Society have liberally permitted the use of, in furtherance of Mr. Chitty's plan.

The Rev. Mr. DAVIES, of Campton Academy, is printing a collection of Reading Exercises for Youth of both Sexes.

Dr. GEORGE REES is preparing for the press, a new edition of his book on Dis orders of the Stomach, in which many additional cases and important observations will be introduced."

Mr. CARY is engraving on ten folio plates, a Portraiture of the Heavens as they appear to the naked Eye, constructed for the use of students in astronomy, by the Rev. Francis Wollaston, F.R.S. Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS having had his attention called to the subject of Grand and Pettit Juries while he was serving the office of Sheriff, is about to print some practical Instructions to assist Juries in the correct discharge of their important duties.

On the first of January will be pubTished, a Description of the ancient Terracottas in the British Museun, by TAYLOR COMBE, esq. illustrated with fortyone plates, engraved after the drawings of William Alexander, esq.

Chronological Memoirs of Mahonmedan History, from its earliest period to the establishment of the House of Teymur in Hindoostan, is in great for wardness, translated from the Persian by D. PRICE, esq. of the Bombay Military Establishment.

Preparing for the press, an extensive Military Historical Work, in quarto, by Captain T. H. COOPER, author of the Light Infantry Guide, Military Cabinet, &c.; being a collection of all the land battles fought in the Messenian, Lydi. an, Sacred, Peloponnesian, Corinthian, Hetruscan, Tarentine, Punic, Sardinian, Social, Macedonian, Jugurthine, Mithridatic, Civil, Servile, Peruvian, and other wars, from the foundation of Rome to the birth of Christ; embellished with about eighty plans of the principal battles, and maps shewing the routes and places of actions, &c. &c.

The Jubilee, or the Disappointed Poet, in a series of elegies, by PETER PINDAR, esq. is in preparation for the press.

A Treatise on some practical Points relating to the Diseases of the Eye, by the late J. C. SAUNDERS, esq. is in the press. It will be illustrated by coloured engravings, and contain a short account of the author's life, with an engraving from a portrait by Devis.

The Right Hon. GEORGE ROSE has in

the press, a new and enlarged edition of a Brief Examination into the Increase of the Commerce and Revenue of Great Britain, brought down to the present time.

On the first of January will be pub lished the first Number of a new edition of the Book of Common Prayer, printed on a large new beautiful type, and em bellished with elegant engravings, wịth Notes illustrative and commentary, by the Rev. J. COOKSON, M. A. rector of Colman, and Prior's Dean, &c.

Mr. MYERS, of the Royal Military Academy, will shortly complete an Ing troduction to Historical, Physical, and Political Geography; accompanied with maps, and adapted to the higher classes of pupils, under both public and private tuition. Mr. M.'s inducement to this undertaking, and his guide in its accomplishment, has been utility; and to at tain this object he has condensed into one moderate-sized octavo volume, the most valuable matter of more extensive systems. In the construction of the maps, particular attention is paid to simplicity, perspicuity, and accuracy; and it is presumed that these qualities, so essential in every elementary treatise, will be found to prevail in a superior de gree throughout the whole performance.

The Rev. JOSIAH PRATT, who has recently published a collection of the Works of Bishop Hall, is engaged on a Life of that prelate; but he is not able to fix any time for the appearance of the publication, as from the nature of the materials and their bearings on the history of religion in England, and on many points warmly controverted at the present day, much research and delibera, tion are required.

The public may shortly expect a Life of Sir Michael Forster, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, originally written for the new edition of the Biogra phia Britannica,while that work was under the superintendance of the late Dr. KIPPIS.

Mr. MALCOLM has in the press, a new volume of Anecdotes of the Manners, Custoins, Dress, Ainusements, &c. of the Citizens of London, from the time of the

account of eminent persons before and since the Reformation,in two large volumes quarto, embellished with two hundred portraits, will be published in the course of the ensuing year.

