The first two volumes (besides an additional volume, containing Abstracts of the British Navy) of Mr. JAMES's Naval History, comprising the whole of the war from 1793 to the peace of Amiens, will, it is understood, make its appearance before the public in the early part of November.

Those panders of corruption and prejudices, the degraded writers in the Quarterly Review, have impudently defamed the conductor of this independent Miscellany for recommending as curiosities, the books of the Apocry phal New Testament, lately reprinted from the versions of Archbishop Wake and the Rev. Jeremiah Jones. The article in question is a piece of declamation, as powerless in argument as deficient in learning.

In a few days will be published, The Weald of Sussex, a Poem, by E. HITCHENER. This poem abounds in moral passages, as well as descriptions of local scenery; and is enriched with a variety of interesting historical notes. Miss MACAULEY has a new work in the press, entitled Tales of the Drama, founded on the most popular acting plays.

Mr. SAMUEL FREDERICK GRAY, author of the Supplement to the Pharmacopoeias, announces A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, according to their mutual relations, as pointed out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, and other scientific botanists; with their characters, differences, synonyms, descriptions and uses. The whole preceded by an introduction to botany, with figures illustrative of the terms.

A volume is in the press which is intended to match Prior's Account of all the Voyages round the World, under the title of The Universal Traveller. It will contain an abstract of the chief books of travels in all countries, and be illustrated with one hundred engravings.

Kotzebue's Voyage round the World being completed in two Numbers of the Journal of Voyages and Travels, the ensuing Number will consist of M. Necker de Saussure's Travels in Scotland, and the next following Number will contain Krusentern's Voyage round the World, which has just appeared at Paris, with a folio atlas of engravings. Every Number of the Journal of Voyages thus contains as much of this interesting species of literature as is commonly sold at 15 or 20 times its price.

A new volume of the Annual Obituary is preparing, and will appear at the usual period.

The General Index to the Monthly Magazine is nearly finished, and will be printed with all the speed which the nature of such a work permits.

The Beauties of Ireland, by Mr. J. N. BREWER, is announced for publication before the end of the present year. Mr. Brewer has been engaged for a considerable time in preparing this work, in which he has received important aid from the Genealogical and Topographical MS. collections of Colonel Hervey de Montmorency-Morres, unreservedly opened for his use by that truly respectable gentleman and scholar. The work is to be published in parts or numbers, embellished with engravings by Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Petrie, of Dublin. The antiquities and topography of Ireland are progressively becoming objects of considerable interest, and this work appears calculated to supply a desideratum long felt in topographical literature.

Mr. GILL, for many years one of the chairmen of the Committee of Mechanics in the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the Adelphi, assisted by a circle of mechanical friends, in this and other countries, is preparing for publication a Technical Repository of Practical Information, on subjects connected with the present daily improvements and new discoveries in the useful arts. The first part is promised in January of the ensuing year.

Mr. JOSEPH LOWE has in the press an octavo volume on the Prospects of England, in regard to Agriculture, Trade, and Finance.

Shortly will be published a volume of Poems, by J. F. RATTENBURY, consisting of Edgar and Ella, a tale founded on fact-a Versification of the First Book of Fingal-The Seminoll Maid, an American tale-A Paraphrase of the First Chapter of Genesis-Lines on an Intolerant Preacher-Monody on a Favourite Parrot-To Woman; Anacre ontic-Lines on the Spanish Revolution-To a Disciple of Mahomet-To Memory.

Mr. THOMAS WEBB, author of Elements of Greek Prosody and Metre, is preparing a Greek and English Prosodial Lexicon, with Synonyms and Examples, marked and scanned in the manner of the Latin Gradus.

The

The following Courses of Lectures will be delivered in the ensuing season at the Surry Institution :

On Painting, by C. F. PACK, Esq.; to commence on Friday, the 2nd of November, at seven o'clock in the evening precisely, and to be continued on each succeeding Friday.

On the Elements of Chemical Science, by JOHN MURRAY, Esq. F.L.S. M.W.S. &c.; to commence on Tuesday, the 6th of November, and to be continued on each succeeding Tuesday, at the same hour. On Music, by W. CROTCH, Mus. D. Professor of Music in the University of Oxford; and,

On Natural, Philosophy, by CHARLES FREDERICK PARTINGTON, Esq.; early

in 1822.

Miss EDGEWORTH will soon publish Frank, a Sequel to his History, in the Early Lessons.

The Rev. EDMUND BUTCHER has a volume of Prayers in the press, intended for the use of families and private persons; including a prayer adapted to each discourse in the three volumes of Sermons by the same author.

Dr. LEACH will speedily publish the Synopsis of British Mollusca; being an arrangement of bivalve and univalve shells, according to the animals inhabiting them, intended as an introduc tion to the study of conchology, illustrated with plates.

