An Authentic Narrative of the Invasion of France in 1814, including the History of the Restoration. By M. de BEAUCHAMP, Author of the History of the War in La Vendée.

An Octavo Edition of Mr. SCOTT's 'Lord of the Isles."

The Second Edition of Mr. SOUTHEY'S "Roderick, the last of the Goths;" and a new Edition of Mr. SOUTHEY'S Poems, including the Metrical Tales, and some Pieces never before published.

The Translation of LUCIEN BUONA PARTE'S "Charlemagne," by the Rev. SAMUEL BUTLER, D. D. and the Rev. FRANCIS HODGSON, M. A.

A Fourth Edition of the Poem on "Conversation," considerably enlarged; with Poetical Portraits of the Principal Members of the late Dr. Samuel Johnson's Club. By WILLIAM COOKE, esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law.

The White Doe of Rylstone, or the Fate of the Nortons: a Poem, by Mr. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer. By the Author of " Waverley."

A new Edition of the Baronetage of England, carefully revised, enlarged, and corrected throughout, including 106 Baronets not in the former Edition, List of Extinct, and of those Baronets who have been advanced to the dignity of the Peerage, of such persons who have received the honour of Knighthood, and of British subjects holding Foreign Orders. By JOHN DEBRETT.

Memoirs of Lady HAMILTON; drawn from original sources of information, and comprising Anecdotes of various distinguished Personages.

Extracts from the Diary, Meditations, and Letters of Mr. JOSEPH WILLIAMS of Kidderminster, with additions from the Author's short hand and other inanuscripts. By Mr. HANBURY.

A singular work on Occult Philosophy, including the Lives of all the antient Alchemistical Philosophers, a Critical Catalogue of their Writings, and a selection of the most celebrated Treatises on the Theory &c. of the Hermetic Art.

Works preparing for Publication:

Mr. Archdeacon CoXE is at present engaged in writing the Memoirs of John Duke of MARLBOROUGH, principally drawn from the family Papers preserved in the Archives at Blenheim; and he therefore solicits the communication of any papers or documents, relative to the Life and Actions of that great General and illustrious Statesman, which may be preserved in any other Collection.

Mr. HATCHER, of Salisbury, is collecting materials for a History of that City, to correspond with Mr. DoDs WORTH'S "Account of the Cathedral."

A History and Description of Canterbury Cathedral; illustrated by 20 highly finished Engravings, frem Ďrawings by T. HASTINGS, Member of the Royal Liverpool Academy. The whole to be executed, in an uniform style, by W. WOOLNOTH.

An improved Edition of a Treatise on the Cultivation of Mangel Wurzel as Winter food for Cattle. By Mr. PINDER SIMPSON."

A Series of Chemical Essays, by Mr. PARKES, Author of the Chemical Catechism,' in four Pocket Volumes. The Essays are written in a familiar style, to suit those Readers who are not yet proficient in Chemical Science.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

We heartily thank D. and our other SALOPIAN Friends, for their kindness. We take in good part the Reproof of Mr. W. LUMLEY; and will profit by it.

We submit to the candour of RUSTICUS, the impossibility, in a Miscellaneous Publication, that every Article should be palatable to every Reader. He will not often find his amusement interrupted by Mathematicks.

We may venture to whisper to GEOLOGICUS, that we were imposed on by the bituminous article on which he very ably and seriously comments.

Whilst the fate of the PROPERTY TAX was uncertain, a PATRIOT's Letter would have made a good Pamphlet. But the Burial is gone by.

HONESTUS on the Bank Dividends would obtain a direct answer at any General Court of Proprietors.

Two Volumes of Sermons by the late Dr. SCOTT were announced for publication by Mr. Clapham three years ago, during which period the Doctor, (as our Obituary remarks) has been employed in preparing them for the Press; but a doubt at the same time being expressed as to their publication, many Clergymen who heard his Discourses before the Uni versity, wish to know whether they may expect to read them.

A Correspondent who has been forming a List of Anniversary Preachers for the Magdalen Charity, from its first institution to the present time, has not been able to discover who were the Preachers for the years 1770, 1771, 1772, 1779, 1780, 1781, and 1783; and solicits information on the subject.

The View of BENNETT'S HILL; R. B. WHELER; The PANTHEON; H. L-NE OTIOSUS; &c. in our next.

One of the Committee of "The Society for preventing Accidents in Coal Mines," requests a short account of the "Directors of Mines in France," and references to any foreign books that may add to the Society's stock of information.

sonment by the American Congress, and was chiefly instrumental in causing his closer confinement, and preventing his exchange, on account of the great inAluence Dr. Franklin knew his son had in his Province; and in the refusal of a request he made to Congress in 1777, for leave to go a few miles to see a sick wife, who was much affected by his father's severity to him in prison, and who soon afterwards died. Governor Franklin was not exchanged till Sir W. Clinton came there in 1778. As rumours had reached the ears of the Commissioners that the conduct of Father and Son was collusive, and more politic than sincere; the Commissioners thought it their duty to the Publick, and also to the Claimant, to examine more minutely into this particular; which they did with the utmost impartiality; and were amply convinced by many witnesses (among whom was Sir H. Clinton), of Governor Franklin's cruel treatment; and by his own letters to and from his father (which he voluntarily produced), of his steady and uniform principles of loyalty, and of his eminent services to the British Government. Governor Franklin stated several shares he had in the back lands and grants, for which he made a schedule; and that, having before the War entered into some bonds to his father, he had executed a conveyance to him of all his real property in New Jersey and New York. He made a claim for personal estate to the amount of 18001. which he was allowed but the Commissioners were so much impressed with the opinion of his great sufferings, that they made a Special Report in his Case (which they did also in some few others); and, before the Inquiry was finished, recommended him an allowance of 3001. per annum, in addition to 5001. per annum before allotted him by Government, his salary as Governor of New Jersey being 5007. and fees 4601. per annum.

