flections on those advocates of igno- Sessions, it was not so crowded a rance and intolerance, who assert,. house at at Newcastle. The boxes that it is dangerous to communicate were filled, however, by a most reknowledge" to those who were doom- spectable audience; and from the ed to the drudgery of daily labour." great interest which the lecture exThe infamy of those who propagated cited, added to the novel exhibition such doctrines, he exposed in the of the Lancasterian scholars from this most animated language; and we can town, which produced a sensation of not help stating that those priests delight as instantaneous as electricity, who have dared to publish such scan- the whole plan received the most dalous doctrines, are a disgrace to unbounded approbation. Mr. Linthe sacred posts they fill, and un- still and his family were present, beworthy the character of British sub- sides many gentlemen and ladies who jects. have advocated the cause of educa tion among the poor, so that there is no doubt but (indeed we believe it is determined) Mr. Lancaster's plan of instruction will be introduced into the new school which they are now building. The lecture was delivered in very different language to that in Newcastle, and the exemplary lessons of the boys was considerably varied from that practised here. So great was the impression made on the audience by the lecture, that people flocked to the green-room immedi ately after the curtain dropt-the boys were caressed with enthusiastic affection, and a gentleman of the name of Honeyman, generously gave 51. to distribute amongst them, which was done next day. On the boys get ting into the coach to leave Shields, they gave three cheers; and on ar riving at Newcastle, they marched in military order into the house at St. Ann's Row, where Mr. Lancaster resided, to bid him farewel. This being unknown to Mr. Lancaster, he was sruck with a delightful surprise at the attachment of the boys. Before they left him, a glass of wine was given to each of them, and on march ing back to the coach, to proceed home, they formed a ring in front of St. Ann's Row, and gave three cheers for Lancaster's health and happiness. Mr. L. then proceeded to give the audience a lively and interesting description of the several interviews he had with his Majesty and the royal family on the subject, and the munificent support he received from them for the extension of the system. Were I not to bring forward his Majesty on this occasion," said Mr. L. from whom I have received so much, and by whom I am enabled to extend the system from one end of the kingdom to the other, I should be unworthy of standing before you as an advocate of the poor this night." The lecturer then congratulated the audience on the spirit which had been manifested in the cause in this place, and expressed his conviction, from the proficiency which the boys in the preparatory school had already made, of the ultimate success of the institution. He then took occasion to recommend a school on a similar plan for girls. He observed, that it was only making a sort of half jubilee without this; and as many of the girls would probably become servants, &c. in their families, it would be as much to their interest as to their honour to pay that attention to the one sex which they had manifested to the other. He concluded by making an offer of 201, out of the receipts of the evening towards the institution of a Jubilee School for Gils-thanked the audience for their induigence, and retired amidst the repeated plau. dets of the company. The proceeds of the house amount ed to 811. 8s. 6d. On Thursday night, Sept. 6. Mr. Lancaster delivered another lecture at the theatre in North Shields; but from the shortness of the notice, and many of the place being at Alnwick On Friday Mr. Lancaster proceeded to Alnwick, by invitation of Ralph Annet, Esq. In the evening he de livered a lecture to a respectable com pany, a committee of whom had beea previously formed to establish a school according to Mr. Lancster's plan. Next morning Mr. L. was invited to Alnwick Castle, by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, by whom he was received with that noble condescension and affability ments of whose duke are more noble for which his Grace is distinguished. than his dukedom." The Duke's heart, which is ever open Owing to the difficulty of procur to the wants of the poor, was never ing a conveyance from Alnwick, Mr. more benevolently expanded than on Lancaster did not reach Berwick till this occasion. His grace said, he had six o'clock on Saturday evening. At some time been anxious to see Mr. seven he proceeded to the Town-Hall, Lancaster, and was glad that he had where he delivered a lecture, which now the opportunity of forwarding his was received with loud acclamations. plans for the education of the poor in When the liberal and magnificent Alnwick. The duke expressed him- conduct of the Duke of Northumber self a warm friend to the liberal princi- land was stated, the hall resounded ples upon which the Newcastle Lancas- with the most grateful applauses. srianschool was founded, and felt indig The people of Berwick have so high nant at the insidious attempt that had an opinion of Mr. Lancaster's system, been made to bias his mind against its that not only a school is to be estaestablishment.