An easy practical introduction to English Composition, and to the tasteful reading of Poetry, will soon issue from the press, under the title of Æsop modernised and moralised.

Sir William Gell has nearly ready for publication, the Itinerary of the Morea, in a small octavo volume, with a map.

Mr. Leigh Hunt has a volume of new Poems in the press.

The author of Letters from Paris in 1802-3 is printing, in an octavo volume, Two Tours to France, Belgium, and Spa; one in the summer of 1771, the other in 1816.

The Miscellaneous Works of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn, are printing in five octavo volumes.

T. Forster, jun. Esq. will soon publish, Catullus, with English notes, in a duodecimo volume.

J. J. Park, Esq. is preparing a Treatise on the Law of Dower.

The Rev. F. A. Cox, will soon publish a work on Female Scripture Biography; with an essay, showing what christianity has done for women: also a second edition, with considerable alterations, of his Life of Melancthon.

Mr. Gifford's new edition of Juvenal will form two octavo volumes, and is expected to appear early in March.

In a short time will be published, Placide, a translation of Madame Genlis' interesting work, les Battuecas, by Mr. Jameison.

Mr. Charles Mills has in the press, an History of Mohammedanism; or, a View of the Religious, Political, and Literary Annals of the Disci ples of the Arabian Prophet. No work of the kind has hitherto appeared.

Sir James Mackintosh's History of Great Britain, from the epoch of the English to that of the French revolution, is, we are assured, in considerable progress, and will not exceed four volumes in quarto. We are glad to observe that he acknowledges the receipt of many valuable documents; and we hope every aid will be afforded to enable him to render his work perfect in point of materials.

Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary, by Richard Bright, M. D. are printing in one volume quarto, with engravings.

An Historical Account of the Discoveries and Travels in Africa, by the late John Leyden, M. D. enlarged and continued, together with a view of the present state of that Continent, are announced by Hugh Murray, Esq.

Mr. Walter Scott, whose literary productions inverse fill eleven large volumes, (over and above his ill-omened Waterloo,) and whose original or annotated prose works exceeds fifty volumes, has announced a new History of Scotland, from the earliest records to the year 1745, in three volumes octavo.

Proposals are in circulation for publishing by subscription, in two volumes octavo, Familiar Lectures on Moral Philosophy, dedicated to the gentlemen who have been his pupils, by John Prior Estlin, LL.D. comprising-Moral Philosophy; Personal Morality; Social Morality; the British Constitution; Divine Morality; Public Worship; Religious Es

tablishments.

Mrs. Anne Plumptre is engaged in writing an account of her Residence in Ireland in 1814 and 15: it will consist of a quarto volume, embellished with a portrait of the authoress, from a picture by Northcote, and with several engravings of remarkable scenery in Ireland, from origiual drawings.

A Series of Letters is preparing for publication, written by Philip Dormer, earl of Chesterfield, to Mr. Arthur Stanhope, relative to the education of Philip, the late earl.

The System of Mechanical Philosophy, by the late Dr. John Robison, LL.D. with notes and illustrations, comprising the most recent discoveries in the Physical Sciences, by David Brewster, LL.D. F. R. S. E. will soon appear, in four volumes octavo, with numerous plates.

A volume is preparing by a Mr. Churchill, of Corrections, Additions, and Continuations to Dr. Rees' great Cyclopædia. This may be attempted without impeaching the fidelity, skill, or care of the learned editor; because time itself will render such corrections needful; and perhaps no man is so well qualified as himself to correct his own vast work in a supplementary volume, if his health fortunately permitted.

There are at Petersburgh fourteen printing houses, of which three belong to the Senate, the Synod, and the War-office. The others belong to the academies, or to individuals; one prints in the Tartar language; another prints music. There are thirteen foreign booksellers; and about thirty Russians. There are also reading rooms.

