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Our Correfpondent remembers the fpurs there allo. He is flated to have died in 1587, in his 80th year, which will fettle the other dates. Our Friend fends the Latin infcription, which is wretched verfe, but doubtlefs correct as to facts. He has given different dates. of Sadler's preferments in different parts of his letter, but we have copied thofe which he profeffes to have taken from the tomb, viz. 26 and 30, whereas he had before faid 28 and 32. He obferves alfo, very properly, that Great Hadham is in Herts, not Effex. We fincerely thank him for his communication. We are obliged to our Conftant Reader for his intelligence refpecting Dr. Nott of Bristol, the ingenious tranflator of Catullus, Petrarch, &c. though we had met with the fame intelligence in the Quarterly Review. His account, bowever, confirms and extends that information. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. The eighth volume of Dr. Shaw's General Zoology will be publifhed in the course of about a month. The late Dr. Mafkelyne, Aftronomer Royal, has left all his manuscripts to Profeffor Vince of Cambridge, with requeft that he would prepare and publish whatsoever he may judge worthy of publication. Two more Volumes of Rivingtons Annual Regifter are expected in the courfe of this month. An octavo Volume of Original Letters of the Rev. James Hervey, Author of Meditations, &c. is in the press, and will appear in a few weeks. The fecond Volume of Dr. Hales's Analysis of Chronology, in two Parts, will be ready for delivery in the course of the month of June. It is the intention of Dr. Clarke, to prefent a copy of the. Alterations and Additions in the fecond edition of his Travels, to the real Purchafers of the firft. ERRATUM. In page 246, Art. VII. for Henry Home, B. C. L., &c. read Henry Home Drummond, B. C. L., &c. THE BRITISH CRITIC, For JUNE, 1811. "Duris emuntur literæ laboribus, Hard is the toil a lettered fame to raise, ART. I. Philofophical Effays. By Dugald Stewart, Efq. F. R. S. Edin. Emeritus Profeffor of Moral Philofophy in the University of Edinburgh; Honorary Member of the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburgh; and Member of the American Philofophical Society held at Philadelphia. 4to. 21. 2s. Cadell and Davies. 1810. pp. 666. THIS is the work of a man whose fame is fo completely established in the republic of letters, as to be impregnable to the affaults of criticifm. Of this he seems to be himfelf duly fenfible; for he poffeffes all that confcioufness of his own powers, which Johnson has fomewhere represented as infeparable from fuperior talents. He has not therefore thought it neceffary to look out for a patron to this work, or to infcribe it, as he infcribed his former, to any kindred mind among his own countrymen; but has dedicated it, in a strain of affectionate respect, to M. Prevoft, Profeffor of PhiloN n BRIT. CRIT. VOL. XXXVII. JUNE, 1811. sophy fophy in the Academy of Geneva. This was certainly proper; as we are informed that M. Prevoft has lately tranflated the author's book on the human mind, into the French language, and has always taken an intereft in the fuccefs of that work, fince the period of its firft appearance. The book or work alluded to, is that, we fuppofe, which was published about nineteen years ago, under the title of Elements of the Philofophy of the Human Mind, and infcribed to Dr. Reidthe founder, if not the brightest ornament, of the Scotch metaphyfical fchool. In the advertisement prefixed to that early work, Mr. Stewart announced his intention to continue the fpeculations which he had there commenced; and if we are not deceived by the fallacioufnefs of our memory, he informed the public, in his life of Dr. Reid, that he had not then loft fight of his defign. Aware, however, that the expectations fo univerfally excited by thefe repeated intimations, may by this time have rifen to impatience; and the ftate of his health having interrupted, he fays, for many months paft, the continuation of his work on the Human Mind, he was induced to attempt, in the mean time, the eafier task of preparing for the prefs a volume of Eflays, that the public, doubtlefs, might not be wholly difappointed. He affures us, however, that he means "Not to delay any longer his best exertions for the accomplishment of an undertaking, which he has hitherto profecuted only at accidental and often diftant intervals; but which he has always thought (whether juftly or not others must determine) might, if carried into complete effect, be of fome utility to the public." The prefent volume then must be confidered merely as an intermediate work, intended to employ the public attention only until the great work can be completed; but if this was all at which the author aimed, we may venture to predict, that his fuccefs will furpafs his expectations; for the volume before us contains much difcuffion, as deferving of permanent attention as any thing which he has yet written, or is likely to write. It is divided into two parts, but preceded by a preliminary differtation in two chapters, the object of which, we are told, is to correct fome prevailing miftakes with refpect to the philofophy of the human mind. Among thefe miftakes he places fuch phyfiological theories as profefs to explain how our dif ferent mental operations are produced, by means of vibrations |