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darticular articles will be found by the reader without difficulty, for a table of contents is prefixed to each volume, as well as ■ popious index at the end.

*T. 37. A ftatistical Synopfs of the Phyfical and Political Strength of the Chief Powers of Barose, donon to the Peace of Vienna in 1809, with a Table of the Routes and Diftances from London to all the Capitals in the World. By William Ticken, Pro feffer of Mathematics, Geography, and Hiftory, and Author of the Hiftorical Chart of the Reign of George the Third, 4to. Se ven leaves. 2s. 6d. Sherwood and Co. 1810

As thefe few leaves confift chiefly of tables, one of which is engraved, we must not complain of their price. There is perhaps as much information in them as can well be compreffed into fo fmall a compafs, and the labour of the compiler ought certainly to Be paid for, as well as his paper and prefs-work. Nor can we deny the praife of ingenuity to the manner in which thefe tables are arranged and compiled. A very curious circumftance immediately ftrikes the eye in the first table, where the territorial pof feffions of Europe are thrown upon a circular fcale: namely, that thofe of Ruffia occupy more than the quadrant, or quarter of the whole circle; in addition to which we must reckon more than three millions of fquare miles for the territory of that empire in Afia. A vaft total!

It neceffarily requires fome attention to comprehend all the contrivances of the author in the firft plate; but when rightly un derstood they will be found to convey a vaft variety of statistical information. For its correctnefs the evident diligence of the au thor must be a good pledge. The whole is tranflated from a German work, and forms an excellent book for reference on fuch sub. jects,

ART. 38. The World displayed: or the characteristic Features of
Nature and Art, exhibited on a new Plan, intended for Youth in
generals as an Outline of the most ftriking Parts of useful Informa-
rion, and as a Remembrancer to thofe of riper Years. By Job
Grieg, Teacher of Mathematics, Geography, &c. Author of the
Cradock and
Heaven difplayed, &c. &c. 12mo. Price 7s.
Joy. 1810.

We have hardly ever met with a volume containing fo much information in fo fmall a compafs. A more proper present for a young perfon cannot be found, for every thing which may be fup. pofed to excite curiofity from a furvey of the world; its geography, the manners of different nations, remarkable incidents, curiofities of nature and productions of art is here exhibited in miniature, but with detinetnefs and precifion. There can be no hesitation in re commending it to those who are engaged in the inftruction of youth;

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and indeed every reader may dip into it with fatisfaction and ad. vantage: maps would have made it more perfect, bat must ne effarily have increafed the expence. The author refers to Walker's octavo and Oftell's quarto Atlas, which laft alfo con tains Maps of the Grecian and Roman Empires. We cannot help withing fuccefs to this comprehensive compilation.

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DIVINITY.

Remarks upon a Report of the Judgment delivered by the Right Hon. Sir John Nicholl, Knt. LL.D. official Principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, upon the Admiflion of Articles exhibited in a Caufe of Office promoted againfy the Rev. W. W. Wickes, for refufing to Bury, according to the Rites of the Church of England, a Child baptized by a Diffenting Minifter. Price 2s.

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TOPOGRAPHY. HISTORY.

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The Hiftory of Lincoln, ancient and modern. Embellished with numerous Wood Cuts of the principal Buildings, &c. 7s. 6d. Sketches taken in Portugal and Spain during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army in 1808 and 1809. By the Rev. Wm. Bradford, Chaplain of Brigade. 4to. 71. 7s. Super Royal 111.

BIOGRAPHY.

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A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers: containing Biographical Sketches of the moft celebrated Artists, from the earliest Ages to the prefent Time. To which is added, an Appendix, comprifing the Substance of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting. 12mo. 10s. 6d.

An Account of the Life and Character of Alexander Adain, LL.D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh; Author of Roman Antiquities, &c. 5s. 6d.

LAW.

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A Report of the Trial of an Indictment, the King against Benjamin Tanner and Captain Nicholas Tomlinfon, of the Royal Navy, for Forgery; whereby the Navy Office was defrauded of a Sum of Money. By T. Jenkin, of Gray's Jan. 15.

The Trial at large of an Action brought by Edward Loveden Loveden, Efq. againft Thomas Raymond Barker, Efq for Criminal Convertation with Mrs. Loveden, Monday, July 3, 1809. Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. 68,

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Sir Francis Burdett's Speech at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, July

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Statement delivered by Lord Cochrane in the Houfe of Commons on the 13th of June, 1810, in the Defence of the Rights of the Navy in Matters of Prizes. 2s.

Arcana Aulica; or Walfingham's Manual of Prudential Maxims for the Stateiman and the Courtier. 4s.

