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in which the criticisms will be sanctioned by the names of respectable writers. We wish him success.

Mr. CHARLES BELL is preparing for publication, Engravings from Specimens of Morbid Parts preserved in his Collec tion at Windmill-street, and selected from the Divisions inscribed Urethra, Vesica, Ren, Morbosa et Læsa. It will be published in four Fasciculi, of ten plates each, in folio.

Pathological Researches in Medicine, by I. R. FARRE, M.D.; in Surgery by BENJAMIN TRAVERS; will speedily appear in royal octavo, illustrated by engravings.

Dr. FARRE will also publish in a few days, the first part of the Morbid Anatomy of the Liver, in imperial quarto, with coloured engravings.

The Rev. J. HEWLETT has in the press, a Concise History of the Jews.

Dr. BLACKALL has nearly ready for publication, a new Work on the Dropsy. Mr. PARKYNS has in the press, a new work entitled, Monastic Remains, in two volumes, octavo, illustrated by numerous engravings.

Mr. BRITTON has nearly ready for publication, the third volume of his Beauties of Wiltshire.

The scene of WALTER SCOTT's forthcoming poem of Rokeby is laid in Yorkshire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland; and the period is that of the Civil Wars previous to the Usurpation of Cromwell.

Mr. HORATIO HARDY has in the press, a Continuation of the Register of East India Shipping, from the Year 1760, to the present period.

Mr. SINGER will commence his Lectures on Electricity, and Electro-Chemical Science, early in December, at the Scientific Institution, Princes'-street, Cavendish-square. The electrical apparatus employed in these Lectures, is already known as the most complete existing, and several important additions have been made to it during the recess. To the powerful Voltaic batteries before employed, we understand, there is now added an entirely new apparatus of one thousand double plates.

Mr. WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Bishops gate.Within, whose sonnets have frequently enriched our poetical pages, is preparing a volume of his Poetry for pub lication, by subscription.

A new edition is printing, with great improvements, of Collins's Guide in the

choice and use of School Books. No work ever tended more rapidly to improve the practices of schools than the pamphlet alluded to, and it has been matter of regret that it has been long out of print.

The Rev. WILLIAM HARRISON is pub lishing, by subscription, a volume of Sermons, by the late Rev. Ralph Harrison, of Manchester, author of Institutes of English Grammar, Sacred Harmony, &c. to which will be prefixed, a biographical Memoir by the editor.

Mr. BAKEWELL, who has been engaged in a mineralogical examination of the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, for the EARL of MOIRA, has lately discovered, amongst the Granitic Rocks of that district, a variety of Scenite of singular beauty, surpassing that from Egypt, or the continent of Europe. Like other stones of this species, it consists principally of Hornblende and Felspar; the latter is of a pale red colour, the former is crystalline, and of a beautiful green, resembling Smaragdite. It exists in large blocks, and might be applied to purposes of ornamental or sepulchral architecture, and sculpture. It is from this kind of stone that the durable monuments of antiquity were constructed. This gentleman is engaged to deliver a course of Lectures on the Natural History of the Earth, and its mineral productions, at the Surrey Institution, to commence in January.

Dr. THOMAS THOMSON, author of "The System of Chemistry," &c. is about to publish a new Philosophical Journal, en titled "Annals of Mechanical Philoso◄ phy, Chemistry, Agriculture, and the Arts." The first Number will appear on the 1st of January, and the work will be continued monthly.

The Rev. B. BROOK, of Tutbury, has in the press, the Lives of the Puritans, containing a Biographical account of those Divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of Religious Liberty, from the Reformation, under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of Uniformity in 1662, in 3 vols. 8vo. This work will comprise a regular series of the History of Nonconformists, during the period of One Hundred Years, without at all interfering with any publication extant, but will form a comprehensive appendage to Neal's History of the Puritans, and Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial.

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Mr. W. BLAIR is about to publish, in the MEDICAL JOURNAL, a series of im. portant Papers on Syphilis, the result of many years extensive practice and attentive observation.

Dr. S. W. WILSON announces an Exposition of Facts, relative to the syste. matic Corruption of the Ephemeral Press of the Metropolis. The chief object of his work is, (he says,) to explain the real origin of the daily misrepresentations with which our morning and evening papers abound, and to prove, that the whole is the effect of a regularly or ganized plan for deluding the people, and encouraging a spirit of protracted warfare.

Mr.JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, of the Inner Temple, has in the press, in an octavo volume, a Historical Account of the Laws enacted against the Catholics, of the Ameliorations which they have undergone during the present Reign, and of their existing State; to which is added, a short account of the Laws for the pu. nishment of Heresy in general; a brief review of the merits of the Catholic Question; and Copious Notes, tending principally to illustrate the views and conduct of the Church of England, the Presbyterians, and Sectarians, with regard to Toleration when in the enjoy. ment of Power.

