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Thus o'er the Catalogue of taste they pore,
For names which never were in print before;
And when they give a dinner, sure 'tis fair
To tell the town and country who were there-
Yet all that darling pleasure would be miss'd,
If the kind host did not supply the list.

I thought to go-but there the Author stands
With eager eyes and supplicating hands,
Making a hundred signs, for me to say,
He wishes you'd come often to his play:
Do so and when the house is overflowing,
The trembling Bard shall own-to Me 'tis owing:
Let him bring ladies-I'll secure each beau,
For there's my card-where gentlemen may know
That here, to-morrow night, from seven to ten,
Mrs. H. I. SEES COMPANY again.

After a pause.

Thus having finished all my flippant part,
I now must speak the dictates of my heart.
Each smile I wore, conceal'd a half-check'd tear
Which long'd to flow on NELSON'S honour'd bier I
At that lov'd name each bosom heaves a sigh,
And drops of sorrow fall from ev'ry eye!
His mighty arm, at one tremendous blow,
Hurl'd Britain's Thunder on his Country's foe;
But in the midst of his resistless fire,

His conquering fleet beheld their Chief expire!
Though England's ships in awful triumph ride,
With shatter'd navies captive by their side,
The tidings FAME with muffled trumpet brings,
And VICTORY mourns his loss in sable wings!
"Britons" she cries," though now my bosom bleeds,
Your naval sons shall emulate his deeds;

Thus shall his spirit, rising from his grave,
Make future NELSONS triumph on the wave."

T. Gillet, Printer, Salisbury-Square.

printed for LONGMAN, hurst, rees, and orme,

Paternoster-Row.

I.

SECOND EDITION.

This day is published, in Quarto, Price 18s. in boards, the SECOND EDITION of Part I. (Parts II. to X. may also be had either periodically, or together; and the succeeding Parts will be published with an accelerated expedition till the whole Work be completed) of

THE

NEW CYCLOPEDIA;

OR,

UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY

OF

ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE: Formed upon a more enlarged Plan of Arrangement than the Dictionary of Mr. Chambers; comprehending the various Articles of that Work, with Additions and Improvements; toge, ther with the new subjects of Biography, Geography, and History; and adapted to the present state of Literature and Science. By ABRAHAM REES, D.D. F.R.S.

Editor of the last Edition of Mr. Chambers's Dictionary; with the assistance of eminent professional Gentlemen.

Illustrated with new Plates, including Maps, engraved for the Work by some of the most distinguished Artists.

The FIRST EDITION of this Work consisted of 5000 copies, and a SECOND EDITION of all the early Parts being called for in this early stage of its publication, an adequate idea may be formed of the estimation in which it is held by the Public. The following are its principal recommendations:

1. The Plan of this Work is intended as an improvement upon similar Publications, being a Medium between the Plan of a Dictionary and that of Treatises; and comprehending the Advantages of each. The History and Outlines of each Science are given under its appropriate Title; and its various Divisions, which can be more satisfactorily explained in separate articles than in the Body of a Treatise, are introduced under their respective Terms. This is indeed the only proper Plan of a Dictionary intended for Reference when Information is required,

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REES'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA.

which is expected to be found under its most ready and familiar Term in the Alphabet.

2. The Editor is of acknowledged Learning and Industry, and of unquestionable Experience in this Department of literary Labour; the greater Part of his Life having been employed in editing and improving the last Edition of Mr. Chambers's Dictionary, and in collecting Materials for the present Work.

3. Among the Gentlemen, who have engaged to contribute their Assistance to this Work, are many of distinguished Eminence, as will appear from the following List:

J. ABERNETHY, Esq. F.R.S.;
Mr. ARTHUR AIKIN;

C. R. AIKIN, Esq ;
Mr. E. AIKIN;

THOMAS BATEMAN, M.D.;
R. BLAND, M.D. A.S.S.;
C. BURNLY, MUS.D. F.R.S.;
WILLIAM BLAIR, Esq. A.M.;
Mr. JOHN BONNYCASTLE;
Mr. BRITTON;

ASTLEY COOPER, Esq. F.R.S.;
Mr. BRACY CLARK, F.L.S. Ve-
terinary Surgeon;
Rev. W. CROWE;

Mr. E. DONOVAN, F.L.S.;
R. W. DICKSON, M.D.;
HUMPHREY DAVY, Esq.;
Mr. HENRY ELLIS;
JOHN FLAXMAN, Esq. R.A.;
Mr. FLETCHER, Lecturer at the
Royal Institution;
JAMES GLENIE, F.R.S.

Rev. Mr. HINCKS, of Cork;

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H. HOWARD, R.A.
Mr. P. KELLY;

Mr. JOHN LESLIE, Professor of
Mathematics in the College
of Edinburgh;

WM. MORGAN, Esq. F.R.S.;
JAMES MACARTNEY, Esq.;
Mr. MUSHETT, Calder Iron
Works;

A. MACKAY, LL.D. F.R.S.ED.;
GEORGE NAYLERS F.R.S. York
Herald;

Mr. PETER NICHOLSON;
JOHN OPIE, Esq. R.A.';
RICHARD PEARSON, M. D.'

F.S.A.;

Mr. W. SYMONDS;

Rev. WILLIAM TOOKE, F.R.3.;
SHARON TURNER, Esq. F.S.A.;
Mr. CHARLES Taylor, Society
of Arts;

Mr. J. THOMSON; and
The Rev. W. WOOD, F.L.S.;

and the List is continually augmenting, no opportunity being neglected to engage the Co-operation of any Gentleman whose Services can be of real Utility.

4. The Work is handsomely printed by ANDREW STRAHAN, Esq. Printer to His Majesty, upon a fine yellow woven Paper.

5. The Embellishments are of a very superior Description, and will form, when completed, an incomparably more elegant and correct Set of scientific and other Plates than has ever been produced. The scientific Subjects are engraved by Mr. LowR¥, whose accurate Knowledge and improved Method of Execution, in this branch of the Art, have not been equalled. The Subjects of Natural History, &c. are chiefly engraved by Mr. MILTON and Mr. Scorr, with corresponding Taste and Beauty.

6. The Drawings are almost wholly new; the Plates which are already engraved are from Drawings by Messrs. FLAXMAN,

HOWARD, STUBBS, LOWRY, EDWARDS, DONOVAN, SOWERBY,
STRUTT, MUSHETT, E. AIKIN, P. NICHOLSON, DANIEL, NAY.
LER, ANDERSON, KIRKMAN, &c.

7. The Maps will be double the size usually given in similar Publications, and are drawn and engraved under the Direction of Mr. ARROWSMITH.

8. A Part, or Half Volume, price 18s. each, has hitherto been published once in about four Months; and, in consequence of some Arrangements lately adopted, the Public may with confi dence rely upon a more frequent Publication.

9. A few Copies are printed off on royal Paper, with proof Impressions of the Plates, Price 17. 16s. each Part.

10. The following are among the instructive and entertaining Articles in the Parts already published:

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