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FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF LONDON,
Established 1805,

for Insurance from FIRE, throughout Great Britain and Ireland, and in foreign Coun. tries; for the Insurance of LIVES;-and for the granting of ANNUITIES.

CAPITAL-ONE MILLION.

The DIRECTORS beg to remind Persons whose Policies expire at CHRISTMAS, that their payments should be made within fifteen days from that period, at the Company's House, in CHANGE ALLEY, CORNHILL; or to some one of the Company's RESIDENTS in the Country.

Among other advantages, it will appear by the Company's Proposals,

that no charge is made for Policies, or Indorsements;

that a large and unprecedented Commission is allowed on Insurances on Lives;

that Life Insurances are not attended with admission fees, nor with any responsibility, on the part of the person insuring, to make good the losses of others;

and that a considerable deduction is made on the Premiums of Fire Insur

ances OUT OF LONDON, whether effected at the Company's principal Office, or with any of its Country Residents.

Attendance, daily, frome nine to four. By Order of the Board of Directors, 15 Dec. 1806. WARNER PHIPPS,

Secretary.

History of the Fine Arts, &c. and

Corsham House Guide.

This Day is published, Price 7s. 6d. royal 8vo.; 6s.edium 8vo. ; and 5s crown Svo. (the two former of which are intended to class or bind with the "Beauties of Wiltshire);"

An HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of CORSHAM HOUSE, in WILTSHIRE; The Seat of PAUL COBB METHUEN, Esq. with a Catalogue of his celebrated Col

lection of Pictures. Dedicated to the Patrons of the British Institution; and embracing a concise historical Essay on the FINE ARTS.

With a brief Account of the different Schools; and a Review of the progressive State of the Arts in England. Also Biographical Sketches of the Artists, whose Works constitute this Collection.

By JOHN BRITTON.

Embellished with a View and Plan of the House.

London: Printed for the AUTHOR and JOSEPH BARRETT, Bath. Sold by LONGMAN and Co. Paternoster Row; W. MILLER, Albemarle Street; J. TAYLOR, Holborn; also by all the Booksellers in Bath; by COOMBS, Chippenham; COLLINS, Salisbury, &c.

Sporting Magazine, Monthly, 1s. 6d.

On the 1st of January was published, embellished with an excellent Engraving of Lord Camelford's Dog TRUSTY, from a Drawing by Chalon, and a characteristic Representation of the Ride in a Stableyard, with shoeing a Horse, by the younger Sartorius, No. 11, Price 1s. 6d. of

The SPORTING MAGAZINE; or, Monthly Calendar of the Turf, the Chase, and every other Diversion interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, and Spirit:

Including Racing, Coursing, Shooting, Hunting, Hawking, Cocking, Fowling, Fishing, Sailing, Cricketing, Fencing, Ang ling, Duelling, Horsemanship, Farriery, Pugilism, Card-playing, Draughts, Pedestrian Exercises, Archery, Backgammon, Chess, Billiards, &c. &c. together with such other Occurrences as are entitled to the At tention of the Sporting Gentleman.

In this Work, besides the uniform Selection of interesting articles, upon the above and other subjects, two Copper-plates are given every month, with engraved Title-pages, &c. for each volume. Six Num. bers comprise a Volume; 28 Volumes were completed on the 1st day of October 1806; the 29th will be finished by the 31st of March 1807.

Complete sets, handsomely half-bound and lettered, may now be had, Price 10s. per Volume, or any single Volume or Number separately.

The number of Copper-plates that have been given in this Work, amount to between three and four hundred, nearly all on Sport. ing subjects.

The present Lord Chancellor Erskine, when at the bar, and pleading a cause, said,

that "a little mirth was good in these dull times." Those who read the Sporting Magazine (whether sportsmen or not) will find plenty to excite mirth, and with no small portion of information and amusement. "Whenever I am low-spirited," said a gentleman rather given to ennui, “I take down a volume of the Sporting Magazine, in which I am sure to find something to make me laugh, or at least to amuse and drive away the care with which my spirits were oppressed."

