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Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough completed; by Wm. Coxe; with portraits, maps, and plans. In 3 vols. 4to.

The Life of Paine; by W. T. Sherwin, 8vo. with a portrait. 7s. 6d.

Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russel; by the editor of Madame Du Deffand's Letters. 4to. L.1, 5s.

Memoirs of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B. D. late fellow of St John's College, 8vo. 12s.

Memoirs of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham. 5s. 6d.

CONCHOLOGY.

Conchylien Cabinet; by Martini and Chemnitz. 12 vols. royal 8vo. L.30.

DRAMA.

A Key to Commercial Arithmetic; by James Morrison. 12mo. 6s.

A New Classification of all the Nouns Substantive in the German Language, &c.; by J. J. G. Fischer. 5s.

The Duty and Rewards of Industry; by the Rev. J. Barrow. 12mo. 5s.

FINE ARTS.

No. 5, Vol. III. of Claud's Liber Veritatis, (being the concluding number,) containing twenty-two prints after the original drawings of Claude de Lorraine, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings. Proof impressions L.2, 12s. 6d. Prints L.1, 11s. 6d.

Views in Greece, from drawings by Edward Dodwell. L.2, 12s. 6d. Italian Scenery, No. 8; by J. F. Batty. 10s. 6d.

GEOLOGY.

A New Geological Atlas of England and Wales; by Wm. Smith. Part I. L.1, 1s. The maps to be had separately, 5s. 6d. each.

LAW.

A Practical Treatise on the Criminal law, adapted to the use of the profession, magistrates, and private gentlemen. 4 vols. royal 8vo; by Joseph Chitty.

A Treatise on Leases and Terms for Years; by Chas. H. Chambers. 8vo. 15s.

Reports of Cases, principally on Practice and Pleading, and relating to the Office of Magistrates, determined in the Court of King's Bench, in Easter Term 1819; by Joseph Chitty. Vol. I. Part II. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

MEDICINE.

A Treatise on the Atmosphere and Climate of Great Britain; by James Johnson, M. D. 9s.

Researches into the Nature and Causes of Epilepsy; by J. G. Mansford. 8vo. 7s.

A Dissertation on the Disorder of Death, on that State of the Frame under the Signs of Death, called Suspended Animation, &c.; by the Rev. W. Whiter. 8vo.

Percy's Masque. 4s. 6d.
Melo-Drame Mad, or the Siege of 14s.
Troy; by Thos. Dibdin, Esq. 1s.

The House of Atreus, and the House of Laius; tragedies founded on the Greck Drama; by John Smith. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

EDUCATION.

The Rudiments of Algebra; by Peter Nicholson. 7s. Gd.

MINERALogy.

An Introduction to Mineralogy; by Robert Bakewell; with plates. 8vo. L.1, 1s.

MISCELLANIES.

The Rawdon Papers; consisting of Letters on various subjects; by the Rev. F. Berwick. 8vo. 12s.

NATURAL HISTORY.

The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Vol. XII. Part II. L.2, 2s.

NOVELS.

Maurice and Berghetta, or the Priest of Rahery; by William Parnell, M. P. 12mo. 7s.

Ernestus Berchtold, or the Modern Edipus; by John William Polodori, M. D. 12mo. 6s.

Sulime and Alid, or the World in China; a sentimentalo-satirical tale in prose. 12mo. 4s.

Views of Society and Manners in the North of Ireland, in a Series of Letters written in the year 1818; by John Gamble. 8vo. 12s.

Iskander, or the Hero of Epirus; by Arthur Spencer. 3 vols. 12mo. 15s.

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Philosophical Dialogues on the Reunion of the different Christian Communions; by the late Baron de Starck. 8vo. 9s.

A Critical Examination of those parts of Mr Bentham's "Church of Englandism," which relate to the Sacraments and the Church Catechism; by the Rev. H. J. Rose. 8vo. 5s.

Sermons on the most important Duties of the Christian Religion; by J. A. Busfield, D. D. 8vo. 12s.

An Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scrip. tures, with Remarks on Mr Bellamy's New Translation; by J. W. Whitaker. 9s. Principles and Practices of Pretended Reformers in Church and State; by Ar thur Kenny. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

TOPOGRAPHY.

A Description of the principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities, and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight; by Sir Henry C. Englefield, Bart. with additional Observations on the Strata of the Island, and their continuation in the adjacent parts of Dorsetshire; by Thomas Webster. 4to. L.7, 7s.

Reichard's Itinerary of Germany, with views, maps, and plans. 12s.

A History of the Island of Newfoundland containing a description of the island, the banks and fisheries, and trade of Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador; with two maps; by the Rev. Amadeus Anspach. 8vo. 16s.

