rature, with an undeviating attention to the Principles of pure and undefiled Religion, and to the best Interests of Society, without distinction of sect or party."

The Journals of the Two Expeditions behind the Blue Mountains, and into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government, in the years 1817-18. By JOHN OXLEY, Esq. Surveyor-General. With maps and views of the newly discovered country, will soon be published.

Speedily will be published, the Elementary parts of Pestalozzi's Mother's Book, in three parts, illustrated with engravings, by P. H. PULLEN, Head Master of the Philological School.

DR. WEATHERHEAD, Author of a Treatise on the Diagnosis of Erysipelas, has just published a Treatise on infantile and adult Rickets; with Remarks on Nursing, for the consideration of Mothers, as connected with this disease, together with a plate and description of an improved reclining couch for the use of the distorted.

Bibliotheca Britannica; or, a General Index to the Literature of Great Britain and Ireland, ancient and modern, with such foreign works as have been translated into English, or printed in the British Dominions; including also a copious selection from the writings of the most celebrated authors of all ages and nations, by ROBERT WATT, M. D. is in course of publication; and it is estimated that the whole work will be completed in twelve parts, forming four vols. in quarto.

The Poetical Decameron'; or Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. by J. PAYNE COLLIER, of the Middle-Temple, will appear in a few days.

Mr. HENRY NEELE is employed upon a new Narrative and Descriptive Poem, which will be given to the public in the ensuing winter.

In a few days will be published, a Geological Primer, in verse, with a Poetical Geognosy, or feasting and fighting, and sundry right pleasant Poems: to which is added, a Critical Dissertation on King Coal's Levee.

Dr. CHARLES HASTINGS, Physician to the Worcester Infirmary, has in the press, in one volume 8vo. a Treatise on Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane of the Lungs; to which is prefixed, an Experimental Inquiry into the general Nature

of Inflammation, and the Contractile Power of the Blood Vessels.

In a few days will be published, a Refutation of the Objections to the New Translation of the Bible, by J. BELLAMY, the translator.

PORSON'S Euripides, complete, with an Index, is printing in an octavo vol.

Mr. GIFFARD's Edition of the Plays and Poems of James Shirley, now first collected and chronologically arranged, are nearly ready for publication.

A reprint is preparing of the famous Century of Inventions of the Marquiss of Worcester, from the original MSS. with Historical and Explanatory Notes, a Biographical Memoir, and an original Portrait.

The Village of Mariendorft, a Romance, by Miss ANNA MARIA Porter, is in the press.

Speedily will be published, Lacon, or many Things in few Words, by the Kev. C. COLTON, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

A Work is in preparation, called Royal Virtue," or a Tour to Kensington, Windsor, and Claremont, or a Contemplation of the character and virtues of George III. the Duke of Kent, and the Princess Charlotte, in the scenes where they were principally displayed.

The Rev. W. MOORHOUSE, West-Melton, near Rotherham, is transcribing for the press, "Thoughts on the essential requisites for Church Communion;" in which will be considered the sentiments of the Rev. S. Greatheed, F.R.S. with an appendix of miscellaneous Essays, chiefly theological.

Early in April will be published, an Italian and English Grammar, from Vergani's Italian and French Grammar, in twenty lessons, with exercises; a new edition, corrected and improved, by M. PIRANESI. Also, a Key adapted to the French and Italian, as well as the English and Italian.

A Translation is preparing of M. COTTU'S Work, on the Administration of Criminal Justice in England, and on the spirit of the British Constitution.

A History of the Modes of Belief usually termed the Superstitions of the Middle Ages, with some curious plates, will speedily be published.

The Topography of Athens, with some Remarks on its Antiquities, by Lieut.Col. LEAKE, is in the press.

The History of Parga; containing an account of the vicissitudes of that part of Greece during the French Revolution; supported

supported by authentic Documents, translated from the Italian MS. of HUGO FOSCOLO, will soon appear.

In a few days will appear, the Huntingdon Peerage; comprising a detailed account of the evidence and proceedings connected with the recent Restoration of the Earldom, by H. BELL, Esq.

Mr. JAMES STRACHAN, of Aberdeen, has in the press, a Visit to the Province of Upper Canada, in 1819.

Mr. C. P. WHITAKER is preparing an improved edition of Hamoniere's French and English Dictionary, in a portable volume.

In April will be published, Le Guesta d'Enrico IV. in Italian verse, by M. GUAZZARONI.

The Adventures of Thomas Eustace, of Chinnor, Oxfordshire, are printing under the direction of the Rev. SoL. PIGGOTT.

Mr. JAMES WILSON has in the press, a Journal of two successive Tours in 1816-17-18; containing an account of the South of France, the great Road over the Alps, and the most interesting Parts of Italy.

Mr. GRANT is printing a third volume of his History of the English Church, which will bring the narrative down to 1800.

A Series of Characteristic Portraits of Cossacks, attached to the Russian army that entered Paris in 1815-1816, with some account of the different Tribes, is printing.

