of Scotland, from original materials, to which he has obtained access by means of the parlia mentary commissioners for making roads and building bridges in the Highlands of Scotland. The elaborate military survey of the main-land of Scotland, made in the middle of the last century, and preserved in his Majesty's library, has been copied and reduced for the present maps and the several proprietors of the western islands have communicated all their surveys, most of which have been very recently executed. In addition to the astronomical observations heretofore known, many latitudes and longitudes have been purposely ascertained for this map, as well as a considerable number of magnetic variations. This map is to be accompanied by a memoir explanatory of the several documents from which it has been constructed. The publication may be expected in the course of the winter. Mr. H. Siddons, has nearly ready for publication, a copious work on the Theory of Gesture and Action, which is to be illustrated by more than sixty engravings of characteristic figures. Mr. P. Kelly, master of the commercial academy in Finsbury Square, is preparing a new and accurate work on exchanges, to form one large quarto volume, entitled the Universal Cambist. Mr. K. takes for his foundation Kruse's Hamburgh Contorist, which he has modernized, adapted to the English Standard, and considerably enlarged. It will contain new assays of the principal current coins by which the intrinsic par of exchange is determined. The cest will not exceed three guineas; and the price to subscribers will be half a guinea less than to the public. Mr. William Ticken, of the Royal Military College, will shortly publish a Treatise on the principles of geography, statistical, political, astronomical, historical, and mathematical, in a quarto volume with plates. The Rev. W. Bawdwen proposes to publish by subscription, in one quarto volume, a translation of Domesday book, as far as it relates to the county of York, and the district of Amounderness in Lancashire; with an introduction, notes, and a glossary of obsolete terms. An account of the present state of the Cape of Good Hope, containing a general description of the country, the mountains, bays, rivers, &c. the trade and commerce, and the natural history of the Southern part of Africa, will soon appear in a duodecimo volume, with a map of the colony engraved by Mr. Lowry. Mr. Thelwall intends to publish, in a moderately sized quarto volume, his philosophical course of Lectures, with scientific notes, and practical illustrations. Mr. Rannie has in the press, a volume of Plays and Poems, which will be published in a few days. Mr. Brewster, the author of the Melations of a Recluse, is printing two volumes of le tures on the Acts of the Apostles, read to his parishioners at Stockton. The naval, military, and private practitioner's Amanuensis Medicus et Chirurgicus by Dr. Cuming, superintendant of the naval hospital, at Antigua, is in the press. M. Mordente has in the Press a Spanish Grammar, for the use of students preparing for the Royal Military College. The papers of the late illustrious Lord Macartney have been confided to Mr. Barrow, by his lordship's executors; and will be soon published, with full and accurate memoirs of his Lordship's long and active life. Mr. John Thornhill, of Gateshead in the county of Durham, intends to publish by subscription, a Treatise on British Pasture and Meadow Grasses: about thirty kinds of grasses will be described, and a specimen of each, having all the parts, roots, leaves, stem and spike or panicle, will be given, together with a small packet of the seeds of each plant. The price to subscribers will be fifteen shillings. Mr. Johnes proposes to publish a supplementary volume to his quarto edition of Froissart's Chronicles; containing memoirs of the life of the Author; the various readings produced for the projected new Louvre edition; an account of the celebrated manuscript of the chronicles at Breslaw, with various readings and additions, and an account of the death of Richard II. of England, extracted from a manuscript in the national library at Paris. Mr. J. having succeeded so well in his translation of Froissart's chronicles, is translating "Joinville," in which he has made