1 publish by subscription, in one vofume octavo, for the benefit of the widow and daughter of the deceased, the Life and Writings of the late Rev. H. Tanner, of Exeter. with the king of Candy, embellished with 24 engravings from original drawings. This work will contain an account of the manner of taking and taming the wild elephants, the inode Mr. Giffard's edition of Ben Jon- of diving for pearl oysters, the stripson is ready for the press: he has ping of the cinnamon bark, and the been assisted greatly by some manu- process of collecting natural salt, all scripts of the late Mr. Whalley. described from actual observation Sir William Ouseley is preparing and authentic documents. The plates for the press an English Translation exhibit the costume of the country, of the celebrated Persian work, en- the most striking scenes along the titled Nozahat al Coloub, and quoted coasts of the island, as well as some by Dr. Herbelot, M. de Sacy, and expressive features of the inland disother learned Orientalists, under the tricts. A medical report, concerning name of the Persian Geographer, the health of the troops in April 1803, Sir William had translated, several by the Superintendant of Hospitals years ago, different parts of this va- in Ceylon, whose observations throw luable work; but as none of the ma- a clear light on the nature of the clinuscripts which he possessed, or had mate, and the diseases to which it is an opportunity of inspecting, were subject. The work will conclude perfect, some wanting the chapter on with a description of the ceremonies the rivers of Persia, others the part practised at the Candian court. which describes the mountains and A new edition of the Complete mines, others the sections on the Farmer is nearly ready for publicaroads, and the stages from one city to tion. It will form two large volumes another, he was induced to defer the in quarto, and will comprehend all publication until an accurate and per- the various discoveries and improvefect manuscript should be found. ments in modern busbandry and rural Having been fortunate enough to ob- economy. The diseases of cattle, and tain one, he has completed his trans- other animals that interest the farmer, lation, supplied all the defects, and have also been carefully arranged and corrected the errors which abounded digested under their proper heads, in the other copies. From the accu- and the most appropriate remedies or racy with which the Persian Geo- means of cure introduced. The whole grapher describes the distance of is illustrated by nearly 100 engravings, places, the roads, rivers, and moun- representing the most useful and aptains, as well as the cities, towns, and proved implements and machinery villages, the errors of all the maps of used in the business of farming; the Persia hitherto published may be corrected, and a multiplicity of names added. To the antiquary and historian, this work will not be less inte- A small volume, entitled a Picture resting than to the geographer, as it of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, will soon describes the monuments of former make its appearance at that town. It ages, found in various parts of Iran will contain an account of that comor Persia, and contains many curious mercial place and its manufactories; anecdotes of the ancient sovereigns of a description of the Roman wall, the that celebrated empire. This work coal-mines, and the manner of workwill be comprised in one volume in ing them; it will be illustrated by a quarto, with a map. plan of the town, the coal-district The Rev. James Cordiner, A.M. round about, the coal-pits, rail-ways, chaplain to the Hon, Ffederic North, and staiths on the rivers Tyne and during his late government of Cey- Wear. lon, is about to publish, in two volumes quarto, a description of that island, containing an account of the country, inhabitants, and natural productions, with a tour round the island, a journey to Ramisseram, and a detailed narrative of the late warfare most esteemed natural and artificial grasses, and the various improved breeds of domestic animals. A Catalogue of the particulars of the Manuscripts, Collections, and Books, with Ms. notes of the late Philip D'Obville, Esq. purchased by the University of Oxford in 1805, for 10231, will shortly be printed. Mr. Gell, who is already well known Dr. Barclay, of Edinburgh, who to all the admirers of Homer, is about lately published a new Anatomical to publish an account of the Island of Nomenclature, has a work nearly ready Ithaca, its geography, antiquities, na- for publication, on Muscular Motion. tural productions, and manners and M. Lastevries' two works on Spanish customs of the present inhabitants. sheep, and on their introduction into It is intended to comprise this work other countries, are translating by in one volume in