7,000 ..... with Auxiliaries in Leipsic, Herrnbut, &c. German and Wendish Bibles. 42 Swedish, 1809; enlarged 1814 with its Auxiliaries at Gotheburg, Westeras, Wisby, Lund, Upsala, Askersund, Hernosand, Skara, Carlstadt, and Wexio. Swedish Bibles and Testa 13,000 ments, on standing types. 27,000 62,006 43 Norwegian 1815 10,000 44 Danish .1805 18 Nassau-Homburg .... 1816 .1816 ..1816 60,000 10,000 .1815 ...... ..1814 10,000 29 Lubeck (City of)......1814 30 Eutin, for the Princi pality of Lubeck....1817 31 Lauenburg-Ratzeburg 1816 32 Mecklenburg-Schwerin, ib. 33 Rostock 34 Brunswick 35 Berlin .1816 Previous to the establishment of this Institution, 5,000 Bibles, and 3,000 Testaments, were printed for the use of Icelanders, by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and 2,000 of the latter by the Society at Fuhnen. 46 Sleswick-Holstein....1817 with many important Auxiliaries. 47 Rendsburg ........1817 48 Finnish, at Abo......1812 Finnish Bibles and Testaments, on standing types.. It is in contemplation to form Auxiliary Societies and Bible Associations througàout Finland. 49 Polish, at Warsaw.... 1816 50 Russian, at St. Petersh. 1813 with its Auxiliaries at Moscow, Dorpat, Mittau, Riga, Revel, Yaroslaff, Arensburg, Vorouez, Kamentz-Podolsk, Theodosia, Tula, Sympheropole, Odessa, Cronstadt, Wilna, Moghiley, Witepsk, Grodno, Minsk, Kostroma, Astrachan, Pscow, Pensa, Charkow, Saratow, Simbirk, Resan, Taganrog, Bialastock, Tobolsk, Tcherkask, Wiatka, Kiew, Pernam, Twer, and Kasan. 5,000 5,000 flattering testimony of his merits: and in particular for a complete survey he had made of the harbour of Port Phillip, and for his examination of the adjacent coast and surrounding country. He was also furnished by the Lieutenant Governor with letters of recommendation to Sir Joseph Banks. He reached England in 1804, and published an account of the voyage. can make me." He married in 1806, a fellow prisoner, Miss Margaret Stuart, daughter of the commander of a ship in the East India Company's service, at Bengal. She also had been taken by the Rochefort squadron, on her passage in a packet to join her father in India. Various applications were made at different times, for the exchange of Mr. Tuckey; but they proved fruitless, and he was doomed to remain a prisoner during the war: a sad consequence of that implacable spirit of hatred which actuated the ruler of France, and made him careless alike of the lives of his own, and of his enemy's prisoners! How many fair prospects were blighted and destroyed by the unfeeling obstinacy of this disturber of Europe! Lieutenant Tuckey was one of about forty lieutenants of the navy, who had cause to execrate the brutal inhumanity of the man, who for so many years tyrannized over France, and the greater part of the continent of Europe; those who had the misfortune of falling into his clutches, felt themselves at once cut off from every hope of advancement in their profession, and many fell the victims of despair. Not so, however, with Lieutenant Tuckey. But the favourable testimonies he had He still kept up his spirits, and encouraged received were rendered abortive by the hope, being, as he expressed himself, on capture of the Calcutta in 1805, on her another occasion, "by no means addicted homeward voyage from St. Helena (whither to contemplate the dark side of events: she had been sent to bring home some but as cheerful and happy as the possession ships under her convoy) and by an impri-o health, ease, and a satisfied disposition sonment of nearly nine years in France. For the preservation of a valuable convoy entrusted to his charge, Captain Woodriff, with a conduct which, as truly stated by the Members of the Court martial, was "that of an experienced, brave, and meritorious officer," determined to sacrifice the Calcutta to the safety of his convoy, by first manœuvering so as to draw the attention of the enemy to one point; and, with this view, he offered engagement to the whole squadron of the enemy from Rochefort, one of which was a threedecker, and four others of the line. After a sort of running fight with l'Armide, the Magnanime came up, and this ship of the line he engaged for fifty minutes, frequently within pistol shot. By this time the Calcutta was unrigged and unmanageable, and had six of her crew killed and six wounded; and the Thetis frigate coming up close under her stern, Captain Woodriff was under the painful necessity of striking his colours; but the whole of his valuable convoy effected their escape. Captain Woodriff, after an imprisonment of eighteen months, was exchanged for a French officer of equal rank, but Lieut. Tuckey was kept till the termination of the war. The Court martial held for the loss of the ship "most honourably acquitted Captain Woodriff, his officers and ship's company;" and on this occasion the Captain delivered a paper to the court, which was as follows: "I cannot, Mr. President and Members of this Honourable Court, omit to express to you, how much I regret that the captivity of Lieutenant Tuckey, late first of His Majesty's ship Calcutta, should be a bar to the promotion he so highly merits; his courage, cool intrepidity, and superior abilities as a seamen and an officer, entitle him to my warmest