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II. Persons privately stealing Goods 
from Shops, Tan-yards,Booths, Outhouses, 
See. value 5s. and under 1.51. or from Quays 
under 40s. may be transported, &c. 
CAP, XXXV. For applying a certain 
Sam of Money out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland , for the Purpose of 
Building a Bridge over the* River Con- 
[Aug. 1, 
way , in the County of Carnarvon , and 
for imposing additional Rates of Post¬ 
age on Letters and Packets conveyed 
over the said Bridge .—May 2Slh, 1821. 
I. Treasury empowered* to advance 
40,0001. towards building a Bridge over the 
River Conway. 
III. A Waterway of 300 Feet to be left. 
Critical Notices of Books of the Month. 
NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN JULY, 
With an Historical and Critical Proesiium. 
*** Authors or Publishers desirous of seeing an early notice of their Works , are 
requested to transmit copies before the 18 ih of ihe Month . 
A MONG the excellent books which 
have lately appeared, we may place 
in the foreground Dr. Davy's Travels in 
the Interior of Ceylon —a very interesting 
subject treated by a very able and respec¬ 
table writer. The narrow policy of the 
Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch, led 
them to conceal the knowledge of their 
colonies from the world; but the more 
liberal character of the British Govern¬ 
ment, the spirit of inquiry among our 
public officers, and the unrestricted liberty 
of publication, develope all affected mys¬ 
teries on those subjects. Through Dr. 
Datvy, therefore, in his connection with 
the medical staff of the army, we are pre¬ 
sented with a luminous account of Ceylon, 
and we regret that our limits are unequal 
to doit justice. He treats in order of the 
physical state and natural history of the 
island; next of its political condition arid 
ancient government; then of the religion, 
literature, and manners of the people; and 
finally, of their past history;—undereach 
head developing facts interesting to the 
politician, philosopher, and cosmopolite. 
His qualifications for these tasks are of 
the highest order, and his style is clear 
and polished. A very fine map, several 
elegant engravings, and a good index, 
render the work as complete, as, in its 
general features, it is interesting. As we 
propose, in our next Supplement, to intro¬ 
duce some extracts from this important 
work, we shall forbear to say more of it at 
present, than to recommend it to general 
perusal, and to a place in the libraries of 
the opulent. 
Lady Morgan’s Italy , published in 
two volumes, though in truth but one, and 
printed in a tasteless manner, is, never¬ 
theless, one of the most elegantly written 
and spirited performances of the season. 
She treats of old subjects in a new manner, 
and proves that the commonest things may 
be rendered interesting by the eye and 
pen of genius. We need not state that 
Lady M. is a consistent friend of liberal 
opinions, and she consequently has plenty 
of occasions to weep over the misfortunes 
of Italy, and the insolent spirit of legiti¬ 
macy which riots in that country, and 
affords an example to the world of the ef¬ 
fects of its accursed influence. The ex¬ 
tensive perusal of her work cannot fail to 
serve as a useful re-action to the anti-Bri¬ 
tish opinions which of late years have 
been so sedulously circulated, and we hope 
to hear of its translation and re-publica¬ 
tion in all countries where the people are 
allowed to receive light through the liberty 
of the press. But it is not merely a work 
of opinions expressed in the ornamental 
style of the writer—it is a substantial ac¬ 
count of Italy, and may be consulted for its 
facts by the historian, the traveller, and to¬ 
pographer. We lament that it is not recom¬ 
mended by some maps and engravings, that 
it might supply all that could be desired 
in regard to this ever-interesting penin¬ 
sula. We hope to enrich our next Supple¬ 
ment with specimens of its anecdotes, de¬ 
scriptions, and opinions. 
Mr. Mackenzie’s Thousand Experi¬ 
ments in Chemistry and the Useful Arts, 
bring all the discoveries of the English, 
French, and Germans, before the artist and 
manufacturer in a practical shape. It is 
classed under 1000 heads; but its notes 
and observations contain at least ten times 
that number of useful hints and sugges¬ 
tions, and render it a species of chemical 
and experimental library, such as has not 
previously existed in any language. Most 
of the experiments, also, are illustrated by 
engravings in wood, and many of them by 
line-engravings in the best style of mo¬ 
dern art.—Such a work is, of course, not a 
book of the day, but, by being- improved 
as science advances, will live as long as 
the arts of life and the pursuits of expe¬ 
rimental philosophy are cultivated. As 
the labour of many years, and as a text¬ 
book on its subjects, it has been executed 
with care ; aud there are few of the expe¬ 
riments and processes which, the ingenious 
and 