In a few days will be published, Paramythia; or, Mental Pastimes: being original anecdotes, historical, descriptive, humourous, and witty, collected chiefly during a long residence at the court of Russia.

A new and improved edition of Mr. Henry Siddons' Translation of Engel on Gesture and Action, is in the press, and will appear in November.

Proposals have been circulated for publishing a Picturesque Promenade round Dorking: including a variety of original and interesting matter, in which will be found a full and accurate account of the panoramic views from Box Hill and Leith Hill; also descriptive sketches of the several Gentlemen's Seats interspersed throughout the luxuriant and enchanting landscape; accompanied with biographical notices, and well-authenticated facts, connected with subjects of contemporary in

terest.

Dr. J. READE is preparing for publication a Treatise on Vision, founded on new and interesting experiments.

Mr. EVANS, Printer, of Bristol, is about to produce a Chronological Out

line of the History of that Ancient and Opulent City, designed as a text-book of all other works upon the same subject, and embellished with architectural drawings by Mr. O'Neill. It will have an introductory chapter, descrip tive of morning walks through Bristol, for the especial information of strangers-a plan not heretofore adopted.

On the first of November will be published the first Number of a series of Classical Illustrations of the Works

of Eminent Composers for the Piano Forte, in which all the modulations, and other variety of scientific beauties Contained in them will be clearly illustrated through a new order of musical designation, by J. RELFE, Musician in ordinary to his Majesty.

On the 1st of January will be published, a New Poem, by the author of the Widow of Nain, &c. entitled Irad and Adah, a Tale of the Flood, to which will be added Lyrical Poems, principally sacred, including transitions of several of the Psalms of David.

In the press Cicero de Officiis, de Amicitia et de Senectute, printed in 4Smo. with diamond type by Corrall, uniform with Horace and Virgil, recently published.

Mr. BUTLER will shortly publish an Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography, for the use of schools.

An octavo volume is nearly ready for publication, called The Conveyancer's Guide, a burlesque poem; the second edition, considerably enlarged with numerous notes, adapted for the young student at law, by a Conveyancer of Gray's Inn.

Shortly will be published, a new edition, neatly printed in one volume, octavo, corrected and improved, of Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles, by JOHN DICK, D.D. Professor of Divinity to the United Secession Church, Glasgow.

A new edition is printing of Neale's History of the Puritans, by TOULMIN, 5 vols. 8vo. carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged, by W. JONES, author of the History of the Christian Church.

The Rev. Dr. EVANS, of Islington, has in the press a small volume, entitled Recreation for the Young and the Old -An Excursion to Brighton-A Visit to Tunbridge Wells-and a Trip to Southend, with an alphabetical list of all the watering-places in the Kingdom.

The eighth and concluding volume of Howe's Works, is printing.

Happiness

Happiness, a Tale for the Grave and the Gay, also Mary Nelson, a narrative.

A new edition, being the third, is in the press, of Rolle's Trader's Safeguard and Counting-House Guide.

Moses Samuel, Esq. of Liverpool, has presented to the Libraryof the Athenæum a Manuscript Pentateuch, or Sacred Law of the Jews. This curiosity is written on a roll of fine vellum, four inches wide, and upwards of fortyfive feet long; it is attached at each end to an ivory roller, and the whole is enclosed in a splendid case of crimson velvet. A special meeting of the committee was summoned for the purpose of receiving this valuable present; and an ark was ordered to be prepared for its preservation, under Mr. Samuel's directions.

Count Melzi's celebrated library has been bought by Frank Hall Standish, Esq. author of a Life of Voltaire. It possesses, among other rarities, the Livii Historia, Spiræ, 1470, printed upon vellum, with capitals, tastefully illuminated: the Lucretius, Brixiæ, Ferrandi, the first edition, of which there are only three copies.

A new and improved edition will be shortly published of the Rev. DAVID WILLIAMS'sLaws relating to theClergy, including instructions to candidates for holy orders.

The Rev. T. BROADHURST, of Bath, will shortly publish a third edition of his Advice to Young Ladies on the Improvement of the Mind and the Conduct of Life, carefully revised, with some additions. The work has been for several years out of print.

Mr. FREND's annual volume of Evening's Amusements on Astronomy, will appear at the usual period of its publication.

An annual volume is commenced called the Wit's Red Book; or, Calender of Gaiety, for the year 1822, a collection of original anecdotes, facetiæ, epigrams, &c. 18mo. price 2s. 6d.

A new metrical version of the Psalms of David, is in the press, with an Appendix of select psalms and hymns, adapted to the service of the united church of England and Ireland, for every Sunday in the year, festival days, saints' days, &c. by the Rev. BASIL WOOD, A.M. of Trinity College, Oxford, and Rector of Drayton-Beauchamp, Bucks. Mr. WILSON will publish in a few days a new dramatic piece, entitled A Masquerade Rehearsal.

