~ 1805.) 
country, and to point out,the advantages 
which would refult from a population of 
emigrant Scotch Highlanders. 
Mr. Hay ey has in the prefs an ele- 
gant volume of Original Ballads, found- 
ed chiefly on anecdotes relating to ani- 
mals. 
A curtots {mall volume will appear in 
the 'courfe of the enfuing month, printed 
froma MS. written by the late Dr. Sa- 
MUEL JOHNSON, and containing an ac- 
count of his early years, and firft recollec- 
tions in infancy. It is the fragment of a 
larger work, and was preferved from the 
flames by BarBer, the Doétor’s black 
fervant. The original has lately been 
depofited in the Mufeum of Mr.WriGcurt, 
of Litchfield. 
Mr. Younc, furgeon, of North Aud- 
ley-firees, will publifh, early in May, an 
important work on the fubjeét of Cancer, 
intitled Sanafchirrologia ; containing an 
Analytical Inquiry into the Nature and 
Action of Schirrus, in order to eftablith a 
regular mode of curing that difeafe in its 
various ftages, by means of natural {epa- 
ration. ; 
Mr. PeTERKIN, the eminent Matter of 
Cromwell Houfe Academy, at Hunting- 
don, has juft finifhed a Paraphrafe, in, 
meafured blank verfe, on the Prophecies 
of Ifaiah. He propofes to publith it by 
‘ fub{cription in the courfe of the enfuing 
month. 
Dr. MiLuar, of Doncafter, announces 
a Hiftory of that place, and of the adjacent 
towns and villages, including Pontefraé, 
Barnfley, Rotherham, Blyth, Bawtry, 
Thorne, &c. with anecdotes of eminent 
perfons. The names of fubfcribers are 
received by W. Sheardown, of Doncafter, 
and by Mr. Miller, of Albemarle-ftreet. 
A. new edition of Bruce’s Travels, in 
feven volumes oétavo, wili fhortly make 
ifs appearance. 
A, complete work on Pra&tical Perfpec- 
tive is nearly ready for publication. 
Mr. F. Nasu will foon have ready for 
publication, from drawings by himéelf, 
a Series of Views, interior and exterior, 
of the Collegiate Chapel of St. George, 
at Wind{or, with illuftrative Plates, ex- 
planatory of its Architefure and Ovna- 
ments, and accompanied by a concile 
Account, hiftorical and def{criptive. 
Mr. ARROWSMITH, all of whofe ad- 
mirable publications entitle him to the 
gratitude of his country, has jutt publifh- 
ed a beautiful Map of the principal Tri- 
angles of the Geodetical Operations in 
Portugal in 1803. Thefe important 
Montreux Mac, No. 127. 
‘Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 
261 
operations have been interrupted in Portu- 
gal by the war, but it is expected that 
they will be renewed and completed. » 
Mr. SreeHenson, of Horncattle, is 
about to publifh a work elucidating the 
Syftem now purfued by Surveyors in old 
aud new Inclofures, and by Commiffioners 
and Surveyors in new Inclofures. 
Two volumes of Difcourfes, by ,the 
late Rev. T. Kenrick, are preparing 
for the prefs, and will be publifhed as 
foon as poffible, at the requeft of his con- 
gregation. ‘They have been feleéted from 
the author’s manufcripts, with the affit- 
ance of his late colleague in the conduct of 
the academical inftitution in Exeter. 
Major RaINsrorp has in the prefs 2 
work, with plates, relative to the Ifland 
of St. Domingo, of which the public has 
formed confiderable expectations, in con- 
fequence of his peculiar acquaintance 
with the fubjeét, and the confirmation of 
his predigtions relative to that unhappy 
country. 
An Analyfis of Horfemanthip, dedi- 
cated to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of 
York, will very foon be prefented to the 
public, in three volumes o¢tavo, with 
many plates, by Mr. Joun ADaAms, 
whofe practical knowledge of the fubject 
is well known to moft of the firft charac- 
ters of the kingdom. 
‘Two Unitarian Sermons on the Lord’s 
Supper are in the prefs of J. BLack, 
Yarmouth, and will be publifhed in the 
courfe of the enfuing month. | 
A Colleétion of Original Anecdotes of 
Frederick the Great, his Family, his 
Court, his Minifters, his Academies, and 
his Literary Friends, the Refult of Twen- 
ty Years familiar Intercourfe with that 
Prince, from the pen of M. THieBaULT, 
will be fhortly publifhed in Englifh. The 
plan of the work will be fimilar to Bof- 
well’s admirable Life of Johnion. 
The talents of that ingenious fportings 
engraver, Mr. JOHN ScorrT, are now 
bulily exercifed in the execution of two 
fplendid fubjeéts on hunting; namely, 
the Fox breaking Cover, and the Death 
of the Fox. The fame diftinguifhed arti 
is likewile retained upon a continuation 
of the Sportfman’s Cabinet, under the 
title of Delineation of Animals of the 
Chace, from Paintings by P. REINAGLE, 
AIR.A. 
The Royal Society have adjudged 
Coant Rumford’s medal for difcoveries 
refpe&ting heat to Mr. Jonn Lustig, au- 
thor of an Inquiry into the Nature and 
Propagation cf Heat, 
Ll A. machine 