quarto, which will Mr. Luccock, who will add notes, contain a variety of maps, plans, and illustrating the breed of foreign other engravings, representing the an- sheep, wool, and woollen manufaccient citadel of Ithaca, the city of tures. Bathi, the ports of Polis, Frichias, A new edition of Mr. Duppa's Life Maurona, the rock called Homer's of Michel Angelo, with several adSchool, and a general map of the ditional plates, is nearly ready for publication. island. Mr. Belfour, who lately translated the Musica and Fabulas Literarias of Yriarte, is about to publish a new and improved edition of Jarvis's version of Don Quixote, embellished with superb engravings, and illustrated by notes historical, critical, and literary, from Mayans, Bowles, Vicente de los Rios Pellicer, and other able commentators. Mr. Belfour proposes to add Remarks on the Life and Writings of Cervantes, anecdotes of his contemporaries, and particulars of the manners, customs, and state of literature of the age in which he lived. Mr. Joseph Nightingale is preparing for publication an impartial view of the origin, progress, doctrines, discipline, and singular customs of the Wesleyan Methodists. A new translation of the celebrated novel of Gil Blas has just been finished by Mr. Smart, and will speedily be published, embellished with 100 beautiful engravings. A new edition, being the fifth, of Dr. Robert Bree's valuable work, an Enquiry into Disordered Respiration, is in the press. A new work on Conveyancing, consisting of a collection of modern preMr. Woodburne has in a state of cedents, with notes and illustrations, forwardness a Hundred Views of and practical introduction on the lanChurches in the neighbourhood of guage and structure of conveyances, Loudon, with descriptions deduced will speedily be published by John from the best authorities. Mr. Grant, of Crouch-End, near Highgate, will shortly publish a work entitled Institutes of Latin Grammar. This work is intended chiefly for the higher classes of an academy or grammar-school, and will furnish not only the senior scholars, but also the master, with a useful book of occasional reference. Mr. Sotheby has recently finished a poem on the subject of Saul, in eight books, in blank verse. Mr. Wordsworth, the author of Lyrical Ballads, will shortly publish a collection of Poems, under the title of the Orchard Pathway. Some posthumous works of Mrs. Chapone have been announced for publication; containing the Letters to Mr. Richardson, in her 18th year, on the subject of parental authority and filial obedience; her correspondence with Mrs. Carter, and some fugitive pieces, never before published. Turner, Esq. of the Middle Temple. The Rev. G. S. Faber, author of a Dissertation on the Prophecies, is preparing for the press a work on the Restoration of Israel, and the Destruction of Antichrist. Mr. Cooper, of Golden-square, will shortly publish a work likely to prove extremely useful to medical students, under the title of First Lines of the Practice of Surgery. An interesting Tale, descriptive of the manners of the fifteenth century, written by the late Mr. Strutt is preparing for publication. A new edition of Dr. Lind's valuable book, on the Diseases of Hot Climates, is in the press, and will shortly be published. A new translation of Ovid's Epistles, is in the press, from the pen of the late Rev. Mr. Fitzthomas. A new novel, from the pen of Mr. Dibdin, is nearly ready for publication. A new edition of Harmer's Obser vations on divers Passages of Scripture, enlarged and corrected by the Rev. Adam Clarke, A.M. is nearly ready for publication. A Catalogue Raisonnée of the extensive and valuable Collection of Books deposited in the British Museum is at present in contemplation; and it is hoped the period will not be very remote, before the public may be fayoured with a specimen of it. Mr. G. Burnett will publish, some time in April, a view of the present state of Poland, containing a particular account of the peasantry, their persons, dress, and political condition, comprising also some account of the customs and manners of the Poles, with a cursory view of the changes which have taken place consequent upon the dismemberment of that country. FINE ARTS. Mr. Joseph Halfpenny, of York, architect, whose plates of the Gothic ornaments in that Cathedral gained him great credit, proposes to publish by subscription, in the course of the present year, a work to be entitled Fragmenta Vetusta, or the remains of ancient buildings in York, It will contain 34 engravings, printed in large quarto, of the size of ten inches by seven and a half. Mr. Landseer is engraving an emblematical Monument in honour of Admiral Lord Nelson, in which he will introduce the bust of his Lordship, and allusions to his most celebrated victories, from a drawing by P. J. de Loutherbourg, R.A. So