leaving the further application of a great social truth, which we have adduced solely because it is apposite, to the liberal and judicious consideration of our

readers.

Mr. JEREMY BENTHAM, whose researches in legislation and mechanics have for many years interested his friends and the public, has permitted his papers on the Theory of Punishments and Rewards to be published at Geneva, under the super-vision of M. DUMONT. The plan of his Panopticon, or transpa⚫ rent Penitentiary House, has long been before the public, but was too bold a project to be adopted by a government under a jarring and mixed influence like our own; yet the idea of circular buildings exposed to the central eye of the keepers, is adopted in the new and vast Penitentiary House now erecting in the swamp of Tothill Fields. In the last Edinburgh Review is to be found an analysis of the work of Messrs. Bentham and Dumont, written in the true spirit of ge. nuine criticism,-calculated to enlighten the reader, while it does justice to the prolonged and ingenious labours of the author.

We are happy to learn that the History of Great Britain, from the Revolution in 1688, to the French Revolution in 1789, by Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, M.P. LL.D. F.R.S. is proceeding, and will not exceed three or four quarto volumes.

Dr. WOLCOT is preparing the Travels of the Parish Clerk of Dr. Syntax, to be illustrated with caricatures, and with anecdotes of methodism.

Lady MORGAN, who has so often grati fied the public under the name of Miss Owenson, has in the press a national tale, in the manner of her Wild Irish Girl.

Miss EDGEWORTH announces a new novel, under the title of "Patronage."

Lord GLENBERVIE, chairman and first commissioner of his Majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, is preparing for publication a Treatise, practical and experimental, on the Cultivation of Timber, particularly Oak, for domestic and naval purposes.

Mr. TAP.DY, surgeon, whose success in the treatment of insanity we have had occasion to notice, has formed an esta blishment, on an extensive scale, at Forty Hill, near Enfield, where he purposes to practise the method of cure by cold and warm affusions, and by all the other means known to the Faculty. In those descriptions of cases in which the atfusion of water is deemed etüicacious, patients

will enjoy the advantages of Mr. Tardy's improved practice, and we hope, from time to time, to be able to lay the suecessful results before our readers. In other cases his treatment will be similar to that of existing establishments.

Mr. LODGE, the Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. and author of the Biographical Tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads," announces Portraits of Illustrious Perso nages of Great Britain; with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions. It will consist of twenty parts, forming two handsome volumes in folio, printed in the finest manner, and each part will contain six portraits with Biographical Memoirs attached.

The Rev. Mr. SHARPE proposes pub. lishing by subscription, in one volume royal quarto, a Translation of the His tory of the Kings of England, from the arrival of the Saxons, A.D. 449, to his own times, A.D. 1143, by William of Malmsbury, collated from authentic MSS. with an Introduction, Notes, and an Index.

More than sixty individuals in this metropolis have for above three years subsisted wholly on vegetables, fruits, and distilled water, enjoying during that period robust health, and an exemption from those maladies which, under the direction of Dr. LAMBE, led to their adoption of this simple regimen. The editor of this Magazine, from considerations of a different nature, has abstained from all animal food for three and thirty years; but Dr. Lambe carries his abstinence still further, by abstaining from all stimulants which excite thirst, so that we are told he does not drink a pint of any liquid in a month. One of the disciples of Dr. Lambe, Mr. NEWTON, of Chesterstreet, has published, under the title of "A Return to Nature," a very ingenious and able illustration of the system, which merits the notice of the inquisitive and philosophical part of the public.

It appears from outlines of a plan for erecting public steam mills, to keep the price of flour, at all times, within a due proportion to the price of wheat, allowing a fair and handsome profit to the manufacturer, that the consumption of flour in London is twenty thousand sacks per week, and that the late Albion Mills reduced the price of grinding from 5s. 6d. to 2s. 10d. per sack.

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Mr. J. P. MALCOLM announces Excursion through the Forest of Charnwood, in the County of Leicester, in the Year 1793, illustrated by many plates.

MISS PORTER will speedily publish a new Novel, under the title of The Pastor's Fire-side.

A translation is preparing of a Voyage round the World, in the Years 1803, 4, 5, 6, performed by the order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander I. Emperor of Russia, in the Ship Neva, commanded by Jurey Lisiausky, Captain in the Rus sian Navy.

The Ninth Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society has been published. In Europe, it has establishments, in Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Russia, Ger. many, Switzerland, and France; and Corresponding Societies are fixed at Basle, Berlin, Lithuania, Ratisbon, Zurich, and Greece. In Asia, Calcutta has formed a society. Ceylon has a society: the labours of translation are even extended to China. Africa has a subscription at the Cape of Good Hope. In America many associations are formed, and also in many of the West India Islands. The coast of Labrador, Nova Scotia, and both the Canadas, partake this benefit. At home, the augmentation of exertions, in the shape of auxiliary societies, branch societies, penny-a-week societies, and Bible associatious, is alto gether unexampled.

