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ly ready for publication, Family Sermons 
for every Sunday in the Year, selected 
from Archhishop Secker’s Works. 
' Another volume on Capital Punish- 
ments, 1n addition to ove already pub- 
lished, is in the press, and is expected to 
appear before winter; to this, by way of 
Appendix, will be added Extracts on 
Prisons, Wc. from the following works: Li- 
ancourt’s Travels in America; Isaac 
Weld’s Travels through North America; 
Lowrie’s Acceunt of the Penai. Laws of 
Pennsylvania; and Turnbuil’s Visit to the 
Puiladelvhia Prisons. 
Mr. Wesratx’s Illustrations of the 
Lady of the Lake, will be published in a 
few weeks; the Drawings will be submit- 
ted te the inspection of the public at the 
Same Lime. : 
Our correspondent Common Sense, 
suggests the following as a plan for re- 
moving the pecubi lary and commercial 
difficulties of the country: 
4, Let no country banker be. allowed to 
Issue currency, except on security. 
2. Let no inland bill or note be created, 
except under certain restrictions. 
3, Let the Bank of England pay its notes 
in gold, or silver, on démand. 
4, Let Bank discount be made on good bills,’ 
to every one asking for it, with reference to 
the validity of the bills only, and not to the 
name of the holder, 
5. Let the Bank Diréctors be independent 
persons, who do not themselves require dis- 
«cunt. 
6. Let a Parliamentary Board of Controul, 
superintend and check the issues and manage- 
ment of the Bank. 
7. Let the private fortunes of the Direc- 
tors and Bank Proprietors, be answerabie for 
the issues of bank-notes, or Jet them possess 
the guarantee of Parliament. 
In the course of the month the second 
edition of Mr. Jouwr’s translation of 
Monstreletv’s Chromcle, will appear, in 
bale volumes, octavo. 
Mr. Soutaey’s poem of Kehama, is 
nearly finished at press; it is printing 
by the Ballantynes, of Fil nbargi, 
The author of Wallace, has a volume 
of Poems nearly ready fer publication. 
"The Prostestant ‘Dissenter’s Almanack, 
and Annual Register, for 1811, will be 
published with the otker almanacks, on 
Tuesday the 20th of November, 
M. BeptranD pe MoLeviLLEe is 
rintingin English an Abridgment of the 
ioe of England, in the manner of 
Henault, in three octavo volumes; and 
will afterwards publish a volume of Chro- 
nological Tabies, for the Use of Schools. 
a Missionary’ Account of Tonquin 
Luterary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
(Nov. 1, 
and Cochin-china, will shortly be pubs 
lished, 
in French, under the super- 
iutendance of a French gentleman of 
acknowledged abilities, 
The Modern Theatre; or a Collection 
of Modern Plays acted at the Theatres 
Royal, London, in 10 vols. royal 18mo0. 
is expected to appear early in Novem- 
ber. The work is edited by Mrs. Incu- 
BALD, and will correspond with her Bri- 
tish Theatre, and Collection of Farces. 
Mr. Woopxouse, of Caius College, 
Cambridge, is about to publish a work 
on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the 
Calculus of Variations. 
A fifth quarto volume of Mr. Burke’s 
Worke is in the press, under the superin-. 
teridance of his executor, the Bismov- 
of RocuEsTER. 
Mr. A. Nespit, of Farnley, near Leeds, 
will shortly publish a complete Treatise 
on Land Surveying. 
The Rev. Cuarzes Lucas, of Ave- 
bury, Wilts, bas in the press a Poem, 
historical, patriarchal, and typical, in 
blank verse, under the title of Joseph. 
Miss E11za Rocers will speedily pub- 
lish the Lives of the Twelve Cxsars, pre~ 
ceded by a succinct Account of Rome at 
its first foundation, and immediately 
anterior to the birth of Julius Ceasar. 
This work, which will form four octavo 
volumes, will also contain an abstract of 
the lives of the forty-eight succeeding em- 
perors, and an epitome of the Romaa 
History to the time of Charlemagne. 
The Rev. Dr. Bett, the venerable 
and respected prebendary of Westmin- 
ster, has transferred the sum of 15,2001. 
three per cent. consols, to the University 
of Cambridge, for the purpose of found- 
ing eight new scholarsbips. 
“The fullowing simple remedy against 
the depredations of mice m corn-stacks, 
has lately been recommended for its un- 
doubted efficacy: Sprinkle from four to 
six bushels of dry white sand upon the 
ruoi of the stack before the thatch is put 
on. The sand is no detriment to the 
corn, and stacks thus dressed have re- 
maiued without injury. So very effec- 
tive is the remedy, that nests of dead 
young mice Have been found where the 
and has been used, but not a live mouse 
Doak be seen. cet 
A society which bas for its object the 
exhibition and sale of aoticles of British 
Mauufacture, aswell as the natural 
productions of the country, fas recently 
been formed, A house has been taken. 
for the purposes of this institatioa in 
Pall Malt, 
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