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the Campagna di Roma, with References to Geology, History, and Antiquities; by Dr F. C. L. Sickler. 8vo. L. Î, Is. Description of the principal picturesque Beauties, Antiquities, and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight. By Sir Henry C. Englefield Bart. With additional Observations on the Strata of the Island;, by Thomas Webster, Esq. Illustrated by Maps and 50 Engravings, by W. and G. Cooke, from Original Drawings by Sir H. Englefield and T. Webster. Royal 4to. L. 7, 7s. Large paper L. 10, 10s.

A new Picture of Rome, or an interesting Itinerary; by Marien Vasi. 12s.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

A Journey to Rome and Naples, performed in 1817, giving an Account of the present State of Society in Italy; and containing Observations on the Fine Arts; by Henry Sass. 8vo. 12s.

Letters of a Prussian Traveller, (interspersed with numerous personal Anecdotes,) descriptive of a tour through Sweden, Prussia, Austria, Hungary, Istria, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Rhodes, the Morea, Greece, Calabria, Italy, Tyrol, the Banks of the Rhine, Hanover, Holstein, Denmark, Westphalia, and Holland; by John Bramsen, Esq.

A Picturesque Tour of Italy in illustration of, and with reference to the Text of Addison, Eustace, and Forsyth. From Drawings taken on the spot in 1816 and 1817; by James Hakewill. Part I. (to be completed in 12 parts.) 4to. 12s. 6d. Large paper 18s. Froofs L.1, 10s.

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EDINBURGH.

Principles of Christian Evidence Illusstrated, by an Examination of Arguments subversive of Natural Theology and the internal evidence of Christianity, advanced by Dr Thomas Chalmres in his" Evidence and Authority of the Christian Revelation." by Duncan Mearns, D. D. Professor of

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The Problem Solved: in the Explication of a Plan of a Safe, Steady, and Secure Government Paper Currency, and Legal Tender. By Samuel Read. 8vo. 1s.

A Treatise on the Law of Scotland, relative to the Erection, Union, and Disjunction of Parishes; the Patronages of Ecclesiastical Benefices; and the Manses and Glebes of the Parochial Clergy. By John Connell, Esq. Advocate. 8vo. 16s.

Practical Observations on the Action of Morbid Sympathies; as included in the Pathology of certain Diseases: in a Series of Letters to his Son, on his leaving the University of Edinburgh in 1809. By Andrew Wilson, M. D. Kelso. 9s.

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Statements relative to the present prevalence of Epidemic Fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow, together with some suggestions both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the Contagion; in a Letter addressed to the Honourable the Lord Provost of Glasgow. By Richard Millar, M. D. 2s.

Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect. By Thomas Brown, M. D. F. R. S. E. Edinburgh, and Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Third edition, 8vo. 15s.

Decisions of the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Session, from Novem. ber 1816 to November 1817. Collected by J. Wilson, G. Tait, R. Rollo, and M. A. Fletcher, Esqrs. Advocates. Folio, 18s.

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MONTHLY REGISTER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

EUROPE. GERMANY.-Austria, it appears, has at length succeeded in procuring from some capitalists, a loan of thirty millions of florins. If the payment of the money could be secured, the rate of the present loan, though lower than the last contracted by the French Government, is advantageous to the conThe debentures were issued at 70, bearing an interest of five per cent. and are represented as having been subsequently negotiable on the exchange at 72 and 74. The son of the Archduchess Maria Louisa has received the Dukedom of Reichstadt, in Bohemia, which title, with the appellation of Highness, he is hereafter to bear.

tractors.

PRUSSIA. The foreign papers have furnished us with the answer of the King of Prussia to a petition from the inhabitants of Coblentz, claiming the fulfilment of his promise to give his subjects a representative government. His Majesty expresses, in decided terms, his displeasure at those unseasonable remonstrances, and reproaches them with entertaining a doubt of his fidelity. He then apologises for his delay in redeeming his pledge, on the ground of the times, which, he states, are not favourable for changes of this nature; and he concludes with informing them, that it is the duty of good subjects to have implicit confidence in their Sovereign's discretion, who, in his own time, will bring about whatever he judges to be favourable to their interests.

