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A Reply to the Third Critique in the Intellectual Repository, No. IX., and the Fourth in No. X., respecting a work entitled "The Trial of the Spirits," &c. By Robert Hindmarsh. 1s.

Observations on Mr. Secretary Peel's House of Commons' Speech, March 21, 1825, introducing his Police Magistrates' Salary Raising Bill. By Jeremy Bentham, Esq. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Price of Corn, and Wages of Labour, with Observations upon Dr. Smith, Mr. Ricardo, and Mr. Matthew's Doctrines upon these subjects; and an Attempt at an Exposition of the Causes of the Fluctuations of the Price of Corn, during the last Thirty Years. By Sir Edward West.

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A Compendious Saxon Grammar of the Primitive English, or Anglo-Saxon Language, &c. By the Rev. J. Bosworth,

M. A. 5s.

Recollections of a Pedestrian. By the author of "Journal of an Exile." 3 vols. post 8vo. 11. 7s.

An Edict of Dioclesian, fixing a maximum of Prices throughout the Roman Empire, A.D. 303. Edited with notes and a translation, by W. M. Leake, F.R.S. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

A Dictionary of Chemistry and of Mineralogy, as connected with it, &c. &c. By W. C. Ottley. 8vo. 12s.

The Genius and Design of the Domestic Constitution, with its untransferrable obligations and peculiar advantages. By C.

Anderson. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

An Examination of the Policy and Tendency of relieving distressed Manufacturers by Public Subscription; with some remarks on Lord Liverpool's recommendations of those distressed persons in a inass to the Poor Rates, and some Enquiry as to what law exists in support of his Lordship's recommendation. Is. 6d.

Origins; or, Remarks on the Origin of Empires, &c. By S. W. Drummond. Vol. III. 8vo. 12s.

The Credulity of our Forefathers; consisting of Extracts from Brady's "Clavis Calendaria." 12mo. 1s. 6d.

Aphorisms, Opinions, and Reflections, of the late Dr. Parr. With a Sketch of his Life. f.c. 6s.

Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. By the Rev. J. J. Conybeare, M.A. 1 vol. 8vo. 188.

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Original Lines. By T. S. Allen.

The Poetical Works of John Milton, with notes of various Authors, and other illustrations; together with some account of the Life and Writings of Milton, derived principally from documents in his Majesty's State Paper Office, now first published. By the Rev. H. J. Tood, M.A. 6 vols. 8vo. 31. 18s.

THEOLOGY.

Scripture Lessons on the New Testament, &c. By Thomas Maw. 12mo. 5s.

Selections from the Works of Jean Baptiste Massillon, Bishop of Clermont. 12mo. 7s. 6d.

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1826.

It is, we learn, proposed to publish by subscription, a Volume of Poems, by Mr. JOHN TAYLOR, so well known to the literary and theatrical world by his "Monsieur Tonson," and other poems, and a greater number of prologues and epilogues than was ever, perhaps, written by any individual. It is painful to have to add, from the prospectus issued on the occasion, that the misconduct of some person with whom this veteran in periodical and general literature was connected, has rendered the present measure, taken by his friends, one essential to his comforts. We trust the public, especially the town, will not be deaf to the invitation.

The Rev. J. MITFORD has nearly ready for publication a collection of pieces of devotional poetry, entitled "Sacred Specimens from the Early English Poets;" and containing extracts from many scarce works. The series commences from the year 1565.

In preparation, Notes and Reflections during a Ramble in Germany, by the Author of "Recollections in the Peninsula," "Sketches of India," "Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and Italy," and "Story of a Life."

In the press, and speedily will be published, Outlines of Lectures on Mental Diseases, by ALEXANDER MORRISON, M.D. A Translation of Baron DUPIN's admirable Course of Mathematics applied to the Arts, and adapted to the state of the Arts in England, by Dr. BIRKBECK, President of the London Mechanics' Institution, is in the press, and will speedily be published in weekly numbers. Of all the writers of elementary books, Baron Dupin seems the most fascinating. In the present work, a Transcript of his Lectures, he has succeeded in making the study of Mathematics extremely amusing, as well as instructive. Such a book has hitherto been a great desideratum in our language, and must be very acceptable to every student.

In the press, A Vindication of certain Passages in the History of England, by the Rev. Dr. LINGARD; in Answer to certain Strictures which have appeared in some late Publications.

Mr. SOAMES is nearly ready with the Third Volume of his History of the Reformation. This portion of the Work will be sent to the press in the course of a few

days, and may be expected to appear before Christmas. It will contain the History of the Church of England during the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, and a succinct Historical Account of Transubstantiation. It is the Author's intention to continue his Work down to that time, in the Reign of King James the First, when the present authorised Version of the Bible was completed. Two volumes may be expected to succeed that which is now announced. No exertions will be spared to publish these Volumes without unnecessary delay, and to render them not unworthy of the distinguished patronage which has been bestowed upon the History of King Henry the Eighth's Reign.

