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however, that it is too late for us to rectify the defects of the transcription to which he has adverted.

Several enquiries having been made after the work from which an extract was given in the State of Public Affairs for March, page 264, we here insert the title:-Lettre a Monsieur A. F. T. Du F****, Membre du Consistoire et Tresorie de l'Eglise Protestante de Rouen. A Paris, 1806. It is a small octavo pamphlet, in fifty-five pages, and is signed at the end-Photinus, Paris, 6 Decembre, 1806. It will, we believe, soon appear in an English dress.

BOOKS PUBLISHED MAY 1807.

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AGRICULTURE.

Peter the Great; or, The Wooden

Tlarged and improved according acts. By A.

HE Experimental Farmer, en- Walls: an Operatic Drama, in three

to the latest improvements. By R.
Parkinson. 2 vols. 11. 5s.
General View of the Agriculture
of the County of Essex. By Arthur
Young, esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. is.

ANTIQUITIES.

Whistle for it a Comic Opera in
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1s. 6d.

Comments on the Commentators
on Shakspeare, with Preliminary
Observations on his Genius and
Writings. By H. J. Pye, esq. Poet
Laureat. 75.

Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, containing a Series of elegant Views of the most interesting The Caitiff of Corsica, or the Uniobjects of Curiosity in Great Bri- versal Banditti: an Historical Drama, tain, accompanied with letter press in five acts. 7s. 6d. descriptions. Vol. 1. 15s. Large paper, 11. 4s.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of John Lord de Joinville, Grand Seneschal of Champagne. Written by himself. Translated by T. Johnes, esq. Voi. 1. 4to. 41. 4s.

The Life and Writings of the late Rev. H. Tanner of Exeter. By Rev.

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EDUCATION.

The Juvenile Preceptor, or a course ing a Spelling and Pronouncing Dicof Rudimental Learning; containtionary, arranged in four parts. By George Nicholson. Vol. 4. 12mo. 4s.

Symonds.

quities of Greece; being an account
Archeologia Græca, or the Anti-
Greeks: designed to illustrate the
of the Manners and Customs of the
Greek Classics. By Rev. J. Robin-

son. 8vo. 12s.

A New Genealogical, Historical,
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C. Gros. Folio half bound. 41. 4s.
sent Time. By C. V. Lavoisne and

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A Complete Set of new Hydro-
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over proof, to 50 per cent, under, on
Clark's Hydrometer. By P. Jonas.

8vo. 7s.

HISTORY.

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Britain, from the Revolution of 1688,
to the. Treaty of Amiens 1802. By
W. Belsham. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s.

Hollinshed's Chronicles of England,

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Containing England. 21. 2s.

NOVELS.

Elizabeth, or the exile of Siberia,

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Note: and Observations on the from the French of Mad. Cottin,
Early Part of the History of the
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LAW.

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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 2, from 1804 to 1806. By T, E. Tomlins, esq. 4to. 18s.

A Table of all the Statutes passed in the 46th of George 3d. By D. Pickering, esq. 14s.

MISCELLANIES.

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Curious Sydercal Speculation, comprising the Nativity of Bonaparte; with plates. By J. Worsdale. 4to. 6s.

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The Hungarian Brothers. By A.
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BERKSHIRE.

M.A. for his Essay, On the Fulness of IED.] At Windsor, the Rt. Rev. Time when Christ came into the world.

D'un Douglas, D.D. Lord Bi

shop of Salisbury, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and a Trustee of the British Museum, F.R.S. and F.A.S. (A further account of the life of this eminent scholar will appear in our next.)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

The Norrisian Prize is this year adjudged to the Rev. Thomas Broadley,

The Rev. Mr. Penrose, A.M. of Corpus Christi College, has been appointed Bampton Lecturer for the year 1808.

The Rev. Herbert Marsh, B.D. Fellow of St. John's-college, has been elected Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, in the room of the late Professor Mainwaring.

CUMBERLAND.

The Board of Agriculture has voted their gold medal to the Bishop of Llandaff, for his new and extensive plantations on the banks of the Derwentwater-lake.

DEVONSHIRE.

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published in 1792, in one volume 4to, and written with much liberality.

ESSEX.

Died.] At Harwich, aged 27, Capt. Dawson, of the 79th regiment, eldest son of John Dawson, esq. of Mosleyhill, Liverpool.

HAMPSHIRE.

eminent solicitor of that place, whose death is universally lamented by his numerous acquaintance.-Drowned, in the wreck of the Blanche frigate, off Morlaix (see p. 3:3), Mr. Goodbew, a gentleman of great talents and attainments. He had contrived a system of naval signals, which received the approbation of the best judges, and will probably be brought into general practice. He was going to superintend the execution of them when the melancholy event happened. As an artist he possessed no ordinary skill, and his drawings are much admired. His poetical effusions manifest humour and fancy.

