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Reflections on Mortality; suggested by the General Mourning; a Sermon preached at Worship-street and Leather-lane, November 11, 1810, on the decease of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia; with an accountfof her Interment. By John Evans, A. M. 1s. 6d.

The Advantages of early Piety, unfolded and displayed in a Series of Plain Discourses, addressed to Young People. By the Rev. T. Thornton, (Author of Christian's Consulations,) 12mo. Ss. 6d.

Dr. Doddridge's Whole Works. By Dr. Williams and the Rev. E. Parsons, Leeds, 10 vols. royal 8vo. 61. boards, ditto in 10 vols. demy 8vo. 41. 10s. boards.

The Family Expositor, sold separate from the above, 5 vols. royal 8vo. 31. ditto 5 vols. demy 8vo. 21. 5s.

Dr. Ellis's Knowledge of Divine Things from Revelation, not from Reason or Nature. 3d edition, 1 vol. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Pulpit Assistant, containing 950 Outlines or Skeletons of Sermons. By T. Hannam, 4 vols. 18mo. 16s. boards.

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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL.
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign.
Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received,

M

R. TROTTER, of Montalta near Wicklow, has in the press a work of the highest public interest, being an Account of the Travels of the late Mr. Fox, Lord St. John, and himself, in Flanders and France, during the late short Peace. It will contain, besides other curious original matter, a variety of letters of Mr. Fox on classical and other subjects, and circumstantial particulars of the last four years of his life.

In April Mr. PRATT intends to bring forward the expected Poetical Remains of Joseph Blacket; illustrated and adorned by appropriate engravings from original designs by eminent painters; with a portrait, which exhibits a striking likeness, and interesting Memoirs of the Author. To be published exclusively for the benefit of his aged mother and orphan child.

Mr. SMART is preparing for the press,

a Guide to Parsing; which is expected will furnish material assistance to the study of English grammar, and the above necessary exercise, particularly in school classes. Mr. Murray's arrangement will be followed.

Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS's work on the Rights and Duties of JURIES, embra cing all branches of the subject, will be the first attempt of the kind in the lan guage; in size, it will correspond with his work on the Office of Sheriff.

Mr. W. MARBAT and Mr. P. THOMP son, of Boston, have undertaken to conduct a work, to be published quarterly, entitled The Enquirer. It is particularly intended for the use of young persons, and will embrace subjects of general lite rature, mathematics, arts, and manufac tures, chemical and philosophical essays, and every branch of knowledge.

The

The death of the late Mr. WILKES, of Milland House, having created some doubts in regard to the completion of that immense body of general knowledge call. ed the ENCYCLOPEDIA LONDINENSIS, we have much satisfaction in being enabled to state, that the property has been purchased by spirited literary men; and that the work will be regularly published till it has attained its maturity. Amidst the various projects of Cyclopa dias at home and abroad, this is the most extensive. It will equal in extent the great Encyclopédie Methodique of PANCKOUKE; far exceed the great German one of KUNKEL; and the largest of the English ones by REES. It treats of every science in chief, comprehends the entire of every valuable elementary treatise, and is in every respect an useful and meritorious design.

The Letters of the late Miss Seward, written between the years 1784 and 1807, selected by herself, and bequeathed to Mr. CONSTABLE for publication, will appear early in January, comprising six volumes. No other publication, containing so much anecdote of the literary society of Lichfield, has hitherto appear ed; the present, therefore, will afford an interesting specimen of the tone of familiar intercourse which prevailed in it. Miss Seward's poetical fame and character, however, had extended her connections far beyond the limits of this literary circle; many of the most distinguished persons, in all parts of these kingdoms, were included in the list of her correspondents.

A new edition in octavo, of Mr. WHITTINGTON'S Historical Survey of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of France, will be published in the course of this month.

A work by the Rev. Dr. MILNER, of great research and high interest to the English antiquary, will soon be ready for the public, in which the claims of England to the honors of what is generally termed Gothic Architecture is maintain ed, and authorities quoted, in answer to Mr. Whittington's statement of the prior claims of France to that interesting style of architecture.

A reprint of the original and scarce work on Linear Perspective, by Dr. BROOK TAYLOR, is in the press, and will soon be ready for the scientific public.

