LITERARY PROSPECTIVE.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr. C. Butler of Cheam, is preparing for the press, an easy Introduction to the Mathematics, on a popular plan; designed as a useful introduction and companion to those elementary books which are usually put into the hands of the student, and a necessary assistant to those who study without a master: it will be published by subscription.

The publication of a Hebrew Bible, printed with a literal and interlineary English translation will commence this month, in numbers at one shilling each. That part of the Hebrew nation resident in England, has Jong been convinced of the necessity of an undertaking of this kind, particularly as conducive to the character of their youth. The more wealthy of that nation have subscribed liberally to the extensive and unprecedented undertaking.

The fifth volume of the Poetical Register, containing a great variety of original poems by eminent writers, numerous, scarce, and fugitive pieces, and brief criticisms on the poetic and dramatic publications of 1805, is in the press, and will appear at an early period in the month of January.

Shortly will be published by subscription, by Mr. Thomas Burnet, in one foolscap octavo volume, illustrated with an elegant frontispiece, the Sweets of Solitude, and other poems.

It may gratify the curious in Oriental Literature, to be informed that a number of articles, principally in the Bengalee language, sent by the Baptist Missionaries in Bengal, are now on sale, at Mr. Burditt's, Paternoster Row.

There is at present printing at Edinburgh, an account of a Tour, through the Orkney and Shetland Islands, by Mr. Neill, Secretary to the Natural History Society in Edinburgh. The author, after describing the objects of natural history which occurred in his progress, treats fully of the state of agriculture and the fisheries, in those much neglected and interesting islands. The tour is to be followed by mineralogical surveys of Shetland, from the pen of Dr. Traill of Liverpool, who lately visited those northern islands.

Mr. Bolingbroke of Norwich, who has recently returned from Demerara, after a residence of five years in that and the adjoining colonies, intends to publish an account of his voyage, including new and interesting particulars of the present condition of the various European settlements on that coast of South America,

Mr. Blore has made considerable progress in a topographical account of Rutlandshire. Mr. Fortescue of Gray's Inn is said to be engaged in a Topographical Dictionary.

Dr. Callcot announces, in the preface of his Musical Grammar lately published, that he has not abandoned the design formed some years since of compiling a Musical Dictionary. His original plan merely professed to comprehend an abridgement of Walther, Rousseau, &c.; but, when the friendship of Mr. Kollman (organist of the chapel at St. James's) had assisted him with some valuable treatises, he found it necessary to relinquish the idea of immediate publication.

The publication of an improved edition of the Encyclopædia Perthensis commences with this year it will be comprised in 45 parts of half a volume each, containing 360 pages, super-royal octavo; they will be published monthly.

The Rev. Rogers Ruding, B. D. Vicar of Maldon in Surrey, proposes to publish by subscription, an historical account of the Coinage of Britain and its dependencies, from the earliest periods of authentic history to the present time. In this work will be found all the facts relating to the subject, which the author has been able to collect, from Cæsar's discovery of Britain to this time, in chronological order. These facts have been gathered from records in the Tower Roll's Chapel, Exchequer, and other public offices; from the Rolls and Journals of Parliament; from statutes, proclamations, chronicles, and histories.

The Rev. John Brown, of Whitburn, is about to publish a second edition of the Memoirs of the Rev. James Hervey. He would feel himself particularly obliged to any person who could communicate unpublished letters, or authentic anecdotes of Mr. Hervey.

Mr. Reid, of Berwick upon Tweed, designs immediately to print a new edition (the fourth) of the Select Remains of the Rev. J Brown, late of Haddington. They comain Memoirs of his Life, Letters to his Friends, Religious Tracts, Addresses to his Children, An Account of his Dying Sayings, and his Dying Advice to his Congregation.

The late Mrs. Charlotte Smith having drawn up Memoirs of Part of her Literary Life, the same, accompanied by a Collection of her Letters, will shortly be presented to the world, by one of the members of her family.

