Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



444 



other docfriies of .iny school of philo- 

 sophy, however orthodox, plausible, or 

 popular. 



A new edition of the Antiquarian Ca- 

 binet is puhli.shing in numbers, each 

 containing ten plates, jii inttd on royal 

 octavo, each plate forming a head-piece 

 to tiie description. 



It alFords us heartfelt satisfaction to 

 find that those infamous London News- 

 papers, which owed a temjjorary asccn- 

 •jleney to their willing instrumentality in 

 Keeping in countenance the unchristian 

 passions which gave rise to the late 

 unhappy wars, and in perpetuating the 

 delusions wliich enabled wicked mini- 

 sters to continue them, are at length 

 treated by the public with the neglect 

 and scorn which they have so long 

 merited. Two of the chief of them are 

 M'ell known to have fallen in sale from 

 7 and 8000 per day, to numbers below 

 3000; and what is more fatal to the 

 sordid views of their nnjirincipled pro- 

 prietors, the fact of their reduced sales 

 being well understood by advertizers, 

 their advertisements have palpably di- 

 minished in an equal proportion. Never 

 were a people so abused as the Eng- 

 lish nation have been by these venal 

 writers; and it is the duty of all public- 

 spirited men to assist in depriving them 

 of the power to renew their crimes. At 

 the same time, it is proper to state, that 

 those proprietors who performed the 

 duties of the public press with as much 

 integrity as the follies of the day would 

 prudently admit, have not been subject 

 to this revulsion of public opinion, and 

 continue to maintain their sale and 

 general patronage, in a degree which 

 proves the worth of the golden adage, 

 that " lionesly is always the best policy." 

 Dr. Mason, of New York, now in 

 this country, is about to publish a work 

 entitled, a Plea for Catholic Com- 

 munion. 



A weekly publication, entitled, the 

 Literary Bee, or the new Family Libra- 

 ry, will appear within a few days: it 

 will consist of moral and critical essays, 

 sketches from history, classical tales, 

 poems, descri[)tioiis of remarkable ruins, 

 and of sublime and beautiful scenery, 

 with pictures from real life, and essays 

 on the maimers and customs of different 

 nations, by some of the best British and 

 foreign writers of the present age, 



A work, in thirty plate.s, with descrip- 

 tions, is preparhig, of the Costumes of 

 the Netherlands. 



. Mr. Foster is engaged on an elabo- 

 rate work oa the Generic I'oms of the 



[Dec. 1, 



Crania of Animals, with a view to the 

 further illustration of the novel science 

 of Craniology. 



Messrs. Netlam and Giles are 

 making arrangements for a trigonome- 

 trical survey (ibunded on the basis of 

 Col. Mudge's and Capt. Coleby's Trian- 

 gles) for a New Map of the County Pa- 

 latine of Lancaster, on a scale of an inch 

 to the mile. 



The readei-s of the Monthly IMagazinc 

 recollect having perused an olPicial ac- 

 count of Governor Macquarrie's attempt 

 to explore the country lying west of the 

 Jjiue Mountains, forming the boundary 

 of the selllements in New South A\'^ales, 

 and of tlio interesting discoveries to 

 which it led. The passes had been 

 cleared, and the scite of a town has been 

 fixed in the centre of a fertile and beau- 

 tiful country. He instructed Mr. Evans 

 to continue the journey, and explore as 

 far to the west as his means of trans- 

 porting provisions, the nature of the 

 country, and such unforeseen obstacles 

 as travellci.s are exposed to, would per- 

 mit. That gentleman had safely re- 

 turned, and his inquiries had proved 

 highly successful. The tract of country 

 over which he travelled, consisted of a 

 succession of rich and fertile valleys, 

 separated by the interposition of hills 

 covered with bark, pine, and other use- 

 ful timbers; and abounding in pools and 

 streams of water. lie also fell in with a 

 large river, full of (ish,v< hich, from its ap- 

 pearance, promised to be navigable at a 

 short distance. Mr. Evans's tour ex- 

 tended 155 miles to the southward; and, 

 at its termination, a very rich level coun- 

 try opened to view, offering, as far as the 

 sight extended, no barrier to the progress 

 of the traveller to the west. 



By the Report of the Police Commit- 

 tee, it appears that there were com- 

 mitted to Newgate in three years a§ 

 under : — 



1812, 1813. 1814. 



Felonies 1,452 1,311 l,tyr 



Misdemeanors 74 49 99 



Assaults 3 — 1 



Girls of 13, and under 

 Boys of 15, and under 



19 

 43 



y 



89 



12 



Totals t,591 1,458 1,678 



A course of Lectures has been deli- 

 vered by .Mr. Curtis, surgeon-aurist, of 

 Soho-sipiare, on the Anatomy, Physio- 

 logy, and Diseases of the Ear. In this 

 course Mr. Curds introduced a number 

 of improvements on the instruments 

 commonly used for assisting tlie faculty 

 of healing, particularly his artificial 



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