Literary and Philosophical Jnlelligence. [Feb. T, 



70 



Speedily will be published, Original 

 Views of the CoUcfjiate and Parochial 

 aiurihcs of England ; by Mr. J. P. 

 Nk.«lk, accompanied with historical 

 and descriptive accounts. 



Ikon-making. — Mr. Mnshett, one 

 of the most scientific and ina;enious 

 of our iron-masters, has, in some 

 late inquiries into the history of the 

 discovery and use of cast-iron (inserted 

 in tiic Pidlosophical Magazine) ap- 

 peared dis])oscd to fix its date in 

 England abont the year 1550 ; before 

 which time, it appears tiiat the art of 

 casting iron was unknown ; and he 

 supposes it to have been an English 

 invention. There were in England 

 and Wales, in the year 1720, he says, 

 fifty-nine blast-furnaces employed in 

 making about 17,3.50 tons, yearly ; or 

 a little more than five tons each of pig- 

 iron weekly. At that period, fourteen 

 of these' furnaces existed in the two 

 sonth-eastern counties of England, 

 Kent and Sussex ; where now one, at 

 most, survives, near Battle. ]\1r. M. 

 suggests, as a curious subject of anti- 

 quarian research, in Sussex and Glou- 

 ees'tcrshirc, (including the Forest of 

 Dean,) and several other eonnlirs, to 

 ascertain the place and date of erec- 

 tion of the first tall blast-furnace in 

 England, for the making of east or 

 I>ig-iron? At present, the size and 

 number of these ftirnaccs are so won- 

 thrfuliy increased in Britain, as to 

 manufacture near half a milium torn 

 of pig-iron annually '. with a consump- 

 tion of pit-eoal, in all the attendant 

 manipulations, equal, at least, to Jive 

 miUion tons aniuially ! 



Two other new Magazines arc to 

 appear on the 1st of February. One, 

 fUtitlcd 27/c Magazine of Foreign Lite- 

 raiure, is to be entirely devoted to a 

 translated analysis of the most popu- 

 lar works that appear on the continent 

 and in America; the other, to be 

 callefl The British Magazine, will be 

 confined to the publications of our 

 ttwn country. Any plan will deserve 

 better of the public than tiic mawkish 

 collections of paid-for essays on trite 

 and exhausted subjects, sueh as ha\o 

 lately filled the jijnne attempts at ma- 

 ga/ine-making. 



A new edition of the Life of the 

 Kcv. John Wesley, by his executors 

 Dr. Coke and Mr. Moore, is in the 

 press. 



Mr. Scott's History of England 

 durinij the reign of George III. de- 

 signed Rs a Continuation to Hume and 



Smollett, will appear in the course of 

 February, in 4 vols. 8vo. and 5 vols. 

 18mo. 



Dii. Robinson, author of the Theo- 

 logical Dictionary, &,c. &c. rector of 

 Clifton, near Penrith, has just com- 

 pleted his long-promised abridgment 

 of Hume and Smollett for the use of 

 schools, with a continuation by him- 

 self to the coronation of George IV. 

 It will be embellished with above 100 

 engravings after the celebrated pic- 

 tures and furniture prints of our great 

 painters and engravers, and there- 

 fore become a truly national school- 

 book. 



In a few days will be pnblishcd 

 Universal Stenography, or a practical 

 System of Short-hand; by Mr. W. 

 Harding. 



The atmospheric phenomena in any 

 given place ashore, especially inland, 

 are afiected by many more causes of 

 sudden and anomalous change thau 

 are experienced at sea, especially on 

 the great oceans; and, hence, Mr. H. 

 T. Coi,F,i!ROOK has judiciously inferred 

 the great importance of accurate and 

 greatly multiplied observations at sea 

 towaixls ascertaining those general 

 principles of the science of metcurolngij, 

 which yet, unfortunately, are wanting, 

 and towards the attainment of which, 

 it seems to us surprising that no spe- 

 cial society has been yet formed. Mr. 

 Colebrook has himself set the example 

 of making, during a voyage into the 

 southern hemisphere and back, a 

 series of observations, (which are re- 

 corded in a late quarterly Journal of 

 Science,) from whence he has drawn 

 a great number of results highly in- 

 teresting to the meteorologist, but 

 much exceeding our room to particu- 

 larize them. 



An Elegy on the Memory of the late 

 Rev. Henry Maktyn, with smaller 

 pieces, is preparing for the press ; -to 

 which will be added, a portrait of 

 Mr. Martyn; by John Lawson, mis- 

 sionary at Calcutta, author of " Orient 

 Harping" and " Woman in India," 

 &c. 



Martha, a Memorial of a beloved 

 and only Sister; by Axdrew Keep, 

 author of " No Fiction," a narrative 

 founded on fact, is also printing. 



Mr. Bentham is in correspondence 

 with the Cortes of Portugal respecting 

 the best digest of a civil code for that 

 kingdom, in lieu of the late system, 

 which was little calculated for a state of 

 civil liberty. Itisncw to an Englishman 



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