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Main; and on the Expediency of a gradual and systematical Emancipation.

Considerations upon the Trade with India, and the Policy of continuing the Company's Monopoly. 4to. 7s. 6d. boards.

Thoughts on the present Crisis of our Domestic Affairs; by Another Lawyer. 2s. 6d. The Fallen Angels! a brief Review of the Measures of the late Administration, particularly as connected with the Catholic Question. 4s.

A Letter, stating the Connection which Presbyterians, Dissenters, and Catholics, had with the recent Event. 6d.

A Reply to Observations on what is called the Catholic Bill; by a Protestant Clergy

man.

3d.

A Speech of Francis Paul Stratford, esq. addressed to the Freeholders of the County of Northampton, on the 14th Day of May,

1807. 1s.

THEOLOGY.

A Sermon preached in the Chapel of the Magdalen Hospital, before the President, Vice-President, and Governors of that Charity, at their Anniversary Meeting, on Thurs day, April 23, 1807; by Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, D. D. Lord Bishop of Meath. 1s. 6d.

Two Sermons preached in the Parish Church of St. Philip and St. Martin, Birmingham, at the Request of the Governors of the Blue Coat School in that Town, en Sunday, April, 26th 1807; by the Rev. John Eyton, A. M. 2s.

Genuine Methodism acquitted, and Spurious Methodism condemned; by the Author of the Remarks; in six Letters, addressed to Mr. J. Cooke, in Answer to his Vindication of his Sermon, ionically entitled Methodism condemned by Methodist

Preachers. 12mo. 1s.

A Sermon preached at St. Mary Magdalen's Church, Taunton, at the Visitation of the Worshipful John Turner, May 19, 1807; by the Rev. Thomas Comber. 1s.

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TOPOGRAPHY.

Blomefield's Topographical History of the County of Norfolk; containing the whole Matter which is in the five Folio Volumes, with all the Plates re-engraved, and a Por trait of the Author. 11 vols. royal 8vo. 18s. each; royal 4to. two guineas each. Delineations of St. Andrew's: being a particular Account of every Thing remarkable in the History and present State of the City and Ruins, the University, and other interesting Objects of that anticat ecclesiastical Capital of Scotland; by James Grierson. 12mo. 5s. boards.

A Description of the Cathedral Church of Ely, with some Account of the Conventual Buildings, with Plates; by George Millar.

12s. 8vo. boards.

The New Picture of Scotland, being an Accurate Guide to that Part of the United Kingdoms, with Historical Descriptive Accounts of the principal Buildings, Curiosi ties and Antiquities, with Plates. 18mo.2vols.gs.

TRAVELS.

The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquere (Counsellor, and First Esquire Carver to Philip le Bon, Duke of Burgundy) to Palestine; and his Return from Jerusalem overland to France, during the Years 1132 and 1-133, from a Manuscript in the National Library at Paris; translated by Thomas Johnes, esq. with a Map of Tartary. 8vo. 12s. boards.

VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL:
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeflic and Foreign.

· Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received.
R. BLORE, of Stamford, the accu- monumental, and other antiquarian sub-

M'ray and diligence of whose re-jects, is without a rival.

searches as an antiquary are well known to the public, has been long engaged in preparing a History of the County of Rutland. The Work is now printing in a very splendid manner, at the press of Mr. NEWCOMBE, and will be ready for publication early in the ensuing winter. Independent of other advantages, this new County History possesses the peculiar one of having its drawings made by the son of the Author, a young gentleman who, in the delineation of architectural,

Mr. BOWYER, of Pall-Mall, has issued proposals for a splendid work, which is intended to commemorate the final triumph of humanity in the cause of the natives of Africa. It will be called A Tribute of the Fine Arts, in Honour of the Abolition of the Slave Trade; and will contain three original poems by three gentlemen, who have already given distinguished proofs of their poetical talents, besides extracts from some of the most eminent authors. These will be en4E 2

bellished

bellished by nearly twenty plates, including vignettes, by the first engravers, and the historical subjects will be from original cabine-pictures, by the first painters in this country. The entire work will form one handsome volume, in large quarto, printed by Beusley, on superfine wove paper.