considerable progress. Mr. Robert Hamilton, teacher of elocution in the colleges of Aberdeen, intends to publish The Elements of Elocution, intended for the improvement of youth in the pronunciation and delivery of the English lan guage. Mr. Murray, lecturer in Chemistry, at Edinburgh, has in the press a System of Chemistry, which may be expected in the course of the ensuing winter. Dr. Gilbert Gerrard D. D. Professor of Divinity, will publish Institutes of Biblical Criticisin, or, Heads of a course of Lectures on that subject, read in the University of Kings College Aberdeen in 8vo. The Rev. James Headrick has in the press, A View of the Mineralogy, Fisheries, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c. of the Island of Arran in 8vo. : Mr. Combe, of the British Museum, will soon publish an appendix to the valuable work of his father, Dr. Combe, intituled, Nummi veterum Populorum et Urbrium qui in Museo G. Hunter M. D. asservantur. Beausobre's Introduction to the New Testament is reprinting at Cambridge, being used in that University as a Lecture Book. The Earl of Buchan is collecting all the MSS and drawings of the late Mr. Barry, with a view to publish them for the benefit of some indigent relations of that celebrated artist. Walter Scott, Esq., is about to publish the Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby, Bart., from 1638 to 1648, written by himself. Also Memoirs of Capt. John Hodgson, touching his conduct in the civil wars, written by himself. To each work will be added various important papers relative to the operations of Oliver Cromwell and his army while they were in Scotland. Mr. Jamieson is collecting for publication Popular Ballads and Songs, froni tradition, MSS., and scarce editions, with translations of similar pieces from the ancient Danish language, with a few original poems by the editor: they will form 2 vols. 8vo. A Treatise on the Varieties, Consequences, and Treatment of Opthalmia, with a preliminary Inquiry into its contagious nature, by Dr. Edmonstone, is in the press, and nearly completed. The Rev. R. Yates, author of the Monastic History of St. Edmund's Bury, is engaged on a circumstantial comprehensive and connected Historical memoir, of the various public Charities of the Metropolis. Dr. Crotch, Lecturer on the Science of Music at the Royal Institution, proposes to publish the first volume of Specimens of various styles of Music. Mr. Rogers, author of the Pleasures of Memory, has nearly finished a poem on the Horrors of Jacobinism. The Rev. J. Robinson is engaged in a new work on the Antiquities of Grecce. The leading features of the Gospel delineated, by the Rev. N. Sloan, Minister of Dornock, Dumfrieshire, will appear in a few days. The Rev. Mr. Rogers has finished the third and fourth volume of his Lectures on the Liturgy. The Rev. J. Lawson, author of Lectures on Ruth, intends to publish some Lectures on the History of Joseph. Several persons of literary distinction in the University of Oxford, intend to commence the publication of a periodical literary Censor. Mr. Pratt proposes to publish a selection of British Poetry, in six or seven small volumes; accompanied by a critical and historical Essay on British Poetry. Henry Mackenzie, Esq., one of the Directors of the Highland Society of Scotland, Proposals have been issued for publishing by subscription, a French historic poem, having for its title Les Fastes Britanniques, being a concise and yet comprehensive abridgement of the History of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar, down to the present time, by M. Lenoir, professor of the French language and Belles Lettres, author of the French and English Emblematic Logographic Spelling Book, and several other approved publications. The author of the Romance of the Pyrenees has a novel in the press, entitled Santo Sebastiano, or, the Young Protector. In the press, and speedily will be publish ed, the British Indian Monitor, or the An tijargonist; the Stranger's Guide, Oriental Linguist, and various other works, compressed into two portable volumes, on the Hindoostance Language, improperly called Moors ; with considerable information respecting Eastern tongues, manners, customs, &c. that previous time, and the voyage to the EastIndies, may both