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A Treatise on Greyhounds, with observations on their treatment and disorders, is in the press.

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Egypt; a series of engravings, exhibiting the scenery, antiquities, architecture, costume, inhabitants, animals, &c. of that country; selected from the celebrated work by Vivant Denon. Part III. containing the temple of Thebes, at Kournou; the statues of Memnor: view of Karnak, at day-break: view of Luxor: remarkable ancient planisphere: Egyptian antiquities: twenty-two portraits of na. tives: will be completed in twenty parts, price 5s. each.

Histoire de l'Origine des Progrès et de la Décadence des Diverses Factions, qui ont agité la France depuis 1789, jusqu'à l'abdication de Napoleon. Par Joseph Lavallée, ancien capitaine d'infanterie et ancien chef de division à la grande chancellerie de la legion d'honneur. 3 vol. 8vo. 17. 78.

The Monthly Magazine for March last, having inserted some articles from the Analectic Magazine, makes the following remarks, in answer to a reproach contained in one of those articles against the affected contempt with which the writers of old England, and especially the critics, treat every thing written in this new world." Writers and editors in America, and in other countries, complain justly of that wicked spirit of writers in England, which seeks to create and perpetuate national animosities; justice, however, to the intelligent part of our country, compels us to explain that the writers in question are no legitimate part of the English public, but sordid agents of unprincipled ministers, who flourish best in times of public calamity, and are happy only in the degree in which they see others miserable. The practice is also part of a series of political frauds, designed to reconcile to political impositions the great and small vulgar, who, in every country, constitute the majority of the population; for he will not grumble who allows himself to be persuaded, that, whatever be the extent and variety of his sufferings, he is better off than all other people. This principle is illustrated at length in Machiavel; who is still the standard of truth and virtue among Eu-. ropean statesmen; though its influence, happily, has not reached America. There is, besides, another and a better apology for our national literati, namely: -that many of the writers in question are not Englishmen, but anglicised Germans, who are preferred for such dirty work; and, having obtained the control of several of our public journals, propagate, through their medium, doctrines of servility and passive obedience, and other sentiments which are alien to the ancient and honoured feelings of Englishmen."

John Scott, the author of A Visit to Paris in 1814, has published a volume entitled, Paris Revisited in 1815, by way of Brussels. We select a passage which does credit to the author:-" The political institutions of society are at least as far from having reached perfection, as the arts and sciences; and if change and experiment are not so practicable in the former as in the latter, yet, in proportion as it is mischievous to tamper with them but when the occasion is clear, the opportunity striking, and the call urgent, it is dangerous and guilty to withstand those great invitations which at intervals summon mankind to improve their condition.-It would be stupidly base to set down all these disturbances that have of late years agitated Europe, to a wilful and unfounded temper of popular insubordination:-the convulsion can only fairly be considered as a natural working, accompanied with painful and diseased symptoms, but occasioned by the growth of men's minds beyond the institutions that had their origin in a very inferior state of information. Nor should England consider herself out of the need of advancing herself further, because she is already advanced beyond her neighbours; on the contrary, her strength and wisdom lies in maintaining her wonted prerogative of being the first to move forward in a safe road,—of first catching the bright prospect of further attainments,-and securing for herself, in the independence and fortitude of her judgment, what others tardily copy from her practice. The vigorous habits of action and thought, which her rulers

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have found so valuable in the late struggle for national fame and pre-eminence, are only to be preserved, as they were engendered,-namely, by admitting popular opinion to busy itself with the internal affairs of the country, to exercise itself freely on the character of its political establishments, to grapple on even ground with professional and official prejudices and prepossessions, and finally, to knock every thing down that does not stand firm in its own moral strength.— This is England's duty to herself,-and to the world at large she owes an equally sacred one: viz. so to regulate the application of her influence and power, that it shall oppose no tendency to good,-that it shall never be available to evil and bigoted designs, masking themselves under canting professions,—but justify those loud and confident calls which she has every where addressed to generous hearts and fine spirits."

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 Biographia Britannica; the author will subjoin a Life of JOHN EGERTON, 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 commercial prosperity, certainly deserved such a monument, in which at some 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 picces, important state-papers, 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. 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 ASHBRIDGE COLLECTION: MSS. FRANCIS HENRY EGERTON, there exist, at letter T, v. xxxiv. 1, thirty original autograph letters of the Mareschal de Turenne, and also two other pieces which particularly relate to the history of his life.

Mr. THOS. 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 Proclus, 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 extracts from his treatise on the Subsistence of Evil: as preserved in the Bibliotheca Gr. of Fabricius.-250 copies only will be printed.

The Life of the late Thomas Holcroft, written by himself, and announced for publication soon after his death, has been for some reason not assigned hitherto, 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.

Dr. Granville has in the press a translation of that part of Orfila's General Toxicology which more particularly relates to poisons derived from the animal and vegetable kingdoms. This subject having formed a very important part of Dr. Granville's scientific studies, he has been enabled to accompany his translation with copious notes and additions.

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