In the course of the ensuing winter will be published an Account of the Measures pursued with different Tribes of the Hindus, for the abolition of the practice of the systematic murder of female children by their parents; with inciden tal Notices of other Customs peculiar to the inhabitants of India; by the Hon. Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Walker, late Political Resident at the Court of Anand Rao Gaikawar. Edited with Notes, &c. by Major EDWARD MOOR, author of the Hindu Pantheon.

Mr. ROBERT BAKEWELL, lately of Wakefield, Yorkshire, has discovered a method of ascertaining with correctness, by means of chemical analysis, the qualities of the water, soil, coal, metallic ores, or other minerals, of any estate; and he undertakes to give the natural bistory, and a statistical account of it, including a description of the hills, springs, rivers, arrangement of strata, &c. with a view of assisting proprietors in forming an estimate of the nature and value of their lands.

The Rev. Mr. LYSONS has nearly ready for publication a new edition of his Environs of London, with alterations and additions, brought down to the present A volume of the additional matter will be published at the same time, for the purchasers of the former edition.

tune.

Mr. GEORGE CHALMERS has in the press, Considerations on Bullion and Coin, Circulation and Exchanges, with a view to our present circumstances.

A Life of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, Lord High Chancellor to Henry VI. and founder of Magdalen College, Oxford, by the late Dr. CHANDLER, will be published early in the spring. Dr. BROWNE has nearly ready for publication, a work designed for the use of schools, and entitled Pinacotheca Classica, or Classical Gallery; containing a selection of the most distinguished characters in ancient and modern times, as drawn by the most celebrated Greek, Roman, and British historians, biogra phers, &c.

Mr. W. MOORE, of the Royal Military Academy, is engaged in preparing for the press, a Treatise on Fluxions, with the various applications of that

science.

Mr. P. BARLOW, of the Royal Military Academy, is about to publish a Collection of Mathematical Tables, among which will be some to facilitate the solution of the Irreducible Case of Cubics.

Mr. C. BRADLEY, of Wallingford, has a Lexicon of the New Testament nearly ready for the press, principally intended for the use of schools, and consequently less extensive than Parkhurst's Lexicon, though compiled on a somewhat similar plan.

The various senses in which every word is used by the sacred writers, will be given in English; different phrases and expressions will be concisely elucidated; and those variations of the verb or noun which might occaSion any difficulty to the young student, will be inserted and referred to their themes.

The number of one-pound notes of country banks in circulation, on which duties had been paid up to June, 1810, 8,553,099

were

Old notes in circulation

203,200 8,756,290

588,980

9,345,279

1,477,168

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Multiplied by Amount of notes bearing the shilling stamp £7,885,840 Say 500,000 ten £ equal to 5,000,000 169,846 twenty £ . 3,396,920

Mr. BARRON FIELD, of the Inner Temple, has in the press, A full Analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries, by a series of Questions, to which the student is to frame his own answers by reading ȧhat work:

The Library of the late William Platel, esq. of Peterborough, including his interesting collection of Arabic, Persian, Bengalee, and other MSS. forming part of the library of the late Shah Aulum, will be sold by auction this winter.

The Rev. T. F. DIBDIN has in the press, in one large octavo volume, the English Gentleman's Library Companion, or a Guide to the Knowledge of rare, cu rious, and useful Books, in the English language, and appertaining to British li. terature and antiquities.

Memoirs of Mary Anne Radcliffe, in familiar Letters to her female friends, are in the press, in one volume octavo; but the publishers think it right to apprise the public that this lady is not the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho, and other celebrated romances.

publish a work on the Present State of Ireland.

The Rev. W. ETTRICK has in the press, in two octavo volumes, the Second Exodus, or Reflections on the Prophe cies of the Last Times.

The Bishop of London is printing a work on the subject of Calvinism, which will comprehend his last three Charges, with considerable additions, and numerous quotations from the works of Calvin, and the ancient Fathers,

Mr. JOHN BELLAMY proposes to publish by subscription, in two octavo volumes, the Fall of Deism, in which the objections of the Deists against the Old and New Testament, during the last 1600 years, are answered with a strict adherence to the literal sense of the Hebrew language.

Mr. RICHARD FENTON will soon publish an Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, in a quarto volume.