"Having received from Governor Franklin, in 1798, several original let

ters to and from his father, and which his son produced to the Commissioners on his examination; I give the inclosed, as being descriptive of the principles of both. J. E. W.

"Dear Son, Passy, Aug. 16, 1784. I received your letter of the 22d inst. and am glad to find that you desire to revive the affectionate intercourse that formerly existed between us. It will be very agreeable to me: indeed nothing has ever hurt me so much, and affected me with such keen sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against me in a cause, wherein my good fame, fortune, and life, were all at stake. You conceived, you say, that your duty to your King and regard for your Country required this. I ought not to blame you for differing in sentiment with me in public affairs. We are men, all subject to errors. Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible. Your situation was such, that few would have censured your remaining neuter, though there are natural duties which precede political ones, and cannot be extinguished by them. This is a disagreeable subject: I drop it. And we will endeavour, as you propose, mutually to forget what has happened relating to it, as well as we can. I send your son over to pay his duty to you. You will find him much improved. He is greatly esteemed and beloved in this Country, and will make his way any where. It is my desire that he should study the Law, as a necessary part of knowledge for a public man, and profitable if he should have occasion to prac tise it. I would have you, therefore, put into his hands those Law-books you have, viz. Blackstone, Coke, Bacon, Viner, &c. &c. He will inform you, that he received the letter sent him by Mr. Galloway, and the paper it enclosed, safe. On my leaving America, I

depo

deposited with that friend for you a chest of papers, among which was a manuscript of nine or ten volumes, relating to manufactures, commerce, finance, &c. which cost me in England about seventy guineas; and eight quire books, containing the rough draughts of all my letters while I lived in London. These are missing; I hope you have got them: if not, they are lost. Mr. Vaughan has published, in London, a volume of what he calls my Political Works: he proposes a second edition; but, as the first was very incomplete, and you had many things that were omitted (for I used to send you sometimes the rough drafts, and sometimes the printed pieces, I wrote in London), I have directed him to apply to you for what may be in your power to furnish him with, or to delay his publication till I can be at home again if that may ever happen. I did intend returning this year; but the Congress, instead of giving me leave to do so, have sent me another Commission, which will keep me here at least a year longer; and perhaps I may then be too old and feeble to bear the voyage. I am here among a people that love and respect me, a most amiable Nation to live with; and perhaps I may conclude to die among them; for my friends in America are dying off one after another; and I have been so long abroad, that 1 should now be almost a stranger in my own country. I shall be glad to see you when convenient, but would not have you come here at present. You may confide to your son the family affairs you wished to confer upon with me, for he is discreet : and I trust that you will prudently avoid introducing him to company that it may be improper for him to be seen with. I shall hear from you by him; and letters to me afterwards will come safe under cover directed to Mr. Ferdinand Grand, banker, at Paris.-Wishing you health, and more happiness than it seems you have lately experienced, I remain your affectionate father,

B. FRANKLIN."

In concluding his very interesting Historical View, Mr. Wilmot says,

"Whatever may be said of this unfortunate War, either to account for, to justify, or to apologize for the conduct of either Country; all the World has been unanimous in applauding the just tice and the humanity of Great Britain, in rewarding the Services, and in compensating, with a liberal hand, the Losses of those who suffered so much for their firm and faithful adherence to the British Government. However, therefore, we may deplore the causes, the progress,

and the issue of the contest, its retro-, spect will afford some consolation to every Lover of his Country, to reflect, that, among the many other gracious acts of the present Reign, the remuneration of these loyal and meritorious Sufferers will be commemorated as a distinguished testimony of public beneficence and public faith. To record and to perpetuate this eminent instance of National honour, and to give a faithful representation of the facts and persons connected with the whole transaction, has been the object of the Writer; who cannot conclude this detail, especially at the present moment of renewed hostilities between the two Countries, with out a most ardent prayer, that 'In Amicitiam coëant, et fœdera jungant Perpetua!' Virg. Æn. vii. 546."

This hearty wish, we rejoice to add, is already accomplished.

Cæsar wrote his own" Commentaries ;" and it is fortunate that the truly respectable Commissioner has favoured the publick with this plain, unvarnished history of so important a period of his own philanthropic Life, May we venture to suggest a hope, that he has the materials prepared for a history of his subsequent acts of kindness to the Loyalists of France?

An interesting Appendix of Original Documents renders the present publication extremely valuable.

13. Athena Oxonienses. An exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford. To which are added The Fasti, or Annals of the said University. By Anthony à Wood, M. A. of Merton College. A new Edition, with Additions, and a Continuation by Philip Bliss, Fellow of St. John's College. Vol. I. 4to. pp. 788.

WE have accidentally much too long delayed the notice of this very elegant republication; which does after all, we cannot better describe Mr. Bliss great credit, and which, than in the words of the Preface, which is every thing that it should be-concise, clear, and manly.

"The merit and value of Anthony à Wood's biographical labours are so well known, and so justly appreciated, that no introduction to these volumes would appear necessary, were it not right to declare the authorities on which the additional information rests, and to point out those peculiarities which distinguish the present from the two preceding edi

tions.