Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
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in respect to tlie miJitary sciences, and 
ail the memorable battles, operations, 
and sieges; by William Muller, 
iate a lieutenant of the King’s iate Ger¬ 
man Engineers. 
Proposals luive been issued for pub¬ 
lishing by subscription, a Series of En¬ 
gravings of the Principal Military Achieve¬ 
ments of the British Army in Portugal, 
under the Command of Lieur.-General 
Loi'd Viscount Wellington, The artist, 
M. L’Eveque, a native of Geneva, ac¬ 
companied tile Britisli army during the 
campaigns in Portugal. The work will 
comprehend thirteen engravings, and 
will he dedicated, by permission, to Lord 
Wellington. 
A very interesting work has just been 
announced, on the Ancient Costume of 
England, from the Ninth to tlie Sixteenth 
Century; after the designs of Charles 
PIamiltoij, esq. to be executed in uqua- 
tinta by Mr. J. A. Atkinson and Mr. 
Merigot, Each plate will represent 
one, tw'o, or more, objects, accurately 
coloured, and the back-ground will ge¬ 
nerally be illustrative of the subject. 
The figures will be represented in the at¬ 
titudes of life, and in a style of improved 
drawing, whenever the original demands 
it; the author pledging himself to give 
the exact costume of his prototype, with¬ 
out, confining himself to tlie attituiles of 
sepulchral monuments, or the hard and 
disproportioned lines of Anglo-Saxon 
and Norman illuminations. 
The committees conducting the charity- 
schools of London, have generally adopted 
Barrow’s 500 Scripture Questions, as a 
certain, if not the only, means of teach¬ 
ing the elements of religion, and the 
principles of Christian morality, to young 
persons. 
A gigantic plan has been announced, 
for converting the River Thames, from 
Blackwall to tlie Gallions, and from Dept¬ 
ford to Vauxhall, into docks, for tlie build¬ 
ing, reception, refitting, and repairing, 
of the royal navy, as well as every de¬ 
scription of merchant vessels; and for 
forming bridges, mills, &c.; besides 
ocher works, of great public utility, cal¬ 
culated, according to the projector, to 
save the public twenty millions per an¬ 
num.-—^The projectors require to be ena¬ 
bled to convert the bed of the river, from 
Blackwall to the Gallions, into a grand na¬ 
val depot and arsenal, as well for building 
and fitting out, as.for dismantling and 
laying np, in perfect security, a large 
portion of the British navy; and they pro¬ 
pose to CUT A CANAL FROM LoNG ReaCH 
Ma^'THLY Mag. No. 218 , 
(where ships haw deep waterat all times) 
TO Woolwich Warren.— They pro¬ 
pose also to cmivert the bed of. the 
river between Deptford and Vaux¬ 
hall, into a dock or basin, for the re-« 
ception of ships of every description, 
and to excavate a new channel from; 
Deptford to Vauxhall, for the cur¬ 
rent of the Tiiames, (which is intend¬ 
ed to be of sufficient depth and breadtli 
to allow the passage of vessels of all de¬ 
scriptions. And further, to cut a tide 
RIVER immediately above the dam at 
Blackwall to a point immediately below 
that at the Gallions. Compared with this 
magnificent but plausible scheme, the 
docks and canal at Blackwall are mere 
Lilliputian projects. — See head Kentf 
in our Provincial Intelligence. 
An adventurer,named Baghvan-Ho.has 
recently collected followers in Grand Tar¬ 
tary, and lias induced them, in conjunction 
with several wandering tribes of Mingals, 
to submit to his authority in the charac¬ 
ters of prince and pontiff. His followers,, 
believing him to be possessed of super¬ 
natural powers, profess the most ardent 
devotion to his will. The caravans which 
traverse tlie desert pay him tribute, 
though escorted by Chinese or Russian 
soldiers. The merchants who were in¬ 
troduced to him, were compelled to fall 
prostrate at the threslroid of his tent, and 
remained in that posture during the au¬ 
dience; he spoke to them in four lan¬ 
guages, and was courtenus in his man¬ 
ners. The Chinese governor of Nayman, 
not daring to attack him, lately sent him 
some presents, vvitli orders to learn his 
view's, resources, &c. Baghvan-Ho, at this 
audience, assumed the title ofKingofTar- 
tary, and made a pompous display of his 
followers, about GO.,000 of whom weie 
armed with bowsand arrows, lances, and 
indifferent guns. 
O » « 
The brig Traveller, lately arrived at 
Liverpool, frotn Sierra Leone, entirely 
owned and navigated by Negroes! She 
is commanded by Paul Cuffee, the son 
of Cuffee, a negro slave. Her mate and 
all her crew are negroes. Captain Cuffee 
is about fifty-six years of age ; has a w'ife, 
a negres«, and six children, living at 
New Betlford, Massachussets, of which 
State he is a Citizen. When Mr. Clark¬ 
son's History of the Abolition of the 
Stave Trade fell into liis hands, it awaken¬ 
ed his mind to a consideration of his 
origin, and the duties he owed his people. 
With the vievv of benefiting the Africans^ 
he made a voyage to Sierra Leone, and 
with the same object has come to Eng. 
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