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WILLIAM MULLER, Lieutenant of the Royal German Engineers, and late First Public Teacher of the Military Sciences at the University of, Gottingen, and author of several works on Military and Mathematical Sciences, published in Germany and France, has in the press a work entitled, the Elements of the Art of War; containing the established and approved modern principles of the theory and practice of the military sciences, relating to the arrangement, organization, maintenance, and expences of an army; theoretical and practical field, and permanent fortifications, and theoretical and practical tactics; together with logistics and castrametation, the strategie, or the dialectics of war, and the conduct and management of armies, and military politics: illustrated by notices of the most famous battles, the most remarkable sieges, and other celebrated and memorable operations; and about One Hundred Maps and Plans. In three volumes. Dedicated by special permission to his Majesty. This work will be particularly distinguished, by being a complete Cyclopedia of the Art of War, and all sciences relating to it; as well as by numerous abstracts from foreign and English works on these sciences, by the Plans of about Seventy of the most famous Battles fought since the year 1672, and by short but correct notices and criticisms on those battles, and all other celebrated operations since that year. Previous to the appearance of this large work, there will be published a Grammar of the Art of War, on the same plan as the Grammars of Geography, Commerce, History, Law, Geometry, and Philosophy, which have already met with so favourable a reception. On the 24th of February, at an auction in the capital, there was sold a Greek manuscript, collected by one of his majesty's foreign ministers, at the island of Patmos, in the Archipelago. It is a folio volume, in appropriate classical binding, vellum, with rich gold Ionic border, and gilt edges, and contains upwards of seven hundred and eighty pages, on cotton paper; with, generally, twenty-nine lines of text, in a two-inch margin on cach page; illustrated by The about sixty illuminated figures. principal title is, AOHNAIOY ПEРI MHXANHMATÓN, which is followed by several treatises on similar subjects, by other writers. Concerning the first author, Lempriere, in his Classical Dictionary says, Athenæus was a Roman general, in the age of Gallienus, who is supposed to have written a book on military engines." In Fabricii Bibliotheca Graca, vol. v. the title of this book stands No. 143 in the catalogue of Greek manuscripts belonging to the royal Neapolitan library. This manuscript is written in three different bands, but all fair, and thus dated at the end: "Finished on 7 May, 1545." But the characters at the beginning evidently denote an antiquity of at least a century anterior to that date; and it will doubtless occur to the recollection of the learned, that the late Porson pronounced Greek manuscripts of that age to be equal to Latin works of the ninth cen tury. On the first page is written, in more modern Greek, "This present book belongs to the God-trodden mountain Sinai." The sum for which it was sold was sixty-one guineas. The Rev. WILLIAM BOWDWEN pro poses publishing by subscription, in ten volumes quarto, a literal translation of the whole of Domesday Book, with the modern names of places adapted as far as possible to those in the record. An index will be given to each county, and a glossary with the last volume. Any one volume may be subscribed for separately. Mr. JESSE FOOT is preparing for publication, the Lives of the late ANDREW ROBINSON BOWES, esq. and his wife the countess of STRATHMORE. A new edition of Dr. RUSSELL'S History of Modern Europe, continued to the Treaty of Amiens, by Dr. CoOTE, will be published in a few days. Mr. B. STOCKER, apothecary to Guy's Hospital, has in the press, the New London Pharmacopoeia, enlarged from the last Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacoperia, and reduced to one common nomenclature, with an appendix of the genera and species of the different acticles of their materia medica. Dr. MACLEAN will shortly publish an Inquiry into the origin, early signs, nature, causes, and cure, of hydrothorax, with several interesting cases. Mr. CHARLES A. ELTON has in the press, in a foolscap 8vo volume, Tales of Romance, with other poems. Mr. SAMUEL PROUT will shortly publish the first number of the Relics of Antiquity, or Remains of Ancient Structures, with other vestiges of early times in Great Britain, etched from drawings by himself, and accompanied with descriptive sketches. Mr. F. W. L. STOCKDALE is about to publish a series of etchings, in imitation of the original sketches, from picturesque subjects in the county of Kent, with explanatory descriptions. Mr. STEPHEN PASQUIER has issued proposals for publishing in a quarto volume, with copper-plates, engraved by means of the author's newly-invented machines and tools, a new system, called Neography, in which he has attempted to simplify and bring to one cominon standard, all the various modes of writing and printing, used among the several nations of the earth, with a view to assist commerce, facilitate correspondence, and open an easier intercourse to the diffusion of knowledge, the fine arts, and civilisation. A Literary and Philosophical Society has just been established in the populous village of Hackney. It consists of three classes, none of which is limited: 1. Ordinary members who contribute to the funds, enjoy the use of the books, &c. 2. Honorary members, consisting of such gentlemen whose association may reflect honour on the society, and whose opinion of the labours of its members may be such as to impress them with sentiments of respect for this mark of regard. 