1807.] 
A volume of Poems, from the pen of 
Lord Byron, who is not yet of age, may 
shortly be expected, 
The Rev. Mr. Corzryson has in the 
press, a Life of the Historian Thuanus, 
which will be comprised in one volume, 
octavo, From the distinguished rank 
which Thuanus held among the literary 
men of his age, this work promises to 
prove highly interesting 
Mr. Cozerrpce has, i in the press, two 
new volumes of Poems, which will 
speedily be published. 
he second volume of Jonxs’s History , 
of Brecon is nearly completed, and ready 
to goto press. 
Miss Bowser has in the press, and 
nearly ready for publication, a ‘Collection 
of Miscellaneous Poems. 
The fifthand last volume of Dr. Lerex- 
ron’s Works isin considerable forward- 
ness, aud will shortly make its appear- 
ance. 
Dr. Mitzer, Lecturer on Chemistry, 
at Edinburgh, has undertaken to prepare 
for the press, a new edition, in two 
volumes octavo, of cil eaves) Mineral 
Kingdom. He proposes carefully to 
revise the original, to expunge ail extra- 
neous matter, to correct and polish the 
style, and to add the valuable discoveries 
that have been made in the science of 
mineralogy, since the public cation of that 
Work. Dr. Miller has made an actual 
survey of the principal mines of the 
kingdom, 
qualified’ to execute this undertaking i ina 
scientific manner. 
Mr. Carp, Author of the History of 
the Revolutions in Russia, 
press a Life of Charlemagne, which will 
make one volume in octavo, 
The Rev. Joun O.piswortn, of 
Swansea, intends to publish by subscrip- 
tion, a new edition of Nicholls’s Para- 
/ phrase on the Common Prayer and 
Psalms of David, with some alterations, 
and observations, taken 
eminent authors, 
The Rev. J. H. Branssy, of. Dudley, 
is preparing for the press, (to be pub- 
lished by subscription,) two volumes of 
Serious Practical Sermons for the Use of 
Unitarian Christians, particularly those 
of them who are the heads of families. 
Mr. Wittram TurnsBubt, author 
of the Naval Surgeon, announces a System 
of British-and Bitch Surgery, medical 
and oper ative; contaiming the most 
modern improvements 1 “the scienee, 
arranged on clinical ‘principles; and 
uniting anatomical information, so far ag 
from various 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
_hund 
and may be supposed well a 
has in the: 
$34 
is necessary for the two subjects of An- 
atomy and Surgery to illustrate each 
other, The whole enriched with plates 
and original delineations, and to form 
three octavo volumes. 2 
A new edition of Hetverivus’s Essays, 
accompanied with a Portrait, and a Life 
of the Author, wall be published i in a few 
days. 
The English Fire Insurance Compa- 
nies calculate on an alarm of fire every 
day, and about eight serious fires im every 
quarter of a heey From Nhohtchtay, 
1805, to Michaelmas, 1806, the different 
Tire-Offices in London experienced 
three hundred and six alarms of fire, 
attended with little damage, thirty-one 
serious fires, and one hundred and fifty= 
five alarms, occasioned by chimneys 
being on fre, amounting in all to four 
lred and ninety-two ‘accidents. 
The Watch-trade has been doubled in 
Europe within the last filty years. If 
increases with the progress of civilization, 
which renders the instrument which 
shews and divides time, nearly as valuae 
ble as time itseif.. One of the French 
Commercial Agents in the Levant has 
recently given the following particulars 
of the sale of English watches in Turkey, 
before the late disputes between, the two 
countries. England used, to sell annually, 
thirty dozen watches at Salonica, -as 
many in the Morea,,three hundred dozen 
is Constantinople, four hundred dozen 
Smyrna, one hundred and fifty dozen 
in Syria, and two hundred and firty 
dozen in Egypt.. Nineteen out of twenty 
were silver watches; the gold ones not 
being so easily sold. The average 
amount of the whole English watch-trade 
in Turkey was valued at 110,000l. ster- 
ling annually. 
A public exhibition took place, on the 
19th of June, of che house-pupils, at Mr. 
eae s Institution for the Cure of 
icecnnene of Speech, in Bedford-place, 
Russell-square. The Recitations occu- 
pied nearly three hours, and consisted 
of the Passions, Alexander’s Feast, an 
Ode to. Peace, John Gil; pin, Pitt’s Reply 
to Walpole, an Oratorical Defence of che 
ancient animated System of Elocution, 
the Eutogies of Epaminondas and Alfr ed, 
and part of a Funeral Oration on Lord 
Nelson ; all of which excited considerable 
interest and sympathy ; aad except in the 
individual instance of the gentleman first 
referred to, scarcely any occasion ape 
peared for the particular indulgence that 
had been claimed. The Odes were re- 
cited in parts and stanzas, distrinuted 
among 
