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tory, who appears defcending to diftin- 
guifh the hero. Around the farcophagus 
are the fymbols of Captivity and Defeat, 
the former bending in fubmiffion, the 
latter retiring with fhame. The allegory 
is as well conceived as fuch fubjeéts 
ufually are. The’ trophies and decora- 
tions are appropriate, and the whole is in 
a good ftyle. The following is the in- 
{cription :— 
** Sacred to the Memory of RicHARD 
RuNDLE BurGEss, Efq. 
Commander of his Majefty’s Ship the 
Ardent, 
who fell in the 41ft Year of Age, while 
bravely fupporting the Honour of the Bri- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence 
[ Jan. ic 
tifh Flag, ina daring and fuccefsful At- 
tempt to break the Enemy’s Line, near 
Camperdown, on the sith of Oftober, 
1797+ 
Miss Linwoop’s matchlefs . Exhibi- 
tion of her own Pictures in Worfted, will 
be clofedin the enfuing month. Thofe 
perfons who have not feen it will of courfe 
avail themfelves of the fhort remaining 
period to vifit it, and by doimg honour to 
their own tafte contribute ftill further to 
the liberal patronage with which this 
highly ingenious lady has been favoured. 
Such an Exhibition will rarely grace agaim 
the Britifh metropolis. 
VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. ~ 
*.* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
i ATR. GODWIN’s Life and Times of 
aK Chaucer will not make its appear- 
ance till the end of February. 
. Dr. Currie bas in the prefs a third edi- 
tion of his Medical Reports,with additions, 
A Law JournaL, to be continued 
Monthly, on the fame active and praétical 
plan as the Medical and Phyfical Journal, 
will be ftarted on the Firft of March, un- 
der the direftion of JouN Moraan, Efq, 
‘a veteran at the Bar,and Recorder of Maid- 
ftone, and of THomas WALTER WIL- 
LraMs, Efq. author of the Jultice of the 
Peace, and of other valuable works.—It 
3s to confilt,- 1. Of Reports; 2. OF Va- 
luable Tra&s and Communications ; 4%. Of 
Reviews of Law Books; and 4. of Com- 
mentaries upon all new Statutes. Such 
materials, put together. with the ability 
that may be expected from the editors, 
will render the projected Journal indifpen- 
fable to the office and library of every pro- 
fe(for of the law in the united kingdom. 
~ A work, in two volumes, upon the 
fame plan, and in the fame fpirit, as the 
Walpoliana, will fpeedily make its ap- 
pearance, under the title of ADDISONIANA, 
Te will confit of curious anecdotes and 
faéis' connected with the literary li‘e of 
Addifon, with his times and contempo- 
raries ; and, jike its companion, the Wal. 
potiana, will contain much original mat- 
ter.  Addifoniana wili be followed by 
Miltoniana, Swiftiana and Wilkefiana on 
the fame plan. 
_ The Rev. Dr. Wituiams, of Rother- 
bam, and the Rev. Mr. Parsons, of 
Leeds, are now printing, on a new and 
beautitul types in ten volumes, royal oc- 
tavo, the whole works of the celebrated 
and excellent Dr. Doddridge. 
Mr. Burpben, a literary gentleman of 
Northumberland, has now in the prefs, 
and will {peedily publith, an o&tavo yo- 
lume of eflays, entitled ‘* Materials for 
Thinking.”* 
» Onthe laft day’of this month Mr. Mac- 
ARTNEY will commence a Courfe of Lec- 
tures in the Medical Theatre, St. Bar- 
tholomew’s Hofpital, on the Anatomy of 
Animals and Vegetables ; from which will 
be deduced the general doétrines of Phy- 
fiology, or the laws of organized Matter. 
A {mall volume of Poems. will thortly 
appear, containing an Effay on War, in 
blank verfe, and Hanington Green, &c. 
in rhyme, written by Mr. NATHANIEL 
BLOOMFIELD, brother to the author of 
the Farmer’s Boy. 
Mr. Bissett, of the Mufeum at Bir- _ 
mingham, proceeds in his novel defign of 
a Genera! Direétory, with great fpirit and 
tafte. The fixth number has juft made its 
appearance, and it is rather fuperior in 
execution to the preceding, 
Mr. WRANGHaM’s Charity Sermon, 
preached Jaft fummer at Scarbro’, will 
fhortly make its appearance. 
A Lapy, whole mind has been parti- 
liarly devoted to the ftudy of education, and 
whote labours on that fubject have been fa- 
vourably received by the public, has it in 
contemplation to affume the fole care and 
education of four or five female naling 
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