when detained by some trifling ill- with black velvet, and finished in a ness; notwithstanding which, Mr. N. very elegant manner. The procession was eminently susceptible of convi- passed the bridge at two o'clock, in viality; and as for a jest or a good the following order: story, it is said no man relished them butter. When the will of the deceased was proved at Doctors Commons, the duties payable upon the same under the legacy act, amounted to 14001. Street Keepers. Undertaker on horseback, two Pages attending ditto. Two Staves Men on horseback. A Lid, with Black Plumes and Hearse and Six Horses with the Body. The remains of this memorable servant of the public were removed on Saturday, Nov. 30, from his dwelling at Islington, to the Bishop's vault, in the parish church of St. Saviour, His own Coach, and the Carriages Southwark. The coffin was covered of his Friends. VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL; With Notices respecting Men of Letters, Artists, and Works in Hand, &c. &c. NEW and improved edition, undertaking he has had access to li A the Wyhenbach's Notes to his edition of Plutarch are printing at the Clarendon press; and the first volume will soon be ready for publication. Old and New Testaments, connected documents which have never yet been in the history of the Jews and neigh- consulted by those who have hitherto bouring nations to the time of Christ: written on the subject. to which is now added a full and interesting Life of the author, which contains his own defence, and illustration of certain passages in the connection, embellished with eight new M. J. L. Bond, architect, has transmaps and plans, and a portrait of lated the Latin work of Vitruvius. the author, will speedily be published This work will be illustrated with in four volumes octavo. plates very different in their subject Shuckford's Sacred and Profane and manner of treatment from any History of the World, connected with that have appeared either here or the creation and fall of man, printed upon the continent; it will form one uniformly with Prideaux, and to handsome volume in quarto, and will complete his work, with notes, and re- be illustrated with notes, historical, vised and corrected by Adam Clarke, critical, and descriptive. A. M with new maps, in four volumes octavo, will shortly be published. The Historical and Romantic Ballads edited by Mr. Finlay are now nearly ready for publication, in two volumes octavo. The greater number of these ancient poems have never before been published. Prefixed are some remarks on the early state of romantic composition in Scotland. A Novel in three volumes by the Citizen of the World is in the press, and will be published in a few weeks. An English gentleman left in a diplomatic capacity by the commander of the forces at Buenos Ayres, intends giving to the public, au Historical Work of the Spanish viceroyalties in South America. To assist him in this Mr. Pitman, late of Pembroke-ball, Cambridge, and now of HackneySchool, has in the press, a volume of Selections from the rarer Latin Classics, for the use of the upper forms in Schools. The object of the work is to supersede the use of Martial, whose best epigrams it will include, and to acquaint boys with the beauties of Lucretius, Catullus, and other authors, who, on account of their general want of interest, or occasional indecencies, have been wholly banished from scholastic reading. A selection of the best notes, and biographical and critical remarks on each author, will conclude the volume. The author of the theatrical criticisms in the weekly paper called "The News," has nearly ready for pub lication, a volume of Critical Essays The various modes of fabrication, the on the performers of the London improvements of each art, their hisTheatres, including general remarks tory and progress, will be amply deon the practice and genius of the tailed and enlarged upon. Stage. A Farce in two acts, called Antiquity, is in the press, written upon the dramatic principles of the same author. Mr. William Nicholson's New Chemical Dictionary, which also includes Mineralogy and the application of Chemistry to the useful arts, will contain more matter than any other in the English language. Mr. F. E. Ritchie intends to publish, in one volume octavo, an ac- The statement among the literary count of the Life and Writings of articles, that the late Mr. Gilbert Edward Gibbon, Esq. Wakefield's Hedericus was destroyed MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Cromek, the engraver, having by fire, is erroneous. So far from lately been in Scotland, is said to have this being the case, his interleaved been so fortunate in consequence of copy of Hederic's Lexicon with all making enquiries where Burns, the his collections, is now as it always has poet, resided, to recover as many been, in the hands of Mrs. Wakefield. papers and letters from his acquaint- It seems the author of this report conance and connections, as may form a founded the Lexicon with Mr. Wakevolume in