-" No pen, nor lan- blished upon his plan, but various guage," says Mr. Lancaster in a letter charity schools in the town are to be from Aluwick to one of his friends in modelled, and consolidated into one, Newcastle," can express the heart- upon the principle. The Mayor and felt satisfaction this interview has pro- principal inhabitants of Berwick paid duced. How glorious it is to see the Mr.Lancaster the utmost attention and nobles of the land, like the king him- a vote of thanks was passed to the self, become the patrons of education, chief magistrate, for his urbanity and and friends of the poor. A school politeness in granting the Town-Hall will be established here worthy the for the meeting. house of Percy, the virtues and senti VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL; With Notices respecting Men of Letters, Artists, and Works in Hand, &c. &c. Erskine Baker; carefully corrected; greatly enlarged; and continued from 1784 to 1811, by Isaac Reed and Stephen Jones; in three volumes octavo. Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, is engaged in Essays on the Poetry and Superstitions of the Highlands. With Fragments in verse and prose. IR John Carr has in a state of conconsiderable forwardness for publication, Descriptive Sketches of the Southern and Eastern parts of Spain, the Islands of Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Sicily, and Malta, during a tour in those countries in the year 1809 and 1810, to be accompanied by engravings of views made on the spot, Early in April, Mr. Pratt intends to bring forward to public view the much -expected Poetical Remains of Joseph Blacket; illustrated and adorned by appropriate engravings from original Mr. Parkinson is about to publish designs by eminent painters; with a Observations on the Act for Regulatportrait which exhibits a striking ing Madhouses, with Remarks adlikeness; and interesting memoirs of dressed to the friends of the Insane; the author. Published exclusively for the benefit of his aged mother and orphan child., The new edition of Addison's works, with notes, &c. by the late Bishop Hurd, in six octavo volumes, is in the press. and a correction of the mistatements of the case of Benjamin Elliott, senteneed to six months imprisonment for illegally depriving Mary Daintree of her liberty. In the press: Biographia Dramatica, or a Companion to the Playhouse; containing anecdotes of British and Mr. S. Bennet author of the ConIrish dramatic writers from the com- stancy, Dispersion, and Progress of mencement of our theatrical exhibi- Israel, intends to publish, by subtions, with an account of their works, scription, a work, in quarto, entiled &c. &c. originally compiled by David the Temple of Ezekiel: containing an Elucidation of the 40th, 41st and which will be given at length through 42d Chapters, &c. of Ezekiel; com- the next and succeeding volumes.-2. prising the vision of a temple, with View of the progress of religion, and all its courts, halls, chambers and religious liberty, in the respective porches, as described in those chap- counties of the united kingdoms.—3. ters. A comment never before brought Proceedings in parliament, the courts so concisely and completely to the of law, and at the universities, relaview of the literary world, on account tive to dissenters, and religious liberty of the obscureness of the text, and the in general.-4. Progress and present want of a plan as a key to the text; state of foreign missions.-5. Proceednow elucidated with an impartial and ings at public meetings, anniversascientific comment, representing this ries, &c. of the friends of religion, visionary edifice, with all its dimen- public charity, and free toleration.sions and calculations, in a clear and 6. Erection of new chapels, establishconcise manner: with two plates; one ment of religious and benevolent representing the fundamental design societies, and formation of new of that edifice, agreeable to the text; churches.-7. Ordination services, reand the other a bird's-eye view, with movals, and changes of ministers.—8. the elevations of that magnificent and Obituary and biography of eminent spacious fabric. This elucidation is dissenters, and other public religious not ideal, but a correct representation characters.-9. Miscellaneous and oriof the literal and true sense of the ginal papers, containing plans, hints, bible-text, with such assistance as the schemes, &c. to promote the cause of author has gathered from the Hebrew religion, morals, useful literature, rewriters, and the doctors co-existent ligious liberty, and christian benevowith the second-temple; also from the lence.-10. Epitome and review of most celebrated commentators, be- new books interesting to dissenters.— sides the particulars of his own obser- 11. A complete theological catalogue vations, so as to reconcile the whole of books published during the year.text with a true representation of the 12. View of the progress of religious temple proposed by Ezekiel. Mr. liberty on the continent, and in every Bennet has placed all the text regu- part of the world.