be rendered agreeably subservient to the speedy acquisition of much useful knowledge on Indian affairs, intimately connected with future health, fame, happiness, and fortune, in that remote, but promising portion of the British empire. By the author of Hindoostance Philology, &c. The Literary Society of Bombay, of which Sir James Mackintosh is President, will shortly publish a Volume of Transactions. Country gentlemen will be interested in An Architectural work on farm-houses, farmyards, dog-kennels, stables, cottages, &c. shewing at large the construction of different farms, buildings, cottages, &c. by Mr. Lugar, author of Plans for Villas, &c. which will be published in a few days. A collection of the best Plans with Eleva tions and Sections of green-houses, hot-houses, peach-houses, &c. built for various noblemen and gentlemen, by M. Tod, hot-house builder, will be ready for publication in the course of this month. An edition of Hollingshead's Chronicle is now in the press, and is intended as the first of a series of the English Chronicles. A genuine and correct report of the speeches of the late Right Hon. William Pitt in the House of Commons, from his entrance into Parliament in 1780 to the close of the Session in 1785, is in the press, and will be published about November. They are dedicated. by permission to Lord Grenville, and the Editor has been aided by communications from several distinguished members of both Houses of Parliament. AMERICA. THE Christian Monitor, a new periodical work to be published quarterly, commenced at Boston, in February last. The Medical and Agricultural Register commenced last January; it is a monthly publication 10 pages per number, 8vo. price 1 dollar a year. Mr. Joseph T. Buckingham of Boston, publishes in monthly numbers, commencing January 1800, a work called the Polyanthos. Its aim is to please the learned, and enlighten the ignorant; to allure the idle from folly, and confirm the timid in virtue." It contains American biography, with portraits. Mr. Carpenter has commenced at Charlestown, South Carolina, a new periodical publication, intituled The Monthly Register, and Review of the United States. It will be conducted, as nearly as possible, on the plan of the English Annual Register: each number will be divided into two parts, the first will be a Ilistorica and Political, the second, a Miscellaneous and Literary Register. In the city of New York a number of gentlemen have instituted an association, styled "The New York Historical Society," its object is to promote the knowledge of the civil, literary, and ecclesiastical History of America. The Posthumous works of the late Charles Nisbet, D. D. President of Dickenson College, are in the press, and will shortly be published. Letters from Europe, during a tour through Switzerland and Italy, in 1801 and 1802, written by a native of Philadelphia, are just published by A. Bartram, Philadelphia. Mrs. Warren has in the press, a fistory of the rise, progress, and termination, of the American Revolutionary War. The second volume of Dr. Holmes's American Annals, is in the press. Mr. W. W. Woodward is reprinting at Philadelphia, the third volume of Scott's Commentary on the Bible. The same bookseller has in the press, editions of Bigland's Letters on the Study and Use of Ancient and Modern History. The Miscellaneous works of the late Rev. Richard Baxter. Village Dialogues, by the Rev. R. Hill. Carr's Travels round the Baltic.―This Author's Stranger in France, has been already reprinted at Baltimore, by G. Hill. Messrs. Lincoln and Gleason are reprinting at Hartford, Sermons, by the Rt. Rev. Beilby Porteus, D. D. Bishop of London. Messrs. S. and E. Butter, are reprinting at Northampton, Massachusetts, the same author's Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew. This is the second American edition, and is copied from the fifth London edition. Messrs. D. and J. West, Boston, are reprinting the Sabbath, a poem. Messrs. Munroe and Francis, Boston, are publishing an edition of Southey's Madoc, in numbers. They are likewise printing a complete edition of holim's Ancient History, illustrated with plates, in 8 vol. 12mo. Messrs. Collins, Perkins, and Co. have re-published Lindley Murray's Sequel to the English Reader, and most of