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deemer 1513, and in the sixth yeare of that victorious prince, King Henry the eighth.-These two are from the Mirrour for Magistrates.

2. Skelton, laureate against the Scottes. This is a curious rhapsody. The following is a specimen :

Lo, these fond sottes,
And tratlynge Scottes,
How they are blinde
In theyr own minde,
And will not know
Theyr ouerthrow
At Branxton More!
They are so stowre,
So frantike mad,
They say they had,
And wan the felde
With speare and shield.
That is as trew
As blacke is blew,
And grene is gray.
Whatever they say,
Jemmy is dead,
And closed in leade,

That was their own kynge:
Fye on that winninge!
At Floddpn-hilles
Our bowes, our billes
Slewe all the flowre
Of theyre honoure.
Are not these Scottes
Foles and sottes
Such boste o make,
To prate and crake
To face, to brace
All void of grace?
So proud of heart,
So ouerth wart,
So out of frame,
So voyd of shame,
As it is enrold,
Written, and told
Within this quaire?
Who list to repair,
And therein reed,
Shall find indeed.
A mad rekening,
Considering all thing,
That the Scottes may sing:
Fye on that winning! P. 169.
3. The lamentable complaint of
King James of Scotland, who was
slain at Scottish Field, anno 1513.
By William Fulwell.--This is from a
book of Fulwell's, called the "Flow-
ers of Fame,"

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4. Epitaph of Sir Marmaduke Constable, in Flamborough church.

5. Song, on the victory of FloddenField. By one Thomas Deloney.

6. The laird of Muirhead.-This is the fragment of a Scots ballad.

7. The Flowers of the Forest.

8. An inscription (in Latin) to the heroes who fell in the battle of Flodden. This is from Johnson's heroes.

9. A letter from Pope Leo X. to Henry VIII. This letter is curious, and does some honour to Henry; it relates to the burial of James. We cannot imagine what can have led the editor to suppose, (Note p. 325.) that it was a request from the Pope, that he would perform the last ceremonies for the Scottish King. On the con trary, it is evidently in compliance with an earnest request of Henry, The words are express→→→→

"Cupis Regis Corpus ad Urbem Londini deferri, et in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli dicta civitatis pro Regia Dignitate sepeliri posse." P. 304.

The Pope, in favour to Henry, had excommunicated James, in consequence of which he could not be buried according to the rites of the church. Henry generously applies for the removal of this interdict against his vanquished rival, and is even willing, it would appear, to undergo a certain penance, in order to obtain his request.

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10. & 11. Accounts of the battle of Flodden, by Pitscottie and Hall,

12. A ballate of the battalle of Flodden Field, fought between the Earle of Surrey, and the King of Skotes. Of this, the editor says:

Of this very singular ballad, two copies exist in the British Museum (MSS. Harl. 293 and 367,) which have been carefully collated, and the principal vari

ations will be found at the bottom of the

page. The Editor did not obtain the copy till he was fortunately enabled to transcribe the poem himself, which prevented its being placed in the poetical part of this Appendix. The subject is slightly

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touched upon by Holingshed, and the style similar to the more unpol shed kind of Northern Ballads. That the author was an adherent to the house of Deiby is very evident; and whatever degree of credit may be assigned to the less marvellous parts of the composition, the concluding act of subjecting the Earl of Surrey (already created Duke of Norfolk) to whatever punishment his rival chose to inflict, must stagger our belief. From the two concluding lines it would appear, that the poem was produced after the death of Thomas, Earl of Derby, and in the reign of Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth. P. 366. This volume is embellished by se

veral plates, which will be valued by the antiquary; King James's sword and dagger, as preserved in the Herald's College, London; and the standards of the Earl of Huntly, and of

Earl Marischal.

New Works published in Edinburgh.

A Series of Discourses on the prin

ciples of religious belief, as connected with human happiness and im*provement. By the Reverend Robert Morehead, A. M. of Baliol College, Oxford, junior minister of the Episcopal chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh,

8vo. 9s.

Reliques of Robert Burns, consisting chiefly of original letters, poems, and critical observations on Scottish Songs. Collected and published by R. H. Cromek. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Scottish Literary Intelligence.

DR R ROBERT DRUMMOND proposes to publish, by permission of Government, at Bombay, a few plain illustrations of the Grammatical parts of the Guzerat, and Mahratta, and English languages, in their respective Characters, with copious original exercises in the Guzerat and English tongues, descriptive of hither tribes,

and other varieties, compiled in the interior, and select Extracts from the Regulations for administering the affairs of the British Territories under the Presidency of Bombay, all which it is hoped shall prove of Utility, Interest, and Amusement, to Anglo-Indians, and their friends, as well as to the subjects of the company.

