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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*«* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
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R. Carr, who has already favour- 
ed the world with his Stranger in 
France, and with his Travels round the 
Baltic, has lately made the Tour of Ircland, 
and is now preparing an Account of that 
almolt unknown country, which he intends 
to publifh under the title of THE STRAN- 
GER IN [RELanD. ‘The work will make 
one elegant volume quarto, fimilar to rhe 
Northern Summer, ard will te embellifhed 
with a variety of engravings by Mep- 
LAND from drawings by Mr. Carr. 
Miss OWENSON, a native and refident 
of the North of Ireland, and authorefs of 
the Novel of the Novice of St. Dominic, 
is engaged on another work relative to the 
Dometic State of the Yeomanry and Pea- | 
fantry of Ireland, a fubjeét which the in- 
tends to illuftrate in a Paftoral Tale, to be - 
called the Wild Irifh Girl. 
Mr. Haytey with that aétive philan- 
thropy which marks every action of his 
life, has addrefled the following circular 
letter to the perfons who have honoured 
the intention of raifing a public monument 
to Cowper by entering their names on the 
lift of Subfcribers : 
_ “ Gratitude and integrity feem to require 
from me, at this time, an addrefs to the fa- 
vourers of a plan, which I propofed to the 
public, as a tribute due to a departed objeé& of 
national efteem and afte€tion. To publifha 
Milton in three quarto volumes (including all 
the Manufcripts of Cowper relating to Mil- 
ton, at the price of fix guineas, was a propofal, 
that, with extenfive encouragement, might 
have gratified the wifhes of Cowper’s ardent _ 
admirers, and, in rendering a fignal and juft 
honour to him, might alfo have honoured the 
tafte of an enlightened and a liberal nation. 
‘< Though the fignature of feveral moft 
refpetable names feemed to afford an honor- 
able fanction to my firft idea of a public Mo. 
nument for my literary friend, yet I am now 
difpofed to relinquith that idea; and I zea- 
Joufly folicit, not only thofe who have be- 
friended it, but the public at large to 
€0-operate with me in anew, and different, 
mark of regard to the memory of the poet, 
ona plan, which I haften to explain, and to 
recommend to their favour. 
** Since the publication of my firft propo- 
fal, a favourite godfom and namefake of Cow- 
per has had the misfortune to become an or- 
phan at an early age. It has occurred to mey 
that I may improve the tribute of genera! re- 
fpect to the memory of the pget, by convert. 
ing his manufcripts, relating to Milton, not 
into marble, but into a little fund, to aflife 
the education and future eftablithment of this 
interefting orphan, I am confident that no 
tribute of refpect to Cowper’s memory could 
be more truly acceptable to his pure and be- 
neficent mind than what I now propofe; and I 
feel a pleafure in believing, that I may gratify 
many of his admirers by affording them an 
Opportunity of purchafing the poftumous poc= 
try of my friend, and of indulging, at the 
fame time, their feelings of tendernefs and be- 
nevolence towards an orphan particularly en- 
deared to the departed poet. 
** It is-cherefore my prefent intention ta 
print, not a Milton in three volumes, but the 
Latin and Italian poems of Milton traaflated 
by Cowper (with. all that remains of his pro- 
jected Differtations on Paradife Loft) in one 
handfome quarto, at the price of two guineas. 
‘* | cherifh a fanguine hope, that the libe- 
rality of the public, and a general with to tes= 
tify affectionate refpect to Cowper’s memory, 
in a manner, that will appear, I truft, 
peculiarly fuited to the tendernefs, and the 
beneficence of his charaéter, may render fuch 
a fubfcription as I have now propofed, in fome 
degree adequate to the defirable objet in view. 
*¢ To thofe, who have honoured me with 
their names for higher fums on my former 
plan, itis my duty to fay, that the perfons 
who have paid their money to the refpective 
bookfellers mestioned in the firft propofal, 
are at liberty to refume the whole, or what 
portion of it they think proper. 
‘¢ If, on the contrary, they generoufly dee 
vote the whole fum (fubfcribed towards a 
Monument for Cowper) to the orphan god- 
child of the poet, I think it right to affure 
them, that, whatever may be raifed by the 
prefent application to their liberality, will be 
vefted in two truftees, SamurL SMITH, and — 
Joun SarGENT, efquires, members of par-_ 
liament, for the benefit of the Orphan, whom 
I have mentioned. 
Feb. 4. 1806. ; 
Felpham, near Chichefter. W. HAYLEY, 
** Cowper’s tranflations from the Latin and 
Italian poems of Milton are already tranfcrib- 
ed for the prefs, from the copy thas includes 
his lateft corrections. 
«¢ All perfons inclined to befriend the pub- 
lication here recommended to their favour, for 
the benefit of the poet’s orphan Godchild, are 
refoeCtfully requefted to pay their intended 
contributions to Mr. Jounsow of St. Paul’s 
Church-Yard, or to Mr. Evaws, Pall-Mall. 
‘« Thofe, who have made their refpective 
payments, in confequence of a different pra- 
a 2 pofal, 