London: Printed for J. WHEBLE, Warwick Square; and sold by CHAPPLE, PallMall; BOOTH, Duke Street, Portland Place; and by all Booksellers in town and country.

Fathers of the English Church,
Monthly, Price 1s.

This Day is published, Price 1s, the first Number of the

FATHERS of the ENGLISH CHURCH; or, Selections from the Writings of the Reformers and early Divines of the English Protestant Church.

The Series will commence with the Works of Tindal, and a Number will continue to be published on the 1st of every succeeding Month, by JOHN HATCHARD, No. 190, Piccadilly; and sold by Messrs. RIVINGTONS, St. Paul's Churchyard, and J. B. SEELEY, Ave Maria Lane, London; and by PARKER, Oxford; DEIGHTON, Cambridge; and every other Bookseller in the United Kingdom.

Classical Library, Soho Square.

This Day is published, Price 28. A CATALOGUE of the CLASSICAL LIBRARY, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, for the Year 1807,

The Property of W. H. LUNN, Importer of Greek and Latin Books: Amongst them are, several in the Infancy of the typographical Art, and the best esteemed ancient and modern Editions of the Classics. Comprehending one of the most general Collections of Authors in the learned Languages that was ever exhibited for public Sale. They have been principally imported, at an unbounded Expense, from various Parts of the Continent. Some of them are most splendidly bound in Morocco, Turkey, and Russia Leather, by Kalthoeber, Hering, Staggemeier, Lewis, Walther, &c.

A liberal deduction from the prices affixed in the Catalogue will be made upon

large purchases; but the whole will be sold for ready money, without any exception. Animus si æquus, quod petis hic est.

HORACE.

Catalogues may be had as above; and of Mr. BARRETT, Bookseller, Cambridge; where may be seen a Collection of the best foreign Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, which, being the property of W. H. LUNN, are sold precisely on the same terms as at his Establishment in Soho Square.

W. H. LUNN has just imported many valuable Books from Germany, France, and Holland; but on account of all communication being stopped with the Continent, it will shortly be out of his power to supply the Public with articles now in his possession.

Classics, &c. edited by the late Rev.

H. HOMER.

The Proprietors have appointed Mr. LUNN their sole Agent in London for the purpose of disposing of the above Works at reduced prices. They are esteemed remarkable for their peculiar accuracy and elegance.

A List of them, with an ample Account of each Edition, &c. may be had, gratis, at the Classical Library.

Wilson's Eccentric Mirror.

LIVES and ACTIONS of EXTRAQRDINARY MEN and WOMEN, of all Ages and Nations. Illustrated by Portraits and other characteristic Engravings.

Neatly printed in 12mo. uniform with the "British Trident” and “ Naturalist's Cabinet," and illustrated by a whole-length Portrait of the celebrated Mr. DANIEL LAMBERT, from an original Painting, No. 1. (regularly continued every Saturday Morning until completed, Price 6d.) of the

ECCENTRIC MIRROR:

Reflecting a faithful Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern, who have been particularly distinguished by extraordinary Qualifications, Talents, and Propensities, natural or acquired. Comprehending singular Instances of Longevity, Conformation, Bulk, Stature, Powers of Mind and of Body, wonderful Exploits, Adventures, Habits, Propensities, enterprising Pursuits, &c. With a faithful Narration of every Instance of Singularity, manifested in the Lives and Conduct of Characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their Eccentrici

ties. The whole exhibiting an interesting and wonderful Display of Human Action in the grand Theatre of the World, Col. lected and re-collected from the most respectable Sources,

By G. H. WILSON.

Published by JAMES CUNDEE, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, London, and sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country.

