1797-] 
A cheft containing books and mate- 
rials for a work on ftatiftics, undertaken 
_ by M. Expecting, a very diftinguithed 
literary character at Hamburgh, was on 
board the Columbia, an American veffel, 
captured and carried into Nantz. The 
Executive Direétory, defirows to mani- 
feft, on this occafion, the protection which 
the French government will conftantly 
give to the fciences, and to thofe who 
cultivate them, has ordered the minifter 
of the interior to caufe the faid cheft 
to be tranfmittedto M. Ebeling withous 
delay. 
. The pofthumous works of MonreEs- 
‘QUIEL, are juft publithed in Paris, in 
gne oftavo volume. The authenticity 
of the manufcripts of the deceafed is at- 
tefted by the fecretary of the National 
Inftitute, and by the librarian of Bor- 
deaux. The articles contained in this 
volume are as foliows;—A Differtation 
on the Policy of the Romans in Matters 
of Religion ; another, on ‘the Nature of 
the Echo; Obfervations on Natural 
Hiftory ; Difcourfes pronounced at the 
Academy of Bordeaux ; Two Eulogies ; 
feveral pieces in verfe ; an Analyfis of 
the Spirit of Laws ; and, laftly, Fa- 
miliar Letters, Thoughts on different 
Occafions, and Anecdotes. 
Mr. Henry Anprews, botanical 
engraver and painter, author of the Co- 
Joured Engravings of Heaths, propofes 
to continue, monthly, a botanical work, 
under the title of the Botanift’s Repofi- 
tory. Jt is intended to contain new and 
rare Plants only—Each Figure to be 
drawn and coloured from a living {peci- 
men. 
There are now in the prefs, Poems by 
the late Captain Joun MARJORIBANK, 
of Kelfo, author of Slavery, Trifles in 
Verfe, 8c. . ‘ante: 
_ 4m important work, of which the 
_ completion has long been delayed, is now 
finithed. We allude to the History 
of ENGLAND, written by Dr. Coors, 
the civilian. It is comprifed in niné 
volumes o€tavo, the la@ of which will 
{peedily make its appearance: It is em- 
_ bellithed with an elegant ferics of royal 
| portraits, and other engravings, includ- 
ing maps, are interfperfed. The hiftory 
is. traced from the earlieft times, and 
brought down to the laf important epoch | 
the peace of 1783. 
A tranilation of a beautiful and cele- 
brated French novel, from the pen of 
Louver, entitled « Emily de Varmont,” 
will fhortly make its appearance. The 
Montiiy Mac, XXV, 
Domeftic Literary and Scientific Intelligence. 
ait 
tendency of the piece is to ftate the in-. 
conveniencies attending the indiffolubility 
of the marriage tie, and the cruelty of 
condemning the clergy to perpetual ce 
libacy. 
_ Weare defired to reétify an affertion 
in our Varieties for November, that Mr. 
Roscoe was engaged in writing the Life 
of Robert Burns. The faé& is, that 
another gentleman of Liverpool, perfely 
qualified for the undertaking, is occu- 
pied in preparing fuch a work, which 
will alfo include a confiderable number 
of that poet’s pofthumous works, both in 
profe and verfe, particularly many of his 
letters, which will be found extremely 
interefting. The publication is intend 
ed for the benefit of Burns’s widow. 
The Literary and Philofophica! Soci- 
ety of Manchefter, have in the prefs the. 
firft part of the fifth volume of their va- 
Juable Memoirs. ’ 
A tranflation into Englith is prepar- 
ing, of the Effay on Giddinefs (Verfuch 
uber den Schwindel) by Mr. Hertz, 
doétor of the Jewith hofpital at Ber- 
lin. —The learned author, who is a dif- 
ciple of Rawr, has chofen, in this work, 
a fubjeét never thoroughly inveftigated 
before. , 
A life of St. Columba, the Apoftle of 
the Highlands and Weftern ‘Iflands of 
Scotland, written by Dr. Surry of 
Campbeltoun, is now in the prefs. Dr. 
S$. from his local fituation and knowledge 
of highland hiftory and antiquities, may 
be fuppofed to be well qualified to be» 
come the biographer of Columba. 
Dr. Smiru’s Agricultural Report of 
Argylefhire, is likewife in the prefs, and 
will be publifhed inthe courfe of next 
month. 3 
There is alfo printing at the Glafgow 
Univerfity Prefs, Le€tures on the Nature. 
and End of the Sacred Office, and on the 
dignity, duty, qualifications, and chas 
racter of the Sacted Order, by the fame 
author. « 
Aragists. While the philanthropifts 
are meeting in the principal churches of 
Paris, the atheifs, on their part, have 
eftablifhed a kind of worfhip. The two 
following articles are extraéted from 
the profped?us lately publithed by that 
monftrous fee. ' 
“The men without a God profels a 
worfhip of which virtue alone is tle ob- 
ject: this worfhip confitts in proclaiming 
good aétions during the lives of their au- 
thors, and'in honouring thofe who per- 
form them,’after their death. nt ag 
3Q. “The 