3. Those whose attachment to literature may entitle them to become members, but whose finances would prevent their contributing to the subscriptions for the support of the society. To these last, the library will be open gratis. It is intended that the meetings on Tuesday evenings shall be principally occupied by literary conversations, and reading such papers on scientific or literary subjects, as the society may be favoured with. The subjects for conversation, or books for the library, are to comprehend the mathematics, natural philosophy and history, chemistry, polite literature, antiquities, civil history, biography, questions of general law and policy, Commerce, and the arts; but religion, the MONTHLY Mag. No. 197. practical branches of the law and physic, British politics, and indeed all po litics of the day, shall be deemed prohi bited subjects. The purchase of phi losophical instruments, and patronizing lectures on philosophical subjects, form part of the plan of this society. The subscription is fixed at ose guinea per aunum for ordinary members, and the last Monday in March is appointed for the annual general meeting of the society. A new edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged, of the Pocket Encyclopædia, or Miscellaneous Selections of Useful Knowledge; originally compiled by Mr. Guy, of the Military College, Marlow, is preparing for the press, and will be pub lished with all convenient speed. It will be illustrated with engravings, and with references to the best printed authorities. Mr. PEACOCK, the classical author of a poem on the Ruins of Palmyra, has a new work in a state of great forwardness, it is a lyrical poem in two parts, entitled The Genius of the Thames. A Gazetteer of England and Wales, by THOMAS POTTS, closely printed in octavo, will shortly be published, illustrated by maps. A new edition of the Ambulator, in a Tour twenty-five miles round London, is preparing for the press. Any correc tions, additions, or hints for its improve ment, will be received by the publisher. Mr. BYERLEY (the translator of Machiavelli's Prince, is preparing for the press a novel, in three large volumes, under the title of "The White Ladies, or Memoirs of the Ingram Family, a Worcestershire story," He is also editing, "Letters from India,” being the genuine correspondence of a family of high rank at Calcutta, with their relations in England, from 1805 to 1809; embellished with a view of Calcutta, from a drawing by IMOFFATT. Both the above works will be published on the 1st of June next. The Rev. HENRY ROWE, rector of Ringshall, Suffolk, a lineal descendant of the celebrated poet of that name, has in the press, Fables in Verse, in one large octavo volume, embellished with thirty beautiful engravings in wood. A volume of Tales, original and trans lated, from the Spanish, illustrated with eight wood engravings, will soon make its appearance. In the press and speedily will be puh. lished the third part of Mr. CRABB's Preceptor and his Pupils; containing an ery mological 2 K mological and analytical elucidation of synonymous words in the English language. Also a new edition of his German and English Dialogues; and of Extracts from the best German Authors for Translating into English. Mr. PARKINSON has withdrawn the Introduction to the Knowledge of Fossils, announced at the end of the first volume of Organic Remains of a Former World, considering its publication as entirely superceded by Mr. MARTIN's excellent systematic outlines of the same subject. -The third volume of Organic Remains is in considerable forwardness. A correspondent of the Philosophical Journal states, that camphor is contained in considerable proportion in the seeds of carraway: 1lb. of seed yielding about 4 ounces of oil, and an ounce of camphor. About twelve months ago, several meetings of the gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood of Bradford, in Yorkshire, whose sentiments were favourable to the promotion of science, resolved to form themselves into a society, to be called the "Literary and Philosophical Society of Bradford," and adopted rules for its government. Suitable apartinents have been procured; and a small, though valuable, collection of books in various branches of natural history and philosophy, has been purchased. A society has been lately formed at Liverpool, for preventing wanton cruelty to brute animals. At their first general meeting they appointed a committee to prepare an account of the objects of the society, and of the modes which they might deem best fitted to secure the accomplishment of those objects; and this committee accordingly presented a report, of which the following is the substance: "The great object of the society is, to meliorate the state of brute animals, by preventing those sufferings which they unnecessarily experience at the hand of man. Your committee judge that you may aim to accomplish this object in two ways: 1. By the exercise of coercion with respect to those who are guilty of cruelty to brute animals; 2. By the diffusion of such principles and feelings as shall be incompatible with the existence of that spirit whence cruelty to animals origi nance. For one of the species of cruelty towards brute animals, existing in this town, (we mean the overloading of car ters' horses) the law has provided a remedy. All that your committee, therefore, judge to be needful for the removal of this evil, is the due enforcement of the law. The sense of shame may, they think, be turned to good account in the service of this society. A man may be perfectly indifferent to the sufferings of brute animals, who may, nevertheless, dread that the public should talk of his cruelty. Your committee propose, therefore, that a committee be appointed for the purpose of enquiring into reported cases of cruelty, and of publishing the accounts of them (when the facts are well established) in the papers of the day. They recommend that your statements should wear an official form; the credit which they would receive would be proportioned, of course, to the opinion entertained by the public of your reporting committee. Cases of a most flagitious nature might occasionally occur, in which it might be advisable to publish