A Miscellany of Odes and Songs, by CorNELIUS NEALE, late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Preparing for Publication: A Vindication of the English Versions of the Bible, more especially of the authorized translation, and the translators, &c. By the Rev. H. J. TODD. The Domestic Minister's Assistant; a Course of Morning and Evening Prayer, (for five weeks) for the Use of Families : With Prayers for particular occasions. A New Theory of the Heavens and Earth. By Mr. JOSEPH WILKINSON, of Manchester: To which will be added, a Supplement, in which will be expounded the law of God, commonly called Moses' laws; with several parts of the Old and New Testaments. A concise View of True and False Religion, pointing out the various substitutes for real religion, which satisfy many, the cause and cure of declensions, &c.; the whole proved from appropriate Scriptures, extracts from the works of celebrated authors, and the dying sayings of eminent Christians; with a list of the best books on experimental religion. By the Rev. G. G. SCRAGGS, A. M. The Institutes of National Theology, the Christian Religion, and Moral Philosophy; intended to exhibit a concentrated view of the works of the most celebrated writers, chiefly of the Church of England, upon those most important subjects. By the Rev. CORNELIUS GRIFFIN. Prince Maximilian's Travels in Brazil. An Account of the Arabic Regions. By Mr. SCORESBY. A Sketch of the History of France, from the Suspension to the Re-establishment of the Monarchy; with Biographical Memoirs of the Principal Agents and Victims of the Revolution. WILLIAMS's Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands, in a series of Let. ters descriptive of Manners, Scenery, and the Fine Arts. Elements of a Plan for the Liquidation of the Public Debt of the United King dom; being the Draught of a Declaration submitted to the attention of the landed, funded, and every other description of proprietory in the united kingdom. By RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Gent. An Abridginent of the most popular modern Voyages and Travels, illustrated with maps and numerous engravings, in 4 vols. By the Rev. T. CLARK. A Work on the Fossils of the South Downs, with Outlines of the Mineral Geography of the Environs of Lewes and Brighthelmston, by GIDEON MANTHELL, in 4to, with engravings. Mr. NASH's beautiful Drawings of Views in the City of Paris, and of the Scenery in its Environs. 1 All Greece admires the ardent and welldirected patriotism of the inhabitants of Chios. This charming place continues to enjoy perfect tranquillity, which may be attributed to the wise government of the Magistracy, which consists entirely of Greeks. The great College of Chios bas become so celebrated, that youths crowd thither from all parts of Greece. The first Professors in this Institution are Messrs. Vardalachos, J. Sé'épi, and Bamba. The latter has spent some time in Paris, and studied natural philosophy and the mathematics, He is about to publish, in modern Greek, an elementary treatise on chemistry, after Thenard. He has already published a compendium on rhetoric, which was received with particular approbation by the Greek literati. From the pen of the respectable professor Vardalachos, have appeared a philosophical essay on elocution, and a very able compendium on experimental philosophy. course of mathematics by Professor Sélépi remains in MS. The number of pupils at present amounts to seven hundred, and will very probably, in the course of a year, exceed one thousand. Some time since, a printing-office was established at Chios, for which the presses, types, and other apparatus, were purchased in Paris. A German of the name of Bayrhoffer, is at the head of this establishment. The Greeks of Chios distinguish themselves particularly by their humanity. They have several hospitals upon European models; nor is there any want of benevolent institutions. A remarkable event in the annals of Modern Greece, is the erection of a public library at Chios. It already contains about 30,000 volumes; and the funds, which are supplied by the liberality liberality of private individuals, will speedily augment the number. It is to the advice of Mr. Covay, that the patriotic men, who direct this Institution, are particularly indebted. The bust of this venerable man has been put up in the large saloon of the College, that the youths may always remember him with gratitude and respect. GRECIAN UNIVERSITY. A University has been established at Corfu, by Lord Guildford, under the auspices of the British Government. (See p. 443.) His Lordship has appointed to the different chairs, Greeks of the first , abilities; and his intentions have been seconded with much effect by Count Capod'Istria, a native of Corfu, who being apprized that M. Politi, a young Leucadian possessed of knowledge and talents, desired to profess chemistry in the Iouian islands, remitted to him funds sufficient to procure the apparatus necessary for the laboratory, &c. HOMER'S ILIAD. There has been