1822] 
and theological book-societies, for the 
use of the three professions. The hint 
is worthy of notice, and is capable of 
being extended to other subjects, par- 
ticularly to books on the useful arts in 
manufacturing districts. An intelli- 
gent country-bookseller has done jus- 
tice to’ one branch of the subject in 
another part of this Number. 
Sixteen Practical Sermons will 
shortly be published, on the most im- 
portant subjects ef religion, delivered 
on various occasions, by the late Rev. 
RicHarD PosTLETHWAITE, rector of 
Roche, Comwall. 
Mrs. CATHERINE Hutton, author of 
the“ Tour of Africa,” &c. is employed 
upon a work to be entitled, Memoirs 
of the Queens of England, with a 
Sketch of the Kings. 
A Treatise on the Use of Moxa as a 
Therapeutical Agent, by Baron Lar- 
REY ; translated from the French, with 
notes and an introduction, containing 
a°History of the Substance; is pre- 
paring by RosLey DunGLIsoN, fellow 
of the Royal College of Surgeons, and 
will shortly be published. 
‘Bibliotheca Biblica is preparing for 
publication, consisting of a select de- 
scriptive catalogue of the most im- 
portant British and foreign works in 
thecdepartment of biblical criticism 
and interpretation, with brief notices 
of their authors, and remarks on their 
theological and critical merits, by WM. 
Orme, author of ‘‘ Memoirs of the 
Life, Writings, &c. of Dr. John Owen.” 
-The “public scoundrels” whoabused 
the liberty of the press in Scotland, 
by the publication of the Beacon, the 
Sentinel, and the Correspondent, seem 
not only to be duly exposed to the 
contempt of the world, but in some 
degree to have been sufficiently pu- 
nished. They hoped perhaps to ob- 
tain rewards, and to escape with im- 
punity, like the wretches concerned in 
‘the London Satirist, Scourge, and other 
similar.works. But they are known; 
and, though the University of Edin- 
burgh may, with little. respect) for 
moral philosophy, tolerate one of them ; 
thane: certain chiefs of Scottish law 
may retain places, which they have 
proved themselves unworthy to fill; 
and though a certain empirical manu- 
facturer of novels may retain a portion 
of public credit, yet we learn that they 
are for the most part sent to Coventry 
by all who retain a sense of integrity 
and consistency. In the late trial of 
Mr, Stuart for shooting Sir Alexander 
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Boswell in a duel, it appeared by evi- 
dence that the latter had written ano- 
nymous libels on the former, and on 
other persons; had then commended 
his own anonymous productions, in a 
public letter, signed with his name; 
had taken covert measures to get his 
anonymous letters destroyed, in which 
he failed, by the craft or caution of the 
printer ; and, when shown to him, had 
declined to acknowledge his own 
writing. Forsome good personal qua- 
lities, his fate has been much lamented ; 
but it ought to serve as a beacon to 
others; and by thé superstitious the 
duel will perhaps be regarded as a 
trial by ordeal, in which Heaven 
marked the yictim. Such an exposure 
of political malignity never took place 
as that in regard to the various cha- 
racters concerned in these works, 
which have in consequence been de- 
stroyed; though there is too much 
reason to apprehend that some of the 
writers still find means of venting their 
bad passions in a certain Edinburgh 
Magazine, and a noted London Re- 
view. 
A succinct Account will shortly be 
published of the Lime-rocks of Ply- 
mouth, with ten lithographic plates of 
some of the most remarkable of the 
animal remains found in them, by the 
Rev. RicHARD HENNAH. 
Prelectiones Academicez, or Aca- 
demic Lectures, are preparing for the 
press, on subjects connected with the 
history of modern Europe, viz. Chris- 
tianity, Mahomedanism, the Crusades, 
literature and the arts, navigation, the 
Jesuits, the Reformation; civil wars in 
England, slave trade, commerce, 
French revolution, civil liberty, and 
religious toleration, by the Rev. H. C. 
O’DonnoGuHuE, A.M. This work will 
be published in four quarterly parts, 
making; when completed, one hand- - 
some volume octavo, of 600 pages. 
Mr. Hopkins, of Manchester, has 
in the press a work on Principles of. 
Political Economy which” regulate 
Wages, Profits, Rent, and the Value 
of Money. / 
Mr. Pontey’s Practi¢al Treatise on 
Rural Ornament, which ‘deduces the 
science from well-known fixed princi- 
ples, will appear in the course of the 
present month. 
Shortly will be published, with nu- 
merous plates, aTour through Sweden, 
Norway, and the coast of Norwegian 
Lapland to the Northern Cape, in the 
year 1820, by A. pe CarELL Brooke, 
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