The Rev. Mr. GRAVES, of Claverton, near Bath, now upwards of NINETY years of age, has just written a Series of Essays, under the title of The Invalid, on the means of preferving health, and attaining old age. He has fubjoined to the Work a variety of Original Poems on the fame fubjects, and a new Tranflation of the Golden Verfes of Pythagoras, made within these few weeks! The leffons of fo vigorous a nonagenarian on the subject of health and long-life, will doubtle's be received by mankind with a degree of refpect due to the venerable author of the Spiritual Quixote.

An Inquiry into the Progrefs and prefent Magnitude of the Population of Ìreland, from the pen of Mr. NEWENHAM, will fhortly appear.

Dr. BISSET is engaged on a novel, in three volumes, entitled Modern Literature. Mr. GELL is employed on a Topogra phical Description of the Plain and Site of Troy, together with fuch Parts of the Coaft of Phrygia Minor as have been Objects of Criticism.

Mr. BEATSON has at length continued, in three additional volumes, the Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, to the Conclufion of the American War, in 1783.

Mr. WALTER SCOTT, Editor of the Minstrelly of the Scottish Border, is about to publish a poetical romance, called The Lay of the 'Minstrel.

Mr. Coxe's Hiftory of the Houfe of Auftria is nearly ready for publication.

Mr. HENRY SIDDONS, of Covent Garden Theatre, (Son of Mrs. Siddons,) has finifhed a Novel, from which the public may expect confiderable gratification.

The fecond volume of Dr. RUSSELL'S Coromandel Plants is published, under the aufpices of the East India Company.

The third volume of Dr. RANKEN'S Hiftory of France will be fhortly pub lifhed.

Mr. GEORGE BALDWIN, his Majefty's late Conful at Cairo, is engaged on a Philofophical Work.

Mr. BUTLER'S Hore Juridice Subfecive; or, a connected Series of Notes refpecting the Geography, Chronology, and Literary Hiftory, of the principal Codes, or original Documents, of the Grecian, Roman, Feudal, and Common Law, is nearly ready for publication.

The Memoirs of the Life and Writings

of the late GILBERT WAKEFIELD, which, from unexpected and unavoidable circumstances, have been fo long delayed, are now in a state of great forwardnefs, and will foon appear, in two volumes ocMONTHLY MAG, No. 113.

tavo. The first volume is printed from Mr. Wakefield's own copy of the former edition, with many additions, alterations, and corrections, by himself. These volumes will contain a very large felection' of original letters from Mr. Wakefield, on various topics, chiefly literary, as well as fome letters to him from, the late Dr. Jebb, Dr. Law, Bishop of Carlisle, and other diftinguished literary characters.

It is intended to publish, at the close of the prefent year, a new Annual Vade Mecum, under the title of The Literary and Scientific Almanac, in a closely-printed pocket volume. The object is, to prefent to students, and lovers of litera ture, fuch corrected Lifts and Tables, both literary and scientific, as may ferve the purposes of reference and enquiry on every fubject. Among other Lifts there will be the following:

1. Of all contemporary living Authors, fpecifying their names, titles, age, refidence, and works.

2. Of Books published within the year. 3. Of Literary Journals, and Newspapers Foreign and Domeftic.

4. Of Learned Societies, and the names of the members of the most confiderable.

5. Of Book Societies, Book Clubs, and permanent Libraries, with the name of their Prefident, Steward, Secretary, or Librarian.

6. Of Names of Bookfellers in the United Kingdom, and of eminent Publishers abroad. 7. Of Universities, and the names of their Profeffors; with other ufeful particulars rela tive to Students, the University Bufinefs,

&c.

The object of this Notice is to invite communications from all perfons who may be interefted in the correctness of either of the foregoing Lifts, to be addressed to Mr. PHILLIPS, No. 71, St. Paul's Church yard, free of poftage.

Mr. THELWALL is delivering, at Glasgow, a fecond Courfe of his Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution.

He is alfo preparing a Courfe of Lectures on the Principles of genuine Criticism; and the Ufe and Abule of the Critical Office; which will probably be delivered in Edinburgh.

