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London, England, 1808-02-17 00:00:00

OF TIM NATION.
- ••• is slay sin published,. price 3s.
A MEMOIR on tI4 NATIONAL DEFENCE.
Ix • . By J. F. BIRCH, • •
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..---Cargain in the Royal Engineers.
PA/ Rkdale. Piceadillv.—Of whom may be had,
la ftlir large Volumes, folio,
Ilitanatelividi numerous Maps and Plates, price 161. 163. o eon
inaPaiser, with coloured Maps 251. 4s.
Wry/ins; or, a Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of
England, Seathad, and Ireland, and the Islands adjacent, from the
wind aatigany, By William Camden, with the latest Disco-
veries by Richard Gough.

" DR. GILEGORIn *FAMILY BIBLE.
THIS Work, which has been nearly two Years in
preparation, has been delayed by the anxiety of the Editor
initialler, to render it in all respects worthy of the Patronage
litasig preference of the Public.
now in a train of such forwardness, that the appearance of
WM Part and Number can be confidently promised, on or be-
lithe Ist of May next.
The Notes will• be illustrative and Historical, printed with the
Alkalties in the manner of the Variorum Classics ; and the Em-
Iterants will consist of one hundred Engravingiy.loy the first
Modern Artists, (Messrs. Heath, Ender, Neagle, Taylor, Cooke,
llkethingtori, &c. &c.) from the most celebrated Designs of the
Gffet Masters in the several Schools of Painting.
The plan of this Work is altogether unique and original, and in
111 execution it is intended to unite superior Usefulness with its.
rat Elegance, at a cost little exceeding that of good Family
Illikswhich are without either Notes or Embellishments.
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A NEW AND IMPORTANT WORK.
This day was published,
Prix Ninepenee, or Thirteen to the Dozen, with the full
allowance to Schools,
THE FIRST CATECHISM for CHILDREN,
manilas common tkjap necessary tube knownandadupted
I', the capacity and curiosity of Children between Four and Ten
Fors of Age.
By the Rev. DAVID BLAIR, A.M.
!Mbar o!the Class Book ;the Reading Exercises, or Introduction
to the Class Book; of the Grammar of ildlopophy, Ste. Bcc.
ivuT Parent sad Tutor will be instantly struck with the use-
hkessand importance of this new Cathechism, which th gins with
titbit the Child to count Ten and name the Days in the Week,
lilloseats be easy steps to the definition and explanation of
Akio& of (unit* and couunon objects. It bears in fact, as to
6pkatineia of life, and the first principl* of general knowledge,
Maly the same relation as the Church esteehr-rn, andeasv Co-
tillions of Dr. Watts, bear to the Principles of Rcligionand Mo-
rk?.
ittlatzd for iticsAutz Puzzirs, No. 6, Bridge.mrreet, London ;
10, 1161 with the other much approved works of the same
_
of a Booksollers in town-and country.

EDUCATION.
MARRIED CLERGYMAN, a GraduAte of
a' the University of Oxford, whose thoughts have been, leng
4htted to the important subject of Education, has appropriated a
he* andprernises of very superior deseriptioni to the purposes dr
lattandliberalEnablishment. While the sittistinn and seta* .
ahem we equal to every expectation that Luigi,: be folioed t
khrille to give such references, as will satisfy any enquiry '
Ifeltlg his motives for such an undertaking, andbis principlcold
t&toridact of it. The former are little connected with the pre-
'anarilument, and the latter *ill be discernible in the undevi-
*l Ideation, which, without the slightest relaxation of the ch.,.
daniatic energy of a Classical School, will be used to establish
tiLlauciplcs of the Church of England, in the mind of every
eatraued to his care. Sensible that in announcing his in-
ra_t• pay especial regard to the point of religous instructior,
;Lllathe chutical character of his plan, he still prefers that tern-
&advantage, to the least reservation upon so indispeda-
a faint of it—No fanatic himself, he will not even be edge
!calif instilling fanaticism into others; bnt having:long seek
!otitis too late for youth td acquire principles, when, on enter-
life, they are both called upon for the exercise of therms
plum dandin need of their support; and being equally satise
;rat neither conduct or happiness ems be expected without
!,„,:tLevill net undertake any charge that would preclude hips
sooner or later, the only certain foundation of both.
containing the terms, and every further parties-
. s eto be had, without expence, of the following Bookatillere:
sittons, tit, Paul's Church-yard ; Mr. liatchard,
uit
Mr. liagstee, 81, Strand, where references will
betiven.