gratitude, and render him most worthy of the attention of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.” | In 1810, after considerable difficulties, and repeated refusals, Mr. Tuckey obtained permission for his wife to visit England, for the purpose of looking after his private affairs. Her object being accomplished, she obtained passports from the French government to return to her husband, and was landed at Morlaix; but counter-orders had been received at this port, and she was detained? and after many unsuccessful memorials, praying to be allowed to rejoin Mr. Tuckey at Verdun, and after a detention of six weeks, she was sent back to England. We have here another instance, in addition to the many on record, of the capricious cruelty of Bonaparte, which was equally exercised on either sex: and let it not be said by his advocates-strange, that such a man should find advocates, especially among Englishmen-that he knew nothing of such counter-orders. So it was said, with equal truth, in regard to the detention of Captain Flinders; for it is well known that, in all matters relating to the British prisoners, his ministers stirred not a step without his special directions. On the advance of the allied armies into France, in 1814, the British prisoners were ordered at a moment's warning into the interior; and Mr. Tuckey, with his two little boys, was obliged to travel, in the most inclement weather he ever experienced, to Blois. His youngest son was taken ill on the journey, and fell a victim to fatigue and sickness. "I had, indeed," says the father, “a hard trial with my little boy, for after attending him day and night | for three weeks, (he had no mother, no servant, no friend, but me to watch over him,) I received his last breath, and then had not only to direct his interment, but also to follow him to the grave, and recommend his innocent soul to his God; this was indeed a severe trial, but it was a duty, and I did not shrink from it." Another severe trial was reserved for him, on his return to his family in England, on the final discomfiture of Bonaparte; he had the misfortune to lose a fine child, a girl, of seven years of age, in consequence of her clothes taking fire, after lingering se veral days in excruciating agony. During his long imprisonment in France, Mr. Tuckey suffered considerably from tedious and harrassing illness, aggravated by the cruel reflectiou, that the prime of his life was rapidly passing away, without the possibility of any exertion of his talents being employed for the benefit of himself, or his growing family. In the intervals of sickness, besides the education of his children, which was to him a source of pleasure and constant employment, his chief amusements were reading and composition. Severe as his fate was, he possessed a mind of too vigorous and active a turn to allow his spirits to siuk under his unmerited misfortunes; the painful moments of his long imprisonment found some relief, in the laborious compilation and composition of a professional work, "undertaken to pass away the tedious hours of a hopeless captivity, alike destructive of present happiness, and future prospects." This work was published in Eugland, shortly after his return, in four octavo volumes, under the title of "Maritime Geography, and Statistics." It takes a comprehensive view of the various phenomena of the ocean, the description of coasts and islands, and of the seas that wash them; the remarkable headlands, har bours, and port towns; the several rivers that reach the sea, and the nature and extent of their inland navigations that communicate with the coasts The information thus collected is drawn from the latest and best authorities; to which is added his own "local and professional knowledge, acquired in the navigation of the seas that wash the four quarters of the globe." A brief view is also taken of the history and state of the foreign and coasting trade of the colonies; the state of the home and foreign fisheries; of the national, and mercantile marine; and generally of all maritime establishments and regulations. It is a work of useful reference, and one that may safely be recommended for general information. In August 1814, Mr. Tuckey was promoted by Lord Melville to the rank of commander: and in the following year, on hearing the intention of Government to send an expedition to explore the river Zaire, he made an application, with several other officers, to be appointed to that service; his claims and his abilities were unquestionable; he had stored his mind with so much attention to the subject of nautical discovery and river navigation, that he was considered as most eligible for the undertaking; but his health appeared delicate: he was, however, so confident that his constitution would improve by the voyage, and in a warm climate, and urged his wishes so strongly, that the Lords of the Admiralty conferred on him the appointment. How far his zeal and qualifications were suited to the undertaking, his Journal will furnish the best proof. That document is now given to the public, just as it came from the hands of its author. Not a sentence has been added or suppressed, nor has the least alteration been made therein, beyond the correction perhaps of