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GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr. Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, is engaged in preparing for the press a mathematical work entitled the Elements of a new Arithmetical Notation, in some respects analogous to that of Decimals; by which expressions producing a great variety of infinite series may be obtained, which can by no other means be found; the series discovered by the moderus, for the quadrature of the circle and hyperbola, are shown to be aggregately incommensurable quantities; and a criterion is given by which the commensurability or incommensurability of infinite series may be infallibly and universally as certained. The work will be published in 8vo.

The third edition, is in the press, of Sir Astley Cooper's work on Dislocatations and Fractures of the Joints, 4to. royal.

Mr. T. D. Worgan is preparing for publication a Treatise on a Motel, in forty-five parts; ten vocal and thirtyfive instrumental, composed for every class of voice, and every sort of instrument generally used in concert; and illustrated by two Lectures, of which. Mr. T. D. W. has published a Prospectus.

Dr. Gordon Smith has in the press a new edition of the Principles of Forensic Medicine, which will contain much additional matter. The volume will embrace every topic on which the medical practitioner is liable to be called to give a professional opinion in aid of judiciary inquiries.

Dr. Forster is about to publish Illustrations of the Mode of maintaining Health, curing Diseases, and protracting Longevity, by attention to the state of the Disgestive Organs; with popular Observations on the Influence of Peculiarities of Air, of Diet, and of exercise, on the Human System, in 1 vol. Svo.

Mr. Earle has in the press a work, containing-1st, Practical Remarks on Fractures at the Upper Part of the Thigh, and particularly Fractures within the Capsular Ligament; with critical Obervations on Sir Astley Cooper's Treatise on that subject, and a Description of a Bed for the Relief of Patients suffering under these Accidents and other Injuries, and Diseases which require a state of permanent Rest.-2d, Observations on Fractures of the Olecranon.-3d, Description of a new Apparatus for more effectually Securing the Upper Extremity in cases of complicated Injury of the Shoulderjoint and Scapula.-4th, On the Reestablishment of a Canal in the place

of a large Portion of the Urethra which had been destroyed.—5th, On the Mechanism of the Spine.

Gas Lighting.-In the press, and speedily will be published, a second edition of the Theory and Practice of Gas Lighting, by T. S. Peckston.-In this edition the author has considerably abridged the theoretical part of the work as given in the first edition; and to render it as useful as possible to every practical man, there is introduced much original matter relative to coal gas, and an entirely new treatise on the economy of the gases obtained for illuminating purposes from oil, turf, &c.

Mr. J. Frederic Daniell, F. R. S., has in the press a volume of Meteorological Essays, embracing, among others, the following important subjects:On the Constitution of the Atmosphere; on the Radiation of Heat in the Atmosphere; on Meteorological Instruments; on the Climate of London; on the Construction and uses of a New Hygrometer.

Mr. Robert Meikleham, civil engineer, has in the press a practical Treatise on the various methods of Heating Buildings by steam, hot air, stoves, and open fires, with some Introductory Observations on the Combustion of Fuel; on the contrivances for burning smoke and other subjects connected with the economy and distribution of heat. With numerous explanatory Engravings. It will be published in June.

The author of Domestic Scenes will shortly publish, in 3 vols. 12mo. Self Delusion, a novel.

Mrs. Hoffland, author of Integrity, Son of a Genius, Tales of the Manor, &c. is engaged on a new Tale, entitled Patience.

Mr. Lowe is printing a new edition of his popular work on the State and Prospects of England, followed by a Parallel between England and France.

A new novel will shortly appear, in 3 vols, under the title of Edward Neville; or, the Memoirs of an Orphan.

An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, adapted to the present State of the Sciences, is preparing for publication; it contains a new and general demonstration of the Birromial Theorem; a new Method of extracting the Cube Root; Improvements in Equations, the Summation of Series, &c. &c. By J. R. Young.

