The Edinburgh Review, No. 26. This number contains, Cromek's Reliques of Burns-Letter on the Emancipation of South America-Gregory on Steam Engines-Proceedings of Society for Suppression of ViceWarburton's Letters-Wilkins's Sanscrita Grammar-West India Distresses, and Distillation from SugarPartenopex of Blois-Davy's Researches-Johnes's Joinville-Pamphlets on Gas Lights-Expedition to Copenhagen. 8vo. 5s.

Scottish Literary Intelligence.

MR

R RUSSELL, who has long practised with such eminence as a Surgeon in this City, will speedily publish, a System of Surgery, in four volumes, 8vo.

Mr Professor Playfair will speedily publish a new and enlarged edition of his "Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory." It will be in quarto, and illustrated by Engravings.

The admirers of the incomparable humour and powerful satire of Swift, will be happy to learn, that an edition of his works is preparing, which will be illustrated by the industry and genius of Mr Walter Scott. It will be on a plan different from that adopted by former editors. In the Life of the Author, it is proposed to collate and combine the various information which has been given by Mr Sheridan, Lord Orrery, Dr Delany, Mr Pilkington, Dean Swift, Dr Johnson, and others, into one distinct and comprehensive narrative; which, it is hoped, may prove neither a libel or apology for Swift, nor a collection from the pleadings of those who have written either; but a plain, impartial, and connected biographical narrative. By the favour of distinguished friends in Ireland, the editor hopes to obtain considerable light upon some passages in the Dean's life, which have hitherto perplexed his biographers. In pre

paring the text and notes, no labour or expense has been spared to procure original information. The Tale of a Tub, for example, is illustrated with the marginal notes of the learned Bentley, transcribed from manuscript jottings on his own copy. Although neither long nor numerous, they offer some curious elucidations of the author, and afford a singular instance of the equanimity with which the satire even of Swift was borne by the venerable scholar against whom it was so unadviseably levelled. Some preliminary critical observations are offered on the various literary productions of the Dean of St Patrick's; and historical explanations and anecdotes accompany his political treatises. All those pieces which, though hitherto admitted into Swift's works, are positively ascertained not to be of his composition, are placed in the Appendix, or altogether retrenched. On the other hand, the Editor is encouraged to believe, that, by accurate research, some gleanings may yet be recovered, which have escaped even the laudable and undeniable industry of Swift's last Editor. So that, upon the whole, he hopes the present edition will be fully more complete than those of late years. The work will appear in the course of 1810.

Mr J. Graham Dalzell will speedily publish, a Tract on Monastic Antiquities, with some account of a recent search for the remains of the Kings interred in the Abbey of Dunfermline.

A new edition will soon be published, of Wallace's Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind. This work was written in reply to Hume's Essay on the Populousness of Ancient Na tions, and contains a great deal of curious and important information. It has, for some time, been extremely scarce.

Mr Robertson Buchanan has in the press, the second part of his Practical Essays. It will relate to the Shafts

of

of Mills; with an introductory account of the progress and improvement of Mill-work. Essays third, fourth, and fifth, are also preparing for publication.

The same author will speedily publish "Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Economy of Fuel."

Mr Alison has in the press, a sermon preached on occasion of the late Fast.

anecdotes of the habits of life, instinct, and sagacity, are in this work rendered entirely distinct from the descriptions.

The latter are thrown into the form of a synopsis, on a plan somewhat similar to that of Dr Withering's botanical arrangement, and inserted, with the synonyms, at the end of the volume. It is intended that two volumes of Memoirs of British Whales and Fishes, illustrated also by a great number of figures, shall shortly follow; and afterwards others of the birds, amphibious insects, &c. till an entire system of British Zoology, occupying about seven volumes, is complet

FOREIGN.

A NEW, much - improved, and enlarged edition, in twenty-eight volumes, royal octo-decimo, is in the press, of Dr Mavor's Collection of Voyages and Travels, and will speedily be pub lished. The plates, instead of being designs by artists in the closet, will consist of copies from the prints published in the original works, and the maps will be numerous and on a large scale. The text of the principal works, as the Voyages of Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Cook, and Macartney, will be printed verbatim from the original editions, without variation or abridgement, and many valuable works will be included which have appeared within the present century.

The splendid work of Mr Robert Ker Porter, representing the manners and costume of Russia and Sweden, and comprehending a Journal of his travels in Russia, will make its appearance in a few days.

In the course of the ensuing month it is expected that a volume, by Mr Bingley, will be ready for publication, entitled, Memoirs of British Quadrupeds. This, which claims the merit of being an original work, and not merely a compilation from the writings of other naturalists, will be illustrated with seventy engravings from original drawings, chiefly by Howitt, and in his best manner. All the species will be figured except three, of which it was found impossible to procure authentic drawings; and there will be representations of every variety of dog, and of considerably more than half the varieties of English cattle, sheep, and horses, The

years in preparation, every class will be rendered perfectly distinct from the rest.

