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1807,] 
Madrigals of Thomas Morley, Mus. Bac. 
Oxon. 1588. The work to contain in 
one volume twenty canzonets, for three 
Voices, and twenty madrigals for four 
voices, carefully arranged from feveral 
mianuf{cript copies of eftablifhed authority. 
A coneile account of Morley’s life wall 
be prefixed to the work. 
Mason Generat Grant, Vifcount 
De Vaux, has announced the Difcovery 
of the Longitude, founded on the laws 
of gravitation, on mathematics, and 
altronomy. dis means are a new ma- 
thematical inftrument, which will fhew 
the thip’s rate of failing exactly and con- 
tinually, inftead of half a minute, as by 
the prefent precarious log. Other inftru- 
ments and means, conneéted with the 
firit, which will fhew and keep a con- 
jiant account—1ft. of the rate of the 
ihip: 2dly, of her latitude: Sdly, of every 
degree, minute, and fecond of longitude, 
in direct or oblique failing. 
Mr. Tretwatt intends to commence 
a Courfe of popular Le¢tures, on Mon- 
day, the 6th of April, at his Inftitution 
for the Cultivation of Englifh Elocution, 
No. 40, Bedford-place, Ruffell-fquare, 
Bloomfbury, on the dramatic genius and 
principal characters of Shakefpeare, and 
on the merits and defects of the refpec- 
tive performers, who, during the laft 
thirty years have attempted to fupport 
thofe characters. The courfe will em- 
brace an ample difquifition of the laws 
and principles of the dramatic art, both 
as relating to poetical compotition and 
theatrical reprefentation ; and will be 
illuftrated by recitations of the moft 
celebrated fpeeches and foliloquies, and 
particular criticifins on Garrick, Reddith, 
Henderfon, Smith, Cooke, Kemble, Mun- 
den, Ellifton, Matter Betty, Mrs. Yates, Mrs. 
Siddons, Mifs Smith, Mrs. Jordan, &c. 
Dr. Rerp will commence his Summer 
Courfe of Leétures on the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine, on Wednefiay, 
the 6th of May. 
The fammer courfe of Dr. Bapuam’s 
Lectures on the Practice of Phyfic, Che- 
miftry, and Materia Medica, will be 
commenced on Monday, the 4th of May. 
Mr. D. Warker invites the friends 
of agriculture, &c. to infpect a new 
Thrething-Machine, which he has juft 
erected at Stevenfon’s Manufactory, War- 
dour-firect, Soho, which is both cheap 
and effectual. 
Dr. Cuartrs Foruercitn is now 
engaged in preparing a work for the 
prefs, which can fcarcely fail to excite 
very general intereft, 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
With a view of 
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clearing up fome doubtful points in the 
Zoology of Great Britain, he laft {pring 
-made a voyage to all the: northern ifles, 
comprehending “the Oreades, Shetland, 
Fair Ile, and Fulda, and remained ainonett 
them during the greateft part of the year 
employed in the inveftigation of their 
natural hiftory, antiquities, ftate of their 
agriculture ‘and fifheries, political ini- 
portance, manners, cuftoms, condition, 
palt and prefent tlate, ec, &c.;—a general 
and particular account of which, will 
fhortly be given to the public, accom- 
panied by maps and numerous engray- 
ILS 5 containing the fulleft and com- 
pleteft defeription that has yet been 
publithed of thofe remote and hitherto 
nevlected regions. 
Str Grorcr Sraunton, fon of the 
fecretary who accompanied Lord Ma- 
cartney to China, refides alternately at 
Canton and Macao. He has trantlated 
into the Chinefe language a work on 
Vaccination. 
It is propofed to pablith by fubferip- 
tion a print from a beautiful cabinct- 
picture of the Procetlion of Chaucer’s 
Pilgrims to Canterbury, painted by Mr. 
Storuarp, and to be engraved in line 
manner by Mr. Wiitram Bromtey. 
We have much fatisfa¢tion in being 
able to ftate that, that able artift, Mr. 
Bewick, of Newcattle-upon-T'yne, who 
has fo highly gratified the public by his 
Graphic Delineations of the animated 
World, is at this time engaged on a feries 
of engravings of Britifh Vegetables ufe- 
ful in diet, medioine, and the arts. The 
letter prefs of the work to be w ritten by 
that induftrious and zealous botanift Dr. 
R. J. Tuornron. Two editions will ap- 
pear in royal and demy octavo, cor- 
refponding with the Quadrupeds, Birds, 
and Fithes, of Mr. Bewick ; and the 
typography will be executed in the bett 
ftyle, by one of the new Stanhope 
preties. . | 
Mr. Burnet, who has gratified the 
public with the Account of the Prefent 
State of Poland, which has enriched fe- 
veral late numbers of the Monthly Ma- 
vazine, has nearly completed a feries of 
fpecimens of Huaglifh Profe Writers from 
the earheft times, to the clofe of the 
feventeenth century, interfperfed with 
{ketches biographical, literary, and cri- 
tical. 
The publifher of Dr. Grecory’s new 
Cyclopedia, and of Marswaxr’s Life of 
Wathington, announces an advance of 
price in the parts and volumes of thofe 
works after the 1ft of May; warranted 
2 by 