Mr. ROBERT HUISH is on the eve of publishing his Poem, entitled "The Peruvians," in ten cautos. A translation of Bouilly's "Conseils à ma Fille," is also nearly ready for publication, by the same gentleman.

Mr. DALLAS has nearly ready for publication, a new edition of the Novels of Percival, Aubrey, and Morland; in small 12mo. preceded by a volume of his mis

cellaneous works.

We observe with pleasure, that several conductors of schools advertize in the Country Papers as a recommendation of their Seminaries, that they have "adopted the interrogative system of teaching, found in the works of Messrs. Adair, Barrow, Blair, Goldsmith, and Robinson." What the Lancaster and Bell system effected, in regard to the first rudiments, has been effected by the works of those writers, in regard to the superior branches of knowledge.

Mr. GRANT, of Crouch End, is about to publish a Grammar of the English Language; with critical and explanatory potes, questions for examination, apFropriate exercises, a system of deriva,

tion, an ample elucidation of the different species of figurative language, the principles of composition, and a com plete course of grammatical instruction.

A new Greek Delectus, on the plan of Dr. Valpy's Latin Delectus, is in the press.

The Elements of English Grammar, with numerous exercises, questions for examinations, and notes for the use of the advanced student, is preparing by the Rev. W. ALLEN, master of the Gramınar School, Newbury.

A History of Windsor and its Neigh bourhood, is in the press. It will be printed on imperial quarto, accompa nied by many valuable and elegant en. gravings.

The three preceding works are al nounced from the press of Mr. VALPY; and we feel ourselves called upon, as an act of public duty, to express our satisfac tion at the activity of his truly classical office, which appears calculated to vin dicate the literary character of our me. tropolitan printing offices. Mr. Valpy has, in two or three years, risen superior to the tardy, capricious, and sordid, patronage of the booksellers, and is within himself, at once, a printer and a patron.

THE PANTOLOGIA, or General Dic tionary of Arts, Sciences, and Words, by JOHN MASON GOOD, Esq. F.R.S., OLIN THUS GREGORY, LL.D., and Mr. NEW. TON BOSWORTH, of Cambridge, conti nues to be published with the same spi. rit, accuracy, and elegance, with which it first commenced. The parts already before the public exhibit numerous marks of the sound judgment with which this work is conducted. The objects it embraces are more multifarious than those of any other Encyclopædia, at the same time that it will be confined to a moderate size and price. Many of the separate articles have attracted much notice, on account of their originality and utility. The whole will be completed in six months.

Mr. NEWHAM, of Hackney, intends preparing for the press during the ensu ing Christmas, his Geographical Insti

tutes.

Many worthy people are prognosti cating for the thousandth time, the im mediate commencement of the millenni.um! God forbid that we should discourage follies which are innocent and comforting; but we have not forgotten the hundreds of poor creatures who, twenty years ago, were deluded by the phantasies

phantasies of Brothers. Persuaded to sell their fixed property to the first bidder, they came to London to accompany the prophet to Jerusalem, and some of them still survive in hopeless penury near the mad-house in which Brothers has ever since been confined.--We should astonish our readers if we named some dupes of the present delusion, not less respectable than poor Halhed, who, it will be remembered, exhorted the House of Commons to leave the good things in Britain, and depart with him and Brothers for the Holy Land!

Mr. MILBURN's Book on Oriental Commerce, is expected to appear early in January, and will be illustrated with numerous Charts by Arrowsmith.

Mr. CAPPER is printing a new edition of his Topographical Dictionary, including the population returns of 1811. Prophetic Records of the Christian Era, by the Rev. R. CLARKE, A. M. sacred, moral, and political, in a chronological series of striking and singular anticipations of the future state of Christendom, principally from the application of Holy Writ to the leading features of History; indicating the near approaching period of universal Peace and Prosperity, &c. &c. are in the press, in one large volume, 8vo.

A first volume of Researches into the History of the Human Kind, aud the Nature of Physical Diversities, is in preparation by Dr. PRICHARD, of Bristol.

An Essay on the Influence of Tropical Climates, more particularly the climate of India, on European constitutions; the principal effects induced thereby, with the means of obviating and remov. ing them; by Mr. JOHNSON, Surgeon in the Royal Society, will appear in a few days.

Accidents of Human Life are in the press, by Mr. NEWTON Bosworth,

The Index to Mr. NICHOL's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, is advancing in the press.

A little of the tincture of Jamaica dogwood, introduced into the cavity of a carious tooth, is said to produce instant and commonly permanent relief.

The perfumed cherry, or Prunus Mahaleb, coming into repute, is a pleasing tree for shrubberies. Its flowers are white, and diffuse a very pleasant smell. Any sort of cherry may be grafted with success on the stock of the perfumed MONTHLY Mag, No. 234,

cherry. It is propagated by seed sown in the autumn.

