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We are informed of a Society lately in- 
flituted, under the name of the London 
Architectural Society, confiting of pro- 
felfional. gentlemen and amateurs, who 
have united together for the advancement 
of the art, and for mutual improvement, 
by et intercourfe. _ The ordinary 
members engage to furnifh, in rotation, 
defigns and eflays on fubje&s connected 
with civil architecture, which are to ba, 
read and examined at the, meetings of the 
_ Society, which are to be held once a fort- 
night during about eight months in the 
year. Thefe deligns and Effays are to re- 
main the property of the Society, who 
intend to publith annually afele@ion from 
the Effays—The formation of a library 
is alfo une. as their funds admit. 
The following gentlemen are the prefent 
members, and a confiderable accefion. of 
numbers ts excetied at the next general 
meeting, which is tobe held on Frida 
the 9th of May :—Edmund_ Aikin, at 
H. Aftpitel, Samuel. Beazley, Richa 
Billing, Benjamin Birkhead, John- Bac 
tou, Charles Butby, Teoaee Donaldfon, 
james Elmes, Vice-Preiident; Henry 
John Elmes, James Peaceck, ee Sa- 
vage, Wice-Prefident ; J. L.. Schroder, 
Treafurer; Jofhua Taylor, John Wal- 
len, Jofeph Wogds, Prefident. 
Tn a few days. will be puwblifhed an o¢ 
tavo eon entitled ** Naval sc lalhty 
or Ilufrations of the Britifh nautical 
Charaéter,’’. exhibiting the moft remark- 
able inflances on record of the courage, 
valeur, fortitude, and magnanimity dif 
p'ayed by the feamen of Britain in every 
quar e: of the world. 
The remaining copies of the elegant 
and elaborate work by ATHENIAN STU- 
Arg, on the © ArchiteXural Antiquities 
ef Greece,” were lately fold. by au&son 
for 800], to Mr. Tayuor, architc&ural 
boowk{elier, of Holborn. 
Dr, WeLcor has lately retired from 
London to Powey, in Commwall, where he 
has taken up bis ‘refidence with two furvive 
ing filters, n affection of the eyes ren- 
ders the exercile of his pen unpleaiant. to 
him, but the flights of his genius, vigor- 
ous and unigue as ever, are recerded 
by an »amai anen§ i$; and he continues a 
tT; 
lively co ‘relpondence with a few feet 
friends in (be metropalis. 
Are ef DUNCAN, editor of the popu- 
lar piublications the *¢ Mariners’ Chroni- 
cie”’ al <¢ Britith Trident,’” has jult com- 
ple ted a ‘Life of Lord Nelfon;? with ~ 
nomerous embdellifnments. 
Sir WiLLTaM Forres’s life of Dr. 
lithed ic a few days. 
Literary and Philefphical Intelligence 
[May 1, 
A portion of the ‘Provincial, Gloffary, — 
compiled by the late Mr. Boucher, and 
reviled by Sir Freep. EDEN, is expected 
to appear in a few weeks. 
Mifs HamMiLToN, well known in the 
literary world, by a treatife on education, 
and other works of much -celebrity, has. 
in the prefs a volume of letters, addreffed 
to the daughter of a nobleman, on topics 
the moft interefting and important. 
Mr. PLowDen will fhortly publifh the 
principles and law of tithing, adapted not 
only to the infiruétion of the profeffors of 
the law, but of all perfons interefted in 
tithes; and illu@rated by references to 
many recent tithe cafes. 
Mr. CREASER, furgeon, at Bath, has 
neatly ready for 
ports on the medic: 
vanifin 
The ip Fe. ANCIS Howe is about to 
al application of gal~ 
publifi a volume of poetical tranflations, 
‘and a Latin prize ellays) 3 lie 
A new cae of Bihhop WaATSON’S 
Defences of Chriftignity, is nearly ready. 
for publication. 
The Earl of SeLKirk is about to pub-. 
lifh a new and improved edition of his 
Obfervations on the prefent State of the 
Highiands, &c.; with a view of. the 
cauies and prebable confequences of emi- 
gration, 
- The Rev..T. BetsuHam has in the 
prefs a difcourfe delivered in the courfe of 
the lag month, before the Unitarian Sor 
ciety, at the chapel in Effex-fireet. The 
object. of this fociety, which has been 
eftablificd fifteen years, is the promulga- 
tion of Chriftianity, By the ditribution 
of books. Their catalogue includes many 
of the late Mr. Farmar s publications 5 
fome written by Dr. Price and Prieftley, 
with a great variety of others by authors 
of confiderable celebrity. 
Mr. Tuomas FisuHer, of the Eaft In- 
dia Houfe, intends publifhing, in the 
courfe of the Re month, an engrav- 
ing of a ** Second Roman Pavement,” 
Jatels y difcos “eb in the met ropelis. 
Meffis. BaayLey and HErBerT’s 
¢< Tiluiirations of the Interior of Lambeth 
Paluce,”” in a feries of twenty felet en- 
gravings, are now Bihan pore 
traits.and aims are admiigbly coloured, 
and all the ether fubjects are well caleu- 
lated to gratify the lovers of architeétu- 
ral-and biographical refearch, 
pendent **-Hifory of the Palace” will be 
publithed to accompany the “engravings, 
but as this formed no part of the original 
defign, the pu:chafe of it will ¢ entirely 
-Op" junal, 
Dr. 
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