Mr. J. CARTER is making a series of Drawings of York Cathedral, for Sir M. Sykes, bart; which, when finished, will form the largest and most elaborate undertaking of the kind yet gone into in this kingdom. The drawings already finished (and done to the Society of Antiquaries Cathedral scale) are, I. Plan; II. Foundation ditto; HI. West Elevation; IV, Detail of ditto to a larger scale; V. South Side; VI. Detail of ditto to a larger scale; VII. Longitudinal section, from West to East, Size of the drawings, feet 3 inches by 2 feet.

Mr. SMART is preparing for the press, a Guide to Parsing; which, it is expected, will furnish material assistance to the study of English grammar, and the above necessary exercise, particularly in school classes. Mr. Murray's arrangement will be followed.

Mr. JoRNES, of Hatod, has engaged Mr. Stothard, the Royal Academician, to paint some splendid decorations at his seat, which are already begun.

Mr. GUTCH, of Bristol, has published a Catalogue of Books, including nume rous rare and curious articles, selected from the libraries of the late John Innys, esq., Rev. J. Whitaker, Richard Gough, esq., Mr. Woolmer, of Exeter, Robert Jones Allard, esq. &c. Such an extensive collection is highly creditable to the bookseller, as well as to the citizens of Bristol, who have by their encourage ment stimulated him in his endeavours. We are happy to see such establishments meet with success in most of our principal provincial cities and towns.

The Rev. J. FAWCETT has in the press, the Devotional Family Bible, with copious notes and illustrations, partly ori. ginal and partly selected from the most approved expositors, ancient and modern, with a devotional exercise at the end of every chapter. It will be comprised in two volumes quarto.

Mr. CHARLES EICHHORN will shortly put to press, a translation of Gessner's pastoral novel, entitled Daphnis, intended for the use of German and English scholars, with an interlineary translation, and the English elegantly rendered at the foot of each page.

Dr. HOOPER will, in a few days, publish the first fasciculus of his long-promised Anatomical Atlas.

The engravings for a Chinese Dic tionary, of about seven thousand charac. ters, are commenced under the supeane tendance of Dr. MONTUCCI. The work will be translated into Latin, French, and English, in compliance with the de sire of the East India Company, and will, it is hoped, be completed in five years.

Sir ROBERT WIESON has in the press, in one volume quarto, Brief Remarks on the Character and Composition of the Russian Army, and a sketch of the Cam paign in Poland in 1806 and 7, from ob servations made by him when he accom. panicd Lord Hutchinson to the head. quarters of the Emperor Alexander.

In our last an intention was announced

to indict certain persons for conspiring against the property of the Medical Journal. The crime, however, has car ried its punishment so fully along with it, that an appeal to law would be thought vindictive and cruel. Of the New Medical and Physical Journal, as it is called, we are assured that not a hundred copies were sold, perhaps not fifty, or not enough to pay for the fine paper used for the covers; whereas of the Mc dical and Physical Journal, not only the" regular number of copies was sold last, month, but also nearly fifty copies in addition to the usual number! Such is the confidence of the faculty in the edi tors, Dr. Fothergill and Mr. Royston, and such the sense of justice in an en lightened public!

Mr. MANNING is now at Canton, in China, and has been there five years, learning the language, in the dress of the country, with a view to penetrate the interior. He is an able man, and has so adapted himself to the manners and feelings of the Chinese, that he is scarcely to be distinguished from the natives. even by natives. We understand that a native Chinese lady is now in London; but she lives in retirement.

