1822.] 
the ‘animals that had served them for 
last winter’s provisions, which allorded 
them the melancholy ingredients for 
preserving life till their arrival at a 
post belonging to the Hudson’s Bay 
Company. 
There exist.at/present in the British 
isles, 103 carials, the course of which 
amounts to 2682 miles. One, 61 miles 
long, belongs to Ireland; five, which 
form together 150 miles in length, are 
in Scotland; the others, to the number 
of 97, intersect England as with a net- 
work. France, on the contrary, pos- 
sesses' only six’ canals, the united 
lengths of which are only 280 miles. 
Capt. Sabine is at Ascension, re- 
peating the experiments on the pen- 
dulum,&e. which he lately made in 
the Arctic Circle, with a view to deter- 
mine the figure of the earth. 
Much friendly intercourse has lately 
taken place between the government 
of Sierra Leone and the Fullah na- 
tion; and no less than 2810 slaves have 
lately been set at liberty by captures 
niade by the British cruisers. 
Shortly will be published, in two 
volumes ‘octavo, Fiity Lithographic 
Prints, illustrative of a Tour in France, 
Switzerland, and Italy, during the 
years 1819, 20, and 21, from original 
drawings taken in Italy, the Alps, and 
the Pyrences, by MARIANNE CoLsron. 
A Series of Portraits of the Kings 
and Queens of Great Britain, to be 
engraved in the chalk manner by Mr. 
R. Cooper, from the most authentic 
originals, are preparing to be publish- 
ed in numbers, each containing four 
portraits. Part I. will shortly appear. 
A considerable portion of the Trea- 
lise of Cicerode Republica, discovered 
hy AnGeLo MAt, keeper of the Vatican 
Library, in a Codex Rescriptus, will 
soon appear in octavo. 
The Ninth Book of Napoleon’s Own 
Memoirs appeared in London about 
two years since; and it is now an- 
nounced that the other books are to be 
published forthwith under the super- 
intendance of the Counts Las Casas 
and De Montholon. -'Vhe inypractica- 
ble security which’ the tender con- 
seience of M. Lafitte demanded be- 
fore he would pay his own drafts on 
America, having deprived these faith- 
fal followers of Napoleon of their lega- 
cies, they have heen constrained to 
sell these manuscripts to the best bid- 
der among the literary speculators of 
‘London. 
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351 
Count Las Casas has’ also ‘an- 
nounced his intention of publishing a 
work in eight volumes, under the titlé 
of Mémorial de St. Hélene, in which 
every thing ‘is to be recorded that 
was said or done by Napoleon at St. 
Helena, during the space of eighteen 
months. In the Preface the Count 
states, that “ particular circumstances 
placed’ him ‘for a long time with the 
most extraordinary man that the-his- 
tory of ages can show. Admiration 
led the Count to follow him, without 
knowing him; but, as soon as he knew 
him, love bound him to him for ever. 
The world is full of his glory, of his 
deeds, of his monuments; but nobody 
is acquainted with the real traits of 
his character, his private qualities, the 
natural inclinations of ‘his soul: to fill 
up this vacuum is the task he under- 
takes. He collected and noted down, 
day by day, all that he saw of Napo- 
leon, all that he heard from him during 
eighteen months. In these most con- 
fidential conversations, which took 
place, as it were, in another world, he 
could not fail to paint himself, as in a 
mirror, in all situations, and under all 
forms.” ; 
A new edition is preparing of the 
London Catalogue of Books, with 
their sizes, -prices,’ and publishers, 
containing the books published in 
London, and those altered im size or 
price, since the year 1800 to October 
1822. 
Mrs. Davis, author of “Helps to 
Devotion,” and of “ Fables and Moral 
Tales in Verse,” has in the press ano- 
ther work, entitled Christian Duties, 
or a Code. of Piety and Morality, ex- 
tracted from the New Testament. 
Our literary notices are numerous 
this month, and the ensuing winter 
promises, in consequence, to be a busy 
one among the booksellers. 
FRANCE. 
The following very interesting de- 
tails of the périodical press and pub- 
lic libraries of France afford a view 
of the state of literature in that 
country :— 
The Jegislation on the press is founded 
on the decree of the National Convention 
of July 19,1793; on the decreesof Napo- 
leon of ist, Germinal, 13; 5th Feb.,and_ 
idth Dec. 1610; 2d.Feb.s and 21st Oct. 
1614; 27th March and sth Oct, 1819; 
17th May and 9th June, 1819;, 21st 
March, 1820; and what has been pre- 
scribed by the latest enactments, which 
are of the most arbitrary aud degrading 
character, 
