Davis with his company of grenadiers, to acquired eminence in their knowledge of the in all of to execute the same important duty on the left the Committee's in which a the hill the Sepoys were, 2 hau veral branches of se Committee have great satisfaction in acquainting the Court, that a degree of talent and industry has been dis played, no less honourable to the students and honourable to their teachers, than gratifying to the Committee. In mounting The Chairman, previous to his presenting the prizes, addressed the students in a concise and apposite speech, expressed his gratification in performing the task which now devolved on him, of the situations represented the importance they would be called on to fill in India, where surest pledge of preferment; communicated to them as a stimulus to equal exertion, the case of Mr. Sotheby, lately a student at the College here, and honoured with a Gold Medal at the Examination of 1807, for his proficiency in Oriental learning, and who had since received from the Governor General in merit "mark of distinction and ho nour, for his superior attainments in the same branches thereptov arsyededi The prizes, as awarded by the and in which attempt many perished. Such College Wingere then presented by othe as trusted to British mercy were not disappointed. They were ordered to collect in a convenient hollow of the mountain, and guards were posted for their protection. EXTRACT REPORT of the COMMITTER OF COLLEGE to the Honourable COURT OF DIRECTORS dated the 21st December, 1808, on the subject of the Committee's Visit to the East India College, at Hertford, for the purpose of attend ng the Close of the Third Annual Examination of the Students, amd for distributing the Gold Medals, and other Prizes, awarded by the College Council to the most, meritorious and deserving Students, for their su perior Attainments in the several Branches of Learning in the past Year. The Report states, that the business commenced by the reading of two essays, the one composed by Mr. Molony, and the other by Mr. Stokes: the subject, “ The Influence of Come "merce upon the Character and Prosperity of "Nations."The compositions of both those gentlemen were highly creditable to their abilities and information... Mr. Anderson, fun. for his proficiency in Suno) Mr. Stokes, ditto Political Economy, History, Mr. Sullivan for his proficiency in Theology, &c. Mr. Parks, Mr. Anderson, ius. and Mr. Car ter for their profielency in Bengalee. Mr. Stokes, Mr. Anderson, jun. Sir James Home, Bart and Mr. Mac ween, do Persian. To Sir James Home, Bart. and Mr. Young, do, Hindu Stanmo and Mr. L2 Mr. Prinsep, and Mr. Bayley, do. Law. The Report then concludes with expressions of the great satisfaction the Committee experienced, at the proofs given at the Third All Several of the students then gave specimens nual Examination of the Students of the Easts of their proficiency in Oriental learning, by read-India College, of the utility of this Institutions and the bennfits likely to be derived from it to ing and construing various passages from dif 30 in ferent authors, in the Arabic, Persian, San the Company's Service.! serit, Bengalee, and Hindu Stanmi languages: 720 Compare Panorama, Vol. V. p. 745 of the of names of students, who have dist! ked themselves in Persian writing, was present, Number, where will be found Lord then laid before the Committee, and publicly an Minto's Speech delivered at the Disputation at nounced as was also a list of those who had the College, Fort William, last February. LITERARY REGISTER. WORKS ANNOUNCED FOR PUBLICATION. Authors, Editors and Publishers are particularly requested to forward to the Office of the Literary Panorama, the titles, prices, and other part culars of works in hand, or published, for insertion in this department of the work, free of expence. ANTIQUITIES. A work highly interesting to the English Antiquary, under the title of, "An Historical Survey of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of France, with a View to illustrate the Rise and Progress of Gothic Architecture in Europe," which had long engaged the personal inspection and laborious researches of the late Rev. G. D. Whittington, of Cambridge, we have the pleasure to say is now in the press, under the directions of some judicious and honorable friends, and will very soon be laid before the public. BIOGRAPHY. the minute and difficult Passes through this great Barrier, inhabited on both Sides to the Top of the Mountains. Price Three Guineas to Subscribers, to whom the Map will be delivered in the order it is subscribed for. The price will be advanced to non-subscribers. of great forwardness at press, and will extend to Mr. Bigland's View of the World, is in a state five octavo volumes. It comprises a tolerably minute geographical description of all the