1803} 
Lady, becaufe it was the greatef? beaft I 
bad. 
The portrait is, however, very fairly 
engraved, and will naturally be interefting 
to the gentlemen to whom it is dedicated, 
“as we dare fay it is a good likenefs of the 
great original. 3 
In our Retrofpe& for June, containing 
fome obfervations an the pictures, &c. ex- 
hibited at the Royal Academy, we parti- 
cularly marked fome uncommoaly forcible 
drawings by T.S. Roberts. We havé 
Literary and Philofopbical Intelligence. 
Ol 
fince that time feen-a feries of very maf- 
terly aqua-tinta engravings, by Meflrs. 
Allen and Edy, from this gentleman’s 
drawings. ‘They form part of an intend- 
ed publication, illuftrative of the chief 
cities, rivers, ruins, and picturelque fcenery 
of the kingdom of Ireland; and, with re- 
{pect to the point of view from which they 
are taken, and the {pirit and accuracy 
with which they are delineated, we have 
feldom feen them equaled. 
VARIETIES, Lirerary AND PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
* * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully recerved. 
REPARATIONS are making for 
publifhing by fubicription, under 
royal patronage, a feries of engravings 
from the monuments of antiquity, which, 
having been collected by the INsTirureE 
of BUONAPARTE in L£gypt, were furren- 
dered to Lord HuTCHiNnSON, under the 
16th article of Capitulation, and are now 
placed in the Briti/b Mufeum, as a perpe- 
tual trophy of national valour. This 
work will proceed with all the expedition 
that the nature of it admits, and be de- 
livered to the public in eight numbers, at 
tl. rs. each; the firft in November, and 
one fucceffively every third month. The 
drawings from thefe monuments have 
been made with the utmoft accuracy by 
Mr. ALEXANDER, and the engravings 
are executing by Mr. MEDLAND in his 
beft ftyle. Meflrs. Longman and Rees 
receive the fubicriptions. 
The Life of GeneraL WasHinc- 
TON, compiled from his own papers by 
his nephew Mr. BusHoDd WasuHincG- 
TON, has been delayed by the various en- 
« gagements of its editor, but it will cer- 
‘tainly appear about Michaelmas. The 
London edition to be publifhed by Mr. 
Phillips will be embellifhed witha fplen- 
did portrait, engraved by Mr. Fittler 
from’ Stuart’s great picture, by permif- 
fion of the moft noble THe Marquis 
oF LaNsDOWN. 
Miss Sewarb is writing Memoirs of 
the Life and Writings of the late Dr. 
Darwin. ! 
The Pot humous Works of the late Dr. 
.Henry Hunter are announced for 
fpeedy publication, in three oftavo, vo- 
lumes. > : 
..A Bibliotheca Britannica, or complete 
Hiftory of Englith Literature, has been 
undertaken, and will be edited by Mr. 
SOUTHEY. 
Dr. GEorGE Pearson has inftituted 
an excellent Plan of Le&tures on the Cow- 
pock Inoculation; in addition to his other 
Medical and Chemical Lectures, to be 
delivered this f{ummer. They are to be 
delivered at the Inftitution, No. 44, Broad 
Street, Golden Square. A Icéture is to 
be given once or twice a week, according 
to the fubject of it, for about 12 weeks, 
A tranflarion of H. ZscuHoxkKe’s Hif- 
tory of the Deftrugtion of the Democra- 
tical Republics of Schwitz, Uri, and Un- 
terwaiden, with a Supplement by the 
Tranflator, a work peculiarly intereft- 
ing at the prefent period, will fpeedily 
be publithed. 
Mr. Donova Ne author of feveral works 
on Britith Natural Hiftory, &c. has an- 
nounced an intention to publish, with all 
convenient expedition, a new work on 
Foffil Sheils, and other organic remains 
that are found in that ftate in Great Bri- 
tain. 
Mr. Wa. Jones, the optician of Hol- 
born, has juft completed a new edition of 
the late Mr, George Adams’s Geometri- 
cal and Graphical Eflays, with Several 
additional improvements, Containing va- 
rious national meaiures and weiglits, and 
feveral uieful graphical tables,  &c. 
The fame gentleman has in the prefs a 
new edition of the fame author’s Lectures 
on Natural and Experimental Philofophy, 
in which, among other improvements, the 
article of Chemiftry will undergo a com- 
plete revifion, and exhibit the moft impor- 
tant and recent. improvements in chat 
{cience, * 
H Z Dr. 