some trifling error in grammar or orthography. The information it contains must have been procured under very unfavourable circumstances. Had he been permitted to penetrate further into the interior, or to return at leisure, and in health, from the farthest point even to which he ascended, his account of the country would have been much the more complete; but his zeal to accomplish the object of the expedition had completely exhausted him, and brought on the return of a disorder to which he had long been subject: still he held out to the last; and there is very little doubt, that if the accident which happened to his baggage canoe had not put an end to every possibility of his proceeding much farther up the river, that he would have gone on till he had sunk under sickness and fatigue, and left his remains in the interior of the country. On the 17th September he reached the Congo sloop, and the following day, for the sake of better accommodation, was sent down to the Dorothy transport, at the Tall Trees. He arrived in a state of extreme ex haustion, brought on by fatigue, exposure to the weather, and privations. He had no fever nor pain in any part of the body; the pulse was small and irritable; the skin at times dry, at others clammy, but never exceeding the temperature of health. On the 28th he thought himself better, and wholly free from pain, but shewed great irritability, which was kept up by his anxiety concerning the affairs of the expedition. On the 30th the debility, irritability, and depression of spirits, became extreme, and he now expressed his conviction, that all attempts to restore the energy of the system would prove ineffectoal. From this time to the 4th, when he expired, his strength gradually failed him, but during the whole of his illness, he had neither pain nor fever; and he may be said to have died of complete exhaustion, rather than of disease. He had deceived himself, it seems, by the confidence which he felt in the strength of his constitution. The surgeon states that, since leaving England, he never joyed good health, the hepatic functions being generally in a deranged state; yet he was always unwilling to acknowledge en himself an invalid, and refused to take such medicines as were deemed at the time to be essentially necessary. On his march into the interior, the symptoms became much aggravated, and he was prevailed on by Doctor Smith, to take some calomel; afterwards opium was found necessary, and lastly, the bark. The few survivors of this ill-fated expedition will long cherish the memory of Captain Tuckey, of whom Mr. Fitzmaurice, the master, who succeeded to the command, observes, in reporting his death, -“in him the uavy has lost an ornament, and its seamen a father. But his beuevolence was not confined to the profession of which he was so distinguished a member. A poor black of South Africa, who, in his youth, had been kidnapped by a slave dealer, was put on board the Congo, while in the Thames, with the view of restoring bim to his friends and country, neither of which turned out to be in the neighbourhood of the Zaire, and he was brought back to England. This black was pub licly baptized at Deptford church, by the name of Benjamin Peters; having learned to read on the passage out by Captain Tuckey's instructions, of whom he speaks in the strongest terms of gratitude and af fection. He was generous to a fault. A near relation observed, "that a want of sufficient economy, and an incapability of refusal to open his purse to the necessities VOL. VIII. No. 46. Lit. Pan, N.S. July 1. of others, have been the cause of many of the difficulties which clouded the prospects of his after life," that " he knew nothing of the value of money, except as it enabled him to gratify the feelings of a benevolent heart." In his person Captain Tuckey was tall, and must once have been handsome; but his long residence in India had broken down his coustitution, and, at the age of thirty, his hair was gray, and his head nearly bald; his countenance was pleasing, but wore rather a pensive cast; but he was at all times gentle and kind in his manners, cheerful in conversation, and indulgent to every one placed under his command. In him it may be fairly said, the profession has lost an ornament, his country has been deprived of an able, enterprising, and experienced officer, and his widow and children have sustained an irreparable loss. IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING. The following communication from the ingenious patentee of some very important improvements in printing presses, and in other matters connected with the typographical art, demands all the publicity which we can give to it, and is eminently worthy of public attention. To the Editor of the Literary Panorama. SIR, Of all improvements in Mechanics the first object must undoubtedly be, to effect by a method as good or better than at present in use, the same purpose at a Reduced Expense: but in doing this, too little consideration has, in most cases, been had for those who have generally been doomed to suffer to an extent proportionate to the success of the Invention; namely, the Jourueymen;-who, having been brought up and attached to a business by seven years servitude for the benefit