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tures.

The Rev. Dr. GEORGE COOKE, of Laurencekirk, is engaged upon a History of the Reformation till the Revolution; illustrating a most interesting Period of the History of Britain, in 3 octavo vols. Mr. JOHN CONNELL, advocate procurator of the church of Scotland, will speedily publish in two 8vo. volumes, a Treatise on the Law of Scotland with respect to Tithes and the Stipends of the Parochial Clergy.

The Rev. Sir H. M. WELLWOOD is printing in one volume 8vo. Discourses on the Evidences of Christianity, connected with some of its practical results. Messrs. CONSTABLE and Co. of Edinburgh, have announced for publication the Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811. This work, which will consist of two 8vo. volumes, with numerous engravings, is the production of a French gentleman, who left his own country above 20 years before he paid a visit to ours, and who bestowed more time and pains on the survey of which he here publishes the results, than his countrymen usually allot to such purposes. There is scarcely any part of the country which he has not visited, and scarcely any of the subjects which these visits could suggest, that he has not discussed with exemplary candour, intelligence, and originality.

The Rev. Dr. WM. CRAWFORD, of Straiton, will speedily publish an 8vo. volume of Sermons.

Mr. ACKERMANN has issued proposals for publishing by subscription the History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster, with the Charter House and Free School of Harrow. It will be in the same form as the Historics of Oxford and Cambridge, brought forward by the same publisher, and be illustrated by the artists who have been employed in those works. The whole will be comprised in from ten to twelve monthly numbers, commencing with the 1st of September next, and form one volume.

Mr. ACKERMANN has likewise circulated proposals for publishing by subscription a Treatise on Farmhouses and Cottages, as they relate to the picturesque. The work will contain 52 plates, each representing a farm-house or cottage in a separate county, so that the whole will comprise a rural scene in every county of England and Wales. The plates are etched by Francis Ste

phens, from original drawings by Chalon,
Cristall, Delamotte, Grainger, Hills,
Munu, Norris, Prout, Pyne, Sam. Ste-
vens, J. and C. Varley, Webster and
The work will form five
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monthly numbers, elephant 4to. the first
of which appeared on the 1st of January.
The same publisher has just prepared
an edition of the Book of Common
Prayer, illustrated by twelve engravings
in the line manner, by Scott, after de-
signs by Burney and Thurston, in a royal

8vo. volume.

Mr. KIRBY is preparing for the press the fifth volume of his Wonderful Museum, which will surpass all the preceding portions of that entertaining work in the interest of its diversified contents, as well as in the execution of its embellishinents.

The Rev. ROBERT TWEDDELL is preparing for the press, Remains of the late J. Tweddell, fell. of Trinity Coll. Cambridge, to the mysterious loss of whose M.SS. the attention of our readers has been more than once directed. It will form a 4to. volume, comprizing a selection of his Letters, written from various parts of the continent; a republication of his Prolusiones Juveniles; an appendix containing some account of the author's journals, M.SS. collections, drawings, &c. and of their extraordinary disappearance, with a brief Biographical Memoir. We are glad to find that the question at issue between the relatives of Mr. Tweddell and a noble carl, who at the time of his death filled a high diplomatic situation at Constantinople will thus be fairly and fully brought before the public.

General SARRAZIN has finished a History of the War in Spain and Portugal, from 1807 to 1814, which will speedily appear in an 8vo. volume, illustrated with a map exhibiting the routes of the armies.

Mr. SURR has nearly ready for publication a new novel, entitled The Magic of Wealth, in 3 vols.

LOUIS BUONAPARTE's novel, Maric ou les Hollandaises is reprinting in London in French. An English translation will appear at the same time.

Sir N. W. WRAXALL will shortly publish Historical Memoirs of his own Time, from 1772 to 1784, in two 870. volumes.

In a few days will appear, a New Cover to the Velvet Cushion.

