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designs by Nicholas Pocock, Esq. illustrative of our principal engagements at sea, since the commencement of the war with France in the year 1793; accompanied with a concise account of each action, and a sketch of the general services of the British navy during the two last wars. By Lieut.

The London Association purposes to introduce places of worship in the metropolis, and its vicinity, where none exist, within a convenient distance, though the population is considerable. It is a Charity of the noblest kind :—the funds, how-W. Innes Pocock, R. N. ever, are as yet but small.

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WORKS ANNOUNCED FOR PUBLICATION.

ASTRONOMY

Mr. B. G. Thorn.on, lecturer on astroDomy and botany, has in the press, the Heavens Surveyed, or Science of Astronomy made easy, ilustrated by copper-plates.

BIOGRAPHY.

HISTORY.

A new edition of Sir George Buck's History of Richard the Third is now first printing entire, from the original MS. with an appendix of notes and documents, by Charles Yarnold, esq. in a quarto volume.

MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY.

Mr. Grainger, surgeon in Birmingham, will soon publish a work on a New Mode of Opening the Bladder, in certain obstructions of the urethra and prostrate gland.

At press, in one volume royal 8vo. Commentaries on some of the most important Diseases of Children. Part the First. Containing observations on the mortality of Children--on diet-dentition-convulsive affections-inflammation of the brain-hydrocephalus internus-and epilepsy. By John Clarke, M. D. &c. &c. &c.

The History of the Small Pox, by James Moore, Esq. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon of the second regiment of Life Guards, and Director of the National Vaccine Establishment, will speediByly appear.

In the press, Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton, including various particulars of the literary and political history of their times. William Godwin, with portraits, in one volume, quarto.

Memoirs of Abbé Edgeworth, containing letters to the Abbé and his brother, from Louis XVIII. are preparing for the press by one of his nearest surviving relations.

A Historical Account of Louis-AntoineHenri, of Bourbon-Condé, duke of Enghien, prince of the blood royal of France, translated from the French of the Abbé de Bouvens, is preparing for publication. Dr. Kentish is preparing a new and greatly improved edition of his Essay on Burns.

Some Account of the late Rev. Thomas Robinson, M. A. Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester; with a selection of original letters, by the Rev. Charles Thomas Vaughan, M. A. will appear early in May.

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In forwardness, Commentaries on the Treatment of Syphilis, and on the means of ensuring the successful and avoiding the injurious effects of mercury; with an Appendix, recommending an improvement in the treatment of strictures, and on the retention of urine. By Edward Geoghegan, of the College of Surgeons in Ireland, Honorary Member of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh. In octavo.

Letters from a Medical Officer attached

to the Army under the command of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, during the Campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814, addressed to a Friend in England, in one volume, 8vo. is at press.

Dr. Ronalds, of Coventry, is preparing a translation of the celebrated little work of Cabanis, On Certainty in Medicine.

An Essay on the Venereal Diseases, which At press, and speedily will be published, have been confounded with Syphilis, and the symptoms which exclusively arise from

that poison.

cutaneous eruptions of true syphilis, and the Illustrated by drawings of the resembling diseases.. By Richard Carmichael, M. R. I. A. President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and one of the Surgeons of the Lock Hospital, Dublin.

The Anatomical Plates of the Human

Gravid Uterus, by the late William and John Hunter, with accurate descriptions, are preparing for republication.

MISCELLANIES.

Display; a tale for young people, by Jane Taylor, one of the authors of Original Poems for Infant Minds will be published in a few days.

Dr. Pinckard is preparing a new edition of his notes on the West Indies, with conşiderable alterations and additions, in two volumes.

A new edition of Wright's Court Hand Restored, with considerable improvements, will soon appear.

Scripture Biography, and History of the Old and New Testaments; with an account of the manners and customs of the Jews, and the rise and progress of Christianity, by Claude Fleury, is in the press, embellished with twenty-four engravings.

Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men, by the late Rev. Joseph Spence, with notes by the late Edward Malone, Esq. and additional illustrations by the Rev. W. Beloe, will soon appear in an octavo volume.

Two works by M. de Chateaubriand will shortly be published: Recollections of Italy, England, and America; and an essay on Revolutions, ancient and modern; each in an octavo volume.

The Rev. C. Anderson, of Edinburgh, has just published, a Memorial on behalf of the Native Irish, with a view to their improvement in moral and religious knowledge, through the medium of their own language.

Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his Children, supposed to be written by himself, will soon make their appearance.

At press, The Epicure's Almanack, or, Calendar of Good Living; on the plan of the celebrated Almanach des Gourmands, published annually at Paris. It will comprise an alimentary tour, forming a directory to the coffee-houses, taverns, chophouses, and other places of refreshment in the metropolis and its environs; a review of artists who furnish the requisite implements and appendages to the culina and the dining-room; a survey of markets; and a calendar of the viands in season during each month of the year. In a thick volume

18mo.

The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons, from his entrance into Parliament in 1768, to the year 1806. With memoirs, introduction, &c. will soon be published, in 6 vols. 8vo.

the present state of that country, whilst the author will be able to visit those parts of Italy which he had not hitherto done, and afford a description of that interesting por tion of the globe.

Mr. Dyer has in the press, in one volume large octavo (corresponding to his History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge), the Privileges of the University of Cambridge, containing a chronological table of all its charters from the earliest to more modern times (arranged according to the Christian æra and the Kings of England) together with a series of the principal charters themselves with various other public instruments and documents relating to the University, and intended to serve as a summary of its annals. It will be accompanied with a preliminary dissertation by the editor, and some additions and emendations to his own history.

NOVELS.

Varieties of Life, or Conduct and Consequences, a novel, in three volumes, by the author of Sketches of Character, will soon appear.

Models, and Impressive Warnings, for the Mrs. Grant has in the press, Popular sons and daughters of Industry.

of Three Passions, will soon appear, in two Love, Rashness, and Revenge; or, Tales volumes.

of the Mount-Linton family, a novel, in Craig-Melrose Priory, involving memoirs. three volumes, is nearly ready for publication..

POETRY.

Thomas Campbell, Esq. author of the Pleasures of Hope, has in the press, in four post octavo volumes, the Selected Beauties of British Poets, with lives of the poets, and critical dissertations.

Poems, by Robert Southey, Esq. a new edition, in three volumes, foolscap octavo, including the Metrical Tales, and some pieces never bofore published, will speedily

appear.

The Rev. Johnson Grant has in the press, Arabia, a poem, with notes; to which are added several smaller pieces

Mr. Daniel Herbert will soon publish an improved edition of his Hymns and Poems.

TOPOGRAPHY.

The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone has in the press, in a quarto volume, an Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India, with coloured plates of the costume, and a map of the kingdom.

Mr. Eustace, author of the Classical Tour, Mr. J. Dunkin is printing the History is now in Italy, where he is busily employed and Antiquities of Bromley, in Kent, exin collecting materials for an additional pub-tracted from the best authorities. lication, which will throw great light on

Mr. T. Dunkin will soon publish the

History and Antiquities of Bicester, in Oxfordshire; with an inquiry into the history of Alcester, a city of the Dobuni.

Philippart, Esq. Embellished with a por trait of Marshal Blucher. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time. Part the First, from 1772 to 1780; Part the Mr. Robert Johnston has in the press, Second, from 1781 to 1784. By Sir N. Travels through Russia, Poland, the south-William Wraxall, Bart. With a Portrait of the Author. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 6s.

TRAVELS.

ern shores of the Baltic, and the track of Buonaparte's campaigns of 1812-13; to be illustrated by thirty coloured engravings.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

BIOGRAPHY.

An Authentic Narrative of the Invasion of France, in 1814. By M. de Beauchamp, author of the History of the War of La Vendée. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s.

JURISPRUDENCE.

