1306.] Literarxj and Philofophical Intelligence. 



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*' Palm has left a widow and five children, 

 in circumftances very inadequate to fupport 

 them with decency. It is fo much the more 

 to be wiihed, that the fubfcriptions opened 

 for them in many places may prove ample. 

 The court had even the cruelty to adjudge the 

 widow to pay the expences of the trial, which 

 amounted to 700 gulden (about 751. fter- 

 ling)." 



The plan of the new Oxford Review is 

 fo far matured, tliat its appearance is 

 announced for the firft of January. At 

 SL time when reviews have become the 

 mere engines of perfonal calunmy, and 

 the ordinary vehicles for the molt nnpu- 

 dent libels, we cannot too emphatically 

 congratulate the literary world on the 

 publication of a new Critical Journal, 

 w hicli, from its locality, mull be diiiin- 

 guillied by independence, good manners, 

 integrity, and found learning. — Tnjiilti- 

 ficaticin of our eulogy on tliis new jour- 

 nal, \lre (hall cite the lljetch of its plan, 

 as publiilicd by tliofe concerned in its 

 nianancn>t4U. Tt would appear that it 

 ■nil! be loyal and orthodox, without be- 

 ing factious and intolerant. 



1. The writers are gei.tlemen wholly un- 

 connefted with literary taftlons, or with the 

 trading interefts ot publifhers. 



y. They have been induced to volunteer 

 •heir fevvices as guaruians of literature, in 

 confequente of the numerous abufes to which 

 periodical criticifm h.is lately been expol'ed in 

 many ol' the exifting reviews. 



o. As rcfidenc iMembers of the firft univer-' 

 fity in the world, their eafy accefs to literary 

 authorities of every kind, their means of con- 

 ftant literary communication, and their other 

 numerous local advantages, efpecially qualify 

 them to undeitake the office ofcenfors of the 

 public prefs. 



•J. Every book /hall be reviewed according 

 to the profefled oljeft of its writer, and every 

 writer /ball be candidly judged according to 

 his o-vn principles. 



a. Iffuing from a feat of learning, which 

 has always been juftly regarded a* the bul- 

 yvark of the Church and State,, this review 

 will he .Icdfaftly devoted to the interefts of 

 the cllabliihed religion and government of the 

 country. 



6. Every book which appears" within the 

 Kritifli Empire, and which has been publicly 

 adveitife.1 or hns hecii communicated to the 

 editors, fiiall, without exception, be noticed 

 in this Review within three months after its 

 appearance. 



7. The revicned works rtiall be clafiiid fyf- 

 tematicdlly, under the general heads of lite- 

 rature to which they rcfpeftively belong. 



S. Nutices of foreign literature lluli: form a 



regular portion of every Numher, and ar- 

 rangements have been made by which ciiey 

 will be early and camprehenfive. 



KoTZEUUE has lately pubiilhed at Ber- 

 lin fome volumes of Tale.-., Epdodes, and 

 Nouvellettes, a tranflation of wlii^-h lias 

 been undertaken, and will fpcedily ap- 

 pear, in three volumes, correlpondaig 

 witii his various travels. This gentle- 

 man and JVI. MtLLEU are undcrdood to 

 be the authors of the admired and fpii 

 rited Manifell(j of the King of Pruijia. 



Sir Wii LiAM YouxG, Bart, and M. P. 

 has jult completed an arrangement of 

 fa(!-ts and documents relati\e to the Weit 

 India Illands, which he intends to pub- 

 lilh under the tillc of The NVell India 

 Common Phice Bocjk. This work will 

 include <dl that it can be defirable to 

 know relative to the commerce, produce, 

 and other interells of the ^^'ell Indiii 

 Illands. 



Dr. CooAN, of Bath, is preparing for 

 the j)refs an I'.thical Trcatife on the Paf- 

 lions. The iirll part, which will appear 

 in the courfe of the winter, will treat of 

 the agency of the paiiions in the purfuit 

 of well-being ; of the- intellectual pow- 

 ers, as directories in the ])urluit ; and of 

 the nature and iburccs of that well-being 

 of which the human fpecles is fufcep- 

 tible. 



Mr. Davis, author of Travels in Ame- 

 rica, has nearly ready for publication, in 

 one volume octavo. Memoirs of the Life 

 ofChatterton the I'oet. 



A new llillory t)f Jamaica will fpcedily 

 make its appearance, written by a gen- 

 tleman fome time relident iii that illand. 

 To give a more complete view of the 

 prefcnt ftate of that valuable colony, the 

 auilior has written feparate dillertations 

 on I he Climate and fvd, topograpliy, 

 laws, trade, natural and commercial pro- 

 ductions, ftate of the negroes, and pro- 

 pofals for the amelioration of their con- 

 dition ; difeafes of Europeans and ne- 

 crocs, and the cufloms, manners, and 

 dif| olitious of the inhabitants. 



All-. Be iixEY, the eminent conductor 

 of the Naval Academy at Cofport, will 

 publilh, in a few days, two works calcu- 

 lated to increafc . that thirft for glory 

 which Iws alrcaily rendered our na\y in- 

 ^incliile. One of them is a fuccinct ac- 

 count of the live;* and aftions of all illuf- 

 tiious admiiitls and <'onunander», to ap- 

 pi'ar undei- the title of " Naval Ilervjos ;" 

 a;hl the other Is- a complete hlfioi'ical 

 \ ii'w (,f the rife and pnjgrefs of the; navy 

 to I lie pre)"<;nt time, under the title of tha 

 " Uritilh Neptune." 



iS A 2 Mr. 