countries of the world, with an account of whatever is particularly remarkable in each, followed by a historical view of every nation and people. A work at this time of peculiar utility will very shortly make its appearance, it is entitled, "The Brazil Pilot; or, A Description of the Coast of Brazil: translated from the Portuguese of Manoel Pimentel, Principal Hydrographer to his Majesty John V. of Portugal." It will be accompanied by a considerable number of Charts of some of its principal Ports, from manuscripts of undoubted authority never before published. HISTORY. The History of Chili, natural, civil, and poliMr. Polwhele is employed in collecting the tical, translated from the Italian of the Abbate Correspondence and Papers of his friend and Molina, with Notes from the Spanish and French neighbour, Mr. Whitaker, with a view to the pub-Versions, is in the press at New-York, in 2 vols. lication of his Memoirs, in a quarto volume. Memoirs of Dr. Paley, from the pen of a gentleman who was one of his parishioners at Bishop Wearmouth, are expected to appear in a few weeks. CHEMISTRY. Mr. C. Sylvester, of Derby, has in the press An Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, the plan of which is said to be in many respects original. CLASSICAL LITERATURE. The Rev. Dr. Vincent is preparing to publish the Greek text of Arrian's Indica and the Periplus; with a translation, to accompany his comments on those works. EDUCATION. Mess. Black, Parry, and Kingsbury are preparing to publish the Public Disputation of the Students of the College of Fort William, in Bengal, before the Right Hon. Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and Visitor of the College, together with his Lordship's Speech, as delivered Feb. 27, 1808. Compare Panorama, p. 740, present number. Proposals have been lately issued by Mr. James Morrison, Master of the Mercantile Academy at Glasgow, for publishing by subscription a work, in two volumes octavo, entitled, The General Accomptant, being a complete Course of Mercantile Computation and Accomptantship, adapted to-modern Practice. Mr. Oulton is preparing for publication, Letters from a Father to a Daughter on Female Education, with appropriate Directions for instructing Young Ladies. GEOGRAPHY. - Soon will be published in ten sheets, A Topographical Map of the Pyrennees, principally taken from the French Survey, with considerable additions, extending from Bayonne and Perpignan in the North, to the Mouth of the Ebro and Burgos in the South; including the Provinces of ARRAGON, CATALONIA, NAVARRE, and BISCAY. By A. Arrowsmith. This Map will exhibit every small village, and other object of note, with all octavo. This work will be reprinted in London. MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY. Dr. Lambe will publish in the course of the month, Reports on the Effects of a peculiar Regimen on Cancerous Tumours and Ulcers. MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE. Mr. Molineux, of Macclesfield, has in the press, in post quarto, The Short-Band Instructor, or Stenographical Copy-Book; designed as a Companion to his Introduction to Mr. Byrom's Short-Hand. A new edition, very much improved and corrected, of Langhorne's Plutarch, by the Rev. Francis Wangham, will appear this month. On the 2d of January, and on the 1st of every succeeding month, will be published, under the authority of the Secretary at War, A Monthly Army List, of a pocker size; to contain, in addition to the General, Field, and Regimental Officers, the names of all Officers employed upon the Staff of the Army, at home and abroad, in the Civil as well as Military Departments. The fourth and fifth volumes of Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, by the Rev. W. Beloe, are preparing for publication: at the end of the fifth, a General Index to the whole work will be given. In a few days will be published, in two quarto volumes, price five, guineas, and also in imperial octavo, price three guineas, embellished with.. forty highly finished engravings, from designs by S. Howlett, engraved under the direction of E. Orme, and printed in a superior style by W. Bulmer, The Indian Sportsman, a complete Description of the Wild Sports of the East; the Elephant-Rhinoceros-Tiger-Leopard-BearDeer - Buffalo-Wolf-Wild Hog - JackallWild Dog-the Cevet-and most other undomesticated animais. Also the Feathered Game→→ Fishes-and Serpents. Interspersed with a variety of interesting Anecdotes relative to their Habits. The Scenery gives a faithful, Representation of that picturesque Country, the Manners and Cuse toms of the Native and European Inhabitants. By Capt. Thomas Wilkinson, upwards of twenty years Resident in Bengal. NATURAL HISTORY. Mr. Donovan is preparing for publication a continuation of his History of British Birds. NOVELS. The following Novels and Romances are in preparation :- London Characters, or Fashions and Customs of the Eighteenth Century, in vols. with plates. -Corinna of England and a Heroine in the Shade, a Romance, in two volumes; by the Author of A Winter in Bath, The Banks of the Wye, &c. -Tales of the Manor, in two volumes, by the Author of The Private Hisiory of the Court of England. The Romance of the Hebrides, by Mr. F. Lathom. The Age we Live In, in 3 vols. by Miss L. S. Stanhope, Author of The Bandit's Bride.