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to employ for the purpose of promot- gational Churches, occasioned by an ing civilization and improvement in Address from the London Committee to Ministers and Churches of the ConAfrica are of the following kind. "1. To collect and diffuse, through gregational Order, in a Letter to the out this country, accurate information Gentlemen of the Committee. By a respecting the natural productions of Friend to the Union. A splendid edition of Dr. DodAfrica, and, in general, respecting the agricultural and commercial ca- dridge's Family Expositor, to be puh. The pacities of the African continent, and lished in parts, and comprised in four the intellectual, moral, and political volumes 4to. is in the press. first part will appear on the 1st of condition of its inhabitants.

"2. To promote the instruction of January, 1808. Dr. Watkins, author of the Biograthe Africans in ietters and in useful knowledge, and to cultivate a friendly phical Dictionary, intends to publish connection with the natives of that an octavo volume of Characteristic Sketches of Men celebrated for their continent. learning or genius.

"3. To endeavour to enlighten the The Cambridge press will shortly minds of the Africans with respect to their true interests; and to diffuse in- produce Sophoclis Tragedia Septem ed formation amongst them respecting optimorum Exemplarium Fidem ementhe means whereby they may improve duía; cum versione et Notis Fragmenti the present opportunity of substituting Lexicoque Sophocles. 8vo. 2 tom, ex Ed. a beneficial commerce in place of the ult. Rich. Franc. Phil Brunck acce dunt Prefatio; varietis Lectionis et Slave Trade. Index ad Prin.

"4. To introduce amongst them such of the improvements and useful arts of Europe as are suited to their condition.

"5. To promote the cultivation of the African soil, not only by exciting and directing the industry of the natives, but by furnishing, where it may appear advantageous to do so, useful seeds and plants, and implements of husbandry.

"6. To introduce amongst the inhabitants beneficial medical discoveries.

"7. To obtain a knowledge of the principal languages of Africa, and, as has already been found to be practicable, to reduce them to writing, with a view to facilitate the diffusion of information among the natives of that

country.

"8 To employ suitable agents, and to establish correspondences, as shall appear advisable, and to encourage and reward individual enterprise and exertion in promoting any of the purposes of the Institution."

The Rev. Mr. Howes, of Norwich, intends to publish a continuation of his Critical Observations on Books ancient and modern; containing the true state of the history and chronology of the Empire of the Medes, from the dissolution of the Assyrian Empire down to the Persian Kingdom, founded by Cyrus, including a period of 256 years.

The Rev. S. Burder intends to publish a new edition of the Bible, in two volumes 4to. with notes, under the title of the Scripture Expositor.

Mr. Malkin has engaged to continue the Biographica Britannica, which was left unfinished by Dr. Kippis. In this work Mr. Malkin intends to introduce occasional chapters, characterising and connecting the different periods, and reviewing the state of government, science, literature, and manners. In these chapters it may be found necessary to introduce brief notices of indi viduals of some eminence, but not such as to require a separate and formal article.

Mrs. Opie has a new volume of miscellaneous poems in the press.

Mr. John Sabine has a new work in the press, entitled, the Practical MaMrs. Baibauld has a new work in thematician, containing Logarithms, Geometry, Trigonometry, Memura- the pres, to be entitled the British tion, Algebra, Navigation, Spherics, Novelists; comprising a selection of and Natural Philosophy, illustrated by English novels, with biographical noa number of copper-plate engravings, tices and critical remarks. The work, In the press, Thoughts on a gene- which will be printed uniformly with al and explicit Union of the Congre- Mr. Chalmers's edition of the British

THE FINE ARTS.

Mr. A. Cardon, the engraver, having

Essayists, will extend to about 60 volumes, including the most admired novels of Richardson, Fielding, Mrs. lately presented to the Emperor of Brookes, Smollett, Mackenzie, Goldsmith, Walpole, Dr. Moore, Johnson, C. Smith, Mrs. Radcliffe, Mrs. Inchbald, Mrs. D'Arblay, and other popular writers.

Austria three prints of the late battles in Egypt; the Emperor has transmitted, in return, an honorary gold medal, and a superb gold snuff-box, both of which Mr. C. received a few days since, through the medium of Prince Staremberg, the Austrian Ambassador in London. The royal present was attended by a letter sent by order of the Emperor, of which the following is a translation:

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"Vienna, June 1807.