POLAND. A representation has lately been made to the Polish Diet, with a view of directing the industry of the Jews from trade to agriculture; and a pamphlet has also been published, recommending that part of this nation shall be transferred to Tartary to cultivate the soil. It is not very distinctly stated whether the plan is to be voluntary, or whether compulsion is not to be applied in case the Jews should refuse to enter into it. In this case, like all other expedients of tyranny, it will unquestionably fail. The better plan to encourage the Jews to cultivate the soil, would be to place them on an equality with other classes as to civil rights, to guarantee to them the produce of their own labour, and there will then be no need of state expedients to direct their attention to agriculture.

SAXONY.--The booksellers of Leipsic have determined, by a majority of 101 votes against 10, to permit only Christians to carry on that trade in public market; a proceeding which

evinces a spirit of intolerance such as we
could hardly have imagined to have existed
in the present times. The Jews have, in
consequence, published an address to their
brethren, calling upon them to unite against
this intolerant design, and to petition the
King of Prussia for leave to establish a
fair at Naumburg, to be held twice a-year,
Easter and Michaelmas.

SWEDEN. On the 11th May, Bernadotte was crowned King of Sweden, by the title of Charles XIV. The ceremony was conducted with great splendour. Eleven thousand soldiers lined the streets of the metropolis. The King was anointed by the Archbishop Lindholm. The Crown Prince and all the chief nobility took the oaths of allegiance salutes of artillery and volleys of musketry were fired-and the King, when he appeared on horseback among the people, was hailed by the loudest acclamations. Deputies from the Norwegian Diet came to offer their congratulations to his Majesty; and in an address which they presented to him, expressed their hope of again seeing the Crown of Norway placed upon the head of a hero.

TURKEY-Accounts from Constantinople give an account of a dreadful conflagration which happened there on the 3d of April. It broke out in a house near the hotel of the French legation, belonging to a person of the name of Mano; and made such dreadful progress that seventeen persons, among them the Princess d'Ypsilanti and her son, with eight children, perished in the flames. The calamity is suspected to have been produced by the malice of an incendiary. The plague is represented to have entirely ceased in that city.

ASIA..

EAST INDIES.-Intelligence of the progress of the new Mahratta war has been received, stating, that a treaty of peace has been concluded with Holkar, and that the war against the Pindarries continues to be The Rajah of successfully prosecuted. Berar also has acceded to a treaty, in conLittle was sequence of the successful operations against him of General Doveton. known of the Peishwa, except that he was always evading the pursuit of our troops.

BATAVIA. The last dispatches from the Dutch settlements in the east are dated 20th of December, and contain accounts of the subjugation of the insurgents at Am boyna.

AMERICA. UNITED STATES.-An act, of consider able importance to the trade of Britain, has recently passed the American Congress, and received the sanction of the President. Its object is to exclude, from the ports of the United States, all British vessels coming from any port from which American vessels have been previously excluded; and the effect of which is to prohibit all direct in tercourse between the United States and the British West Indies. The Americans seem resolved that the exclusion from their ports shall not be merely in form, but that it shall be substantial; and, that it may be in no case indirectly contravened, it is enacted that no clearance out from Bermuda, or any other intermediate port, will be considered as exempting the vessel from the operation of the act, such second voyage being deemed only a continuance of the original one. This rigorous measure is professedly one of retaliation. The Americans say, that if we exclude they will exclude; and according as we relax they will

relax also.

