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VARIETIES, Literary AND Patrosornicat, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand; Domefié ye Foreign. | 
©,.* Authentic Communications for this Article will altvays be thankfully received. 
Fune 21; 1805. 
ILLIAM GODWIN, author of 
the Life of Geoffroy Chaucer, 
the firft Englith poet, and of - other 
works, wifes to give this public ro- 
tice, that he has undertaken to compile 
a work, to be intitled The History 
OF ENGLiaND, from the carlief: Records 
of Events th this Iflind to the Rewo- 
Jution ik 1688, to be writtén’ on a 
{eale not fmaller than that of the \Hiftory 
of England, during the fame pebiod, | by 
Hume. He therefore invites all perfons 
Who thay poflefs rare books, manuitripts, 
or documents of any kind, calculated to 
illuftrate the anuals of this country, to fa. 
vour him with the infpection and ule of 
them. He pledges hitifelf to a juit and 
punétual conduct refpegting the articles 
which may be intrufted-to him, and will 
thankfully acknowledge the facilities 
which may be afforded to his purfit.— 
He would not have undertaken ftich a 
work, were he not animated with the ar. 
dent hope, by fludy. and @iligence, to 
throw new Jight upon our annals; and it 
will be the firft obje& of his vigilance to 
diveft himfelf of fuch partialities and pre- 
- poflefons as might lead him in aay de- 
grée to diftort or mifreprefent any tranfac- 
tion of character of which he fhall kave 
octafion to treat. Communications may 
be addreffed to the care of Mr. Rréuarpd 
Puiriips, No. 6, Bridge-ftreet, Black- 
friars, London. 
eer a 
The lat month his béen rendered re- 
mirkable by tle commencement af no lefs 
than THREE grand Inilitations in the Briz 
tifh Metropolis ; two applicable to the 
peipoks of géneral knowledge, and one 
devoted folely to the fine-arts. 
The First to be catied Tar Loxpon 
INSTITUTION, comprifes three driltinét 
objetis:r—-1, A brary, to contain every 
work ‘of intrinic valye.——2. Reading- 
rooms for the daily papers, periodical 
publications, interetting Pd are and 
foreign journals.—3. A lecture-roomy, 
with apparatus and conveniences for va~ 
rious courfes of lectures and ‘experic. 
ments. The fubferiptions are very li. 
beral, and already amount to above fixty 
thoufand pounds. It has been Boe 
to 2pply to his Majeity for a charter, 
and a committee of .tweaty-one perlons 
has been: appointed” to prepare and digelt 
a. plan.of the eftablithment. 
The Seconp, called THe Generar 
InstiTurion, and poe to have its 
meeting in the centre ef the town, bes 
tween the Royal Inftitution in the weft, 
and the London Infitution in the eee. 
is intended to comprize a library of ge- 
neral reference, anda reading-rooin for 
the foreign and domeftic journals, new!- 
papers, éc. &c. 
The Tuirp, for. which allo a very, 
large fum has been fubferibed, is ir, 
tended folely to promote the ftudy of the | 
fine-arts; and for this putpofe a gallery 
is to be built, and pictures bought for 
its decoration. _ 
The adoption of thefe f{pirited plans is 
horourable to the metropolis, and we have 
no doubt but they will be carried into ex- 
ecution with a degree of fpirit worthy of 
the national character, and the enlightened 
period which has given them birth. Fo. 
reigners fhould view thele inftitutions, not 
as the glittering appendages of delpotifm, 
calculated to hide political deformity, as 
In France, but as the voluntary atts of 4 
free people, who value feience for its own 
fake, and who contribute to its prom ration 
not from motives of oftentation, but ibe 
their own, peronal fatista@tion aad im- 
provement. 
The fecond volume cf the Eorsa Ure- 
eosvla, by J. H. Tooke, Elq. is gone to 
prefs. It will make its appearance early, 
in the next winter. 
_ Rorzespue has favoured the world 
with an, Account of bis Travels in Italy 
during the latter part of the Jaft year and 
the beginning of the prefent. The work 
has had a prodigious run in Germany, as 
indeed have ali the works of thjs populas 
wiiter. A Tranflation will appear ia 
London 