The History of the House of Stuart, by the late Charles James Fox, in the unfinished state in which he left it, will shortly be published; also, his interesting and extensive correspondence with the most distinguished characters in the present reign. A Treatise on Pulmonary Con- SIR-His Majesty the Emperor sumption, with an Inquiry on Fox- of Austria, my august master, having glove, is intended for publication by received three superb prints, descripDr. James Saunders, President of the tive of the English Expedition in Royal Medical and Physical Societies Egypt, which you have had the atof Edinburgh. He is also preparing tention to send: his Majesty has orfor the press an Inquiry concerning dered me to notice his acknowledgHydrocephalus, in which he intends to prove that it admits of prevention and cure equally with other more dangerous maladies.

A system of Mineralogy and Mineralogical Chemistry, and its application to the Arts, by Mr. Accum, is in the press. This work is formed chiefly on the plan of M. M. Hauy and Brogniard, and will be illustrated by copper-plates.

A Practical Synopsis of the Materia Alimentaria Medica will shortly be published in one volume 8vo. a new edition, including the latest improve ments in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopeias, by Richard Pearson, M.D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians.

Mr. Falconer's Strabo, which forms two volumes folio, with fine maps, so long expected, is nearly ready for publication at Oxford.

The Life of the late Sir William Pulteney is preparing for the press by Dr. Halliday, which will form a quarto volume, and will be embellished with a print of Sir William, from a painting by Raeburn.

Mr. William Perry, author of the Synonimous, Etymological, and Pronouncing English Dictionary, has a very useful work in hand, for schools, called the cientific Tutor, containing elements or first principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics, or Doctrine of the Air, with an Introduction to Elocution.

UNIVERSAL MAG, VOL. VIII.

ment, and to present to you a gold medal, inclosed in a gold box, as a mark of the satisfaction he feels, and the gracious reception he has given your offer.

In acquitting myself of this flattering commission, I beg you will also accept of the distinguished consideration with which I have the honour to be,

"Sir, your very humble servant,
"T. YOUNG,

"Secretary of his Majesty's Cabinet.”
The medal is of large size, and bears'
the portrait of the Emperor, with the
inscription, "Franciscus Austria Im-
perator." On the reverse side, within
a Temple of Fame, is the word Hono-
ria, and underneath the Imperial
arms, supported by Abundance. Above
is inscribed, "Austria ad Imperii

Dignitatem Exacta.”

The box is a handsome piece of workmanship, superbly ornamented with devices, and blue transparent enamelling. On the cover, within an oval gold border, is the initial letter of the Emperor's name. The present is not only honourable, but a valuable tribute from a sovereign who cherishes the arts, to a deserving artist.

Among the works which may be deemed a valuable acquisition to the admirers of antiquities and the lovers of picturesque beauties, the Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet justly appears as claiming a distinguished preference. This elegant

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little work, two volumes of which are it scorched the fields, nevertheless inpublished, and which we ought to creased their fertility.

have noticed before, contains 100 Dr. Clarke has published a Sumhighly finished engravings, with appro- mary of the Evidence on the Sarcopriate letter-press descriptions of each phagus of Alexander the Great, in a subject: though compressed into so letter, addressed to the Gentlemen of small a form, it possesses a degree of the British Museum; also some addiluminous and perspicuous execution tional facts, tending to establish the in the plates, that cannot fail in fixing truth of the position maintained in the admiration of the eye, and insen- his former work on that subject. sibly charming every imagination con- In the bills of mortality, London, nected with genuine taste. In fact, there are 502 places of public worship as a useful and entertaining work, 4050 seminaries of education, inconnected in one, nothing of this cluding 237 parish charity schoolsnature has hitherto appeared so highly 8 societies for the express purpose of finished, and at so small an expense: promoting good morals-10 societies and with respect to the letter-press for promoting the learned, the useful, descriptions, as they are devoid of that and the polite arts-122 asylums and prolixity of detail which has so often alms-houses for the helpless and indidistinguished the mere antiquarian, gent, including the Philanthropic Sothe elegance of the diction, and the ciety-30 hospitals and dispensaries appropriate sentiments occasionally for sick and fame, and for delivering introduced, are additional recom- poor pregnant women-704 friendly mendations to a work at once combin- or benefit societies, and institutions ing ample information, and a species for charitable and humane purposesof entertainment comparatively ex- which several institutions are supquisite. ported at the amount of 750,000l. per

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A monument has been erected in Westminster Abbey, to the memory of the late General Paoli. It is a neat plain tablet. The property which the general left to be distributed amongst his servants, it is supposed will give to each about a thousand pounds.

