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cused of mony horible thingis, which scho denyed; albeit they were sufficient lie prowen. Being desyred that scho wold forgive a man, that had done hir some offence (as scho alledged), refused; that when ane vther that stude by said, gif scho did not forgive, that God wald not forgive hir, and so scho suld be dampned. But scho not caren for hell or heawin, said opinlie, I pass not whidder I goe to hell or heawin, with dyvers vtheris execrable wordis. Efter bir handis were bound, the provest causeth lift vp hir claithis, to see hir mark that scho had, or to sie gif scho had ony thing vpon hir I can not weil tell, but thair was a white claith like a collore craig with string is in betuene hir leggis, whairon was mony knottis vpon the stringis of the said collore craig, which was tacken from hir sore ́against hir will; for belyke scho thought that scho suld not have died that being vpon hir, for scho said, when it was taken from hir, Now I have no hoip of myself.'

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lic question-Dr Franklin's worksDuten's Memoires.-Hoare's Giraldus Cambrensis-Pinkerton's Recol. lections of Paris.-Moore's poems, &c.

Sketches of picturesque Scenery in the Southern Counties of Perthshire, by the Rev. Patrick Graham, minister of Aberfoyle, 8vo. 3s. 6d.

Considerations on the plan of dividing the Chamber of Justice, &c. 3s.

Remarks on Live Stock and Relative Subjects. By Andrew Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, 8vo. 2s. 6d.

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The Gazetteer of Scotland, containing a particular and concise description of the Counties, Parishes, Islands, Cities, Towns, Villages, Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, Valleys, &c. of that kingdom. With an account of the Political ConstitutionHistory-Extent- Boundaries-State

New Works published in EDINBURGH. DE ECII Junii Juvenalis, et A. of Agriculture-Population-Natural History-Buildings-Seats of the Persii Flacci Satyræ, ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emenda. Nobility and Gentry-Roads, &c. tæ, et interpunctione nova sæpius illus. Illustrated with an elegant sheet map. Second Edition, much improved and trate; cura Joannis Hunter, L. L.D. in Academia Andreapolitana, Litt. enlarged. Price 12s. boards. Hum. Prof. Crown 12mo. 2s. A few copies fine paper, crown 8vo. by Ballantyne. 68.

The Edinburgh Review, No. 16. This number contains Macpherson's Annals of Commerce-Lemaistre's Travels-Historical view of Christianity-Mawman's Tour through Scotland-Macdiarmid on National Defence-Throckmorton on Catho

SCOTTISH Literary Intelligence.

Mr Murray, lecturer in Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, at Edinburgh, has in the press a System of Chemistry, which is expected to make four octavo volumes, and to appear in the beginning of next winter.

Mr Robert Hamilton, teacher of clocu

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Harwood, Professor of Medicine; Mi Christian, Professor of Law; and Mess s. Lens, Frere, and Meek, Fellows. It is understood that medicine is the branch of science which will be chiefly cultivated in this institution; and that an endea. vour wil be made by means of it to rescue our English universities from the opprobrium under which they have laboured, owing to neglect of this most useful of human arts.

The late statute at Oxford for public ing of Degrees, has been attended with Examinations previously to the obtain the happiest effects on the application of

the students. It has rescued that uni

versity from the charges of Gibbon and others; and close study is now as essential to the attainment of honours at Oxford as at any university in Europe.A new statute is expected, by which every student will be obliged to undergo two public examinations, one in the classics, and one in the sciences, at the interval of two years between each, before he can obtain a Bachelor's degree; and by the same statute, the present examination for a Master's degree is to

be discontinued.

ed into the Chinese language a TreatSir George Staunton, having translat

ise on the Vaccine Inoculation, (the first English work that ever was published in China,) a general inoculation for the Cow-pox has taken place in the

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, ENGLISH populous city of Canton. So far have

and FOREIGN.

