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demy; containing his Discourses at the 
Royal’ Academy; his Observations on 
different Works of Art in Italy and 
France; his Letter to the Dilletanti So- 
ciety ; and his Cotr espondence ; 1s in the 
press. | 
Dr. CrarKe’s expected Thavels through 
Russia, the Territories of the Don Cos- 
sacks, Kuban Tartary, the Crimea, &c. 
&c. will be published without further 
delay. 
The Second Volume uP Caledonia ; or, 
an Historical and Topographical Account 
ef North Britain, from the most ancient 
to the present times; with a Dictionary 
of Places, chorographical and philologi- 
cal, by Gronct Cratwers, F.R.S, and 
S.A. is in forwardness.- 
A complete Collection of Voyaces 
and Travers, from Columbus to the 
present time, will he published In twen- 
ty-eight volumes. - 
Mr. Bexruam has two works in the 
press, one under the title of Elements of 
the Art of Packing, as applied to Juries ; 
and the other under the title of Perils of 
the Press. 
The Royai College of Physicians have 
given a recent instance of hberality, not 
less creditable to themselves than honour- 
able to the object, by electing Dr. Adams, 
the. author of a w ell-known treatise on 
ao Morbid Poisons,” with no ether acade- 
mic form than the customary examina- 
tion. 
Mr. Cyrus Nevpine. has a volume of 
Poenis in the press, which will make their 
appearance early this month, in a fools- 
Cap octavo size. 
A History of Plymouth, by a Society 
of Gentlemen of that town, is in a state 
of Jorwardness, and will be published in 
a few months. The origin and progress 
of the town, tozether with the siege in 
the reign of Charles 1. will be minutely 
detailed. 
Mr, Wrirramson’s Treatise, entitled 
A Companion and Guide to the Laws of 
England, will be ready for publication 
next month. - 
Mr. DouGtas, author of the Art of 
Drawing in Perspective upon Mathema- 
tical] Principles, and of a collection of 
Mathematical Tables, by which an angle 
is abtained to degrees, ‘minutes » Seconds, — 
and thirds, by a more easy ¢ and accurate — 
method than by any other tables, is now 
preparing An Enquiry into the present 
State of the Elements of Mathematics, 
or Euclid’s Elements ; in which the in- 
accuracies, and in Many, Instances. the 
absurdities, introd uced into them by seme 
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| Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
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modern writers, are clearly pointed out, 
and confated, upon mathematical prenci 
ples. 
A new edition of Rowv’s Doctrine 
of Fluxions, is in the press. 
A second edition of Mr. Davis’s Key 
to Bonnycastle’s Algebra, corrected to 
the last edition; and a fith of the same 
gentleman's treatise on Land Surveying, 
are also in the press. 
Mr. J. Witsen, surgeon, late of Guy’e_ 
Hospital, will speedily publish Pharma- 
“copeia Chirurgia, or Formule of the 
‘different fospitals. 
The Rev. James WitMor Ormspy, 
chaplain of the staff of the army, will 
shortly publish, in two octavo volumes, 
an Account of the Operations of the 
British army in Spain and Portugal, and 
of the State and Sentiments of the [n.- 
habitants during the campaigns of 1808-9, 
in a series of letters. 
- In a’short time will be published, in 
one volume, small folio, Cromwelliena, 
or Anecdotes from Authentic Docu- 
ments, illustrative of the character of 
Oliver Cromwell and his Family. . 
The Posthumous Works of the late 
Rev. Joun Skinner, of Longside, Aber- 
deenshire. will shortly be published .in 
two octavo volumes. A third, contain- 
ing a collection of the author's poetry, 
will also speedily appear. 
Translations of the Voyage of. Dis- ° 
covery-to the South, Seas, by order of 
Bonaparte—of the Journey to Pekin, of 
M. de Guignes, French Resident in China . 
—and of the Travels in Turkey and. 
Persia, by M. de Gardanne, brother of _ 
the French ambassador in the latter © 
country, are in the press. 
A Vindication of the Cainpulon of the 
British Army in Spain, commanded by 
Lieutenant-general Sir John Moore, by 
his brother, James Moore,’ Esq. i 4s ex- 
“pected to appear next month. 
Mr. Tuomas Vaucnay has in the 
press a third volume of the work entitled 
Fashionable Follies, published by him-in— 
1781: dg) 
Mr. Rocue, of Sudbury, has nearly 
ready) for the press, a novel, in two vo- 
lumes, entitled Alfred, or oe Victim of 
Pertidy._ 
age: he Assassin of Glenroy, or the Axis ; 
. ife, a novel, by the. author of Sir 
Seca Glendour, and other tales, will 
speedily make its appearance. 
The Pulpit, or a Biographical and 
Literary Account of eminent. ‘popular’ 
Preachers. for sie will appear in atew 
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