The second volume of Mr. SOUTHEY'S History of Brazil is at press. It relates the foundation and establishment of the adjacent Spanish provinces, the affairs of which are in later times inseparably con nected with those of Brazil. The subject includes the whole tract of country between the rivers Plata, Paraguay, and Orellana or the Amazons, stretching westward to Peru, as far as the Portuguese have extended their settlements or their discoveries.

Mr. JOSEPH MURPHY, of Leeds, has In the press, a History of the Human Teeth; with a Treatise on their diseases, from infancy to age, adapted for general information.

Mrs. GRANT, of Laggan, will speedily publish Essays on the Poetry and Superstitions of the Highlands, with Fragments in verse and prose.

The editor of the Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, is engaged in preparing a fourth volume, to be sold separately, which will contain Biographical Memoirs, Li. terary Anecdotes, Characters of eminent Men, and Topographical Notices.

Mr. EDWARD WAKEFIELD will shortly
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Mrs. MARY ANNE CLARKE is preparing for the press, further particulars of her conduct in recent transactions.

An Account of an Expedition undertaken in the years 1805, 6 and 7, by or der of the Government of the United States, by MAJOR PIKE, is in the press, under the title of Exploratory Travels through the Western Territories of North America; comprising a Voyage from St. Louis on the Mississippi to the sources of that river, and a Journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the northeastern provinces of New Spain: the whole including a distance of 8000 miles, and exhibiting a view of the geography, natural productions, Indian tribes, pre sent state of the population, &c. of those interesting countries. The work will form a quarto volume, and be illustrated_ with maps drawn up from the Major's observations.

The late Mr. BARRE ROBERTS' matchless Cabinet of the Coins of England, Scotland, and Ireland; likewise his Anglo-Gallic coins, coronation medals, and many of the works of Thomas Simon, will be sold by auction in February, if not previously disposed of by private contract,

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Four ladies and three children have already been burnt to death within the present winter, owing to inattention to the known means of preventing the fatal effects of such accidents. Reasoning on the principle of the ascent of heat and flame, Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS lately provided himself with two separate pieces of muslin, and made with them the following decisive experiment. He set fire to one of them held in an upright position, and it was consumed in half a minute, the flames rising with great intensity to the height of two feet. He then set fire to the other piece, laid hollow in an horizontal direction, and it was nearly ten minutes before it burnt from one end of the piece to the other; the flame never rose half an inch in height, and might at any instant have been extinguished by the thumb and finger, or by drawing the hand over it. In short, it is evident, that a perpendicular female dress as high as the Monument, would burn out with a destructive flame in less time than a single yard of the same material laid in an horizontal direction. It results, therefore, from the above experiment, that as soon as a lady's or child's dress is discovered to be on fire, she should lie down, and she may then either extinguish the flame with her own bands, or may leisurely call for assisitance, and no fatal effects can happen even in the

worst event.

RUSSIA.

A peasant named JOHN SEMZOW, has discovered a method of making paper stoppers for bottles so expeditiously, that one man may make near 7000 in an hour. In consequence, a thousand corks, which some time since sold for 65 rubles, have fallen to 8, and it is expected, that should the competition continue, they will be so low as half a ruble per thou sand, which is the price of the paper substitutes.

GERMANY.

M. BADER, Counsellor of Mines at Munich, in Bavaria, has invented what he terms an aquatic sledge, constructed on such a principle that it may be impelled and guided on the water by the rider himself, without any other aid. The first public experiment was made with this machine on the 29th of August last, before the royal family at Nymphenburg, with complete success. It consists

of two hollow canoes, or pontoons, eight feet loug, made of sheet copper, closed on all sides, joined to each other in a parallel direction, at the distance of six feet, by a light wooden frame. Thus

joined, they support a seat resembling an arm-chair, in which the rider is seated, and impels and steers the sledge by treading two large pedals before him. Each of these pedals is connected with a paddle, fixed perpendicularly in the after-part of the machine behind the seat, and in the interval between the two pontoons. In front of the seat stands a small table, on which the rider may read, write, draw, or eat and drink. His hands being at perfect liberty, he may even play an instrument, load and fire a gun, or do whatever he pleases. Behind the seat is a leathern bag, to hold any thing he may want in his excursion. It is evident that this machine must be admirably calculated for the pur pose of taking sketches of aquatic scenery, as also for the diversion of shooting water-fowl, in which case the sportsman conceals himself behind a slight skreen of branches, or rushes, so as to approach the birds unperceived. This vehicle is far safer than a common boat, the centre of gravity being constantly in the middle of a very broad base; a circumstance which renders upsetting, even in the heaviest gale, absolutely impossible. It is moreover so contrived, that it may be taken to pieces in a few minutes, packed in a box, and put together again in a very short time. It is not improbable that this highly original invention may in time be applied to more important purposes than mere diversion.

