is 
author of the Hiftory of Wales, has com- 
pleted a work which has occupied his 
attention for feveral years paft, and 
which, at the prefent period, will, doubt- 
lefs, be thought highly interefting : 
A Hiftory of Venice, from the Com- 
mencement of the Republic to the pre- 
‘fent Time.”” This work is ready for the 
prefs, and witl make its appearance in 
the courie of the enfuing literary feafon. 
| Mits-Branp, who tome years ago 
appeared on the Drury-lane flage, in a 
character of her own tragedy of Huni- 
ades, has in the prefs, at Norwich, an 
ofavo volume of Plays and Poems, 
written by herfelf, publifhed by fub- 
feription. 
Mr. T.S. Surr has juft-completed a 
poem, intitled, “Curist’s Hospita.,’”’ 
which will be publithed in the courfe of 
the enfuing week. Its object is to point 
out the'prefent flate and utility of that 
excellent feminary. 
We underitand: that the public may 
foon expeét a volume of fermons, which 
were preached by the Rev. Mr. Boucher, 
in North America, at the beginning of 
the civil war in that country, and in 
xwhich the caufes of the unfortunate dif- 
turbances which then broke forth are 
treated of much at large. 
There is now in the prefs, and will 
Speedily be publithed, “A new Syftem of 
Phyfiology,’ by, Mr. Ricuarp Sav- 
MAREZ, furgeon to the Magdalen Hof- 
pital. 
Mr. Happock, the ingenious pro- 
prietor of the mechanical exhibition, 
called the Androides, has invented a new 
{pecies of organ, which he inclofes in the 
nody of a table. It is extremely porta- 
ble, and anfwers perfectly well all the 
purpofes of that ufleful piece of furniture, 
as well as thofe of an elegant mufical in- 
ftrument. 
Seventeen carriages, laden with objeéts 
of the arts, colleéted in Italy, arrived in 
Paris, the 12th Thermidor.. This con- 
voy contains whatever the Freneh com- 
miffaries have feleGted as moft valuable, 
from Bologna to Modena; among others, 
the St.Cecilia of Raphael, and the cartoon 
of the f{chool of Athens, by the fame, 
the St. Jerom of Corregio, a great num- 
ber of Guerchinos, a fine Parmegiano, &c. 
650 defigns and medals, many books, 
&c. None of thefe articles has fuftained 
the flighteft damage. 
The following is a notice of the objects 
which compofe the ¢hird convoy of the 
monuments of the arts now on their way 
fom Rome to France, having fet out the 
Varieties; Literary and Philofophical. 
f Sept. 
4 » i 
22d Prairial: Euterpe, a mufe ; an altar 
of white marble ; Paufidippus, a figure 
feated; Menander, @ figure feated ; 
Trajan, a figure feated ; a {phinx of red 
granite ; Idole, or an Egyptian porter, 
in white marble; Phocion, a figure ; 
a fphinx of red granite; Jupiter, a buft, © 
‘in marble; Apollo with the Mufes; A 
Faun playing on the flute; Brutus and 
Portia, a grouped buft; the figure of an 
Amazon; Menelaus; a buf in marble; 
Erato, the mufe, a figare; a Cupid; 
Paris, a figure ;. Jupiter Serapis, a buft ; 
Zeno, a figure in marble; and a figure 
in bronze, of a perfon drawing out a 
thorn.—This convoy is accompanied by 
many chefis of books. Notice has been 
received of its arrival in good condition 
at Leghorn. ‘ 
The Society of Natural Hiftory, at 
Paris, meet every year, on the birth-day 
of Linnzus, to celebrate, by an excur- 
fion, the memory of that great man. On 
this occafion, three commiffaries are ap- 
pointed to determine the fpecies, and to 
direét the courfe, in their refearch of 
objeéis in the three kingdoms. This 
excurfion took place at Ville d’Avre, the 
30th Prairial laft; the meeting was 
numerous; on their return they had a 
fimple and frugal repaft, yet interefting 
from its objeét : 150 guefts were prefent, 
among whom was the celebrated natu- 
ralift, Fapricius, Profeflor at Kiel, in 
Holftein. . x 
A number of ftatues in marble and ia 
bronze, and a number of vafes, taken 
from the houfes, c-devant royal, have 
been lately depofited in, the Thuilleries. 
Although the infpeétors of the hall of the 
Council of Ancients are intitled to public 
thanks .for their attention, in thus orna- 
menting the fineft public promenade in 
Europe, the connorffeurs find fault with 
the difpofition of thefe merceazx, moft 
of which are copies of the antique; for 
inftance, the Laocoon, the Apollo, are 
placed on the terrace of the Seine, which 
is_ very elevated, together with many 
vafes of moderate proportion, and other 
objeéts made to be feen near, and which 
appear of an extreme pe/itefé, when con- 
fidered from the parterre, towards which 
they are direéted.. The. ftatues alfo have 
their backs turmed towards the terrace, 
which has a bad effeét, 
Don AvcGusTIN DE PEDRAYSS, 
profeffor of mathematics at Madrid, has 
juft given a general invitation to the 
learned, whether of his, own nation, or 
foreigners, to undertake the folution of 
a problem of fuperior geometry. Don 
Auguftin 
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