Mr. THOMAS FISHER proposes to publish a Series of Copies of the ancient Allegorical, Historical, and Legendary Paintings, in Fresco, discovered in the Summer of 1804, on the Walls of the Chapel of the Trinity, at Stratford-uponAvon, accompanied by Views and Sectious, illustrating the Architecture of the Chapel. The first part, containing eight paintings, and a suitable title-page, in colours, is nearly ready for publication; and the three parts will be completed within the ensuing twelve months, at two guineas each.

Mr. JAMES ELMES, who has been singularly successful in collecting materials for his purpose, proceeds with his design of publishing by subscription, an Architectural and Scientific Investigation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, illustrated by Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at large, from actual measurements; with an Essay on the Life, Writings, and Designs, of Sir CHRISTOPHER WREN. The work to be printed on imperial folio paper, calculated to range with those celebrated architectural publications, the Ruins of Palmyra, Balbeck, Desgodetz's Antiquities of Rome, Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, &c.

Mr. JOHN HILL, merchant of Hull, has in the press, a pamphlet entitled, Thoughts on the late Proceedings and Discussions concerning the Roman Catholics.

The second volume of the Botanist's Guide through the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, will appear early in the present month. In this volume a considerable number of British Lichens are now for the first time arranged according to the Methodus Lichenum of Acharius; a copious Addenda to the first volume is prefixed; and, to render the work more generally acceptable, an Index of English Names is added volume completes the Flora of those counties, and will contain about 1880 species.

This

The publication of Mr. CRABB'S long announced Critical, Grammatical, and Practical, English and German Diction

ary, being impeded by many circum stances of a public and private nature, he is now engaged in an elementary work for the use of schools, on Grammar in general, and the English Grammar in particular.

Mr. MALCOLM has just finished at press the concluding volume of hi Londinium Redivivum.

The Clarendon press is now employed in printing Wyttenbach's Notes on Plutarch's Morals, in quarto and octave; an edition of Sophocles in Greek, with notes by Elmsley; the Clergyman's Instructor, being a kind of Sequel to the Clergyman's Assistant; new editions of Davis's Cicero De Natura Deorum: Musgrave's Euripides; Florus's, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; Bishop Butler's Works, in two volumes octavo; and Shuck ford's Connection.

Mr. EGERTON BRYDGES has printed a Life of Lord Chancellor Egerton, with Portraits of the Lord Chancellor, and the late Bishop of Durham of that name, We believe this work is not published, though Mr. Brydges has presented a copy to some learned societies.

Sir RICHARD HOARE has just published a Tour in Ireland.

Mr. SOWERBY intends shortly to publish a new edition of his Botanical Drawing-Book, to which he has made great additions. He has also in the press a concise Prodromus of the British Minerals in his Cabinet, as a sort of Essay towards forming a new, natural, and easy arrangement, having reference to his British Mineralogy, and designed for those who may find it more useful for a Jibrary than a Travelling Book. Mr. S. is also engaged in an Essay towards forming a new, useful, and universal Chro matic Scale, or List of Colours.

Mr. SAMUEL RUSH MEYBICK, of Queen's College, Oxford, intends pubfishing by subscription, in one volume quarto, a History of the County of Cardigan, to be illustrated by eighteen plates, from Drawings made on the spot by the Author.

Dr. WALKER has prepared for the press, an Essay on Vaccination, with some Account of its Rise and Progress, of the Authors who first established the Practice, and of the Associations formed in the Metropolis for its future Propaga tion.

Mr. ELTON has nearly completed a Poetical Translation of Hesiod, with Dissertations and Notes.