PREPARATIONS are at length making for the erection of Downing College at Cambridge, on the ground which lies opposite to the front of Ernanuel, and on the left of the street which leads from that College to Pembroke. The architect is Mr Wilkins, whose knowledge of Grecian models gives reason to hope that the edifice will be worthy of the University which it is intended to adorn. The establishment is to consist of a Master, a Professor of the Laws of England, a Professor of Medicine, sixteen Fellows, and six Scholars, Two of the Fellows are to be in holy orders, and the rest, after the usual standing, are to become barristers at law, or doctors of physic. The Master, the two Professors, and three of the Fellows, have been named in the charter; and are Dr Francis Annesly Master; Sir Busick

this jealous people got the better of their prejudices in this instance, that a very

large subcription was raised for estab

lishing an institution in the city of Canton, by means of which the inoculation is to be spread into the neighbour. ing country, and the matter disseminated into every province of the empire.

The papers of the late illustrious Lord Macartney, have been confided to Mr Barrow, by his Lordship's executors, and they will soon be given to the public, accompanied by full and accurate Memoirs of his Lordship's long and active life.

The state of Literary Criticism, as it is now carried on in this metropolis, has determined several persons of the first literary distinction in the university of Oxford, to commence the publication of a periodical Literary Censor in that seat of science and learning.

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A Chemical Society is about to be established in London, The admission of subscribers is for the present limited to sixty, and the annual subscription is fixed at three guineas. An unlimited number of gentlemen, residing in the country, may be admitted as subscribers, on paying one guinea annually, which shall entitle them to visit the Society as members, whenever they reside in the capital, provided their stay does not exceed three months. The admission of members for the present is confined to a Committee, who request that such gentlemen as are desirous of becoming subscribers may favour them with their names, for which purpose a book is opened at their Laboratory, No. 11, Old Compton-street.

Dr Vincent has in the press a new edition of the Nearchus.

The unwieldy extent of the poets at large has determined Mr Pratt, a gentleman whose taste in elegant literature has been acknowledged by the public during a period of thirty years, to make a selection of the best pieces contained in the entire series of our national poets, which he intends to print in six or seven elegant small volumes. The pieces from each poet will be introduced by a short biographical notice, and generally accompanied by a finely engraved portrait. The entire work will be prefaced by a Critical and Historical Essay on the Characteristics and progress of English poetry, from Chaucer to Cowper.

Mr Johnes proposes to publish a Supplementary Volume to his quarto edition of Froissart's Chronicles; containing Memoirs of the Life of the Author; the various readings produced for the projected new Louvre edition; an account of the celebrated manuscripts of the Chronicles at Breslaw, with its various readings and additions, and an account of the death of Richard II. of England, extracted from a manuscript in the National Library at Paris.

Mr Mitford has in the press an enlarged edition of his history of Greece, to which will be now added a new volume.

Dr Pinel's Treatise on Insanity, translated, and accompanied with Notes, by Dr Davis, is nearly ready for publica

tion.

Dr Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, is

reprinting, with corrections, The Cri terion; or, Miracles Examined; a work that has long since been out of print, and which is unquestionably one of the ablest defences of revealed religion that ever was published in this or any country.

The government of China would not permit the learned men and artists attached to the Russian embassy, to proceed into the interior of that country. One of them, the Councillor of State, Schubat, intends returning by way of northern Siberia, for the purpose of collecting in a country so little known to Europeans every thing worthy of observation.

A complete skeleton of an elephant has been lately discovered at Shinchow, in the Russian government of Casan. This is a phenomenon which confirms the conjectures of M. Buffon.

A judgement may be formed of the zeal for the sciences in the Russian province of Kiow, from the circumstance that in three days the sum of 500,000 rubles was subscribed for the support of the college established in that city.

Prince Besborodko has given a fund of 210,000 rubles, and an annual revenue of 15,000 rubles, to the college which he has established at Naschin in the Ukraine.

Dr. Fuchs, author of several esteemed works on natural history, has been appointed prófessor and director of the botanic garden belonging to the university of Casan.