Messrs. LONGMAN and Co. will pub lish early in the spring a curious work under the title of Bibliotheca Anglo

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Poetica, or a Descriptive Catalogue of a singularly rare and rich Collection of Old English Poetry; illustrated by occasional extracts and notes, critical and biographical. It will be clegantly printed in royal 8vo. and ornamented with capitals, and about 20 portraits finely engraved on wood for this express purpose. The impression will be limited, and 50 copies only on large paper with proofs of the portraits will be printed.

Mr. J. JENKINS, of the Strand, is publishing in monthly numbers, a work entitled the Military Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; containing accurate accounts of the Battles of the Allied Powers during the last 14 years. Each number is embellished with four engravings coloured to imitate the drawings.

A work by the late BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE, the well known author of the "Studies of Nature," is expected to issue from the French press in the course of the present month. It is entitled, Harmonies de la Nature, and is directed to an illustration of the wisdom and be neficence of Providence in the works of creation, by exemplifying many coincidences and aptitudes which do not occur to ordinary observers. A translation into English from the proof sheets is in progress, and will be published in this country at the same time as the original. The third and fourth volume of the Memoirs of the Margravine of Bareith are in the press, and will-appear early in

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The second and concluding volume of the Travels of Professor LICHTENSTEIN in Southern Africa, which is nearly ready for publication, will comprise the continuation of the journey through the Karroo to the Cape Town; a Botanical Tour to the district of Zwellendam, &c. a Journey into the countries of the Bosjesmans, the Corans, and the Beetjuans; an Excursion to the Borders of the Roggeveld; a Journey to Bosjesveld and Tulbagh, and the return by St. Helena to Europe.

Mr. Upcort, of the London Institution, has in the press a volume in 8vo. of considerable interest to collectors of British Topography. It consists of a Bibliographical Description of the principal works on the Topography of Eng land and Wales alphabetically arranged, exhibiting the particulars of each portion of Letter Press, together with a list of Plates and Pedigrees.

Mr. J. JAMES, of Bristol, has in the
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press, the Pilgrim's Progress in verse, the first part of which may be expected in about a month.

The Twelve Scholars, intended for the instruction and amusement of young persons in humble life, will be published in February.

Mr. C. LAISNE will publish early in February the following elementary works:-1. A Selection of Idioms and Phrases peculiar to the French language.-2. A Selection of Idioms and Phrases peculiar to the Spanish language.-3. An introductory Grammar of the Italian Language (in which the rules are illustrated by examples both in prose and poetry, selected from the best anthors), for the Use of Schools.-4. An Alphabetical List of the Irregularities of Italian Verbs. These works are uni form with the rest of the author's compositions, and with them are intended to form a complete treatise on the Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese languages.

The following interesting works are nearly ready for publication :

Private Education, or the Studies of Young Ladies, considered, by ELIZA BETH APPLETON, late governess in the family of the Earl of Leven and Melville,

Travels in Europe and Africa, by Col. KEATINGE. This work will be illustrated with numerous engravings of antiquities, scenery, and costume, from drawings taken on the spot.

Memoirs of thirty Years of the Life of the late Empress JOSEPHINE.

Memoirs of the French Campaigns in Spain of 1808, 9, and 10, by M. RoCCA, Officer of Hussars.

A Supplement to the Memoirs of the Life, Writings, Discourses, and Professional Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, by JAMES NORTHCOTE, Esq. 4to.

Mr. ANACREON MOORE, we understand, has nearly ready for publication, a Poem, in the composition of which he has been employed for a considerable time past.

The Copleyan gold medal for 1814 has been presented by the Royal Society to James Ivory, Esq. of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, for his various mathematical communications, published in the Philosophical Transactions. At the meeting of the Society on the 8th December, the president, Sir Joseph Banks, took a luminous and comprehensive view of the papers laid before the Society by Mr. Ivory, particularly his investigation of spheroids. He then pro

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ceeded to a history of this abstruse branch of mathematics. He shewed that the principles of the great Newton first assumed the earth to be a homogeneous fluid, but the theory did not correspond with actual experiment. Maclaurin demonstrated, that a homogeneous fluid in rotatory motion would always remain globular. He was followed by Simpson, and their labours were adopted and extended by Lagrange in the Berlin Memoirs, and the question is now finally established by Mr. Ivory.