On Friday, May 22, about twelve o'clock, a fire broke out in a bakeDied.] At Southampton, Lady house in the town of Chudleigh, Stuart, widow of the late Sir Simon which raged with increasing fury, Stuart, Bart.-At Barton-house, aged and, at length, communicated to a 81, Sir Thomas Moore, bart. forhouse cencing two barrels of merly of Bury St. Edmund's, and the last heir-male of Sir Richard Moore, powder, which belonged to a person employed in blowing up the rocks: bart. of Pakenham in Suffolk.-At this soon took ..re, and blew up with Alresford, Edward Hopkins, esq. an a terrible explosion. The wind being very high, and many houses on each side of the street covered with thatch, the whole town became a general conflagration. Only one fire engine could be found in the town, and that was soon after burned. Exeter is the nearest place from which any asi 1. ance could be procured, and that being nine miles distant, there was nothing to stop the progress of the flames. The market-house, and all the houses ex epting about seven, at the extreme ends of the town, were consumed. Fortunately, no lives were lost; the church being a little to windward of the flames, was saved, and proved an asylum for the distressed inhabitants, whose situation must be truly deplorable. The number of houses destroyed is estimated at 175, the owners of which are many of them now without property, and all without a home. We trust that the purses of Englishmen, which were open to an enemy, the unhappy citizens of Leyden, will not be closed against the no less unfortunate inhabitants of Chudleigh, their countrymen and friends. Chudleigh was a beautiful town, about nine miles W.S.W. of Exeter, with a weekly market on Saturday. The woollen manufacture was its principal trade.

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HEREFORDSHIRE.

The result of a course of experiments has been laid before the Hereford Agricultural Society, by T. A. Knight, esq. from which it appears, that the strength of the juice of any cider-apple is in exact proportion to its weight. Thus the juices of the inferior apples are light when compared with the juices of the old and approved sorts. The forest stire outweighed every other, until it was put in competition with the new variety produced by Mr. Knight, from the Siberian Crab and the Lulham Pearmain, nor could another juice be found equal in weight to the latter.

Died.] The Rev. Thomas Allen, vicar of Bridstow, and perpetual curate of Brimfield, and a justice of the peace for the county.

LANCASHIRE.

It is mentioned, that by the embankment of Lancaster Sands, at an expense of from 150,000l. to 200,000l. about 38,710 acres might be reco

SURREY.

vered from the sea, which, when im- lost in the Glorieux man of war; proved, would be worth 1,340,000l. George, who was in the service of the A storm of hail, rain, thunder, and East India Company, was killed in lightning lately took place at Preston, India, and Edward, who was a cap more severe than ever before expe- tain in in the army, feil a victim to rienced in that part of the country. the climate, at St. Lucie. His LordSome of the hailstones, which were ship's two eldest daughters, by his measured, were upwards of three second marriage, are the wives of the inches and a half in circumference. Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian WelDied.] At Tower, in Furness, the lesley, and the Hon. Henry Wellesley, Rev. Mr. Bell, in his 95th year; and brother to Marquis Wellesley. His on the same day, and in the same Lordship is succeeded in his titles and house, his brother-in-law, Mr. Win. estates by his son Charles Henry VisHemming, in his 91st year. Mr. Bell count Chelsea, now Earl Cadogan. had been curate of Tower upwards of 61 years; and about seven years ago, two of his predecessors, curates of Sir Henry Fletcher, bart. of CleaTower, were living, one at Death- hall, Cumberland, for which county waite in Furness, the other at Gray- he was member of parliament 40 years. rigg in Westmorland. A short time Sir Henry was originally brought up ago, a gentleman of the neighbour- in the naval service of the East India hood asked Mr. Bell what the curacy Company, and commanded two of of Tower might be worth? On which its ships, the Stormont and Middlehe answered, that it was now a very sex, in succession. On his return good thing, viz. about 351. per annum, home he was chosen a director of the whereas, at the time he came there, Company, and continued so for 18 it was not worth more than 101. Al- years, except when he went out by though Mr. Bell had been blind for rotation. He was first returned a many years, yet he performed the Member to serve in Parliament for occasional duty until a short time Cumberland in 1768; and in 1783, previous to his death.

LINCOLNSHIRE.

Died.] At Willingham, near Gainsborough, the Rev. Robert Wells, D.D. and one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the parts of Lindsey, aged 74.

LANCASHIRE.

Died.] At Everton, suddenly, aged 53, John Gregson, esq. one of the aldermen of Liverpool.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

Died.] At Kettering, aged 71, Mr. Thomas Wright, owner of the waggons for more than fifty years between that place and London.

SUFFOLK.

Died.] At Askiey Park, aged 79,

we find him approving of the treaty of peace, so far as regarded the East India Company's settlements, but in a cautious and guarded manner.When Mr. Fox introduced his celebrated India bill, Nov. 18, 1783, Sir Henry Fletcher was nominated one of the seven commissioners for the affairs of Asia, along with Lord Fitzwilliam, Viscount Lewisham, Sir Gilbert Elliott, &c. Sir Henry, in 1796, voted with Mr. Fox, for a direct censure on Ministers, on account of having advanced noney to the Einperor and the Prince of Condé, without the knowledge of Parliament: ard in 1797, he supported Mr. Grey, now Lord Howick, in the motion for a Reform in Parliament.-At Chertsey,

SHROPSHIRE.

Died.] At his seat at Stanton Downham, aged 71, the Right Hon. Charles Sloane, Earl Cadogan, Viscount aged 65, Mr. R. Wet on. Chelsea, and one of the Family Trustees of the British Museum. He was Died.] At Church Stretton, the a nobleman possessed of much urba- Rev. John Maiawaring, Lady Marnity, and whose loss will be greatly sare''s Professor of Divinity in the regretted in the neighbourhood in university of Cambridge, to which which he lived. This venerable peer he was appointed in 1788. He was a was twice married. By his first lad na ise of Warwickshire, and eduhe had six sons, thice of whom died a gate't. John's-co'icge; B.A. 1745; in the service of their country. Tho- M.A. 1750; .T.3. 178; cetor of mas, who was in the royal navy, was Church Stretton, and of Aberdaron,

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