The price of each Copy will be twenty-five Rupees, to be paid on delivery of the work, which is ready to be put into the Press.

Mr Thomas Campbell, author of the Pleasures of Hope, will speedily Wyoming, with other poems. publish a poem, entitled, Gertrude of

In the course of the year 1808, the trustees of the Hunterian museum,

Glasgow college, received the following donations:-Two silver medals, struck in the East Indies in 1784 and 1791, from John M'Lachlan, Esq. of Calcutta. The tooth of a mammoth, and a singular marine animal, from Charles Wilson, Esq. surgeon, Glasgow. A map of the city of London, from Mr Muirhead Loudoun, merchant, Glasgow. Part of a gold chain, found in the tomb of Archbishop Dunbar, near the high altar of the cathedral, Glasgow, from Mr Matthew Robertson, bookseller, Glasgow. A model of the house of an Indian family of South America, with the several utensils; also, a number of serpents preserved in bottles, from John Douglas, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.A copy of Statius, printed by Aldus, in 1502; and a copy of Sallust, in stereotype, by Gedd, from James Smith, Esq. younger of Jordan-hill. A volume containing the correspondence of Dr Bentley with Graevius, and other men of letters, published in 1807, from the editor, Dr Charles Burney, of Greenwich. Catalogue of the library of the writers to his Majesty's signet, from the Curators. À stone turned up by the plough in the parish of Fenwick, supposed to have been an ancient instrument of war,

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R Taylor (the Platonist) announces

tleman, is now in the press, and will shortly be published.

A Subscription Library, on a liberal· plan, has been set on foot at Lincoln; and we observe with pleasure, that its. promoters are the principal noblemen · and gentlemen of that city and its neighbourhood.

Amidst a variety of new papers an nounced in different parts of the country, one is announced in that populous d'strict of Staffordshire, engaged in the

MR annoy ice manufacture of pottery-ware, to be cal

portant discoveries in that branch of the mathematics relating to infinitesimals, and infinite series. One of these discoveries consists in the ability of ascertaining the last term of a great variety of infinite series, whether such series are composed of whole numbers or fractions, Mr Taylor further announces, as the result of these discoveries, that he is able to demonstrate that all the leading propositions in Dr Wallis's Arithmetic of Infinities are false, and that the doctrine of Fluxions is founded on false principles, and as well as the Arithmetic of Infinites, is a most remarkable instance of the possibility of deducing true conclusions from erroneous principles. Mr T. is now composing a trea tise on this subject, which will be pub. lished in the course of next year.

Dr Arnold, of Leicester, has just put to press a valuable practical volume of Observations on the Management of the Insane, a subject on which thirty years experience has eminently qualified him,

to write.

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 la borious researches of the late Rev. G. D. Whittington, of Cambridge, is now in the press, under the direction of some judicious and honourable friends; and will soon be laid before the public.

Lieut.-Col. Scott has in the press, a Poem on the Battle of Maidą.

Mr Thomas Green, of Liverpool, a youth of seventeen, has in the press a volume of Poems, which will appear in January.

A volume of burlesque, dramatic, and miscellaneous Poems, by the same gen

led the Pottery Gazette.

Mr Bigland has in the press, and in. considerable forwardness, a View of the World, which will extend to five octavo volumes. It comprises a tolerably mi nute geographical description of the countries of the world, with an account. of whatever is particularly remarkable in each, followed by a separate historical view of every nation and people.

The Rev. R. Nares is about to put to press a Dictionary on the plan of Johnson's, of the Middle Language of England, or the Age of Shakespeare! To what other absurdities will the childish speculations of the readers of black letter lead us?

The Rev. Mr Plumptre, of Clarehall, will shortly publish four Discourses on the Stage, lately preached by him at Cambridge.

Two volumes of Sermons by the late Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, are preparing for the press, and will appear in the ensuing spring. To these volumes, which it is intended to publish by subscription, will be prefixed a memoir.

A work will speedily make its appearance, entitled the Brazil Pilot, or a Description of the Coast of Brazil; translated from the Portuguese of Manoel Pimentel, principal hydrographer to K. John V. of Portugal. It will be accompanied bya considerable number of charts of some of its principal ports, from manuscripts of undoubted authori ty, never before published.