Dr. Herdman has in the press his second discourse on the interesting subject of the management of Infants and the treatment of their diseases. It is written in a plain familiar style to render it intelligible and useful

to mothers and all those who have the management of infants.

The first part of Dr. Clutterbuck's inquiry into the seat and nature of Fever is expected to make its appearance in the course of the ensuing month.

Sir John Sinclair has nearly ready for publication in four volumes octavo, his long promised Code of Health and Longevity; consisting of a detail of the circumstances which tend to promote health and longevity, with rules for preserving health.

Dr. Davis is preparing for the press an abridgement of that part of professor Pinel's celebrated work on Philosophical Nosography, which treats of febrile disorders.

The fifth edition of Parkinson's medical admonitions to families is now in the press. To this edition has been added several important instructions respecting the treatment of diseases, by an early attention to which the progress of diseases may be stopped, and further aid rendered unnecessary. Such observations are also introduced as will mark the degrees of danger in the sick, shew the difference between one disease and another, point out the duties of those who attend on the sick, and teach the proper management of complaints incident to children.

J. Gifford and H. R. Yorke, Esqrs. have in great forwardness, the History of the administration of the late William Pitt, which will be comprised in four octavo volumes.

In a few days will be published in six large volumes octavo, the speeches made in parliament by the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, and the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the order in which they were actually delivered in the House of Commons, and opposed to each other in regular order. The public will, by this mode of arrangement, be put into possession of all the main arguments that have been produced for and against every great political question that has been agitated during the last thirty years; a period of uncommon interest to every lover of his country, and indeed to every individual of the civilized world. Prefixed to the first volume will be given metoirs, drawn from authentic sources, of the gentlemen whose characters the work is intended to illustrate; and the whole will be

accompanied with such notes and introductory observations as will render it a brief history of the times in which these celebrated statesmen flourished.

In the course of this year, M. C. Malorti de Martemont, Master of Fortification and Artillery, at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, will publish by subscription, (to be paid on delivery) An Essay on Military Reconnoitring; with the Method of Surveying in the Field, either with or without Instruments, by Pacing, on Horseback, and by the Eye.

A new work commences with this year intitled, The Fathers of the English Church; or Selections from the Writings of the Reformers and early Divines of the English Protestant Church. The series will commence with the Works of Tindal, and a number will continue to be published regularly on the first day of each succeeding month.

The Leading Features of the Gospel delineated, by the Rev. N. Sloan, Minister of Dornock, Dumfrieshire, will appear in a few

days.

A new edition of Clavigero's History of Mexico is in preparation.

The Rev. Edward Patteson, M. A. author of a General and Classical Atlas, will speedily publish An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography, in one small octavo volume, in the preface to which Mr. P. will particularly describe a method of applying the Atlas to purposes of geographical instruction.

The fifth edition of Curiosities of Literature is now in the press: the work is entirely recast: the most interesting topics are more completely and curiously investigated, and it has been the study of the writer to class and to compress as many events of Literary History as the limits of the work allowed.

The Dramatic Mirror, containing the Progress of the English Stage from the Days of Julius Cæsar to the present Time, will be published next month.

An Abridgement of Search's Light of Nature Pursued is in the press.

A new translation from the last Paris edition of Voltaire's History of Charles XIIth, King of Sweden, with a Biographical memoir of the author, will appear early in this month.

FRANCE.

On account of the late changes in foreign relations, as well as the internal affairs of various countries, many alterations both with regard to authorised codes of law, and national catechisms, which deserve to be noticed, will take place. As such, the new French civil codex, as soon as the Italian translation thereof shall have been completed, will be immediately introduced, without exception,

for BUENOS AYRES. Six weeks is the time for a single ship in full lading; eight weeks the medium tiine for a convoy of merchantmen, to accomplish the passage in, between the British West Indies and the ports of Great Britain and Ireland. The distance to Buenos Ayres is so much farther, that three months may be allotted as the term for that voyage. The returns of the ships which have gone thither, cannot then, be within less than six months from the period of their depar

Lure.