Facetiæ Cantabrigiensis is in the press, being anecdotes, smart sayings, satires, &c. By, or relating to, celebrated Cantabs; being a Companion to the Cambridge Tart.

Mr. Charles Dubois, F.L.S. is about to publish in a small volume an easy introduction to Lamarck, arrangement of the Genera of Shells; being a free translation of that part of his work (L'Histoire des Animaux sons vertébres, which treats on Mollusca with certaceau coverings, to which are added illustrative remarks, additional observations, and a synoptic table.

Captain A. Cruise, of the 84th regiment, has in the press," Journal of a Ten Months Residence in New Zealand," which will appear next month in an octavo volume.

The author of Domestic Scenes has nearly ready for publication a new Novel, entitled, "Self-Delusion, or Adelaide d'Hautervche," in 3 vols.

The Rev. G. Wilson, author of the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, &c. &c. will shortly publish, in a duodecimo volume, "An Antidote to the Prison of Scepticism."

The public will receive, in the course of a few weeks, from the pen of the Rev. R. Harmer, Rector of Great Chalfield, Wilts, the First Part of Illustrations, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous of the Novels, by the author of Waverly, with criticisms general and particular, in three parts.

Preparing for publication, "Historical Notices of Two Characters in Peveril of the Peak," to be printed in post 8vo. uniform with that work.

A new Novel will appear in the course of a few Days, entitled, "Edward Neville, or the Memoirs of an Orphan," in 3 vols.

Early in June will be published, in 18mo. price 3s. Elizabeth; being the first part of a series of French Classics, handsomely printed in the original, with elegant Engravings and Vignettes, by eminent Artists. Printed from the best Paris editions, revised, corrected, and accompanied with Instructive Notes, and the Lives of the Authors. By L. T. Ventouillac.

In the press, a Memoir of Central India, with the History and copious Illustrations of the past and present condition of that Country, in 2 vols. 8vo. with an original Map recently constructed; tables of the revenue, population, &c. A geological report and comprehensive index. By Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., &c.

Museum Worsleyanum. This highly interesting and valuable work, consisting of the antique Basso Relievos, Bustos, Statues, and Gems; with Views of the Levant, collected by the late Sir Richard Worsley, is preparing for publication, 2 vols. imperial 4to.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

DIVINITY.

The Harmony of the Scriptures Vindicated, or apparently contradictory Passages reconciled, in a Series of Nineteen Lectures. By John Hayter Cox, 8vo. 78. 6d.

Jesus shewing Mercy, the fifth edition, 18mo. bds. 2s. 6d.

EDUCATION.

On Education. By the late President Dwight, 18mo.18. 6d.

Dissertations introductory to the Study and right Understanding of the Language, Structure, and Contents of the Apocalypse. By Alexander Tillock, LL.D, &c. &c.

First Lessons in Latin, consisting of easy and progressive Selections in Latin Construing. By the Rev. J. Evans, second edition, enlarged and improved.

MEDICINE.

Pharmacopoeia Imperialis, sive Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, Edinburgensis et Dublinensis, collate; cum Notes Anglisis decompositiones chemicas exponentibus. Editio Secunda, 12mo.

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The Quarterly Journal of Foreign and British Medicine and Surgery, and of the Sciences connected with them; with original cases and communications. No. 18, 48. 6d,

Popular Directions for the prevention and cure of Head-achs, Colds and Idigestion, with Medical Prescriptions and Cases, interspersed with the most useful Remarks on these subjects, in the works of Mr. Abernethy, Sir Astley Cooper, Dr. Hamilton, and Dr.W. Philip. The second edition, improved by a Medical Practitioner, 18mo. 2s. 6d.

A Manual of Toricology, in which the Symptoms, Treatment, and Tests, of the various Poisons, mineral, vegitable, and animal, are concisely stated. To which are added, Directions for the Recovery of Persons in a State of suspended animation. The second edition, with additions. By William Stowe, M.R.C.S., &c. 18mo. 1s. 6d.