-18. Discussions relarly in the margin, with the com- lative to church government, and. ment opposite to the places; the di- ecclesiastical affairs. Communicamensions and calculations appertain- tions and hints for the improvement ing to the text, are marked in alpha- of this work must be directed, under betical order, referring to the fun- cover, to the editor, at Messrs. Gale damental design. And, in particular and Curtis's, paternoster-row, Lonplaces, where the translations are don. obscure or have been misconceived, he has introduced the original Hebrew text, and has endeavoured to rectify the errors, and give the true sense thereof. Not only the discerning readers and adherents to the holy scripture, will be gratified by such an elucidation, but, that the scientific reader will probably consider this work as an interesting and sublime document relating to ancient architecture, and as a valuable supplement to the bible. Early in the ensuing year, is intended to be published, in one handsome volume, octavo, the Protestant Dissenters' Annual Register, for 1810, consisting of the following subjects: 1. History of Dissenters, and their various denominations, including the existing laws relative to dissenters, Mr. Malcolm has in the press, a new volume of Anecdotes of the Manners, Customs, Dress, Amusements, &c. of the citizens of London, from the time of the Romans to-1699. A new edition of Toplady's Historic Proof of the Calvinism of the Church of England, including a brief account of eminent persons before and after the Reformation, in two large volumes quarto, embellished with two hundred portraits, will be published in the course of the ensuing year. A Life of Sir Michael Foster, Knt. by the late Michael Dodson, Esq. originally written for the new edition of the Biographia Britannica, will shortly be published. The Jubilee, or Disappointed Poet, in a series of elegies, by Peter Pindar, Esq. is preparing for the press. The Rev. Josiah Pratt is engaged in writing the life of Bishop Hall, as a supplement to the works of that prelate lately edited by him. Chronological Memoirs of Mohammedan History, from its earliest period to the establishment of the house of Teymur in Hindostan, is in great forwardness, translanted from the Persian, by D. Price, Esq. of the Bombay establishment. Dr. Drake, under the title of the Gleaner, intends to publish in four volumes octavo, a selection of the best essays from those periodical papers which have not been included in the last edition of the British Essayists. Captain T. H. Cooper is preparing a collection of all the Land Battles fought in the Messenian, Lydian, Sacred, Peloponnesian, Corinthian, Etruscan, Tarentine, Punic, Sardinian, Social, Macedonian, Jugurthine, Mithridatic, Civil, Servile, Peruvian, and other wars, from the foundation of Rome to the birth of Christ, embellished with about eighty plans of the principal battles; and maps, shewing the routes and places of actions, &c. &c. The Bishop of London is printing a work on the subject of Calvinism, which will comprehend his last three charges, with considerable additions, and numerous quotations from the works of Calvin and the ancient Fathers. In the press, The Second Exodus, or Reflections on the Prophecies of the Last Times in 2 volumes, by the Rev. William Ettrick, M. A. late Fellow of University College Oxford. Mr. Henry Weber is engaged in a collection of Tales of the East, collated with the original or early translations, and now first arranged in one uniform edition, in three volumes royal octavo, containing upwards of one thousand stories, besides a number of translations and reprints of scarce and little known eastern romauces, with the whole of the Arabian, Persian, Turkish, Mogul, Tartarian, and Chinese Tales, which from their merit are entitled to notice. versal Warp and Weft Tables, shewing at one view the quantity of warp or weft in any piece of cloth, from one yard, to yards progressively, to 30 yards, long; and for one inch broad; then 18 inches broad, and by inches progressively to 60 inches broad; and for one thread in an inch, then two threads in an inch, and by two progressively to 200 threads in an inch, by which the quantity of warp or weft in any piece of cloth may be obtained. A translation of Gesner's Pastoral Novel, by Mr. Charles Eichorn, is in the press, intended for the use of German and English scholars, with an interlincary translation, and the English elegantly rendered at the foot of each page. The engravings for a Chinese Dictionary of about 7000 characters, are commenced under the inspection of Dr. Montucci. The work will be translated into Latin, French, and English, at the, desire of the East India Company. The Rev. J. Fawcett is preparing for publication, The Devotional Family Bible; containing the Old and New Testaments, with copious notes and illustrations, partly selected and partly original; with a devotional exercise, at the end of every chapter, by way of improvement, to be published in parts and numbers, and the whole to be comprized