Dr. J. OGILBY, of Dublin, has replied to Sir Humphrey Davy's proposal for improving the arts of bleaching linen and cotton cloth, and shewn by demonstration that both have been steeped for five days in very strong solutions of muriate of lime, without their texture being the least impaired; and it has been calculated, that in the bleachers' steeping liquor, there never can exist one part of muriate of lime to 2000 of

water.

Mrs. CowLEY's Works, in 3 vols. 8vo. including all the retouchings and improvements that can be discovered amongst the papers of the authoress, will shortly be published.

Annals of Pedestrianism, by Mr. THOм, are in the press, and will cons tain a complete account of Captain Barclay's extraordinary performances.

Early in December will be published, The Multiplication Table, on a new and enlarged plan, by Mr. JOSEPH TAYLOR.

The Philosophical Society of London, continues to increase in public importance. The officers for the year ensuing are, President, J. C. Lettsom, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S.-Vice Presidents, Admiral Savage, J. Taunton, F.A.S., T. T. B. Beaumont, F.A.S., George Rees, M.D.

Mr. RIPPINGHAM has in the press, Observations on the Comparative Dan gers to be apprehended from the Ascens dency of the Catholics or Dissenters.

Dr. ADAMS will commence his Spring course of Lectures on the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, early in January, 1813, at his house, No. 17, Hatton Gar den.

The following animated portrait of the present state of the Medical profession, appeared in the last number of that incomparable work the Medical and Phy sical Journal.—“ Dr. Harrison with great justice urges, that the municipal pandect of the medical faculty, is altogether inefficient, or so notoriously defective, that it allows, if it does not countenance, every species of empiricism; and that grocers, druggists, coblers, and carpenters, are permitted, under this motley digest, to practice on the health and lives of his Majesty's liege people. The Licentiates bitterly complain that the fellows withhold from thein privileges and rights almost acknowledged, and hardly doubted; and, after being again and 3 L

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again repulsed, meditate a return to the charge, again perhaps to be defeated. The apothecaries, alarmed for their occu pation, associate, harangue, and form resolutions. In the year 1812, thus stand the medical politics of the British metropolis. The fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, wrapt in the panoply of their Charter, dream of security in Warwick-lane, while the licentiates are depositing, grain by grain, the powder which they fancy will disperse into thin air the black-letter privilege and ancient authority of these 'sad and learned' chiefs. Already the volcano obscurely grumbles, and the distant thunder mutters. The apothecary, with more serious cause of complaint than the Licentiates of the College, loudly sounds his tocsin,

And Pestles peal a martial symphony.' Fellows, Licentiates, and Surgeons, are the objects of his apprehensions. Through this mortal din, the College of Surgeons, though not exempt from domestic broils, contrives to cut its way, pro aris et focis, keeping in view, with steady dexterity, the good things of this world."

Captain FLINDERS has drawn up a statement of his remarks on the magnetic powers of the needle, made during his voyage for examining New Holland, in the Investigator. The observations contain the differences noticed at the binacle, on changing the head of the ship from east to west: also the result of observations recently made at Sheerness, Plymouth, and Portsmouth, in different ships of war, all of which vary materially from those made by the Investigator. In the voyages performed by Cook and Vancouver, the differences appear to have been nearly the same as in the ship Captain Flinders commanded; and also of a contrary nature in the two hemispheres.

In a late public exhibition and trial of the various systems of short hand, it was found that a writer of Mavor's system could follow a speaker faster than writers of any other system, in the proportion of nine to eight; an incontestible proof of the superiority of Macor's system.

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY attempts to account for those appearances which present themselves in bodies that are heated, in the following manner. Rejecting received hypotheses, he observes, "It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed, that, in solids, the particles are in a constant

state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity, and through the great. est space; that, in fluids, and elastic fluids, besides the vibratory motion, which must be conceived greater in the last, the particles have a motion round their own axis with different velocities, the particles of elastic fluids moving with the greatest quickness; and that, in ethereal substances, the particles move round their own axis, and separate from each other, penetrating in right lines through space. Temperature may be conceived to depend upon the velocities of the vi brations; increase of capacity on the mo tion being performed in greater space; and the diminution of temperature during the conversion of solids into fluids or gases, may be explained on the idea of the loss of vibratory motion in conse quence of the revolution of particles round their axis, at the moment when the body becomes fluid or aëriform, or from the loss of rapidity of vibration, in consequence of the motion of the parti cles through greater space."

Thirty specimens of excellent home, made wines have been sent to the Cale donian Horticultural Society, in consequence of their advertising a prize-medal for the best.