The American papers of the 17th March last contain various documents relative to the disputes between Spain and the United States. The boundaries between Louisiana and the kingdom of Mexico, or New Spain, have never yet been accurately determined, nor was it of much importance to settle the limits of a territory occupied entirely by wild animals or by savages. As the population of the United States gradually spreads, this, which was formerly a question of abstract right, begins to assume practical importance. The inhabitants of the United States are rapidly advancing towards the west, with such a firm and irresistible pace, that nothing, it is evident, will oppose their progress, until they reach the Pacific Ocean. But the Spanish possessions, both in Mexico and California, extending northward, and bounding the American territories on the west, the important question is, how far the population of America can advance in this direction without encroaching on the rights of Spain. A line of demarcation must be fixed, which shall turn off the progress of the new settlers, towards the North, round the province of New Mexico, and shall thus secure the Spanish territories-the country which languishes under the effects of Spanish inactivity-from being cultivated and turned to use by the enterprising settlers of America. This, however, to all appearance, will be no easy task, for, while Spain seems intent upon securing the possession of those useless tracts of country, the Government of the United States, on the other hand, show no disposition to recede from the claims which they have already urged. The American Consul, Mr

Meade, who was imprisoned at Cadiz by the Spanish Government, has been released. The confinement of this person was taken up by the American Government, in a spirit which showed that they were determined to obtain redress; and, at present, it is not the policy of the Spanish Govern ment to provoke a difference, more espe cially on a matter apparently of no public importance.

On the 19th of March, the valuable powder mills belonging to M. Dupont, (the French emigrè,) at Brandywine, Delaware, were blown up, and from twenty to thirty persons killed, and ten wounded.

SPANISH AMERICA.-Several battles have been recently fought between the contending Royalist and Independent armies, under Bolivar and Morillo; in which each party, as is not unusual, claims a decided victory. According to Bolivar's bulletins, he had concentrated his forces in January last, and advancing upon Morillo's head quarters at Calabozo, invested the place on the 12th; when, to deliver himself from a siege, Morillo gave battle to the Patriots, but was, in the end, put to the route. Being then shut up in Calabozo, Bolivar immediately took measures for blockading him; on which he quitted the place, pursued by the Patriots, who came up with him on the 15th and 17th, when he was again defeated, and forced to fly.

On the other hand, dispatches from Morillo, which have been published in the Caraccas Gazettes, claim the victory for the Royalists in all the engagements which have been fought. He was attacked, it is said, by surprise; but succeeded in maintaining his position, and in repulsing the armies of the Patriots with great slaughter. On the 13th and 14th March, which is subsequent to the date of the accounts of the Patriots, there appear to have been engagements at La Cabrera and the Maracay, in which the insurgents are stated to have lost 250 men in killed and wounded, 40 loads of ammunition, and 2200 mules. Morillo concludes his dispatch with stating, that he would pursue the insurgents to the river Orinoco. The account mentions the retreat of the insurgents from Victoria, which is within 15 or 20 miles of Caraccas, the capital of the country; but it fails to inform us by what means they had advanced so far from Calabozo, where the two armies first met. It appears clearly from this dispatch of Morillo, that he must have been defeated in the first engagements, otherwise it is difficult to account for his retreat from the scene of action.

The Government of Venezuela has published an address to the four British regiments acting with the armies of Venezuela. This reinforcement must be of great consequence to the Independents, as

it will furnish them with what is so essential to the organization of an army, namely, a supply of valuable officers.

BRITISH AMERICA.An Order in Council has been issued, by which Halifax and St John's are to be declared free ports. This measure has become necessary, in consequence of the acts by which all direct intercourse is prohibited between America and the British colonics in the West Indies. The latter being dependent on the United States for supplies both of lumber, and frequently of provisions, the cessation of this intercourse would necessarily be followed with great inconveniences, and in place of the direct intercourse, therefore, the expedient is adopted of making Halifax and St John entrepôts for West Indian and American produce, and of thus carrying on the trade by a round-about in place of a direct channel.