-Lucky Escapes, or Systematic Villainy, by the Author of The British Admiral.-Osrick, or Modern Horrors, in 3 vols. by Mr. Sickelmore, Author of Rashleigh Abbey.-Monte-Video, ol, The Officer's Wife and his Sister, by Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle. PHILOLOGY, A new English Grammar, written in familiar Letters, and rendered an entertaining work, by Mr. Oulton, Author of The Traveller's Guide, &c. is now in the press, and will shortly make its appearance. POETRY. A new selection of the most favourite Poetical Pieces, elegantly printed in four small octavo volumes, is just on the eve of publication, under the title of The Muses' Bower: the first volume, containing a collection of lyrical and pathetic pieces; the s.cond, narrative, humorous, and epistolary; the third, descriptive and sacred; and the fourth, selections from the classics of antiquity. The work is embellished with two vignettes, engraved on wood, by Clennell. Mr. W. R. Johnson's Poetical Pantheon, or Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods and illustrious Heroes in easy verse, accompanied with notes and illustrated with numerous engravings, is in a state of forwardness, and will appear in the course of the ensuing month. TOPOGRAPHY. A new edition of Mr. Thornton's Present State of Turkey, with very considerable additions and alterations, including a Map of the Turkish Empire and a Plan of Constantinople, is expected to appear this month. Proposals are issued for publishing by subscription, A History of Lynn, civil, ecclesiastical, Commercial, biographical, political, and military, from its foundation (about the first age of the Christian Era) to the present time; interspersed with occasional Remarks on such national Oc currences as may serve to elucidate the real State of the Town, and the Manners, Character and Condition of the Inhabitants at different Periods. To which will be prefixed, an introductory Ac count of its Situation, Harbour, Rivers, Inland Navigation, the ancient and modern State of Marsh Land, Wişbeach and the Fens, and whatever is most remarkable, memorable, or inte resting in other parts of the adjacent country. By William Richards. Miscellaneous Literary Informalion. Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby will sell by auction, during this Winter and succeeding Spring, the following Libraries and Collections. They will give due notice of the time of each sale.-1. A very rare and curious Collection of Prints and Books of Prints, the property of a gentleman, well known as a literary amateur, containing some rare portraits, fine specimens of early mas-" ters, and a large collection of the works of Hiero. nymus - Wierx, &c.-2. The extensive and va luable collection of Botanical Prints, Drawings, and Books of Drawings, the property of the late, John, Earl of Bute; comprising many hundred capital botanical drawings on paper and vellum; likewise all the plates, coloured and plain, of the botanical works then extant, forming a complete illustration of the Species Plantarum.-3. A select collection of Books, in Greek, Latin, English, Italian and Spanish; being a considerable part of the Rev. Mr. Duten's Library.-4. The Library of James Sims, M. D. LL. D. F. R, S. brought from his house in Finsbury-square.-5. The entire and valuable Library of the late John, Thomas, Earl of Clanricade, &c.-6. A part of the Library of the late Right Hon. Richard, Baroul, of Penrhyn, of Penrhyn.-7. The very valuable Library of Sir William Smyth, Bart. containing a very fine collection of Classics, County His Speedily will be published, Select Sentences tory, &c. many on large paper.-8. Dr. Kitchfrom Sermons of the late Rev. W Braithwaite. ner's Musical Library. This very extraordinary The Rev. John Robinson, of Ravenstondale, is assemblage of music, consisting of the complete engaged on A Biblical, Theological, and Eccle- works of the best composers, is in very elegant siastical Dictionary; intended to comprise what- condition; to which is added, a small miscellaneever is known concerning the Antiquities of the. ous selection from his library.