Mr. J. F. DANIELL, F.R.S. has in the press a volume of Meteorological Essays: the Constitution of the Atmosphere; the Radiation of Heat in the Atmosphere; Meteorological Instruments; the Climate of London; and the Construction and Uses of a new Hygrometer.

ments as have been made in thè Pathology and treatment of Cutaneous Diseases generally, since the publication of Bateman's Synopsis.

Travels through part of the United States and Canada, in 1818 and 1819, by JOHN MORISON DUNCAN, illustrated by Geographical Cuts on Wood, will appear in September.

A translation of GOETHES' "Wilhelm Meister," is printing.

Mr. J. L. TOWERS, who, like his late father, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Towers, is distinguished for literary industry and research, having for A Pulpit Orator of very extraorseveral years bestowed much time dinary powers has made his appearand study in the preparation of differ- ance in London, and attracts large ent courses of Lectures, intends and fashionable auditories. He is shortly to deliver some of them in the of the Chalmers' School, and from environs of London. The very nume- Glasgow. His name is IRVING, and rous engravings, by which they will his doctrines are Calvinistic. His be illustrated during their delivery, delivery, enunciation, and composiwill constitute one of their principal tion, are of the first order; and he novelties. His Lectures will also be has in a few months acquired great occasionally elucidated by a new spe- and deserved celebrity. Some grave cies of composition, numerous ex-persons consider his theatrical manner amples of which will be inserted in a pamphlet which he is preparing for publication. This pamphlet will explain the general subject of the Lectures, and the nature and peculiarities of his own plans. Of his commencing courses, two, at least, will relate to history and chronology, and will comprehend much amusing information respecting biography, antiquities, and the arts.

The Author of "Annals of the Parish," "Ringan Gilhaize," &c. announces "The Spaewife;" and, in rapidity, scems determined to keep pace with the Waverley Club of Scottish Authors.

A Work called The Sweepings of My Study, is announced at Edinburgh.

DR. HIBBERT announces Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or, an Attempt to trace such Illusions to their Physical Causes.

The Third Edition of Sir ASTLEY COOPER'S Work on Dislocations and Fractures, is printing.-An Appendix will contain a Refutation of almost every statement made in a late critical publication, on a subject treated of in the former edition of the above Work.

Mr. PLUMBE has in the press, a Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin, intended to comprise the substance of the Essay for which the College of Surgeons have awarded to him the Jacksonian prize, a reprint of his "Essay on Ringworm," &c. and copious notices of such improve

unbecoming the pulpit, but, while he is less so than the vulgar methodists, he combines those scholastic attainments which they want, and thereby exalts religion, instead of debasing it.

The great work called Nature Displayed, the richest in embellishments which ever appeared in England, and made so to render the study of nature popular, will positively appear in a few days.

In like manner a very ufeful and important volume of 5000 Receipts, delayed with a view to its perfection, will be ready on or before the 11th.

The Interrogative System of liberal Education is at length completed, being now extended to every proper object of Juvenile Study. It has been 25 years in progress, supported alone by public approbation, and unaided by any Association, or by the empirical means usually adopted to give currency to systems. It is now more or less adopted in every well conducted Seminary in the United Kingdom, and has been extensively introduced into France, Belgium, Germany, and America.

Mr. W. WEST, of Leeds, is about to publish in a separate form, with additions, his Analysis of the New Sulphur Spring at Harrowgate.

An Order in the Council of the Linnæan Society has been lately passed, by which Mr. DONOVAN will be allowed to enrich his New Monthly Work, the "Naturalist's Repository," with the icones of those choice and very beautiful species of the Psittacus

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and Corporations, including also, their general history.

W. F. BRANDE, esq. is preparing a Manual of Pharmacy, in octavo.

W. S. LANDOR, esq. will speedily publish Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.

We are rejoiced to find that the operation of Mr. MARTIN's late Act, for preventing the cruel and improper treatment of cattle, undoubtedly extends to Bulls, and that the magistrates under it have already, in several places, abolished the practice of bullbaiting. This brutal amusement has been discontinued at Oakingham, where it had existed for a long period; and the money left by will for purchasing the animal was laid out last year in bread for the poor. Mr. Martin deserves a statue of gold for his persevering exertions on these interesting subjects.

The Rev. HENRY BELFRAGE is printing a Monitor to Families, or Discourses on some of the Duties and Scenes of Domestic Life.

Mrs. Oom is engaged on a Classical Assistant to the Study of Homer and Virgil, in the translations of Pope and Dryden.

Mrs. SARAH BREALEY will soon publish Three Essays, on Regeneration and other spiritual subjects.

A work called. Anacharsis in Scot land, being a view of the state of the country, with descriptious of the most celebrated scenes and subjects of local and historical interests, will soon appear.

A new edition of Keith's Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops, with additions to the present time, and a life of the author, is preparing by Dr. RUSSELL,

Dr. URE will soon publish a new edition of Berthollet on Dyeing, with notes and illustrations.

Dr. ROBERT JACKSON is preparing an Outline of Hints for the Political Organization and Moral Training of the Human Race.