A General History of the County of York; by Thomas Dunham Whitaker. On fine demy paper, in parts, L.2, 2s. each; or on large paper, with proof impressions of the plates, L.4, 4s. each part.

Walks through Bath, with twenty-one views, by Storer. Foolscap, 12s. demy 8vo. 16s.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

No. V. of the Journal of Voyages and Travels: containing Travels in Greece and the Holy Land, with many plates; by Count Forbin, Director of the Royal Museum, Paris. 3s. 6d. bds. and 3s. sewed.

First Impressions on a Tour upon the Continent in the Summer of 1818, through parts of France, Italy, Switzerland, the borders of Germany, and a part of French Flanders; by Marianne Baillie, with plates. 8vo. 15s.

Travels in various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia; by Sir William Ouseley. 1 vol. 4to. with numerous engravings. L.3, 13s. 6d.

Italy; its Agriculture, &c. from the French of Mons. Chateauvieux; translated by Edward Rigby, M. D. 8vo. 7s. 6d. A Walk through Switzerland, with a map. 8s.

EDINBURGH.

Sermons on Interesting Subjects. By Ministers belonging to the Associate Synod. 12mo. 5s. 6d.

The Post Office Annual Directory. 4s. Sermons by the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, Curate of St Peter's, Dublin. 8vo. 12s.

A Treatise on Arithmetic, in theory and practice. By James Thomson, A. M. Professor of Mathematics in the Belfast Institution. 12mo. 3s. Gd.

The Poems of Allan Ramsay; with an original Life of the Author, and Criticism on his Writings, by William Tennant, Esq. A neat cabinet edition. 5s.

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The Edinburgh Review. No. LXIII. 6s.
The Farmer's Magazine. No. LXXIX.

Edinburgh Monthly Review. No. IX. 2s. 6d.

MONTHLY REGISTER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

EUROPE.

FRANCE. On the 16th July, the Keeper of the Seals, conformably to a royal ordinance of the 25th March 1817, communicated to the Chamber ten new letters patent, instituting titles of Peerage in favour of MM. the Marquis Marshal Gouvion St Cyr, Marquis de Louvois, Marquis de la Suze, Marquis de Boisjelin, Count de la Bourdonnaye, Blossac, Count de Damas, Count Lanjuinais, Count de Choiseul, Gouffier, Count de Castellane, and Viscount Mathieu de Montmorency.

On Saturday the Marquis Dessoles, Prime Minister, and Count de Caze, delivered into the hands of the Chancellor, President of the Chamber of Peers, a royal proclamation, ordaining the closing of the session, which being read, the members immediately separated. The Royal Commissioners afterwards proceeded to the Chamber of Deputies, to whom the proclamation for prorogation was also read, on which the members dispersed amidst cries of Vive le Roi.

The law relative to the abolition of the Droit d'Aubaine has been officially published in the Moniteur. By the first article it is enacted, that the articles 726 and 912 of the Civil Code are repealed; in consequence, foreigners will have the right of succeeding to property, disposing of it, and receiving it, in the same manner as enjoyed by Frenchmen, throughout the kingdom. The second article provides, that in case of a division of the same succession between foreign and French co-heirs, the latter will receive from the property situated in France a share in value equal to that of property situated in a foreign country, from which he may be excluded, by virtue of local laws and customs.

On the 23d July, the notorious General Sarrazin was tried before the Assize Court, for bigamy, having married Miss Georgi. ana Hutchinson, an English lady, while a former wife was still living. The General was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' hard labour, and to pay 40,000 francs (upwards of L. 160 sterling) to Miss Hutchinson by way of damages. Miss Hutchinson's object in this prosecution was to obtain a provision for a child she had by Sarrazin; and having gained this, she has presented a petition to the king for a remission of the other part of his sentence.

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The trial of the late Professor Bavoux, for propagating seditious doctrines in his lectures, came on before the Assize Court on Saturday the 31st July. The hall and avenues of the Court were at an early hour thronged to excess, and after the indictment was read there were some appearances of a commotion from without. der, however, was quickly restored, and the trial proceeded without interruption. It was resumed on the following day, and terminated in a verdict of Not guilty, which was received by those in Court with loud acclamations. M. Bavoux quitted the Court accompanied by about 50 youths, exclaiming, Long live Bavoux! Surrounded by his noisy applauders, he proceeded to the Oratoire, where he mounted a hackney chariot, and from thence, as from a triumphal car, saluted those present.