A Practical Guide to the duty snd autho

The Life of Philip Melancthon; compris-rity of Overseers of the Poor, with full and ing an account of the most important transactions of the Reformation. By F. A. Cox, A.M. of Hackney. Embellished with a fulllength Portrait, and a fac-simile of his handwriting. 8vo. 14s.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE.

Successive Opera. By the Rev. II. Meen,

B.D. Svo. 5s.

plain directions to them in the execution of their office. Interspersed with numerous Precedents of summonses, warrants, orders, &c. relating to the Poor's Law, and Parish matters in general. By William Toone, Attorney at Law. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

MATHEMATICS.

Dissertations and Letters, on the Trigono

Eutropius; with English Notes and Ques-metrical Survey of England and Wales. By tions; for the use of Schools. By the Rev. Olinthus Gregory, LL.D. of the Royal Mili C. Bradley. 2s. 6d. tary Academy. 8vo. 3s.

MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY.

A Series of Exercises and Questions, adapted to the best Latin Grammars, and designed as a Guide to Parsing, and an In-trated by Cases, which occurred in Leeds A Treatise on the Puerperal Fever, illustroduction to the Exercises of Valpy, Tur- and its Vicinity, in the Years 1809-1812. -ner, Clarke, and Ellis, Whittaker's Exempla By William Hey, Jun. Member of the Royal Propria, and the Eton Exempla Minora. College of Surgeons in London, and Surgeon By the Rev. C. Bradley. 2s. 6d. of the General Infirmary, and of the House of Recovery, at Leeds. 8vo. 8s.

DRAMA.

Past Ten o'Clock, and a Rainy Night; a Farce, in Two Acts: as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. By Thomas Dibdin. 1s. 6d.

A Practical Explanation of the Cancer in the Female Breast; with the method of cure, and Cases of illustration. By John Rodman, M.D. one of the surgeons and medical Conscience; a Tragedy, in Five Acts. superintendants of the Dispensary and House By Joseph Ashton, 2s. 6d

GEOGRAPHY.

The New General Atlas, on a scale similar to that of D'Anville's, Number IX: containing New Holland; Asiatic Isles; Spaaish Dominions in North America; Italy, with the Island of Elba; Azores, and other Atlantic Islands, with a View of the Peak of Teneriffe. 85.

GEOLOGY.

of Recovery of Paisley. 8vo. 8s.

A Treatise on Fever, with Observations on the practice adopted for its Cure in the Fever Hospital and House of Recovery in Dublin. Illustrated by Cases. By William Stoker, M. D. one of the Physicians to that institution, and Licentiate of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland.

8vo. 7s.

Part of the Introductory Lecture for the A Geological Essay on the imperfect Evi-Year 1815, exhibiting some of Mr. Hunter's dence in support of a Theory of the Earth, deducible either from its general structure, er from the changes produced on its surface by the operation of existing causes. By J. Kidd, M.D. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford. 8vo. 9s.

HISTORY.

The Campaign in Germany and France, from the Expiration of the Armistice, signed and ratified, June 4th, 1813, to the period of Bonaparte's abdication of the throne of France; with an Appendix, containing all the French bulletins issued during this period, and other official documents. By John

opinions respecting Diseases. Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London. By John Abernethy, F.R.S. professor of anatomy and surgery to the college. 8vo. 2s.

MISCELLANIES.

Physiological Researches on Life and Death. By Xavier Bichat. Translated from the French by F. Gold, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. 8vo. 9s.

The Perpetual Time Calculator, for ascertaining the number of days from any given day to any other within the year; accurately calculated, and particularly adapted

to the use of Bankers, Merchants, &c. &c. By Thomas Honiball. 4to. 12s.

Paris Chit Chat, or a View of the Society, Manners, Customs, Literature, and Amusements of the Parisians; being a Translation of "Guillaume le Franc Parleur," and a Sequel to "l'Hermite de la Chaussée d' Antin." 2 vols. 12mo. 10s.

Letters addressed to the Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of London. By Thomas Belsham, minister of the Chapel in Essex-street. 3s. 6d.