the names of the parties: in general, however, your committee think that this step would not be requisite. Individual discountenance may be manifested in different ways: in every mode in which such discountenance can be given by you, severally, to acts of cruelty, in every such mode do your committee recommend that it be shewn. But what they would particu larly recommend to you at this time, as applying an especial remedy to particular evils which they have in view, is discountenance in the way of trade. There are some tradesmen, as your committee think, whose very gain is derived from brute animals, who are frequently or habitually careless respecting the sufferings of their beasts; and of some of whom it may be said, that the misery of the beasts subjected to them, is almost a necessary result of their peculiar mode of conducting their business. Your committee suggest to you, in your individual capacities, that where you have occasion to employ tradesmen of such classes, the consideration of the manner in which different individuals among them treat their beasts, should have great weight with you in your decision, as to which of those tradesmen you employ. They think too, that where fair occasions occur, the ground of preference should be distinctly stated; otherwise that con nexion may not be observed between the offence and the consequence, the observation of which is necessary to the socuring of its full operation to your conduct. The abuses which have appeared to your committee to be most prevalent in this town, and to call for the most immediate attention, and to which they would apply some of the above-stated principles of redress, are those practised by carters and by butchers. Concern ing carters, they have told you that they incan, at the close of this report, to submit to you a resolution. The cruelties of butchers are displayed, chiefly when they are driving their beasts into or through the town. One of your committee saw a sheep with one of its horns torn out of the socket, stated by the populace to have been beaten or wrested out by the driver. The practice of cutting the heel-tendons of sheep before they enter the town, in order that the drivers may have less trouble with them in passing through the streets (a practice, the alleged necessity for which would be removed by the employing of a larger number of drivers) is, your com mittee have reason to believe, by no means uncommon. Such things call, as they conceive, for the marked animadversion of those who are desirous to lessen the sufferings of brute animals; and, in their present uncertainty of the disposition of the law as to such practices, your committee do strongly recommend it to the individuals of this society, to shew their disapprobation of those who perpetrate or authorise them, by withholding from them their support in the way of trade. The other part of their plan, viz. the diffusion of such a spirit as should be incompatible with the spirit of cruelty to animals, might be effected by publishing, in a cheap form, books inculcating principles of gentleness towards the brute part of the creation. In this mode, they conceive that great good might be done, especially by the influence produced on the minds of the young.It appears especially desirable, that whilst you set forth to the public a definition of your objects, you should also give some pledge as to the spirit of your future proceedings. They would propose, therefore, that you should, from the very beginning, disclaim all those mean and deceptious arts, by which men often gain intelligence; all encourage ment to eaves-droppers, to creeping Enquirers, to men who wear the semblance of friendship in order that they may the more effectually betray. They propose also, that, in animadverting on the abuses which may be brought to light around you, you should not confine your remarks to the poor. The duty to be tender to the inferior creatures, they. hold to be obligatory on men of every rank; and a rich man, who wantonly abuses his power over a brute animal, ought, they conceive, the more especially to be an object of censure, because his example may operate the more largely as a supposed warrant. In your individual capacities, they would recom mend to you, that you should expel the spirit of cruelty altogether from your own houses; that you should especially allow none of those practices to exist within the range of your influence, by which brute animals are made to suffer pain, either for the mere amusement of men, or for the gratification of a pampered luxury. Lastly, they recommend it to you, both individually and collectively, that in pursuing the objects of your association, you should display the greatest steadiness and calinness; especially that you should, in every instance, be on the surest grounds convinced of the existence of an evil, before you prefer a complaint. There is such a thing as intemperance in benevolence; and the virtue may be degraded in the public estimation, and rendered fruitless in its efforts, by a union with precipitancy of judgment. Whilst they hope that the members of this society will keep them selves alive to the objects of the association, and omit no rational and manly mode of promoting those objects, they also express the hope that no plan may be adopted which may carry with it a frittering of exertion, and which may justly subject the society to any portion of that reproach which many may, at the first hearing, be disposed to affix to itthe reproach of being frivolous and vexatious. RUSSIA. Several marbles, with Slavonic inscriptions, were discovered in 1792, among the ruins of Phanagoria. These inscriptions stated, that a Russian prince, Glied of Tinuktorakan, had caused the extent of the Cimmerian Bosphorus to be measured in 1063. On this occasion, count Mussin Puschkin published, in 1794, Historical Researches on the geographical situation of the principality of Tmuktorakan. Alexei Nicolai Olenin, counsellor of state, has published a letter on the same subject, addressed |