Melancholy Fate of Madame Blanchard. This celebrated aeronaut ascended from the gardens at Tivoli, Paris, on the 6th July, in a luminous balloon, furnished with fire-works. The balloon rose majestically amid the shouts of an immense multitude, and when at a considerable height, Madame Blanchard set the match to the fire-works attached to the parachute, when it was perceived that some rockets took a perpendicular direction towards the balloon, and set fire to the bottom of it. The unfortunate aeronaut, in consequence, fell to the earth, and lighted on the top of a house, from whence she was taken up lifeless. Madame B. was about 45 years of age. Her melancholy fate immediately caused the amusements of the evening to be suspended; and a subscription was set on foot for her family, to which all subscribed as they went out of the garden. The French papers state, that, just previous to the fatal ascension of Madame B. a young English nobleman, Lord Powerscourt, offered the aeronaut 25 louis to allow him to accompany her.-Madame B. refused, not having been acquainted with his Lordship's desire in sufficient time to make the necessary alterations in the car.

SPAIN. The Cadiz expedition, so long in preparation, and on which the government of Spain has bestowed the whole remnant of its resources, has been partly dissipated by a mutiny; which, however, has led to no other result than the disbanding of the refractory troops, and the arrest of a number of their officers. It appears

that the commander in chief, General O'Donnel, had received information of a spirit of insubordination among a portion of the troops destined for South America, and resolved to stifle it in its birth; in which resolution he succeeded without bloodshed. He set out from Cadiz at midnight of the 7th July, and collecting about 4000 men from the troops at the Isle of Leon and at Port Royal, he invested the camp of La Victoire, consisting of 7000 men, cavalry, infantry, and artillery; compelled the mutineers to lay down their arms; arrested and deprived the officers; and dispersed the soldiers among the villages of Andalusia. The number of officers arrested amounts to 123; among them are five Colonels, four Lieutenant Colonels, and five Commandants. For this service O'Donnel has been rewarded with the Cross of Charles the Third; and the Marechal de Camp, Major General Sandfield, by birth an Englishman, who zealously seconded the efforts of his commander, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General. The cause of this insubordination is said to be the dislike of the soldiers to engage in the war against the colonies, and its discovery must have a favourable influence upon the cause of independence in South America; since, although the government at home may succeed in dispatching troops to that quarter, what security can be had, that they will not as readily fight on the side of the Independents as against them?-This question will indeed shortly be decided; since, subsequently to this mutiny, several transports, containing 3000 troops, have actually sailed from Cadiz, to reinforce, it is said, the troops under General Morillo in Venezuela.

GERMANY.-General alarm still prevails throughout some of the states of Germany, on account of secret conspiracies for the overthrow of existing institutions; and the universities seem to be regarded, as in a more especial manner, the seminaries of rebellion. Under the influence of these alarms, numerous arrests of individuals, supposed to be implicated in those unlawful combinations, have taken place. Messrs Pleifer and Hermann, the tutors of the children of the Ministers of Wirtemberg and Baden, at the Diet of Frankfort, were arrested in that city on the 22d July. Mr Schleiermacher, Professor of Theology in the University of Berlin, has been arrested; and Professor Goerres, Director of the Gymnasium at Coblentz, and formerly Editor of the Mercury of the Rhine, has been placed in a state of surveillance. Among the persons arrested in the duchy of Nassau are three superior officers and four ecclesiastics. Professor Jahn has been conducted, under a strong escort, from Berlin to the fortress of Spandau. The

number of pupils educated under his care at Berlin is estimated at 40,000. Professor Jahn, it is said, had long been insinuating revolutionary principles into the minds of the Univerity students, and had urged the right to assassinate the servants of the State who were obnoxious to his faction. Several arrests have also taken place among the students at the University of Magdeburgh, and among the papers of the suspected parties were found copies of a revolutionary poem; and some daggers are also said to have been found in their possession.

TURKEY. An article from Constantinople states, that the difficulty which prevented Spain from concluding a commercial treaty with the Porte has been removed by a special order of the sultan, and the treaty satisfactorily arranged. Accounts from the capital mention, that a convention has been agreed upon between the Pacha of Egypt and Messrs Lee and Buckingham, two British merchants, (the first is consul at Cairo), to facilitate the trade with India by the way of Suez.

Evacuation of Parga. Our readers will recollect the treaty which placed the Ionian Islands under the protection of the British government. Subsequently, from what are termed reasons of expediency, it has been thought necessary to make over the town of Parga to the Turks. The brave Parguinotes, however, determined rather than live under the bondage of Turkey, to leave for ever the country of their birth; and the following account of their evacuation of the land of their fathers, collected from letters from the Ionian Islands, of the beginning of June last, presents a scene of misery, the recollection of which must for ever be accompanied by the most lively indignation against its cold-blooded contrivers, who could, for paltry considerations of state policy, think of ejecting those Christians from the bosom of British protection into the hands of the Turks.