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital exhibits at this time a case of a most formidable disease happily unknown in these northeen regions. The subject is a native of

the Brazils, with the true Elephan tiasis, or Arabian Leprosy, as described by Dr. Adams, in his last edition of Morbid Poisons; and, from that work, inserted under the article Elephantiasis in Dr. Rees's Encyclopædia. From the days of Aretaus to our own times, it has beeu asserted by most authors, and denied by none, that these unfortunate people are peculiarly salacious. Dr. Adams, by a minute examination, has proved the fal lacy of this opinion. The present case exhibits all the peculiarities described by that writer; viz. the tuberculated coun tenance, the want of hair below the scalp, the femoral tumour, &c.

Dr. ADAMS will begin in the middle of this month his Course of Lectures on the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, at his house in Hatton Garden.

Dr. REID will commence his spring Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, on Wednesday, the 24th of January.

Mr. STEVENSON, Great Russel-street, Bloomsbury, author of a Practical Treatise on the Morbid Sensibility of the Eye, commonly called Weakness of Sight; purposes delivering a Course of Lectures on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases, of the Eye and Ear, early in the ensuing spring.

Mr. PARKINSON is about to publish Observations on the Act for Regulating Mad-houses, with Remarks addressed to the Friends of the Insane; and a Correction of the Mis-statements of the Case of Benjamin Elliot, sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for illegally depriving Mary Daintree of her liberty.

The Ecclesiastical and University An. nual Register for 1810, is in great forwardness, and will be published some time in February.

The volume of the County Annual Register for the present year is in considerable forwardness, and will be published early in the spring; in addition to the usual matter relating to the counties, it will contain a concise and impartial History of Europe for the Year. On account of this improvement, it will assume 'the title of the Imperial and County Annual Register.

Dr. CROTCH is adapting all Handel's Choruses, Overtures, Marches, &c. for the Piano-forte or Organ. He has com pleted his Specimens of the various Styles of Music, in 3 vols. and intends publishing a work ou Composition and Thorough Bass.

In

In the course of the ensuing winter will be published an Account of the Measures pursued with different Tribes of the Hindus, for the abolition of the practice of the systematic murder of female children by their parents; with incidental Notices of other Customs peculiar to the inhabitants of India; by the Hon. Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Walker, late Political Resident at the Court of Anand Rao Gaikawar. Edited with Notes, &c. by Major EDWARD MOOR, author of the Hindu Pantheon.

Mr. ROBERT BAKEWELL, lately of Wakefield, Yorkshire, has discovered a method of ascertaining with correctness, by means of chemical analysis, the qualities of the water, soil, coal, metallic ores, or other minerals, of any estate; and he undertakes to give the natural history, and a statistical account of it, including a description of the hills, springs, rivers, arrangement of strata, &c. with a view of assisting proprietors in forming an estimate of the nature and

value of their lands.

time.

The Rev. Mr. LYSONS has nearly ready for publication a new edition of his En virons of London, with alterations and additions, brought down to the present A volume of the additional mat ter will be published at the same time, for the purchasers of the former edition. Mr. GEORGE CHALMERS has in the press, Considerations on Bullion and Coin, Circulation and Exchanges, with a view to our present circumstances.

Mr. C. BRADLEY, of Wallingford, has a Lexicon of the New Testament nearly ready for the press, principally intended for the use of schools, and consequently less extensive than Parkhurst's Lexicon, though compiled on a somewhat similar plan. The various senses in which every word is used by the sacred wri ters, will be given in English; different phrases and expressions will he concisely elucidated; and those variations of the verb or noun which might occa sion any difficulty to the young student, will be inserted and referred to their themes.

The number of one-pound notes of country banks in circulation, on which duties had been paid up to June, 1810, 8,553,099

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A Life of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, Lord High Chancellor to Say £30 each, amount to Henry VI. and founder of Magdalen College, Oxford, by the late Dr. CHANDLER, will be published early in the spring. Dr. BROWNE has nearly ready for publication, a work designed for the use of schools, and entitled Pinacotheca Classica, or Classical Gallery; containing a selection of the most distinguished characters in ancient and modern times, as drawn by the most celebrated Greek, Roman, and British historians, biogra phers, &c.