octavo. field's Lucretius, the remaining imMr. Sowerby, author of British pression of which, consisting of a Mineralogy, English Botany, &c. large number of copies, was burnt intends to publish a new arrangement with Mr. Hamilton's printing-office. of colours; to shew the most proper mode of mixing them, by a new, na- M. Griebel, a clock-maker at Paris, tural, and simple method, for mine- has invented a clock without weights, ralogical, vegetable, and animal de- of a globular form, the dial-plate of scriptions or representations, by shew- which is transparent, and by means of ing the means of producing the pri- one of Argand's reflecting lamps, mitive and prismatic tints from light, the figures are shewn to a great disthrough all possible variations and tance. What is the most ingenious mixtures, to brown, black, and dark- is, that neither the wheels, the hands, ness, with a chromatometer, for the nor the pendulum, cast any shadow. primitive tints, and a chromatic scale, The light may be made stronger or or list of colours, and also a list of weaker, and adapted to the sick chamcoloured substances necessary for ber, or even to clocks in the most painting in water or oil. public places, where it will answer The works of the late Dr. Kirwan, the purpose of a time-piece and a dean of Killala, are preparing for lamp at the same time. publication, and are expected to inake A medical gentleman, it is said, their appearance in the course of the has invented a new mode of secret winter. writing, which can never be oblite Oxonia Depicta, or a History of rated by any other means than dethe Halls and Colleges of the Uni- stroying the paper; and which proversity of Oxford, will soon make its duces ten or twelve perfect copies as appearance, illustrated by a series of soon as one, with no more trouble to picturesque and architectural views, the writer. The same gentleman, it is by Storer aud Greig. understood, wrote the article Cipher The Rev. C. Wordsworth is pre- for the new Cyclopædia. paring an Ecclesiastical History for The art of enamel painting, which publication, containing the lives of had begun to decline here, having eminent persons, connected with the been revived by Mr. Bone, some of history of religion, from the revolution, whose works make a distinguished Mr. John Sadler of Newcastle- figure in the exhibition of the Royal upon-Tyne, has announced the pub- Academy, seems considerably im-, lication of an Encyclopedia of Manu- proved by Mr. Murphy, a young factures, in which every raw material artist of considerable merit; besides. will be traced from its growth, till it the series of portraits of the Royal comes into the hands of the workman. House of Stuart, copied from origi nal pictures, he has since copied a fulminating mercury of Mr. Howard. series of originals from the House This combination, it is said, may be of Tudor, now in possession of his obtained by dissolving silver in pure Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. nitrous acid, and by pouring into the The head of the late Duke of solution, while it is effecting, a su fiLeinster, by the same artist, is highly spoken of. America. cient quantity of rectified alcohol, or by pouring the alcohol into a nitric solution of silver with a considerable excess of acid. Very small doses of this composition tried upon the human body, is a poison sufficient to kill the strongest animals. The Missionary Society of the United States have sent their agents amongst the Indians, but, with the exception of the Quakers, few have succeeded in producing a disposition Vaccination: a report of the preto moral or intellectual improvement. sent state of this science has been In one village belonging to the In- presented by M. Champagny to the dians of the Delaware nation, several emperor. In this instrument M. of the Indians read, and some of them Champagny has displayed great zeal write a little. They attend church for the interests of humanity in re regularly, where sermons in their cording the names of such of the own and the English language, are French clergy, who have been most delivered on Sundays. The women active in propagating the vaccine sing the psalms and hymns with a con- among their parishioners; and the siderable share of skill, and drinking emperor has intimated to these enis almost universally abandoned, lightened ministers of the Christian which is the principal vice among religion, that their names should be them. Demmark. An official statement respecting the condition of Greenland has lately been published at Copenhagen, by which it appears, that in 1804 forty seven whales were caught; five thousand one hundred seals, six bears, and two hundred and ninety unicorns or sea-cows. The total population of all the northern colonies up to June 1805, was 6046 persons. France. remembered in the future distribution of church preferments. However, M. Champagny expresses his regret respecting the opposition the vaccine has met with from the ignorant in France, in consequence of the translation of some