discovered, in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, a manuscript copy of the Iliad of Homer, which has singularly attracted the attention of the Learned; first, for its antiquity, which appears to border on the fourth century; and by 60 pictures in it equally antient. We know that the first manuscript, upon which all the editions of Homer have been founded, is posterior to the tenth century; the newly-discovered one bears a text more antient by about six ages. The characters are square capitals, according to the usage of the best ages, without distinction of words, without accents, or the aspirates; that is to say, without any sign of the modern Greek orthography. The pictures are upon vellum, and represent the principal circumstances mentioned in the Iliad. These pictures being antique and rare, copies of them have been engraved with the greatest exactness. They are not perfect in the execution; but they possess a certain degree of me rit; for they are curious, inasmuch as they present exact representations of the vestments, the furniture, the usages, the edifices, the arms, the vessels, the sacrifices, the games, the banquets, and the trades of the time, with the precise characters of the gods and heroes, and other infallible and numerous marks of their antiquity. M. Angelo Maio, a Professor at the Ambrosian College, has caused the manuscript to be printed in one volume, with the engravings from the pictures, and the numerous scholia attached to the manuscript. These new scholia fill more than 36 pages in large folio; they are all of a very antient period, and the greater part of them are by authors anterior to the Christian æra, and to the school of Alexandria. The authors quoted are 140 in number, whose writings have been lost, or are entirely unknown. There are among them titles of works which have not come down to us, and unedited fragments of poets and historians; they quote the most celebrated manuscripts of Homer, such as the two of Aristarchus, those of Antimachus, of Argolichus, the common one; in short, all the best of them; but no authorities are so often quoted as those of Aristarchus, Aristophanes, and Zenodotus; that is to say, the learned meu to whom the Poems of Homer are indebted for the most ingenious corrections. The manuscript, however, does not contain the Iliad entire, but only the fragments which relate to the pictures. HERCULANEUM MANUSCRIPTS. A Third Volume of the MSS. of Herculaneum is in the press, and will soon be published. Sir Humphry Davy is expected to make experiments with the chemical composition which he has invented to unrol the ancient Latin MSS. of this collection. It has been observed that the Latin MSS. in papyrus are covered with a peculiar varnish which increases the difficulty of unrolling them, and which the Greek MSS. have not. ANTIQUARIAN AND PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCHES. AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. In removing the earth which composed an antient mound in one of the streets of Marietta, on the margin of the plain, near the fortifications, several curious articles were discovered, the latter part of June last. They appear to have been buried with the body of the person to whose memory this mound was erected. Lying immediately over, or on the forehead of the body, were found three large circular bosses, or ornaments, for a swordbelt or a buckler; they are composed of copper, overlaid with a thick plate of silver. The front of them are slightly convex, with a depression like a cup in the centre, and measure two inches and a quarter across the face of each. On the back side, opposite the depressed portion, is a copper rivet, or nail, around which are two separate plates, by which they were fastened to the leather. Two small pieces of the leather were found lying between the plates of one of the bones; they resemble the skin of an old mummy, and seem to have been preserved by the salts of the copper. The plates of copper are nearly reduced to an oxide or rust. The silver looks quite black, but is not much corroded, and on rubbing, it becomes quite brilliant. Two of these are yet entire; the third one is so much wasted, wasted, that it dropped in pieces on removing it from the earth. Around the rivet of one of them is a small quantity of flax or hemp in a tolerable state of preservation. Near the side of the body was found a plate of silver which appears to have been the upper part of a sword scabbard; it is six inches in length, and two inches in breadth, and weighs one ounce; it has no ornaments or figures; but has three longitudinal ridges, which probably correspond with the edges, or ridges of the sword-it seems to have been fastened to the scabbard by three or four rivets, the holes of which yet remain in the silver. Two or three broken pieces of a copper tube, were also found, filled with iron rust. These pieces, from their appearance, composed the lower end of the scabbard, near the point of the sword. No sign of the sword itself was