The committee of this excellent Society, with a view to repair, as far as they could consistently with the object and principles of the society, the loss occasioned by the fire at Serampore, have generously granted two thousand reams of paper, at an expense of about 2,800l. which in India will be worth 50007. and they have made this grant in addition to 5000l. and sundry other supplies furnished to India in the current year.

A new edition of the Greek Testament, with Griesbach's Text, by the Rev. E. VALPY, B. D. Trinity College, Cambridge, is in the press. It will contain copious notes from Hardy, Raphel, Kykpe, Schleusner, Rosenmuller, &c. in familiar Latin: together with parallel passages from the classics, and with refereuces to Vigerus for idioms, and Bos for ellipses. In two volumes octavo. few copies will be struck off on large

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Proposals have been issued for print ing the Syriac Lexicon, originally com posed by M. Schaaf, which comprehends all the words of the New Testament, and gives the inflections of the verbs and nouns. The Syriac New Testament is

considered as one of the most ancient extant.

M. GIESECKE is preparing for the press, an Account of his Seven Years* Residence in Greenland, and his Mineralogical Discoveries during that period.

Some Account of the Life and Writings, of the late ingenious Mrs. TRIMMER, with Extracts from her Journal, are printing in two octavo volumes.

There being at present no public es. tablishment for an Exhibition of Original Pictures in Water Colours, Mr. CRAIG, the justly celebrated painter in water colours, proposes to open in April, 1814, a grand saloon in the neighbourhood of Bond-street, furnished with pictures in water colours, and with drawings of subjects in history, landscape, cattle, still life, &c. executed chiefly for the purpose; and during this exhibition, in April and May, he will read a Course of Eight Lectures on the Principles and Practices of Drawing and Painting in Water Culours, as a branch of education; the whole being intended to form a complete series of scientific and prac tical instruction in this department of the Fine Arts.

Mr. SALT'S Second Voyage to Abyssinia, undertaken by order of Government, is in the press.

Dr. CHARLES BURNEY is preparing to publish from the Cambridge press, the Пapanen Zopistixǹ of Phrynichus, the second of the inedited grammatical works, of which transcripts were made for him some years ago at the National Library. at Paris, by M. Boissonade. Phrynichus will fill about as many pages as Philemon, with which it will make an uniform volume. It is to be printed at the expence of the University.

The Lexicon called "Αλλος ̓Αλφάβητος, will ere long see the light, under the auspices, and with the annotations of a most distinguished critical scholar.

An edition of Callimachus is in the press, which will contain a corrected text, with a collation of the Florentine and Venetian editions, a selection of notes including the whole of BENTLEY'S, with the fragments complete.

Professor YOUNG, of Glasgow, has in the press a small edition of the Nubes of Aristophanes, from Hermann's text.

A new Anti-fuliginous System of Mr. WM. PETHER, Architect, St. Michael'shill, Bristol, addresses itself to the notice of the inhabitants of London, and 3Y 2

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of other large towns where smoke is plentiful, and coal-fuel expensive. By this discovery, fires are made to consume their own sooty smoke-to preserve heat longer on its own level-to prevent the nuisance of smokey houses-to clear the atmosphere-and to decrease the annual expence of coals. This important system is now ready for the adoption of the public, but, for necessary and prudential reasons, must remain useless to the community and the inventor, till sufficient patronage is found to warrant him in divulging the principle and practice of his invention to the world.

The Rev. JOHN TOPLIS, B. D. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, has in the press, a translation of the Treatise upon Mechanics, which forms the introduction to the Mechanique Celeste of P. S. Laplace. It will be accompanied by copious explanatory notes and additions, which are intended in some degree to obviate those difficulties in the Mechanique Celeste, the Mechanique Analytique, &c. of which many readers complain who have not been conversant with the works of foreign mathematicians.

A Series of Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, has been announced for publication upon a very extended plan, accompanied with Historical and Biographical details of their Lives and Actions. This work is to consist of highly-finished engravings of portraits of the most distinguished cha racters in English History, from the earliest era whence authentic pictures can be traced, to about the year 1700. The engravings will be produced in the finest style; forming two volumes in folio, of the size of "Houbraken's Heads," but possessing the advantage of being engraved in every instance from an original picture, and authenticated by a reference to the collection in which it is now preserved.

A series of biblical prints is announced for publication, under the title of, "Illustrations of the Holy Bible;" to be completed in about one hundred copper-plate engravings, published without the text, and calculated to ornament all quarto and octavo editions of the Bible. The designs are all original, and executed by Mr. ISAAC TAYLOR, jun. and will be suitably engraved by Mr. Isaac Taylor,

sen.