An Account of the Abolition of Female Infanticide in Guzerat, with Considerations on the Question of promoting the Gospel in India. By the Rev. John Cormack, A. M.

Minister of Stow. Svo. 10s. 6d.

An Enlarged Series of Extracts from the Diary, Meditations, and Letters of Mr. Joseph Williams of Kidderminster: with Notes Biographical and Explanatory. To which are annexed some Original Letters from Ministers, &c. occasioned by his death. By Benjamin Hanbury, a descendant of the Author. Embellished with a portrait. 8vo.

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paulin. Whistled by a Sea-Lark. 8vo.

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Moscow; or Triumphant Self-Devotion: a Poem. By the Rev. Jas. Holme. 8vo. 65.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Ways and Means; submitted to, and approved by, the late Mr. Perceval. With a Proposal for the redemption of the Newspaper tax: as also in remission of the additional Duties upon Wine. By Capt. Fairman, 8vo. 3s. 6d.

THEOLOGY.

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The Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration contrasted with the Tenets of Calvin: Sermon preached before the University of Oxford at Christ Church, on Sunday, January 29, 1815. By Richard Laurence, LL.D. Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of Christ Church, &c. 8vo. 2s.

Sermons, chiefly on devotional subjects. By the Rev. Archibald Bonar, Minister of Cramond, 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Book of Psalms, translated from the Hebrew, with Notes, explanatory and critical. By Samuel Horsley, LL.D. late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 12s.

The Truth to which Christ came into the World to bear Witness; and the Testimony of Christ's Contemporaries to his own decla

The Watch Light, illustrative of many new and curious facts relative to Lord Cochrane's Commission of the Fraud upon the Stock Exchange, and his connection with De Berenger and others. The whole form-ration of his Divinity confirmed by his Dising a full and complete History of Lord Cochrane's proceedings in this extraordinary transaction. 8vo. 3s. 6d.

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Poems, by William Wordsworth; including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With additional Poems, a new Preface, and a supplementary Essay. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 8s.

The Lay of the Poor Fiddler; a Parody on the Lay of the Last Minstrel, with Notes and Illustrations. By an Admirer of Walter

courses, Actions, and Death: a Sermon preached at Llanerth and Carmarthen, on September 30, and October 14, 1814, before a general Meeting of the Clergy of the Archdeaconries of Cardigan and Carmarthen: being a Sequel to a Sermon preached at St. Peter's, Oxford, 1790. By the Bishop of St.

David. 1s.

Sermons by William Crawford, D.D. Minister of Straiton. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

A Sermon, preached at Holbeck, in the Parish of Leeds, on Sunday, February 12, 1815, in aid of the Funds of the Bible Association established in that place. By the Rev. J. Dunderdale. 1s. 6d.

TRAVELS.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior

of Africa, in the Year 1805. By- Mungo Park. Together with other documents, official and private, relating to the same Mission. To which is prefixed, an Account of the Life of Mr. Park, printed uniformly with Mr. Park's former Travels, with a new map and several wood engravings. 4to. I. 11s. 6d.

Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain. During the Years 1810 and 1811. By a French Traveller. With Remarks on the Country, its Arts, Literature, and Poli tics, and on the Manners and Customs of Paddy Hew: a Satirical Poem, in Four its Inhabitants. With Thirty-five EngravCantos. From the brain of Timothy Tar-ings. 2 vols. 8vo. 21. 25.

Scott. Svo. 5s.

FAC-SIMILE OF SPECIMENS

OF THE

VERSIONS OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES,

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Eastern Languages,

CHIEFLY

Translatad by the Brethren of the Serampore Mission.

TEXT. "The people that sat in darkness saw great light: and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up.”

MATT. iv. 16.

SUNGSKRIT.

अन्धकारेषूपविशन्तो लोका महालेोकमुद्रा तुर्मृत्योर्दशे छायायाञ्चापविशतः प्रति श्र लोक उदेति /

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