discovered, except the appearance of rust above mentioned. Near the feet was found a piece of cop. per, weighing three ounces. From its shape it appears to have been used as a plumb, or for an ornament, as near one of the ends is a circular crease, or groove, for tying a thread; it is round, two inches and a half in length, one inch in diameter at the centre, and half an inch at each end. It is composed of slates or pieces of native copper, pounded together, and in the cracks between the pieces, are stuck several pieces of silver; one nearly the size of a fourpenny piece, or half a dime, This copper ornament was covered with a coat of green rust, and is considerably corroded. A piece of red ochre or paint, and a piece of iron ore, which has the appearance of having been partially vitrified, or melted, were also found. The ore is about the specific gravity of pure iron. The body of the person here buried was laid on the surface of the earth, with bis face upwards, and his feet pointing to the N. E. and his head to the S. W. From the appearance of several pieces of charcoal, and bits of partially burnt fossil coal, and the black colour of the earth, it would seem that the funeral obsequies had been celebrated by fire; and while the ashes were yet hot and smoking, a circle of thin flat stones had been laid around and over the body. The circular covering is about eight feet in diameter, and the stones yet look black, as if stained by fire and smoke. This circle of stones seems to have been the nucleus on which the mound was formed, as immediately over them is heaped the common earth of the adjacent plain, composed of a clayey sand and coarse gravel. This mound must originally have been about 10 feet high, and 30 feet in diameter at its base. At the time of opening it, the height was six feet, and diameter between 30 and 40. It has every appearance of being as old, as any in the neighbourhood, and was covered with large trees, at the first settlement of Marietta, the remains of whose roots were yet apparent in digging away the earth. It also seems to have been made for this single personage, as the remains of one skeleton only were discovered. The bones were much decayed, and many of them crumbled to dust on exposure to the air. From the length of some of them it is supposed the person was about six feet in height. Nothing unusual was discovered in their form, except that those of the skull were uncommonly thick. The situation of the mound on high ground, near the margin of the plain, and the porous quality of the earth, are admirably calculated to preserve any perishable substance from the certain decay which would attend it in many other situatious. To these circumstances is attributed the tolerable state of preservation in which several of the articles above described were found, after laying in the earth for several centuries. We say centuries, from the fact that trees were found growing on those antient works, whose ages were ascertained to amount to between four and five hundred years each, by counting the concentric circles in the stumps after the trees were cut down; and on the ground besides them were other trees in a state of decay that appeared to have fallen from old age. Of what language, or of what nation were this mighty race that once inhabited the territory watered by the Ohio, remains yet a mystery, too great for the most learned to unravel. But from what we see of their works, they must have had some acquaintance with the arts and sciences. They have left us perfect specimens of circles, squares, octagons, and parallel lines, on a grand and noble scale. And unless it can be proved that they had intercourse with Asia or Europe, we now see that they possessed the art of working in metals. N. B. The above described articles are in the possession of Dr. Hildreth, and can be seen by any one desirous of viewing them.-(Amer. Friend.) Marietta (on the Ohio) July 19, 1819. A very singular experiment, or rather result, has lately been announced, as obtained by M. Gimbernath, a learned Spaniard, who is now Counsellor of the King of Bavaria. Having ascended the summit of Vesuvius, Dec. 4, 1818, he placed on one of the fumarole (clefts or crevices of the crater, whence smoke constantly issues) an apparatus for condensing the vapour. By this means he obtained a somewhat considerable quantity of clear distilled water, which tasted of fat or grease, and smelt of burnt animal substances. The chemical tests to which this liquid was subjected, shewed clearly that it contained neither sulphuric acid, nor any free acid. M. Gimbernath is of opinion that it is saturated with a matter partaking of the nature of animal matter. MINERALOGY. Professor Jameson has been employed ARTS AND - PRINTING MACHINE. Mr. W. Rutt, of Shacklewell, near London, has invented a Printing Machine, which for its simplicity, and superiour style of printing and making register, exceeds any printing-machine hitherto invented. It is capable of printing any kind of work, in letter of any size, either in