In a periodical work published at Petersburg, entitled the "St. Peterburgische Monathscrift," there is a very interesting article on the progress of learning and civilization in Russia, from the most remote antiquity to the time of Peter the Great. What will particularly attract the attention, is the hope held out of recovering some of the works of the ancients supposed to be irretrievably lost. It appears that Jarislaus I., son of Waladiam the Great, invited to his court great number of learned Greeks, and employed them in translating into the Slavonic language Greek works, the originals of which were deposited in the church of St. Sophia. Constantine was so great a lover of the sciences, that he collected more than 1000 Greek manuscripts, several of which he caused to be translated and distribut

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ed to the schools in his deminions. Alexis Michalowitz, wishing to compare the Slavonic versions of the books used in the churches with the originals, caused to be purchased in Greece, and particularly at Mont Athos, about 500 MSS. which are still preserved in the library of the synod at Moscow. Even allowing that the last-mentioned collection consists of copies of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers; yet it may reasonably be conjectured that this was not the case with respect to the 1000 MSS. collected by Constantine; and it may be asked, what is become of those presented by him to the schools, and whether the still more numerous collection of Jarislaus I. has not remained at the church of St. Sophia. It is to be hoped that all the convents of Russia will be called upon to furnish a catalogue of their libraries, by which means we may flatter ourselves to bring to light some precious remains of ancient Greek literature.

It has been lately announced, that the ruins of two great cities have been discovered in the Russian empire, of which there are no accounts in history: one of them is in the isle of Taman, in

the Black Sea; the other in a district in Siberia.

Liberal contributions have been received from several of the principal nobility of Poland, towards defraying the expences of printing the Polish-Slavonic Dictionary compiled by M. Linde, director of the Lyceum at Warsaw.

Mr Tham, of Skara in Sweden, is occupied on the runic characters found on one of the famous lions of Venice, which was not removed to Paris. Mr T. is extremely well versed in this branch of northern literature, and has already suceeded in decyphering a considerable part of them.

The Danish government is now building in Iceland a regular town, which is to be called Reykuvig: it is situated on the sea-shore, and is to have a free port. A Latin grammar school has already been established there.

The colleges for the education of Irish, English, and Scotch Catholics in Paris, have, by a decree of the Emperor, been united into one establishment; and a course of lectures on philosophy is now delivering there in the Latin language.

SIR,

To the Editor.

Poetry.

If you choose to insert the inclosed poem by HAYLEY, in your valuable magazine, you are exceedingly welcome. That he was the author of it I know for certain; and have great reason to think, it never before appeared in print. The counterpart to it is the production of the gentleman to whom it is addressed, on his changing his views from the bar to the church, and is I think well worthy of being inserted in your poetical corner, as a spirited and able composition. This gentleman is now a member of the University of Oxford.

It may not be uninteresting to add, that, on receiving the latter piece, the great poet altered entirely his tone of conduct to the young man, and afterwards shewed him no respect or friendship; a circumstance, I confess, not to be easily accounted for. Aberdeen, 1st July, 1806.

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Lines written by MR HAYLEY, the poet to MR Wbenes 1789. W who hast already caught, Refin'd ambition's early flame, By freedom's favourite son be taught,

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The noblest path to civic fame.

This Prince of eloquence, thy guide,

With emulous delight review,

Till Britain hears, with joyous pride,
A young Demosthenes in you.

MR W to MR HAYLEY, 1790, on changing bis profession.

COMPLAIN not, Dear Sir, that with languor I smother

Those sparks of ambition you fann'd into flame;

If deserting one Bench, but to sit on another,

My method may change, still my motive's the same.

In the path of distinction, you surely must

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Tis a method more pleasing, a prospect so much brighter,

To give up my Chambers in hopes of a Li Thrones st

And to fling off my Barrister's bob, for

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strange,

That miracles, tho' plaistered round th' Exchange,

Wrought by the sovereign power) of doctor's sosses,

Your thunderstruck attention ne'er engrosses.

Poor valetudinarian, tho' thy legs 4 Like darning needles seem, or fiddle pegs, Supporting, as thou onward coughs and wheeses,

A loathsome, foul, Golgotha of diseases. Here is the cordial balm, will cure thy ails, And make death's grim carmagnols turn their tails;

Here is the potent dose ill ease thy moans, And with new marrow fill thy wither' bones.

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In quest of prominent substantial prey; Nor mouse, nor mole entangle in our snares, But bend our bows at buffalos and bears; And as each hole and bore we neatly "rummage, Sort Insignificance's painted plumage. To be continued.

Of sculls and coffins take a last adieu;"
And, smelling Tammy Gilead's nostrum
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Hang up his spade upon the pin of rest.

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