The

The Rev. JOSIAH PRATT has circulated Propofals for publishing, in ten volumes octavo, one volume to be delivered every three months, price 7s. 6d. in boards, to be paid for on delivery, (which price will be railed to 9s. when the Work is completed,) the whole Works, Expofitory, Devotional, Practical, Polemical, and Mifcellaneous, now firft collated, of BISHOP HALL, with an elegant Portrait. A new Life of the Bishop will be given, and a complete Index to the whole. The first volume will be put to the prefs as foon as a competent number of names is obtained.

Mr. CARD, author of the Revolutions of Ruffia, is preparing an Hiftorical Out line of the Rife and Eftablishment of the Papal Power, addieffed to the Roman Catholics of Ireland.

Mr. JOHN BELL, whofe useful spirit of literary enterprize has been known to the public for thirty years paft, has opened a Gallery of Fine Arts at the corner of Southampton-street, in the Strand. It is Mr. Bell's intentions to poffefs himself of impreffions of the engravings of all the great and expenfive Works which appear at Paris, and to print Tranflations of the letter-prefs, adapted to the fize of the plates. He has already Anglicized, in this manner, the fplendid Work of Denon'; the Works of the Painters; the Museum of French Monuments; and the Hiftorical Pictures of the Revolution. Other Works are in preparation; and it is one merit of Mr. Bell's project, that he offers the Works in London at much less than their coft in Paris.

A laborious Work is expected, in the courfe of the enfuing winter, from the pen of the fame gentleman, on the Phyfiological Foundations of the Science of Elocution. The Work is to be divided into three parts, each of which will be embellifhed with elegant engravings, illuftrative of the descriptions and doctrines of the text.-Part I. Will treat of the Structure and Offices of the Vocal Organs, and the Theory of Vocal Sounds ;-Part II. Of the Structure and Offices of the Enunciative Organs, and the Anatomy of the elementary Sounds of Speech-and Part III. Of natural Defects and habitual Impediments; their Caufes, Phenomena, and Cure; and the Structure and Application of Artificial Organs. The above fubjects conftitute the more philofophical portions of Mr. Thelwall's Lectures; but will be treated in a more copious way than the nature of a popular courfe of difcuifion can be expected to admit.

The fecond volume of Mr. BARROW'S Travels in Africa is in the prefs, and will make its appearance in the course of the next month.

Mr. BARTELL, of Cromer, has been fome time engaged on a work of tafte, which will be published in octavo, in a few days, under the tile of "Hints for the Picturefque Improvement of Cottages, and their Scenety," &c. with plates.

The fifth volume of the Bibliographical Dictionary will be published in a few days. Mr. R. WRIGHT, of Wifbeach, propofes to publish by fubfcription, in one volume octavo, a Work which will be entitled The Anti-Satisfaction; or, the Salvation of Sinners by the Grace of God.

Mr. LYSONS has just completed his Work on Gloucestershire Antiquities, on upwards of one hundred plates, many of which are richly coloured."

The Works of Mr. PARKINSON, of Hoxton, on the Organic Remains of the former World, is in confiderable forward nefs. The firft part, on the Foffils of the Vegetable Kingdom, illustrated with coloured plates, in quarto, is proposed to be published on the first of June next.

A Society was formed in London, on the 7th of March, in the prefent year, with this defignation, THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. This Society proposes to itself one grand and fimple object, viz. to promote the circulation of the Scriptures, without Commentary or Preface, in the principal Living Languages; and fuch regulations will be adopted, as may both permit and invite the co-operation of Christians in general, without the leaft diftinction of party. This having been understood to be the great principle upon which it was propofed that the Society fhould be formed, feveral perfons of influ ence, connected with various religious denominations, came forward on the day appointed for the first general meeting, at the London Tavern, and the contributions already made amount to near a thousand pounds. GRANVILLE SHARP, Esq. was in the chair; and HENRY THORNTON, Efq. M. P. was chofen Treasurer to the Society. In pursuance of the broad and liberal plan upon which the Society is formed, three Secretaries, of different denominations, have been appointed; viz. the Rev. JOSIAH PRATT, Lecturer of the United Parishes of St. Mary, Wolnoth, and St. Mary, Woolchurch; the Rev. JOSEPH HUGHES, Miniftèr of a Diffent. ing Congregation at Batterfea; and the Rev. CH. FRED. STEINKOPFFT, Minifter of the Lutheran Church in the Savoy.