that Smithfield market has, principally within fifty years, doubled the weight of flesh sold in it, besides a considerable increase in the numbers. We learn, from a communication to the Society of Arts, that the white A beautiful picture has lately been thorn, which is so valuable for fences, painted by Mr. Stothard, from Chau- may be propagated by cuttings from cer's Procession of Pilgrims to Can- the roots with considerable success, terbury. This painting is accounted while cuttings from the branches do a chef-d'œuvre, and for such a subject not thrive. The roots of plants a year we have perhaps no artist so well qualified as Mr. S. It is intended to engrave a plate from it, and Mr. Bromley is expected to do that justice to the subject which so excellent a picture merits. The size of the print will be thirty-one inches by ten. old will afford each ten or twelve cuttings, and in three years a succession of plants fit for use will be produced. It may not be unacceptable to the public to be informed, that Mr. Hornblower, of Featherstone-street, Cityroad, has so modified the construction of the fire engine, as to become a most valuable acquisition to those who are under any apprehensions of accidents by fire. It has been proved The same gentleman has circulated by experiment, that the four sides of proposals for a new work, entitled a bed-room, all on fire, may be exBritish Field Sports, from drawings tinguished, in the space of a minute, Mr. Edward Orme will shortly publish by subscription an Essay on Transparencies, making one large volume in quarto. with little more than a pail of water. important in a commercial view, to It stands in the compass of fourteen make a small establishment on the ,inches square, and two feet high, and now almost depopulated island of may be carried from one room to an- Otaheite; and to render it useful in other with ease: all that is required the navigation to and from Botanybeing to keep it full of water, in its Bay, as a place where ships may proproperly assigned place, and to work cure abundant supplies of pork and it off every month or six weeks, to vegetables. The king of Owhyhee is keep the water from becoming putrid, making himself master of the other and, at the same time, to be assured Sandwich Islands; is improving them that the engine is in working order. to the greatest prosperity of agricul On Sunday forenoon, Feb. 8, a spot ture and population; is ambitious of appeared near the eastern limb of the making them seats of manufacture Sun's disc, nearly large enough to be and commerce; and even proposes to seen with a smoked glass without any open a trade to Nootka Sound and to magnifying power. It is spindle- Bengal. formed; its longer axis nearly per- In the island of Cuba there is nei pendicular to the Sun's equator; its ther grown wheat, olives, or vines. shortest axis not to be reduced by the Every article of clothing is brought lowest estimate to less than three from Europe, there not being a sintimes the diameter of the earth, or about gle manufacture of any kind in it. 1-30th part of the Sun's diameter. In 1792, there were exported to Spain Still more eastward of it, and nearly 80,000 cwt. of tobacco, besides that opposite to its centre, at the distance consumed in this country and in of about 18,000 miles measured on America. The export of wax that the Sun's disc, was a very small and year amounted to 5000 cwt. Bees round spot. have only been introduced in Cuba An algebraical proof of Sir Isaac since the year 1764. After the peace Newton's Binomial Theorem, which of Versailles, when Florida was ceded has been hitherto a desideratum in to the English, some families came Mathematics, has been lately disco- over from St. Augustine, and brought vered by Francis Burke, A.B. a stu- some hives with them, and in a short dent in Dublin University. The dis- time they increased so much, that covery has been honoured with a dis- the sugar plantations became endantinguished premium by the Board of gered. Trinity-college. The Irish language continues to be Parpontier, a celebrated French spoken at present in Louth, Meath, chemist, has discovered a new species and Westmeath; in the south-west of utility, besides its nutritive powers, part of Carlow, a considerable proin the potatoe, and his discovery has portion speak Irish; in Kilkenny it been proved in England by stucco prevails greatly; in Wexford it is plasterers. From the starch of po- very little used in the south-east part tatoe, quite fresh, and washed but of the county, but is pretty general in once, a fine size, by mixture with the north-west. In Dublin, Kildare, chalk, has been made, and in a variety Wicklow, and in the King's and of instances successfully used, parti- Queen's counties, very few speak cularly for ceilings. This species of Irish; in all the