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VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PHILosopuHIcaL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*,* Authentic Communications jor this Article will always be thankfully received. 
HE Travels of Mr. HOLCROFT are 
promifed in the enfuing fpring, from 
which much may reafonably be expected. 
From Hamburg he paffed through a part 
of Weftphalia, to Holland, Flanders, and 
France ; vifiting the cities and towns of 
Bremen, Amfterdam, Rotterdam, the 
Hague, Antwerp, Lille, &c. till he ar- 
rived at the great object of his journey.— 
Paris, and the French, ftill continue to 
excite the inquiries of all Europe: to Pa- 
ris and the French, therefore, the greateft 
fhare of the work is properly dedicated. 
Pi&ures of national manners, contrafted 
with the manners of other nations, and of 
the French themfelves before the Revolu- 
tion ; chara€ters of living men, and parti- 
cularly of Bonaparte ; anecdotes that will 
elucidate thefe manners and characters ; 
the City of Paris ; its galleries of paint- 
ing and feulpture ; its mufic, authors, and 
artifts ; its theatres, aCtors, dancers, and 
the ftate of the ttage; its public gardens, 
amufements, {chools, inftitutions, and com- 
parative progrefs ; its architecture, ftreets, 
monuments, conveniences and inconveni- 
ences ; thefe and many other fubje&s, in- 
tended to make the reader acquainted with 
a people at prefent fo enterprifing,. fo in- 
ordinately praifed, and fo bitterly accufed, 
cannot but give a high degree of general 
intereft to the work, if it be written with 
that acumen and force which the fubject 
deferves. Mr. Holcroft refided feveral 
months in Paris long before the Revolu- 
tion ; and his late refidence there has been 
nearly a year and a half, for the exprefs 
purpofe of attentively obferving the peo- 
ple, noting their peculiarities, and colleét- 
ing materials. The work is to be richiy 
embellifhed by engravings of the Thuille- 
ries, the Louvre, the Luxembourg, and 
moft of the principal objects and buildings, 
after drawings, taken chiefly under his own 
direction, by an ableartift. ‘Thefe draw- 
ings are allowed by all who have feen them, 
to be corre& portraits, moft beautifully 
executed. 
2 
We learn from our correfpondents, that 
the MoNTHLY MaGazineE partakes with 
the Englifh newfpapers the honour of that 
exclufion from France, which is a part of 
the policy of its prefent rulers. We fhould 
feel a pride in fuppofing, that the known 
character of our mifcellany had procured 
us adiftinétion in this refpeét above our 
periodical brethren ; but we rather con- 
ceive that the prohibition is extended to 
all publications of the clafs. 
we can {carcely imagine that azy produc- 
tion of an Englifh prefs, which profefles to 
give the current opinions refpeéting the 
tranfactions of the times, could fail of 
proving offenfive to a Government, that, 
to a fyftematic plan of defpotifm at home, 
unites a manifeft defign of exerting an un- 
juft and tyrannical influence over all its 
weaker neighbours. ‘There can be nothing 
in common between the fpirit of fuch a 
Government, and that of a genuine Eng- 
lifh writer, under whatever party he may 
be arranged. 
We congratulate the public on the 
profpeét of a valuable account of that 
hitherto unknown country, IRELAND.— 
Dr. BEAUFORT, of Collon, who, it is 
well known, is better qualified for the un- 
dertaking than any other perfon, an- 
nounces a work in two quarto volumes, 
under the title of a Sketch of the Prefent 
State of Ireland, Statifical and Pidiu- 
refque, to be illuftrated with maps, and 
with a variety of ornamental engravings. 
The work is expected to make its appear- 
ance early in the winter of 1803. . 
It is with pleafure We ftate, that the 
fub{cription for the benefit of the FEMALE 
ORPHANS of the late Dr. GaRNETT is 
likely to fecure them a moderate indepen- 
dence. A fum has been already collected, 
which, when the prefent thinnefs of the 
metropolis is confidered, feems a good ear- 
neft of its future fuccefs. There is nota 
clafs in fociety but what fhould feel inte- . 
refted in the promotion of this undertak- 
ing; for there is not a clafs which has not 
been m fome manner benefited by the la- 
bours of this lamented philofopher.—— 
Sub{criptions continue to be received by 
the following bankers in London: Mefirs. 
Bofanquet and Co. 73, Lombard-ftreet 5 
Mefirs.Coutts and Co. 59, Strand ; Mefirs. 
Edwards and Ce. Stratford-place; Mefirs. 
Hankey and Co. 75 Fenchurch-fireet 5 
Mefirs. Hoare, 37, Fleet-ftrect ; Mefirs. 
Pybus and Co. Old Bond-ftreet ; Meflrs. 
Ranfom 
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