Thomas Myers, M. A. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, will shortly publish an Introduction to Historical, Physical, and Political Geography, in an octavo volume, illustrated by eighteen quarto maps.

Mr. Saint, of Norwich, is about to publish Letters on the Necessity of Reform in the Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and on the Abuses in the public Military Institutions of the Country.

The Force of Love, or the Unnatural Sister, a novel founded on facts, in four volumes, will appear early in the ensuing month.

The author of Eva of Cambria has in the press the Castle of Tariffa, in four volumes.

Mr. B. Trave s Inquiry concerning Injuries to the Canal of the Intestines, in an octavo volume, will shortly appear.

Basil Montague, Esq. will shortly publish a second volume of the Opinions of different Authors upon the Punishment of Death..

A MODE OF PRESERVING DEAD BODIES AMONG THE ANTIENT ROMANS.-A discovery was made a few years ago in the ruins of Pompeii from which it appears that the Antient Romans were in the habit of preserving bodies in ice. A person visited this place in company with five or six others; while visiting a cellar, one of them accidentally fell down a trap-door that opened the way to a subterraneous vault, which they all descended by about forty steps. From this they proceeded by a narrow-arched passage until they came to a diminutive portal, not a man's height, a pilastre on each side, an iron door in the middle, and above it an inscription signifying that the name of the person whose remains had been deposited there, was—Q. LOLLIUS EUPATOR. The party were almost rendered senseless by the cold. On opening the iron door, they discovered an apartment entirely filled with ice, except a marble sarcophagus in its centre, and a narrow path

Mr. Maddock, the Barrister, has in the press, in a quarto volume, the Life of Lord Chancellor Somers, including Remarks on the Public Affairs of his time and the Bill of Rights, with a Commentary.

Mr. George Barrett, of Petworth, proposes to publish by subscription, a very extensive Set of Tables for determining the Value of Life Annuities and Assurances; a work on which he has been employed twenty-five years.

Mr. E. H. Barker, of Trinity College, Cambridge, will speedily publish, Cicero de Amicitia et Senectute, from the text of Ernesti, with notes and remarks; and an Appendix, in which will be found some curious articles on the affinity of different languages to the Latin, including two Essays on the Origin and Extinction of the Latin Tongue, communicated to the author by the Rev. R. Patrick, of Hull. Mr. James Savage wil pub' shin the course of next month, Observations on the Varieties of Architecture, used in the structure of parish churches.

a human body, not only in complète preservation, but as fresh, as unfaded, and the dress as perfect, as if he had been but recently drowned. This was the body of a Roman gentleman; which had laid there for upwards of 1700 years. His dress consisted merely of a linen shirt, a tunic of white woollen cloth, nearly resembling our kerseymere, edged with two purple stripes; without breeches or stockings; and his feet and ancles covered with short half boots of black leather. His features were regular, appearing to have been near fifty when he died, black bristly hair, with a sprink ling of grey ones. The curious visitors carried this extraordinary piece of antiquity out of the frozen cell into the open air; immediately upon which, the arms, the lips, and the throat made those convulsive motions which are observed when bodies are galvanized.

ARABIAN INVENTION OF A LIFE PRESERVER. One of the most ancient methods of preventing drowning, perhaps coeval with navigation and piracy, is by the skin of a goat, though its advantages were too often applied to facilitate injustice and rapine.-The banks of both Euphrates and Tigris are infested with robbers, who are accustomed to swim aboard

| is about twenty-four years of age, and possesses a good person; her eyes are fixed and resolute, and bear a capability in them which felicity might have raised into beauty. The young man is broad and stout, and has nothing in his appearance or manners in any way extraordinary.

INTERESTING NARRATIVE.-The following truly interesting narrative, we find in the Augusta (Georgia, America) Herald, of the 18th August.-The young of both sexes are requested to read it attentively:

Died, a few days since, in a state of distraction, Miss Mary Ann Mooney, aged twentyone.-The circumstances attending the death of this unfortunate female are published, as a warning to the unreflecting of her own sex, and as an awful and solemn admonition to the inconsiderate of the other.

The young lady was the daughter of Mrs. S. Mooney, who lives a few miles from this place, honest, and respected. The old lady has seen. better days, but of late years she has depended upon her industry for subsistence, and by her

stance is of a very extraordinary nature. The heroine of the story, who is respectable and accomplished, had conceived an affection for the youth, which was not returned until all the resources by which a dissipated life had been supported were drained. The young man baving experienced the ills which vice inflicts, was resolved to commence a life of virtue, but unluckily, so strongly had his former habits operated upon him, that the first step he took to reformation was one by which his character was lost for ever. Being in want of the means of establishing himself and his beloved in a comfortable situation, he had the rashness to commit a forgery. The sentence of death, which had been passed upon him, was commuted to that of transportation, but the love of the young lady was rather increased by the disgrace, proceeding, no doubt, from the consideration that she was the cause of the calamity. Her parents and friends exerted all their influence to check her ardour, but in vain, and they were compelled, by her threats of suicide, to let her follow her lover. She No. XXIV. Vol. IV.—N.S.

