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    poncern the circulation of those hasty accounts of his life , which contain little more than what was collected from common journals ; in many points erroneous , in all imperfect . They have also heard announced with equal concern , other publications , which though they may be in some respects less unsatisfactory , cannot but fail in giving a juit idea of the late Lord Nelson ' s character and conduct , as

    no material communications have been made to the persons who are engaged in them , from his Lordship's family . They therefore feel it a duty they owe to his memory , to inform the public that they have selected a gentleman of high respe

    man , and to him alone , all the official and private documents of which they are in ^ possession , will be communicated for the completion of the wo i-k ; in the prosecution of which he has been promised the concurrent assistance of tho ? . e high naval and military public characters who either were intimately acquainted with the transactions of the times , or who , acted under in

    J ^ ord Nelson those engagements wherein he immortalized his own name and rendered such important service to jus country . The work will soon be in a State of forwardness , to enable the gentleman who has undertaken it to lay proposals before the public ; till then they are respectfully requested to suspend their curiosity .

    A society for the education of the children of the poor is about to be established in Swansea , on the celebrated plan of Mr , Lancaster . The battle of Trafalgar has been celebrated by several Spanish poets ; arnong these , the poems of M . Moratin and Morde Fuentes . are spoken of as the first productions of their kind .

    A new edition is preparing for the press of Harmer ' s " Observations oil divers Passages of Scripture , designed to i llustrate the sacred Writings by means of Circumstances incidentally mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels into the feast . " This valuable work , so well

    known to the Biblical student , appeared fir t in 1765 , in 1 vol . 8 vo . and was republLJiecl in 1777 in two volumes . To these a third and fourth volumes were added in 1787 , which contain supplementary observations under the same Jieads to thos * -of tbc former volumes . If

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    m the projected republication the whole of the author ' s observations could bo brought together under the several chap ? ters , the use of the wo . k would be rrmch facilitated , as a book of reference for eli * . cidatuig the Scriptures . The Rev , R . Wright , qfWisbeach , has

    ready for the press , An A p ° l ° gy for Servetus , including an Account of his Life , Persecution , Writings , and Opinions , and also a Sketch of tl * e religious History i ? f the Times ; designed to eradicate Bigotry and Uncharitableness , and to promote Christian Liberality , . In one vol . 8 vo .

    A new edition is just published of the Abridgement of Pinkerton ' s Moderq Geography . Abroad it ha 3 met witl | such approbation as % o come to three editions in America , two in France , one or more In Germany , and to be preparing for the press in Italy . Its encouragement

    in France is a proof of the liberality of the French Government , Fourxjroy , the Minister of Public Instruction , prefixed a flattering recommendation to the Paris editions , and by an order of the govern- ? ment it is now used in all the lyoecs , so condary schools , and academies of France .

    The Vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford received lately a donation of twenty guineas , intended by the donor to be given to the author of the best composition , irr English verse , on the following subject—Travels of Discovery into the in ? terior of Africa . The subjects for the Vice-chancellor ' s prizes for the present year are— -for Latin verses , Trafalgar ; and for an English ess ay * Posthumous Farne .

    Mr . Charles Derrick , of the Navy Office , has announced the speedy publication ( in x vol . 4 to . ) of Memoirs of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Navy , from the beginning of the Reign of Henry the Seventh to November , 1805 . To be dedicated , by permission , to the Right Hon . Charles . Lord 'Barham .

    Major Cartwright , with his usual zeal for the public good , is printing a second volume of England ' s 7 £ gis , or a Display of the true Military Energies of the British Empire . A new periodical publication has lately

    appeared at Madrid , entitled The JMinerva , or the General Reviser . It is published twice a -week , and contains among other interesting articles , an analyses of the be : t foreign books ; a mode of instruction which has been much wanted at Madrid . . .

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    Religions and Literary Intelligence , ig §

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/53/