A Practical Treatment on the most frequent Diseases of the Mouth and Teeth, especially the Accidents of the First Dentition; with the Means of remedying them, of preserving all the Parts of the Mouth in good condition; and an Essay on the Physical Education of Children. To which are added, Considerations on the Improvement of the Instruments of a Dentist, on a new Instrument proposed by the Author, and some proposed Plans relative to Artificial Teeth, with an Engraving. By T. G. Gerbaux, Surgeon-Dentist, from Paris, &c, &c. 12mo. 58.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Ringan Gilhaize; or, the Covenan. ters. By the author of "Annals of the Parish," "Sir Andrew Wylie," "The Entail," &c. 3 vols. 12mo. 21s. boards.

Mary Magdalene's Funeral Tears for the Death of Our Saviour. By Robert Southwell, 2 vols. royal 16mo. with a Portrait. 8s.

Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis, a reprint of scarce Tracts, relating to the County and City of Gloucester. With a Portrait and Map, 4to. 10s. 6d. royal 4to. 21s.

The English Constitution produced and illustrated. By Major Cartwright, 1823, 8vo. 12s.

The Correspondent's Assistant; or, Familiar Letter-Writer, being a selection of Letters, from the works of the most elegant and esteemed authors, upon all the useful and generally interesting occurrences of Life; to which is added, the Secretary's Guide, shewing the correct Manner of addressing Persons in every rank of Life; the Government Offices, Public Companies, &c. 12mo. 58.

No. II. of the Student's Companion, a Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Miscellany. 28.

A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B-, late of the Royals. Written by Himself, in 1 vol. 12mo. 5s.

Lady Ann; or, the Little Pedlar, 12mo. By the author of the Blue Silk Work.

A Zodiacal Chart, or Orrery of Nature, exhibiting all the Constellations of the Zodiac, with their Stars from the first to the seventh Magnitudes, and their cluster and nebula, being a perfect Fac-simile of that part of the Heavens, in which the Planetary Bodies perform their revolutions, containing all those fixed points by which their Motions are ascertained. This Chart, with its Descriptive Companion, will be found to give a most satisfac

tory illustration of the Solar System. By T. Stackhouse.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Mr. Donovan proceeds regularly with his New Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History, entitled the Naturalist's Repository; the Twelfth Number, which completed the First Volume, was published in due succession. The Thirteenth or First Number of the Second Volume has just appeared, 38.6. each number.

POETRY.

Emancipation, a poem, in two Cantos, embellished; with Explanatory Notes and fine Caricature Designs, for the Instruction of his Holiness Pope Pius; to which is added, the Plain Man's Reply to the Catholic Missionaries. Dedicated to Lord Chancellor Eldon. By the Ghost of Martin Luther, 8vo. 58.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Relative Taxation; or, Observations on the Impolicy of Taxing Malt, Hops, Beer, Soap, Candles, and Leather; with a View of the Manner in which the Duties imposed upon them affect the different kinds of Land, whether in grass or tillage; and their constant Tendency to increase Pauperism, with Reasons for substituting a Tax on Property; concluding with an Enquiry into the Effects arising from perpetuating the Land Tax. By T. Vaux, Svo. 78. 6d. bds.

No. I. price 2s. 6d. (to be completed in twelve Monthly Parts) of Whittingham's Cabinet Edition of the "Elegant Extracts," selected from the British Poets and Poetical Translations. By R. A. Davenport, Esq. This work will not contain a single poem that has been printed in "Sharpe's Elegant Extracts," and very few pieces that have appeared in any publication of a similar nature.

TALES.

Tales for my Pupils. By E. Dove.

POLITICAL DIGEST.

BOTH the domestic and the foreign news of the preceding month are so barren of events, that they may be little attractive to the superficial observers, but read by men of penetration, with a reference to the future and to the past, they are most important, so clearly developing the present state of political science and of political Eur. Mag. May, 1823.

morality, as to form a remarkable portraiture of the features of the age.