To these add all the notes of £5, and upwards, still in circulation, under the 44th George the Third; the total of which will not expire until October, 1811, viz. 10,872,910.

Mr. W. MOORE, of the Royal Military Academy, 15 engaged in preparing for the press, a Treatise on Fluxions, with the various applications of that science.

Mr. P. BARLOW, of the Royal Military Academy, about to publish a Collection of Mathematical Tables, among which will be some to facilitate the solution of the Irreducible Case of Cubics.

The probable amount of circulating country medium, therefore, will be abut £37,000,000. The amount remaining 14 hand may be taken at one-sixth.

Amount in hand .. 6,100,000 Amount in circulation 50,840,000 And the account of the Bank of Englaud notes may, at this time, be taken at an equal sum, making a total of paper money in actual circulation of SIXTY MILLIONS, or four times the amount of coin which used to be in circulation. Hence the advanced price of all commo ties, and the nominal depreciation of money.

Mr.

Mr. BARRON FIELD, of the Inner Temple, has in the press, A full Analyxis of Blackstone's Commentaries, by a series of Questions, to which the student is to frame his own answers by reading that work.

The Library of the late William Platel, esq. of Peterborough, including his interesting collection of Arabic, Persian, Bengalee, and other MSS. forming part of the library of the late Shah Aulum, will be sold by auction this winter.

The Rev. T. F. DIBDIN has in the press, in one large octavo volute, the English Gentleman's Library Companion, or a Guide to the Knowledge of rare, curious, and useful Books, in the English language, and appertaining to British literature and antiquities.

Memors of Mary Anne Radcliffe, in familiar Letters to her female friends, are in the press, in one volume octavo; but the publishers think it right to apprise the public that this lady is not the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho, and other celebrated romances.

Sir SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES is engaged on a Selection from Collins's Peerage, with very considerable alterations and improvements, and brought down to the present time.

The second volume of Mr. SOUTHEY's History of Brazil is at press. It relates the foundation and establishment of the adjacent Spanish provinces, the affairs of which are in later times inseparably con nected with those of Brazil. The subject includes the whole tract of country between the rivers Plata, Paraguay, and Orellana or the Amazons, stretching westward to Peru, as far as the Portuguese have extended their settlements or their discoveries.

Mr. JOSEPH MURPHY, of Leeds, has in the press, a History of the Human Teeth; with a Treatise on their diseases, from infancy to age, adapted for general information.

Mrs. GRANT, of Laggan, will speedily publish Essays on the Poetry and Superstitions of the Highlands, with Fragments in verse and prose.

The editor of the Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magarine, is engaged in preparing a fourth volume, to be sold separately, which will contain Biographical Memoirs, Literary Anecdotes, Characters of eminent Men, and Topographical Notices.

Mr. EDWARD WAKEFIELD will shortly publish a work on the Present State of Ireland.

MONTHLY MAG, No. 207.

The Rev. W. ETIRICK has in the press, in two octavo volumes, the Second Exodus, or Reflections on the Prophecies of the Last Times.

The Bishop of London is printing a work on the subject of Calvinism, which will comprehend his last three Charges, with considerable additions, and nummerous quotations from the works of Calvin, and the ancient Fathers.

Mr. JOHN BELLAMY proposes to publish by subscription, in two octavo volumes, the Fall of Deism, in which the objections of the Deists against the Old and New Testament, during the last 1600 years, are answered with a strict adherence to the literal sense of the Hebrew language.

Mr. RICHARD FENTON will soon publish an Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, in a quarto volume.

Mr. ROBERT KERR is engaged on a General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, arranged in systematic order, and illustrated by maps and charts. It is expected to form eighteen octavo volumes, and to be published in thirtysix parts, the first of which will appear on the 1st of January.

Mrs. MARY ANNE CLARKE is preparing for the press, a Letter addressed to the Editor of the Satirist, in which his real principles and character are developed, and fairly appreciated.