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A volume of Poems, from the pen of Lord BYRON, who is not yet of age, may shortly be expected

The Rev. Mr. COLLINSON has in the press, a Life of the Historian Thuanus, which will be comprised in one volume, octavo. From the distinguished rank which Thuanus held among the literary men of his age, this work promises to prove highly interesting

Mr. COLERIDGE has, in the press, two new volumes of Poems, which will sp edily be published.

The second volume of JONES's History, of Brecon is nearly completed, and ready to go to press.

Miss BOWER has in the press, and nearly ready for publication, a Collection of Miscellaneous Poems.

The fifth and last volume of Dr. LEIGHTON'S Works is in considerable forwardness, and will shortly make its appear

ance.

Dr MILLER, Lecturer on Chemistry, at Edinburgh, has undertaken to prepare for the press, a new edition, in two volumes octavo, of Williams's Mineral Kingdom. He proposes carefully to revise the original, to expunge all extraneous matter, to correct and polish the style, and to add the valuable discoveries that have been made in the science of mineralogy, since the publication of that Work. Dr. Miller has made an actual survey of the principal mines of the kingdom, and may be supposed well qualified to execute this undertaking in a scientific manner.

Mr. CARD, Author of the History of the Revolutions in Russia, has in the press a Life of Charlemagne, which will make one volume in octavo.

The Rev. JoUN OLDISWORTH, of Swansea, intends to publish by subscription, a new edition of Nicholls's Paraphrase on the Common Prayer and Psalms of David, with some alterations and observations, taken from various eminent authors.

The Rev. J. H. BRANSBY, of Dudley, is preparing for the press. (to be published by subscription,) two volumes of Serious Practical Sermons for the Use of Unitarian Christians, particularly those of them who are the heads of families.

most

Mr. WILLIAM TURNBULL, author of the Naval Surgeon, announces a System of British and French Surgery, medical and operative; containing the modern improvements in the science, arranged on clinical principles; and uniting anatomical information, so far as

is necessary for the two subjects of Anatomy and Surgery to illustrate each other. The whole enriched with plates and original delineations, and to form three octavo yolumes.

A new edition of HELVETIUS's Essays, accompanied with a Portrait, and a Life of the Author, will be published in a few days.

The English Fire Insurance Compa nies calculate on an alarm of fire every day, and about eight serious fires in every quarter of a year. From Michaelinas, 1805, to Michaelmas, 1806, the different Fire-Offices in London experienced three hundred and six alarms of fire, attended with little damage, thirty-one serious fires, and one hundred and fiftyfive alarms, occasioned by chimneys being on fire, amounting in all to four hundred and ninety-two accidents.

The Watch-trade has been doubled in Europe within the last fifty years. It increases with the progress of civilization, which renders the instrument which shews and divides time, nearly as valua ble as time itself. One of the French Commercial Agents in the Levant has recently given the following particulars of the sale of English watches in Turkey, before the late disputes between the two countries. England used to sell annually, thirty dozen watches at Salonica, as many in the Morea, three hundred dozen at Constantinople, four hundred dozen at Smyrna, one hund ed and fifty dozen in Syria, and two hundred and fifty dozen in Egypt. Nineteen out of twenty were silver watches; the gold ones not being so easily sold. The average amount of the whole English watch-trade in Turkey was valued at 110,0001. sterling annually.

A public exhibition took place, on the 19th of June, of the house-pupils, at Mr. THEI WALL'S Institution for the Cure of Impediments of Speech, in Bedford-place, Russell-square. The Recitations occupied nearly three hours, and consisted of the Passions, Alexander's Feast, an Ode to Peace, John Gilsin. Pitt's Reply to Walpole, an Oratorical Defence of the ancient animated. Systein of Elocution, the Eulogies of Epaminondas and Alfred, and part of a Funeral Oration on Lord Nelson; all of which exc ́ed considerable interest and sym athy; and except in the individual instance of the gentleman first referred to, scarcely any occasion appared for the articular indulgence that had been clained. The Odes were recited in parts and stanzas, distributed

among

among the different speakers; and particular portions of them were recited, in full chorus, by the whole of the pupils,

in correct time and harmonious accordance of voice; a novelty which had a very striking and noble effect; while it illustrated at once the practicability and importance of regulating the speaking voice, by the principles and proportions of the musical scale. Mr. Thelwall proposes to have another similar exhibition in the month of August, Tickets of Admission to which will be given to such ladies and gentlemen as send their names and directions to the Institution for that purpose, as soon as the precise time is determined upon.

