider this temporary scene as a passage to eternity;—what is our duty in regard to our fellow-creatures, concerning whom it is no breach of charity to fear the very worst? Every argu ment which might be addressed to the man of sense, to the man of benevolence, to the true patriot, to the genuine christian, unites to impress the importance of whatever has a tendency to alleviate the sufferings which distinguish these most calamitous cases of vice and misery; it is therefore with sincere pleasure we learn that a plan for the relief of unfortunate females is under the consideration of sundry respectable persons, and will, when matured, be submitted to the Public at a general meeting. In the mean time any sugges tions on the subject will be thankfully received by Joseph Reyner, Esq. Old Swan Stairs, or T. Pellatt, Esq. Ironmonger's Hall. FREE CHAPEL RE-OPENED. On Sunday, Sept. 7, was re-opened, having been shut up for repairs, the Free Chapel in West-street, St. Giles's. As institutions of this kind are, in our opinion, calculated for great public benefit, we shall hereafter resume the subject. The object of this Chapel reflects great honour on the Rev. W. Gurney, the Minister appointed thereto by the Rector of the Parish and licensed by the Bishop of the Diocese; on the benevolent Founder, who supports it solely by an annual donation of 50 guineas; and on the poor, for whom 450 seats are reserved gratis, who attend with apparent devotion and regularity. POETRY. ON THE PARATOUT. Blow as ye list, ye winds fantastic, blow! The veriest malice of the inclement skies, Beneath this silken covert safe remain, And winters storm, and summers scorch in vain. When fashion's crowds in gay disorder meet, The silken folds cntract and courtsey at command. And when the circle of the fair retire Count O, a Polish emigrant, who resides at Hamburgh, lately entering his apartment, perceiving his only son, who is about seven years of age, fast asleep, wrote the following little piece in French, and requested M. Ganganelli to render it in Tuscan verse, which the Count immediately get to music. We trust we shall not disoblige our readers by inserting the French and presenting them with the elegant Italian translation, at the same time returning thanks to our Continental correspondent. Dors en paix, heureux enfant, fruit du plus tendre amour, douce consolation de tes parens. Puisses-tu être plus heureux que ceux qui t'ont donné le jour! Ah! dormi, o tenero Fanciullo amato; Dormi, o delizia, Dei genitor! * A late ingenious invention of Mr. Barnett of Birmingham, which, by a simple spring, may be converted from an elegant parasol, to a fan, a fire skreen, or shade for reading.-It may likewise be used as a parapluie, and paravent. VICTORY IN CALABRIA. London Gazette Extraordinary, Sept. 5, 1806. Downing Street. September 4, 1806.-A dispatch has been this day received by the Rt. Hon. Wm. Windham, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, from Major-Gen. Sir John Stuart, commanding his Majesty's troops in Calabria, of which the following is a copy: Camp on the Plain of Maida, July 6, 1806. Sir, It is with the most heartfelt satisfaction that I have the honour of reporting to you, for the information of his Majesty, the particulars of an action, in which the French army quartered in this province has sustained a signal defeat by the troops under my command.-General Regnier, having been apprised of our disembarkation at St. Eufemia, appears to have made a rapid march from Reggio, uniting, as he advanced, his detached corps, for the purpose of attacking, and with his characteristic confidence, of defeating us. On the afternoon of the 3d inst., I received intelligence that he had that day encamped near Maida, about ten miles distant from our position, that his force consisted at the moment of about 4000 infantry and 300 cavalry, together with 4 pieces of artillery, and that he was in expectation of being joined within a day or two by 3000 more troops who were marching after him in a second division. I determined therefore to advance towards his position, aad, having left 4 companies of Watteville's reg. under Maj. Fisher to protect the stores, and occupy a work which had been thrown up at our landing place, the body of the army marched the next morning according to the following detail. Advanced Corps.-Lieut. Col. Kempt, with 2 four-pounders.-Light inf. battalion; Detachment royal Corsican rangers; Detachment royal Sicilian volunteers. 