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‘worse state in France than they are in 
England. * city 
_ The known taste and love of letters, 
ssessed by the Prince Regent of Eng- 
d will, we are confident, create, an ho- 
nourable rivalry.in this species of pas 
tronage, should it so happen that his 
Royal Highness continues to wield the 
power with which, with so much, satisfac 
tion to the county, he has. lately been 
invested. The letter, of Mr... Hayter 
will explain. his Royal Highness’s atten: 
tion to one of the most interesting lites 
rary topics of this age; and. we venture 
to inform the public, that the. period 
will be Avgustan, in regard to arts and 
letters, whenever it may so bappen 
that his Royal Highness shall be perma- 
mently clothed with the executive autho- 
rity af the realm. We hail the period 
when the goveanments of England, ag 
well those of France and America, shall 
woite in exciting a literary and scientific 
competition among their subjects; and 
hope to survive that iron age, in which, 
unhappily, the only competition has been 
in cutting of throats, :qnd ip arts of mus 
tual injury and destruction. 
» In: the course of the ensuing month, 
the new edition of the Rev. Mr. Dis- 
pin’s Bibliomania, which is now entitled 
a Bibliographical Romance, will make 
its appearance. It is’ in six parts 
and will contain upwards of 600 pages ; 
being a review of our most eminent 
scholars and book-collectors from king 
Alfred to'the late Mr. Gough; with ‘an 
account of their libraries. In the course 
ofthe volume, there. is.a copiaus tist,.. 
with particular notices, of the .most yas. 
luable Foreign Catalogues; including the 
public ones of ovr own country. | 
. We, are requested to, correct a state. 
ment which appeared in..our last, re, 
specting the publication of Mr. D:npry’s 
English De Bure. This work will not 
be. published- these two years. ..,At. the 
same time we ace requested to state,that 
the second volume of the new ediuon af 
Ames’s, Typographical Antiquities, is als 
yeady gone to press. 
- Sir Jonx Cane. has.in forwardness for 
ubligation .Descriptive Sketches.of the 
outh-enst Parts of Spain,,and of the 
Tsland of. Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, 
Sicily, and Malta, during a tour im those 
eopntries:in 1809 and 18105. accampar 
nied -by engravings. of views taken on the 
Spot, i « r ba, 
_ Mr. W. Jacop has in the press, ina 
quarto:volume, with plates, ‘Travels in 
Spaing in Letters written in 1809 and 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligences [March ty é 
1810; containing an account of the mae 
hufactures, commerce, productions, &c, 
with biographical anecdotes, and a view 
of Spain under the Mahommedan domi, 
pion. Gas oben 
. Dr.. Mtvvar, lecturer .on,,,Materia 
Medica, in the University of Glasgow, 
has in. the press Disquisitions, an the 
History of Medicine; exhibiting a view 
.of physic as obseryed to exist during 
remote periods, and among nations nog 
far advanced in refinement. 
Mr. Haminton Bruce is preparing; 
from authentic sources, an elaborate work, 
giving.a detailed account of all the Scot, 
tish families of note, from the peopling 
of Scotland by the Seythians to the pre- 
sent era ; also.a copjays account of the 
different Scottish monarchs, and. theit 
existing posterity. wise , 
The Rev, Jounson Grant. will, speer 
dily publish the first volume of a 
Sommary of the History of the English 
Church, and_of.the Sects which. have 
separated from it, from the earliest. pe- 
riods to the Reign of James the First, 
_ Mr. Witson has iv the press, and 
nearly ready for delivery, a second edie 
tion of the Analysis of Country Dancing, 
with numerous additions and, improves 
ments; consisting of a great number of 
new figures, with some entire new reels, 
and a plan for gomposing to any tune 
one thousand different figures; together 
with the complete. Etiquette of the Ball. 
Room ; embellished with nearly 260 en= 
gravingson wood, by BernyMan. 
The first, volume of the Transactions 
_of the Geological. Society, in. quarte 
with many plates, is in the press, an 
will be ready, for publication in the month 
of May next. ites nll 
The. Rev, Dr, T. 2. Witzaxer, the 
historian. of Whalley and.Craven, an. ers 
rongous report of whose, death has been 
circulated. in; some. of the.provincial pas 
pers, has in the press a. ney edition, of 
the Vision of. Piers Plowman, printed 
from M9$.of higher qntiguity than,ang 
that haxe yet been collated, ayd forming 
2 text almost entirely different from, that 
of Crowley; together.with a pretatary, 
dissertation, paraphrases, .glassary, and 
BOCES es 4 | owe £ t0.97(7798 
__ Dr, Josrru Reaps, of Cork, has in, 
the press Critical and Practical Observa- 
rions on the Diseases of the Inner Cors 
ner, of the-Human Eye, with a new are 
rangement,and method of cure. F 
Mr. Benj aurn Ginson, vice-president 
of the. Literary.and Philosophical Society 
of Manchester, and surgeon to the Man- 
x chester. 
