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ill ihe press, and speedily will be 

 published, a .second edition of the 

 (iyninasiuin, by the Rev. Dr Crom- 



BIE. 



Mr. A. A. Watts has in the press 

 Specimens of the Livina; Poefs, with 

 biographical and critical prefaces. The 

 work will be comprized in two volumes 

 crown octaA'o ; to which will be added 

 an appendix containing notices of those 

 poets who have died within a few 

 years. 



The Treatise on Scrophnia (to which 

 the Jacksonian prize for the year ISIS 

 was adjudged by the Court of Exa- 

 miners of the lioyal College of Siir- 

 geons) is printing, containing its 

 iiature, treatment, and elTccts, jiarti- 

 cularly on children, and on the altera- 

 tion produced by the disease in the 

 structure of all tlie dift'erent parts of 

 the body, with special reference also to 

 its connections with spinal ctirvatures, 

 diseases of the joints, and affections of 

 the glands, by Eusebius Arthur 

 Lloyd, Member of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, senior Surgeon to the 

 (ieneral Dispensatory, Aldersgate-st. 

 and late House Surgeon to St. Bartho- 

 lomew's Hospital. 



Mr. Campbell, the Missionary, whose 

 former travels info South Africa are 

 before the public, has lately returned 

 after another journey e(|ually interest- 

 ing. He penetrated 8(>0 miles from 

 Cape Town, a greater distance than any 

 other traveller whose good fortune it 

 has been to return, and considerably 

 beyond Latakoo. Se\eral new and large 

 towns were discovered. The popula- 

 tion of some of these amount to 10,000 

 or 12,000 persons; the people friendly 

 and docile, possessing much skill in 

 the manufacture of pottery, in smelt- 

 ing of iron, and other useful arts ; be- 

 sides so intelligent as to know the 

 value, and wish for, the introduction 

 of better informed artizans. They 

 have likewise desired missionaries to 

 be sent to them, a wish which will 

 be doubtless complied with by the 

 directors of that society. 



Chevalier Johnstone's Memoir of 

 the Rebellion of 1745 and 1746, willbe 

 published immediately. 



The History of the Plague, as it has 

 lately appeared in the Islands of Malta, 

 Goza, Corfu, and Cephalonia, &c. ; by 

 .J. D. TuLLY, Esq. Surgeon to the 

 Forces, will soon be published. 



The late Mr. John Scott's Sketches 

 of ManiK IS, Scenery, &c. of "le French 

 Provinces, Switzerland aid Ttaly, ar.; 

 printing with all speed. 



I June 



Dr. Davy will publish his Travels 

 in Ceylon in a few days. 



Mr. Williams's edition of the Com- 

 mentaries oil the Laws of England by 

 Sir William blacksfone, will be ready 

 for publication in the course of this 

 month. The insertion of the passages 

 on the liberty nf the subject^ ivhich are 

 to be found onlij in the first edition of 

 this valuable ivorh, and the promised 

 correction of the errors and mis-state- 

 ments of the learned judge, respecting 

 constitutional law and legal antiquities, 

 cannot but create much interest in be- 

 half of this edition. 



The first volume of Sir Robert 

 Ker Porter's Travels in Georgia, 

 Persia and Armenia, <a:c. is now ready 

 for publication ; and the second vo- 

 lume, which will complete the work, 

 will be published in the Autumn. 



An Edition of Cook's three Voyages, 

 complete in seven A'olumes octavo, 

 with thirty plates, willbe published in 

 a few days. 



The following is a return of the num- 

 ber of Convicts who have been sent 

 from Great Britain to New South 

 AVales, from the 1st of January, 1817, 

 to the first of January, 1821 ; distin- 

 guishing each year, likewise the males 

 from the females; and distinguishing 

 the Transports for Life, for Fourteen 

 Years, and for Seven Years. 



This subject still calls for the inter- 

 ference of tlie humane and benevolent, 

 for it thus appears tliat 15S9 wretched 

 persons have been sent for 14 years, and 

 4597 for 7 years to a distance where 

 they have no power of returning, by 

 Avhich small crimes are unjustly pun- 

 ished as heavily as great ones ! 



The Rev. G. Woodley is preparing 

 for publication, a View of the Present 

 State of the Scilly Islands, exhibiting 

 their vast impoi tance to the empire. 



In a few days will be published a 

 Chart, exhibiting a sketch of the most 

 distinguishing tenets of various reli- 

 gious denominations, from the com- 

 mencement of the Christian era to the 

 pre,**""! time, new edition improved, 

 \jy the Rev, JAMES Churchill. 



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