Mr James Elmes has undertaken a complete and comprehensive Dictionany of the Fine Arts, to include accounts of the arts in theory and practice, and of their professors in all ages. Such a work must necessarily become a library of itself to the painter, the sculptor, the architect, the amateur, and the collector of subjects connected with the fine arts.

Mr Thomas Mortimer, Vice Consul at Ostend forty years ago, and author of the work called, Every man his own Broker, published fifty years ago, is preparing a legacy to the world in a new Dictionary of Trade, Commerce, and Manufactures. Of this work we may say, as we have said of the last work, that it must constitute a library of itself to the numerous persons to whom it addresses itself; and we may add, respecting both, that it is wonderful such useful publications have never before appeared.

Mr A. Jewit, proposes to publish by subscription, in two volumes, small octavo, with twenty-four Aquatinta Views of Ruins, Scenes, Antiquities, &c. drawn expressly from nature, Remarks on various Parts of the Counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, York, Derby, and Stafford; being the result of several successive tours and excursions since the commencent of the present century.

A new Grammar, entitled, The English Tutor, written in familiar letters, and intended particularly for ladies' seminaries, by Mr W. C. Oulton, author cf the Traveller's Guide, &c. will be presented to the public in a few weeks.

The Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Belles Lettres, of Padua, has recently

resumed its meetings, after a long suspension. According to its ancient prac. tice, it has proposed several questions for the ensuing year; among which are the following:-"How far is that opi. nion well-founded, which maintains, that the taste for letters must diminish in proportion to the progress made in the sciences?" and "What improvement can be made in the ploughs at present made use of in this country, and by what means may they be rendered more usefil in labour, better adapted to the cir cumstances of the place, and the quality of the different soils?" The prizes are each sixteen gold Napoleons, and the answers must be written either in Italian or French.

Mr Lucas is preparing to publish the Travels of Humanius in search of the Temple of Happiness; an Allegory. Mr Hilditch has issued proposals for publishing, by subscription, the History and Antiquities of Tamworth.

Mr Edgeworth's work on Professional Education, which will form a quarto volume, is far advanced at the press, and may soon be expected.

Mr Smith, of Dublin, has nearly finished his History of the Germanic Empire, which will be speedily published in two volumes, 8vo.

Mr Jerningham will shortly publish a work, called the Alexandrian School; being a narrative of the character and writings of the first Christian professors in that city, with observations on the influence they still maintain over the established church.

Mr P. Thompson, of Boston, will publish in the ensuing spring a small volume, embellished with engravings, to be entitled, The Stranger's Guide thro' Boston and its Environs.

In a few weeks will be published, the first part of a Treatise of Arches, Bridges, Domes, Abutment and Embankment Walls, by Mr S. Ware, architect. The author professes to show a simple mode of describing geometrically the catenaria, and to deduce his theory principally from that line. Sections of Tri.. nity Church, Ely; King's College Chapel, Cambridge; Salisbury Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, will be given, in corroboration of the principles advanced in the work,

The Rev. Dr Vincent is preparing to publish the Greek text of Arrian's Indiaa and the Periplus, with a translation, to accompany his comments on those works.

The History of the Dissenters, by Messrs Bogue and Bennet, is in such forwardness, that the two first volumes may be very soon expected.

Mr Southey has in preparation a Romance in rhyme, founded on the mythology of the Hindoos, to be intitled, The Carse of Kehama.

The Rev. Mr Beloe is proceeding with the fourth and fifth volumes of Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. At the end of the fifth will be given a general Index to the work.

A Life of the late Dr Beddoes has been undertaken by Dr Stock, of Bristol,

land;

Rears the glad bower where her young blossom blows,

And guards her studious visions of repose: Whose ven'trous soul the patriot flame sublimes

To tempt the varying breath of other climes;

Who patient long the frown of fortune bore

With pious hands who searches every shore

Marks where at length the sparkling gems expand,

And bears the treasure to his native land ;-He who for pining Want and sad Disease Provides the home, and spreads the couch of peace,

Where sad Misfortune rears her drooping head,

And sees a brightening gleam of sunshine spread ;

He on whose name a thousand blessings wait,

At whose approach Hope, Pleasure, reno

vate,

With sacred throb the bounding heart employ,

And the eye speaks unutterable joy ?Him the glad Muse's harmony shall hail, And bloom for him the pride of Learning's vale.

Grav'd is thy name on Fame's eternal shrine, For these fond gifts, O Macintosh! are thine.

And ye who own, where'er your footsteps roam, The cheek that crimsons at the thoughts of Home,

And all the nameless wishes that impart The sympathetic glow that warms the heart,

Forgot the pomp of India's brighter climes
For scenes that whisper tales of other times,
Like music warbling in the aerial shade,
And softer, sweeter still by distance made;
Accept the tribute of the Muse's lay,
Fond 'mid these pleasing mountain walks

Ness, that so oft, with all a mother's pride, Sees Beauty walk with Virtue by her side, And structures rising o'er the tranquil

wave

Bright with the hallow'd beams that Science gave,

And forming Art bid rugged nature yield, And Ocean's keels divide the cultur'd field.

