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British Artillery and Engineers for 
the last half century.”—On the 21st 
of September, 1822, the committee 
for conducting the subscription waited 
on Dr. Hutton, at his house in Bed- 
ford-row, in order to present him with 
the bust, according to the originalinten- 
tion. The committee then proceeded 
to examine the difference between the 
receipts of the subscriptions and the 
disbursements, when they found a 
considerable surplus, which they 
agreed to dispose of in a medal in 
honour of Dr. Hutton. 
The literary world will be favoured, 
in the ensuing winter, with a volume 
of Letters from the pen of Mr. 
BeEckKrorpD, author of ‘‘ Vathek.” 
At the usual time will be published, 
Time’s Telescope for 1823, containing 
an explanation of Saints’-days and 
Holydays, sketches of comparative 
chronology, and contemporary bio- 
graphy, astronomical occurrences in 
every month, with a deseription of in- 
dispensable astronomical instruments, 
illustrated by wood-cuts; and the Na- 
turalist’s Diary, explaining the various 
appearances of the animal and vege- 
table kingdoms: to which will be pre- 
faced, an Introduction to British En- 
tomology, with a plate of insects 
coloured after nature. 
In November will be published, with 
eighteen new plates, a new edition of 
Innes on the Muscles, revised, cor- 
rected, and enlarged, with notes, prac- 
tical and explanatory, by Roserr 
Hunter, lecturer on Surgery, Ana- 
tomy, kc. Glasgow. 
Palecromaica, or Historical and 
Philological Disquisitions, are prepa- 
ring for publication. 
A new edition, with several valua- 
ble appendages, of the Saxon Chro- 
nicles, by the Rev. J. INGRAM, is 
printing. 
Truth against Falschood, or Facts 
opposed to Viction, is preparing for 
publication, in a series of letters ad- 
dressed to Douglas, the author of ‘No 
Fiction,” by LEFEVRE. 
Somewhat more than twenty-one 
years ago, the Editor of this Miscel- 
Jany had the good fortune to give tlie 
first permanent record to announce- 
ments of the, geological labours of Mr. 
Smith, of Bath, in making “a Geo- 
logical Map of England;” depicting 
thereon, as he traversed in all direc- 
_ tions its extended surface, the courses 
and the breadths of each of the prin- 
cipal strata of our island; ascertain- 
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ing, at the same time, the qualities of 
each stratum, and the species of fossil 
shells peculiar to each. Palpable 
neglect of Mr. Smith’s meritorious and 
useful labours by the opulent Jand- 
owners, and by cthers who should have 
stood forward as his efficient patrons, 
had exhausted his means, and dis- 
abled him from engraving and publish- 
ing his map, &c. long after they were 
ready for these operations. Unjustly 
thus kept in the back-ground in his 
native country, we have been happy 
tolearn that the fame of Mr. Smith 
has, nevertheless, spread across the 
Atlantic; and the patriotic govern- 
ment of Columbia, on turning its atten- 
tion to the mineral riches of theirenvia- 
ble country, had sent over proposals for 
engaging Mr. Smith (and, we believe, 
also his brother and nephew, who have 
of late years successfully practised in 
his profession,) to go out, adequately 
appointed, and commence for the go- 
vernment there such a survey as Mr. 
S. began for himself of England. But, 
alas! the poignancy of Mr. S.’s feel- 
ings, at his unmerited losses and neg- 
lect, have for two years or more past 
occasioned him to exclude himself 
almost entirely from his relations and 
most intimate friends; and, with his 
nephew, to seck precarious employ in 
distant northern counties: so that the 
private efforts of several weeks have 
failed in’ conveying intelligence to 
him of proposals so honourable to his 
falents and labours as those just men- 
tioned. Amongst others, the Editor 
was written to, in hopes he might 
asceriain Mr. Smith’s retreat; but, 
this not being the case, he hopes the 
object may, through some of his 
readers, be quickly effected. 
The same enlightened spirit, we are 
happy to find, actuates the new Re- 
public of La Plata. Its government 
has sent to England for men of science; 
and Mr. Bevan, well known in Lon- 
don as a civil engineer, has, in conse- 
quence of an engagement, proceeded 
with his family in a late ship for 
Buenos Ayres, where he is to superin- 
tend the embankments and improve- 
ments of the La Plata, and introduce 
the best European science for the 
public good. Those countries seem 
therefore likely, in a few years, to 
exhibit numerous triumphs of philo- 
sophy; while among the old govern- 
ments of Europe the chief patronage 
unhappily is directed to the science of 
mutual destruction, and to the sar 
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