On the 17th of February last, the Earl of Liverpool, in the House of Lords, assured the country, that with reference to the debt due by Austria to Great Britain (about 18,000,000 sterling) our government had been pressing that of Vienna for a settlement, and

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"he had no hesitation in saying, that the principle of an arrangement for the payment had been agreed to by the Austrian government." We regret, therefore, to communicate that on the 22d of April last, the Earl of Liverpool, in reply to Lord Darnley, stated, that Mr. Pitt very soon after these loans were made, had no expectation of the Austrian government fulfilling their promise of repayment," and certainly the succeeding administration had not entertained such an expectation." We suppose we must therefore conclude, that this is amongst the large and countless sums that Great Britain has lost by trusting to the honour and honesty of foreign governments.

The affairs of France and Spain have undergone a very lengthened discussion in the House of Lords. The Earl of Liverpool stated, that his Majesty's ministers had ascertained that the French government had employed large sums of money for the purpose of exciting insurrections in Spain, at a time when they were professing amity and good faith towards the cabinet of Ma. drid, but that the French government had positively denied the fact in their correspondence with our ministry. Lord Ellenborough observed, that this disgraceful falsehood on the part of France was equalled by the tergiversation of the other courts of Europe. In 1820, the Congress at Laybach offici. ally declared, that they had no intention whatever to interfere in the internal concerns of Spain, although from 1814 they had adopted the principle of crushing the spirit of liberty wherever its sacred flame might be rekindled, His Lordship proceeded to observe, that our Ambassador had advised the Spaniards to entrust to Ferdinand that degree of absolute power that might satisfy himself and the Bourbons of France, forgetting the degenerate character of Ferdinand, and that the views of France were such as this country had since most strongly reprobated as iniquitous in principle and absurd in policy; that whilst France was assuring our Ambassador of her pacific intentions, she had actually sent her fleets to the West Indies with instructions to begin the war, and that no reliance ought to have been placed upon a Cabinet so lost to all honour and principle as that of the Bourbons. Lord Holland, in a strain of the highest morals and of national pride, most strongly reprobated the ministry for resting all their defence upon the expediency and individual interests of

England, instead of assuming the higher ground of the injustice and wickedness of the attack upon Spain; he observed that at the Congress of Verona, our government had had a negociator of brilliant talents, they had the honest opinion of the Parliament and people of England in their favour, and above all, they had a just cause, and yet they had suffered France to pursue her daring scheme of oppression against our allies of Spain; without our possessing the magnanimity to shield the oppressed or to defend the cause of justice. His Lordship was followed in the same strain by Lords King and Grey, by the Marquis of Lansdowne and by the Duke of Sussex.-The subject was renewed in the House of Lords on the 12th of May, by Lords Grey and Holland, when Lord Liverpool entered into a defence of the course pursued by ministry, grounding his arguments upon the inexpediency of Great Britain even risking a war by assuming a higher attitude than she had done.

On the 13th of May, the Archbishop of Canterbury brought up the report of the Committee on the Marriage Bill, which recommended the discontinuance of the forms of the late bill that had given such general dissatisfaction; it further left untouched the present regulations of banus and licences, and recommended that the marriages of minors should be valid at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, and by suits at law brought by the proper parties within twelve months after such marriages had been solemnised.

In the House of Commons, strong petitions have been presented praying for reform, that from Yorkshire was signed by 17,083 persons, forming twothirds of the freeholders of the county. Petitions were presented from Lincoln and from Norfolk.

Lord John Russell made his motion for a Committee to inquire into the state of the representation, supporting it by such acknowledged facts of the system of the House, as violated the first principles of religion and abstract justice, as well as the whole letter and spirit of the Constitution. The division upon the question was 280 against 169, the motion being therefore lost by 111.