The new Literary Institution, which may be called the third Public Library, and is to be established in the late Leverian Museum, near Blackfriar'sbridge, it is said will possess a very valuable and extensive collection of books, with an arrangement for lectures on the different branches of phi- From the result of some late speculosophy and science, with commodious lations respecting the earliest editions rooms for reading the foreign and do- of Virgil, it has been ascertained, mestic journals, &c. The number of that the first edition of Virgil was not proprietors is to be 1200, and their printed at Venice in 1470, as asserted subscription twenty guineas. The by Fabricius and De Bure; but at life subscribers are to be 600, with a Rome, by Sweynheim and Pannartz. ten guinea subscription; that of an- It is extremely scarce, and the only nual subscribers is to be two guineas, copy that was ever brought into EngCaseli, the celebrated Neapolitan land is in the library of Earl Spencer, astronomer, accounts, in a manner It contains the Eclogues and the Georperfectly new, for the extraordinary gics, on 207 leaves of folio paper, and heat of the past summer, which con- 32 lines on a page. The date of this tinued so intense throughout the edition is 1469. Lord Spencer, it whole month of September. He seems, is in possession not only of the ascribes it to the extreme purity of first folio printed at Rome by Sweynthe face of the sun, which this year heim and Pannartz, in the year 1469, was turned toward the earth. For but also of the second folio, printed near two months he observed none of by Vin. de Spira, at Venice, 1470 the spots which are commonly per- Both of these editions are very rare; ceived in it. Hence M. Caseli con- perhaps the second is the most rare. cludes, that the sun's rays having been The editor of the first was the Bishop emitted in greater abundance and of Aleria, in Corsica; he wrote the with less interruption, produced that preface and notes. violent degree of heat, which, though

America.

The inhabitants of New Orleans have presented a petition to the Congress of the United States, to assist them in building a College about two miles distant from that city, to avoid the effects of the yellow fever, which generally prevails in autumn.

tionary, printed at the expense of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

The doubt whether Brahé ever established a printing-office in the island of Ween in the Sound, is now proved by the following titles of two books, in quarto, which he caused to be printed at Uranienburg; the first, Mundi Ætherei recentioribus PhænoUraniburgi minis, liber secundus.

"De

So many symptoms of remote antiquity have been discovered, besides the ruius in the Illinois and Wabash in insula Hellesponti Danici Huena countries, as to prove beyond all imprimebat; auctoris Typographus doubt, that the epithet of a new world Christephorus Weida, Anno Domini The title of the other ishas been very erroneously applied to 1588." America. Besides pyramids of earth "Tychonis Brahé Dani Epistolarum which have been discovered about the Astronomicarum, fiber primus. Uragreat falls of the Missisippi, from 30 niburgi ex officina Typographica aucto 80 feet in height, probably the toris. Anno Domini 1596." In the tombs of the ancient kings and chief- last work are found many letters from tains of this part of America, there Tycho Brahé to the Landgrave Wilare traces of the remains of skeletons, liam of Hesse, wherein he menwhich seem to have been buried 2000 tions the printing - office, and the years ago. A copper-mine being paper-mills he had established at opened some yours since near that Uranienburgh; and in the latter work river, to the great surprise of the is an engraving on wood, of the house labourers, a large assortment of mining in which this printing-office was estools were found by them several fa- tablished. thoms below the earth. Another person digging for a well discovered a furnace of brick-work, with a quantity of coals and burnt wood, five fathoms below the present surface. Not long since, at a spot on the Ohio, where the banks had been wasted by the undermining of the water, a stone M. Hedin, of Copenhagen, has pubdropped out, of the harder kind of lished a memorial on the means of black marble, about seven pounds in providing for the maintenance of weight, having twelve equal surfaces, armies. His method is to form cakes, each surface being mathematically one part of bones, which have been equilateral, and equiangular five-sided reduced to powder, and sixteen parts figures. In several places, circular of flour. This composition, which he fortifications have been discovered in the same country; these are constantly inclosed with deep ditches, and fenced with a breast-work. Some other facts will appear soon on this subject in the travels of Mr. Ashe into those countrics.

Denmark.

