1801.] 
of Litchfield; and (having publifhed a 
catalogue) allows a free accefs to all vi- 
fitors, on particular days. Mr. Yates is 
conneéted with the Rev. T. D. Fofbrooke, 
F. A. S. ina new ‘ Hiffory of Gloucefter- 
Srire,”” in which it is propofed to combine 
the /atent Record and MS. relating to that 
opulent county, with a new ftatiftical, philo- 
fophical, and piéturefque furvey, embellith- 
ed with agricultural views, wooden cuts, 
vignettes, &c. 
Mr. GeorcE Ensor has in the prefs 
2 work of reputed erudition, entitled, 
_& The Principles of Morality.” 
A Tranflation from the French will be 
publithed in a few days, of a valuable 
wok, entitled, the ‘* Hiftory of the Na- 
val Progrefs of Great Britain ;* wherein 
is delineated the Origin, Progrefs, and 
State of the Englifh Navy, from the dawn 
of her ftrength till the prefent period. 
Mrs. Smiru has juft finifhed the 4th 
and sth volumes of the Solitary Wanderer. 
The Tranflations from the French of 
Makcuanp’s Voyage round the World, 
and of Sonnini’s Travels in Turkey and 
Greece, will appear without delay. 
A Pié&ure of Peterfburgh, with plates, 
will fpeedily make its appearance, tranf- 
lated from the German of Srorcu, by 
Mr. Tooke. 
Mrs. WesT has in the prefs, Letters 
to a Young Man on his Entrance into 
Life. 
A new Monthly Lift, in the manner 
of the Lift of the Royal Navy, and 
of the Monthly Army Lift, will make 
its appearance on the firft day of July, of 
all the Merchant Shipping belonging, or 
regularly trading to, Great Britain and 
Treland. Such is the prefent immenfe 
trade of thefe iflands, that fuch a lift will 
contain not lefs than Eleven Thoufand 
Veffels. The new lift will be publifhed 
under the title of LLoyp’s MonruL_y 
SHIPPING LisT. 
_ A Voyage up the Mediterranean, in 
the Fleet under the command of Admiral 
Nelfon, will fpeedily be publifhed, em- 
bellithed with forty plates, to be engraved 
in aquatinta, by Stadler, from drawings 
made on the {pot by the author, who is 
the Rev. CoopeR WiLLyams, Chaplain 
of the Swiftfure. A Defcription of the 
_ A&tion of the Nile, on the firft of Auguft, 
4798, will be included, 
_. Dr. Monrucct is preparing forme re- 
marks upon Dr. Hacer’s Keys to the 
Chinefe Language. We underftand Dr. 
-Hager ftands engaged to reply to them. 
It igems that Dr. Montucci had him- 
felf been a candidate for the honour of in- 
Montury Mac, No, 73. 
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troducing the Chinefe Language to the 
acquaintance of Europeans. ‘The Eatt 
India Company has liberally fubfcribed 
one hundred guineas to aid the publication 
of Dr. HaGer’s intended Chinefe Dic- 
tionary. . 
Mr. Staunton, fon of the late Sir 
George, has found a curious: Chinefe mo- 
nument, quoted in the fourth volume of 
the Memoirs of the Miffionaries of Pe- 
king, but hitherto not feen in Europe. 
He will bring it foon to England, afd it 
is to be hoped, that, on his return,Chinefe 
literature will be ftill further propagated 
in this country; Mr. Staunton having 
made confiderable progrefs in the lan- 
guage. 
The Rev. SAMUEL LovELL, of Briftol, 
‘has a volume of Sermons in the prefs, 
which will immediately be publifhed. 
Three new Voyages and Travels are 
about to be publifhed in London, all 
equally promifing in refpeét to the im= 
provement of geography: the firft is 
Mr. M’KENzI£’s, who fet out from 
Montreal, near Quebec, and navigating 
by the Outoyac-river, through Lake Hu- 
ron and. Lake Superior, came. by the 
Grand Partage into Lake Winnipeg, whence 
preceeding to the Ife la Crofs, he reached 
the Great Slave Lake. He then went 
up the great North-weft river, now call- 
ed after its navigator, M’Kenzte’s-river, 
and reached the North Sea, under latitude 
69, and longitude 134. This was his firft 
tour; in his fecond tour he fet' out from 
the fort Chippervean, on the Atabafca- 
lake, and went up the Slave-river, to its 
fource, which he found to be in latitude 
54. longitude 121. weft. There he crofied 
the great Stozy Mountains, not yet de- 
{cribed, from which ali the rivers whichrun 
either eaft into Hudfon’s-bay, or weft inte 
the Pacific Ocean, take their origin; thence 
he came on the oppofite fide to the Ta- 
couch-Teffe-river, and travelled in a fouth 
and fouth-weft-direction for 200 miles 
down that river, till he reached one of the 
inlets of the Pacific Ocean, in latitude 52, 
—21 min. and longitude 127—-48 min. 
weft, near the new Archipelago of the 
Prince/s Royal’s Iflands, by a channel, 
which will henceforth be called M’Ken- 
zie’s Entrance, The fecont Voyage 
is Captain BRovGHTON’s, who, having 
been fent home with difpatches by Cap= 
tain Vancouver, after Capt. Bligh had 
returned, was fent by Government with 
Captain Bligh’s veflel, the Providence, 
to make new difcoveries. Captain Brough- 
ton furveyed’ all the fouth and fouth- 
eaft coat of Sapam, thence all the eaft 
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