FRANCE.

Some of the Parisians have regretted that the proceedings of the Chamber of Peers, which contains so many distinguished orators and statesmen, are not regularly and completely published. The Censeur, a journal in weekly numbers, paid most attention to this subject. After the 12th number had appeared, the publication was prohibited by the government. The editors have therefore found themselves necessitated to change the title, and to publish in volumes of above twenty sheets," in order to avoid the censorship." The first volume of this continuation has made its appearance under the title of-Observations sur diversActes de l'Autorité, et sur des Matières de Legislation, de Morale, et de Politique, par Messrs. Comte et Dunoyer, Avocats (368 pp. 8vo.), and contains several important pieces; among which may be remarked, An Address to his Majesty Louis XVIII. by Cobbet, in answer to the question, What ought the king on his return to do or not to do?-A Treatise on the question, Whether it is lawful to take the Life of a Tyrant, in reference to the elevation by the king of the family of George Cadoual, the accomplice of Pichegru, to the rank of nobility. It contains also Strictures on the Paris Journals, on the Liberty of the Press. &c, and the continuation of the transactions of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies. It will soon be seen whether the editors will be allowed to proceed with this very free publication.

The king has yet done nothing in regard to the nomination of hereditary peers and peers for life: all, therefore, are yet in hopes of obtaining hereditary dignity, if they can acquire the favour of the king. According to an original regulation of the Legislative Body, none of its members could be a placeman: this law, however, was afterwards violated, and so it is at present in the Chamber of Deputies; nay, one of the mem

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bers of that assembly, Silvestre de Sacy, has even thought fit to accept the post of censor, with a salary of 1200 francs.

St. Simon's eccentric work De la Reorganisation de la Société Européenne, has had a rapid sale, and it is said that the censors have not yet allowed it to go to press again. M. de Chateaubriand, who is appointed ambassador to Stockholm, is yet at Paris. His article in the Journal des Debats of the 4th October, gave great pleasure to the court, and it is supposed that this distinguished writer will not leave France.

Sir Herbert Croft has published a pamphlet in the French language at Paris, intituled, "Reflexions submitted to the Wisdom of the Members of the Congress at Vienna, and to all those for whose Happiness they are assembled."

The work of M. Amoros, which has been so strictly prohibited in Spain, and which must not be confounded with another performance, On the Spanish Traitors, is intituled-" Remonstrance of the Spanish Counsellor of State, Don Francisco Amoros, to his Majesty Don Ferdinand VII," in which he complains of the persecution experienced by his wife, Donna Maria de Theran, from Don Valentin Belbis, Count de Villariezo, captain-general of New Castile; together with an exposition of the conduct of M. Amoros during the political convulsions of his native country, accompanied with fifteen documents. Paris, 1814; 346 pp. 8vo.

According to the French papers, M. de Chateaubriand is at present engaged upon a Sketch of a History of France, the fragments of which hitherto communicated excite universal interest.

Besides the other branches of instruction cultivated in the academy of the University of Paris, the Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Armenian languages are taught. The king has recently founded two new professorships, the one for the Chinese, the other for the Sanskrit. The Sanskrit and Chinese types, which are now likely to come into use, were brought from Calcutta for the printing-office of the Propaganda at Rome, and thence removed by the late government to Paris.