The linen and woollen manufactures of Prussian Silesia have been for some years on the decline. Previous to 1798, the former produced on an average twenty millions of livres a-year. Of woollen cloth, above 120,000 pieces were annu ally made, and two-thirds of that quan tity were exported. In 1788 the exports amounted to 72,620 pieces dressed, and 17,200 undressed. The cloths made here are common in quality; and on these manufactures the whole population depends for a subsistence. The province has a few manufactories of cotton and stuffs mixed of silk and thread, but of small consequence. The tanneries are of more importance; they are numerous, but neglected, either from prohibitions which restrain industry or from want of capital.

Several natives of the South Sea islands have lately visited England, having been brought by different merchant-vessels, in which they engaged themselves as common sailors. Among these is Duaterra, nephew to Tippihee, a chief of New Zealand, and son-in-law of another chief named Wanakee. He is a very intelligent young man, only twenty-two years of age, possessing a most amiable temper, considerable natural abilities, and an ardent thirst of knowledge. His only object, as he said, for leaving his native country was to see King George. For this purpose he entered on board the Santa Anna, belonging to Port Jackson, which touched at New Zealand, on her way to some of the South Sea islands, on a sealing voyage, in the course of which he was exposed to many dangers, hardships, and toils. As a reward for these, Duaterra expected on his arrival in the Thames to see the King, but was unfortunately disappointed. The captain kept him nearly the whole time he was in England on board the ship at work, till she was discharged; and on the 5th of August last, sent him on board the Ann, which sailed almost immediately for Portsmouth. Duaterra was much concerned at being compelled to return, without accomplishing the object of his voyage, for which, he observed, his countrymen would find great fault with him. It is certainly a circumstance much to be regretted, that this young man, who by birth and marriage is related to eleven out of the thirteen chiefs of New Zealand, should have lost the only reward which he expected for two years hard toil as a common sailor, without wages, or other remuneration than clothing and provision. Duaterra, during his residence in this country, related certain particulars respecting the traditions and manners of those remote islanders, which open a field for curious speculation. In regard to the creation of man, he reports, that the New Zealanders have been taught from time immemorial, by their priests and fathers, to believe that three gods made the first inan. The general term for bone is ve; and they universally believe that the first woman was made of an eve, or bone, taken from the side of the first man. The fable of the Man in the Moon is likewise an ancient Ladition among these people. There was, (say they) a long time ago, in New

Zealand, a man named Rona, who was going for some water one very dark night, for neither moon nor stars were then to be seen. He accidentally hurt his foot. While in this situation, and so lame as to be unable to return home, the moon came suddenly upon him. Rona laidhold of a tree to save himself, but in vain; for the moon carried both him and the tree away, and they are still to be seen there to this day. The belief of the following tradition, by which the faculty of speech at some former period is assigned to the serpent, may perhaps prove favorable to the introduction among them of the Mosaic account of the fall of man. The sharks wanted to leave the sea, and to live on shore; the serpent would not allow them, and said, that if they attempted to come on shore, they would be eaten by men; the sharks answered, they should be as safe there as the serpent: the latter replied, that he had a hole in the ground where he concealed himself from men; that they would not eat him, for if he only shewed his head, they were afraid and ran away; whereas, the shark had no place on the land in which he could be safe. He therefore compelled him to return to the sea, telling him, at the same time, that men would catch him there with their hooks, if he did not take care.-The chiefs muster all their men, at particular seasons of the year, the great muster being made after the potatoe harvest. The ground from which the potatoes have been lately dug, is cleared of the stems and weeds, and then levelled. Here they all assem ble, men, women, and children. The men are drawn up in ranks, five, six, or seven deep, according to the direction of the chief. One of the principal officers, or rangateedas, muster them, not by calling over their names, but by passing in front of their ranks, and telling their numbers, when he places a rangateeda at the head of every hundred men. The women and children, like those of the Israelites of old, are never mustered. After this census, their holidays begin, when they spend several days and nights in feasting, dancing, and performing their religious ceremonies. The chiefs never join in the amusements, but only look on, and give directions.-The common mode of salutation between two persons is, to bring their noses into contact with each other; and Duaterra declared, that when he left New Zealand, so many came to see him previous to embarkation, his nose was sore with rubbing against the noses of his friends.