From the very extraordinary produce of one potatoe planted whole, it is cr dent that the cultivation of that useful root in this country, is merely in its infancy. In the latter end of June last, a gentlenian residing in Sloane-square, planted in his garden a new species of potatoe, which he brought last spring from the Alleghany mountains in North America; and, by a peculiar mode of cultivation, there grew from the original parent upwards of one hundred stems, each measuring in length about six feet six inches. Lately these stems were dug, when the produce weighed

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but, at four in the afternoon, a frightful and continued noise, accompanied with frequent explosions, announced a new eruption; the shocks of the volcano were so violent, that at Castel Uovo, built upou a rock, where I then was, at the distance of near four leagues, I felt oscillations similar to those produced by an earthquake. At five o'clock the eruption commenced, and continued during the greater part of the night. This time the burning matter flowed down all the Sides of the mountain, with a force hitherto unprecedented; all Vesuvius was on fire, and the lava has caused the great est losses; houses and whole estates have been overwhelmed; and at this day families in tears, and reduced to despair, search in vain for the inheritance of their ancestors, buried under the destroying Java. At ten at night, the hermitage was no longer accessible: a river of fire had obstructed the road. The districts situated on the south-east quarter of the mountain were doomed to suffer still more. Mount Vesuvius was now but one vast flame; and the mariner, at a prodigious distance, might contemplate at Leisure this terrific illumination of nature. The scarcity of oil at Venice, in 1307, ccasioned by the destruction of the olivetrees, during the war, led to the intro. duction into that state of the Chinese radish, which has, of late, been cultivated there with great success. The oil is represented to be superior to any already known, not merely for the table, but for burning, and many medical purposes, especially in pulmonary and rheumatic affections, and in pleurisies and convulsive coughs.

AFRICA.

A letter from St. Michael, one of the Azores, dated August 24, gives the following account of the destructive effects of an earthquake, lately experienced in that island. "One of those dreadful phenomena never witnessed in your country, has plunged many here in unspeakable wretchedness and affliction, and continues to occasion great terror to all the inhabitants of this island. On the 11th of August, at ten P. M. slight shocks of an earthquake were felt at intervals of a few minutes for four hours. During this time the inhabitants, under the influence of alarm for their personal safety as well as property, were running to and fro in the greatest distress. Between two and thice a dreadful rocking was experienced throughout the whole MONTHLY MAG, No. 206.

island; several houses, unable to resist its violence, were thrown down, and many others were greatly damaged; and such persons as sought safety in the open air were dashed to the ground. Hitherto the calamity had been confined in its effects, and though great injury had been sustained, we had to congratulate ourselves on the loss of few lives; but we were yet to witness a most dreadful spectacle. On the 12th at mid-day, a hollow rumbling sound was heard, the clouds gathered, and the wind was hushed into silence; the rocking returned, and in a few minutes after, the village of Cozas, situated on a plain, comprising twentytwo houses, was swallowed up, and in the spot where it stood a lake of boiling water gushed forth. Many of the unfortunate inhabitants, who had previously retired to the elevated ground, behold the sight with a degree of horror, and amazement, which enchained all their faculties; their whole property swept away in a few minutes, and in the place where their once beautiful gardens and flourishing orchards stood, nought now appeared but a vast expanse of water. About thirty-two persons, it is calculated, have lost their lives by this awful aud calamitous event, and cattle and property to a considerable amount are destroyed. A great degree of alarm continues to pervade the whole island, as on the east side an orifice has been discovered, resembling the crater of a volcano, and out of which flames occasionally burst. Hitherto they have been unaccompanied by any ejection of volcanic.

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EAST INDIES.

In the evening of April 8, two successive shocks of an earthquake were distinctly felt in Calcutta and its vicinity. The time was between twenty and twenty-five minutes past seven, and the duration of each succession was estimated at from six to thirty seconds. The ribrations appeared at first to pass in a line from north-cast to south-west, and then to return in an opposite direction. Reports from various stations in the lower parts of Bengal, as far up as Moorshedabad, mention the occurrence of a similar phenomenon, nearly at the same hour. By a letter from Ramnugur, the vibra tion is stated to have been feit there at half-past seven, and to have continued for an unusually long time. At Guftaul, the shock was distinctly repeated thrice.