WEST INDIES, ST DOMINGO.-Intelligence has been received of the death of President Petion in the end of March last; who, it appears, had been for some time previous afflicted with lowness of spirits, and at last died voluntarily by refusing sustenance. No cause has been discovered for this singular act. He was interred on the 31st March, with great ceremony, and with every mark, on the part of all classes, of unfeigned grief for his death. The vacant Presidency was peaceably assumed by a General Boyer, whom Petion had been allowed by the Senate to nominate as his successor. The proclamation of Boyer, published on the occasion, consists of a warm panegyric on the deceased Chieftain, and of the strongest assurances that he will respect the rights of property, and preserve unimpaired the institutions and establishments of his predecessor.

MAY.

BRITISH CHRONICLE.

Circuit Courts.--Inverary.-At the Inverary circuit, which terminated on the 24th ult. fourteen persons were indicted for various crimes; five of whom were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, for assault; six were outlawed for not appearing; one, accused of theft, and one of assault, were dismissed from the bar on verdicts of not proven, and the diet was deserted against another, pro loco et tempore

4.-Ayr. The circuit court at this place closed this day. Ten persons were indicted; one was sentenced to transportation for 14 years; two for 7 years; three to various periods of imprisonment; two were outlawed; and against two the diet was deserted pro loco et tempore. No remarkable case occurred at either of the above assizes.

12. Thunder Storms. On the 7th and 8th instant the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Dumfries, were visited by tremendous thunder storms; the consequences of which were in some places fatal. Near Wigton in Cumberland, an old man, a mason, while at work, was instantaneously deprived of life by a vivid flash of the electric matter; and several others were struck down, and in different degrees hurt. Mr Turner, a schoolmaster, about thirty years of age, was killed by lightning as he was passing near a farin yard at Owlerton. Every thread of his garments was completely stripped from his body, except a string of his sleeves, which, from his occupation of a schoolmaster, he wore; this adhered to his arm, and was nearly the only emblem by which his singed and emaciated person could be recognized.

In the parish of Kirkmahsey, Dumfries shire, the lightning struck down the chimney of a farm-house, where nine persons were sitting; but, although it made dreadful havoc among the furniture and walls, fortunately the inmates escaped unhurt, with the exception of the mistress of the house, who had her thigh lacerated and her foot bruised. Traces of the fluid were found not a hand-breadth from others of the family, and a dog was killed in the midst of them. Cattle were killed in the fields in various quarters; and at some places so tremendous was the storm, the whole atmosphere at times appearing one vivid mass of flame, that very serious apprehensions were excited, and husbandmen and others out of doors were compelled to forego their employments.

Remarkable Preservation. On the 2d instant, at Quarreltown colliery, near Glasgow, five men and a boy in one of the pits, having pricked a wall which separated them from an old pit, the water rushed in upon them, and it was feared they were all drowned. A steam engine was instantly set to work to pump out the water; but making little progress, after three days labour, it was given up, and a mine was begun from the pit to the place where it was The mine supposed the sufferers were. was not driven through till this day, when the workmen were both astonished and delighted to hear the sound of voices; and two of the men were taken out alive, after after having been ten days confined. Their only sustenance during this long period, in total darkness, and amidst bad air, was the impure water of the pit, and three pieces of oat cake, which, by groping round the

work, they found in the pockets of some men who had escaped at the time of the accident.

The county of Banff, at their general meeting, 30th April last, resolved on making an application for the mail coach, with the full establishment of four horses, &c. to the north of Aberdeen, in place of the present mail diligence.

Robert the Bruce.-The gentlemen of Stirlingshire, at their meeting on the 30thult. resolved to erect a national monument in memory of the patriot Bruce, at the "Bore Stone," where the royal standard was fixed at the memorable battle of Bannockburn.

