THE LEEDS CORRESPONDENT, LITERARY, MATHEMATICAL, & PHILOSOPHICAL Miscellany; CONSISTING OF ORIGINAL POETRY AND ESSAYS; THEMES; LATIN AND FRENCH EXTRACTS FOR TRANSLATION; MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS Communicated by Gentlemen of Scientific Attainments, AND SOLD IN LONDON BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, 1815. PRICE SIX SHILLINGS, IN BOARDS WHEN the editor and proprietors of "The Leeds Correspondent" announced their intentions of publishing the work, they gave the following statement of their design, informing the public that "It is similar in its general plan, and in the subjects which it embraces, to the "Quarterly Visitor," a valuable miscellany now publishing at Hull, and to the " Enquirer," an excellent "literary, mathematical, and philosophical repository," ably conducted by Mr. Marrat, and published quarterly at Boston, till May last, when it was discontinued. While it bears a general resemblance to these, and others of the same description, it designedly varies from all of them in what its conductors consider to be a more commodious disposal of some parts of the materials. This difference is intended to make it more subservient, than the rest, to the purposes of education. "MERCENARY inducements have had no share in the motives which have actuated its proprietors in commencing it. Beyond the reimbursement of the expences which they incur, they look for nothing. Their aims, as to this particular, soar no higher: and with the realizing of these moderate expectations, they will be completely satisfied. "ALL of them known to the world by their labours in some branch of science or other, and the majority of them concerned in the instruction of youth, they have long been wishful for the establishment of a work like this, in their own immediate vicinity. They are more than persuaded,---they are fully convinced, of the possibility of carrying this their favourite wish into effect; especially when it is considered that Leeds, and the towns adjacent to it, are fruitful in genius, and abound with intelligent cultivators of the sciences. Many of the in habitants of these towns have long been bountiful contributors to works of deserved celebrity; and by their excellent writings, on various subjects, have procured to themselves a high literary reputation. The convenience of adepts like these, in literature, philosophy, and mathematics, has been consulted by the proprietors of this work, in the allotment of a sufficient space in it for the reception of their various productions.---At the same time, they have not been inattentive to the no less urgent and important wants of youthful students. For their accommodation, an ample place has been reserved; and youths are requested to fill it up with their contributions, not from the hopes of receiving any pecuniary reward. The only prize intended to be distributed, is the honourable, yet impartial mention of those, whose works are meritorious: this, in an ingenuous mind, will be a greater stimulus to action, than any other distinction that can be devised. They are desi red to remember, as they are their country's rising hopes, that their best friends expect the fulfilment from them of this elegant boast of our Poet,-- MAN is the nobler growth these realms supply, BARBAULD. "It was determined, on first modelling this miscellany, that six months should intervene between the stated periods of publication. This will allow a reasonable time to junior and other correspondents, for the preparation of translations, and of answers to the mathematical questions. To some persons, such a period may seem too long; and they may thence augur unfavourably concerning the interest, which such a work should always excite and endeavour to preserve: In arriving at a contrary conclusion to this, the proprietors had a greater regard to the permanent continuance of their undertaking, than to any partial, short-lived feeling, which a more rapid course of publication might create. "THEY would here remark, without conveying an oblique censure on any work of the like kind, that they have considered the questions, in the department intended for boys, as generally too difficult for those who cannot be looked upon as proficients in science. The works, in which such an oversight is found, seem calculated only for one generation. But since there is a regular succession of youths, in the schools for which this department is particularly designed, it is most consistent with an attempt at their instruction so to vary the questions, as always to afford a few of an abstruse nature for the more advanced pupils, and to suffer the remaining space to be occupi ed with those which are less difficult of solution, for commencing practitioners.---The same observations apply to the Ma thematical Department: By arriving too hastily at the almost ne plus ultra in these portions of the work, by far the greatest class of their readers have not appreciated their utility, and their sale has consequently declined, "SOME works of this nature have been blamed, and not without reason, for the free sentiments which they sometimes admit concerning our holy religion. "The Leeds Correspondent," though not professedly religious, shall neither be the vehicle of atheistical opinions, nor shall it afford cover to any sentiments attempting to undermine the foundations of true piety. It shall not be in the least accessary to the perversion of the best principles that may have been instilled into the susceptible minds of the rising generation. "THE proprietors, by this plain statement of their views, have no desire of indulging in an undue boast, respecting the concentration of talent in those who superintend the work. They wish merely to say, that they consider them fully competent for the undertaking. Neither would they be found arro gantly anticipating the longevity of their performance. To secure this object, however, it will be seen that they have |