C The Rev. J. Hewlett has in great forwardness a third volume of Ser mons. FINE ARTS. On Friday, April 10, the public curiosity was gratified in viewing the Mr. T. Harral has in the press, in remaining works of the immortal one volume octavo, A popular View Barry, at Christie's rooms, Pall Mall, of Europe, Historical and Political, The attendants were numerous, and in the Spring of 1807; containing principally amateurs and professors biographical sketches of its respective of the art. His Pandora was underSovereigns, in a series of letters. The admirers of Shakspeare will be glad to hear that considerable progress has been made in the printing of a new edition of his Works, which is intended to exhibit, as to size, paper, type, text, and orthography, as nearly as possible a fac-simile of the first folio edition. Mr. Southey is preparing for publication two volumes of Poems and Miscellaneous Essays, by the late Mr. H. K. White, of Cambridge, whose genius bad fair to place him in the first rank of English poets. The work will be accompanied with a life of the author, and will be embellished with his portrait and other plates. Sir William Beattie's Life of Dr. Beattic, will shortly be published in octavo. Mr. George Lipscomb has nearly ready for publication, a Pathological Disquisition concerning the Gout. Dr. H. Robinson, of Edinburgh, will shortly publish Discourses on the Nature of Inflammation, and the History, Theory, and Cause of the Venereal Disease; and he will also shortly publish a work on the Natural History of the Atmosphere. stood to be bought in at 130 guineas, 150 guineas having been offered for it previous to the sale.-Venus rising from the Sea, sold for 105 guineas; and his Adam and Eve, for 110.Amongst the various spirited portraits we were greatly delighted with that of Dr. Johnson. Those of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, Lord Romney, the Bishop of Durham, and others, were purchased by Mr. E. Hastings, of Welbeck-street; whose lot it is also to possess the whole of the curious apparatus belonging to that eccentric, but truly great man. We hope that this young artist will feel a degree of inspiration at the sight of them, and use them with success in producing subjects for which his natural genius is well calculated. We sincerely hope that such a production as the Pandora will never become the property of any individual-forbid it, ye liberalminded Academicians, although poor Barry did once presume to dictate to you, and to prescribe laws for the real welfare of the Royal Academy. Bartolozzi, notwithstanding his advanced age of 82 years, continues to enjoy good health, at Lisbon, and is engaged in giving to the world fresh The new edition of the English proofs of his superior abilities. The Poets, which has been in the press for Massacre of the Innocents, by Guido, some time, is now in a considerable has lately been engraved by him with state of forwardness. This collection his usual delicacy and expression: it embraces not only the series published is intended to form a part of the French by Dr. Johnson, but also such of the museum. An engraving of the Narancient poets, from Chaucer to Cowley, as appear necessary to illustrate the rise and progress of English poetry. Dr. Johnson's series will also be brought down to the present time, by the addition of our most popular authors, from Lyttleton to Cowper. The lives of the poets, not in Dr. Johnson's collection, are written by Alexander Chalmers, Esq. F. S. A.The last volumes will contain the best English translations by Pope, Dryden, &c. cissus of Viegra will also soon make its appearance; the figures only will be executed by Bartolozzi, the landscape will be by Le Conte. The merits of this celebrated artist have at last met with the honourable rewards they have so long deserved the Prince Regent has inade him a Knight of the Order of Christ, and presented him with the insignia of the order set in diamonds. Mr. James Elmes proposes to publish, by subscription, an Architectural and Scientific Investigation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London; illustrated by plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large, from ac tual measurements; with an Essay on the life, writings, and designs of Sir Christopher Wren. It will be printed in the same size as Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, and the number of plates will not be fewer than 45, engraved by the first artists in the line manner. The following is a description of Mr. Stothard's beautiful cabinet picture of the Procession of Chaucer's Pilgrims to Canterbury:-The scene of the picture is laid in that part of the road to Canterbury, which commands a view of the Dulwich hills; the time, a beautiful and serene April morning. The interest of the procession is considerably heightened by the cheerfulness of the accompanying landscape. The pilgrims are