1807.] 
and its effects on the government of fa- 
milies, associated bodies, provinces and 
kingdoms, 
Lhe various Works of the late excellent 
Dr. Horne, bishop of Norwich, are about 
to be published in an uniform manner, in 
six volameés octavo to which will be pre- 
fixed the Life of the Bishop, written by 
the Rev. W. Jonrs. 
The number of persons who visited the 
British Museum in 18@5, was 11,989; in 
1806, 11,824; and trom January to June 
1807, 6315. 
The number of pits at work together at 
Castle Comer in Treland, remarkable for 
its nines of what is uswally calied Kkil- 
kenny coal,was in the yeat*1800, sixteen; 
many years have elapsed since twenty- 
four were at work, and the smallest num~ 
ber that has been known is twelve. 
It is proposed as an object highly im- 
portant in a Commercial point of view, to 
muke a small establishment on the now al- 
most depopulated island of Otaheite; and 
to render it useful in thenavigation te and 
from Botany Bay, as a place where ships 
May procure abundant supplies of pork 
and vegetables. The king of Owhyhee 
is making himself master of the other 
Sandwich Islands; is improving thein to 
the greatest prosperity cf agriculturé and 
population; is ambitious of making them 
seats of manufacture and commerce; and 
even ee: to open'a trade to Nootka 
_ Sound and to Bengal. 
[tis a curious fact that the Romans, 
during their residence in Britain, esta- 
blished a manufactory of woollen cloth at 
Wincliester, which was so extensive as to 
supply their army; -and there is reason to, 
believe that the trade which they intro- 
duced inte Brita, was not neglected by 
tie native inliabitants, for the first nine 
handred years of the Christian era. The 
long Spanish wool was imported into this 
country so early -as the twelfth century, 
and we find that since the days of Ed- 
ward IIL. British fleeces were admirably 
adapted to the kind of cloth which. was 
IN greatest request, though now they are 
generally unequal to the production of 
that which is sought after. 
In the year 1770, there was only one 
stage-coach té London, and one to Li- 
verpool, which went from or came into 
Manchester, and they set out only twice a 
week. ‘here are now twenty-seven dis- 
/ tinct coaches which run from Manchester, 
of which eighteen, set out every day, and 
eight others three times a-week, to their 
diferent places of destination. In the 
year 1754, a flying ceuch was advertised, 
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and it promised im the following words, 
that “ However incredible it might appear, 
it would actually.arrive im London in four 
days and a hall after leaving Manchester.” 
The distance is one hundred and eighty- 
five miles, and the journey is now per- 
formed by the mail-coaches im about thir- 
ty hours, and on some occasions it has 
been travelled in twenty hours. ° 
The author of the Revolutionary Plas 
tarch, &c. announces the Military An- 
nals of Revolutionaty France, from the 
heginmney of the last war to the end of the 
present year 1807, to be’ published by 
subscription, in four large volumes, quar+ 
to. Hesides maps of the countries which 
have been the theatres of war, and plans 
of encampments, sieges, and battles, 
these volumes will be -embellished with 
portraits of all the commanders-in-chieg, 
and of every other general who during the 
above period has been admired for veuius 
or talents. , 
M. Fourcroy, Professor of Chemistry. 
at Paris, having publifhed an enlarged 
edition of his “ Philosophy of Chemistry,” 
a Translation of it by Mir. W. Desmoxp, 
is in the press. 
The second Part of the “ Medical Ob- 
server,” containing an impartial accoant 
of quack medicines; copies of the spe- 
cifications trem the patent oflice, with 
much interesting information relative te 
the practice of quacks, &c. &c., will be | 
published on the first of October next. 
A new edition of Langharae’s Plutarch, 
with some corrections of the Text, the 
Four Deficient Paratiels supplied, consi+ 
derable additions te the Notes, new Ta- 
bles of Tunes, Coins, &c. by the Rev, 
. Wrancuam, M.A, F.BR.S, is nearly 
ready for publication. . 
Karly in the month will be published, 
a new edition of Dr. Sranuore’s Transla. 
tion of “ Thomas d Kempis, on the Lnita- 
tion of Christ.” . 
~ The Rey. W. Sutewers, the author of 
the Life of Poggio Bracciolini, has in the 
press, Dialogus an Seni sit Uror ducen- 
da, which was written by Pogsio, about 
the year 14935, and deposited in the 
royal Jibrary at Paris, where it was tran- | 
scribed by Mr. \Shepherd during the in- 
terval of peace 13 1804, 
Mr. Cuarres Beti’s Lectures com- 
mence on the 2d of October, at his Anas ’ 
tomical Rooms and Museum, No, 10, 
Leicester-street, Leicester-square, . otler 
every accommedation to the student of > 
aaatomy and surgery. » 
Dr. Bravram’s Lectures on the Prae- | 
tice of Physic, Chemistry, and tae Mas 
tenia 
OS en tee re 
