138 Proceedings of Cambridge University. hand. In the eighth portion, the author, in a masterly survey of Columbia, takes leave of that hemisphere, and crosses over by the shortest passage, at Oonalashka, to the north-east of Asia. He descends into the steppes, to Altai, Tibet, Burma, and Assam; and gives a striking picture of the vast empire of China, with all its natural beauties and all its moral deformity. He next treats of Cochin-china, Japan, Corea, and the islands. The conclusion is devoted to the extensive possessions of the Mahrattas and of Great Britain in Hindoostan; and here the author ably corrects many prejudices which have been industriously circulated respecting the commercial policy pursued by England on the Ganges. Meanwhile he prepared a new edition of his Geographical History of Man, &c, which was extended by much new matter to five volumes, and appeared under the title of The Earth and its Inhabitants, according to the latest Discoveries, 1809-1814. These two works, which one of the author's countrymen who lay claim to the character of well-informed persons will omit to peruse with attention, bear throughout the traces, sometimes indeed marked with too great acrimony, of the eventful period in which they were written for as all liberty of thought and of the press was banished from the Continent by Buonaparte and his tools, the author, endowed with acute sensibilities, was obliged to vent his just [March 1, indignation upon Asiatic superstitions and cruelties. When, after the catastrophe of 1806, Brunswick also was engulpled in the flaming crater, ZIMMERMANS, whose hostility to the French was painted to the new rulers in colours sufliciently black, sought refuge at Hamburg; but it was not long that he found protection there. By the mediation of friends, however, he was allowed part of his salary, and permission to pursue his literary avocations unmolested at Brunswick. Notwithstanding this indulgence he never belied his convictions. However deeply affected by the calamities of his country, his own personal sufferings and privations, and the loss of his copious library and literary resources, he was never dispirited, and never despaired of the return of happier times, the glorious dawn of which he actually lived to behold. In him Germany has lost a good scholar and a truly honest man. His unshaken attachment to the illustrious house which he served forty-nine years, and to the sacred cause of humanity and existing order, distinguished him most honourably among his contemporaries. The zeal and courage with which he unmasked and, as far as lay in his power, opposed the wauten destroyers of all social relations, rendered him a herald, but often likewise a martyr, of Truth. B. INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE AND TIE ARTS AND SCIENCES. PROCEEDINGS OF UNIVERSITIES. CAMBRIDGE. Jan. 20, being Bachelor of Arts Commencement, 128 gentlemen were admitted to that degree. The following obtained academical honours on that occasion : Wranglers-Messrs. Jacob, Caius; Whe- ton, Trin.; Lawson, Mag.; Haggit, Clare; Bushby, Job.; Torriano, Clare. Junior Optimes-Messrs. Starr, Trin.; Palfrey, Mag.; Penny, Emm.; Pinder, Caius; Edwards, Chr.; Sim, Pemb.; Myers, Jes.; Wilson, Chr.; Clayton, Job.; Hayne, Sid.; Luxmoore, Joh.; Bull, Pemb.; Rayne, Joh.; Tyas, Trin. The subjects for the Members' prizes for this year are: SENIOR BACHELORS. Hieroglyphicorum Origo et Natura." MIDDLE BACHELORS. Utrum civitati plus utilitatis an incommodi afferant leges, quæ privatorum hominum sumptibus modum imponunt. Dr. SMITH's annual prizes of 251. each, to the two best proficients in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy amongst the 1816.] The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Egerton on his Collection of MSS. Commencing Bachelors of Arts, are this year adjudged to Mr. Edw. JACOB, of Caius, and Mr. WM. WHEWELL, of Trinity College, the first and second Wranglers. Feb. 9.-At a congregation held this day, an address was unanimously voted to H.R. H. the Prince Regent on the re-establishment of peace. Some The Hon. and Rev. FRANCIS HENRY EGERTON is printing at Paris a new edition of the Life of his ancestor the Lord High Chancellor EGERTON, which was written by him, and published in the fifth volume of the Biagraphia Britannica; the author will subjoin a Life of JOHN FGERTON, Bishop of Durham, and FRANCis, late Duke of BRIDGEWATER. A family whose name is so intimately interwoven with our domestic history, distinguished as it has been in the annals of the law, the church, and of our internal com nercial prosperity, certainly deserved such a monument, in which at future period a niche will doubtless