W. KENT'S Catalogue of Sunday School Publications.

The YOUTH's MAGAZINE, or Evangelical Miscellany, published monthly at 3d. each, or 25 copics for 5s. The first volume, commencing Sept. 1804, and including Dec. 1806, with the Appendix, ornamented with plates, &c. neatly halfbound and lettered, 5s. 6d.

This publication, intended to promote the cause of real religion among the rising generation, is adapted to the use of young persons of different religious denominations, and will be found in its various departments of obituary, poetry, intelligence, miscellanies, &c. highly interesting and instruc

tive.

A PLAN for the Establishment and Regulation of SUNDAY SCHOOLS, with an Appendix, containing ruled forms of books for keeping a methodical account of the scholars, Price 2s. 6d.

A NEW INTRODUCTION to READING, or Sunday School Spelling, Part I. consisting of spelling and reading of words of one and two syllables, 11s. 6d. a hundred.

DITTO DITTO, Part II. consisting chiefly of selections from the Holy Scrip tures, designed for the higher classes, 34s. hundred.

"It may be justly said of this publication, that for usefulness, not only in that institu tion for which it is professedly designed, bat in a more enlarged sphere, it yields to none in judicious selection and arrangement. It not only contains multum in parvo, but (what is not always the case in publications of this sort) it has not any thing objectionable or superfluous."-Eclectic Review.

MILK for BABES, or a Catechism in Verse, 8s. 6d. hundred.

The foregoing articles are printed for the Sunday School Union.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARY, Part I. Price 1s. with good allowance to schools, consisting of the twelve monthly Sunday School Tracts, published in 1806, and stitched in blue paper, viz.

The History of Charles Crawford.
Sophia Carter.

An Account of Elizabeth Radden.

William Bryant, or the Folly of Superstitions Fears.

The History of Lucy Jones, Part I.
Ditto, Part II.

Natural History, or a View of Creation, Part I.

Ditto, Part II.

Lost Opportunity, or some Account of Robert Careless.

The Life of William Baker.
The Sunday Water Party.

Cottage Contentment.

The above are sold separate at id. cach, or 6s. hundred ;

And on the 1st of Jan. 1807, the 13th Number of the Series, entitled,

A NEW UNIVERSAL DREAM BOOK.

These Tracts, which are published on the first of every month, are allowed to be far superior to any yet printed for the use of children.

WATTS'S DIVINE SONGS, printed uniform with the Tracts, on good paper, &c. 2d. each, or 125. hundred.

WATTS's FIRST CATECHISM, in a similar manner, id. each, or 75. hundred. DITTO, Second ditto, ditto, 2d. each, or 12s. ditto.

WATTS'S SONGS, with Doddridge's Principies, neatly bound, 6d. each, or 325. hundred.

A TOKEN for CHILDREN, or an Account of the happy Death of Ann Tolleth; recommended by the Rev. J. Newton, ad. or 125. hundred.

MEMOIRS of LYDIA GLADMAN, late Teacher in a Sunday School, Southwark, ad. or 125. hundred, on fine paper 3d.

LAST TOKEN of AFFECTION from a SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER to the CHILDREN, 14d. each, or 10s. 6d. hund.

EARLY INŠTRUCTION RECOMMENDED, or a Narrative of the Life of Catharine Haldane, 2d. or 12s. hundred.

SCRIPTURE ALPHABET in PROSE and VERSE, 14d. or 10s, hundred.

SERMONS to CHILDREN, 6d. each, or 325. hundred.

The FRIENDS, or Edward and Joseph, 98. each.

NEW TOKEN for CHILDREN, by William Moseley, 6d. each.

of

WALWORTH COLLECTION HYMNS for CHILDREN and YOUNG PERSONS, 3d. or 21s. hundred.

LARGER COLLECTION for DITTO, by Joseph Benson, 1s. 6d: each.

SCRIPTURE CARDS, 12 hund. for 45. COPY BOOKS, ruled purposely for the Use of Sunday Schools, labelled, &c. 45. 38. dozen.