On October the 7th, the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in London and its Vicinity, held their Half-yearly General Court. This Society was instituted in the year 1788. Its capital is now nineteen thou sand two hundred pounds Three per cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, and two hundred pounds Navy Five per Cents; out of the interest of which, down to the 16th of September in the present year, 1812, the sum of three thousand five bundred and thirty-seven pounds, thirteen shillings, has been distributed among the widows and orphans of deceased medical men, members of this society, many of whose families have been left without any provision whatever.

Mr. SADLER ascended from Belviderehouse, near Dublin, October 1, at 1 P. M. with the wind at south-west, and in thirty-five minutes had sight of the mountains in Wales: he continued in the same direction till three o'clock, when being nearly over the Isle of Man, the wind blowing fresh, he found himself fast approaching the Welch coast, and at four o'clock he had a distinct view of the Skerry light-house, and the prospect

of consummating his ardent hopes of a speedy arrival in Liverpool. The wind now shifting, he was again taken off, and lost sight of land; when, after hovering about for a long time, he discovered five vessels beating down Channel; and, in hopes of their assistance, he determined on descending with all possible expedition, and precipitated himself into the sea. In this most critical situation, he had the mortification to find the vessels took no notice of him: obliged, therefore, to re-ascend, he now threw out a quantity of ballast, and quickly regained his situation in the air, to look out for more friendly aid. It was a length of time before he had the satisfaction of discovering any, and then observed a vessel, which gave him to understand, by signal, that she intended to assist him, but could not reach him. Two others also now appeared in sight, and one of them, tacking about, hoisted the Manx colours. Night now coming on, he was determined to avail himself of their friendly aid, and once more descended into the sea; but here the wind, acting upon the balloon as it lay upon the water, drew the car with so much velocity that the vessel could not overtake it; and notwithstanding he used his utmost efforts, and latterly tied his clothes to the grappling iron, and sunk them to keep him steady, still the balloon was carried away so fast, that he was under the necessity of expelling the gas: upon that had now nothing but the netting to cling escaping, the car actually sunk, and he His perilous situation, and the fear of getting entangled, deterred the men from coming near him; until, being in danger of drowning, Mr. Sadler begged they would run their bowsprit through the balloon, and expel the remaining gas. Having done this, they threw out a line, which he wound round his arm, and was then dragged a considerable way before they could get him on-board, quite

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exhausted.

The Spanish government have sent two of the mortars used by the French at the siege of Cadiz, as a present to our Regent. These implements of war are said to weigh twenty tons, and carry a shell of one hundred weight to the distance of three miles.

The following description of the contents of three Barrows lately opened in Wiltshire, by SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE," are among the most curious

Published in his great work, on the Ansient History of Wiltshire,

morceaus of antiquity that have lately met our notice:

I. Opened by Mr. Cunnington in the year 1805, at Upton-Lovel, a little village near the river Wily, denominated by him, the Golden Barrow :

"At the depth of two feet we found a little pile of burned human bones placed in a shallow bason-like cist; and, at the distance of one foot from the bones, was a considerable quantity of ashes, intermixed with small About two feet fragments of burned bones. from the pile of bones, the following articles were discovered: 1. Thirteen gold beads, made in the form of a drum, having two ends to screw off, and perforated in two places on the sides for the purpose of stringing. 2. A thin plate of the same metal, six inches in length, and nearly three in width, richly wrought, and perforated at the four corners. 3. Another ornament in form of a cone, decorated with circles and zigzags, and fitted closely to a piece of dark wood, like ebony, on which the marks of the pattern still appear impressed: the bottom part of this article is also perforated. The above are all highly burnished. The large flat plate must of pure but thin gold, neatly worked, and have been, like the cone, strengthened by a strip of wood behind; and the whole, by their several perforations, are strongly marked as forming the decorative accoutrements of some distinguished British chieftain. Besides the above, were two small articles in gold, resembling little boxes, about an inch in diameter, with a top, in the form of a cone, to take off. Besides the above precious articles of gold, we discovered some large plates of curious little cup studded over with projecting amber, and above a thousand beads of the same substance, and of different sizes; also a knobs, which appear to have been first made in the form of glass stoppers to a bottle, and, afterwards inserted into the circular holes of the cup, which had been previously drilled for receiving them: between these grape-like protuberances are other perforations, which still remain open

"Such was the result of our researches in the year 1803; but, not being completely satisfied, and still thinking that the primary interment had escaped our vigilance, I was anxious that a further trial should be made, which took place in July, 1807, and was at tended with success; for, on the same level, and within a few inches of the very spot where the golden trinkets and the amber beads had been found, we discovered two cups, the one placed within the other. The largest of these was covered with a profusion of zigzag ornaments; but, on taking out, was unfortunately broken to pieces. The smaller one, containing about a pint, is quite plain, and in good preservation. Still pursuing our excavations to the floor of the barrow, we there found an oblong cist, about eighteen inches deep, which coutained a simple inter 3L2

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