-9. The valuable liHebrews, and to form a body of Scripture His-brary of James Stevens, E. of Camerton, contory, Geography, Chronology, Divinity, and Le-taining a very capital collection of Books in Na clesiastical Opinious. Mr. Oulton has in the press a Collection of Poems, chiefly Comic; containing burlesque translations of Ovid and Horace, dramatic and miscellaneous pieces. The Rev. W. L. Bowles will shortly publish a third volume of Poems. Mr. Thomas Green, of Liverpool, a youth of seventeen, has in the press a volume of Poems, which will appear early in this month. THEOLOGY. tural History, &c. MONTHLY LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED.N AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford, drawn up by order of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By Tho. Batchelor, Farmer. 8vo. 14s. chard Whalley Bridgeman, Esq. Royal 8vo 10s. 6d. Principles of Conveyancing, being a Digest of the Laws of England, respecting Real Property. By Wm, Cruse, Esq. 6 Vols. Royal 8vo. £5.25 A Treatise on the Law of Tithes. Compiled in part from the Notes of Richard Wooddeson, D. C. L. By Samuel Toller, Esq; Royal Svo. 10s. 6d. MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY. The Plough-Wright's Assistant, being a New A Treatise on Scrophula. By James Russell," Practical Treatise on the Plough, and on various other important Implements made Use of in Agri- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and culture. By Andrew Gray, Author of The Ex-Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of perienced Millwright. Royal 8vo. 16 large engrav ings, 16s. BIOGRAPHY.tovi do sluc Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England, with critical Remarks on their Productions, By Edward Edwards, late Teacher of Perspective, and Associate in the Royal Academy intended as a continuation of the Anecdotes of Painting by the late Horace, Earl of Orford. Copy 4to. £1. 1s. on large paper £1.16s, An Essay on the earlier Part of the Life of Swift. By the Rev. John Barrett, D. D. and Vice Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. To which are subjoin. ed, Pieces ascribed to Swift; two of his Original Letters; and Extracts from his Remarks on Bishop Butner's History. 8vol 5s. 0. Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, written by himself. Published from an Original MS. in the Custody of the Earl of Cork and Orrery to which are added, Fragmenta Regalia, being a History of Queen Elizabeth's Favourites, by Sir Robert Nanton, with explanatory Annotations, 8vo. 10s. 6d. JURISPRUDENCLO The Proceedings in the Cause, The AttorneyGeneral versus Brown, Parry and others. By W. K. H. Brown. The Arguments of the Council, taken in Short-hand by M. Farquharson, are given at full length. 8vo. 3s. 6d. A Supplement to an Analytical Digested Index of the reported Cases in the several Courts of Equity, as well Chancery as Exchequer, and in the High Court of Parliament. Continued to the present Time, and including the Decisions of the Lord Chancellor Redesdale, in Ireland. By Ri Edinburgh. 8vo. 5s. 304 A Review of the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London on Vaccination. By Benj, Moseley, M.D. s. 2102 An Expostulatory Letter to Dr. Moseley, on his Review of the Report of the London College of Physicians on Vaccination. By M.T. C. M. B. F. L. S. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Cases of Diabetes, Consumption, &c, with Observations on the History and Treatment of Discase in general. By R. Watt. 8vo, Bs. An Inquiry into the Symptoms and Treatment of Carditis, or the Inflammation of the Heart. By J. F. Davis, M. D. 12mo. 75. An Answer to Mr. Highmore's Objections to the Bill before Parliament to prevent the Spreading of the Infection of the Small-Pox. By O Murray. 2s. MISCELLANIES. C. The History of the University of Edinburgh, from 1580 to 1646. By Thomas Crawford, A. M. Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics in the College of Edinburgh in 1646. To which is pre fixed, the Charter granted to the College by James the Sixth of Scotland in 1582. 8vo. 7s. 6d. A Review of Fox's History of James the Second. By an Officer of Rank. Is. Sketches instructive and entertaining, in English, German, and French. By Dr. Render. 8vo. 6s. A Biographical Index to the present House of Lords, corrected to October, 1808. 12s. The Economy of the Human Mind. By Eleanor Fernandez. 12mo. 4s. Parliamentary Logick. By the Right Hon. W. Gerard Hamilton, with a Portrait. Small 8vo. 85. NATURAL HISTORY. The Natural History of British Insects. By E. Donovan, F. L. S. Vol. 13, with 36 coloured figures. Royal 8vo. £1. 11s. The preceding part of this work, uniformly printed and embellished, in 12 vols. £18. 12s... and by the same author, the Natural History of British Birds, 5 vols. £9.-British Shells, 5 vols £7 15s. British Fishes, 5 vols. £10 10s. NOVELS AND ROMANCES. By F Falconbridge Abbey, a Devonshire Story, By" Mrs. Hanway. 5 vols 12mo. £1. 