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Messrs. Dutau and Co. of Soho- 
square, intend to publish an English edi- 
tion, with impressions of the orginal 
plates of the magnificent work now print- 
ing at Paris under the ttle of Voyage Pit- 
toresqgue en Espagne. Every lover of h- 
terature will wish them success in so splen- 
did an. undertaking. Hal VF 
Miss'PLusrece has issued proposals 
for publishing an Enylish trausiation of 
Schmidt’s classical History of Germanys; 
the work to extend in English to. five vo- 
lumes, 10 quarto, at two guineas each. 
Mr. Nicurinca es has made consider- 
eble progress ina wark,-to be entitled, - 
“A Portraiture of Society,” as taken 
from a view of the assemblies, associa- 
tions, Institutions, “societies, mectings, 
and clubs in and near the metropolis, 
whether religious, charitable, literary, 
philosophical, political, commercial, con- 
vivial, or recreative. ‘This work will be 
interspersed with criticisms, anecdotes, 
and biographical fketches, and will be em- 
bellithed with select views of the mott 
beautiful and magnificent halls in London 
and Weftminiter, and with portraits of 
well known public characters, 
~ The Rev. Richard Burner, of Bun- 
gay, intends to publifh in‘an octavo vor 
Jume, various Englif and Latin poems, 
tranilations, &c. te which will be prefixed 
an Essay.on the composition and struc- 
ture of Latin verse. } 
Mr. George Dovenas, author of a 
translation of Euclid’s Elements, has in 
the press, a Set of Mathematical Tables, 
zacluding Logarithms of numbers from 1 
to 10,000, and by an ausiliary table to 
400,000,000, or more it necessary; ta- 
bles of natural and aruilicial sines, tan- 
gents, &c. and of natural and artilicial 
sines to every degree, minute, &c. &c. Di 
yections for thew use aud application are 
given along with them. Te oe, | 
The Buchanan Sermon on translating 
the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages, 
preached hy the. Rev. Mr. Wranghaim, be- 
fore the university of Cambridge last May, 
will make its appearance very shortly, ac- 
companied with notes and illustrations, 
The Lectures on Painting, delivered by 
the late John Oprr, esq. R.A. at the 
Royal Academy and the Reval Institution, 
ju the years 1806 and 1807, are proposed 
‘to be published iy quarto, accompanied 
ue 2 > i . : 
‘by a portrait of the author, eugraved from 
a painting by himself. 
Dr. Hartipax of Halesworth bes in 
the press, Observations on the Causes and 
Consequences of Emphyrema, which will 
make iis appearance early in September. 
Literary and Philosophical Inielligence. 
fSept. I, 
ees : 
Some experiments have been made at 
Hudson's Bay with frozen quicksilver. ft 
has beenreduced to sheetsas thin as paper, 
by beating ituponananvil, with a haminer 
both atthe same temperature asthe quick- 
silver. On plunging a mass of frozen quick- 
silver into a glass of warm water, the lat- 
ter was immediately frozen, the glass was 
shivered into a thousand pieces, and the 
quicksilver became fluid again. 
A new edition of Professor PLayPArn’s. 
Illustrations of the late Dr. Hutton’s 
Theory of the Earth, with very consider~ 
able additions, is preparing for the press. 
A new edition is in the press of 
Quarles’s Meditations, called ‘* Judg- 
ment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls.” 
Besides the Editor’s Preface, a Life of 
Quarles, written by’ his widow, and a 
Portrait of the Author, will be preftxed.- 
_ Two volumes of Sermons, written by 
Jonn. M. Masux, D,D.. pastor of the 
Scotch Presbyterian church at New York,- 
will soon make their appearance in Lon- 
don. ‘ . . 
It is intended to publish in the course 
of this year, Memoirs of the Voyages, 
Adventures, and extraordinary long Life 
of David Satmon, now livingat Liverpool, 
the only survivor of the crew of the Cen- 
turion, commanded by Commodore An-: 
son, with whom he sailed round the 
world, his narrative will contain an 
account of the vicissitudes. aud toils of 
Rearly a century. on sea and land, in 
various parts of the.world. 42, 
The Lansdown Library of Manuscripts. 
has been purchased by Parliament for the 
Fitish Museum, at an average of the va- 
luation «made by three parties, being 
£4925, Mr. Planta the principal libra- 
rian of the Museum estimated them value 
in the following manner: vp 
Burleigh and Cecil Papers, 120 lots, 
B28 Gi 
at 10/, i= = - 1,200 
Sic Julius Caesar’s Papers, 30 vols. at 
a 74 - - ee 
Twenty-seven volumes of original Re- | 
gisters of Abbeys, at 10/. ahaa. 4, 
©ne hundred and fifty volumes, at 54 730 
Nine hundred and eighty-five ditto, at 
lato tl gudidedng geen ae 
Forty numbers of roval letters, at d/. 
Eight volumes of Chinese Drawings: 
4970 
200 
£4970 
The Petty Papers, amounting to fiiteen 
volumes, were reserved hy the family. , 
Mr. Townsend, proposes to publisita 
Work entitled, “ Vis Veritatis, or. the 
Progress. 4f Truth;” containing the Ele- 
ments of Government, in a description | 
of the origi) and nature of moral agency, 
/ ) and 