Mr. RYLANCE has in considerable forwardness a Treatise on Comparative Elocution, designed as an elementary book for the use of schools and grown persons, who may be prevented by their confirmed habits of utterance, from cultivating a practical knowledge of the foreign languages. It will comprehend a general enquiry into the peculiarities of pronunciation in the modern European dialects, and into the means of facilitating their acquisition.

The Emperor Justinian's Charta Plenaria Securitatis is one of the most ancient instruments written on Egyptian paper, and as such deposited in the Library of the late king of France, and is published by Mabillon in his work, De re Diplo matica. St. Augustine's Epistles, and part of Josephus's Antiquities, in Latin, of the sixth century, were in the Eenedictine Library at Paris, at the commencement of the French Revolution, all written on this kind of paper. The use of Egyptian paper seems to have been laid aside in the ninth, or at the beginning of the tenth century, when silk paper was introduced as more convenient and lasting than the weed that grew on the banks of the Nile. As to the paper in use at this day, Petrus Moritius, surnamed Venerabilis, who lived in the twelfth century, calls Charta é rasuris veterum panorum facta, a kind of paper made of the lmt of old rag; it sems to have been invented in the eleventh century. The exact time, however, of the invention of our modern paper cannot be ascertained. Rembold, in his Dissertation on paper, printed at Berlin, ju 1774, fixes the time of its invention in 1470, but upon very slender grounds. Mabillon met with a manuscript on modern paper, which was nine hundred years old, in a Monastery in Lorraine. The observations of the learned Car

melite Orlando, on this subject, have been taken notice of in the Act. Erudit. Lips. An. 1724, p. 102, in these words, "Then discoursing of paper, he refers the invention of it almost as far back as the eighth century, when Eustathius published his Commentary on Homer, which is said to have been written on paper; he adds, that a manuscript of Homer was shewn in Geneva, in his time, said to be eight hundred years old."

RUSSIA.

M. KLAPROTH does not go to Pekin with the Greek missionaries, as had been formerly announced; he has set out for Krachta, with Mr. Helms, a botanist, for

the

frontiers of Russian and Chinese Tartary. purpose of making a tour along the

A new school of practical junspru dence has been established at Petersburg; in which four professors teach the law of nature and ethics; the Roman law, and the history of Russia; to which is added a course of lectures on the labours of the Commission of Legislation. All the lectures are in the Russian language.

Translations of ARCHENHOLZ's England and Italy, Gatterer's Art of Heraldry, and Condillac's Logic, have lately been published at St. Petersburg; but few original works have appeared. The most interesting of which is a Life of Paul I.

SWEDEN.

M. DJUBERG has published the fourth and last volume of his Geography, which treats of the geography and statistics of Sweden.

M. SVEDENSTIERNA has published at Stockholm, in one volume 8vo. an Ac count of his Travels in England and Scotland in 1804, undertaken at the expense of the proprietors of the Great Swedish Iron Works, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of the processes used in those of Great Britain. Nineralogy is at present much cultivated in Sweden, where Baron d' Hermelin Las added to the stock of knowledge by lis Essay of a Mineralogical History úf Lapland.

M. NORBERG, professor of Oricotal languages at the University of Lal, has published several Essays relative 10 different branches of Oriental literature, such as the Agriculture of the Eastern Nations, the Militia of the Arabs, the Temple of Mecca, and other interesting objects of inquiry.