A portion of descriptive letterpress, containing a clear and brief exposition of each subject, will be deli vered with the several parts, to accommodate purchasers who prefer having the

set of prints in a separate volume to ac company their Bible. Part 1, of this useful publication, contains ten prints, and is to be succeeded periodically by a part, with the same number of subjects, until the proposed quantity is com pleted.

The second and concluding volume of LANGSDORFF's Voyages and Travels, containing his journey from Kamschatka to the Aleutian Islands, the north-west coast of America, and return over-land through Siberia to Petersburgh, is an nounced for speedy publication.

Mr. ELTON, translator of Hesiod, is about to publish, "Specimens of the Classic Poets, in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus," translated into English verse, and illustrated with biographical and critical notices. The work will form three elegant octavo volumes.

The Letters of KLOPSTOCK and his friends have been translated from the German by Miss BENGER, and will be published in two volames.

The Essays and Letters of Professor GELLERT, translated from the German by ANNE PLUMPTRE, are announced.

Mr. SINGER will commence his lectures on Experimental Philosophy on Tuesday, the 18th of January, and those on Chemical Philosophy on Tuesday the 1st of March.

Early in January will be published the first number of a work, to be called, The Rejected Theatre, being a collection of dramas which have been offered for representation, but declined by the managers of the play-houses.

A Sentimental Journey through Margate and Hastings, by Dr. COMPARATIVE, jun. is in preparation.

A new novel is in the press by the author of the Blind Child, called Mystery and Confidence.

Mr. EZEKIEL WALKER conceives that positive electricity is oxygen, and nega tive, hydrogen; and thence the phenome non of combustion on their union takes place.

Notices have been sent us of two or three low and scurrilous works which pretend to give the history of the members of a neighbouring government. They would be unworthy even of this contemptuous notice were it not that some of them are printed at the expence of poli tical characters, and circulated with great zeal and industry. The good sense and moral feelings of the country ought to resent such base attempts to keep alive the embers of public discord.

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Mr. CLUTTERBUCK's History of Hertfordshire is in a very forward state. For the information of the subscribers a prospectus will shortly be published.

In January will be published a new edition of KAUFFMAN'S Dictionary of Merchandize, in all Languages, much en larged and improved.

Vol. II. of Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, by Mr. BLISS, is in great forwardness. Mr. JOHN SELLON has published a new Philosophical Theory, in which he maintains, that "the universe is composed of matter, the particles of which mutually attract each other; and of caloric, the particles of which mutually repel each other; while the particles of matter attract those of caloric, and those of caloric attract those of matter."

A work, in a bad and mischievous spirit, is announced, under the title of the Secrets of Occult Freemasonry disclosed, in which it is proposed to revive and countenance the exploded dreams of those political visionaries, BARRUEL and Ro

BISON.

Mr. ROBERTSON BUCHANAN, of Glasgow, author of a Treatise on Fuel, and on the means of heating Buildings by Steam, has made arrangements for furnishing apparatus for heating buildings in London and its neighbourhood by

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dred; three hundred of which are de cretals, papal bulls, and directions for ceremonial observances; of the rest, sixty are classical, but all Latin. Amongst the latter, is a manuscript of Cicero, which though of no very ancient date, (perhaps not earlier than the twelfth century) has evidently been transcribed from an original much more perfect than any hitherto known to be in existence. Of this, only the treatise, de Natura Deorum, has at present been collated by Professor Heiddeman, of Breslau, for the use of his pupils. The readings which it exhibits are excellent, and the lacunæ are all supplied. A new edition of Cicero's works is in contemplation, of which this valuable manuscript will be the basis.

At Breslau, M. SCHNEIDER has for some time been engaged in an edition of Theophrastus, in conjunction with M. Lunk, who furnishes his assistance in the botanical part.

Mr. WEIGEL, the Leipzig bookseller, has engaged Messrs. Boeck, Buttmann, Heindorf and Schleiermacher, to publish a critical edition of all the works of Plato. It is to contain a corrected text, a Latin version and annotations. The various scholia will be collected in separate volumes; and a Clavis Platonicus will complete the edition, which, it is calculated, will occupy about fifteen volumes octavo.

The same bookseller announces an edition of the Greek Bucolic writers, by Mr. HERMANN.

1. In a chemical combination of two or more oxidated bodies, (whether it consists of acid and acid, of acid and base, or of base with base,) the oxygen of the substance which is most abundant, is a multiple by a whole number (1, 2, 3, 4, ...) of the oxygen of the body which is least abundant; and in every chemical combination between two combustible substances, they are present in such quantities, that, if the compound be oxygenized, a new combination will be formed, which follows the

same law.