the other esteemed works of this author. The fifth edition of Dr. Morse's Universal Geography, is lately published, containing, in a separate 4to volume, a general atlas of the world, on 03 maps, comprising all the new discoveries to the present me. Mr. C. Bingham has reprinted, at Boston, Kett's Elements of General knowledge, 2 vols. 12mo. Mr. J. Thomas, of Worcester, intends to publish an American edition of President Edwards's works, to be prepared for the press and superintended by the Rev. Samuel Austin and others. Messrs. Thomas and Whipple, have published an edition of Dr. Young's Centaur not fabulous. Mrs. Susannah Rowson has published, at Boston, An Abridgement of Universal Geography, together with Sketches of History, designed for the Use of Schools in the United States. A variety of other books are forward at the American press but many are reprints of English works. DENMARK. A Danish Dictionary, on a plan similar to that of the Dictionnaire de l'Academie Française, and which is intended to fix the orthography and form the standard of the language; has been for some time in the hands of the most distinguished literati of the country, and is now in some degree of forwardness. It is undertaken at the expense, and conducted under the direction of the Royal Danish Society of the Sciences. GREECE. Demeter Alexandrides, a physician of Ternarwa, in Thessaly, has lately translated into modern Greek, Goldsmith's History of Greece. The first volum, accompained by a map of ancient Greece, has already been published. FRANCE. A new periodical paper is projected at Paris, a gazette printed in Spanish, to be published every Wednesday and Saturday. RUSSIA General Alexander Palizyn has translated Lord Macartney's Embassy to China into the Russian language. SWEDEN. Barrow's Travels in Southern Africa have been translated in an abridged form into the Swedish language, by P. Olaf Gravander, of the University of Upsal. OBITUARY. Right Hon. LORD THURLOW.-On Friday morning, September 13, at three o'clock, at his house, on the West Cliff, Brighton. Lord Thurlow was a profound lawyer, a powerful orator, a dignified judge, and an independent statesman. He was in his 71st year. He died of a lethargy, proceeding froma slight affection of the gout, a complaint from which he had not been entirely free for years. -He was born in 1735, and was the son of the Rev. T. Thurlow, a respectable clergy man, of Ashfield, in Suffolk. He studied at Cambridge, and, after the usual terms in the Temple, was called to the bar, where his talents and manly, though rough manner, rendered him eminent. In 1762 he was appointed one of his Majesty's Counsel; in March, 1770, was made Solicitor-General; and in January, 1771, Attorney-General. In June, 1778, he was created a Peer, by the title of Lord Thurlow, of Ashfield, in Suffolk, and next day received the Seals as Lord High Chancellor of England. In this office he remained during the latter part of Lord North's Ministry, and continued in office during the Administration of the Marquis of Rockingham and Lord Shelburne. In April, 1783, when the Coalition Ministry took place, he resigned, and the seals were put in commission; but in December, the same year, he was re-appointed Chancellor, on the commencement of the Administration of Mr. Pitt, to whom he was then considered as a sort of political tutor. From this period till June, 1792, his Lordship gave his firm and able support to the Cabinet. Since that time he has lived mostly private; but, although out of office, has frequently been consulted on state affairs by his Majesty; and the Prince of Wales has, on every occasion of moment, had recourse to his advice. The Right Hon. C. J. Fox.-September 14, at a quarter before six o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, at Devonshire House, Chiswick, in the arms of his nephew, Lord Holland. He was born on January 13, O. S. 1749; was second son of Henry the first Lord Holland, who was also the second son of Sir Stephen Fox. His Mother was sister to the Duke of Richmond, and great grand-daughter of King Charles II. He may therefore be considered as having been related to the Royal Family of this country.