M. Fleuret, formerly professor to the Military School of Paris, asserts, that he has revived the art possessed by the ancients of preparing an artificial stone not inferior in solidity to the natural species. For more than thirty years he has, according to his own account, made artificial stone which completely resists

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all the influences of the weather, wet as well as cold. He employs it chiefly for water-pipes, which have been substituted in a great part of the departments of the Rhine for wooden pipes,and have produced a great saving of timber. Paving stones of all colours are also made for floors of shops, &c. The inventor communicated his art to the public in the year 1807, in a work intituled-"L'Art de composer des Pierres factices aussi dures que le Caillou, et Recherches sur la Manière de batir des Anciens, &c." (2 vols. 4to.)

According to the calculation of M. Salgues, there were a few years since in Paris twelve theatres, and in the then territory of France 156, in 129 towns.-The total number of performers in the metropolitan theatres amounted to 1,388, and those belonging to the provincial houses, reckoning 20 to each, would be 2,580, or both together 3,962. Estimating their families at thrice this number, there appear to have been near 12,000 individuals who entirely subsisted by the trade of making their fellow-creatures laugh and cry. The stock-pieces of the Paris theatres amounted at the same time to 904. When we consider the much greater number of those pieces which had failed or grown out of fashion, consequently how many dramatic writ ers, booksellers, and printers live by making others laugh and cry; lastly, the host of artisans, tradesmen, restaurateurs, publicans, confectioners, hackneycoachmen, and artists of all kinds, we shall find that in France upwards of 100,000 persons subsist, according to M. Salgues, by making others laugh and cry. This, however, is certainly not the only or the most important object of the drama.

M. Melville, of whose curious experiments in the Seine we gave some account in a preceding number, is actually preparing a carriage, in which two persons may take an aquatic excursion at the bottom of that river next spring. So much is certain, that he possesses the art of preparing a kind of air, by means of which he can not only breathe in a small space, but in which, as he asserts, he feels much better than in the ordinary atmosphere. He has recently made fresh experiments before the court at St. Cloud with the same success as on preceding occasions.

GERMANY.

At four o'clock on the 20th of November, Dr. Kraskovitz made his sixth aerial ascension at Vienna. The weather was extremely gloomy and unfavour

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able. He was scarcely half a minute in rising through the thick fog which for three weeks had almost incessantly enveloped the Austrian capital. The view which then opened upon him was truly magnificent. The heavens appeared perfectly serene; the sun and moon vied in brilliancy to exhibit the visible universe in all its splendour. The shroud of vapours, as far as the eye of the astonished aeronaut could reach, appeared like a solid silver-coloured mass overspreading the surface of the earth, according as it rose in hills or sunk into vallies. The summits only of the neighbouring and remote mountains of Styria and Hungary towered above this ocean of fog; and the inhabitants of the Kahlenberg and Leopoldsberg, which were uncovered, were enabled to watch all his motions. He purposely prevented the machine from rising to any considerable elevation, lest he should experience the same inconvenience as Mr. Sadler, jun. did in his ascension on the 1st of August from the freezing of the valve. The height, therefore, to which he rose was very moderate; the mercury in the barometer fell about four inches. A temperature like that of spring, probably occasioned by the reflection of the rays of light from the upper surface of the sea of fog, was so comfortable that the aeronaut took off his gloves, and the mercury rose considerably in the thermometer. The air was pure and refreshing, and the voice very audible. The solemu silence that commonly prevails at great heights was on this occasion interrupted by the water-mills on the Danube. Thus was the aeronaut full of transport and admiration, wafted by a gentle breeze up the Danube towards the Leopoldsberg. The sun was already half sunk below the horizon before Dr. Kraskovitz could resolve to quit a scene of such wonderful beauty, which strongly reminded him of a similar spectacle that he had enjoyed at an early period of life on the Adriatic sea. He opened the valve, and instead of the brilliant scene which he had been contemplating, he found himself involved as if by magic in utter darkness. The fog was so dense that he was obliged to shut his eyes, and to blow it from before him. He alighted without accident on the island of Schwartzlacken, between the Bisamberg and Leopoldsberg, passed the night at Spitz, and returned the following day to Vienna.