Mr. J. L. BICKNELL, of Greenwich, has a volume of Original Miscellanies, in verse and prose, nearly ready for publication.

Mr. CORRY is preparing for the press, Cromwell, or the Adventurer, a tale.

Memorials of Royal Worth are printing; containing a complete collection of Anecdotes of George III.; with various tribute of grief on the Death of the benevolent Duke of Kent; collected by INGRAM COBBIN, M. A.

A new Periodical Work will shortly be submitted to the world, under the title of the Christian Champion.

A letter from Captain De Peyster, on a voyage from Valparaiso to Calcutta, states :—On the evening of the 17th of May, 1819, one of the people discovered a large fire; that they hove-to until daylight, when another small low island appeared five miles under our lee; we passed it close, it appeared clothed with cocoa-nut trees, and doubtless inhabited, and has never before been noticed. To the former we gave the name of Ellice;

and to the latter the officers and passengers gave the name of De Peyster's Islands. Ellice's Group lies in long. 180. 54. W. lat. 8. 29. S.; De Peyster's Islands, 181. 43. W. lat. 8. 5. S.

A new society has been formed in London for the encouragement and promotion of ASTRONOMY. The list of the officers, that have been chosen for the direction and management, comprehends some of the first astronomers and mathematicians in the country.

A plan has been communicated to us of a Cottage Society, for the reduction of Poors' Rates, and the relief of the Poor, by Mr. Tho. Wright. It proposes, if his plan shall be deemed by the public worthy of being carried into execution, there are thousands of waste spots by the road-side, to submit to the subscribers the propriety of petitioning the legislature, to erect cottages thereon, with ground for garden, orchard, and keep of a cow, &c. where convenient, with liberty for the cottager to take the drift from the road for the improvement of his ground; that the crown be petitioned for a grant of some part of the lands, either in gift or at a small perpetual rent; and that lords of manors be also applied to for the like purpose; and that in case the society do not succeed in these petitions, they might purchase cheap poor lands, which as they would be worked by spade-husbandry, would quickly give ample support.

FRANCE.

The number of letters of all descriptions delivered daily by the post, in Paris, is, on an average, 32,000; and of journals 1800; while in London, the letters are 133,000; and the journals 26,000; making, in the former capital, one letter among seventy-two persons, and one journal among three hundred and eighty. eight; and in the latter, one letter among nine persons, and one journal among forty-three.

DENMARK.

A young Creole, a native of St. Croix, in the West Indies, lately crossed by swimming, the Streight of the Sound, between Cronenburg and Elsinor. In this part the strait is about four English miles wide; but the winds and currents not allowing him to make the passage in a strait line, he was obliged to land at the village of Graves, two miles from Elsinore, which made the whole distance about six miles. He performed this voyage in two hours and forty minutes, although the sea was rough and the wind unfavourable. A Danish officer and three

sailors

M. WACHLER, professor in the univer sity of Breslow, has lately published an octavo pamphlet, containing his Observations on the present state of German Literature. This sketch is a rapid analysis of the different literary productions that appeared in Germany, in 1817.His decisions, occasionally severe but just, may be read with pleasure, and they exhibit a pretty complete picture of German Literature in its present state. We can easily discern, that it is inferior to the brilliant æra of Klopstock, Wieland, Herder, Schiller, &c. M. Wachler intends to publish, at the end of every year, a similar synopsis of all the new literary productions.

ITALY.

A letter, dated December 23, 1819, from A. MAI, the principal librarian of the Vatican to the Pope, giving an account of Cicero's Treatise de Republica, has excited great expectation.

"I have the honour and satisfaction," says M. Mai, in his Letter to the Pope, to inform your beatitude that in two re-written Codices of the Vatican, I have lately found some lost works of the first Latin classics. In the first of these MSS. I have di covered the lost books de Republica of Cicero, written in excellent letters of the best time, in three hundred pages, each in two columns, and all fortunately legible. The titles of the above noble subject, and of the books, appear in the margin; and the name of Cicero, as the author of the work, is distinctly legible. The other re-written codex presents various and almost equally precious works. It is singular that this MS. contains some of the same works which I discovered and published at Milan, and I have here found what was there wanting. I perceived this at first sight, not only from comparing the subject, but also from the hand-writing, which is precisely the same as that of the Milan MS.

The contents are-1. The correspondence between Fronto and Marcus Aurelius before, and after he was Emperor. This is an instructive, affectionate, and very interesting collection; the first and second books, containing epistles to M. Aurelius, were published from the Milan MS.; that now found in the Vatican contains the third, fourth, and fifth books, as well as the supplement to the second, and some other works by Fronto, Latin and Greek. 2. The fine commentary of the ancient inedited scholiast

on Cicero, begun to be published by me at Milan, and now to be increased by five other orations, with the supplements to those already printed at Milan. 3. A fragment of an oration, by Q. Aurelius Symmachus, with the supplement of two by the same author, 4. The supple

already published by me.

ments to the homily, or Gothico-Ulphilan commentary, a portion of which was also found at Milan, together with an essay of Ulphilas. These valuable works, mixed into two volumes, which were taken for writing parchment in the middle ages, were sent partly to Rome, and partly to Milan, from the Convent of St. Columbanus at Bobbio. They will now be again united in

a Roman edition of them, which I shall lose no time in publishing." ANGELO MAI.