-Mr. Fox was sent to Westminster School; thence he was removed to Eton, where he became remarkably eminent. Here he formed his early friendships with the Earl of Fitzwilliam, Lord Carlisle, his cousin the Duke of Leinster, and other distinguishen persons. He was afterwards sent to Oxford, at which place his talents and learning created great admiration. He staid but a short time at Oxford, and then made the tour of Europe. In this tour he lavished such immense sums of money, that even his father, who had long considered his extraordinary wealth as only acquired for the accomodation of his extraordinary son Charles, threatened to dishonour his bills. In the 20th year of his age he was returned to parliament for the Borough of Midhurst. During all the proceedings of the House of Commons relative to the memorable Middlesex Election, Mr. Fox stood forward as the champion of the Ministry, and Lord North, then First Lord of the Treasury in the beginning of 1772, nominated him to a seat at the Admiralty Board; and, in the latter part of the same year, made him a Lord of the Treasury; but, opposing government respecting the Ainerican colonies, in 1774, he was dismissed; after which time he was looked up to as a leader of the opposition party. On the defeat of Lord North by the Rockingham party, Mr. Fox was nominated Secretary of State for the Foreign Department. The death of that nobleman, in July, 1782, terminated that short administration. Lord Shelburne and Mr. Pitt now came in, but in April, 1783. the celebrated coalition took place between Mr. Fox and Lord North; and these heretofore opposed characters became for a short time, directors of the affairs of Britain, the Duke of Portland being first Lord of the Treasury. In December the same year Mr. Pitt, with the Grenville interest, succeeded in overthrowing this phalanx, and remained in power till March, 1801, when Mr. Pitt was succeeded by Mr. Addington, who, in October, made peace with France, an event at which Mr. Fox expressed his highest satisfaction. On the succeeding war, and subsequent restoration of Mr. Pitt to the Ministry, Mr. Fox, exerted himself in opposition. Mr. Pitt's death, January 23, 1806, annihilated that administration. Mr. Fox, who had formerly been excluded from the list of Privy Council lors, was now recalled, and, on the 7th of February, was again appointed Secretary of State for the Foreign Department. Further accounts of these eminent charac ters may be expected in our next number. ABROAD. Mr. J. J. Bachelier, director of the gratuitous drawing school, member of the late academy of Painting, rector of the special school of Painting, at Paris, April 13, aged 82. Few artists have ever exercised a more powerful influence. In 1765, he founded the gratuitous drawing school for the benefit of poor mechanics, which in 1766 was opened to 1,500 pupils. The Porcelain manufacture of Sevres is indebted to him for its first improvements. He had the direction of it 44 years. He entirely renounced the former fashion of Chinese figures, and first introduced designs of other ornamental kinds. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Sept. 2. The King has been pleased to appoint Philip Lake Godsal, Esq. to be Lieutenant of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, vice Roger Elliot Roberts, Esq. resigned. Sept. 6. The Board of Ordnance is to have a crest and supporters to their arms. Sept. 19. The King has been pleased to nominate and appoint Major General Sir John Stuart, Knight, to be one of the Knights Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. In the hurry of publishing the Extraordinary Gazette on Friday, the 5th instant, the following passage in Sir John Stuart's Dispatch was omitted to be inserted between the paragraph in p. 1149, ending with the words, "during my movement," and the paragraph beginning, "After some loose firing." "Had General Regnier thought proper to remain иpon his ground, the difficulties of access to him were such, that I could not possibly have made an impression upon him. But quitting this advantage, and crossing the river with his entire force, he came down to meet us upon the open plain; a measure to which he was, no doubt, encouraged by a consideration of his cavalry, an arm with which, unfortunately, I was altogether unprovided." EANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Sept. 