Leonard Mälzel, a musician and composer of Vienna, brother of the celebrated mechanician John Mälzel, has, with much study, and after incessant exer

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tions for six years, invented a new musical instrument of extraordinary powers and perfection, to which he has given the name of The Orpheus Harmony. The external figure of the instrument is a horizontal chest, five feet square and three high. It has five octaves of keys. The tone is produced, without the least noise, by the slightest pressure; it continues audible as long as the finger remains upon the key, and may be made louder or softer at the pleasure of the player. The crescendo inspirits and invigorates; the descrescendo,like the voice of echo, lulls the soul into delicious repose. The advantages of the finest human voice, arbitrary duration, the gradual rising and sinking of the tone from an agrecable middling strength to the lowest possible sound, are properties peculiar to this instrument. It is therefore particularly adapted to the perform ance of pieces in slow and solemn measure; but compositions in quicker time can be executed upon it, because the tone is produced instantaneously when the key is touched. The ingenious inventor has submitted this instrument to the judgment of the first cognoscenti aud professors of music in the Austrian capital, who have attested its novelty both in regard to its extraordinary tone, and the noiseless manner in which it is produced.

The king of Prussia has ordered a monument to be erected in memory of Field Marshal Courbiere, the brave defender of Graudenz. The circular pedestal, to which there is an ascent of three steps, is formed by twelve large mortars, with the mouths turned inwards. Twelve eagles placed upon them support the entablature, around which are ranged thirty flaming bombs. Around the base recline, in a pyramidal form, 18 stands of colours, which surround a standard crowned with the Prussian eagle and a laurel wreath, the top of which is 25 feet above the base of the monument. About the frieze, between the two coats of arms of the hero, are explanatory inscriptions. During the war between France and Prussia in 1806, Courbiere, who commanded at Graudenz, received from the French a summous to surrender, accompanied with the observation," that there was no longer any king of Prussia ;"-" Well," rejoined Courbiere," if there is no longer a king of Prussia, I am king of Gradenz, and shall not fail to retain that dignity as long as I can."-He kept his word.

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At Vienna has appeared a print inscribed Theodore Körner's Grave, which is a welcome memorial to every friend of that youthful poet, patriot, and warrior, who fell in the grand conflict for the independence of Germany. Imme diately after his interment, on the 28th of August 1815, Ernest Welker, the painter, made a drawing of the oak and the spot where his mortal remains repose from nature, and has since engraved it. On the right appears the beginning of the encampment of Lützow's jägers, to which gallant corps he belonged, in the back-ground part of the village of Wübhelin, and on the left in the foreground, the house in which Körner lay till his burial. Behind the oak in the centre appears another smaller tree, near which Count Hardenberg, the poet's companion in death, was interred. In the centre of the fore-ground stand two friends of the deceased, one of whom indicates by the mantle worn in the form of the Roman toga, that he will not survive the loss of his faithful comrade. In the action on the Görde, which soon followed, after expending all his ammunition, and killing several of the enemy, he rushed into the midst of the hostile ranks, exclaiming-" Körner, I follow thee !" Under the print are two lines from one of Körner's truly Tyrtaan pieces, the energy and patriotism of which are equalled only by the religious spirit which pervades them. They contributed not a little to inflame and to maintain the military ardour of the brave corps of volunteers in which he held the rank of lieutenant, and were enthusiastically sung by his comrades on various occasions, but always at the moment when they were going to battle.

A Bible Society has been formed in Wirtemberg, under the patronage of the king, for the purpose of supplying the wants of the Protestant inhabitants of that country. Such has been its success, that it is proceeding with the printing of an edition of the Bible (both Old and New Testament) of 10,000 copies, and 2,000 of the New Testament only. The work is nearly half through the press.

The Bavarian government is making great improvements in the Danube. By means of cuts at Dillingen, Laibi, and Falheim, amounting in the whole to 7,300 feet in length, the navigation has been facilitated, and the course of the river shortened about six English miles. The importance of attention to this point will be obvious when it is known, that if

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