of the masters and their employers, have at least a moral claim to a share of support from their trade while it has an existence-what is now offered is free from this serious objection to the introduction and encouragement of more Machinery at a time when Trade and Manufactures are suffering under a state of universal depression; and therefore one very valuable property of the present Invention is, that the object is attained, not by mechanical power alone, but aided by the industry and judgment of laborious workmen, in their prope vocation. The main object however to be attained 2 A is, Reduction of Expense ;-and this I undertake to effect to full as great an extent as the Steam Engine Press, and still to employ the regular Journèymeu and Apprentices; yielding at the same time equal Wages to them aud Profit to the Master, as heretofore and all this, not only without in any degree sacrificing the quality of the Work, but on the contrary perform ing it in a superior manner. can be instantly adapted either to the smallest or largest pages required; and which, although of little weight, will, from their construction, so effectually resist all pressure that can possibly be applied, that (supposing the Plate once made perfect in uniform thickness,) no possibility remains of one part ever printing fainter than another from any defect in the mounting; which is the usual case where wood The operation consists in the working (which will alternately expand or contract off both formes (or sides) of a (single) sheet as more or less subjected to moisture) forms at one time, and with one impression, up- Profession will be supplied with this article any material part of the apparatus. The on Paper of double size, viz. Double Roy- of my Patent, independent of the forego. al, Demy, Crown, Post, Fooscap, &c., by ing, at a trifling expense when compared the means of a Printing Press of adequate with that of procuring the metal blocks dimension; and by the same action, without any increase of labour, time, or motion, commonly used; which, being provided at the moment the impression is given to for the various-sized pages occurring in the the paper, it is divided to the usual size of routine of business, must be of serious single Royal, Demy, &c.; and this with amount, particularly when of the best such undeviated precision of line parallel workmanship, and turned with any degree to the pages, as no cutting by the most of accuracy. By the proper application careful hand can ever attain to. The apsured for the whole work, without the of my Risers, PERPETUAL REGISTER is iuparatus may be affixed, at pleasure, to a common royal size press, which may thus, upon the same principle, be made to work (and cut) double foolscap: the divisions may be carried still further for cutting into three, four, six, eight, &c, parts. Auother most important benefit gained by this Plan, is, that the Work will admit of every graduation and quality of printing (with a proportionate degree of saving), from the most economical, to the most splendid, in Paper, Ink, and Workmanship: and that at no greater risk of making waste paper, spoiling the work, or giving short numbers, than the usual mode of the best press-work. It only remains to give a general idea of the advantage upon the article of PRESSWORK which this Patent will afford to the Trade, and the Public:-namely, upon Demy, Crown, &c. the saving will be from TWENTY to TWENTY-FIVE per cent.-upon Foolscap, THIRTY to FORTY per cent. The effecting, by the same number of hands, a greater quantity of work in a given time, may often be of equal, or even more, importance as the saving of expense. Having at the present time some Works in hand printing by the Patent Apparatus, ample demonstration can be given of the effect and certainty of its operation. Another improvement, worthy of attention, is the Patent Stereotype-Plate Riser. The Patent embraces some material improvements in the mode of blocking, or mounting Stereotype Plates to the neces sary height for printing, by materials which least trouble to the Pressmen. I can therefore undertake the working of Stereotype Plates at a still farther reduction from the apply to Works kept standing, where the usual rate; and the same principle will Type is the property of the Bookseller, &c The Patent includes some other Improvements in the machinery and process of Printing; viz-CHASES, necessary to obviate the inconvenience of excessive size of Double formes-GIRTHS, with which the most heavy Press can be run in and out with the greatest ease-COVERING and VELVET-PLATING, for the Tympans, to give a clear and soft Impression, &c.; but these things being more of technical than public utility, I have thought the enrolled Specification the only place for inserting particulars. · T. C. HANSARD. AMUSEMENTS AT VIENNA. [From Bright's Travels.] The Prater, the Hyde Park of Vienna, is situated on a large island formed by the Danube, and is a very magnificent ornament to the city, and a delightful place of recreation for its inhabitants. The principal drive is between double rows of horse-chesnut trees, and is above two miles long in a straight line. Many other drives and walks intersect the woods, but all the intervening space of turf and |