20th the strong fortress of Hameln surrendered to them; and on the 21st they took possession of Bremen. They have, however, almost entirely withdrawn from Hamburgh, after levying large contributions; and it seems that it has been found necessary to relax the severe ordinances first passed relative to British property in that city, and that its port has been again opened.

The king of Prussia having refused to accede to a proposed armistice, Napoleon set off from Berlin for the frontiers of Poland. At the same time addresses were forwarded to the Poles, exhorting them to free themselves from their masters, and resume a national existence under the protection of the French emperor. The latest information from those countries mentions the arrival of the French troops at Warsaw, and the retreat of the Russians across the Vistula, after having sustained some loss in various skirmishes.

An expedition under the command of general Crawford, which had long been detained by contrary winds, sailed in the beginning of December, supposed to be destined to the West Indies.

For a considerable time past, disturbances have prevailed in parts of Ireland, chiefly in the province of Connaught, excited by a set of banditti calling themselves Threshers, whose professed object is to resist the payment of tithes, but who seem likewise to have adopted principles of hostility to government in general. They have committed various outrages, and have hitherto set at defiance the attempts of the Irish government to quell them, A large body of chosen troops, now under orders for Ireland, is probably intended to prevent further mischief from these insurgents,

Adyices have been lately received of the melancholy loss of his Ma jesty's ship the Athenienne, of 64 guns, Capt. Raynsford, which, in its passage to Malta, struck upon a sunken rock in the Mediterranean, and was completely wrecked. The captain and 347 men and officers were drowned.

On December 15th the new Parliament met for the purpose of swearing in members, when Mr. Abbott was re-chosen Speaker of the House of Commons without opposition; and on Dec. 19th the King's Speech was read by the Lord Chancellor. Its purport was chiefly to prepare men's minds for the awful crisis now impending, and to animate them to adequate exertions against "the formidable and increasing power of the enemy." It asserts that the resistance of the king of Prussia to the usurpations of France was without any previous concert with his Majesty, but avows the measures taken to unite councils and interests with him. It extols the good faith of our remaining allies, and suggests the necessity of cultivating their friendship. the prospects with which the year 1806 concludes !

Such are

LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

A MAGNIFICENT design, highly interesting to the Arts, is in progress under the title of The British Gallery of Pictures, to be published in Numbers, in two Series; the First, containing a Description of the Cabinets and Galleries of Pictures in Great Britain, embellished with Engravings, on a small Scale, from all the best and most interesting Paintings in the different Collections.

The Second, containing a History of Painting and its Professors; embellish éd with highly finished Specimens from the Works of the most celebrated Masters, selected from the finest examples in Great Britain. Together with a descriptive Elucidation of the peculiar Excellence of cach Painting, and Anecdotes of the Pictures.

Of this Work, the historical and descriptive part will be undertaken by Mr. Ottley. The Engravings will be executed by Mr. P. W. Tomkins, Historical Engraver to her Majesty, Mr. L. Schiavonetti, Mr. A. Cardon, and other eminent artists. The whole will be superintended by Mr. Tresham. Each number of the First Series will contain four plates, each including several Pictures; and of the Second Series, three highly-finished prints. A number of each will be published once a quarter, till a more rapid delivery can be accomplished; and the whole, it is expected, will not exceed 50 numbers. The particulars of this great national work are given in a detailed prospectus.

A new edition of the Chronicles of Hollingshed, which are become extremely scarce and valuable, is about to be published; which will comprize all the omissions of the original edition, but in other respects will be an exact copy of the author's own language and orthography, only changing the black letter for a modern and handsome type.

Captain Williamson, from whose designs and notes, that magnificent work, "The Wild Sports of India," has been published, has undertaken a tour through Great Britain for the purpose of making a complete Agricultural and Statistical Survey of the island, the result of which will be published, in a Description of Great Britain, to be printed in numbers with illustrative plates: the whole to make at least 6 vols. in 8vo.

The first volume of Bibliotheca Greca, in 8vo. intended to comprize a series of the best Greek Authors, has lately been published at Paris. This volume contains the various history of Aelian, and the fragments of Heraclides of Pontus, and Nicolas of Damascus. These editions are principally intended for the use of native Greeks, engaged in the study of their ancient tongue. The project is undertaken under the auspices, and at the expence of M. M. Zozima, two Greek brothers. The editor likewise is a Greek, Dr, Coray, formerly of Smyrna, well kn wn as one of the most learned scholars of the present day. The following account of the objects of this undertaking, is extracted from the French Journals.

The Greeks have for some years been making great and successful efforts in the cultivation of the sciences and literature. Many schools have been established for the purpose of teaching the ancient tongue. To improve the modern language, and the national taste, the best productions of foreign writers have been translated. But the most certain method of reviving in this country good taste, and the love of sound literature, is to multiply copies of the best productions of Greek antiquity. By the study of these great models, by the remembrance of former glory which they will revive, and the emulation which they will naturally inspire; modern Greece may be replaced in the rank of enlightened countries.