counties of Munster size has no smell: while animal size, the Irish language prevails, if we exputrifying so readily, uniformly ex- cept the large towns, their immediate bales a most disagreeable and un- neighbourhoods, and some of the wholesome odour: the size of potatoes being very little subject to putrefaction, appears from experience to prove more durable in tenacity and whiteness, and, for white-washing, should always be preferred to animal size, the decomposition of which always exhibits proofs of infectious effluvia. It is proposed, as an object highly country along the coast. It is more prevalent in Connaught than in the West of Ireland: in this province it is essential to acquire the language, in order to be able to deal with the peasantry without an interpreter. Ulster, there is a great propertion of Irish speakers; Cavan and Monaghan contain many; Tyrone, about half its inhabitants; Donegal, more than half; In Armagh and Down a few; Antrim, a the Lutheran Gymnasium at Eperies, few along the eastern coast; Derry, a has received permission from the few in the mountains to the south- Emperor of Austria to travel in west; Fermenagh, scarcely any. Switzerland, for the purpose of acThe King has approved of the elec- quiring a perfect knowledge of Pestation of John Soane, Esq. to be Pro- lozzi's method of education, and affesor of Architecture to the Royal terward to visit the schools of indusAcademy, and of Mr. William Owen, try in Prussia and Saxony. to be an Academician, in the place of John Russell, Esq. deceased. Germany. Italy. The celebrated Canora has just finished, at Rome, a statue of Hebe, Died, at Kiel, Dr. Hensler, one of which far surpasses all his other works. the most distinguished men.bers of The upper part of the goddess is rethe University of that city. He was presented naked, and the rest of her the author of many learned works, body is covered with a drapery of the and particularly by his researches on greatest lightness. She is represented the origin of Syphilitic diseases. The as performing the office of cup-bearer Prince Regent of Denmark has pur- at the table of the Gods. He intends chased for the Danish Admiralty the to make a copy of this statue in very curious library of this learned bronze. physician. Portugal. M. Calandrella, astronomer at Rome, The publication of the following has published observations on the anmaps was announced at the last Mi- nual parallax of the star Lyna, which chaelmas fair at Leipsic, viz. 1. Map he finds to be five seconds. This disof Germany, divided according to the covery, if established, would greatly peace of Presburg, Dec. 26, 1805, and diminish the distance at which the the act of the confederation of the fixed stars have been calculated. InRhine, July 12, 1806. 2. Map of stead of six or seven millions of miles, Westphalia, according to the latest it will justify barely half that quan trigonometrical measurements, astro- tity. nomical determinations of places, and military arrangements of the Prussian The literature of Portugal is about Major-General Le Coq, divided ac- to receive a valuable accession, in a cording to the latest political changes translation of Voltaire's Henriade, by in September, 1806. 3. Map of Sua- the Marquiz de Bellas, formerly ambia, divided according to the peace bassador at the court of London, and of Presburg, and the act of the con- now at the head of the judicial defederation of the Rhine. 4. Map of partment in his own country. the Giant Mountains in Silesia, according to the latest geographical determinations. Hungary. Sweden. M. Bergstedt, who has travelled many years with much success in the Levant, has finished his translaSeveral works in theology, morals, tion of Chevalier's Travels in the education, &c. even some novels, Troad. The first volume, which was have lately been published in the published more than three years ago, Hungarian language at Pest. contained some learned observations Mr. Samuel Klein has published, on the places which he visited after at Buda, a Wallachian almanack, to M. Chevalier, particularly on the which he has added an interesting isles of the Archipelago. In the abridgment of the ancient history of second volume, M. Bergstedt has Wallachia. inserted many passages from Homer M. Kulcsar has obtained permission and Musaus, which serve to throw to publish a gazette in the Hungarian light on several observations of his language, at Pest, entirely devoted to author. Me literature of that country. A li- The Count of Oxenstiern, well terary and political gazette is pub- known in Sweden for a poem on lished at Vienna, in the Hungarian the Harvest, has published the se language, under the title of Magyar cond volume of his works, the first Karer, the Hungarian Courier. having been published in the year Mr. Mathias Sanowiz, Preceptor of 1805. |