The Second Volume of Our Village; or, Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, is preparing for publication. By MARY RUSSEL MITFORD, Author of " Julian," a Tragedy.

Lives of the Bishops of Winchester, from the first Bishop down to the present time, are in preparation, by the Rev. STEPHEN HYDE CASSAN, A.M. A private Impression only of this Work (consisting of 500 Copies) will be printed in Two Octavo Volumes, to correspond with the Lives of the Bishops of Salisbury, and is intended to be delivered to those who may engage copies of it before the expiration of the present year.

The Rev. JOHN SCOTT, M.A. of Hull, has nearly ready The Church of Christ, intended as a Continuation to Milner's Church History. In 1 vol. 8vo.

We are requested to mention that the failure of Messrs. Hurst and Robinson will not affect in the slightest degree the publication (under other auspices) of Mr. ALARIC WATTS'S Literary Souvenir for 1827, which is now in a state of consider. able forwardness. Among the illustrations engraving or engraved for this volume by Heath, W. E. Finden, Rolls, Romney, Wallis, Engleheart, Mitchell, Humphreys, &c. after original paintings by Howard, Newton, Turner, Martin, Fastlake, Green, W. E. West, Copley, Fielding, Farrier, &c. is the last, and most authentic portrait of Lord Byron, by Mr. West, which has excited so much attention, and which was the subject of an article in our Magazine for March last. The L. S. will appear along with the other annuals.

JOHN FOWLER HULL.

Died, on the 18th of December last, after a short illness, at Sigaum, a small village about forty miles south of Dhar war, in India, John Fowler Hull, aged twenty-six years, son of the late Samuel Hull, of Uxbridge, and a member of the Society of Friends. He had undertaken a journey overland to India (where he had resided eleven months) with the view of improving his knowledge in some of the Oriental languages, in which he had made considerable progress before he left Europe. He evinced, at an early age, a great aptitude for the attainment of languages, and had read nearly the whole of the Greek and Latin authors before he left school, which was in his sixteenth year. At the decease of his father he became possessed of a handsome income, a great portion of which he expended in his favourite studies, and the purchase of valuable books and manuscripts. To great literary attainments (for his knowledge was by no means confined to languages) this interesting young man united a sinplicity of manners, and a goodness of heart, which will long endear his memory to all who knew him.

MRS. WATTS.

Jane, youngest daughter of the late George Waldie, esq. of Hendersyde Park, Scotland, was married, nearly six years ago, to Captain Watts, of the royal navy. The summers of the early part of her life were chiefly passed at her father's seat on the banks of the Tweed. Amidst those romantic scenes which so often have fostered genius, her decided and extraordinary talent for painting developed itself, even from infancy. Unaided by teachers, uninfluenced by example, no sooner could her little fingers grasp the pencil, than she eagerly attempted to delineate the trees, cottages, and other rural objects which surrounded her. Before she was five years of age she would loiter behind her attendant and sisters on the sea-shore, to "make pictures" with a stick on the wet sands. Often, when quite a child, she would pore for hours over an old quarto on perspective, the only work on any branch of art which her father's library contained. Without encouragement, assistance, or instruction, she enthusiastically pursued this favourite amusement. From a young artist of the neighbouring little town of Kelso, she once received a few lessons in the first rudiments of design, and afterwards she learnt the mechanical process

of mixing and using oil colours from a common sign-painter. About the age of fifteen she attended the class of an artist in Edinburgh, since dead, for nearly three months. But the views from nature which she had previously painted in oil-colours when quite a child, alone and unaided, were so decidedly superior to those she executed under his tuition, that she speedily and very judiciously took infinitely more pains to forget his instructions, than she had ever done to acquire them. Thus she was completely self-taught, and her extraordinary proficiency was solely the result of native genius, directed to the study of nature. The paintings she occasionally sent to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy and British Gallery, and which always appeared without her name, were invariably distinguished and admired, by the most eminent judges of art, for their beauty of composition, fine tone of colouring, truth to nature, feeling, and expression. A man of genius once happily observed, that "her paintings were poetic." Her characteristic modesty, however, led her to attribute the high encomiums they received to flattery, or, as she termed it, good-nature; and she resolved, by an ingenious experiment, to ascertain their real estimation. Accordingly she sent a painting for actual sale to the British Gallery, where it would necessarily stand in competition with the works of the first British artists; but a member of her own family, unwilling that the picture should be irrecoverably disposed of, privately desired Mr. Young, the keeper of the gallery, (to whom it was left to fix the price,) to put upon it nearly double the sum usually demanded for landscapes of similar size. Yet, almost at the opening of the Exhibition, the picture was purchased by a British nobleman distinguished for fine taste in the arts. The literary productions of Mrs. Watts characterised by spirited originality of thought, felicity of fancy, and the most lively powers of narrative. "A Tour in Belgium and Holland, with an Account of the Battle of Waterloo, and Paris in the Occupation of the Allied Armies," written by Mrs. Watts, then Miss Jane Waldie, was unfortunately precluded from publication by her invincible modesty and timidity; but it was eagerly read in manuscript, and many leading literary characters pronounced it to be a work of extraordinary talent. "A Panoramic Sketch of the Field of Waterloo," taken by herself on the spot, soon