Numberless editions of Greek authors have been published in Europe. But in general they are little adapted to the use of modern Greeks. They are ge nerally incumbered by Latin versions, and by a long apparatus of critical and gramuratical observations, which can be of no use in Greek schools, where the master and scholars are equally ignorant of Latin, and where the object is not so much to form critics, and men of erudition, as to give instruction in language,

guage, and aids to the formation of good taste. To facilitate the progress of information in Greece, it is desirable to collect in as few volumes as possible the best writers, both in prose and verse, to print them with the utmost correctness, to introduce only such remarks as are absolutely necessary, to write them in Greek, and to sell the editions at a moderate price.

This simple and natural project of printing, for the use of modern Greeks, the best of their ancient writings, has perhaps occurred to the minds of many persons, who for want of means or zeal, have not been able or willing to carry it into execution. It has at length been undertaken under favourable circumstances. M. M. Zozima, who possess at the same time the necessary pecuniary resources, and the most ardent zeal for the honour of their country, have resolved to dedicate part of their fortune to the publication of a Bibliotheca Græca, consisting of the best classic authors.

They have committed the superintendence of the edition to Dr. Coray, a Greek; who by his profound erudition and pure and correct taste, would have done honour to the best ages of antiquity. Europe ranks him among the most learned and ingenious critics of the time, a reputation which his labours in Theophrastus, Hippocrates, Athenæus, and Heliodorus, have justly gained for

him.

To complete the value of their Bibliotheca, M. M. Zozima have committed it to the press of M. Firmin Didot. He has cast new characters for the purpose, which are very beautiful.

The generosity of the projectors of this edition has proceeded further. For the benefit of their countrymen who are in lower circumstances, they propose to present copies to young persons, to whom the purchase might be inconvenient, and whose diligence and improvement shall be attested by their teachers. They will also present them to such masters, as shall exert themselves with activity and perseverance for the instruction of their pupils.

Dr. Coray has written a preface to the volume in modern Greek, in which he amounces the plan of the edition, and from which the preceding observations have been taken. He proposes to publish in succession, with their scholiasts, Homer, and the Homerida, Hesiod, the tragic writers, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Plato, Callimachus, Apollonius, &c. He will insert only those various readings which possess some probability. Where the text is indubitably corrupt, and no correction is afforded by the collation of editions or manuscripts, Dr. Coray will print it according to his own conjectures, or those of other critics, but will always faithfully preserve the common reading in the margin.

These editions, though principally intended for the use of modern Greeks, will probably be received with approbation in the rest of Europe. The corrections of so ingenious and learned a scholar as Dr. Coray, will give them great value in the eyes of all who are engaged in the critical study of the Greek authors. They will be valuable also for their typographical correctness. The notes, though written in ancient Greek, will occasion no obstruction to the reader, for they who understand the text a little, will understand the commentary with ease. The preface and accounts of authors will be written in the vulgar idiom, and it will be fortunate if curiosity to read them shall contribute to spread the study of a modern language which is too much neglected, and which is of great utility by the light which it throws on the ancient tongue.

There is annexed to the preface a piece of considerable length, written also in modern Greek, in which, under the modest title of hasty and extemporary thoughts (στοχασμο αυτοσχέδιο) are found some curious details respecting the de fects of instruction in Greece, and on Greek grammar considered in a philosophical point of view. Dr. Coray skilfully developes the theory of the middle verb, which is well understood by European scholars, but is totally unknown to the modern Greeks. Some valuable grammatical observations occur respecting the common dialect, adverbs, propositions, pronouns, the number of conjugations, &c.

The first part of an edition of Wolf's Homer in folio, appeared at the Leipsic fair, which is the most splendid work that Germany has yet produced. The beauty of the paper, and the elegance of the characters are greatly admired, and such is said to be the correctness of the text, that prizes might, as formerly,

be

be offered for the discovery of a fault. The work is to be completed in four parts. Only fifteen subscriptions have been received, and a hundred copies printed. The King of Prussia has presented a copy to each of the universities in his states.

We have the pleasure to learn that Dr. Scott, the Orientalist, is preparing a new edition, revised and translated from the complete Arabic MS copy brought over by Mr. Montague, of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, with notes, illustrative of the customs and manners of the country. The additional Tales, which have never been translated, are equally interesting and excellent. The translations of this captivating Work, which have been published in this country, have been done into English from the miserable version of M. Galland, who, it is well known, trusted to an illiterate verbal translator, being himself wholly ig norant of the Arabic Language.

THE New Edition of Mr. Pinkerton's Modern Geography in 3 vols. Quarto, will appear early in January.

The Extension of the Work in Three large Volumes, has enabled the Author to give to its several parts a juster proportion and greater harmony than in the former Edition: and in consequence of the foreign Editions having excited the attention of Statesmen as well as Men of Letters, he has received so much valuable assistance, that scarcely a Country can be named, on which new information has not been given, derived from some distinguished Native or scientific Traveller. During the Author's late residence at Paris, he procured many scarce Works, the want of which he had before regretted, and the most recent Spanish materials concerning their Colonies in North and South America. Hence the account of New Spain, of the three Viceroyalties in South America, of Chili, and the government of Caracas, will be found to contain much new, authentic, and important Information. The Description of the United States has also been greatly improved and enlarged from the most authentic materials; and that of the West Indies extended as their importance to this Country required. Five new maps, too, are added, of the various subdivisions of South America. Mr. Aikin has carefully revised the Botanical Part throughout. Dr. Shaw has added Zoological Remarks, at the end of each volume, and every exertion has been used to render the Work as complete as possible.

