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which the Portuguese army was brought 
into the field, against tlie*enemy, for 
the first time as a regular force. 
Mr. John Thelwall will shortly 
publish the Elements of English Rhyth- 
wius; with an Analysis of the Science 
and Practice of Elocution. 
Mr. Trotter’s ]\Ienioirs of Mr. Fox 
have afforded a further proof of the pub¬ 
lic affection for their illustrious subject. 
The first large edition was sold in a few 
days; anew one was printed with great ex¬ 
pedition, and bespoke before it was 
ready; and another is preparing to meet 
the impatient demands of the public. 
The free and honest estimate w-hich Mr, 
Trotter has made from personal know¬ 
ledge of the principles and pretensions of 
the heads of parties, has greatly increased 
the natural interest of his work. 
It will be gratifying to the thousands 
who have found pleasure in the preceding 
work, to hear that Mr. Trotter has 
made considerable progress in the Public 
Life ef Mr. Fox, which embraces the his¬ 
tory of forty years of the reign of George 
the Tiiird, and which vvili include the 
verified substance of his principal speeches 
find the history of parties, deduced 
from authentic documents. It will ex¬ 
tend to three votumes octavo, with 
closely printed appendices, 
Mr. T. Leybourn, of the Royal Mili¬ 
tary College, editor of the Mathematical 
Repository, intends to publish by sub¬ 
scription, a collection of all the Mathe¬ 
matical Questions and their Answers, 
which have appeared in the almanack 
called the Ladies* Diary, from its com¬ 
mencement in 1704 to the present time. 
The editor of the Diary (Dr. Charles Hut¬ 
ton) published a similar work in 1773, 
but comprehending both its mathema¬ 
tical and poetical parts down to tiiat pe¬ 
riod. Mr. Leybourn’s publication will 
comprehend only the mathematical part; 
and, wu’th Dr. Hutton’s permission, wdll 
contain all the valuable additional matter 
given in ids edition, as far as it extends. 
Fie also hopes to be able to give other 
additions by the assistance of some of the 
ingenious mathematicians-who have for a 
nurriber of years past contributed to the 
Mathematical Repository. The work 
will be printed in 8vo. and will he pub¬ 
lished in half volumes, one of which will 
appear every three months. The dia¬ 
grams will be printed -in the text from 
figures cut in wood. It will be put to 
press as soon as such a number of sub- 
Sv'ribers can be obtained as shall give the 
Witor a prospect of being indemnified 
for the expence, which musf attend its 
publication. 
Mr. Alexander Chalmers, the cor¬ 
rect and industrious editor of many Lon¬ 
don editions of English authors, is en¬ 
gaged in a new edition of the Bic^ra- 
phical Dictionary, in octavo, which is to 
be enlarged from sixteen to twenty-one 
volumes. 
The Gas-lights are, w'e understand, to be 
extensively applied during the present 
w'inter, in various parts of the metropolis, 
under the provisions of the Act of Parlia¬ 
ment and Royal Charter, 
The university of Oxford is about to 
excite great literary interest at home and 
abroad, by the publication at large of the 
most interesting of the ninety-four MSS. 
brought by Mr. ilayter from Hercula¬ 
neum, and about which he has already 
gratified the public in his splendid report 
to the Prince Rdgent. 
The Rev. E. VV^ Whitaker, rector of 
St. Mildred’s and All Saints, Canterbury, 
has issued proposals for delivering a 
course of lectures on Universal History, 
to be read in'the metropolis, during the 
months from January to May, in the years 
1812 and 1813. The whole course will 
consist of thirty-eight lectures, contain¬ 
ing an outline of Univer-al History, from 
the creation to the peace of Paris, and 
comprising remarks on the age of th« 
world, the origin of nations, the progress 
of population, the formation of govern¬ 
ments, the derivation of languages, the 
rise of arts and sciences, the increase of 
commerce, and the diffusion of knowledge 
among mankind. 
Early in the ensuing year will be pub¬ 
lished, a new' Description of the Muscles 
of the Human Body, accompanied with 
about fifteen engravings of the principal 
muscles; by Mr. John James Watt, 
surgeon. 
A Description of a new invented In¬ 
strument or Machine for illustrating on 
rational and scientific Principles, the 
Structure and Theory of the Hebrevv 
Language, by a Method never before at¬ 
tempted, is in the press, by the Rev. 
Robert Uvedale. 
Dr. Titford has in the press, and 
purposes to publish,in six numbers, royal 
quarto, Sketches towards a Hortus Bo- 
tanicus Americanus, or coloured plates 
of Plants of the West Indies and North 
and South America, with concise and 
familiar descriptions; the whole col¬ 
lected and compiled during a residence 
in the West Indies, and a tour tlirough 
the Uniied States of America. 
Mrs. Agse& 
