USEFUL PROJECTS. Plan for the Relief of the West-India Planters. By Alexander Thom- son, Esq. of Old Brompton, Major in the Royal York Mary-le-bone Hints for Domestic Improvement • On drying Articles of Manufacture, and heating Buildings, by Steam. By R. Buchannan, Esq. Civil Engineer, Glasgow.. On the Utility and Advantage of Gas Lights. By William Murdock. 132 Specification of the Patent granted to William Congreve, of Garden- court, in the County of Middlesex, Esq. for a new Principle of Mea- suring Time, and constructing Clocks and Chronometers. Dated Au- ANTIQUITIES. Ancient and Modern Smithfield compared A curious Estimate of House-keeping Conjectures concerning the Introduction of the Names of James and Song of Fitz-Eustace. From the same••• 212 Banquet at Holyrood-House, where James IV. of Scotland held his court. From the same Lochinvar. Lady Heron's Song To the Memory of those who fell in the Defence of Saragossa. mous 213 216 Anony 217 218 The Days that are gone. By Mr. Tomlins, of Shrewsbury.... Sir Hew. From the Morning Herald. Epitaph on a Dog. By Mr. Parry ... 219 220 ib. 221 Lines addressed to Miss Egerton. By the Rev. Mr. Thyer.... To the Moon. From the Morning Herald. Verses on a Fountain in Hampshire, which affords a constant Supply of water to a large Fish-Pond. From the Morning Chronicle Lines translated from the Irish. From the same Poetical Description of the River Lagun. Written during a Flood. From the Morning Herald.. .... The Savoyard's Return. From the Morning Herald.. .... The Immortal Memory and the Glorious Cause same ib. 225 226 227 228 230 231 232 From the Sad Situation of the same young Woman at the end of two Years. the same. ACCOUNT OF BOOKS, 233 From ib. 235 A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second; with 243 Asiatic Researches; or Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia. Volume the Eighth. Printed verbatim from the Calcutta Edition. Pp.. 538, 4to. 251 An An Etymological Dictionary of the Scritish Language: illustrating the Words in their different Significations by Examples from antient and modern Writers; shewing their Affinity to those of other Lan- guages, and especially the Northern; explaining many Terms, which, though now obsolete in England, were formerly common to both Coun- tries; and elucidating National Rites, Customs, and Institutions, in their Analogy to those of other Nations: to which is prefixed a Dis- sertation on the Origin of the Scottish Langunge. By John Ja- mieson, D. D. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Letters from a late eminent Prelate to one of his Friends. Pp. 510, An Historical Survey of the Foreign Affairs of Great Britain, with a View By Gould Francis Leckie, Esq. Pp. 272. 8vo. Close print 267 The Beauties of Scotland: containing a clear and full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Popula- tion, Cities, Towns, Villlages, &c. of each County. By Robert For- syth, Esq. Advocate. Five large Sro Volumes, embellished with |