1812 .] Literary and Philosophical JnielUgawe^ 5S1 
fableMerlin and his prophecies;-—-Of 
^aint David, iiis miracles, &c. &c. The 
whole collected from ancient records and 
local traditions of the country, with notes 
by the editor. 
Mr. George Singer will commence a 
course of lectures on electricity, at the 
Russel Institution, towards the close of 
December. These lectures will include 
the history and practice of the science, 
its application to the solution of natural 
plienornena, and the promotion of che¬ 
mical knowledge. 
It is proposed to publish by subscrip¬ 
tion, a Historical and Topographical 
Description of the Isle of Axholme, and 
parts adjacent. The history to com¬ 
mence with the survey made by William I. 
called Doomsday; and to contain an 
account of the drainage of the Level of 
Hatfield Chase.—-II. A genealogical and 
biographical view of the Mowbray Fof 
mily, sometime dukes of Norfolk, who 
were for many generations lords of the 
said isle.—III. The biographical de¬ 
partment to contain the lives of all those 
authors who either lived or were born 
in the isle; among whom the Wesley 
family will be particularly noticed.-«=• 
W. A particular description of every 
parish in the isle, containing an account 
,of its ancient and modern state, public 
buildings, agriculture, population, &c. 
—V. A history of the parts adjacent, 
comprehending Thorne, Hatfield, Baw- 
try, &c.—VI. An appendix; contain- 
ing grants, scarce pamphlets, and other 
authentic instruments, carefully printed 
from manuscripts, &c.—The whole to be 
illustrated by views of churches, and 
other objects worthy of notice, portraits 
of authors, ancient and modern maps,&c. 
Mr. D. Boileau, author of “An In¬ 
troduction to the Study of Political Lco- 
nomy,” &c. is engaged in a translation 
(with additional notes) of Mr. Charles 
Ganitlfs work, entitled, “An Enquiry 
into the Vaiious Systems of Political 
Economy, their Advantages and Disad¬ 
vantages, and on the Theory most favor- 
oble to Uie Progress of National Weallh, 
The sonnets, and other poetical works, 
of Alfieki, are preparing for tlie press, 
pnder the superintendence of Mr. Totti; 
they vvill be printed so as to corres¬ 
pond with his Tragedies recently pub¬ 
lished. A translation, by a distinguished 
poet, will also appear about tiie same 
fiine.' 
It is proposed to publish, Sermons on 
Various Subjects, and Letters to a Young 
Clergyman, during his residence at th^ 
University, by the late Rev. Win. Al- 
phonsus Gunn; and to prefix a short 
sketch of his Life, by the Rev« Isaac 
Saunders, A.M, of St, Edmund Hall, 
Oxford. 
A new edition is in the press, revised 
and enlarged, of Strictures on Readiji^ 
tire Church Service, and will shortly be 
published by the Rev. W. FAUt,KNERj 
rector of St. Andrew^s, Worcester. 
Mr. Thomas Clark will publish in 
the course of the month, a Treatise on 
Arithmetic, with Strictures on the Na¬ 
ture of the Elementary Instruction, con¬ 
tained in English Works on that Science, 
In January 1812, will be pub¬ 
lished, the History of the Campaigns of 
1796-7-8 and 9, in Germany, Italy, 
and Switzerland, in four volumes, 8vo, 
with maps of the seat of war, &c. 
The Rev, Mr, Nightingale, author 
of A Portraiture of Methodism,” is 
engaged on a new work^ to consist of a 
Portraiture of the Roman Catholic Re-* 
liglon, or an unprejudiced Sketch of the 
History, Doctrines, Ceremonies, Church 
Government, and Present State of the 
Catholicism; with an Appeiidix, con¬ 
taining a Summary of British Laws now 
in fo rce against Papists, and a Review of 
the Catholic Question of Emancipation. 
Mr. Roeert Bak EWELL, who has 
lately delivered lectures at Liverpool and 
Manchester, on the Natural History of 
the Earth and its Mineral Productions; 
with a view to illustrate the Geology and 
^Mineralogy of England, proposes to 
deliver a similar course in London during 
the present winter. 
Mr. W. Dyke, of Lincoln’s-Inn, will 
shortly publish “The Praotice of th^ 
High Court of Chancery,” iti three vo¬ 
lumes; comprising the rules and orders 
of Court, from time immemorial, ‘ and 
not obsolete; and precedents of bills of 
costs in Chancery, bankrupt, and lu¬ 
natic, proceedings. The Lord Chan¬ 
cellor has offered his patronage to ths 
undertaking. 
Mr. Dyke will also soon publish a new 
edition of Peere Williams* Reports, con- 
tit)ued from the edition of Samuel Ctuno- 
toit Cox, esq, master in Chaiic y, under 
the sanction of that learned iiior; the 
intended edition is to include dl decisions 
subsequent to Master Cox’ publication. 
A young man, named John MTsaac, 
of Corphine, in Kiutyre, in Scotland, 
made oath, on exainination, at Camp¬ 
beltown, before the sheriff-substitute of 
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