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opposition to the arbitrary measures of Great Britain. In 1775, he is said to have been the author of the protest against the propositions of Lord North. He was subsequently transferred to the General Congress at Philadelphia, where he distinguished himself by the firmness of his sentiments and the energy of his compositions. Of these qualifications, no other evidence could be required than the imperishable document, which declared the American "Free, Sovereign, and Independent States." From 1777 to 1797, he was partly occupied by Wythe and Pendleton in revising the Laws of Virginia. In 1779, he succeeded Patrick Henry, as Governor of the State. In 1781, he composed his "Notes on Virginia;" than which no work of a similar character ever attained greater reputation. In the summer of 1782, he was in Congress, at the moment when the Virginia Legislature were framing a State Constitution. The draught of the instrument, which he transmitted on that occasion, was not received till the day when the committee were to report the result of their labours. They were so much pleased with his preamble, that they adopted it as a part of their report; so that, as it is now well understood, the American Bill of Rights and the Constitution were from the pen of George Mason, the preamble was Jefferson's. In 1784 he left the United States, being associated in a Plenipotentiary Commission with Franklin and Adams, addressed to the several powers of Europe, for the purpose of concluding treaties of commerce. In October 1789, he obtained leave to return home; and, on his arrival, was made First Secretary of State under General Washington. His correspondence with the French and English ministers is a monument of his genius: he alternately rebuked the cold cunning of Liston and the rash ardour of Genet. His reports on monies, and weights, and measures, on the fisheries, and on the restrictions of commerce, are attestations of the enlarged views of the philosopher and the financier. In 1767 he was elected Vice-President, and afterwards President of the United States. For eight years he conducted the government with a strength of talent, a purity of purpose, and a respect to constitutional principles, which might serve as a model to his successors. His acquisition of Louisiana alone entitles him to the loudest praise. Writing of himself, he says:-" I came of age in 1764, and was soon put into the nomination of justice of the county in which I live; and, at the first election following, I became one of its representatives in the legistature; I was

then sent to the old Congress; then employed two years with Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Wythe, on the revisal, and reduction to a single code, of the whole body of the British statutes, the acts of our Assembly, and certain parts of the common law; then elected Governor; next to the Legislature; and to Congress again; sent to Europe as Minister Plenipotentiary; appointed Secretary of State to the new Government; elected Vice-President and President; and lastly, a Visitor and Rector of the University. In these different offices, with scarcely any interval between them, I have been in the public service now sixty-one years, and, during the far greater part of the time, in foreign countries, or other states. If legislative services are worth mentioning, and the stamp of liberality and equality, which was necessary to be impressed on our laws, in the first crisis of our birth as a nation, was of any value, they will find that many of the leading and important laws of that day were prepared by myself, and carried chiefly by my efforts; supported, indeed, by able and faithful coadjutors. The prohibition of the further importation of slaves was the first of these measures in time. This was followed by the abolition of entails, which broke up the hereditary and high-handed aristocracy; which, by accumulating immense masses of property in single lines of family, had divided our country into two distinct orders of nobles and plebeians. But, further to complete the equality among our citizens, so essential to the maintenance of republican government, it was necessary to abolish the principle of primogeniture: 1 drew the law of descents, giving equal inheritance to sons and daughters, which made a part of the Revised Code. The attack on the establishment of a dominant religion was the first made by inyself. It could be carried, at first, only by a suspension of salaries for one year; by battling it again at the next session, for another year; and so from year to year, until the public mind was ripened for the bill for establishing religious freedom, which I had prepared for the Revised Code also. This was at length established permanently, and by the efforts chiefly of Mr. Madison, being myself in Europe at the time that work was brought forward. I think I might add, the establishment of our University. My residence in the vicinity threw, of course, on me the chief burden of the enterprise, as well of the buildings, as of the general organization and care of the whole. The effect of this institution on the future fame, fortune, and prosperity of our country, can as yet be seen but at a distance. But an