53$ Literary and Philosophical intelligence. [Jan. I ? 
That delightful writer, Miss Opie, 
has in the press Madeline, a tale, in 
two vols. 
An alabaster sarcophagus, which 
lately arrived from Alexandria, has 
been uncased and deposited in the 
British Museum. It is nine feet long, 
and about four feet high, apparently 
of a single piece of very fine alabaster. 
It is shaped like a modern coffin, and is 
more than large enough to hold the 
mummy, with all its envelopes, which 
is presumed to have been deposited 
Within this costly repository. But its 
chief value are the innumerable hiero¬ 
glyphics which cover the sides, int erior 
and exterior, from top to bottom. They 
are small. The human figures, of 
which there are long processions in 
various circumstances and attitudes, 
erect, linked together, towing galleys, 
bending as if in worship, See. are from 
an inch to an inch and a half high. 
Between them are compartments of 
symbols, the eye, the ibis, the lotus, 
&e. The serpent occurs frequently, 
and in some instances of considerable 
size, and with much exactness of detail. 
This noble work is supposed to be the 
coffin of Psammis. 
The New Society of Practical Medi¬ 
cine of London intend to publish quar¬ 
terly a Report of their Transactions, 
with original communications, &c. &c. 
in which practice will be preferred to 
theory. 
Early in January will be published 
The Annual Biography and Obituary, 
for the Year 1822, containing Memoirs 
of celebrated men who have died in 
1820-21.—The present volume will 
contain. Napoleon; the late Queen; 
Lord Sheffield; Mrs. Piozzi; Mrs. 
Inch-bald; Lord Malmesbury; Mr. 
Hayley; Sir Home Popliam ; Admiral 
Hunter; Mr. Hatsell, Clerk of the 
H ouse of Commons ; Mr. Rennie ; Mr. 
John Scott; Mr. Keats; Mr. Harris; 
Dr. Knox ; Mr. C. Stothard, &c. 
An Atlas of Ancient Geography, by 
S. Butler, D.D. author of Modem 
and Ancient Geography, also an Atlas 
of Modern Geography, by the same, are 
in considerable forwardness. 
Mr. Thomas Gill, Chairman of the 
Committee of Mechanics, in the So¬ 
ciety for the Encouragement of Arts 
Manufactures and Commerce, Adelphi, 
is about to commence a Technical Re¬ 
pository; containing practical infor¬ 
mation on subjects connected with 
discoveries and improvements in the 
useful arts. 
Miss Spence will shortly publish a 
new work, entitled Old Stories, in 3 
volumes. 
The Rev. Joshua Marsden, author 
of the Amusements of a Mission, has 
nearly ready for publication, Forest 
Mu sings ; or. Delineat ions of Christian 
experience, in verse; to which are 
prefixed Sketches of the early life of 
the author, with a portrait. 
We have to record a most extraor¬ 
dinary abuse of the liberty of the press 
in Edinburgh. A malignant newspaper 
was commenced under the title of The 
Beacon, and soon discontinued; but a 
libel having appeared on a Mr. Gibson, 
that gentleman has commenced a suit 
at law against the parties concerned, 
who appear to be one Mr. Douglas 
Che ape, Advocate; Sir William 
Rae, of St. Catherine’s, Baronet, his 
Majesty's Advocate for Scotland ; 
James Wedderburn, Esq. his Ma¬ 
jesty’s Solicitor-General for Scotland ; 
John Hay Forbes, Esq. Advocate, 
Sheriff-depufe of the county of Perth; 
John Hope, Esq. Advocate, and de¬ 
puty under the said Lord Advocate; 
Sir W a lter Scott, baronet,principal 
clerk of Session, and Sheriffi-depute of 
the county of Selkirk ; the Right Hon. 
William* Arbuthnot, Lord Provost 
of the city of Edinburgh, and secretary 
to the trustees for fisheries and manu¬ 
factures in Scotland; Henry Home 
Drummond, Esq. Member of Parlia¬ 
ment for the county of Stirling; and 
John Wauchofe, Esq. writer to the 
signet, and keeper of the register of 
Hornings and Inhibitions ; all chaiged 
with 41 combining, by contributions in 
money and otherwise, to support the 
said newspaper in its most wicked and 
nefarious attacks upon the pursuer.” 
The action concludes for 10,0001. 
damages, &c. 
Mr. Booth’s Letter to Mr. Mai thus, 
on the subject of Population, will be 
published in the course of the ensuing’ 
month. 
A Critical Dissertation on the Nature 
and Principles of Taste, is in prepara¬ 
tion, by M. M 4 Dermot, author of a 
Letter to the Rev. W. L. Bowles, on 
his two Letters to the Right Hon. Lord 
Byron, in vindication of the Defence of 
the Poetical Character of Pope. 
The Choir of Westminster Abbey 
during the Coronation of George IV. 
engraved by Charles Turner, from 
a picture by Frederick Nash, is just 
finished, and will be published in a few 
days. 
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