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Mr. BARTLEY, of Bath, recommends Arongly potatoes as an excellent food for fheep, luperior in almost all respects to tur. nips.

The Fables and Tales of the Perfian port NIZAM have lately been published at Leipfic, accompanied by a Latin Verfion, and an explanatory Index.

LICHTENSTEIN has printed a Palagraphia Perfica.

The Literary Society at Strafburgh has published a new edition of QUINTU CA LABER, with New Readings, from MS. in the Efcurial. The Lyrics of CASIMIR have appeared from the fame prefs.

FISCHER has published an elaborate Commentary on the Cyropedia.

A premature death having deprived the Fine Arts of one of their most zealous votaries, JEAN BAPTISTE PIRANESI, his fons, FRANCIS and PIERRE, are preparing for the press the rich materials which be collected for a work, entitled the Antiquities of Magna Grecia, now the kingdom of Naples The whole of this interefting Work will form fix volumes, of which the first will comprehend the defcription and antiquities of the city of Pompeia. The different fabrics found in the ruins of this city, have been described and reprefented with the utmost exactness, fuch as the temples, theatres, amphitheatres, baths, houfes, fhops, &c.

Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Hiftoire Natu

LA HARPE'S elegant Cours de la Littérature is now complete in 14 volumes. A magnificent Voyage Pittorefque de Conftantinople, is about to be published at Paris.

The Abbé DE LISLE has published his translation of Virgil's Æneid. He announces French Verfions of the Paradife Loft, Homer's Illiad, and Jerufalem Delivered.

Citizen CARAFFE, of Paris, engraver, celebrated for his fine views of Egypt and Syria, intends to travel in Ruffia, with a view of collecting materials for his prce pofed Voyage Pittorefque.

Citizen PALISOT BEAUVOIS, a celebrated French naturalift, who in the year 1786 made a voyage to the kingdom of Benin in Africa, has prepared for the prefs an Account of this Voyage, and a Defcription of Benin, in a geographical, statistical, political, and a moral point of view.

M. LEBRUN has invented a new method of preparing hemp and flax, by which he gives thefe raw materials an appearance perfectly new, and obtains from them a kind of cotton and filk thread. He begins with the tow the moment it leaves the hands of the cultivator, and communicates to it either the foft and adhefive nature of cotton, or a brilliancy refembling that of filk. This preparation, for every purpose of utility and tafte, is fuperior to imported cotton, as it easily aflumes and retains any colour of which it may be dyed; and by the labour of a few individuals, a thousand pounds of tow may be converted into cotton in twenty-four hours. A 'econd preparation gives the tow all the fineness and brilliancy of texture, that has hitherto been peculiar to filk.

Hiftory, is publishing at Paris, by SONNINI, BOZE, CHAPTAL, OLIVIER, &c. It will be comprized in about twenty-four volumes octavo.

Voss, of Berlin, has lately published a valuable Work, under the title, Lectures on the Mafter-works of Grecian Poetry, with peculiar Reference to the poetical Mafter-works of modern European Literature, by D. JENISCH, 2 vols. octavo.

M. ZOEGA, author of a valuable Treatife on Obelisks, has prepared for the prefs a Defcriptive Catalogue of Coptic MSS. found in the Library of Cardinal Borgia, in Rome.

M. F. SCHLICHTEGROLL, Inspector of the Duke of Gotha's Cabinet of Natu ral and Artificial Curiofities, has edited the first volume of a periodical publication, entitled, General Numifmatic Annals.

