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Sociery, of the same active character 
as the others, and the range will then 
be complete. These various. societies 
seem, in truth, to have superseded the 
old Royal Society. 
Mr. Witu1AM BELsHaM will shortly 
publish the ninth¢and tenth volumes 
of the Memoirs of George the Third, 
continued from the Peace of Amiens 
to the conclusion of the Regency. 
In a few weeks will be published, an 
Introduction to the Study of the 
Anatomy of the Human Body, parti- 
cularly designed for the use of pain- 
ters, sculptors, and artists in general ; 
translated from the German of J. H. 
Lavater, and illustrated by twenty- 
seven lithographic plates. 
The adulteration of paper intended 
for printing books, by a large admix- 
ture of gypsum, introduced during the 
process of manufacture, is said to have 
become prevalent, even to the extent _ 
of one-fourth of the weight of the 
paper: a sample, which had the 
appearance of good paper, was lately 
found, on examination by an eminent 
chemist, to contain twelve per cent. of 
calcareous earth, instead of about one 
per cent. of accidental earthy impuri- 
ties, which the best papers are found 
to contain. A contemporary journal 
describes this fraud to be effected by 
mixing gypsum with the rags; but 
more probably, we think, the gypsum, 
reduced by grinding to the state of a 
fine powder, is mixed with the pulp 
immediately before it is made into 
paper. We call on the commissioners, 
surveyors, and supervisors, of excise, 
under the immediate superintendance 
of whose subaltern officers all paper is 
made, to do their duty to the public, 
in detecting and bringing to justice 
the practisers of this shameful fraud ; 
and that like measures may be extend- 
ed to the manufacture of thick brown 
papers and paste-boards, to prevent 
the large admixture of clay therein, 
which is common. 
In a few days will appear, a Series 
of Dialogues between an Oxford 
‘Tutor and a Disciple of the new Com- 
mon-Sense Philosophy ; in which the 
mechanical principles of matter and 
motion will, be accurately contrasted 
with the theories of occult powers 
which are at present cherished by the 
universities and royal associations 
throughout Europe. 
Sir Anorew HAiipay has nearly 
ready for the press, the Lives of the 
Dukes of Bavaria, Saxony, and Bruns- 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
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wick, ancestors of the kings of Great 
Britain of the Guelphie dynasty, with 
portraits. of the most illustrious of 
these princes, from drawings made 
from ancient statues and paintings by 
the old masters, expressly for this 
work. 
Mr. WirGMAN is preparing for the 
press, a faithful translation, from the 
original German, of Kant’s celebrated 
work, entitled ‘the Critic of Pure 
Reason.” 
Batavian Anthology, or Specimens 
‘of the Dutch Poets, with remarks on 
the poetical literature and language of 
the Netherlands, by Joun Bowrine 
and Harry S. Van Dyk, esqrs. will 
speedily be published. 
A poem, entitled Clara Chester, by 
the author of ‘‘Rome,” and ‘the Vale 
of Chamouni,” will be published in a 
few weeks. 
Capt. Parry has returned from his 
exploring voyage in the Arctic Seas. 
He has failed in the chief object-of the 
expedition; and, owing to some un- 
happy election-of his course, did not 
proceed so far west by twenty degrees, 
nor north by ten degrees, as in his 
former voyage. The wiseacres who 
had promulgated their brain disco- 
very of a Polar basin free from ice, in 
that exclusive vehicle of official ab- 
surdities, the Quarterly Review, pro- 
bably sent the gallant captain in 
search of their wonderful basin, in the 
narrow seas north of Hudson’s Bay. 
But, with whomsoever the project 
originated, it seems that in these hope- 
Jess and unpromising straits and gulphs 
the ships have been blocked up for 
two winters, and part of three sum- 
mers, Well might Franklin, who was 
sent in another direction, see nothing 
of them in- a route twenty degrees 
more westward. The geographers of 
Europe and America will be disap- 
pointed at such a comedy of errors 
and cross-purposes, and will unite 
with us in astonishment, that such an 
expedition should have been sent from 
Europe to explore any supposed out- 
lets from Hudson’s Bay, while we have 
forts and commercial establishments 
in the same Bay, whence any desira- 
ble reconnoisances. might at any time 
have been directed. Lancaster Sound 
appears to be the high road to nautical 
glory in these seas, and it surprizes us 
that any other route should bave been 
sought. Nevertheless, we are. per- 
suaded that every thing which skill, 
perseverance, and courage, could 
effect, 