ALPHABETS on WOOD, 9d. dozeń, or 58. hundred.

The British Indian Monitor.

This Day is published, Price 21. boards, Vol. I. of

The BRITISH INDIAN MONITOR; or, The Antijargonist, Stranger's Guide, Oriental Linguist, and various other Works,

Compressed into aSeries of portable volumes, on the Hindoostanee Language, improperly called Moors; with considerable information respecting the Eastern Tongues, Manners, Customs, &c. &c. that precious time, and the voyage to the East Indies, may both be rendered agreeably subservient to the speedy acquisition of much useful knowledge on Indian affairs intimately connected with future health, fame, happiness, and Efortune, in that remote but promising portion of the British Empire. By the Author of Hindoostanee Philology, &c.

Published by MANNERS and MILLER, and A. CONSTABLE and Co. Edinburgh; and BLACK, PARRY, and KINGSBURY, No. 7, Leadenhall Street.

Domestic Cookery.

On the 1st of January will be published, in a neat and closely printed Volume, small Octavo, containing several very useful Plates, Price 7s. boards, a new Edition of A NEW SYSTEM of DOMESTIC COOKERY,

Formed upon Principles of Economy, and adapted to the Use of private Families. To which are prefixed, Miscellaneous Observations for the Use of the Mistress of a Family. The Whole tending to unite Ele gance with Economy, and to produce the same Appearance with less expensive Means.

This Edition is improved by the introduction of many excellent Receipts; and the Miscellaneous Observations, which form the principal novelty of this work,

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With 14 Prizes of 500l. and a great number of 100l. sol. &c. &c.

And in several former Lotteries the above Proprietors have shared and registered as follows,namely: 4 Prizes of 30,000l. 8 of 20,000l. 11 of 10,000l. 15 of 5,000l. 26 of 2,000l. and 54 of 1,000l.

Please to observe, there are more Capital Prizes in the present Lottery, which begins Drawing the 13th of this Month, than ever were in any former one, with only 25,000 Tickets, and the Price of Shares not so high as has been in several past Lotteries; therefore an early purchase is recommended.

No. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross.

T. BISH entreats the Public to peruse the Scheme of the present LOTTERY; it will be found to contain the usual number of Capital Prizes, with the addition of two Prizes of 30,000l. The last Prize of 30,000l. ever drawn was sold at his Offices, in Shares, where one Prize of 20,000l. two Prizes of 5,000l. and two Prizes of 500l. were sold in Shares, in the last Lottery, making 20 Capital Prizes sold by him in the last year.

Tickets and Shares are selling at the above Offices, in great variety; and the Public will please to notice, that no private Lottery will be decided by the present, which begins Drawing the 13th of this Month.

Present Price of a Ticket, 191. 165.—Half, rol.2s.-Quarter, 51.2s.-Eighth, 21.115.68. -Sixteenth, 11. 65.

* Persons in the Country may be supplied by sending up Post Office Ordert, Cash, or Bank Notes, either by Post or Coach.

Grand Scheme.

2 Prizes of 30,000l.—2 of 20,000).—2 of 10,000l.-3 of 5,000l.— 5 of 1,000l.—8 of sool. &c. &c.

SWIFT and Co.

No. 11, Poultry, and No. 12, Charing Cross, have on sale the Tickets and Shates of the above State Lottery, which begins Drawing on the 13th of this Month. In the last Lottery, No. 7,157, a Prize of 10,000l. No. 2, 104, a Prize of 1,000l. and No. 7,479, a Prize of 500l. were all shared, sold, and registered, at SWIFT and Co.'s Offices.

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The Records of Literature Hogarth's Original Works Burder's Oriental Customs

Flower's Political Review

Fathers of the English Church

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State Lottery

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Catalogue of the Classical Library 25
Classics, by the Rev. H. Homer

G. H. Wilson's Eccentric Mirror
Kent's Catalogue of Publications
The British Indian Monitor

Domestic Cookery

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