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A Loodon Society, for Mitigating 

 and gradually Abolisiiing tlie State of 

 Slavery throughout the British Domi- 

 nions, has been established. The in- 

 dividuals composing the Society are 

 deeply impressed with the magnitude 

 and number of the evils attached to 

 the systrm of slavery which prevails 

 in many of the colonies of Great 

 i!ritain ; a system whicii appears to 

 them to be api)osed to the spirit and 

 precepts of Christianity, as well as 

 repugnant to every dictate of natural 

 humanity and justice ; and they long 

 indulged a hope, that the abolition of 

 the slave trade, after a struggle of 

 twenty years, would have teuded ra- 

 pidly to the mitigation and gradual 

 extinction of negro bondage in the 

 British colonies : but that in this hope 

 they have been painfully disappointed ; 

 and, after a lapse of sixteen years, 

 they have still to deplore the almost 

 undiminished prevalence of the very 

 evils which it was one great object of 

 the abolition to remedy. Under these 

 circumstances, they feel themselves 

 called upon, by their duty as Chris- 

 tians, and their best sympathies as 

 men, to exert themselves, in their se- 

 parate* and collective capacities, in 

 endeavouring, by all prudent and law- 

 ful means, to mitigate, and eventually 

 to abolish, slavery itsilf as existing- in 

 our colonial possessions. 



A subscription was lately ojjened, 

 though not counnnnicated to t!ie public 

 so generally as it ought, for a monu- 

 ment to the memory of the late Mr. 

 Charles Diuuin, author of tlie nume- 

 rous and pojiular songs which form an 

 era in the history of the lyrical poetry 

 of this country. The best arc nndoubi- 

 edly of the nautical class. He had 

 been, early in life, at sea himself, and 

 could therefore give a spirit, interest, 

 and fidelity', to such subjects as no 

 other has been able, —and no land-man 

 could expect, — to impart. Among the 

 seamen they v, ere known, prized, and 

 sung most enthusiastically. None but 

 those who have witnessed the scene 

 can believe the pride and importance 

 with which they always inspire that 

 daring and valuable body. 



The Coplcian medal was lately voted 

 by tlie Royal Society to tlic Kcv. V\ il- 

 LiAM BucKLAND, profcssor ol Gcology 

 in the University of Oxford, for an 

 able account of a variety of fossil 

 teeth and bones, found in a cave at 

 Kirkdale, in Yorkshire. 



Memoirs of the late amiable poet 

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[April I, 



and miscellaneous writer, Haylby> 

 written by himself during his long re- 

 tirement from public observation, are 

 preparing for the press, under the 

 superintendauce of the Key. Dr. 

 Johnson. 



A Piiilosophical Society has been 

 formed at York, more especially for 

 the cultivation of Geology. 



A very able paper has been circu- 

 lated by Mr. ABEUNKrHY on the diffi- 

 culty of procuring, by legal means, 

 subjects for dissection. A surgeon can 

 no more perform a difiicult operation 

 in surgery without attentive and per- 

 severing dissection, than a man can 

 expect to read who has not learnt the 

 alphabet. The only question is, where 

 are the subjects to come from? 



Miss AiKiN is preparing for publica- 

 tion a IMemoir of her Father, the late 

 John Aikin, m.d. together with a selec- 

 tion of his critical essays and miscel- 

 laneous pieces, not before printed in a 

 collected form. Improved editions of 

 several of the most popular of Dr. 

 Aikin's works arc also preparing under 

 the care of his family. 



Mr, James, author of the "Naval 

 History of Great Britain," has in the 

 press' the second part of that work, 

 completing his original design. In it 

 will be given an accurate plan of the 

 battle of Trafalgar. 



A new botanical work is commenced, 

 called llie Naturalist's Repository, or 

 jMonthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural 

 History, consisting of elegantly-co- 

 loured |)lates, flitli approjjriate scien- 

 tilic and general descriptions of the 

 most curious, scarce, and beautiful, 

 productions of nature, that have been 

 recently discovered in various parts 

 of the world; by E. Donovan, f.l.s. 



Shortly will appear, in imperial 

 octavo, with twenty plates by Heath, 

 the Life of a Soldier. 



Mr. Meger has nearly ready for 

 publication, a One engraving in the 

 line ami chalk manner, from the 

 greatly admired painting, by Kidd, of 

 the Stolen Kiss. > 



Sketches of Youth are in the press, 

 by the aiiil.or of "Dangerous Errors." 



Mr. Bicheno, ofthc Middle Temple, 

 barrister-at-Iaw, has in the press a 

 .second edition of an Enquiry into the 

 Poor Laws, chiefly with a view to 

 examine them as a system of national 

 benevolence, and to show tlie evils of 

 indiscriminate relief, with some re- 

 marks upon the schemes which have 

 been submitted to Parliament. 



Whittingham's 



