Literary Works in the Prefs. 
The fir volume of ‘¢ The Necrology, 
ér Annual Biography for 1797,”” will be 
delayed till atter Michaelmas, on account 
of the unavoidable delays which have at- 
tended the colle&tion of new and intereit- 
ing materials. The editors intend to give 
lace in this volume, to memoirs of the 
Follow: amongft other perfons; and 
they hereby folicit the communication of 
any authentic particulars refpecting them, 
addrefled to Mr. Phillips, No.’ 71, St. 
Paul’s Church-Yard. 
Earl of Orford M. Briffot 
Mr. Smeeton M. Petion 
Sir R. Arkwright Mifs Ryves 
Mr. Burke My. J. Hunter 
Count Hertfherg Mr. Parkhurft 
Count Bernittortt Mr. Travis 
Mr. Tiflot { Dr. Pegge 
Dr. Enfield Paul Jones 
Dr. Rittenhoufe 
M. Lavoifier 
M. Bouille 
Mr. Wedgwood 
Kings of Poland and 
Pruifia 
General Hoche 
Lord Montmorris 
Don Juax Ulloa Mr. Burns 
/™. Condorcet Mr. Keate 
Mr, Wilkes Dr. Kippis 
Mr. I. P. Andrews Dr. Gilbert Stuart 
Mrs. Godwin Mr. Bakewell 
Col. Frederic. Mr. Martin, painter 
Dr. Warren Mr. James Boiwell 
Sir W. Chambers Mr. Lambton 
Dr. Farmer .Bithop of Exeter 
Dr. Robertfon Capt. Stedman 
Mr. Anderfon Mr. Fell 
Mr. Mafon Mr. Armftrong 
Sir W. Jones Mr. Macklin 
Mr. Wright, of Derby’ Mr. Rolle, &c. &c. &c. 
Regular memoirs, original letters, or feparate 
anecdotes of any of thofe perfons, will be toank- 
Sully receiued. \ 
The firft number of a new and very 
promifing Philofophical Journal, has late- 
ly been publifhed in London. ‘The fub- 
jeéts proteffedly comprehended in it, are, 
natural and experimental philofophy, che- 
miftry, economics, natural hiftory, me- 
chanics, geography, itatiftics, aftronomy, 
meteorology, antiquities, &c. It is to be 
conducted by Mr. TILLOCH, who, for 
the laft feven years, has been editor of 
that refpectable Evening Paper, the Star. 
We underftand Major CARTWRIGHT 
is preparing <* An Appeal, Civil and Mi- 
litary, on the fubjeét of the Englith Con- 
ftitution.”’ 
A feries of poems is preparing for the 
prefs, on a plan fuggetted by the ‘* Fafti,”’ 
of Ovid. Their title will be the ‘* Calen- 
dar,” but the pee and metres will be 
more varied than thole of the Roman poet. 
Mr. G. Goodwin, of Lynn, is pre- 
paring for the prefs a volume of poems, 
to be entitled ‘* Ruling Caltle,”? and other 
poems. 
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Mr. W. G. Lawrie will fpeedily 
publith a novel, under the title of “¢ The 
Dependent, or Suppreffed genius,” in 2 
volumes. 
Mr. T. S. Surr has a novel in the 
prefs, which will be publifhed in the 
courte of this month, founded on the in- 
terefting ftory of George Barnwell. 
Mr. THELWALL’s Memoirs are almoft 
ready for the prels, Weunderitand he is 
proceeding, in fome degree, on the plan 
of Rouffeau’s Confeflions; tracing the 
progrefs of his opinions, moral and poli- 
tical, and the fources of the moft promi- 
nent peculiarities of his character. 
We underftand that a magnificent Ma 
of Kent, together with that part of Effex 
which borders on the Thames, is,with the 
permiffion of government, now engraving » 
by Mr. Fapen. It is executed trom an 
actual furvey, made by Mr. Garpner, 
. chief draft{man to the board of ordnance, 
founded on the récent trigonometrical, 
operations carried on by Captain WiL- 
LIAM MupGE, of the royal artillery, and 
Mr. Isaac DaLBy. 
Mr. Fanen is alfo preparing for pub- 
lication, a volume containing the feveral _ 
papers which have appeared in the philo~ 
fophical tranfaétions, relative to the tri- 
gonometrical furvey, from the commence- 
ment of it, under the late Major General 
Roy, to the prefent period. 
‘The Voyage of Captain CoLNET, to 
the South Atlantic and by Cape Horn into 
the Pacific Ocean, for the purpofe of ex- 
tending the {permaceti whale fitheries, and 
other objects of commerce, by afcertain= 
ing the ports, bays, harbours, and an- 
choring’ births, in certain iflands and 
-eoaits in thofe feas, at which the fhips of 
the Britifh merchants might be refitted, 
will be published in Augutt. 
Mr. EGERTON announces a work of 
Military Maps and Charts, forming a 
Collection of Plans of Ancient and Mo- 
dern Battles, Sieges, and Military Ma- 
noeuvres, with an Explanation and Hifto« 
rical Account of each: to be dedicated 
by permiffion to the Duke of York, 
Dr. HERSCHELL has communicated te 
the Royal Society, his difcovery of four 
new fatellites to the Uranus, or Herfchel 
Planet, in addition to the two which he 
difcovered 11th January, 1787. This 
circumftance gives a ftrong colour of pre- 
bability to the hypothefis of the cele- 
brated aftronomer Wurm, (who, in his 
*¢ Ideal uber die Anordnung der Trabanten- 
Sy/ieme,”’ publithed in the “© Berlin Afiro- 
nomical Fournal, 1791,’ page 188.) con- 
jectures the number of thefe fatellites to 
amount 
