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-with this valuable timber, as the great beauty of this tree, 

 and the quicknefs of its growth, has recommended it to 

 the notice of every person who is making plantations 5 so 

 that the demand for young plants of it for several years 

 past, in Scotland at least, has been very great, and is 

 daily increasing, every part of the country, therefore, will 

 be abundantly furnifhed with it in a few years. It cannot 

 be so too soon. 



INTELLIGENCE RESPECTING THE FINE ARTS, 



AND LITERATURE IN BRITAIN. 



Bowyer's Hume's history. 

 J- HE succefs of Boydell's magnificent edition of Shake- 

 speare has been such as not only to induce him to under- 

 take an edition of the works of Milton and Thomson on 

 the same plan, but has stimulated others to tread the 

 same ground. Mr Bowyers, Berner's street, London, 

 has lately publifhed a prospectus of proposals for printing 

 the history of England by David Hume, with a continua- 

 tion of that history from the Revolution to the present 

 time by David Williams, to be printed in a superb manner, 

 and illustrated by elegant portraits, and historical prints, 

 done from paintings to be made for this work, by the first 

 artists in Britain. The paintings to be exhibited as those 

 in the Shakespeare gallery, and given to the public aft 

 the work is completed. The following are the artist al- 

 ready engaged for this work : 



Painters. 



J. Barry. T. Laurence. T. Stothard. 



J. S. Copley. W. Martin. H. Tresham. 



R.Cosway. J. Northcote. J. Wright, of Derby. 



Mrs Cosway. G. Romney. F. Wheatly. 



H. Fuseli. L F. Rigaud. R. L. Wciai, and 



W. Hamilton. R. Smirke. Benjamin West. 

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