While deeds like these true Glory's

meed proclaim, Shall Conquest only point the path to fame? Had Cæsar scorned the palm that Genius gave,

Ev'n Cæsar's self had filled a nameless grave.

Yet when tyrannic hosts your rights invade, Draw, sons of Scotia! draw the vengeful blade

No wrath so deadly, and no steel so bright, Shall ever meet you in the shock of fight, But Glory, Love, and Freedom, twine the bay,

Triumphant Chiefs! and gild your setting day.

ODE,

ON WINTER.

THE wintery winds, awak'd from sleep
Loud o'er the land and turbid deep,
With boisterous blasts, begin to rave,

In olus' adamantive cave,

Bright Phoebus, in his fiery car, Now, southward, bends his annual course; While Afric's tawny tribes, afar, Fly to the shade to shun his force.

Thick, murky clouds, obscure our sky; Along the hills the vapours sail; No cheering prospect meets the eye; Stern winter desolates the vale:

The blooms lie wrapt deep snows among; On Patie's Hill no lambkins play; No blackbird chants his woodland song, As by the Esk I wind my way:

Stript naked, bend the birchen trees,
That smil'd in green round Mary's Bower;
The lonely muse now leafless sees
The haunt of many a happier hour.

Adieu, ye favourite scenes, a while!
Ye howling tempests, bluster on!
Till vernal hours, again, shall smile;
When all your rage is spent, and gone.

In yonder Cot, secure from harms,
I'll pass thy gloomy months away;
While love and friendship's soothing charms
Supply the absent sweets of May.

TH

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Thursday, Jan. 19.

'HIS day the House of Lords met, pursuant to prorogation, when the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Camden, and the Duke of Montrose, took their seats in their robes upon the woolsack, as his Majesty's Commissioners; and the Speaker and Members of the House of Commons being in attendance, the Lord Chancellor delivered the following speech from his Majesty :

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"We have it in command from his Ma jesty, to state to you, that his Majesty has called you together, in perfect confidence that you are prepared cordially to support his Majesty in the prosecution of a war, which there is no hope of terminating, safely and honourably, except through vigorous and persevering exertion.

"We are to acquaint you, that his Majesty has directed to be laid before you copies of the proposals for opening a negotiation which were transmitted to his Majesty from Erfurth ; and of the correspondence which thereupon took place with the Governments of Russia and of France; together with the declaration issued by his Majesty's command on the termination of that correspondence.

"His Majesty is persuaded that you will participate in the feelings which were expressed by his Majesty, when it was required that his Majesty should consent to tommence the negotiation by abandoning the cause of Spain, which he had so recently and solemnly espoused.

"We are commanded to inform you, that his Majesty continues to receive from the Spanish Government the strongest assurances of their determined perseverance in the cause of the legitimate Monarchy, and of the national independence of Spain; and to assure you, that so long as the people of Spain shall remain true to themselves, his Majesty will continue to them his most strenuous assistance and support. "His Majesty has renewed to the Spanish nation, in the moment of its difficulties and reverses, the engagements which he voluntarily contracted at the outset of its struggle against the usurpation and tyranny of France; and we are commanded to acquaint you, that these engagements have Feb. 1809.

been reduced into the form of a treaty of alliance; which treaty, so soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged, his Majesty will cause to be laid before you.

"His Majesty commands us to state to you, that while his Majesty contemplated, with the liveliest satisfaction, the achievments of his forces in the commencement of the campaign in Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his ally from army, his Majesty most deeply regretted the presence and oppressions of the French the termination of that campaign by an armistice and convention, of some of the articles of which his Majesty has felt himself obliged formally to declare his disapproba tion.

“We are to express to you his Majesty's reliance on your disposition to enable his Majesty to continue the aid afforded by his Majesty to the King of Sweden. That Monarch derives a peculiar claim to his Majesty's support, in the present exigency of his affairs, from having concurred with his Majesty in the proptiety of rejecting any proposal for negotiation to which the Government of Spain was not to be admitted as a party.

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "We are commanded by his Majesty to inform you, that he has directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. His Majesty relies upon your zeal and affection to make such further provi sion of supply as the vigorous prosecution of the war may render necessary; and he trusts that you may be enabled to find the means of providing such supply without any great or immediate increase of the existing burdens upon his people.

"His Majesty feels assured, that, it will be highly satisfactory to you to learn, that by the enemy, for the purpose of destroynotwithstanding the measures resorted to ing the commerce and resources of his kingdom, the public revenue has continued in a course of progressive improvement.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"We are directed to inform you, that the measure adopted by Parliament in the last session, for establishing a Local Militia, has been already attended with the happiest success, and promises to be extensively and permanently beneficial to the country.

"We have received his Majesty's com

mands