T. WATERHOUSE KAY, esq. is engaged upon an English Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Laws.

Mr. E.W. BRAYLEY, jun. is printing the Natural History of Meteorites, which at different periods have fallen from the atmosphere.

Sir JOHN MALCOLM is preparing a Memoir of Central India, with the history and copious illustrations of the past and present state of that country, and an original map.

Mr. LANDSEER will speedily publish Sabean Researches, in a series of Essays, addressed to distinguished antiquaries, and illustrated by engravings of Babylonian cylinders, &c.

Mr. ROBERT BLOOMFIELD announces Hazelwood Hall, a drama, in three acts, interspersed with songs.

Mr. ROBERT MEIKLEHAM is printing a Practical Treatise on the various Methods of Heating Buildings, by steam, hot air, stoves, and open fires, with explanatory engravings: a very desirable work.

Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency, extracted from the German correspondence of Madame Elizabeth Charlotte, duchess of Orleans, mother of the Regent, preceded by a biographical notice of this Princess, and with notes, will soon appear.

A second volume of Mr. M'DIARMID's Scrap-Book will soon appear.

A new edition is printing of the works of Henry Mackenzie, esq. with a critical dissertation on the tales of the author.

Mr. M'DIARMID announces new translations of Paul and Virginia, and of Elizabeth, from the French of Madame Cottin.

The power of steam is now rendered subservient to the breaking of stones for the construction of roads. A machine has been invented, consisting of two fluted rollers, placed side by side, about an inch apart, and turning different ways. The stones are put in a kind of hopper above, and pushed down with a rake, which afford a regular supply to the rollers. The machine is worked by one of Kay and Routledge's rotatory engines, of one-horse power, and will break a ton of hard pebbles completely in from six to eight minutes. A machine has been also invented for the dressing of woollen cloth, which does as much work in fifty minutes as two men could do in two days.

MR. WILLIAMS has in contemplation to publish, as soon as subscriptions for indemnity can be obtained, Designs from a complete series of Antique Friezes, commonly known as the Phigalian Marbles, comprehending the celebrated contest between the Lapithæ and Centaurs, and the battle of the Greeks and Amazones, which formerly ornamented the cella of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius, at Phigalia, in Arcadia, Greece. Taken from these marbles,

marbles, now deposited in the British Museum, consisting of twenty-three tablets, the designs are made by various young artists of rising eminence in the British school, and are to be engraven in exact imitation of the drawings, in the lithographic manner, by Mr. F. O. Finch. This temple was an object of universal admiration in the most splendid age of Grecian perfection (that of Pericles,) for its architectural and sculptural magnificence; these designs, in the original, are peculiarly spirited and diversified, and proclaim the very high degree of sculptural perfection that obtained among the first artists of that justly celebrated people. The subject of each plate is intended to be illustrated on a separate leaf, facing the plate, by readings collected from the classic authors of antiquity who have written upon these subjects, and from which the original artist is presumed to have obtained the idea for his design.

Mr. J. BEEDELL, a gentleman residing at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, has written with the naked eye the following pieces in a square of 3 inches:-Goldsmith's Traveller, Deserted Village, Essay on Education, Distresses of a Disabled Soldier, the Tale Assem, Essay on Justice and Generosity, on the Irresolution of Youth, on the Frailty of Man, on Friendship, on the Genius of Love, and the national anthem of God save the King, without the slightest abbreviation, the whole comprising upwards of one hundred thousand letters! Within the square Mr. Beedell has described two circles; in the inner one (which is the compass of a sixpence,) Mr. B. has delineated the beautiful building of Ottery St. Mary church, the shades and lines of which form part of the writing. Mr. Beedell has also written in the circumference of a pea, the Lord's Prayer and the Belief, without abbreviation; it is exquisitely written, and in the centre is formed, by the writing, a dove with an olive-branch.

M. BELZONI, the enterprising traveller, is now on another journey of discovery in Africa. A letter from him, dated Fez, May 5, gives an interesting account of the progress he has made, and of his future views. He says, "I informed you that I had gained permission from his Majesty the Emperor of Morocco to enter his country as far as Fez, and that I had great hopes of obtaining his permission to penetrate

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further south.—I stated also, notwithstanding the great charges upon my purse, unsupported as I am, and relying entirely on my own resources, that nothing should be left undone before I quitted my attempt. I have now great pleasure in acquainting you, my dear friend, of my safe arrival at Fez, after having been detained at Tangier till a letter had been forwarded from Mr. Douglas, his Britannic Majesty's consul at Tangier, to the minister at Fez, to obtain permission from the emperor for me to approach his capital. As soon as a favourable answer was received, we started for this place, and in ten days arrived here in safety with my better half, who, having succeeded in persuading me to take her as far as Tangier, has also enforced her influence to proceed to Fez; but this, though much against her will, must be her ne plus ultra. Yesterday I had the honour to be presented to his Majesty the emperor, and was highly gratified with his reception of me. He was acquainted that I had letters of introduction from Mr. Wilmont-Horton, to the consul in Tangier, from whom I received the greatest hospitality, and who did all in his power to promote my wishes. The fortunate circumstance of my having known the prime minister of his Majesty whilst at Cairo, on his return from Mecca to this country, is also in my favour: and, though a great deal has been said against my project by the commercial party, particularly by the Jews of this country, who monopolise all the traffic of the interior, I obtained his Majesty's permission to join the caravan, which will set out from Timbuctoo within one month. If nothing should happen, and if promises are kept, I shall from this place cross the mountains of Atlas to Taflet, where we shall join other parties from various quarters, and from thence, with the help of God, we shall enter the great Sahara to Timbuctoo. Should I succeed in my attempt, I shall add another votive-tablet' to the Temple of Fortune; and if, on the contrary, my project should fail, one more name will be added to the many others which have fallen into the River of Oblivion. Mrs. Belzoni will remain at Fez till she hears of my departure from Taflet, which place is eighteen or twenty days' journey from hence; and, as soon as that fact is ascertained, she will return to England."

