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We itsstn that Dr John 3 \ # 6 odic , Who tvas employed with the forces during the late war in India , is preparing a History of the Military Operations of the British Forces in Hindoitan , from I 744 to 1 7 ^ 4- Jn two royal 4 to . vote , illustrated by ' maps , pians , and views . The enthusiastic attachment of the JEnglish to the memory of the brave kelson prornises to serve the double purpose of fanning the flame of patriotism , and reviving the spirit of the Arts in this country . Monuments , statues ,
Jaintin ^ s , and medals , are executing in Stvery considerable town of the kingdom , in honor of the Hero of Trafalgar . These , whatever other purpose they ihay answer , will at least call forth the ingenuity , and reward the talents of b $ r Artists It was the patriotism of Greece and Rome which produced in those celebrated countries , so many masiers in the Fine Arts .
Mr . Wright * s Apology for Servetus , including an Account of his Life , Persecution , Writings , and Opinions , "which has been unavoidably delayed in the J > ress , will be published early in August . 3 S / Ir . W . requests such as wish to be Supplied early -with copies to send their orders immediately to the publisher .
A new Magazine , on the plan of the Monthly , to be called the " Athenasum , " will come out on the 1 st of January , 180 7 ; T > t . AikJh , editor ; Longman and Co . and Cadell and Co . publishers . The Cal \ inistic Dissenters in London
and its vicinity are about to establish a Grammar School in the metropolis , for the children of Dissenters . It is generously proposed to educate here the children of indigent Dissenting ministers free of expense .
Those who have read the poeihs . of Mr . Edward Rushton , of Liverpool , will be pleased to hear that , after having been deprived of the loss of sight for upwards of thi-ty years , he is at length in a great degree restored , by the operations of Mr . Gib on , an efriinent oculist
at Manchester . The following lines truly descriptive oi" the character of Mi * . i ^ ushton , are extracted from cc The Press , ' * a po ' efri , by Mr . M'Creery , printer , published in 4 to , by Messrs . Cadell and Davis , Strand : — Arid Rushton — thou , whose independent soul , Nor ills of life- *~ nb > t adverse fates controuL
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Tho * solemn darkness « hroacl thine orbs of sight , Strong * re thy beams of intellectual light ; For , like immortal Milton— -thine tha doom , To strike thy harp amid the cheerless gloom f We have received u Proposals for publishing by subscription , in one vbl . pri < e ~ 3 s . 6 d » in boards , embellished wit ]* a striking Likeness of the Author , the
JLtfe , Adventures , Pedestrian Excur * sions , and Singular Opinions of J . H « Prince , Bookseller , No . 6 , Old North street , Red Lion-square , Holborn , London ; Member of the Caractacan , Eccentric , and other Societies ; late Public Oiator at the Westminster Forum , London Forum , School of Genius , &c *
late Minister of Bethesda Chapel , Limehou ? e , and Occasional Preacher at several Chapels and Meetings in London and the country ; Editor of the < Annual \ L . itor" and of the " Censor ; and Se ^ creta ^ y to the Union Society ; also , for
near twenty years , Clerk to several Attornies in ^ London , and recently Con * vevancing Clerk to Messrs . Gregg and Corfield , Skinners' Hall . Written fey Himself . Containing a circumstantial and faithful Narrative of the first
Thirtylive Years of the I . ife , and an Account of the JLiterary Career of that most eo ceiitric Character . 3 * The Rev . George Smith , minister of Gals ton , in Ayrshire , has presented to . the University of Glasgow a most beautiful Oriental MS . supposed to contain the -whole Koran of Mahomet . It is
written on a paper made of the bark of a tree , in characters small , distinct , and beautiful , and is esteemed a great lite > rary curiosity . The Executors of Lord Macartney
have confided his papers to Mr , Barrow ^ and they will soon be given to the public , accompanied by accurate Memoirs of his Lordship * s Life . Dr . Wi » kins is preparing for the press a Grammar of the Shanacrit Language .-
The Colleges for the education of the Irish , English , and Scotch Catholics in Paris , have , by a decree of the Ennperor * been united into one establishment ; a » 4 a course of lectures x > n philosophy i& bow delivering there in the Latin 13 J * - guage . Among the MSS . dug out irotn tnc ruius of Herculaaettm , » fragment o € *
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§ 8 # Religt&m &fi 4 LiUr&ry Intelligence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/52/
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