pamphlets from the English language, and suggests that his Majesty should lay some restriction upon the circulation of works hostile to vaccination. The King of Bavaria has gone further still in enforcing the vaccine: As a new object of amusement, a he has ordered that, before the first of new detonating powder is sold at July 1808, every child in his domiParis, inclosed in slips of cards cut nions under three years of age shall lengthways. The powder is placed be inoculated; and that every infant at one end of this carcase, and the born in future within his dominions, other end is made smaller, in order shall undergo the same inoculation that it may be more easily distin- within three months after its birth. guished. The proper end being held The inoculation in the natural manover the flame of a candle, an explo- ner is strictly prohibited. sion follows immediately, with a sharp The ancient Church of St. Genenoise and a violet coloured flame; the vieve, at Paris, being ordered to be card is torn to pieces and scorched, demolished for widening the street, and the part which the composition search was made in the interior for the touched, is covered with a slight_me- coffins of Clotilda, Theobald, and tallic coating of a greyish white. Gontran, their son, when fifteen stone M. Descotils having been consulted coflins were found, four of which upon the nature of the substance, were ornamented with crosses; but which is sent ready prepared to Paris, they had all been opened and their has found it to be a combination of contents removed, probably many oxide of silver, ammonia, and a ve- years since. getable substance; a combination ana- M. Lechenault, one of the naturallogous to that which constitutes the ists belonging to the expedition of Holland. Captain Baudin, who was detained at tor, has finished two figures of the pugi Batavia by illness, has lately arrived at lists, Kreugas and Damoxenos. Each Nantes with a superb collection of stands on a different base, but they natural history, and one of the most form but one groupe, because no ob valuable selection of East Indian arms ject could be discovered in the dispoand instruments procured from Ota- sition they affect if they were sepaita, Java, and the adjacent islands. rated. The history of these two They will be deposited at Paris. combatants is related by Pausanias. Deaf and Dumb, or Hearing by the Kreugas and Damoxenos had fought Mouth-An experiment has been for a whole day without either of them lately made upon one of Mr. Sicard's being beaten to decide the contest, pupils, by speaking into his mouth, they agreed that each should be at li and directing the sound into his cars berty to give his adversary a blow by the Eustachian tube, which forms wherever he pleased. Kreugas disa communication between the mouth charged his on the head of Damoxeand the ear. Report says, the sub- nos, but without being able to knock ject of this experiment repeated the him down. The latter, in his turn, words papa and mamma instantly on required Kreugas to hold up his left their being addressed to him. But arm, and struck him so violent a blow this is so far from being new, that we on the belly, which was stretched by read in our Philosophical Transactions this position, as to bury his fist in the of a person so deaf as not to hear the entrails of his unfortunate antagonist, sound of a musket, who could never- who died on the spot. The artist theless hear the ticking of a watch has taken the moment in which held between his teeth. The experi- Kreugas has raised his arm to renent may probably be improved. ceive the blow which Damoxenos is preparing to give him; but it is obvious that the circumstance is not happily chosen, for Kreugas, who retains on his left hand the band employed by pugilists, seems rather to be the assailant, than the party assailed. In the execution of these statues, the muscles are said to appear too prominent; however, in the heroic, Canova is known to have no equal. To the mere English reader, these statues may not appear suffici ently interesting; for the pugilistical exhibitions of the ancients were frequently attended with consequences very different from our bruising matches. If the cestus, for instance, had been used in the late contest, beA young lady of Como, who, in tween Gulley and Gregson, one of the 1806, received a gold medal from the parties at least, if not both, must have Society of Encouragement, in the died a martyr to the innovation. kingdom of Italy, for the improve. When this formidable gauntlet was ments she made in the spinning of in vogue, the closing up an eye, or the Amianthus, has succeeded in making breaking a jaw-bone, were only calaa paper out of that fossil, well calcu- mities of course: if the boxers of old lated for writing and printing, and is were neither killed at a blow, nor left not liable to the action of the ele- dying on the sand, it was esteemed a ments. Signor Moscati, the secretary singular instance of great skill, or of state, has therefore caused the