be allotted to the worthy successor by whom it is raised. This work, which will extend to at least two 4to. volumes of 500 pages each, will comprise about 2.000 manuscript pieces, important statepapers, and other authentic documents. It treats of a great number of points of law, equity, and divinity-civil, military, and ecclesiastical history-finance and parliamentary affairs-literature, and the discoveries recently made in the arts and sciences during the period which it embraces-as also of the state of society, manners, and character of the English nation, at the time when the bases of our civil and religious liberty began to be fixed. It is not intended for sale, but merely for the gratification of the author's friends; on the other hand, we congratulate the public on the free access allowed by this gentleman to his vast collection of manuscripts. On this subject we cannot do better than quote his own expressions relative to his munificent intentions, as stated in the printed catalogue of the pieces belong ing to the period comprised in the abovementioned work.-Under the head of Turenne, he communicates the following intelligence, which every lover of literature will know how to appreciate:~ "I have had no objection to state as one of the curious and rare articles with which my collection abounds, that, amongst my manuscripts, henceforth denominated ASHRIDGE COLLECTION: MSS. FRANCIS HENRY EGERTON, there exist, at letter T, v.xxxiv.1, 139 30 original autograph letters of the Mareschal de Turenne, and also two other pieces which particularly relate to the history of his life. "In waving every objection, I have had in view a favourite object, which is, to shew publicly, and to make known generally, my anxious desire that my collection of manu scripts may be rendered as universally useful as possible in the real service of historical, diplomatic, political, literary, or judicial rethat, during my life, copies of any of my searches. With this view, I have directed manuscripts shall be given indiscriminately, and without any expense whatever, to every one who asks for them; and after my death, I have founded a librarianship at Ashridge, with very special and most particular directions to the librarian for the time being, to give or allow to be taken, gratis and indiscriminately, copies and fac-similes of the manuscripts of my collection for the purposes above-mentioned, but never for those of gratifying mere idle, capricious, unmeaning curiosity, equally without reasonable end as without adequate and legitimate motive. "By my last will I have given, granted, nued, yearly, and every year salary, half to bequeathed, and devised, a perpetual, contibe paid every six months, of two hundred pounds sterling, for ever, to found, establish, and endow a librarianship, for a librarian at the library of the house at Ashridge; there to take very special and particular charge and care of my collection of manuscripts, for ever, henceforth to be known by, and called by, the style, title, denomination, or addition of "ASHRIDGE COLLECTION: MSS. FRANCIS HENRY EGERTON;" and there to shew, and make use of, and copy, and give, or allow to be taken, copies or fac-similes of all or any of my manuscripts, for ever, withcial advantage in return, or any emolument out taking any fee, or receiving any benefiwhatsoever; such librarian is to reside at Ashridge, or in the immediate neighbourhood of Ashridge, where, within the library, he is directed to be in personal waiting and in personal attendance from nine in the morning till two in the afternoon, every day in the week, Thursdays and Sundays excepted; unless he shall be hindered by indisposition, or by some real, true, and legitimate cause or reason: and he is allowed leave of absence three consecutive months in every year. I have made sure and certain provision for the nomination of the first librarian, and for the regular, continued, uninterrupted, consecutive, appointment of every subsequent and successive librarian, upon every vacancy, for ever. Moreover, I have directed that nothing whatever of my collection shall be taken out of the aforesaid library of Ashridge upon any pretext, pretence, promise, or order, whatsoever: and further, I have had the precaution to direct what shall be done in case of fire; and how, and in what manner, shall be provided the 140 Mr. Hamilton on Mr. Tweddell's Collections. expenses which may be incurred on the happening of such an accident. "It will not be supposed that this list contains a catalogue of all my manuscripts; of such as I possess upon the continent of Europe alone, there are already sixteen volumes in folio, of names, in which are stated by whom and