in two volumes royal quarto. An account of the Isle of Man.. comprizing its history, antiquity, and its present state, is preparing for publication by Mr. George Wood. ARTS, SCIENCES, &c. The Society for maintaining and educating poor orphans of clergymen, till of age to be put apprentice we are glad to find, have made considerable progress in the crection of their new school, in a very airy and healthy situation, about half a mile north of Upper Baker-street. Towards the expense of this crection, we understand, the society have received many handsome subscription; and we have Mr. Joseph Jackson has in the no doubt but a humane public (conpress, a work of considerable labour, sidering the worthiness of the cause) and of great utility to manufacturers will enable them to go through with of cloths, entitled, The Merchant, their design without breaking into Manufacturer's, and Putter-Out'sUni- their permanent funds. UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. XIV. 3 R 1 The literary works of Madam De A Cure for the Asthma.-In our last Stael, some of which she had been number, p. 406, we mentioned the employed upon eight years, have been discovery that stramonium was a reseized at Blois in France by the pre- medy for the asthma. Since that pefect, who has not left the authoress riod, a gentleman at Bristol writes, one copy. Her loss is estimated at that after looking forward to nothing 50,000 franks, she having been ordered better than dragging out a miserable to quit France might have chosen existence, embittered by one of the Capet or Munich for her residence, most cruel diseases to which human but preferring America, she has em- life is subject, was induced to try barked at Havre. stramonium upon himself. He sought Westminster Abbey. — This vene-` it in vain in every chemist's shop in rable pile it is reported is to be re- Bristol, of course was obliged to send stored to all its former grandeur. Mr. to London for it. A few hours after Wyatt the architect has undertaken smoking it as directed, he was most to put the walls and ornaments into a wonderfully relieved; having since complete state of durability, without that time enjoyed a degree of ease to doing the least injury to the monu- which he had been a stranger almost ments. A drawing of the original nine years, being able of a night to structure has been found in a vase lie down in his bed without inconvetaken from the court of records in a nience. high state of preservation, from which the artist will be enabled to produce all the minute ornaments which time has destroyed. The saints which stood in the niches are to reappear. A number of maps of Germany, France, and Europe have lately been printed at Leipsick upon the finest cambric; they are calculated to be used as handkerchiefs; to fold up in the pocket, &c. and the colours will not wash out. A gentleman who has made many efforts to rear silk worms, gives as the result of his experience, that the sole bar in breeding them, is the impossibility of obtaining mulberry leaves sufficiently early in the spring for the worms, or a healthy substitute, until the foliage of the mulberry be ready. The lettuce was the only plant on which the worms would feed, but which by scouring and weakening them, brought on a species of hydropic rot like that of sheep. Dried let tuce, besides being too hard for their mouths, debilitated them to so great a degree, that they died with their web incomplete, and without producing any chrysolete. The following is recommended as an effectual test for the discovery of sulphuric acid in vinegar; namely the acetate of barytes of the new no menclature; it is the most delicate test possible, because a copious insoJuble precipitate immediately falls down, upon adding a small quantity of the above compound. From the very extraordinary pro duce of one potatoe planted whole, it is evident that the cultivation of that useful root in this country is merely in its infancy. In the latter end of June last, a gentleman residing in Sloane-square, planted in his garden a new species of potatoe, which he brought last spring from the Alleheghany mountains of North America; and by a peculiar mode of cultivation, there grew from the original parent upwards of one hundred stems, each measuring in length about six feet six inches. A few days ago these stems were dug, when the produce weighed 23lbs. whereas the seed po tatoe did not weigh quite two ounces. Each of the potatoes on an average measured six inches in length, and the same in circumference. It is of a red colour, and is remarkably dry and mealy. A Mr. Manning is now at Canton in China, and has been there five years learning the language in the dress of the country, with a view to penetrate the interior. He has adapted himself to the manners and feelings of the Chinese, so far that he is scarcely to be distinguished from them by the natives themselves. The small bells set a ringing by means of De Luc's electric column, continued ringing on the evening of the 24th of August last, having been so doing for a period of 152 days and a half. This long continuance renders it not improbable that the weight |