A Supplement to the Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Review; containing Remarks on the Article, entitled Affairs of India, in Part 31 of that Work. By Major Scott Waring. 2s.

The Spirit of the Moment candidly confidered; or, an Appeal from the Pailions to the Judgment of Englishmen. By a Man of Kent. 15.

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An Answer to the Right Hon. P. Duigenan's Two great Arguments against the fall Enfranchisement of the Irish Roman Catholics. By a Member of the Eftablishment. 3s. 6d.

POETRY.

Poems on Various Subjects. By Maria Sophia. 45.

The Poetical Works of Anna Seward; with a Biographical Preface; and Extracts from her Literary Correfpondence. By Walter Scott, Efq. 3 vols. 11. 11s. 6d.

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Life's Viciffitudes, or Winter's Tears. By Mrs. Savory. 10s. 6d.

The Age, or Confolations of Philo ophy. Part I.

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Fables in Verfe. By the Rev. Henry Rowe, LL.B. Rector of Ringfhall,

Suffolk,

Suffolk, and a Defcendant of Rowe, the Poet. 8vo. With 30 Engravings
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DRAMA.

· Twenty Years Agoja. Melodramatic Entertainment, performing at the Lyceum. By J. Pocock, Efq. 28.

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High Life in the City; a Comedy in Five Acts, performing at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. By E. J. Byre, formerly of Pembroke College, Cambridge. 2s. 6d.

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A Treatise upon the Art of Flying, by Mechanical Means alone. With Section and Plan of a Flying Car with Wings to it. By Thomas Walker, Portrait Painter, Hull. 8vo. 45.

Remarks upon Article VII, in No. 31, of the Edinburgh Review. By the Author of a " Reply to the Calumnies of that Review againft Oxford." 2s. 6d.

Hunt and Hope, being the Appeal to the Public of Mr. Duboß against the Calumnies of the Editor of the Examiner. 1s.

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A Letter to a Member of the Society for the Encouragement of the Art of Engraving; in Objection to the Scheme of Patronage now under Confidera tion, and written with a Viow to its Improvement. By John Landfear, Ear graver to the King, and F.S.A.

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CORRES,

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CORRESPONDENCE.

Seeing my name mentioned in your review of Mr. Faber's Differtation, and that the application which I made of the little horn predicted in the eighth chapter of Daniel, to Mahomet, has been objected to by Mr. Zouch, whofe book I have never had the pleasure of feeing, and is fo by yourself; I trust you will afford. me room in your next publication for a few lines in answer to these objections. Mr. Z. you ftate, conceives, that this interpretation does not agree with the prophecy as to place, becaufe Mohammedifm fprang from Arabia. This I conceive is fully obviated by the confideration, that while confined to his own coun try, the prowefs of Mahomet was exercifed in little better than family difputes between the rival tribes, but that he became a Conqueror cognizable on the public theatre of the earth, only when he burst forth on that part of the Roman conquefts, which had formed a portion of the Macedonian empire.

The objection in point of time, I think, would, scarcely have been made, had it been confidered either that, in the prediction itfelf, the duration of the period fpoken of in the vifion, is de slared to extend to 2300 prophetic days, or had the objector re tained in mind what is fo obfervable in the immediately preceding chapter, verse 12, that the powers which it has foretold fhall be fubdued by others, are, yet confidered as not extinct even at the coming of the Son of Man. For if this be the cafe, as reference to the prophet's words will prove it is, it cannot be ob jectionable to apply to the beginning of the feventh century, what it is faid fhould happen in the latter end of their kingdom, and even in the last end of the indignation. But there is yet another criterion of the time given us in the words “When the tranfgreffions are.come.to the full." Since this cannot well be faid to have taken place until the Jews had, according to the dequnciation of our ever bleffed Lord, filled up the measure of their fathers; nor until the nations had the opportunity of apoftatizing as they afterwards did, from the truth preached to them. Now neither of these things had occurred in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes to him, therefore, the prediction is not applicable on this account, any more than in the progrefs of this power as #ated in the prophecy, and as I have already noticed in my view of the prophecies relating to the times of the Gentiles, pp. 93-95, both in refpect to him and the Romans. But Ma. homet it fully fuits, "whofe birth," fays Mr. Gibbon, "was fortunately placed in the most degenerate and diforderly period of the Perfians, the Romans, and the barbarians of Europe."" Nor is there any other particular of the prophecy not equally applicable to him; as, I am confident you will acknowledge, I have in that traft demonftrated, if you will take the trouble of re-perufing the portion of it which lies between pp. 90 and 135. Hoping I have fatisfactorily proved, that the prediction of the

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