The Translation of the Scriptures into the Persian language, so long in preparation, and by many thought to be abandoned, has been for some time in the press at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and is expected to be ready for publication in the course of the year 1809. It will form an elegant quarto volume.

A new selection of the most favourite poc

poetical pieces, under the title of the Muse's Bower, will soon make its appearance in four small volumes. The first will contain a selection of lyrical and pathetic pieces; the second narrative, humorous and epistolary; the third descriptive and sacred; and the fourth selections from the ancient classics.

About the middle of this month will be published, in two vols. 8vo. Out lines of Mineralogy, containing a general history of the principal varieties of mineral substances; together with a particular statement of their physical characters, and chemical analysis; by J. Kidd, M.D. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford.

The Abbe Dubois, who was so fortunate as to escape from France during the horrors of the revolution, and has

since resided in the Mysore country, has completed a very valuable work on the various casts of India. It has been inspected and highly approved by Sir J. Mackintosh and other literary characters in India, and by them recommended to the notice of the government, who have agreed to purchase the manuscript of the Abbe, and to publish it at their own expence. The translation of the French is entrusted to a military officer of consequence and ability.

We understand, that a Member of the Wernerian Natural History Society is about to put to the press a translation, from the German, of Werner's celebrated Treatise on Veins. It is to be illustrated with notes and drawings, illustra tive of the venigenous appearances in Scotland.

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Historical Affairs.

BOTH

AMERICAN STATES.

OOTH Houses of Congress made a quorum on the 7th November last, and appointed a Conmmittee to inform the President, who returned with an answer that he would send a written communication next day. Accordingly the following message, with several accompanying documents, were presented to both Houses :MESSAGE.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:

"It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification, if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you, that the belligerent nations, whose disregard to neutral rights has been so destructive to our commerce, had become awakened to the duty and the policy of revoking their unrighteous edicts." That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the Act authorizing a suspension, in whole, or in part, of the several embargo laws. Our Ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there, our disposition to exercise that authority in such manner as would withdraw the pretext on which the aggressions were originally founded, and open the way for a renewal of that commercial intercourse, which, it was alleged on all sides, had been reluctantly obstructed. As each of these Governments had pledged its readiness to concur in renouncing a measure which reached its adversary through the incontestable rights of neutrals only, and as the measure had been assumed by each as a retaliation for an asserted acquiescence in the aggressions of the other, it was reasonably expected that the occasion would have been seized by both, for evincing the sincerity of their professions, and for restoring to the United States its legitimate freedom.

"The instructions to our Ministers, with respect to the different belligerents, were necessarily modified with a reference to their different circumstances; and to the condition annexed by law to the executive power of suspension, requiring a degree of security to our commerce, which would not result from a repeal of the decrees of France. "Instead of a pledge, therefore, for a suspension of the embargo as to her in case of such a repeal, it was presumed that a Jan. 1809.

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sufficient inducement might be found in o ther considerations, and particularly in the change produced by a compliance with our just demands by one belligerent, and a refusal by the other, in the relations between this other and the United States. Great Britain, whose power on the ocean is so ascendant, it was deemed not inconsistent with that condition to state explicitly, that on her rescinding her orders in relation to the commerce of the United' States, their trade would be opened with her, and remain shut to her enemy, in case of his failure to rescind his decrees also. From France no answer has been received, nor any indication that the requisite change in her decrees is contemplated. The fa-' vourable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of Council had not duly been referred for their vindication to an acquiescence on the part of the United States, no longer to be pretended-but as the arrangement proposed, whilst it resisted the illegal decrees of France, involved, moreover, substantially the precise advantages professedly aimed at by the British orders. The arrangement has nevertheless been rejected.

"This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the embargo by the Executive was authorized, it necessarily remains in the extent originally given to it. We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect, that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fellow-citizens in general have borne with patriotism, it has had the important effects of saving our mariners and our vast mercantile property, as well as of affording time for prosecuting the defensive and provisional measures called for by the occasion. It has demonstrated to foreign nations the moderation and firmness which govern our councils, and to our citizens the necessity of uniting in support of the laws and the rights of their country; and has thus long frustrated those usurpations and spoliations which, if resisted, involved war; if submitted to, sacrificed a vital principle of our national independence.

"Under a continuance of the belligerent measures, which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, overspread the ocean with danger, it will rest with the wisdom of Congress to decide on the course best adapted to such a state of things; and

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