466. 
255gl. tos. 4d. 3 the refidue (excepting 
169]. 14s. 4d. in hand for pretent fupply, 
and 1311. 5s. fub{criptions not yet paid) 
remaining invefted in exchequer-bills, till 
opportunitics of fuitable purchafes offer. 
Ou the whole, fuch is the forward Rate of 
the collection and arrangements, that the 
managers expect to te enabled io open 
the room to the proprietors and fubfcribers 
ina few wecks. 
Mr. Barrow who has publifhed fo 
fatistactory an Account of the Cape of 
Good Hope, has announced, a New Ac- 
count of the Embafly of Lord. Macartney 
to the Court cf China. It wil appear in 
a few days, and will be accompanied with 
Engravings. . 
Mr. EpwarbD WiLLiamMs, the Welth 
Bard, is preparing for the prefs. a new 
edition, with additions, of his Poems, 
Byric and Paftoral; to which wil be 
prefixed, an Introductory Effay on Pafto- 
ral Poetry ; alfo, an Account of the An- 
cient Britifh Bards and Druids, their In- 
ftitutes, Poetry, Ethics, Theology, Aris 
of Memory, &c.—With a few Ancrent 
Wrelth Melodies, to which fome of the 
Songs are adapted. 
Dr. Turner intends to publifh his 
work, entitled the Principles of the New- 
tonian Philofopby; or, a Mathematical 
Demonftration of th: Properties of Na- 
ture, the lat:er endef this month. It will 
be comprifed in one volume, 8vo. 
» 4 new edition ot Mr. Josuua STEELE’s 
ingenious Treatife on the Meafure and 
Melody of Speech, with a popular Com- 
mentary, and fome Improvemen's en the 
Syftem of Notation invented by that. gen- 
tlemen, is intended either to proceed er to 
accompany Mr. THELWALL’s work on 
the Phyitology of Elocution. According 
to the fyliem.of the lecturer, phyfology 
and the laws of mufical proportion are 
the bafes of elocutionary fcience; thefe 
two works are, therefcie, intended to 
throw light upon each other ; and to ren- 
der fo much both of anatomical and mu- 
ical refearch, as may be ufeful in correct. / 
ing the tones and inflections of the voice, 
and in removing impediments and un- 
graceful habits of fpeech, interefting to 
‘the ftudent of polite and general literature, 
and intelligible even to thofe readers who 
are not initiated into.the minutiz of thofe 
abfiract fubje&s. 
- - The Chichefter prefs, which has been 
lately brought to fuch particular notice 
by Hayley’s Life of Cowper, will fhortly 
produce a fecond edition of Mr. RoBer- 
DEAU’s ‘ Fugitive Verfe and Profe,” 
with confiderable additions. . 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[June t, 
A very improper and unfounded refe. 
rence to the name of Mrs. DuNCoMBE,. 
of Canterbury, having found place in fe- 
veral Journals, relative to a fuppofed col- 
leéion of the correfpondence of Richardfon. 
being in her poffeffion, we are authorized 
to ftate, that Mrs. Duncombe poffefled no 
letters of that eminent writer, befides his 
correfpondence with her; the whole of 
which fhe liberally and vuluntarily con- 
fizned to the care of Mrs. BARBaULD; 
to be incorporated in the general aflem- 
blage of Richardfon’s Ccirelpondence, 
which is to be publifhed in a few days, 
under tae direétion of that lady. 
Mr. WeepsTeER, leturer in philofophy, 
has ready for’ publication, Elements of 
Natural Philofopby, explaining the Laws 
and Prisciples of Attraction, Gravitation, 
Mechanics, Pneumatics, Hydroltatics, 
Hydraulics, and Optics, with: a general 
View of the Solar Syftem; adapted to 
public and private inftru€tion, and illuf- 
trated with a great number of diagrams, 
The original Correfpondeoce of J. J, 
Rousseau with Madame Larour ne 
FRaANQUEVILLE and M. pu Perron, 
the friend ro whom he bequeathed his 
manufcripts, relating to bis difference with 
Davip Hume, &c. &ec. Attefted by the 
executors of M. du Peyron and. the Ma- 
giftrates of Neufchatel; trapileted from: 
the French, jutt pubiithed at Paris; wilt 
be ready for fale in a few days. 
Mr. RicuarbD Parkinson, author 
of “The Experienced Farmer,”’ late of 
Orange Hii!, near Baltimore, propofes to 
publith by fub{cripticn, in one volume 
octavo, a work under the title of The 
Experienced Farmer’s Tour in America ; 
exhibiting in a copious and familiar view 
the American fyttem of agriculture and 
breeding of cattle, with its recent ime 
provements. we 
Mr. W. IRELAND intends to publifh, 
by tubfcription, a romance, under the 
title of St. Columba; or, the Abbot of 
Oronza; interfperfed with Legendary 
Ballads, and a Poetical Introduétion to 
the Reader, in Vindication of this Species 
of Lixerary Publication. 
Mr. THeELwauy hes juft concluded a 
very fuccefsful Courfe of Le&tures on the 
Science and Practice of Elocu:ion, to a 
numerous audience, at Edinburgh ; where. 
allo he has been employed upon fome fe- 
rious cafzs of impediments of {peech, for 
the cure of which he has difcovered a new. 
and efficacious procefs. His Courfe of — 
Leétures is to be repeated at Liverpool, 
in the enfuing autumn; and will be com- 
menced in London, during the courle of © 
the 
