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drawn from nature, and neatly engraved. 
To which will be added, the refult of a 
a great number of aétual experiments 
ities ted to the difeovery of the bef 
methods of preferving crops of tur- 
nips from the depredations of the Fly 
and S/ue. 
by the Bookfellers at Exeter. 
Mr. Rogpert Brown, a corporal in 
the Coldftream guards, and author of the 
Hiftory of the Campaigns in the years 
1793, 1794 and 1795, has announced for 
‘publication a poetical eflay, in two 
hooks, entitled, ‘The Campaign, dedicat- 
ed, by permiflion, to the Duke of York. 
Tlic exhibition of the Royal Academy, 
for 1797.—'Phe war, {fo calamitous to 
this country, having, in a degree, checked 
the rage tor portraits, and cces Goncd a fut- 
spenfion of thofe great undertakings which 
aforded employment and encouragement 
to genius, has given our hoe fome lei- 
fure to think. “Fhe fruits of that leifure 
appear in the Exhibition of this ae 
which, in point of merit, is fomewha 
fuperior to the three or four whieh 
have preceded it. ‘Phe number of pic- 
tures, ‘drawings, &c. amount to nearly 
twelve hundred, which is about four 
hundred more ae were ever before ex- 
hibited.. Some months previous to its 
being opened, an old manufcript, faid to 
contain the receipt by which the painters 
of the Venetian {chool gave fuch fafcinat- 
ing- and permanent brillian ney to their 
pictures, was difcovered ; and a number 
of our firft artifts fubfcribed a fum of 
money to the proprietor for the commu- 
mication of the fecret. Confidering the 
very fhort time which the adventurers in 
tiie untrod path have had to try their 
ftrength, it is hardly fair to forma poh; 
tive judgment of the value of the difco- 
very until avother Exhibition, when a 
little experience may enable them to form 
a better judgment of the principle.— 
Wo. 86. The Countefs Dolorads difcover- 
ing the Caufe of ber Grief to Don Quixote, 
by R.SMIRKE, R.A. No. ,139. Jes 
and Adonis, ey T. StotHarp, R.A, 
No. 186. Portraits of Two Brothers, by 
B. West, RAs and “No. (16925 An 
Infant Bacebus, by R. WeEsTati, R.A. 
are the leading pictures pamted in the 
manner of this old /yflem revived. 
A © Political Monologue,” addreffed 
to Lords Afhburton, and Henry Peity, 
two young men of great promife, and 
both of them profecuting their ftudies at 
Edinburgh, is now in circulation. It is 
written with an-intenr to excite a manly 
fenfe of PPEDEY, in their bofoms, and 
Varieties, Literary and Philofephical. 
ge fubfcriptions are received | 
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roufe up all that is ‘¢ Roman’ in their 
Deine: % : 
Phe Literary Society, on the recom- 
mendation of Lord Mount neue has 
prefented the grand-daughter of ‘Theo- 
dere, king of Corfica, wich ten guineas: 
Te fum, fo gene roully voted to ae lady, 
was not in confequence ef her royal de- 
fcent, buton account of the literary ta- 
lemts of her father, the late unfortunate 
Colonel Frederick. 
Phe, Secmons. of the late Mr’ Jian= 
DINE are to be publifhed. Thofe who 
®now the maniy and Chriftian Itberahiy 
of Mr. Jardine, will rejoice that this 
monument is to be ereéted to his me- 
mory. 
Dr. Grecory, Author ef Effays 
Hiftorical and Moral, the Economy of 
Nature, &c. is preparing for the prefs 
Memoirs of his own Lire and Times ;. 
with an Appendix, containing Letters 
and Anecdotes of the moft con{picuogs 
Charaéters of the prefent age, 
Captain G. VANCOUVER’s late Voy-~ 
age “ued the World, is preparing for 
{pe: dy puolication, under the authority 
of the Lords of the Admiralty. It will 
be illuftrated with Views and Charts, en- 
graved by the firft artifts, in the manner 
of Captain Cooke’s, to which it may be 
confidered as a fupplement. 
On the 16th of May, after hearing 
Countel three days, the fe in the 
King’s Bench delivered their opinion in 
the importante Caufe of the College and 
the Licentiates. ‘They determined, that 
the Xe ht claimed by Dr. Stanger, of ad- 
miffion into the College, under the Char- 
ter, provided he was found duly quali- 
fied in learning, fkitl, and morals, upon 
examination by hic Fellows, was not a 
fufficient title to be admitted ; and that a 
bye-law, confining the right of adinif- 
fion to the graduates of Oxford and Cam- 
bridge, is a good bye-law. As it was 
never argued, that the Charter gives an 
exclufive right of admiffion to the gra- 
duates of Oxford and Cambridge, fuch 
a bye-law can only be juftified” on the 
grounds of its expediency, or, of an ar- 
bitrary power in the College to make 
fuch bye-laws as they think fit. We thall 
take an early opportunity of giving an 
abftract of the arguments advanced by 
both parties in fe trial. 
The French feem not only to exhibit 
more tafte, but alfo to beftow more labour 
and expence, than previous tothe Revo- 
lution, on their popular works. Dipor 
has juft printed the moft complete and 
elegant edition_ever publifhed of the 
me Works 