FRANCE.

M. Tedenat, son of M. T. French Consul at Alexandria, has just arrived at Marseilles, with a number of antiquities from Upper Egypt, which he has been exploring. He ascended as far as to the first cataracts of the Nile, and visited the famous city with the hundred gates. He made excavations in the granitic mountain near Thebes, which stretches in front of the Great Temple. Here he found some beautiful mummies, and MSS. on paper, of the finest lustre and in the best preservation. It is thought that, in this last respect, they yield to no MS. in any library whatever. It was in the mountainous part called Gourna that he made the greatest discoveries.

He had also the good fortune to meet with a rope made of the leaves of the palm tree: this was used for letting down into a cavern the bodies of rich individuals that were afterwards to be interred in the large chambers cut out in the granitic flank of the mountain, at a depth of more than 60 toises. These profundities seem as if intended to conceal the interior tombs; and now, to get at them, is frequently a hazardous undertaking. The burial chambers, or vaults, of Gourna, exhibit exquisite specimens of art, as well in the hieroglyphic paintings, as in the saliaut reliefs, sculptured on all the interior walls.

We may judge of the patience, the tools, and the talents of the Egyp tian artists, when even in the bowels of the earth, they could construct immortal works, and not content with erecting those towering pyramids, which, after so many thousand years, weary out time itself, could excavate, in a mountain more than thirty leagues in extent, depositories for their mummies -thus preserving bodies in opposition to the laws of nature, which ever tend to their dissolution. M. Tedenat is bringing his rich collections to Paris, and intends shortly to return to Egypt. The academy at Marseilles has admitted him to be a corresponding member.

On the 17th of July, Capt. Rey, of the ship Henri, who formerly made a voyage to Cochin China, arrived in the river of Bourdeaux, from the isle of Bourbon. Among his passengers, was the Baron Milius, late governor and commander of the colony. He has brought with him one of the richest collections of vegetables that have ever been introduced into Europe. He has also various fruits of the torrid zone,

in perfect preservation. A number of animals, alive or stuffed, or kept in spirits of wine, including a variety of curious articles from the different is lands he has had intercourse with, complete the collection.

The Academical Society of the Lower Loire has proposed a prize, consisting of a gold medal, value 300 francs, for the best answer to certain questions relating to the yellow fever. It is required to trace its origin, specify its causes and nature, to describe the state of the atmosphere and local circumstances where it prevails--to notify its identity or otherwise with similar fevers in Europe, &c.-to distinguish whether it be complicated with any other malady. Also a second essay to indicate the means for preventing its spreading, the proper modes of quarantine, &c. The memoirs to be addressed post free to the secretary general of the society, previous to the 1st of May, 1822. Each to bear a motto, with a repetition of it in a sealed paper, containing the name and address of the author.

The ships in the French navy, in November, 1820, were 8 of 118 guns, 2 of 110, 12 of 80, 27 of 74, 1 frigate of 24, and 80 of 18, 10 corvettes and 26 brigs. According to the report of the minister of marine, there are in 1821, in actual service 73 armed vessels of different descriptions, and on different stations. For the sake of exercising young officers, some of the armed ships are employed as transports in the merchants'

service.

The great works to complete_the basins of Cherbourg and Brest, and the general magazine of Toulon are in progress.

An extraordinary event happened in the environs of Aubenas, on the 15th of June last. A loud report was heard, during five or six minutes, to the extent of six miles round. The inhabitants knew not the cause; when a high hill, called Gerbier de Jone, at the foot of which springs the Loire, disappeared, and presented nothing but a lake. This hill was high, and it was difficult to reach the top, at the extremity of which there was a spring. The commotion was so strong, that it produced an earthquake five leagues in circumfe

A society has been formed at Paris for the encouragement of geography, by the printing of scientific memoirs, the publication of maps, the distribution of prizes, and defraying the expences of travellers having important objects in view.

DENMARK.

A Danish family, desirous of purchasing a beautiful mummy for one of the museums in Copenhagen, wrote to M. Dumrecher, Danish consul at Alexandria, who, assisted by M. Tedenat, the French Consul, procured an intelligent man to set out for Upper Egypt, with a firman from the Pasha, to search the tombs of the ancient kings. For the greater dispatch, they employed two different parties of the natives, from Longsor and from Karnack. The former were the most fortunate, discovering a tomb that had never been opened, and where they found, on the third day, a mummy with five cases; they asked for this 6000 piastres of Egypt, (£133.) which was paid them. The fellahs of Karnack, thus disappointed, and having had three days' toil for nothing, had warm disputes with those of Longsor; and mischievous consequences might have ensued, as their villagers took a part in the quarrel, if the possessor of the mummy had not given 1000 piastres (£22.) extra to the Arabs of Karnack, to whom also some participation was made by those of Longsor. This mummy is the most superb and beautiful of all that have been hitherto discovered. To judge of it from the ornaments in relief, which decorate the cases, and especially one whereon gold has been lavished, from the rich style of the amulets, from the largeness of the papyrus, and all the hieroglyphical embellishments about the body, it must have been that of some Egyptian king or prince. This conjecture is corroborated by the number of cases, as the mummies of the greatest persons in general have only three.

