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land; from which country he returned to 
England very lately, having been carried 
,thither by a French privateer. While 
he remained in Holland, he was on his pa- 
role, and vifited all the principal places ; 
there is confequently no doubt but his 
work will afford much interefting infor- 
mation, as well as many anecdotes of the 
perfons concerned in the recent tranfac- 
tions of that country. 
~ A new edition will appearin a few days 
of Dr. Hutton’s Principles of Bridges. 
We are glad toannounce the re- publication 
of this work at a time when the projects 
for an intended new bridge over the river 
Thames, inftead of the prefent old Lon- 
don Bridge, is fo much the fubje& of con- 
templation. Mr, TELFoRpD’s project, it 
feems, has been favourably taken up by 
the parliament, a felect committee of which 
are now employed to examine the pro- 
priety of the project, and who have wifely 
called in to their affiftance the talents and 
experience of feveral men of fcience and 
practical engineers. The project is bold 
and daring, but, if fuccefsfully executed, 
muft produce a work which may juftly be 
efteemed the wonder of the world. It is 
defigned to fpan the river by one fingle 
iron arch, of 600 feet, and to be high 
enough to admit fhips of confiderable bur- 
den to pafs under it! . The defign is now 
engraving by Mr. Lowry, by order of 
the committee of parliament. 
Mrs. Op:e will fpeedily publifh, in one 
volume, fome poetical pieces, and a tale 
called the Father and Daughter. 
A tranflation, by Captain Monk, will 
fpeedily appear in two volumes quarto, of 
Marchand’s Voyage round the World, in 
the years 1790, 1791, and 1792, from 
the Paris edition of Fleurien. ‘The tran- 
flator having been favoured by the French 
editor with the fheets and prints as they 
paffed through the prefs, the tranflation 
will probably be executed with more than 
ordinary correctnefs. 
A tranflation is alfo in forwardnefs, of 
the Hifttory of the principal Events of the 
Reign of Frederic William the Second, 
and of Europe, between the years 1786 
and 1796, by L. P. Secur, late French 
Ambaffador at the Court of Proffia. 
Mr. ALEXANDER THOMSON, (author 
ef the Paradife of Tafte, of Whitt, ard 
of Pictures of Poetry) is preparing a vo- 
lume of Odes and Elegies, which he pro- 
pofes to publith by fubicription. 
Mr. ByRNE, ‘the engraver, announces 
_a feries of the moft interefting and picttu- 
relqgue views in the feveral counties of 
Great Britain, under the title ef Britaz- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[Feb,or, 
mia Depiéa, from drawings by Mefirs. 
Hearne, Smith, Farington, Turner, Alex- 
ander, &c. &c. ; 
Mr. W:tt1amM PrayFair, who is 
refpectably known to the public by a va- 
riety of ufeful works, has in forwardnefs 
a complete and comprehenfive account of 
the prefent ftate of Britith India, founded 
on official reports and other authentic do- 
cuments. It will comprehend a fiatitti- 
cal, geographical, commercial, and’ poli- 
tical view of all the Britifh dominions in 
India, jointly and feparately confidered. _ 
Mr. Butcuer, author of a volume of. 
Practical Family Sermons, has in the prefs 
a work which has engaged his atten- 
tion for fome years. Itis an attempt, by 
a new arrangément of the Holy Scriptures, 
to promote the regular perufal of the fa- 
cred volume in Chriftian families :—it -is 
divided into three parts, the fi? and /e- - 
cond containing the hiftorical parts of the 
Old and New Teftaments ; and the third fe- 
le&ted from the prophetical, devotional, 
and epiftolary partsof both, = 
Mr. Horsey, of Sloane-ftreet, pro- 
pofes to publifh by fubfeription’a collec- 
tion of glees, canons, rounds, &c. &c. 
for three, four, and five voices. 
The particular attention which is at 
prefent beftowed on the important fubjeét 
of education, is evinced by the fupport 
given to the novel eftablifhment of a ju- 
VENILE LIBRARY, or Bibliotheque d Edu- 
cation, in New Bond-ftreet, conducted by 
Mr. Tapart. Parents have hitherto 
been diftraéted by the number of crude 
produétions addreffed to the notice of their 
children, an inconvenience which Mr. Ta- 
bart propofes to remove by the publica- 
tion of a Catalogue Raifonnée of elemen- 
tary and aniufing books, in which he 
will point out the moft chafte and claffical 
works in every department of literature, 
as adapted to every feparateage. 
A tranflation is announced of Profeffor 
Linx’s Journey through Portugal, Spain, 
&c. in fearch of botanical curiofities. ~~ 
Our foreign readers will derive intereft, 
by learning that two editions have appear 
ed in Londen of Damberger’s Travels 
through the interior of Africa, and that 
both of them were fold in-a few weeks. | 
They will not be furprized that many per- 
fons do not give Mr. Damberger credit 
for all his affertions : we are, however 
enabled to fay, that the general refults of 
his obfervations, the fact of his actual 
journey, &c. &c. are not queftioned by the 
beft informed members of the Atrican Aiffo- 
ciation, and by thofe: ef the literati who 
have particularly directed their fiudies “ 
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