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The Rey. Jostan Pratt has circu- 
lated Propofais for publithing, in ten vo- 
Jumes oftavo, one volume to be delivered 
every three months, price 7s. 6d, in 
boards, to be paid for on delivery, (which 
price wiil be raired to 9s. when the Work 
is completed,) the whole Works, Expofi- 
tory, Devotional, Prattical, Polemical, 
and Mifcellaneous, now firft collated, of 
Bishop Hatt, with an elegant Portrait. 
A new Life of the Bifhop will be given, 
and a complete Index to the whole. The 
firt volume wil! be put to the prefs as 
foun as acompetent number of names is 
ebtained. 
Mr. Carp, author of the Revolutions 
of Ruflia, is preparing an Hiftorical Out. 
line of the Rife and Eftablifhment of the 
Papal Power, addieffed to the Roman 
Catholics of Ireland. . 
Mr. JouHN Bett, whofe ufeful {pirit of 
literary enterprize has been known to the 
public for thirty years pait, has opened a 
Gallery of Fine Arts at the corner of 
Southampton-ftreet, in the Strand. It is 
Mr. Bell’s: intentions'to poffeis himfelf of. 
imprefiions of the engravings of all the 
great and expenfive Works which appear 
at Paris, and to print Tranflations of the 
Jetter-prefs, adapted to the fize of the 
plates. He has already Anglicized, in 
this manner, the fplendid Work of Denon; 
the Works of the Painters ; the Mufeum 
of French Monuments ; and the Hiftérical 
PiSures of theRevolution. Other Works 
are in preparation; and itis one mevit of 
Mr. Beli’s. project, that he offers the 
Works in London at much lefs than their 
coft in Paris. 
A laborious Work is expected, in the 
courfe of the enfuing winter, from the pen’ 
of the fame gentleman, on the Phyfiolo- 
gical Foundatioss of the Science of Elo- 
cution. The Work isto be divided into 
three parts, each of which will be embel- 
lifhed with elegant engravings, illuftra- 
tive of the deferiptions and doctrines of. 
the text’/— Part 1. Will treat of the Struc- 
ture and Offices of the Vocal Organs, and» 
the Theory of Vocal Sounds ;—Part II, 
Of the Structure and Offices of the Enun- 
ciative Organs, and the Anatomy of the 
elementary Sounds of Speech ;—~and Part 
ATI. Of natural Defects and habitual Im- 
pediments ; their Caufes, Phenomena, and - 
Cure ; and the Struéture and Application 
of Artificial Organs. The abeve fubjects 
conttitute the more philofophical portions 
of Mr. Vhelwall’s Lectures 5 but will be 
treated Ina more copious way than the 
nature of a popular courfe of dilcuthen can 
be expeGied to admit. 
Literary and Philofaphical Intelligence, 
[April 1, 
The fecond volume of Mr. Barrow’s 
Travels. in Africa is in the prefs, and 
will make its appearance in the courfe of 
the next month. 
Mr. BarTEeLL, of Cromer, has been 
fome time engaged. on a work of talte, 
which will be publifhed in. oftavo, in a 
few days, under the title of «* Hints for the 
Pigturefque Improvement of Cottages, 
and their Seeneiy,”” &c. with plates. 
The fifth volume of the Bibliographical 
Di&tionary will be publithed in afew days. 
Mr. R. Wricut, of Wrfbeach, pro- 
pofes to publith by fub{cription, in one 
volume ogtavo, a Work which will be-en- 
titled The Anti-Satisfaftienift ; or, the 
Salvation of Sinners by the Grace of God. 
Mr. Lysons has juft completed his 
Work on Gloucefterfhire Antiquities, om 
upwards of one hundred plates, many of _ 
which are richly coloured. 
‘The Works of Mr. ParKinson, of 
Hoxton, on the Organic Remains of the 
former World, is in confiderable forward. 
nefs. The firft part, on the Foffils of 
the Vegetable Kingdom, illuftrated with 
coloured plates, in quarto, is propofed te 
be publifhed on the firft of June next. 
A Society was formed in London, on the 
7th of March, in the prefent year, with this 
defignation, THe BRITISH AND FOREIGN 
BrBie Society. This Society propofes te 
itfelf one grand and fimple object, viz. to 
promote the circulation of the Scriptures, 
without Commentary er Preface, in the 
principal Living- Languages ; and fuck 
regulations will be adopted, as may both 
permit and invite the co-operation of 
Chriftians in general, without the leaf 
difiin&tion of party. This having been. 
underftood to be the great principle upon: 
which it was propofed that the Society 
thould be formed, feveral perfons of infiu- 
ence, connected with various religious de=: 
nominations, came forward on the day 
appointed for the frft general meeting, at 
the London Tavern, and the contributiong: 
already made amount to near a thoufand 
pounds. GRANVILLE SHaRP, Efq. was 
in the chair; and Henry. THORNTON,:- 
Efq. M. P. was chofen Treafurer to the 
Society. In purfuance ef the broad and 
liberal plan upon which the Society is 
formed, three Secretaries, of different de-: 
nominations, have .been appointed ; viz. 
the Rev. Jostran Pratt, Lecturer of 
the United Parifhesof St. Mary, Welnoth, = 
aod St. Mary, Woolchurch ;. the Rev. 
jJostrH HucnHes, Minifter of a Diflent- 
ing Congregation at Batterfea; and the’ 
Rey. Cu. Frep. STernkoprrr, Miniter 
of the Lutheran Church inthe Savoy. 
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