An Account of an Expedition undertaken in the years 1805, 6 and 7, by order of the Government of the United States, by MAJOR PIKE, is in the press, under the title of Exploratory Travels through the Western Territories of North America; comprising a Voyage from St. Louis on the Mississippi to the sources of that river, and a Journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the northeastern provinces of New Spain: the whole including a distance of 8000 miles, and exhibiting a view of the geography, natural productions, Indian tribes, present state of the population, &c. of those interesting countries. The work will form a quarto volume, and be illustrated with maps drawn up from the Major's observations.

The late Mr. BARRE ROBERTS' matchless Cabinet of the Coins of England, Scotland, and Ireland; likewise his Anglo-Gallic coins, coronation medals, and many of the works of Thomas Simon, will be sold by auction in February, if not previously disposed of by private

contract.

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Four ladies and three children have already been burnt to death within the present winter, owing to inattention to the known means of preventing the fatal effects of such accidents. Reasoning on the principle of the ascent of heat and flame, Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS lately provided himself with two separate pieces of muslin, and made with them the following decisive experiment. He set fire to one of them held in an upright position, and it was consumed in half a minute, the flames rising with great intensity to the height of two feet. He then set fire to the other piece, laid hollow in an horizontal direction, and it was nearly ten minutes before it burnt from one end of the piece to the other; the flame never rose half an inch in height, and might at any instant have been extinguished by the thumb and finger, or by drawing the hand over it. In short, it is evident, that a perpendicular female dress as bigh as the Monument, would burn out with a destructive flame in less time than a single yard of the same material laid in an horizontal direction. It results, therefore, from the above experiment, that as soon as a lady's or child's dress is discovered to be on fire, she should lie down, and she may then either extinguish the flame with her own hands, or nay leisurely call for assisitance, and no fatal effects can happen even in the

worst event.

RUSSIA.

A peasant named JOHN SEMZOw, has discovered a method of making paper stoppers for bottles so expeditiously, that one man may make near 7000 in an hour. In consequence, a thousand corks, which some time since sold for 65 rubles, have fallen to 8, and it is expected, that should the competition continue, they will be so low as half a ruble per thousand, which is the price of the paper substitutes.

GERMANY.

M. BADER, Counsellor of Mines at Munich, in Bavaria, has invented what he terms an aquatic sledge, constructed on such a principle that it may be impelled and guided on the water by the rider himself, without any other aid. The first public experiment was made with this machine on the 29th of August last, before the royal family at Nymphienburg, with complete success. It consists of two hollow canoes, or pontoons, eight feet long, made of sheet copper, closed on all sides, joined to each other in a parallel direction, at the distance of six fect, by a light wooden frame. Thus

joined, they support a seat resembling an arm-chair, in which the rider is seated, and impels and steers the sledge by treading two large pedals before him. Each of these pedals is connected with a paddle, fixed perpendicularly in the after-part of the machine behind the seat, and in the interval between the two pontoons. In front of the seat stands a small table, on which the rider may read, write, draw, or eat and drink. His hands being at perfect liberty, he may even play an instrument, load and fire a gun, do whatever he pleases. Behind the seat is a leathern bag, to bold any thing he may want in his excursion. It is evident that this machine must be adinirably calculated for the purpose of taking sketches of aquatic scenery, as also for the diversion of shooting water-fowl, in which case the sportsman conceals himself behind a slight skreen of branches, or rushes, so as to approach the birds unperceived. This vehicle is far safer than a common boat, the centre of gravity being constantly in the middle of a very broad base; a circumstance which renders upsetting, even in the heaviest gale, absolutely impossible. It is moreover so contrived, that it may be taken to pieces in a few minutes, packed in a box, and put together again in a very short time. It is not improbable that this highly original invention may in time be applied to more important purposes than mere diversion.

The linen and woollen manufactures of Prussian Silesia have been for some years on the decline. Previous to 1798, the former produced on an average twenty millions of livres a-year. Of woollen cloth, above 120,000 pieces were annu ally made, and two-thirds of that quan tity were exported. In 1788 the exports amounted to 72,620 pieces dressed, and 17,200 undressed. The cloths made here are common in quality; and on these manufactures the whole population de. pends for a subsistence. The province has a few manufactories of cotton and stuffs mixed of silk and thread, but of small consequence. The tanneries are of more importance; they are numerous, but neglected, either from prohibitions which restrain industry or from want of capital.

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