1st Brigade-Brig. Gen. Cole, with 3 fourpounders. Grenadier battalion; 27th regt. 2d Brigade-Brig. Gen. Ackland, with 3 fourpounders. 78th and 81st regt. 3d Brigade-Col. Oswald, with 2 four-pounders. 58th regt. Watteville's regt., 5 companies; and 20th regt. Lieut. Col. Ross, landed during the action. Reserve of Artillery-Major Lemoine. 4 sixpounders and 2 howitzers. Total.-Rank and file including royal artil lery, 4795. General Regnier was encamped on the side of a woody hill, below the village of Maida, sloping into the plain of St. Eufemia; his flanks were strengthened by a thick impervious underwood. The Amato, a river perfectly fordable, but of which the sides are extremely marshy, ran along his front; my approa h to him from the sea side (along the borders of which, I directed my march, until I had nearly turned his left was across a spacious plain, which gave him every opportunity of minutely observing my movements. -- After some loose firing of the flankers to cover the deployements of the two armies, by nine o'clock in the morning the opposing fronts were warmly engaged, when the prowess of the rival nations seemed now fairly to be at trial before the world, and the superio - rity was greatly and gloriously decided to be our own. The corps which formed the right of the advanced line, was the battalion of light inf. commanded by Lieut. Col. Kempt, consisting of the light companies of the 20th, 27th, 35th, 58th, 61st, 81st, and Watteville's together with 150 chosen battalion men of the 35th regt. under Major Robinson. Directly opposed to them, was the favourite French regt the 1re Légère. The two corps at the distance of about 100 yards fired reciprocally a few rounds, when, as if by mutual agreement, the firing was suspended, and in close compact order and awful silence, they advanced towards each other, until their bayonets began to cross. At this momentous crisis the enemy became appalled. They broke, and endeavoured to fly, but it was too late; they were overtaken with the most dreadful slaughterBrig. Gen. Ackland, whose brigade was immediately on the left of the light inf. with great spirit availed himself of this favorable moment to press instantly forward upon the corps in his front; the brave 78th regt commanded by Lieut. Col. Macleod, and the 81st regt. under Major Penderleath, both distinguished themselves on this occasion. The enemy fled with dismay and disorder before them, leaving the plain covered with their dead and wounded.--The enemy being thus completely discomfited on their left, began to make a new effort with their right, in the hopes of recovering the day. They were resisted most gallantly by the brigade under Brig. Gen. Cole. Nothing could shake the undaunted firmness of the grenadiers under Lieut. Col. O'Callaghan, and of the 27th regt. under Lieut. Col. Smith. The cavalry, successively repelled from before their front, made an effort to turn their lett, when Lieut. Col. Ross, who had that morning landed from Messina with the 20th regt., and was coming up to the army during the action, having observed the movement, threw his regt. opportunely into a small cover upon their flank, and by a heavy and well directed fire, entirely disconcerted this attempt.-This was the last feeble struggle of the enemy, who now, astonished and dismayed by the intrepidity with which they were assailed, began precipitately to retire, leaving the field covered with carnage. Above 700 bodies of their dead have been buried upon the ground.-The wounded and prisoners already in our hands (among which are Gen. Compère, and an aid-de-camp, the lieut. col of the Swiss regt, and a long list of officers of dif ferent ranks) amount to above 1000. There are also above 1000 men left in Monteleone and the different posts between this and Reggio who have mostly notified their readiness to surrender, whenever a British force shall be sent to receive their submission, and to protect them from the fury of the people.-The peasantry are hourly bringing in fugitives, who dispersed in the woods and mountains after the battle. In short, never bas the pride of our presumptuous enemy been more severely humbled, nor the superiority of the British troops more gloriously proved, than in the events of this memorable day.-His Majesty may, perhaps, still deign to appreciate more highly the achievements of this little army, when it is known that the second division which the enemy had been expecting had all joined |