66 By Sir Thomas Maitland's orders, the officer commanding the British garrison at Parga, made known to the inhabitants, that, in conformity to arrangements with Ali Pacha, a Turkish force was to enter their territory without delay; but that the English troops would remain for their protection along with the Turks, until they were able to arrange all their affairs, and complete the emigration. On receiving this intimation, which was confirmed by the approach of an Ottoman force, the Parguinotes, having held a consultation, sent to inform the commandant, that as such was the determination of the British government, they had unanimously resolved, that should one single Turk enter their territory before all of them should have a fair opportunity of leaving it, they

would put to death all their wives and children, and afterwards defend themselves against any force, Turkish or Christian, that should violate the pledge made to them; and that they would fight until only one should survive to tell the story.

"The English commandant, perceiving by their preparations that this resolution was irrevocable, instantly dispatched information to Sir Thomas Maitland, at Corfu, who sent General Sir Frederick Adam to expostulate with them. That officer, upon his arrival at Parga, observed a large fire in the public square, where the inhabitants had heaped together the bones of their ancestors, collected together from the churches and cemeteries. All the male population stood armed at the doors of their respective dwellings; the women and children were within, awaiting their fate:-a gloomy and awful silence prevailed. A few of the primates, with the Protopapa at their head, received General Adam on his landing, and assured him, that the meditated sacrifice would be immediately executed, unless he could stop the entrance of the Turks, who had already arrived near the frontier, and effectually protect their embarkation and departure. Fortunately Sir Frederick Adam found means to prevail on the Ottoman commandant to halt with his force. The Glasgow frigate, Captain Maitland, which had been sent from Corfu, having arrived, the embarkation commenced, and all the Parguinotes proceeded, under her protection, to Corfu. The Turks, on their entrance, found Parga a desert; and the only signal that marked their reception, was the smoke of their funeral pile, in which its late inhabitants had consumed the bones of their forefathers.

"The unfortunate emigrants are now principally at Corfu, waiting, as houseless wanderers, the distribution of the miserable pittance of L.48 per head, obtained for them by their protectors; which is to be called a compensation for the loss of their property, their native soil, and social exist

ence.

ASIA.

Hurricane in the Isle of France.-A vessel arrived from this settlement has brought the following account of another hurricane, the third calamity of the kind which this ill-fated island has suffer, ed within the short space of thirteen months :

"Isle of France, April 3, 1819. "We experienced another hurricane on the night of Sunday last, which has almost destroyed the crops of maize, as well as other plantations. In the country, several buildings have been blown down. The shipping, particularly, has suffered much, but the houses in town have, in ge

neral, escaped any material injury. The gale principally blew from SE. to ŚW. and exerted its greatest violence between midnight and three o'clock the next morning. The quantity of rain was considerable. It appears that the barometer did not descend below 27 and 34. Although the storm was extremely boisterous, it has not occasioned so much damage as the two last hurricanes; which is attributed to the gusts of wind being less sudden; the losses, however, are very considerable."

AFRICA.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-Advices have been received from this colony, dated May 10, bringing information of another irruption of the Caffres, who by the last accounts were supposed to be completely repulsed, to the number of 30,000 men. They had crossed the river which divides their territory from that of the Cape, and were committing the most extensive depredations. Orders had been issued to compel the military service of the inhabitants of the adjoining district; and all the horses had been put into requisition, in order to equip a portion of them as cavalry, the species of force best calculated to repel the attacks of these dastardly but mis. chievous invaders.

AMERICA.

UNITED STATES.-The New York and other American papers still complain of the depression of commerce, and the scarcity of money. The Philadelphia Gazette states, that several large manufactories in the vicinity have closed their establishments for want of sufficient encouragement; and that, in consequence of this measure, between 300 and 400 men, women, and children, had been thrown out of employ ment. There can be no other reason for the stoppage of the newly established manufactories of America, except that they cannot enter into a competition with the manufactures of Great Britain, even though the latter are loaded with heavy import duties.

BRITISH SETTLEMENTS. By Newfoundland papers of the 16th June, we are informed, that some important improvements were proposed in that colony. Meetings had been held for the better regulation of the police. A communication was also to be opened with the Green Bay Indians; and a general survey of the coast was to take place, under the orders of the Surveyor-General,

The captains of two English vessels from Ireland, with emigrants, had been tried at St John's, for having too great a number of passengers on board, contrary to law. The excuse set up on the part of the captains was, that a number of the persons had been secreted at the time of

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