JANSEN, of Paris, hás published Defeription Anatomique d'un Elephant Mâle, par PIERRE CAMPER, avec vingt Planches. This highly-valuable defcription of a male elephant, by one of the first phyfiologifts and anatomists of our age, will merit peculiar attention. It was announced in 1774, but has received a degree of perfection which raifes it to a diftinguished place among the molt mafterly productions of modern times. The plates are done in the firft ftyle, and the defeription is the most interefting and fatisfactory account of the different fpecies of elephants hitherto difcovered in Africa, Alia, or America.

Citizen WATHIER has invented a machine for working every fpecies of cloth, which is faid to possess a manifest superiority over any thing of the kind ufed in England.

The feeds of foreign grapes have lately been difcovered to be an excellent fubiti002 tute

tute for coffee. When preffed, they firft produce a quantity of oil, and afterwards, when boiled, furnish a liquid much refembling that produced from coffee. The practice is rapidly becoming general in Germany.

Profeffor PELT, of Helfingoer,* has invented a nautical machine to fave perfons from drowning. To try the effects of it against the united currents of the North Sea and the Baltic, a young waggoner, named Peterfon, having equipped himself in this machine, fprang into the fea, in the presence of numerous fpectators, many of whom accompanied him in fail ing-bcats. At his departure he fired a piftol twice; and on his paffage he eat, drank, and smoked a pipe, to thew that he had the entire ufe of his arms. Being benumbed with cold, he got into a boat to warm himself by rowing; but foon fprang into the water again, and happily reached the Swedish fhore, after a paffage of one hour and three quarters. On his arrival he faluted the fpectators with a pitol hot, and waved a flag which he drew from the fea. Having remained a fhort time at Helfinburgh, he returned to the Danish coaft, where he arrived amidst the fhouts of the curious, who lined the fhore. The machine weighs but seven pounds, and faltens round the waift of the

wearer.

From the following authentic particulars we may form a pretty correct idea of the commercial profperity to which Aftrachan has attained. This city contains a plantation for filk-worms, twenty-four filk manufactories, eighty-one cotton-manufactories, five manufactories of moroccoleather, feventy four dyeing-houses, twenty-four brick-kilns, ninety-two vineyards, 212 mills, &c. The guild of merchants confifts of 1189 Ruffians, three foreigners, eighteen Tartars, and four Hindoos. The city contains two thoufand thops, fix convents, fifty feven churches, and a temple for Hindoos.

The Clafs of Sciences of the National Inftitute being defrous to know the variations which the magnetic needle experiences in the atmosphere; BERTHOLLET and BIOT have refolved to undertake feveral aëroftatic afcenfions in order to afcertain thefe variations.

In a Letter to the Editors of the Decade Philofopbique, the celebrated BERNARDIN ST. PIERRE complains bitterly, that,

through the unprincipled rapacity of the book-pirates, and the bankruptcy of the perfon in whofe hands he had trufted the fruits of his literary labours, he finds himfelf deprived of the means of making a provifion for his wife and children. I am now nearly fixty years old, (fays this venerable philofopher;) my eldest daughter is not more than nine, and my youngest boy is fill carried about in the arms of his young mother, who fuckles him. As for myself, I am defcending the mountain of life, without a ftruggle, and without regret: but they have to climb it when I am gone, without my fupporting band. During the difficulties of the journey, they will be looking for fome marks of my paternal forefight and folicitude." For this purpofe St. Pierre propofes to give a new corrected edition of his Paul and Virginia, which, both with respect to typographical execution, and the style of the engravings and other embellishments, will be executed in such a manner as to defy the arts of the pirates. When we confider that this charming work has won the approbation of every feeling reader throughout Europe, we may confidently predict that the hopes of the amiable author will not be difappointed.

Profeffor MATTHEI has difcovered, in a Manufcript belonging to the Public Li brary of Augsburg, a fragment containing three hundred verfes of the Clytemneitra of Sophocles, which he intends to publish. This fragment commences at the Prologue pronounced by Tyfiphone, and finishes with a chorus; from which it may be hoped that it contains the whole of the first act.

