18035.) 
A. Prodromus of this great work is alfo 
to be publifhed, by Dr. Sibthorpe’s direc” 
tion, in two volumes, ogtavo, but with- 
out plates. 
Mr. Bengt, a gentleman of fortune, 
has recently found amongtt his family pa- 
pers a very large aad interefting Collec. 
tion, including the Correfpondence of 
Charles the Firftwith Prince Rupert and 
the principal Charaéters of the Age in 
the Time of the Civil Wars, and while 
that Prince commanded the Army. Thefe 
documents, which are cf the highe% im- 
portance to the hiftory of that period, we 
underitand the poffeflor of them (and to 
whom they defcended from an anceftor, 
who was fecretary to Prince Rupert) in- 
tends flortly to pubdlif. "4 
Dr. Grirrirus has in the prefs, Tra- 
vels in Purope, Afia Minor, and Arabia, 
to be publithed in one volume, quarto. 
Mr. Twiss’s Verbal Index to the 
Plays of Shakfpeare is carrying through 
the prefs with as much expedition as is 
confitent with the careful attention res 
quifite in printing and ccrrecting a work, 
of which accuracy muit be'the fole recom- 
mendation. The fubfcription. on the 
original terms will continue open till the 
end of May, when, on account of the 
greater bulk of the volumes in conf{e- 
quence of the infertion of the play of Pe- 
ricles, and ftill more on account of the 
very confiderable rife which has taken 
place in the expenfe of printing and the 
price of paper, fince the Propofals were 
fir ifued, the coft of the work to non- 
fubfcribers will be Three Guineas. - 
- The Public, itis underftood, ere to be 
put in poffeffion of the tiarbles, coins, 
&c. of the late Mr. Town ey, he hav- 
ing directed that a Mufeum fhould be_ 
érected to contain them, to which the~ 
freeft accefs, confiftently with the general 
convenience, is to be given. With this 
view he has charged his eftate, fubject to 
the approbation of his family, with an 
adequate {um to be applied to the pur- 
pofe; or, io failure of their approbation, 
the cabinet is to be transferred to the Bii- 
tifh Mufcum. 
An elegant work will fpeedily appear, 
under the title of, An Excurfon through 
the principal Parts of Derbyfhire and 
Yorkfhire, with D[luitrative Notes, and 
Sketches of the Road between London and 
Dove Dale. Tie Excurfion was under- 
taken by the late ingenious and Jamented 
Epwarve DaYeEs, in the autumn of 1803. 
Its principal obje&t was to contemplate 
the romantic-character of Dove Dale, and 
to infpet and make drawings ef ‘the fubs 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence,” 
‘of the Author's Life. 
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lime and pidturefque fcenery of the North 
and Welt Riding: of York Mire.. The ob 
fervations made by Mr: D. during his pro. 
grels through the(e enchanting tra&s, were 
afterwards connected by him with various 
hittorical and biographical Notices, and the 
whole formed into.a connected work, and 
completed’ for the prefs, but a@ very there 
time previons to his omhappydeceale, The 
Tlloftrative Nores, and Sketches of the 
Road, Sc. have been adiled by “Mr. #, 
W. Brayvey, who has €ngaged” to 
bring cut the work folely forthe benefit 
‘of his widow. | ii 
Dr. Coarves Hay has in the pres 
a treatife, entitled, the Effects of Cividn 
zation on the People in European States.- 
The Political State of the Britifh Rms 
pire, Containing a general View ‘of the 
Poffeffions of the Crown, the Laws, Corr 
merce, Revenues, Offices, and other Eftae 
bliiiments, Military and Civil, will be 
pubiithed this {pring by Mr. ADOLPHY's. 
The admirers of planting will {peedily 
be gratified by a new work, under the 
title of, the Foret Pruner; or, a Treas 
tife on the Improvernent of Britith Tim- 
ber Trees in general. 
Sir James STEWaRr is about to pre. 
fent to the Public a complete edition of 
his father’s Principles of ‘Political Eee. 
nomy and other works, with an Account 
Mr. MuncGo Park, the gentleman 
who has attained to a high degree of cele- 
brity for his Travels into the Interior of 
Africa, has jut left Pert{meuth, on ano- 
ther journey of dilcovery to that quarter 
ef the globe. The object of ‘his prefent 
voyage is to eftablith, if poffible, comers 
cial connections between fome of the prin- 
cipal African tewns and this country. 
His ecourfe will ‘ve towards the fouttera 
part of the Continent. He failed in the 
Eugenia, Capt. Webb. 
Mr. LaTHAamM has announced a work 
to be publifhed by fubfcription, centaia- 
ing a Compendium of the Hiltory, Laws, 
Culftoms, and Privileges of the City ef 
London, in two volumes 8vo. 
The firft volume of Mr. Jones’s Hit 
tory Of Brecknock is in the prefs, -and the 
fecond is in great forwardnels, Two 
volumes, royal quarto, will complete the 
work. ; Vie 
The Rev. S. Parker, of Lewes, ih 
tends to publifh, by fub{cription, the Old 
Teitainent illuftrated; being Explicatiors 
of remarkable Fa€ts and Paffages in the 
Jewifh Scriptures, which have been ob- 
jected to by Unbelievers; in a deries of 
lectures to young perfons, 
A Col- 