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opposition, unaided by temporal power; and your Petitioners humbly submit to your [Right Honourable House, that herein consists one of the brightest evidences of the truth of the Christian Religion; and that they are utterly at a loss to conceive how that which is universally accounted to have been the glory of the Gospel in its beginnings, should now cease to be accounted its glory, or how it should at this day be less the maxima of Christianity, and less the rule of the conduct of Christians, than in the days of those that are usually denominated the Fathers of the Churchthat it is no part of religion to compel religion, which be received, not by force, but of free choice.

Your Petitioners would earnestly represent to your [Right] Honourable House, that our Holy Religion has borne unin jared every test that reason and learning have applied to it, and that its Divine origin, its purity, its excellence and its title to universal acceptation, have been made more manifest by every new examination and disenssion of its nature, pretensions and claims. Left to itself under the Divine blessing, the reasonableness and innate excellence of Christianity will infallibly promote its influence over the understandings and hearts of mankind; but, when the angry passions are suffered to rise in its professed defence, these provoke the like passions in hostility to it, and the question is no longer one of pure truth, but of power on the one side, and of the capacity of endurance on the other.

It appears to your Petitioners that it is altogether unnecessary and impolitie to feeur to penal laws in aid of Christianity. The judgment and feelings of human naInre, testified by the history of man in all ages and nations, incline mankind to res ligion; and it is only when they erringly associate religion with fraud and injustice that they can be brought in any large num ber to bear the evils of scepticism and unbelief. Your Petitioners acknowledge and lament the wide diffusion amongst the people of sentiments unfriendly to the Christian faith; but they cannot refrain from stating to your Honourable House their conviction that this unexampled state of the public mind is mainly owing to the prosecution of the holders and propagators of infidel opinions. Objections to Chriss tianity have thus become familiar to the readers of the weekly and daily journals, curiosity has been stimulated with regard to the publications prohibited, an adventi tious, unnatural, and dangerous importance has been given to sceptical arguments, a suspicion has been excited in the minds of the multitude that the Christian religion can be upheld only by pains and penalties, and sympathy has been raised on behalf of the sufferers, whom the uninformed and MONTHLY MAG. No. 385.

fidence that belong to the character of anwise regard with the reverence and conmartyrs to the truth.

[Right] Honourable House, that all history Your Petitioners would remind your testifies the futility of all prosecutions for proceed the length of exterminating the mere opinions, unless such prosecutions extreme from which the liberal spirit and holders of the opinions prosecuted,-an the humanity of the present times revolt.

that are pleaded to justify the punishment The very same maxims and principles of Unbelievers would authorize Christians of different denominations to vex and harass each other on the alleged ground of for Heathen persecutions against Chriswant of faith, and likewise form an apology tians, whether the persecutions that were anciently carried on against the divinelytaught preachers of our Religion, or those that may now be instituted by the ruling party in Pagan countries, where Christian missionaries are so laudably employed, in endeavouring to expose the absurdity, folly, and mischievous influence of ido Batry.

Your Petitioners would entreat your [Right] Honourable House to consider that belief does not in all cases depend apou the will, and that inquiry into the truth of Christianity will be wholly prevented if persons are rendered punishable for any given result of inquiry. Firmly attached as your Petitioners are to the religion of the Bible, they cannot but consider the liberty of rejecting, to be implied in that of embracing it. The n believer may, indeed, be silenced by his fears, but it is scarcely conceivable that any real friend to Christianity, or any one who is solicitons for the improvement of thehuman mind, the diffusion of knowledge, and the establishment of truth, should wish to reduce any portion of mankind to the necessity of concealing their honest judg and of making an outward profession that ment upon mora) and theological questions, shall be inconsistent with their inward persuasion.

Your Petitioners are not ignorant that a distinction is commonly made between those unbelievers that argue the question of the truth of Christianity calmly and dispassionately, and these that treat the sacred subject with levity and ridicule; but, although they feel the strongest disgust at every mode of discussion which approachhot help thinking that it is neither wise es to indecency and profaneness, they can nor safe to constitute the manner and tem inasmuch as it is impossible to define per of writing an object of legal visitation; where argument ends and evil-speaking begins. The reviler of Christianity appears to your Petitioners to be the least formidable of its enemies; because hia

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