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periods to renovate its striking powers, 
to wind itself up, 
Mr. Bissett has publisiied an engrav¬ 
ing of a Congeries of liail Stone, thirty 
inches in circumference, which lately 
fell at Handsworth. Its water filled a 
pint. 
On the seventh of June there w'ere two 
shocks of earthquakes at the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Mr. James Savage will publish, in 
she course of the ensuing month, Obser- 
vations on the Varieties of Architecture, 
used in the Structure of Parish Churches^ 
Dr. Olinthus Gregory, of the 
Hoyal Military Academy, will shortly 
publish, in two volumes, a Series of 
Letters to a Friend, on the Evidences, 
Doctrines, and Duties, of the Christian 
Heligion. 
Mr. Hussey has in tlie press, a second 
volume of the Letters from an Elder to a 
Younger Brother. 
A Translation of the Travels of M. 
Chateaubriand (autlior of Atala, &c.) 
in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, 
during the Years 1806 and 1807, will be 
published in a few days. 
A Translation is preparing of Mad. 
BE Gen Lis’ new work, the original of 
which IS untitled, Histoire des Femmes 
Francoises les plus celebres et de leur 
Influence sur la Litteraturc, &c. and 
contains anecdotes of the most distin¬ 
guished French female writers, criticisms 
upon their works, &c. 
The Flistory of Aberdeen will be pub¬ 
lished during the present month; con¬ 
taining an account of the rise, progress, 
and extension, of the city, from a remote 
period to the present day; including its 
antiquities, civil and ecclesiastical state, 
manufactures, trade, and commerce;, an 
account of the see of Aberdeen, and the 
two universities; with topographical 
sketches of eminent men connected with 
tlie bishopric and colleges. 
The Medical and Chemical Lectures, 
No. 9, George-street, Hanover-square, 
and at St. George’s Hospital, will re¬ 
commence, as usual, in the first week of 
October, at eight in the morning, and 
the Chemical at a quarter after nine 
o’clock.—Clinical Lectures are given on 
the Cases of Patients P«egistered in St. 
George’s Plospital, every Saturday morn¬ 
ing, at nine o’clock, by George Pear¬ 
son, M.D. F.R.S. Senior Physician to 
St. George’s Hospital, Honorary Fellow 
o/ the Imperial Medico-Chirurgicai Aca¬ 
demy of St. Petersburg]!, of the College 
of Physicians, &c. &c. 
Dr. Adams’s next course of Lectures 
on the Institutes and Practice of Medi¬ 
cine, will commence on the eighth of 
October, at half past ten, at liis house, 
No. 17, in Hatton Garden. A syllabus, 
in a compressed form, is printed, that 
the student may be prepared for the Lec¬ 
tures before tiiey occur, and at the con¬ 
clusion of each, may suggest the opinions 
of other authors, or any dilficulty he may 
have felt in comprcliending the lecturer. 
Mr, Singer’s Lectures on Natural 
Philosophy and Chemistry; and Mr. 
Lydiatt’s on the Philosopiiy of the Me¬ 
chanic Arts, will commence about the 
end of October, at the Scientific Insti¬ 
tution, FiinceS'btreet, Cavendish-square, 
Doctor Paris will recommence his 
Lectures on Pharmaceutic Chemistry, at 
tlie Westminster Hospital, on Tuesday, 
the eighth of October, at eight o’clock in 
the evening, 
A piece of amber, 14 inches long, 
9|: broad, and weighing 21 lbs. was 
lately found by a Russian soldier be¬ 
tween Memel and Konigsberg. It is 
confessedly the largest piece ever seen, 
exceeding in size and weight the one. 
found in the Prussian territories in 1804, 
and is supposed to be worth nearly six 
thousand dollars. 
FRANCE. 
A grand Picturesque Tour through 
Constantinople and round the Shores of 
the Bosphorus, in a series of engravings, 
from the drawings of M. Melling, m 
one volume, folio, atlas size, is an¬ 
nounced by Messrs. Treuttell and Wiirtz, 
of Paris. 
The History of the Arts by Monu¬ 
ments, from their decline in the 4th 
century till their revival in the 16ch, in¬ 
tended as a sequel to the History of the 
Arts among the Ancients; is announced 
by .M. Seroux D’xVgincourt. Six voIs. 
folio, or 24 Numbers, including 325 
plates; to be pulilished by Messrs. 
Treuttell and Wiirtz, of Paris. 
The director of the nursery of the 
Luxembourg, by order of Bonaparte, has 
just undertaken a gratuitous course of 
lectures, on the Cultivation of Fruit* 
trees. ' 
The Medical Society of Emulation at 
Paris, has proposed the following ques¬ 
tions for the subject of a prize: “ What 
are the maladies that ought to be spe¬ 
cifically considered as organic diseases? 
Are 
