TO SUBSCRIBERS. THE twelfth number of this work, which completes the second volume, is this day offered to the publick. The editors beg permission to present their thanks for the patronage which they have received. They have endeavoured to merit it by using all the means which occurred to them for gratifying the various tastes of their readers. The increasing list of subscribers, while it shows that their exertions have not been wholly unsuccessful, will incite them to new labours. The first number of the third volume will be published on the first of January 1810, on a new type, cast expressly for the < work. ✔ Subscribers and agents will please, as heretofore, to address their orders upon any point relative to the pecuniary concerns of the establishment, to the publishers, Messrs. Hopkins and Earle, who have renewed their engagement to manage the sale of the work for the proprietors. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. NUMBER VIL REVIEWS. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney, The last years of the Reign and Life of Louis XVI. Fragments in Prose and Verse. By a young Lady, lately deceased, Historical Account of the Campaign of Buonaparte in Italy, PAGE ibid ibid PHILOSOPHICAL AND ECONOMICAL INTELLIGENCE. Method of preserving Fruit without Sugar, for Home Use or Sea Stores, Patent for a new Method of manufacturing Umbrellas, Parasols, &c. The French Mode of Fining or Clarifying Wine, Use of the Aloe in the East Indies, Proposed Alteration in the Scale of the Thermometer, Periodical Accounts relative to the Baptist Missionary Society, Bingley's Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, |