stereo or moveable type, with equal facility. The inking apparatus is so arranged, that, by the action of the inachine, the requisite and regular supply of ink is received by the rollers from a duct peculiarly constructed, and communicated to the type in such a manner as to produce a complete uniformity of colour, however extensive the number of impressions. The form of type to be printed is placed on the table of the machine. During the time the table is returning to the front part of the machine, the cylinder remains stationary, allowing time to lay a sheet of paper on it, and, by a corresponding arrangement, the table gives motion to the cylinder, and causes it to revolve; which, on passing again to the back part of the machine, performs the operation of inking and printing. The small space which this machine requires is also much in its favour; a room 10-ft.-6, by 7ft.-6, would be sufficiently large for the full operation of one equal to a work on super royal paper. It will print as many sheets in a minute as a man can put on the cylinder, which may be about fifteen; but its rate must be regulated according to the quality of the work required to be done. A Patent has been granted to Jacob Perkins, late of Philadelphia, now of Austin Friars, engineer, for certain machinery and improvements applicable to ornamental turning and engraving, and to the transferring of engraved or other work from the surface of one piece of metal to another piece of metal, and to the forming of metallic dies and matrices; and also improve ments in the construction and method for using plates and presses for printing bank notes and other papers, whereby the pro for many years in investigating the mineralogical structure of his native country, and has now, we understand, collected so extensive a series of facts and observations, that he will soon be able to present to the publick a Map of the mineralogy of Scotland. Dr. Mac Culloch, who has had the good fortune to be employed in mineral researches in Scotland at the expense of Government, has it also in agitation to publish a Map illustrative of the geology of that country. SCIENCES. ducing and combining various species of work is effected upon the same plates and surfaces, the difficulty of imitation increased, and the process of printing facilitated; and also an improved method of making and using dies and presses for coining money, stamping medals, and other useful purposes. FOUR-WHEEL CARRIAGES.A newly invented four-wheeled carriage has lately excited much interest in Scotland. By a great mechanical improvement in the axles, one horse performs the work of two with the most perfect ease; and by an ingenious contrivance, the horse can be, in the event of an accident, instantaneously released from the carriage, at the will of the driver. The easy riding of the carriage arises from the peculiar formation of the perch. A more elegant constructed conveyance has been rarely seen; it may be called a waggon, but it is not the weight of a dog cart. It runs so easy, that the traveller may write in it, going eight miles per hour on a rough road. It is not heavier than a gig, and built at little more expense. It is, besides, a peculiar safe conveyance; as although the horse should fall, or run away, he can be liberated in a moment. The springs being lancewood, lined with whalebone. This machine is not liable to duty, and pays very little toll. TEMPERING GLASS. Let the glass vessel be put into a vessel of cold water, and let the water be heated boiling hot, and then allowed to cool slowly of itself, without taking out the glass. Glasses treated in this way may, while cold, be suddenly filled with boiling hot water without any risk of their cracking. The gentleman who communicates the method, says that he has often cooled such glasses to the temperature of 10°, and poured boiling water into them without experiencing any inconvenience from the suddenness of the change. If the glasses are to be exposed to a higher temperature than that of boiling water, boil them in oil. SELECT SELECT POETRY, SONG, Written after the Battle of LEIPSIC, by a Mind the golden rule." HERE'S to her who long Shall flourish great and free, Britannia fam'd in song, The Empress of the sea; For British soil was made, For Freedom's sons alone, And here's so bright display'd A Patriotic Throne. CHORUS. Then here's to her who long The Empress of the sea. Undaunted in the storm, Then here's to her who long, &c. And when a Tyrant rose, To consummate their woe, Fair Freedom's standard high. Then here's to her who long LINES, On the Twenty-fifth of October. ANOTHER year! a year of solitude, Of darkness, yet of peace has past, -and he The father of his people, marks it not. For the LADIES' CLUB, or, FEMALE FRIENDLY SOCIETY, OSWESTRY. Air-The Evening Hymn, or Suffolk Tune. OH! bright and blessed be the bands That link in love our sister hands; So angel sisters from above ON GREECE. AH, woe to thee, Greece! To thy land is gone forth, [North: With a sad lamentation, a Bard of the And |