This is to give Notice,

That James Ashley has opened, on Ludgate Hill, the London Coffee House, Punch House, Dorchester Beer and Welsh Ale Warehouse, where the finest and best old Arrack, Rum, and French Brandy is made into Punch, with the other of the finest ingredients—­viz.: 

“A quart of Arrack made into Punch for six shillings; and so in proportion to the smallest quantity, which is half-a-quartern for fourpence halfpenny.

“A quart of Rum or Brandy made into Punch for four shillings; and so in proportion to the smallest quantity, which is half-a-quartern for threepence; and Gentlemen may have it as soon made as a gill of wine can be drawn.”

G.K.

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SIR WILLIAM JONES’S PLAN OF STUDY.

Some idea of the acquirements of the resolute industry with which Jones pursued his studies may be formed from the following memorandum:—­

“Resolved to learn no more rudiments of any kind, but to perfect myself in—­first, twelve languages, as the means of acquiring accurate knowledge of

  I. History.
  1.  Man 2.  Nature.

  II.  Arts.
  1.  Rhetoric. 2.  Poetry. 3.  Painting. 4.  Music.

  III.  Sciences.
  1.  Law. 2.  Mathematics. 3.  Dialectics.

“N.B.  Every species of human knowledge may be reduced to one or other of these divisions.  Even law belongs partly to the history of man, partly as a science to dialectics.  The twelve languages are Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, German, English.—­1780.”

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.

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SAILING UP THE ESSEQUIBO.

By Captain J.E.  Alexander, H.P., late 16th Lancers, M.R.G.S., &c.

My purpose was now to proceed up the noble Essequibo river towards the El Dorado of Sir Walter Raleigh, and view the mighty forests of the interior, and the varied and beautiful tribes by which they are inhabited.  Our residence on the island of Wakenaam had been truly a tropical one.  During the night, the tree frogs, crickets, razor-grinders, reptiles, and insects of every kind, kept up a continued concert.  At sunrise, when the flowers unfolded themselves, the humming birds, with the metallic lustre glittering on their wings, passed rapidly from blossom to blossom.  The bright yellow and black mocking-birds flew from their pendant nests, accompanied by their neighbours, the wild bees, which construct their earthen hives on the same tree.  The continued rains had driven the snakes from their holes, and on the path were seen the bush-master (cona-couchi) unrivalled for its brilliant colours, and the deadly nature of its poison; and the labari equally poisonous, which erects