7s. 6d. London, or Truth without Treason, Latham, Esq. 4 vols. 12mo. £1 2s. The British Heiress, or the Errors of Education. By Mrs. Sleath. 5 vols. 12mo. £1.5s. Sir Owen Glendower, and other Tales. Anthony Frederic Holstein. 3 vols. 12mo. 13s. Lionel, or the Impenetrable Command, an Historical Romance. By Mrs. C. Maxwell, 2 vols. 12mo. 8s. Francis and Josepha, a Tale from the German of Buber. By Wm. Fardely. 8vo. 3519 The Ruins of Rigonda, or the Homicidal Fa- j ther. By Helen St, Victor. 3 vols. 12mo 138. The Woman of Colour, A Tale. 2 vols. 12mo. 10s. Theodore and Blanche. Translated from the PHILOLOGY, PROPOSITA PHILANTHROPICA, Humanum nihil a me alienum putu. NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.S Patron, His Royal Highness the Duke of A York. Vice-patron, His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. President, His Grace A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language. By C. the Archbishop of Canterbury. Thirteen Wilkins, L. L. D. F. R. S. 4to. £4. 4s. POLITICS. vice-presidents. Treasurers, Ambrose Martin, Esq. Mr. John Stephenson. Secretary, Mr. N. Meredith, Mount Street, Lambeth. The sole object of this Institution is to distribute Bibles among the Sailors and Soldiers of the British Navy and Army. It took its rise in the year 1780, and, by the aid of annual subscriptions, benefactions, and collections at various churches, it has been enabled to distribute upwards of 40,000 Bibles, and a large number of Testaments: with which two hundred and eighty of His Majesty's Ships, ninety-one Regiments, and forty-eight Garrisons and Barracks, have been supplied. Many naval and military officers of high rank in His Majesty's service, have, froin time to time, made applications to the Soci Ardnt's Spirit of the Times; translated from the German. By the Rev. P. W.-- being the work for the publication of which the unfortunate Palm, of Erlangen, was sacrificed by Napoleon, the destroyer; containing Historical and Political Sket-ety; and have, in the most satisfactory ches, with Prognostics, relative to Spain and Portugal, Russia, Turkey, Austria, France and Buonaparte. 8vo. 4s. Manifesto addressed to Europe, on the Atrocities perpetrated by Napoleon Buonaparte. By Antonise Mordella y Spotorno. 6d. Presume not beyond Measure. A serio-coinic Letter of Advice, addressed to all the Editors of the Public Papers. By a Briton, Is. 6d. THEOLOGY. The Lessons of the Church of England, taken from the Old Testament, and appointed to be read in the Morning Service through the year. With short Notes. Printed on a large letter. 8vo. 4s." The Lessons for the evening service are printing in the same form, also accompanied with notes. A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Rev. W. Humphries; preached at Hammersmith, Oct. 9, 1808. By R. Winter: and the Address delivered at the Interment, Oct. 6, 1818. By W. Jay. 25. Discursory Considerations, or the Hypothesis of Dr. Mac Knight and others, that St. Luke's Gos pel was the first written. By a Country Clergyman 4s. 6d. manner, expressed their approbation of its design. From their own observation they have testified their conviction, that the Holy Scriptures, which teach men to be faithful" servants to God, would teach them also to be faithful servants to their king and their country instructing them to be strong and of good, courage, to fear God, and honour the king." They have therefore expressed their earnest desire to have the Bible put into the hands of their men. : For several years this Institution was amply supported; but at present, it is greatly to be regretted; that, in consequence of the death of many of its most liberal supporters, its funds have so far declined, as to have become very inadequate to its benevolent purposes. The claims of gratitude to our Sailors and Soldiers are great and commanding. We are indebted to them, under the providence of God, for our safety, our peace and domestie enjoyments; which are purchased by their exertions. The maintenance of our laws, liberty and religion; our freedom from attack, invasion, and civil tumult; and our very Scriptural Illustrations of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. With a practical Comment upon each Article. By S. Wix, A. M..existence as a nation are all preserved to us 8vo. 83. by the valour, the dangers, the wounds, the blood, and the lives, of these brave and A View of the Progress, Origin, and Diversity of Heathen Worship, antecedently to the Chris tian Revelation. By 1. Thomas. 4s. Puritanism revived or Methodism `as Old as the great Rebellion; in a series of Letters, from a Curate to his Rector. 2s. 6d. generous men. Where then is the Briton who loves his king and his country, who will not cordially lend his aid to put the Bible into the hands of their intrepid defenders, and who will not add his prayers that the Divine blessing may attend the gift? |