grouped with a decorum suited to their respective characters, and in the order in which we may suppose Chaucer himself to have seen them, headed by the miller, playing upon his pipe, under the guidance of Harry Baillie, the host, who, as master of the ceremonies, is represented on horseback, standing in his stirrups, in the act of commanding attention to the proposal he is about to make of drawing lots, to determine which of the company shall tell the first tale. Near to him is a line of five characters, the knight; his son, the young 'squire; the franklin, or country gentleman; the serjeant at law, the merchant, and the doctor of physic. The 'squire is mounted on a white horse near the knight, and betwixt these two figures is seen the reve. Close behind the 'squire, his yeoman advances, habited in green. The front of the next group is also composed of five characters-the lady abbess; her nun; the nun's priest; the good parson; and his brother, the ploughman. The figures immediately behind the lady abbess are, the shipman; the Oxford scholar; the manciple; and Chaucer. Next, mounted upon an ambling nag, approaches the wife of Bath, heading a groupe of four figures; she is represented in brisk conversation with the monk and the friar; behind them are the padedoner, dressed in blue, and his friend the sompnour in white. The last groupe of this motly cavalcade is composed of the goldsmith, the weaver, the dyer, and the tapestry merchant, all citizens of London, attended by their cook; with these joily pilgrims the procession closes. A beautiful specimen of the graphic art, by Cardon, will shortly be submitted to the public, from a painting by Westall. The subject of the picture, which is large as life, is selected from Shaw's well-known Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady. Mr. Wm. Russell proposes to publish, by subscription, a capital portrait of Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. painted by his late father, John Russel, Esq. R.A. for the Dean of Carlisle, and to be engraved in the stroke manner, by Heath. Mr. Charles Wild proposes to pub lish, by subscription, under the patronage of the Archbishop of Canter bury, a series of Twelve Perspective Views, in aqua tinta, of the Interior and Exterior of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury. In making the selec tion of views, particular attention has been paid to display that rich diver sity of style for which the metropolitan church of Canterbury stands so eminently distinguished. Mr. Thomas Webb of Birmingham, intends to publish a series of Medals, commencing with the following characters: Lord Nelson, Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, Marquis Cornwallis, Sir Sydney Smith, Matthew Boulton, and James Watt, Esqs. The size of the medal will be 2 in diameter; on the obverse will be a highly relieved likeness, from the best authority, in a grand Roman style, with classical and appropriate designs on the reverse. MISCELLANEOUS. It is estimated that there is produced in England, annually, 245,290 packs of short wool, 137,228 ditto of long wool, and 10,718 ditto of lamb's wool, the total value of which amounts to 5,570,4947. The annual slaughter of shortwooled sheep, in England, is estimated at 4,221,748; of long-wooled ditto at 1,180,413; and of lambs, 1,400,500. The deaths, by disease and casualties, $19,135; making a total of 7,142,856. The number of lambs yeaned is estimated at 7,002,802. The annual de crease, according to this estimate, is 140,054. There are twelve newspapers printed in London on the Sabbath Day; the number of which sold to the public amounts to 25,000; and the men and boys employed in printing and distributing them is about 1000. The revenue received from them amounts to about 20,000l. a year; a sum which would be most extravagantly purchased at the expence of the public morals, even if it were a net produce. But it may be doubted if the revenue be really a gainer, the sale of papers published on Fridays and Saturdays having decreased, in one instance, from 7000 to 500. at Winchester, which was so extensive as to supply their army,-and there is reason to believe that the trade which they introduced into Britain was not neglected by the native inhabitants, for the first nine hundred years of the christian era. The long Spanish wool was imported into this country so early as the 12th century, and we find that since the days of Edward III. British fleeces were admirably adapted to the kind of cloth which was in greatest request, though now they are generally unequal to the production of that which is sought after. The population of Ireland in 1731 was 2,010,221, and in 1805, 5,395,456, having been more than doubled during that period. The number of Romanists in 1731, according to the return made to the House of Lords, was 1,309,768; and the number of protestants in the same year, 700,452, being