With respect to the inquiry now carrying on in the House relative to the conduct of the High Sheriff of Dublin, in empanelling the Grand Jury to try the late Orange faction for their as sault on the Lord Lieutenant at the

Theatre, until that inquiry be terminated we must abstain from any lengthened remarks; we can only observe, at present, that the evidence given at the Bar of the House clearly shews that the mode of administering justice in Ireland is most polluted by party zeal and religious virulence, and that even the sacred nature of an oath is no protection against the spirit of religious animosity.

The Cause of Negro Emancipation has been ably argued in the House by Mr. Buxton, Mr. Wilberforce, and by Mr. Brougham. Mr. Buxton proved by an appeal to history and to recent events, that no danger whatever was to be apprehended from agitating the question, or from rapidly pursuing the objects of the abolitionists. He stated that the principal design of his present measures would be to grant the slaves the sabbath as a day of rest, as well as one week day for the cultivation of their own grounds, to emancipate all the future offspring of slaves, and to abolish the system of working the negros under the lash of the cart-whip. Mr. Canning stated, that the government would consent to Mr. Buxton's measures as far as they went to the prevention of the flogging of females, of working the slaves by the cart-whip, and to giving them more time to attend to their own affairs. He would also pledge himself to measures that would tend to the protection of the property of the negroes, and to their leaving that property by will, as well as to any measures that could promote the marriages of negroes, and facilitate the admission of their evidence in Courts of Law, but he would not consent to the emancipation of the children, or to any measures relative to the slaves that might operate to the injury of the whites. Mr. Buxton finally withdrew his motion on the understanding that government would substitute measures corresponding to the views which had just been declared by Mr. Canning.

It is exceedingly satisfactory to hear the government so frequently avow themselves proselytes to the enlarged principles of free trade, so ably advanced by Du Quesnay, and subsequently expatiated upon by Adam Smith, by Ricardo, and other eminent men ; but we regret that the practical mea. sures of administration are so far behind the theory they now advance. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Huskisson, has, however, avowed that it is the intention of government to put the commerce of Ireland upon a

parity with that of England, so that there shall be no more restrictions between the Irish and English ports than between the ports of any two English counties. This measure is due in common justice to Ireland, and, by tending to relieve her distresses, will essentially contribute to tranquillize that unhappy country. The other measure relating to Ireland is that of compelling the Protestant clergy, at the desire of their parishioners, to accept a commutation of their tithes, the amount to be settled by a sort of Parish Jury upon the calculation of the neat receipt for tithes upon the average of the seven preceding years. Although these measures will have the most beneficial effects upon the condition of the Irish, they are trifling in comparison to what must eventually be done in correcting abuses, before the Irish can be put in that condition in which it is possible to moralize any people. Mr. Goulburn has moved a renewal of the Irish Insurrection Act, declaring that country to be in a state of demoralization unequalled in modern Europe. It has been replied to his statement, that it is in vain to continue to meet the evil by martial law and insurrection acts, or by any coercive measures whatever. That the only possible way of tranquillizing the Irish, and converting them into good citizens, is to relieve them from religious disqualifications and from religious and political oppression of every sort; that their present disorganized state must arise either from our bad government of them, or from some essential difference in their physical character from that of any other people existing. That as no such difference in the Irish character has ever been alledged, the inference is, that the evils existing in Ireland are the mere results of our system of ruling, and cessante causa cessat et effectus.

Sir James Mackintosh has renewed his enlightened efforts to relieve our criminal code of its sanguinary features, and to render it at once humane and efficacious, but the government, although agreeing with his principles, have opposed their application in detail, and the motion of Sir James Mackintosh was lost by a division of 86 to 76.

Mr. Whitmore again brought forward his motion upon equallizing the duties on West and East India Sugar. He stated that the imposing so heavy a duty upon the East India sugars, to order to favour the West India proprietors, amounted to a tax of between

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