Professor Begtrup is publishing a description of Jutland, embellished with maps and plates; the work will be a companion to those which he has already given of Zealand and Fionia. It is to be completed by a description of the other provinces of Denmark.

calls bread, is tolerably light on the stomach, and in a short time becomes very fit for making soup. A thousand weight of this bread made into soup, it is supposed, will serve 4,800 men, and that ten pounds of the same, carried by each man, will supply him 25 days.

East Indies.

The bombardment of Copenhagen The search for gems in the Island has produced some unhappy effects to literature. Besides several private li- of Candia, which has been underbraries which have been destroyed, taken by some Europeans, it seems has the valuable collection of books which met with some obstacles from the king belonged to Professors Risbrigh, Wolf, of Candia, who does not chuse they Cierulf, and Woldike, were consumed should explore his mountains which by the flames, Three printing-offices are so thickly covered with the vege were destroyed, with several books and tation of ages, that no fissures are to manuscripts of great value; and a be seen to direct the proceedings of mong others, Olassen's Icelandic Dic-the Mineralogist. M. Jouville is the

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only person of that profession who has been lately employed there; and from the intelligence conveyed by him to Dr. De Carro, of Vienna, the Candians take no further trouble in searching for stones or minerals, except raking for them in the beds of currents after the rainy season.

The Emperor Napoleon has presented the Imperial Library at Paris, with 249 scarce and valuable MSS. most of which are in the Oriental languages, and with 80 typographic inonuments of the 15th century; among which is a copy of Bonner's Fables, the only one extant. In this collection of manuscripts is a copy of The Edda, the sacred book of the Scandinaivian Mythology, written on parchment, in the Scandanaivian language.

France.

M. Ducrest has published a memoir at Paris, on the practicability of establishing a maritime commerce at Paris and Versailles: the navigation is to be effected by means of locks, towing-paths, &c.

M.J.

M. J. B. Paroisse, in his Opuscules de Chirurgie, just published, has a paper on the good effects of Mora in desperate cases, and gives a detailed

account of the manner in which he applied it to a young girl deaf and dumb from her birth, and who, after being all her life an absolute idiot, acquired both hearing and speech. This wonderful cure is attested by the bulletins of the state of the patient while under treatment. This was in 1800, when the author was in the French ambassador's suite at Madrid, and the young lady lived at Malaga, and who afterwards manifested great intelligence and very amiable dispositions. The yellow fever of Malaga M. Paroisse supposes in its origin to have been nothing more than a putrid and bilious fever, more or less nervous, and which afterwards became epidemical.

The following is a list of the Brevets d'Invention, or patents, which have lately been granted by the French Government for various improvements, &c.

1. For a new Mill for grain of every description.

2. For a new Still.

4. For a horizontal Press, for all kinds of fruit.

5. A new machine for preparing Yarn.

6. A new method of fixing Colours, by various metallic oxyds.

7. For an improvement on domestic and furnace chinnies.

8. For a machine to raise water, and heavy weights in general.

9. For an improvement in Printing types.

10. For a new Furnace for preparing charcoal.

11. For a method of changing the beds of lame and other infirm persons, in hospitals and elsewhere, without occasioning pain.

12. For a new Lamp, with a double current of air.

13. For a manufacture of Silk Mus lins, on a new principle.

14. For a carriage called patacke colante.

15. For the manufacture of sapen royaur de Windsor.

16. For a boat, on a new construc

other purposes.
tion, adapted to the whale fishery, and

17. For a further improvement is Argand's Lamp, so as to preserve its ignition in a storm.

18. For the manufacture of Soda.

hunt of the 14th forest conservation, M. Debosque, captain of the Wolfhas given an account to the Prince of Neufchatel, war minister and grand huntsman of France, of the wild beasts killed in that conservation which bord. ers on the Pyrenees, and includes four departments, in the course of one year. It amounts to 13 bears, 238 wolves, 36 foxes, and 12 badgers.

Germany

The Brazen Eagle at Augsburg, which weighs 17 cwt. and was made 200 years ago, has been removed from that city to Munich, on its way to Paris, where it is to embellish some public edifice.

The establishment of a University at Francfort-on-the-Maine, is spoken of upon the continent as a compensation for the removal of that of Halle in Saxony to the city of Berlin.

M. Scheidlin, the present gardener to the King of Wirtemberg, has discovered that nettles are an excellent remedy in the epizootic

3. For an improvement on the Harp. disorders among cattle; and the ad

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