nearly two Romanists to one protestant. The number of Romanists had increased in 1805 to 4,300,000, and the protestants in the same period to 1,080,000, making an increase of 2,990,240 Romanists, and 379,548 protestants. Austria. France. The oriental library of the late Tippoo Sultaun, which on the capture of Seringapatam, was preserved entire, and consists of 2000 volumes of Arabic, Persian, and Hindostanee manuscripts, was shortly after that event conveyed to Calcutta and deposited in the college of Fort William, where it much facilitated the labours and pursuits of the professors and students of those languages. This library was in the year 1805 minutely examined by the assistant Persian professor captain Charles Stewart, and a descriptive caThe Archduke John has purchased talogue explaining the subject of each the collection of minerals, belonging volume, memoirs of the author, &c. to the celebrated Professor Jacquin, formed of its contents. Since that for twelve millions of Horius. gentleman's arrival in England, and appointment to the East India Company's college at Hertford, he has revised the work, and added an appendix, containing specimens in the Persian language(accompanied by a translation) from the principal authors quoted in the catalogue, rendering it not only a useful book to the oriental M. Azune has published a Disserta student, but desirable by every person tion on the Origin of the Compass, wishing for information on such sub- with a view to prove that the French jects, or curious of knowing the na- were the first who made use of it. It ture and extent of Mohammedan lite- was, he says, known in France so early rature, which, it must be remembered, as the twelfth century, under the name had arrived at a great degree of splen- of Mariniere, and was used under the dor when Europe was overcast with reign of Lewis IX. Givia d'Amflai, ignorance and barbarism. For the who is said to have been the inventor, convenience of foreigners, to whom lived not earlier than about the year the English letters may not give the 1800. The fleur-de-lis has certainly exact pronunciation of an oriental been adopted in all countries for the word, the titles of the books will be Compass. also inscribed in the Arabic character. It is a curious fact, that the Romans, during their residence in Britain, established a manufactory of woollen cloth The academy of Fine Arts at Bruges lately adjudged a prize medal to a young man, who having from natural defects been unable to use his hand, has acquired the art of drawing to considerable perfection by holding the cravon in his mouth. Germany. Never did the memory of Luther receive such universal homage as it has done within twelve months. Be sides the grand drama, of which he is the hero, and which has been acted with prodigious applause at the theatre-royal Berlin, M. Klingemann has lately performed at Magdeburg a tragedy, in six acts, entitled Martin Luther. Schroeter the astronomer has determined, that the highest of the three mountains which he has measured in the moon is nine-tenths of a geographical mile in height. Hungary. The language of the Hungarians is little known by other European nations, and on account of its radical difference from the polished tongues of Europe is little likely to acquire much estimation beyond the limits of the territory where it is spoken. It appears, however, not to be wholly uncultivated, and the attention paid to native literature is said to be increasing. A journal is publishing at Vienna, of which Dr. Lübeck is the editor, under the title of Hungarian Miscellanies, though the numbers do not succeed each other so rapidly as might be wished. Only three numbers have yet appeared, and their contents will be found to be interesting. Among Hungarian works of recent date, the following may be mentioned. A new edition, with corrections, of the Hungarian Grammar of Farkas, published by Mr. Jos. Martin, secretary of the consistory at Vienna, printed in 1805. Professor N. Revaj has published the first part of his work, which treats of the inflexions of verbs. M. Jos. Hegyi has published an Hungarian translation of select epistles of Cicero; and John Tenarki, a translation of the Jerusalem delivered of Tasso, both printed at Pest. M. Francis Toth, professor at Papa, published in 1804, a System of Doctrine, for the use of reformed protestants. Matthias Trattner, a bookseller at Pest, has printed, in 1805, Dialogues for the Use of Children already able to read, intended to habituate them to the exercise of reflection, by the Countess of Karyoli, who has availed herself of a German work of similar object by G. C. Claudius. Kis, a bookseller at Pest, has printed a Library for the Use of Children and Young Persons, consisting of a collec tion of moral tales. In 1808, Mr. Jos. Fabian, minister of the reformed religion at Veres Bereny, published at Veszprim a Popu lar Treatise