It is not improbable but the conquest of Buenos Ayres, and other places on the continent of South America, may be viewed, at first, with no high satisfaction, by many inhabitants of the British West India isles. The smuggling trade by the West Indies to Spanish America yielded, a hundred years ago, between one and two millions sterling. It was particularly encouraged, in 1766, by the opening of a number of free ports, to admit raw materials-excepting only the staple articles of British colonial produce; and to send out British manufactures; both free of duties. From those free ports the Spanish dominions in Ainerica have received ever since, by smuggling, a great share of their supplies of European commodities. But our conquest of Buenos Ayres, and our new views on the continent of South America, now threaten to change almost the whole course of this trade.

At Hamburgh, and in other parts of Germany, the French have seized much less British property than they had expected. But, British merchants have not lately hazarded too much of their property within the reach of the French, upon either consignments or unpaid bills of exchange. A good part of the British property at Hamburgh was reshipped, and sent down the Elbe, as the French troops approached. In other instances, the British property has been more or less covered by the seasonable transferrence of it to protected foreigners. Not a few, however, of those who had British produce or manufactures, the property of persons of this country, in their hands, have dishonourably betrayed it to the French, and gone snacks with the plunderers.

Tonningen is, it seems, shut against the British trade. Dantzick is, also, within the power of the French. As, at this season, the last freights were prepared to be sent off for the ports of Britain, before the shutting up of the Baltic by the winter-frosts, it is probable that, wherever the exports of the countries on the Baltic ha ve not been intercepted by the French in the interior country, they may have been shipped for this country in

a proportion unusually large. The Baltic being hut in winter by frosts, the French progress in that quarter will not, for some

months, materially injure us. But it interrupts cultivation, and breaks into the steadiness and regularity of commercial undertakings and correspondence.

The port of Gottenburgh is, for the present, much a gainer by the obstacles to the British trade in Germany and the Baltic. Our commodities must, for some time, be sent to it in large quantities.

Although the amount of the British property seized at Hamburgh be, comparatively, inconsiderable, yet our trade suffers much by the capture of that city. Bills had been drawn from the West Indies upon the consignments of produce; were accepted; were to be paid; could not be paid but upon the faith of bills again drawn upon consignments to Hamburgh. Since the consignments to Hamburgh are, if not lost, returned unsold, what becomes of the bills of exchange drawn in dependence on their sale? And how are the consignees in London to pay the bills of their West India correspondents? or, having paid them, to replace the money with their bankers, for the future business of their own trade? Besides, so much West India produce being thus left unsold, sugars and coffees become quite a drug in the market. The cost of sugar is such, that, at its present Gazette price, the planter can scarcely clear 12s. per cwt. by it. The continent of Europe is for coffees, still more than for sugars, the grand place of sale; England but a temporary depôt. What a severe blow then, does the present exclusion of British commodities from Germany and Holstein give to the hopes of the West India coffee planter, who was extending his plantations? It is, however, some comfort to reflect, that the people on the continent cannot subsist without coffee, and cannot have it in any adequate proportion from Arabia and Turkey, nor even by the intermediation of the Anglo-Americans, or the Danes. It is also, remarkable, that our trade to the continent of Europe, and even that part of its export which is in colonial produce, should have been, hitherto, so little injured by all Buonaparte's malicious endeavours. Its annual real value still exceeds £25,000,000 sterling; of which, more than £13,000,000, is in West India produce.

Buonaparté has wildly declared all neutral ships, entering or quitting British or Irish harbours, to be subject to capture by French ships of war or privateers. The proud formality of declaring the ports of the British empire in a state of blockade, may swell his presumption. It may even enhance the terror with which he is regarded on the continent. What more can it do? The Danes, the Portuguese, and the Anglo-Americans, are excluded by it, so far as France has naval power to enforce the blockade from taking part, hereafter, in the carrying navigation of