Imitation Tea,&c.-Ten grocers in London were this day convicted in the Court of Exchequer, of fabricating sloe and white thorn leaves into an imitation of tea, and fined in various penalties, one of them to the amount of L. 840. On the trial it was proved, that, in carrying this iniquitous imposition into effect, verdigris, and other deleterious substances, were made use of. Several convictions have also taken place of dealers in coffee, for vending scorched peas and beans, in place of the genuine coffee

beans.

21.-Remission of Sentence.-The Magistrates of Edinburgh have received a remission of the sentence of death passed upon Patrick Main and George Aitchison, for robbing Mr Hay's house at Coats Crescent, (respited some time ago) on condition of transportation; Main for life, and Aitchison for fourteen years.

Exports from Britain to Ireland.-From a return made to the House of Commons, it appears that the declared value of British produce and manufactures exported from Great Britain to Ireland, was, during 1815, L.4,412,015, 11s. 1d.-1816, L.3,556,563, 11s. 10d.-1817, L. 2,626,316, 9s. 10d. 1818, L. 3,277,018, 8s. 3d. And that the official value of foreign and colonial merchandize exported from Great Britain to Ireland, during the same period, was as follows: In 1815, L. 1,345,677, 18s. Gd. -1816, L. 1,221,173, 16s. 6d.--1817, L.1,104,299, 10s. 6d. 1818, L.1,265,345,

4s. 3d.

23.-North Bridge Buildings.-Yesterday a meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh was held in Freemasons' Hall, when Mr Jeffrey, one of the committee appointed, in December last to take measures for reducing the height of these buildings, laid before the meeting a proposal from the Magistrates and feuars, to compromise the matter, by taking one storey from the three southmost houses, and confining to the same height the one now building, which by the feuars' contract might rise to four stories above the bridge. The committee recommended the acceptance of this offer, on the ground of their great uncertainty of success in obtaining at law what they were

contending for, namely, to bring the whole range to one storey above the bridge; and because the melancholy fact was, that they had not one halfpenny left to carry on the process, and all their exertions to raise more money had been fruitless. After much discussion, the recommendation of the committee was seconded, and on being put to the vote, was carried by acclamation. It appears, however, that these buildings must remain as they are; for now that the feuars and subfeuars have agreed to the re duction, such extensive claims of compersation have been made by the various tenants who took possession at Whitsunday, that there is no hope of the proposed compromise being carried into effect.

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New species of Swindling-A person who lately purchased a church in Liver. pool, on which he expended L. 500 in repairs and improvements, but for which the unfortunate architect has never been paid, and who has obtained various large su from his congregation in advance, and hoaxed numerous tradesmen out of clothes, jewellery, and luxuries of every description, has left his numerous creditors in astonish. ment; for he was thought one of the most honourable, eloquent, and pious clergymen that ever alighted in that region. To crown the whole, it has been discovered that this pattern of sacerdotal purity was, by profession, a dancing-master, and it is sup posed that this discovery hastened his flight.

26. Arthur Thistlewood, who was found guilty in the Court of King's Bench on the 14th, of attempting to provoke Lord Sidmouth to fight a duel, was this day brought up for judgment. The court sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment in Horsham guol, to find securities for his good behaviour for three years, himself in three hundred pounds, and two others is one hundred each.

29.-The Queen.-About the middle of this month her Majesty was attacked with violent spasms, and, continuing much indisposed, her physicians called in Dr Maton, the physician extraordinary, when, after consultation, a blister was ordered to her stomach, and the Queen was much relieved. Daily bulletins were published from that period till yesterday, when her Majesty was so much recovered that they were disconti nued.

30.-Affecting Story.-A child of three years old, which was exposed in a clump of trees, in the parish of Tranent, on the 19th April last, has just been claimed. Its father is a weaver in the Nungate of Haddington. In his countenance was depicted at once joy and anguish; joy, in having his lost child again in his arms, and anguish, on reflecting that it was his own wife, the mother of the infant, that had exposed him. His wife, a few weeks previous, contrary to his inclination, insisted on going

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