It is intended to establish in Sweden, an Institution for the education of the Deaf and Dumb, their number being

very considerable in that country. In the dioceses alone of Upsal, Vexio, Calinar, Ikera, and Carl-stadt, more than two hundred and eighty of these unfortunate people have been enumerated.

DENMARK.

The envoy of the Emperor of Morocco at Hamburgh has announced that he wishes to have the Description of Morocco, published in Danish by M. HOEST in 1799, translated into Spanish, and has promised a considerable reward to the

translator.

Mr. WEDEL is publishing in numbers at Copenhagen, an Account of his Tour in the Interior of the Danish Provinces.

In 1799, 1800, and 1801, the author visited Zealand, Funen, Jutland, and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein. He gives detailed accounts of the manners and customs of the inhabitants, of the state of rural and domestic economy, and of the productions, arts, and manufac

tures of those countries.

Dr. FROST, of Aalborg, in Jutland, has begun a new Danish Journal, entitled, Cimbria," which contains historical, political, and theological essays, and

terary news.

Professor WAD read at a late meeting of the Scandinavian Society, a Memoir on the Specimens of Minerals, sent by M. OHLSEN from Iceland to the Board of Finances. The specimens have been deposited in the Royal Museum at Copenhagen.

An interesting Description of the Nicobar Islands has lately appeared at Copenhagen; from which it should seem that the Danes intend forming a settlement there.

GERMANY.

Professor BoDE took advantage of the fine weather between the 23d of April, 'and the 5th of May, to view the new planet Vesta, which he did nine times at Berlin, from the Royal Observatory, with the mural quadrant. On the 5th of May at 9h 2'56" mean time, its right ascension was 178° 29′ 56" and northern declination 12° 35' 49."

A new method of curing those dreadful convulsions which carry off so many brave wounded soldiers, has been practised in the hospitals of Germany with great success. It was first resorted to by the late M. STUTZ, a physician of eminence in Suabia, and he was led to this important discovery from the analogy of a simple fact. M. HUMBOLDT had announced, in his Work upon the Nerves, that on treating the nervous fibre alter

nately with opium and carbonate of potash, he made it pass five or six times from the highest degree of irritability, to a state of perfect asthenia. The method of M. Stutz, who has been employed with the greatest success in the German nal application of opium and carbonate hospitals, consisted in an alternate interof potash. It has been seen that when thirty-six grains of opium, administered in the space of twenty-four hours, produced no effect, the patient was considerably relieved by ten grains more of alkaline solution. This new treatment opium, employed after having given the of Tetanus is worthy of attention.

The Austrian empire, according to a Report lately published, contains 11,680 23,500,000 souls. The revenues amount square miles, and a population of diture to 103,000,000 and the national to 104,000,000 of guilders, the expendebt to 1,200,000,000. establishment of the army consists of The present

344,315 men.

There has been established at Prague, a School for the Deaf and Dumb, which is supported by subscription. The children of those parents who are in good house on paying annually one hundred circumstances, are received into the and twenty-five florins, for which sum they are provided with food, lodging, and instruction; and the directors of this establishment are by these means enabled to afford gratuitously the same advan

dumb children, belonging to poor parents.
tages to a certain number of deaf and
The whole is under the direction of M.
other able instructors.
FLORIAN KLEIN, who is assisted by

A periodical work is published at Prague, entitled "Hlasatel Cesky," or Bohemian Intelligencer, by JouN NEGEDLY, LL.D. and professor of the Bohemian language and literature, in the University of Prague. The principal object of the editor is to improve the language and literature of Bohemia; and the articles in the numbers which have already appeared are well calculated for

that

purpose; consisting chiefly of translations from Lucian, Cicero, Pope, the Messiah of Klopstock, and biographical accounts of eminent Bohemians.

Mr. MEINERS has published a History of the principal Insurrections which have happened among the Sturlents at the different Universities of Europe.

The third and fourth Volume of Mr. MAURICE ARENDT's Travels in Sweden have appeared. The Author gives a very interesting account of the country.

The

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