(Signed)

EGYPT.

The last news from this country, of inexhaustible curiosity, contains information respecting the labours of that magnificent undertaking, the Grand Canal of Alexandria. Already the primary effects of it have given an impulse to agriculture and industry, such as might be expected from it. The culture of cotton, of the sugar-cane, of the mulberry-tree, is beginning to assume a degree of activity, as also the rearing of silk-worms; and some important new manufactories are already at work, holding out the promise of future commercial prosperity.

In Upper Egypt, above the province of Esne, there have been lately discovered, besides the sulphur mines found some time ago, iron and lead mines; the latter are said to be very rich. Pacha has sent to those parts several persons to look for the gold and emerald mines, which have been neglected for some centuries.

RUSSIA.

The

The ecclesiastical organization of the different religious denominations in Russia, are as under:

The Catholics of Lithuania, of White Russia, and Western Russia, have their archbishops, bishops, religious orders of both sexes, with colleges of Jesuits, &c.

The Protestants, both Lutheran and Reformed, have their superior consistories in each government. In Finland these consistories have, at their head, a bishop, and in the other provinces,a superintendant general.

The Armenians, whether united or not, have their archbishops and bishops, and the latter class have a patriarch.

The Moravian brethren of Sarepta have their separate ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The Mahometans, whose number amounts to near three millions, have two muftis. The sectaries of Lama have their lamas or priests. The

landscapes, M. Ender; as a painter in botanical subjects, M. Backberger; and for painter in natural history, M. Frick. -On the part of Bavaria, appear the names of Dr. Spitz as zoologist, and of Professor Martens as botanist. Dr. Badi has been appointed naturalist on the part of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

By a late return it appears, that the 1818 the land cleared and cultivated consisted of 284,000 acres, or double the surface of Rutland. That the produce was 1543 bushels of wheat and 42,000 of maize; and the stock, 700 horses, 6500 cattle, 700 sheep, and 700 hogs; while the total number of population was 25,000. In the year 2000 the Republic of New Holland may sway the Eastern Archipelago.

CAP. CXXI. To make further regulations for the prevention of Smuggling.-July 12, 1819.

I. Foreign smuggling vessels, in which there shall be one or more subjects of His Majesty, found within four leagues of the coast, having on board spirits in casks of less content than 60 gallons; or tea, or tobacco, exceeding a certain quantity; shall be forfeited with the cargo; and such persons shall be prosecuted.

II. Persons arrested under this cr former acts, and found not fit for the navy, shall forfeit 1001. and if not paid shall be impri

soned.

III. Persons found or having been on board of vessels liable to forfeiture, wearing vizards or masks shall, on conviction, be transported.

IV. A reward of a sum not exceeding 251. to be paid to informers against persons convicted of making signals for smuggling vessels.

V. Provisions of recited act shall extend to

vessels coming from the port of Brest having on board spirits, &c. exceeding a certain quantity.

VI. Where the charges of prosecution in seizures of carriages and horses shall exceed the produce, the excess may be paid out of the sale of the goods ;

IX. Not to extend to cases where officers are entitled to a gross share of goods seized. VIII. Boats with double bottoms or double sides found within certain distances, forfeited.

IX. Goods found concealed on board any vessels, either before or after the master makes his report, shall be forfeited.

X. Vessels found within certain limits, having goods concealed liable to duty or prohibited, such goods and vessels shall be forfeited.

XI. Commissioners of customs in England may grant their deputation to persons in the British Colonies in America and the West Indies authorizing them to make seizures when goods and vessels are liable to seizures.

XII. Such seizures to be prosecuted as if made by officers of the customs.

XIII. Owners of square-rigged vessels of the value of 1,0001. and upwards requiring a licence, shall give security for 3,0001.

XIV. Where it appears that any officer shall have acted collusively in making &c. treasury may direct that his share shall be forfeited.

XV. Boats with more than four cars found within certain limits shall be forfeited, and the owners and every person using them shall forfeit 1001.

Cap. CXXII. To permit Vessels under a certain Tonnage to trade between the United Kingdom and New South Wales.-July 12th, 1819.

I. Vessels of less registered measurement than 350 tons may trade between this kingdom and New South Wales, &c.

II. Not to extend to vessels sailing to the northward of the 11th degree of south latitude, between the 64th and 150th degrees of east longitude from London.

Cap. CXXIII. To empower the Officers of the Customs in Great Britain to allow Reports of Vessels Cargoes to be amended; to require Goods which have been warehoused without payment of Duties,