A new edition of Milton's Paradife Loft, and of Goldfmith's Poetical Works, have lately been printed at Paris, by. BARROIS, who intends publishing there a collection of English Claffics.

In October 1803, ALFIERE, the Italian poet, died at Florence, in the fixtieth year of his age. It is faid that he has left a MS. Italian Tranflation of Sallust, of the Aneid, and of two of the Tragedies of Euripides; and two new Comedies and a Tragedy.

A new religious fociety has lately been formed in Holland, entitled, Chrifto Sacrum. At first it confifted of only four. members; but in a fhort time the number of the fect increased fo rapidly, as to amount to from three to four thousand.The object of this Society is to unite all religious fects. The principal place of

already built a church, in which we find Calvinists,

Calvinifts, Lutherans, Menonnites, Ca tholics, and perfons of various other religious perfuafions, amicably affembling. The Society does not admit of any dominant or exclufive fyftem: they have no prieft, but only orators, who, while delivering their difcourfes, ftand at the altar. The fervice is divided into that of worship, and of instruction; the object of the former being to fhew the greatness of God, by directing our attention to the admirable regularity which reigns in all the productions of Nature. For this purpose they affemble, every Sunday, at fix or feven o'clock in the evening. The fervice of inftruction is held every fifteenth day, when they dif course about different fubjects, and particularly revealed religion. Six times each year they affemble to celebrate the Lord's Supper; and during the prayer and the bleffing the whole congregation continues proftrate. The Dutch clergy have strongly oppofed this Society, but without effect; and the prefent Dutch Government fayours the new fect.

In Thermidor, year 11, certain conftructors of the public roads found, while digging under the old road leading to Toulon, a leaden chest, about four feet in length. In the cheft were the bones of an individual who had not yet attained the age of puberty. Among other remains of the skeleton was a golden ornament, round, and rather bigger than a small hand-bell. This ornament had a turning

joint, or hinge, to open it, but no ring to fufpend it by. It was undoubtedly a golden bulla belonging to the infant whose remains were depofited in the cheft.Thefe bones had not been burnt. There is no finall difference between this bulla and that which was found in the porphyry urn, in the Tower of the Mausoleum at Aix, defcribed by M. de Saint Vincent. This laft, both in respect of form and workmanship, might well belong to the lower ages, perhaps to the fifth or fixth centuries. Clofe by the leaden cheft ftood a fepulchral lamp, and at a little distance there lay a fmall vafe, with a narrow neck; the whole without ornaments. At the distance of twenty-five or thirty paces from the above-mentioned first dif covery, fome pieces of sculpture of the natural tone of the country have been found; viz. a head, the nose of which is truncated, fome trophies of arms, a coloffal-head, reprefenting the masque of a woman with the mouth open, and feemingly proper for the ornament of a fountain. Among fome of thefe fculptures have been found deniers of Henry IV. and of Louis XIII.; and there can be little doubt but that these actually belong to the times laft-mentioned. The bulla, the lamp, the vafe, and the fragments of fculpture, have been removed to the house of Citizen THIBEDEAU, Counsellor of State, and Prefect at Marseilles.

"An Act to promote the building, repairing, or otherwife providing of Churches and Chapels, and of Houses for the Refidence of Minifters, and the providing of ChurchYards and Glebes." 43 Geo. III. (Paffed 27th July, 1803.)

No glebe upwards of fifty acres shall b augmented with more than one acre. § 3.

Plots of land not exceeding one acre, held in mortmain, lying convenient to be annexed to fome church, &c. may be

lands not exceeding five acres, or goods and chattels not exceeding five hundred pounds, for the purposes of this act; but fuch powers not to extend to perfons within age, infane, or femes.covert. § 1.

Only one fuch gift fhall be made by one perfon, and where it exceeds five acres, or five hundred pounds, the Chancellor may reduce it. § 2.

faction for that purpole. § 4.

Accommodation to be provided for all perfons whatsoever reforting to church, &c. in every particular church or chapel hereinafter to be erected. § 5.

"An Act for effectuating certain Parts of an

Act, paffed in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the making more effectual Her Majefty's gracious intentions