The Second Edition of Mr. Clarkson's Portraiture of Quakerism, with considerable alterations, will appear in a few days.-The First Edition of this work, which contains the most interesting and original information concerning the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Economy and Character of the Society of Friends, consisted of two thousand five hundred copies, which were all purchased within two months after being finished at press, without the aid of advertising.

Dr. J. E. Smith proposes shortly to publish an Introduction to Botany in one vol. 8vo. with a few plates, intended for the use of female as well as male students of that delightful science, and divested of every thing that might be deemed exceptionable.

The literary History of the eighteenth century is about to receive a further very valuable illustration from the pen of Lord Woodhouselee, in his Life of the late Lord Kames, which will be published very shortly

Mr. Charles Bell's System of Operative Surgery, will appear early in January.

The beautiful moral aphorisms of Sir Philip Sydney, edited by Miss Porter, are nearly ready for publication.

There is in the Press an account of Dr. Gall's New Theory of Physiognomy, founded on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain, and the form of the Skull. J. Gifford and H. R. Yorke, Esqrs. have in great forwardness, the History of the Administration of the late Mr. Pitt, which will be comprised in four octavo volumes.

Mr. Macdiarmid's Lives of eminent Statesmen are in the Press.

The admirers of the late Dr. Currie of Liverpool, will be pleased to hear, that an engraved Portrait of that celebrated Man, from a miniature picture in the Possession of Mrs. Cairncross, Dr. Currie's Sister, will be published early in the Spring of the present year.

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The first part of Dr. Clutterbuck's Inquiry into the Seat and Nature of Fever, is expected to make its appearance in the course of the ensuing month. Mr. Southey's Poems of MADOC and THALABA, have been reprinted in America.

Mr. Cumberland and Sir James Bland Burgess, have in conjunction written a Poem of which report speaks highly, entitled the Exodiad-embracing the History of Moses from the period of his leading the Israelites out of Egypt, to his death upon Mount Horeb. The work will appear during the month of January.

Dr. Herdman has in the press, his second Discourse on the interesting subject of the Management of Infants, and the Treatment of their Diseases.Written in a plain familiar style, to render it intelligible and useful to all mothers, and those who have the management of infants.

The Rev. J. Joyce, author of the Scientific Dialogues, will publish early in the present month, two volumes on Chemistry, the same size, and on the same plans, with plates by Porter.

Miss Anna Maria Porter, is engaged upon a new Novel, to be entitled the HUNGARIAN BROTHERS.

The Rev. Richard Lyne, author of the Latin Primer, will publish in the course of January, a new work, entitled Festuca Grammatica, or Child's first Guide to the Rudiments of Latin Grammar, in four parts.

The Rev. Mr. Cobbold, of Woolpit, Suffolk, intends shortly presenting the Public with a Chart of English History, on the same Plan as his Chart of Scripture History, recently published.

An Octavo edition of Captain Williamson's Wild Sports of India is expected shortly.

The fourth volume of Malcolm's Londinum Redivivum, will appear early in

the year.

The Rev. Mr. Abbott has a volume of Sermons in the press.

Mrs. Roach has in the press a new Romance.

The Topography of the Lake of Killarney, by Mr. Weld, illustrated with exquisite Engravings, is nearly ready.

In the course of January, will be published. A CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER of BOTH HOUSES of PARLIAMENT, from the Union in 1708 to the Election of the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1806. By ROBERT BEATSON, Esq. LL.D. Author of the Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mr. Blair recommences his lectures on Anthropology, or the Natural History of Man, on Jan. 17th, at the Bloomsbury Dispensary, in Great Russel Street. Particulars may be had at his house, 69, Great Russel Street.

Proposals are issued for publishing by subscription two engravings of the Moon in Plano, by the late John Russel, Esqr. R. A. Subscriptions received by Mr. Faden, Charing Cross, and Mr. W. Russel, 29, Newman Street.

A new edition of PALMERIN of ENGLAND, corrected from the original Portugueze, by Mr. Southey, is in the Press, and will shortly be published. Mr. Southey has also in the Press, a translation of the CHRONICLE of the CID, from the Spanish.

Mr. Landseer has nearly ready for publication, his Course of Lectures as delivered before the Members of the Royal Institution.

MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

AGRICULTURE.

COMMUNICATIONS to the Board of Agriculture, on Subjects relative to the Husbandry and internal Improvement of the Country. The First Part of the Fifth Volume. 4to. 12s. boards.

Tables, for computing the Weight of Hay, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, &c. by Measurement; with a Comparative Table of the Weights used at Edinburgh,

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