RUSSIA.

The Russian frigate, Voslock, Capt. Bellinghausen, has arrived from a voyage of discovery, &c. in the South Pacific. She reached 70° S. nearly in the track of Captain Cook, and reports his Sandwich land to be an island or islands.

The Emperor Alexander has erected at Abo, in Finland, a magnificent ob servatory, the direction of which he entrusted to Balbeck, the celebrated astronomer.

AFRICA.

AFRICA.

M. Tabaudo, Apostolical Vice Prefect of the island of Goree, has been successfully extending the sphere of his ministry. He has made an excursion to Jouval, in the states of the Barbassin Prince, where certain ancient Portuguese reside. They had been without a priest since the death of the Abbé Costa, who died there, and they had long been desirous of having their children baptised. In a few days, M. Tabaudo baptised 234, and taught them their prayers and the primary elements of the christian doctrine. He staid twenty days in the place, which is considered as a succursal, or a kind of appendage to Goree, as the missionaries of that colony were in the habit of visiting it. A few mahometans also came and were baptised. At Goree the missionary is daily giving instructions, and he catechises four times in a week. He also frequently visits the sick in the hospital. M. Tabaudo has been also at St. Louis, where, as yet, there are no priests. He resided with the Sisters of Charity, who, as in other places, render themselves estimable by their services. blessing seems to attend them.

WEST INDIES.

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The trees which form a coffee grove in the French islands, are planted in the quincunx form, or in alleys, distant one from the other about ten feet, and protected by rows of other arborescent

vegetables. These are requisite to defend them from the violence of winds, or the too direct action of the sun. For this purpose the mimosa lebbeck and the inga are selected, though being subject to a disease produced by an insect, they frequently occasion the loss of the whole plantation. The tops of the trees are lopped off to the height of 6 feet, more or less, that the gathering may be easier, and by the hand. Care is required in gathering the red berries, so as not to shake off the unripe ones. The fruits thus daily gathered, are exposed to the sun in light layers, so as to prevent fermentation. In rainy districts they are dried in stoves. The coffee is afterwards winnowed, picked, and then confined in places where no moisture can penetrate-after which it is ready for sale. Coffee must be put in the ground immediately after the seeds are gathered. The Arabs were long suspected of using some preparation to destroy the principle of germination, but it is ascertained that the seeds lose it very soon after they come out of the husk. The coffee of Aden and Mocha has been carefully planted in the West India colonies, but is not in such estimation as the native Arabian. The coffee of Martinico and Guadaloupe, at present rivals that of Bourbon, but that of Cayenne, though in a manner unknown, surpasses them all.

HE following geological fact has been

Tlately given as translated from Count

Bournon's Mineralogy: During the years 1786-7, and 8, they were occupied near Aix, in Provence, in France, in quarrying stone for the rebuilding, upon a vast scale, of the Palace of Justice. The stone was a deep grey limestone, and of that kind which are tender when they come out of the quarry, but harden by exposure to the air. The strata were separated from one another by a bed of sand, mixed with clay more or less calcareous. The first which were wrought presented no appearance of any foreign bodies, but after the workmen had removed the first ten beds, they were astonished when, taking away the eleventh, to find its inferior surface, at the depth of forty or fifty feet, covered with shells. The stone of this bed having been removed, as they were taking away the sand which separated the eleventh bed from the twelfth, they found stumps of columns and fragments of stones half wrought, and the stone was exactly similar to that of the quarry. They found moreover coins, handles of hammers, and other tools, or fragments of tools, of wood.

But that which principally commanded their attention was a board, about an inch thick, and seven or eight feet long; it was broken into many pieces, of which none were missing; it was possible to join them again one to another, and to restore its original form, which was that of the boards of the same kind used by the masons and quarrymen; was worn in the same manner, rounded and waving on the edges. The stones, which were partly wrought, had not changed in their nature, but the fragments of the board and the instruments, and the pieces of instruments of wood, had been changed into agates, which were very fine, and agreeably coloured. Here then (observes Count Bournon) we have the traces of a work executed by the hand of man, placed at the depth of fifty feet, and covered with eleven beds of compact limestone; every thing tended to prove that this work had been executed upon the spot where the traces existed. The presence of man had then preceded the formation of this stone, and that very considerably, since he was already at such a degree of civilization that the arts were known to him, and that he wrought the

stone,