'Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



I82I. 



Lorenzo de^ Medici, called the Magn 

 ficent, and of the Life and Pontificate 

 of Leo X,, &c. It will be printed in 48 

 parts, octavo; each to average 400 

 pages, and 12 to be delivered in the 

 year. It will be ornamented with at 

 least eight portraits of those eminent 

 authors, of whom authentic likenesses 

 can be obtained. 



Those papers which have appeared 

 in this Miscellany under the signature 

 of " Common Sense," on Philosophical 

 subjects, are printing separately, and 

 vill soon appear in a collected volume, 

 under the title of JEssai)s on the Prox- 

 imate causes of the Material of the 

 Universe. They have undergone revi- 

 siott and enlargement, and will be 

 illustrated by engravings. 



We have great satisfaction in stating 

 that the Mock-Consitutional Society, or 

 British Inquisition (whose flagitious 

 object seems to have been to destroy 

 the liberty of the press) has been suc- 

 cessfully opposed by public opinion. 

 Its vicious practices having been nulli- 

 fied by the frequent rejection of its 

 bills of indictment, by the virtue and 

 public spirit of Grand Juries, as soon 

 as the origin of the prosei'ufions was 

 understood. We hoj)e to hear no more 

 of such prosecutions, and the respecta- 

 ble members have been taught a lesson, 

 and will feel the necessity of with- 

 drawing from furtlier animadversion. 



Accounts have been lately received 

 from twogentlemen travelling in Egypt, 

 Mr. Waddington, of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, and Mr. Hanbury, of Je- 

 sus College. These two gentlemen 

 availing themselves of the opportunity 

 of attending the Pasha of Egypt in a 

 military expedition against some tribes 

 of Arabs, have had the good fortune to 

 see a part of the Nile's course, which it 

 had not before been safe for any Euro- 

 pean traveller to visit. They have dis- 

 covered one or two interesting islands, 

 with about thirty entire pp-amids, of 

 different sizes, and extensive ruins of 

 temples of unequal construction, but 

 some of them exhibiting considerable 

 skill, and others apparently of the 

 highest antiquity. 



Mr. Lowe, author of the statistical 

 articles on England and France, in Mr. 

 Napier's supplenient (o tlie Encyclo- 

 psedia Brilunnica, is preparing for press 

 a volume on the Situation and Pros- 

 pects of this Country, iu regard to 

 Agriculture, Trade, and Finauces. 

 The causes 4>f (he jQuctuations in the 

 prices of commodities since 17!)2 ; the 



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i continued rise during the war, the 

 re-action since the peace ; the abun- 

 dance of our financial resources in the 

 one period, their comparative penury 

 in the other ; the effect of the resump- 

 tion of cash payments; the proposition 

 of a partial decrease of the public divi- 

 dends ; the expediency of adapting go- 

 vernment expenditure to the enhanced 

 value of money : all form subjects of 

 discussion in this work. The report 

 of tiie agricultural committee will be 

 received at some length, and the popu- 

 lation returns now making by order 

 of government, will supply materials 

 for the discussion of a very important 

 question, how far increase of popula- 

 tion is productive of increase of national 

 wealth. In every material point a 

 comparison will be drawn between our 

 situation and that of France. 



Early next month will be published 

 A Treatise on the Game of Chess, in- 

 cluding the Games of the Anonymous 

 Modonese and the Trait6des Amateurs; 

 and containing many remarkable situa- 

 tions, original as well as selected, by 

 John Cochrane, Esq. in Svo. illus- 

 trated by numerous diagrams and an 

 engraved frontispiece. 



A very cui-ious invention or dis- 

 covery has been made in the art of mu- 

 sical composition. Cards are j)repared, 

 on each of which a bar of an air is ar- 

 ranged according to a certain rhythm 

 and key. Four packs of these cards, 

 marked A, B, C, and D, are mingled 

 together; and as the cards are drawn, 

 and arranged before a performer in the 

 order of that series, it will be found 

 an original air is obtaiue.l. The cards 

 hitherto made, we have been told, are 

 as waltzes, and succeed perfectly. The 

 invention may be called Musical Per- 

 mutation. It has received, however, 

 improperly, that of The Musical Kalei- 

 doscope. 



An animal nearly resembling the 

 description of the Unicorn, as given by 

 Pliny, is now on its way to this coun- 

 try from Africa ; it nearly resembles 

 the horse in figure, but is much smaller, 

 and the single horn projecting from the 

 forehead is considerably shorter than is 

 given in the real or supposed delinea- 

 tions of tliat doubtful creature. 



Speedily will be jpublislied in Svo., 

 Essays on the Formation and Publica- 

 tion of Opinions, and on other subjects. 



In tlie press, the: Tri]»lc Aim ; or, 

 the Improvement of Leisure Friendsliip 

 and Intellect, attempted, JUl epistp^ry 

 correspondence. 'i ).> .ioi».v«Vil 