on Medicine. The same writer has also given an Hungarian translation of the useful work of M. Chaptal, on the Cultivation of the Vine and the Preparation of Wine, printed at Veszprim for Sammer, 1805. Hungarian Literature has sustained a considerable loss by the death of Mich. Velez, of Csokonakilla, a pleasing poet, who published, in 1805, A Collection of Songs, which had remarkable success. The same author published, in 1804, An Heroic Comic Poem, in four books, entitled Doro thea, or the Triumph of the Ladies at the Carnival. In the preface, which, as well as the poem, is in the Hunga rian language, the author treats on the nature of the heroic comic poem. This branch of writing has hitherto been scarcely cultivated in Hungarian literature. Another work of nearly the same kind was printed at Pest, in 1804, entitled Matthias Ritoki, in which the author, who describes himself only by the initials F. V. relates the solemn coronation of the celebrated Hunga rian poet of that name. The same author published, in 1804 and 1805, at Pest, in two volumes, A Satirical View of the Follies of the City of Pest, under the title of the Life of M. Tzar vas of Kolompos. Italy. Sweden. engravings are to be executed by the Switzerland, and an accurate observer best artists of Madrid and Paris. The of nature, has planned a mineralogical Spanish text will be prepared by Fa- tour from Zurich over the Grison ther Roxas, an Augustin Friar, and mountains to the Ostel Peak of the the French text by Mr. Alexander Tyrol. We are hitherto but partially Laborde. acquainted with this interesting country, and indeed we have only some Some years ago several naturalists few notices of the latter part of the of Sweden formed a society for the tour by Dr. Gebhawt. Mr. E. also purpose of giving a complete botani- meditates a second journey, through cal arrangement of the plants of their the western Alps, between Dauphiny native country. Forty-six numbers and Savoy, where his geognostic peof this work have already appeared, netration will collect many interesting each containing a coloured engraving results. Turkey. of four or five plants, with their names in the principal languages of Europe, The Grand Signior's press estatogether with a short description of blished at Scutari, near Constantinoeach in the Swedish language. The ple, under the direction of Abdorbaeditors of this work are proceeding man Effendi, has lately published the with another on the same plan, relat- following works, viz. ing to the zoology of Sweden, and the 1. Commentary on a Book, with first number has already appeared. this title in Arabic, "Revelation of Mr. Wertring has lately published a Mysteries," containing 267 pages in very curious work on lichens, in small quarto. The editor savs in his which he gives an exact description introduction, that the author is the of each species, and indicates its use Scheik Mohammed Barevu, that he in medicine and in domestic econo- has published this work for the use of my, and particularly an explanation his two sons, and that its title in Araof the means of extracting colours for bic was the "Fruits of Reflection." dying silken and woollen goods. The This work was finished in the month plates that accompany this work, and of Ramadan, in the year of the tiewhich do honour to Sweden, repre- gira 1080, or according to the chrissent the mosses of the class of li- tian æra 1674, and the re-impression chens, coloured after nature, and the in the year 1804. colours which they give out in dying. Switzerland. 2. A Commentary on the Book of the Hundred Regents, containing 88 pages in small quarto, printed in 1805. 3. An Arabic Grammar, from Yru! Owamel, completed in July 1731, and printed in 1805, containing 118 pages in small quarto. Mr. Escher, member of the Helvetic administration of the mines at Zurich, known to the friends of mineralogical studies by his memoirs in the Miners' Journal, as well as the many useful articles on geogonomy and geThe Books of Euclid,' in the Araology in Ebel's Introduction to the bic language, with the Commentaries most useful manner of travelling in of Nasireddin will shortly follow. ENTERTAINMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS. DRURY-LANE, March 12. This and The Point of Honour, and he has evening a new Musical Enter- produced some situations of interest. tainment was produced at this theatre, The scene is at Rheims, in France, and called The Young Hussar. The cha racters were Florian Mr. ELLISTON Mr. GIBBONS Mr. CHERRY the more interesting parts arise from the fate of Florian, a young Hussar, who had sacrificed his military honour at the shrine of filial piety, who, to preserve his father from gaol, had violated his country's trust and deserted its service. During the anxious search, with which his regiment of course pursues him, he owes his concealment to love,wards off the danger that threatens 2 Z |