all and every one of the various and several pieces are written or signed, to whom they are addressed, with an accurate notice of the seals and marks affixed to each: moreover, there are thirteen volumes of my manuscripts now kept in the Archive-room at Ashridge; and my collection still augments daily.' Our readers must recollect the part we have had in bringing fairly before the public the interesting question respecting the collections of the late lamented Mr. TWEDDELL, though the person whose character is chiefly implicated did not condescend to notice the charges preferred against him by our correspondents. As every thing relative to this controversy must be interesting to the lovers of literature and of justice, we shall place the following document upon record in our pages. It was produced by a paragraph which appeared in the Morning Chronicle of the 16th of Jan. to this effect: "The literary world will be rejoiced to learn that the Earl of ELGIN has discovered a chest, that had not been opened for several years, in which he has found the missing drawings and MSS. He has written a letter to Mr. HAMILTON, the Under Secretary of State, communicating the fact to him, and saying that he has addressed the box to his care, that it may be forwarded to Mr. TWEDDELL's family." This statement produced the following letter: No. 9, Portugal street, Jan. 16, 1816. Sir,-As I observe my name is mentioned in the article which appears in The Morning Chronicle, entitled Tweddell's Drawings and MSS," I have to request you will do me the favour to give insertion to the following observations: The statement of Lord Elgin having discovered a chest that had not been opened for several years, in which he has found the missing Drawings and MSS. of the late Mr. Tweddell, is not true. The statement of the Earl of Elgin's having sent to me such box, that it might be forwarded to Mr. Tweddell's family, is not true. In the year 1801, the Earl of Elgin, then Ambassador at Constantinople, intrusted to his father-in-law, Mr. Nisbet, and the late professor, Mr. Carlyle, a portfolio of Mr. Tweddell's, containing costumes, in order that they might be forwarded to his family. [March 1, For some reason, hitherto not explained, these costumes were not so forwarded, but were, during Lord Elgin's imprisonment in France, deposited amongst his effects in London, without the Noble Lord's knowledge and no intimation of this circumstance having been made to his Lordship at the time, or at any subsequent period, he remained totally unconscious of it until the 28th of last month, when these facts were first explained to him by a letter from the survivor of the gentlemen to whose care the costumes had been entrusted. Lord Elgin immediately resolved to collect and send up to London all the drawings of the costumes in his possession, in order that they might be examined by some persons on the part of Mr. Tweddell's family; and that whatever, if any, shall appear to have belonged to the deceased Mr. Tweddell, they might be returned to the family, in pursuance of the original intention of the Noble Lord fifteen years ago. Lord Elgin having requested me to be the depository of the sealed parcels containing the drawings so collected, until they shall be examined, I have thought it right to trouble you with this explanation. I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant, WILLIAM HAMILION. The Travels of Col. KEATINGE in Europe and Africa, are nearly ready for publication. The translation of a new Historical Novel, by Mad. DE GENLIS, entitled Jeanne of France, will appear in a few days. The Author of the Philosophy of Nature will speedily publish Amusement in Retirement. Our frequent correspondent, Mr. Tuos. TAYLOR, has issued proposals for publishing by subscription, in 2 vols. royal quarto, a Translation of the Six Books. of Proclus on the Theology of Plato; to which a Seventh Book will be added, in order to supply the deficiency of another book on this subject, which was written by Prochus, but since lost; also a Translation of Proclus' Elements of Theology. In these volumes will also be included, by the same, a Translation of the Treatise of Proclus on Providence and Fate; a Translation of Extracts from his Treatise, entitled Ten Doubts concerning Providence; and a Translation of Ex tracts from his Treatise on the Subsistence of Evil: as preserved in the Bibliotheca Gr. of Fabricius.