com- greater good fortune. The pancrapliments of the new year, addressed to tium was a mixture of boxing and the Viceroy and Queen of Italy to be wrestling, in which every effort was printed on this kind of imperishable deemed fair. At present contains the following literary establishments:-The Society of Arts and Sciences, at Haerlem; the Society of Sciences, in Zealand; the Dutch Society of Belles Lettres, in three sections, the principal sitting at Amsterdam; the Economical Society; that of Felix Meritis; that of Agriculture; the Diligentia Society of Dutch Literature at Leyden; besides several others of inferior celebrity. A New Dutch Journal has appeared at Amsterdam, called The Hive; but it generally lays the literature of Germany, &c. under contribution, and very rarely contains any thing original. Italy. paper. Canova, the celebrated Italian sculp. Portugal. The Royal Printing Office at Lisbon 9 Y Spain. is publishing a collection, entitled tribute of your homage. Those Retratos e bustos dos varones e donnas, among you who have studied the pasque illustraron a nacao Portugueza, &c. sions of men, and have learn. d to pity "Portraits and Busts of Men and them, will here behold an asylum safe Women, who have illustrated the against the effects of those passions; Portuguese Nation by their Virtues, those who have thought that morality their Valour, Knowledge, Talents, is independent of religion: herein, &c. whether Natives or Strangers, religion will acknowledge the most Ancients or Moderns, in Europe, beautiful work of morality-an hosAsia, Africa, and America, with Bio- pital of indigent and infirm persons, graphical Notices." By a Society of supported by unknown benefactors: the Friends of the country. a convent, which, besides alms, has no revenue, but expends its income A picturesque and historical Jour in alms only: politicians, who only ney through Spain, by Alexander La- value people according to their indus horde, and a society of literary men try and the cultivation of their coun and artists at Madrid, originally writ- try, will here find flourishing gardens, ten in French, is translating into the ornamented dwellings, and a happy Spanish language. The fourth num- people, upon a spot to which the Rober of this magnificent work, embel- mans could never penetrate, and lished with several plates, is wholly where the very possibility of arriving appropriated to the description of is still an object of astonishment. But Montserrat:-" Montserrat," say the you artists, you will find every corner authors, "is very different from any of these mountains interesting; each other mountain: it is one of the most will offer you a new picture, and extraordinary places that can pos- every moment of the day a more striksibly be seen, and of course the most ing effect. But would you estimate difficult to describe. Let us figure to the full majesty of this place and all ourselves an immense assemblage of its fragance, wait till the setting sun cylindrical cones; a kind of sugar- traces out upon the ocean the vast loaves, resembling a variety of pyra- shadow of the mountain; till the evenmids placed upon a pediment of rocks, ing breezes drive the clouds with instanding in an isolated situation, and creased rapidity across the rocks; elevated upwards of 3000 feet above then commence your solitary course; the level country. A monastery has fear not the surrounding precipice. been built upon the summit of this If an abyss has been formed all around mountain, rich in the objects it pre- by the course of the elements, the sents for reflection, celebrated for its hand of religion has every where probeing the retreat of Ignatius Loyala, vided against its danger. Those paths and the visits of Don John of Austria, that are called ladders, resembling son of Charles V.; Philip III. the the mystic ladder of Jacob, will con Great Conde, and others. The pre- duct you to the summit which is lost sent inhabitants of this mountain are in the clouds. Fear no robben: divided into four classes: the monks, crime never enters here unaccompa the hermits, the singing boys, and the nied with repentance. The birds converted brethren." The description alone are the inhabitants with men, closes with the following apostrophe, with whom they live in common, be "Philosophers, statesmen, artists, and cause here men are as pure as in the travellers of all descriptions, come first ages of the world, and because nd visit Montserrat, where each of the place they inhabit is as beautiful Zou will feel, that to it you owe the as Eden." STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. THE House of Braganza has ceased well known: and the future historian THE of has event might, from the rise and fall of this excites no surprise. It has long been house, draw many sage maxims on expected. The manner in which this family obtained the throne originally, and its conduct upon it, are things government to amuse the studious in their closets, without any chance of creating any influence upon any cabi |