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Asia, Tibet, Tarlary, aud the Chinese 

 empire ; and tlie rise and progress of tlie 

 present war, is in preparation. 



An authentic Account is in tlie press 

 ©f Ahantah and Fantjn, and the re- 

 maining: countiies of the Gold Coast, 

 containing notices of their climate and 

 productions, and of tl»c persons and com- 

 parative civilization of the inh^ibitauts ; 

 including narratives of theirmore recent 

 wars, aud the history of the Africam 

 Slave Trade. 



Mr. Lancaster, whose energetic 

 character first gave impulse to the prin- 

 ciple, that it is incumbent on govern- 

 ments to educate the whole people in 

 the first rudiments of learning, has been 

 eminently successful in carrying that 

 jjreat principle into effect m Ireland, 

 owing to the public spirit of many dis- 

 tinguished Irishmen. During ptirt of 

 the years J 814 and 1815, be travelled 

 extensively in that kingdom, with a 

 Tiew to promote tlie diffusion of general 

 knowledge. Many tiiousands of perst>ns 

 attended Lis public Lectures, and ho- 

 nored them with approbation. After a 

 lecture, he often witnessed Protestant 

 clergymen, Roman Catholic priests, 

 Alethodist and Presbyterian ministers, 

 cordially uniting in thanks to tlie lec- 

 turer, and rivalling each other in profes- 

 sions of kindness and offers of hospi- 

 tality. From the cabin school to the 

 ducal mansion — from the dwellings of 

 the peasant to the vice-regal palace, his 

 reports exhibit (he says) but " one tide 

 of glory" for the character agd hopes of 

 Ireland — "one unclouded blaze'' of 

 philanthropy and universal chaiilj-. At 

 another meeting in Dublin, Mr. Lan- 

 caster received a public invitation to 

 settle in Ireland, which he accepted, 

 amidst the cheers of hundreds. He as- 

 serts, and we believe justly, that his 

 plans have excited interest, or been the 

 means of establishing schools from Pe- 

 tcrsburgh to Kamschatka; from London 

 to Cincinnati, on the Ohio, (where there 

 is one of his schools for nine hundred 

 pupils); and from Inverness to Hayti. 

 Two of his pupils have gone on school- 

 missions up the St. Lawrence, and two 

 others down the Mississippi ; some have 

 proceeded to Africa ; and another is now 

 about to proceed to Bengal, by the Cape 

 of Good Hope and Ceylon. It is ho- 

 norable to Irish liberality, that at the 

 meeting of the friends to ttie extension 

 of the royal Lancasterian system of edu- 

 cation, held at the Rotimda, Dublin, for 

 the purpose of aiding the personal ex- 

 «iUous Mi Joseph Lancaster; in trKv«l- 



ling in Ireland, &c. the Duke of Lein- 

 ster being in the chair; it was resolved — • 

 that, as the Lancasterian system of edu- 

 cation is in itself wholly unconnected 

 with doctrinal points of religion, it ap- 

 pears well adapted to ensure unanimity 

 in -promoting general education; and 

 that the personal services and exertions 

 of Joseph Lancaster, who has carried 

 into effect his elBcieut system of educa- 

 tion, and extended its benefits to above 

 a hundred and twenty thousaid poor 

 children, are essentially necessary to 

 facilitate its progress in Ireland, from 

 the confideuce which the liberality ol his 

 public conduct, for a series of years, has 

 tended to command." These are senti- 

 ments honorable to all parties, and ia 

 our opinion (which is founded on a per- 

 sonal acquaintance of nearly twenty 

 years) they have been well earned by 

 the ingenuity, zeal, and perseverance 

 of iMr. Lancaster. 



The Loudon Society for abolishing 

 War have published Uieir second Ti-act, 

 consisting of apposite and forcible ex- 

 tracts from Grotius on Peace aud War. 

 A more irresistible appeal to the under- 

 standing of every reader could not well 

 be conceived than these observations of 

 two hundred years standing. That tbey 

 have not had their due effect on the 

 practices of society, can have arisen only 

 from their being locked up in a dead 

 language, and in voluminous and ex- 

 pensive translations. What may not 

 be expected from the circulation of fifty 

 thousand copies, in a cheap form, among 

 an inquisitive and morally-disposed 

 people ! 



]Mr. Edward Heard has invented % 

 chemical re-agent, by which he renders 

 salt-water capable of washing and cook- 

 ing. Various experiments have been 

 tried with it in the navv-. under the di- 

 rcctiou of the Board of Admiralty, w ith 

 success. If adopted, it would promote 

 cleanliness among our seamen, the prin- 

 cipal requisite for the preservation of 

 liealth ; remove the leading causes of 

 contagion on ship-board from dirty gar- 

 ments, beds, and bedding; and afj'ord 

 means to passengers of washing weekly 

 if necessary, and lessening the amount 

 and expenses of equipment. 



In a few days will l>e published, Sum- 

 mary Elements of Physiology, Iransiated 

 from the French of F. M igendie, M.D. 

 by a Member of the Medico-Chirurgical 

 Society. 



The Annual Register for 1807, being 

 the seventh volume of a New Series is 

 aanouug.rd. . ' ' 



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