tions.

The author, in his prefatory remarks, informs us that the present work owes its birth to the necessity he has constantly felt, in a long course of practice, of a similar assistance to the master: that taking the advantage of preceding authors, he has not only adopted their improvenients, but superadded others of his own; and their great utility in his private circle of instruction, now induces him to make them public.

This is Mr. Williams's apology for intruding his work upon the musical world. The apology is common with theoretical authors, but the manner in which Mr. Williams has executed his intention of assisting the teacher, and benefiting the pupil, is by no means so. The clear and regular order in which he has laid down his elementary rules, the fullness and perspicuity displayed in the explanatory observations, and the judicious examples and progressive exercises, give a superior rank to the work, and justify us in saying that it merits the particular attention both of masters, and of scholars, and does the greatest credit to Mr. Williams's qualifications as a professional teacher.

Les Plaisirs de l'Esperancer;" a Divertimento for the Piano-forte. Composed and dedicated to Miss Ingram, by J. Gildon. 2s.

This pleasing exercise for the pianoforte consists of three movements. They are at once excellent in themselves, and judiciously disposed. The concluding rondo, in six quavers, presto à la ballet, is particularly attractive in its subject, conceived with taste, and conducted with judgment.

"Ob! come, Ob ! come, my Fair One;" a favourite Song, with an Accompaniment for the Pianoforte. Composed by William Slapp. 15.

To deny this little song a moderate portion of merit would be unjust-to allow it any thing more would be exceeding its deserts. The melody is connected and easy, but common-place, and the accompaniment wholly consists of an obvious arpeggio, not always of the best

formation, and certainly very dull in its effect.

Second Petit Passe-Temps, d la Militaire, for the Piano-forte. Par L. Von Esch. 2s. 6d.

This piece consists of four movements; the first is a march, the second a macs toso in common time, the third a mode. rato in common time, and the fourth an allegretto in common time: but though the movements are all conceived in the same measure, they are so happily diversified in their style, that none of their respective merits are lost on the ear; neither satiety nor monotony results from the uniform division of the ideas, nor, indeed, is that uniformity any way sensibly felt.

"The Rose that weeps with Morning Dew;" sung by Mr. Bartleinan, set to Music by George Nicks. is. 6d.

Mr. Nicks has taken the words of the present song from Mrs. Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest. The simplicity and easy flow of the melody please us much. The poetry is natural and unaffected, and the music is analogous and expressive. "Paddy Carey's Fortune, or Irish Promotion;" a favourite comic Song, sung by Mr. Webb, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, written by Mr. Cherry, composed by J. Whitaker. 15.64. Mr. Whitaker has thrown much of the vis comica into the music of this song, and as much of the genuine cast of Irish melody as can, perhaps, in reason be expected from an English composer. In this style of vocal composition, its merits are certainly prominent.

"Blythe were the Hours" a favourite Song, sung by Mrs. Asbe, atibe Bath Concerts, composed by Mr. Rauzzini, the words by William Bennet, esq. 1s. 6d.

This ballad commences with a false accent in the melody: the general cast of which is, however, by no means un worthy of the taste and imagination of the late ingenious composer; nor will the production, though a trifle, pass unnoticed by the lovers of simple ballad music. Dr. Haydn's celebrated Air and Chorus "A new created World," from The Creation; adapted for two performers on the Piano-forte, with an Ac companiment for a Flute or Violin and Violoncellos by J. Mazzingbi, esq. 4s.

Mr. Mazzinghi's disposition of the parts of this chorus in the arrangement he has here made of it, will make every admirer of piano-forte duets glad that he has undertaken the task. The ges

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