"She with her feebl'd mother, feeble, old, "And poor, liv'd in a cabin near this beauteous town."

The mother had endeavoured to instil into her children the principles of moral rectitude, and to excite them to purity of conduct. The wants of the family rendered a frequent intercourse with the town indispensible, and Mary Ann was often sent, to procure necessary comforts, with the avails of the family industry. In this employment she became aquainted with a young man, whose polite attentions made way to her unsuspecting heart, and soon secured her unalterable affections. Her innocent and unreserved encomiums upon this person, induced the mother to attend to her daughter in the disposal of the next "roll of homespun" she had to part with. The old lady, more experienced than her daughter, thought she discovered something in the manner of her "customer" that she could not approve of, and that her favourite was venturing upon the brink of a fatal precipice, from which she ought instantly to E e

snatch her. As soon therefore as the cloth was disposed of, she told her daughter of her dangerous situation, and forbid her ever visit- || ing the store. The poor girl, unsuspecting the generosity and goodness of one who appeared to her all perfection, thought her mother's fears unfounded, and her prohibition unreasonable. But considering it a duty to be as she had ever been, obedient, she endeavoured to conform herself to maternal direc tions. After a while, however, Mary Ann was missing from home, and her mother, with tender solicitude and auxious forebodings, for many days sought her sorrowing. At length she was found at a house not far from town, and under the protection of the person she had been instructed to avoid.-Distressed and almost distracted, the mother spent her days in ceaseless sighs and unavailing tears-her child, her darling child she said was lost, was lost for ever-Sobs and tears supplied the place of words, and in the excess of her anguish, the old lady seemed as if her heart's blood would stream from her eyes.

Some short time after the person, whose affections and friendship Mary Ann supposed she bad permanently secured, and who, she said, had promised to make her his wife, became indifferent towards her, and by avoiding her society, called forth all the tender sensibilities of her soul, and filled her mind with inexpressible agony. She sought her friend in town, but was unable to obtain an interview with him; and without innocence to prop her fortitude, her mental powers were overcome by her disappointment, and she became wild and frantic. Some female acquaintances of the family kindly undertook to return her to her mother, and hav. ing placed her in a carriage, they went before, to announce to the old lady the object of their visit-When informed of it, her co lour forsook her cheeks, she trembled, and bursting into tears, asked, how she could receive a child whose character was destroyed; but while they were in conversation, the poor unfortunate Mary Ann was brought to the door-and when her mother beheld her emaciated form, her pallid visage, and her wildly starting eye, she forgot her resentment, and clasping her in her arms, cried out-"Oh! my

child, my child, my lost and ruined child!" The scene which followed language could not describe, the tears of the benevolent females who had thus again united the family, testified that they felt what they could not express on the occasion. But Mary Ann, poor girl, was wholly unconscious of the feelings she had excited, and at times would ask the cause of the sorrow she seemed to witness, and then declared that she was "happy, very happy indeed." She was then told that she must now stay and comfort her mother; but she replied—“ O no, I cannot stay there, I must go to my friend, my dearest friend; I cannot stay with any one else!" She would then cry, and rave, and run, and exhibit a most deplor able spectacle of miserable insanity and frantic wretchedness. It was at length found necessary to confine her, as her delirium in a few days increased to perfect madness. Every ray of reason extinguished, she would tear off her clothes, bite and mangle her flesh, and present such a dreadful spectacle of horrid distraction as has seldom been equalled, perhaps never exceeded.

In this condition she continued for some time, occasionally calling out for her friend, her dearest friend, her beloved husband; and then again would rave and tear her shoulders and arms with her teeth. At length death, the friend of the friendless, kindly came to her relief, and her sufferings and her life closed toge her. And may the angel of pity conse crate ber memory.

This plain and unadorned narrative of facts may suggest some useful reflections to the young of both sexes, for whose sake it is published. To one it shows, what all experience confirms, that no dependence should be placed in any professions of regard, which are accom panied with invitations to depart from duty; and in the other it presents some of the consequences which may follow from an unfeeling triumph over unsuspecting innocence. And for the consideration of both, it may be added, that, at the dread tribunal of impartial justice, and before a Judge who is no respecter of persous, the injured and the injurer, the betrayer and th betrayed, must hereafter appeas—and happy will those be who are prepared for the eventful interview.