-250 copies only will be printed. Subscribers Names are received by Mr. Valpy, Tooke's-court, Chancery-lane. The Rev. JOSEPH FLETCHER has in the press, in one thick volume, 8vo. Lec 1816.] Intelligence in Literature, and the Arts and Sciences. tures on the Principles and Institutions of the Roman Catholic Religion. Capt. P. GORDON is printing a Narrative of his Imprisonment in France, and an Escape through the French Territory. The profits of this work will be devoted to the Patriotic Fund. Eighteen Sermons selected from the original MSS. of the Rev. PHILIP HENRY, A.M. including the last sermon he preached; a Funeral Sermon for Mr. Henry, by the Rev. F. Taleuts, A. M.; and the Substance of a Sermon by Matthew Henry, from his Father's dying words, are at press in one volume, 8vo. Mr. C. EARNSHAW has in the press, in royal 16mo. an Abridgment of Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary: with Additions, Alterations, Corrections, and Critical Remarks. This work will be more comprehensive than any Pocket Dictionary yet published; and will be found nearly equal in utility to an ocLavo one. The explanatory part, its principal feature, will be copious with out redundancy; and the Pronunciation, intended to be only subservient, will be simple, and obvious almost at a glance. Dr. GEO. EDW. MALE, Physician to the Birmingham Hospital, has nearly ready for publication, in 8vo. An Epitome of Judicial or Forensic Medicine, containing the Tests and Antidotes of Poisons; with Observations on Hanging, Drowning, Lunacy, Child-murder, Abortion, &c.&c.; a work which has long been greatly wanted in the English Language. Dr. STEWART, Lecturer on Midwitery in London, has in the press, in 8vo. Observations on Uterine Hemorrhage. A new edition of JEREMY TAYLOR'S Prayers, differently arranged by the Rev. Mr. CLAPHAM, is in the press. Mr. H. WALTER, of Holyport, near Maidenhead, has issued proposals for publishing by subscription a Map of Windsor Forest, embracing the country bounded by the Thames, the Loddon, Blackwater River, and the great Bath and Western Roads, to be engraved upon two sheets on a scale of 24 inches to a mile. The Life of the late THOS. HOLCROFT, written by himself, and announced for publication soon after his death, has been for some reason not assigned hither to withheld. It is however now about to be laid before the public, with a continuation to the time of his death, by some literary members of his family. Mrs. OPIE has completed a new novel under the title of Valentine's Eve. The managers of the ROYAL INSTITU 141 TION have given notice, that on the Sist of March will be published, under their auspices, the first Number of a Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts, which is to be regularly continued on the last days of March, June, September, and December. It will embrace-Original Communications on subjects connected with Science and the Arts, and with Philosophical Literature in generalNotices of Scientific Discoveries and Inventions, and of Experiments carried on in the Institution-Reviews and Notices of Scientific Works-Abstracts from the Transactions of learned Societies, and from Domestic and Foreign Publications-Accounts of the Proceedings of the Royal Institution, and of the Public and other Courses of Lectures. Mr. W. T. BRANDE will speeddy publish a Descriptive Catalogue of the British Specimens deposited in the Geological Collection of the Royal Institution. Dr.GRANVILLE has in the press a translation of that part of Orfila'sGeneral Texicology which inore particularly relates to Poisons derived from the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms. This subject haring formed a very important part of Dr. Granville's scientific studies, he has been enabled to accompany his trauslation with copious notes and additions. Mr. JOHN WILSON, author of the Isle of Palms, will speedily publish a dramatic poem, entitled, The City of the Plague. Dr. OLINIUS GREGORY is printing Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, intended for the use of mathematical seminaries and young students at the university. The third volume of the Rev. Mr. DIBDIN's improved edition of AMES's Typography will be ready for delivery in a few days. Mr. BELSHAM is preparing a Letter to the Unitarians of South Wales, containing a Reply to the Bishop of St. David's. The Rev. W. JOHNSTONE is printing Results and Experience in the Art of Tuition, forming the basis of the system adopted by him, at his seminary, Black heath Hill. The Rev. SAMUEL PARTRIDGE, vicar of Boston, is engaged in forming a collection of Ancient Lincolnshire Words chiefly used among the lower classes, and not contained in Johnson's Dictionary. He is promised the assistance of several literary characters in various parts of the county towards the execution of this plan, which was suggested by a vocabulary of ancient words at present used in the mountainous district of the 142 Intelligence in Literature, and