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muscript of M. de Luc, by the Rev. 
Henry Deta Fite, M.A. of Trinity 
college, Oxford, and will form an octavo 
volume. 
The coloured Engravings, in imitation 
of the drawings by the Rev. W: Brap- 
Forb, of the Costume, Character, and 
Country in Spain and Portugal, made 
during the campaign, 1808 and 1809, are 
in great forwardness. 
Mr. Gatt, who has for some time 
been engaged in researches among the 
mational records, is preparing a work, 
illustrative of the Life of Cardinal Wol- 
sey, and those corruptions in the church 
which led to the Reformation, and the 
general change which at that period took 
place in the political system of Europe. 
Mr. Grete, of Chelsea, has announced 
a work on Astronomy, on a new plan, 
whereby that science is rendered simple 
and easy. The chief Constellations are 
to be exhibited (in a manner similar to 
geography) on separate maps, with their 
etymology, boundary, the ‘stars to the 
4th mag. introduced; and the declina- 
tion, right ascension, culminating, &c. of 
the principal star in ‘each specified, with 
remarks, &c. 
Mr. THELWALL is preparing for-pub- 
fication, an Essay on the Causes and 
Probable Consequences of the Decline 
of Popular Talent; addressed to the 
serious consideration of those classes of 
the community, the individuals of which 
may be expected to aspire to the dis- 
tinctions of the senate and the bar, &c. 
‘The work will contain a full discussion 
‘of the principal desiderata, in the existing 
systems of liberal edueation, and critical 
delineations of the characters, talents, 
eloguence, and oratorical endowments 
of Messrs. Burke, Pitt, Fox, &c. 
Mr. THEetwatt has also in the press, 
a formal announcement (intended to be 
circulated through all the colleges, pub- 
lic institutions, and literary societies of 
the United Kingdom) of the Plan of his 
Institution for the Cure of Impediments, 
Cultivation of Oratory, and Preparation 
of Youth, for the higher departments of 
active life; together with proposals for 
the further extension of the advantages 
of his system of instruction. This insti- 
tution has now been established in Bed- 
ford Place, Russell Square, for upwards 
of three years; and during that time, it is 
asserted, that no person with any species 
of impediment, defect, or foreign or pro- 
~vincial accent, has been under instruc- 
tion, even for the shortest period, with- 
eut reeeiving essential benefit; nor has 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[May 1, 
any one persevered for any reasonable 
time, in the plans of the institution, 
without attaining an effectual and ra- 
dical cure. 
Dr. Rerp will commence a summer 
course of Lectures, on the theory and 
practice of medicine, at his house, No. 6, 
Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, on 
Monday the 22d of May, at nine o'clock 
in the morning. 
Dr. Crovex, physician-manmid- 
wife to the St. Marylebone General 
Dispensary, &c. will on Monday the 8th 
of May, at ten in the morning, commence 
his Course of Lectures on Puerperal 
Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, at 
his house, No. 68, Berner’s-street. 
The Rev. Joseps WILKINSON, is 
about to publish by subscription, Select 
Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, 
and part of Scotland, exhibiting the most 
picturesque situations in these counties. 
Dr. Serwy is about to publish a Trea- 
tise on local inflammation, more parti- 
cularly applicable to diseases of the eye, 
wherein an improvement in the treat- 
ment of those diseases is recommended, 
founded on numerous cases under the 
author’s own care. 
- Mr. Yortck Wrtson, ‘veterinary sur- 
geon of Lemington, near Warwick, has 
in the press an improved Practical Trea- 
tise on Farriery, entitled, the Gentle- 
man’s Veterinary Monitor. It is the re- 
sult of his own experience in the various 
diseases of horses, and prescribes hu- 
mane and rational methods of cure, with- 
out the assistance of a farrier. It like- 
wise treats on breeding, training, pur- 
chasing, riding, management on a jour- 
ney, in the stable, &c. 
Mr. Weston has translated one -he 
Imperial Poems of Kien Lung, mentioned 
by Voltaire, in his Epistle to that Em- 
peror, and found on a China Vase, in 
Mr. W’s Collection. An engraving of 
the Vase will be prefixed to the work. 
The Fifty-two Lectures on the Church 
Catechism, by the Rev. Sir Apam Gor- 
pon, will be published this month in twa 
volumes. . 
Mr. SHELDRAKE has invented an ar- 
ticle of female dress, which he cails the 
Tnvisible Grecian Zone, for preserving 
the shapes of children or young persons 
who. are approaching to maturity. 
Dr. Carey, has in the press, and will 
speedily publish an Essay, and familiar 
introduction to English Prosody and Ver- 
sification, on a novel but simple plan; 
besides descriptions and analyses of the 
different species of English verse, with 
preparatory 
