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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL; 



Including Notices of IVorhs in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 



IT is our painful task this month to 

 have to record the loss of three 

 English characters of extraordinary 

 eminence in their age, and distinguish- 

 ed alike for their talents and virtues. 

 We refer to the names of Hutton, 

 Jenner, and Radclitfe,— neither of 

 wliich will be forgotten as long as 

 knowledge and genius are held in 

 respect. We have detailed the life 

 and labours of Dr. Hutton, by favour 

 of his family, in the present Number; 

 and have given place to brief notices 

 of Dr. Jenner and Mrs. Radclifl'e : tlio 

 first of whom we hope, by similar 

 favour, to treat of more at large in our 

 ensuing Number ; and we have expec- 

 tations that we shall also be enabled to 

 gratify the public in regard to the 

 latter, wliose writings have been so 

 creditable to the intellectual powers 

 of her sex. In the three we have lost 

 constant readers and valuable friends, 

 whose places we can scarcely hope to 

 live to replace. France, likewise, has 



been deprived, by recent death, of the 

 justly celebrated Abbe Haiiy, and 

 M. Delambre, one of that distinguish- 

 ed class of mathematicians among 

 whom are ranked Lagrange, Lacroix, 

 and Laplace. Memoirs of both have 

 been transmitted to us from Paris, and 

 we will submit them to our readers as 

 soon as the prior claims of our depart- 

 ed countrymen permit. 



The public are aware, that when 

 the Cross of St. Paul's was, in the sum- 

 mer of 1821, taken down, repaired, and 

 re-gilt, an ingenious, enterprising, and 

 laborious artist, Mr. Thomas Horner, 

 availed himself of the circumstance to 

 obtain permission to erect an Obser- 

 vatory above the usual site of the 

 Cross, for the purpose of making pano- 

 ramic drawings of the metropolis and 

 surrounding country. Of this erection, 

 so curious in every respect, as well for 

 its situation as its object, we have been 

 favoured with a sketch, which we have 

 the pleasure to present to our readers. 



As the result of these labours, Mr. 

 Horner has now published a very 

 elegant prosjieclus, with some speci- 

 luetis, in which he announces four 

 magnificent engravings : ciist and west 

 viuws forty inches bj twonly-five, and 



north and south views thirty by twenty, 

 live ; each to be accompani<!d by four 

 descriptive keys. He proposes, also, 

 to have two sets of ehgravin:j,s; one in 

 the line-manner at eight guineas, and 

 tlic other coloured as drawings at teir 

 guiuca.s. 