6. Wm. Hibbert, Hollinwood, Chadderton, Lancashire, victualler. BANKRUPTS. Sept. 2. David Roberts, Trump street, warehouseman. Sept. 6. John Carr, Pontefract, Yorkshire, grocer. T. G. Williamson, Paradise street, Rotherhithe, mariner. Sept. 9. T. Rogers, Liverpool, broker. J. Parnell, Deal, innkeeper. J. Hopkins, Alcester, Warwickshire, grocer. S. Southall and J, Drakeford, Birmingham, factors. Sept. 13. R. Rawlinson, Liverpool, saddler. W. Austin, Dursley, Gloucestershire, glass-seller. Sept. 20. John Gaskill, Nottingham, broker. J. H. Kvan and Edw. Hoskins, Wapping Dock street, coal merchants. J. Rudhall and W. Hobson, of Birmingham, linen-drapers Sept. 9. C. Battershy, Wapping High streer, shipchandler. Rob. Guy, Swan vard, Shoreditch, victualler. W. Humfrys the eider, and W. Humfrys the younger, Old Fish street, grocers. Rd. Gore, Liverpool, linen-draper. M. Farnell, Ashby.de-la-Zouch, banker. H. Bagg, Beaminster, Dorsetshire, shopkeeper. Sept. 13. R. Harris, Maidstone, woollen-draper. J. Berriman, Brewer's street, Pimlico, florist. Wm. Remnant, Chancery lane, plumber. T. and G. Maltby, Size lane, merchants. s. Cartwright, Maiden lane, Wood street, hosier. W. Joynson and R. Lewis, Manchester, corn dealers. J. Clowes, Frith House Mill, Halifax, Yorkshire, cotton spinner. P. Padbury, Bensington, Oxfordshire, coach-maker. G. Brittan, Bristol, grocer. Danney, Windsor, apothecary. J. Steane, Newport, Isle of Wight, liquor merchant. James Kenyon, Liverpool, merchant. J. Proctor the younger, Lancaster, merchant. W. Sept. 16. John Cox, Penzlewood, Somersetshire, miller. Thomas Gilks, Warwick, corn-factor. Thomas Leeson, Packwood, Warwickshire, mercer. Edward Cheverton, Newport, Isle of Wight, linen and woollen-draper. Thomas Harvey, Newport, Isle of Wight, ironmonger. William Gibbs, Newport, Isle of Wight, hackneyman. John King, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, miller. J. Harrison and Robert Rigg, Manchester, manufacturers. Samuel Ouse, Heyrod inill, Lancashire, cotton-spinner. William Bulgin, Bristol, printer. Sept. 20. Thomas Clifford, Blackdown-mill, Warwickshire, mealman. R. Lows, Kinderton, Chester, miller. Henry Nicholson, Bridge street, Westminster. John Stevens, Chester place, Lambeth, mariner. James Aspinar, Birmingham, merchant. John Wayne, Brassington, Derbyshire, butcher. Thomas Griffiths, Fore street, Spitalfields, silk weaver. John Morgan, Conduit street, Hanover square, bookseller. Robert Hampton, Rotherham, York, shopkeeper. John Dixon, William Jeffery Dixon, James Jardine, and John Dickson, Exeter, merchants. William Thayer Penney, Sloane terrace, mariner. John Moriev, Stewardstone, Essex, miller. Edward Whitelock, Queen's row, Pentonville, in-urance-broker. Henry Wilson Brown, Cannon street, London, shoe manufacturer. Corless, late of Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton-manufac. turer. Martin Fowler, Cotton in the Elins, Derby-hire, banker. William Bosina, late of Christopher street, Finsbury square, merchant. John Thomas, Manchester, cotton-spinner. LONDON WEEKLY RETURNS OF WHEAT. Richard Jetery Folds, Inghey, in the Forest of Trawdon, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer. Nathaniel Denham, of Walworth, Surrey, mariner. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 9. George Lambert, Holborn, victualler. Herbert Bourne, St. James's street, silk mercer. Charles Lovelock, Durham street, Strand, dealer in wine. Nathaniel Lonsdale and Thomas Thompson, Bedford street, Covent garden, woollen-drapers. Anthony Peck, Gravesend, carpenter. Edward Coats, Thomas Massey, and Joseph Hall, Horninglow, Staffordshire, brewers. Sprigg, Birni gham, linen-draper, T. Cortis and John Cortis, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, grocers. James Cross, Zachary Bayly, sen. Zachary Bayly, jun. Nathaniel Bayley, Robert Gutch, and Tabuas Cross, Bath, bankers. John Sept. 6. Charles Worky, Wood street, Cheapsipe warehouseman. James Aveline. Ross, Herefordshire, grocer. Thomas Pate Wimberley, Huntingdon, grocer. John Fry, New Goulston street, Whitechapel, sugar-refiner. Robert Stafford the younger, Huntingdon, grocer. Robert 16 PRICE OF MEAT. Smithfield, per stone of 8lb. to Beef. Mutton. Veal. Pork. Lamb. Sept. 5 5s od 5s Od 5s4d 4 6 54 |