the Arts and Sciences. [March 1, West Riding of Yorkshire, given in the 17th volume of the Archæologia. calls the attention of the public to the present neglected state of the Mathematical Sciences in Great Britain. In proof of the little attention paid to such pursuits, he relates that 400 copies of Taylor's Logarithmic Tables constructed under the direction of the Board of Longitude, and a great number of the Sexagesimal Tables of the same author are now deposited for stowage in an old windmill on the borders of one of the lakes in Westmoreland, whither they were lately removed by the author's nephew, as there was not a sufficient demand for then to pay for warehouse-room and insurance while in London. Mr. JOSEPH SAMS, of Darlington, has his possession an original, ancient, and complete Manuscript of the Pentateuch, of which the following history is given. During the late wars on the Continent a Jewish family oʻopulence, to which there is reason to believe it to have belonged above 800 years, being reduced to utter Juin and compelled to emigrate, came to Holland; where as their last resource they were obliged to pledge this venerated manuscript of their law. As it was not redeemed by the appointed time it was sold by the person with whom it was deposited, and recently brought to England. It is believed to be from 14 to 1500 years old; it is of leather, forming ing two volumes about two feet wide and 69 in length. Each sheet is divided nto pages, 5 inches in width, the letters Being very large and excellently written. It is thought to be an unique, as well as the most ancient copy of the five books of Moses in existence. Mr. J. W. Ety is engraving in aquatinta, a Series of Designs for Shop Fronts, Entrances to Cottages, Villas, &c. from the Designs of Mr. W. DATSON, architect, at whose house in Lamb's Conduit-street, specimens may be inspected. Mr. CHITTY will speedily publish a Treatise on the Criminal Law of EngBand, with a copious Collection of Precedents, in 3 vois royal 8vo. Mr. Boosey, of Broad-street, is preparing an extensive Catalogue of German publications recently imported by him, including many works of high curiosity and interest. It will be ready for delivery in a few few days. Mr. J.H.L HENT has nearly ready for publication The Story of Rimini, a poem. A Narrative of a Journey to London is 1814, or a Parallel of the English and French, proceded by some Observations on the London Hospitals, by PHILIBERT JOSEPH ROUX, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at Paris, will appear in a few days in one 8vo. volume. The Rev. Dr. HAWKER has nearly completed his valuable Commentary on the Old and New Testaments with the Text at large. Part 57 is just publish ed, and the work will not make more than 40 Parts. An edition of a smaller sze, without the Text, is also published at a very moderate price. fu the last number of Dr. THOMSON'S Annals of Philosophy, a correspondent Dr. MERRIMAN, Physician-Accoucheur to the Middlesex Hospital, and ConsultPhysician-Accoucheur to the Westminster General Dispensary, is delivering a Course of Lectures on Midwifery at the former Institution. Mr. CLARKE will commence his next Course of Lectures on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children, at the Lecture-room, Saville-row, on Monday, March 18th. The Lectures are read every morning from a quarter past ten to a quarter past eleven, for the convenience of students attending the hose pitals. Sir HUMPHRY DAVY has prosecuted his useful labours for the benefit of miners, as detailed in our last, and farther experiments have enabled him to improve upon the invention there describe ed. Their results were submitted by their distinguished Author to the Royal Society in two papers read on the 11th and 25th of January. "Since the paper and the Appendix have been printed," says he," the consideration of the principle has led me to a discovery which appears the most important in the whole progress of these researches. "When I found that explosive mixtures admitted through narrow metallic canals brought in contact with flame, burnt only at the surface where they issued, I had hopes of keeping up a constant flame from explosive mixtures issuing from tubes or canals; but on trying this, even in atmospherical air, it failed. Conceiving that the failure was owing sides of the canal, it occurred to me to try to the great cooling powers of the metallic the metallic wire flame sieves, and with these I had perfect success. "I inclosed a very small lamp in a cylinder made of wire gauze having 6400 apertures in the square inch. I closed all apertures except those of the gauze, and introduced the lamp burning brightly within the |