Denmark.-The valuable parchment MSS. which once formed part of the library of Baron Lehn-namely Sallust, Livy, and Cicero's Orationshave been described by Professor Birger Thorlacius, in his tract entitled Tres Codices pergamini auctorum Latinorum, ex Bibliotheca Kaas Lehniana in Lallandia. According to this author, the Sallust contains Cataline's conspiracy, and the Jugurthan war; and the copy dates about the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century. It is in fine preservation, and is comprised in sixty-one quarto leaves. The second MS., is in one hundred and seventy-two leaves, small quarto, contains the Rhetorica ad Herennium of the date of the thirteenth century, and is of French penmanship.-The Rhetorica forms the text, and is accompanied by a vocabulary of rhetorical synonyms. The third is a finely executed MS. copy of Valerius Maximus, and appears to have been written in Germany, in the fourteenth century.

A clergyman of Iceland, named Johnson, has recently translated the Paradise Lost, of Milton, into Icelandic verse.

UNITED STATES.-Vol. 6 of Hall's LAW JOURNAL has just been published. Price 5 dollars.

H. Hall has published an account of the Mineral Waters of Ballston and Saratoga, with engravings, by Dr. Meade. Price 2 dollars.

Vol. xxxii. part 2, of the American edition of Rees' Cyclopædia has appeared.

A Novel, by a young lady of Virginia, is advertised in New-york, to be printed by subscription.

Judge Cooper proposes to resume the publication of his EMPORIUM, a valuable repository of useful information, which deserves public patronage in no ordinary degree. Subscriptions will be received at The Port Folio office.

Francis Nichols has in the press, a second edition of Tytler's History, with notes.

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, after quietly meeting, at leisure hours, for many years, have commenced the publication of a Journal, which, without any ostentation or parade, promises to add no inconsiderable augmentation to that branch of knowledge, in which it is, to be classed. The first number contains a description of six new species of the genus Firola, observed by MM. Le Sueur and Peron in the Mediterranean sea. By C. A. Le Sueur.-An account of a North American quadruped, supposed to belong to the genus Ovis, by George Ord.-A description of seven species of American fresh-water and land shells, not noticed in the systems, by Thomas Say.

MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Internal Navigation.-The president and managers of the Schuylkill Navigation Company have laid before the public a powerful appeal, on the subject of the interests which have been committed to their charge. The name of Cadwallader Evans, the president of the company, is a sufficient pledge for the accuracy of the statements which are thus submitted, and we shall adopt them implicitly. We take the earliest opportunity to extend a knowledge of this new source of wealth, as widely as our means admit; because, with one of the ablest writers of the present day, we rank it among our first duties to give publicity to every scheme of practical utility that affects the interests of any considerable class of the community,however insignificant it may appear in the eyes of mere literati or politicians. We are convinced that the project to which the public attention is now invited, will contribute far more to the comforts and convenience, not only of the city, but of the commonwealth, than all the banks within its territory. Banks are very profitable places for bank-directors, and the presidency offers a snug retreat for unsuccessful merchants: but these institutions are built upon no stable basis;-they derive their support from a class of men, who shudder at every breeze, and see a shipwreck in every storm;-the facilities that they afford, are temptations to the unwary and the desperate; they tend to the deterioration of moral principle, and are therefore pernicious among a well-ordered people. By promoting such companies we promote the wealth of the men who establish and regulate them: by contributing to canals and the navigation of our rivers, we augment the strength and riches of the commonwealth; and in the end, we shall draw a better interest from our investments than ever entered into the dreams of a bank-director, except when he dreams for himself. Our accommodations will depend upon our own industry, and not upon the ca

price or worse motives of others, and we shall subserve the best feelings of patriotism, in bequeathing a rich legacy to those who shall succeed us.

With these observations we shall proceed to develop, as briefly as possible, from this address, the advantages which are held out by the scheme now before us.

The address states that this city and its environs contain more than sixteen thousand dwelling-houses, and not less than one hundred thousand inhabitants. It is the most populous city in the United States, and is so favourably situated for supplying a great interior, and especially the western country, and from the ability of its merchants to give extensive credits, that it must still increase. Although New York, by its easy access to the ocean at all seasons, and the extensive interior country that depends on it, seems destined to become the largest commercial city on our Atlantic coasts, yet Philadelphia possesses some eminent advantages, in its distance from the alarms of war; in the fertile country that immediately surrounds it; in the vast meadows for the sustenance of horses and cattle, which border the shore of its tide-waters; in the fine clay for making bricks, which abounds in the very ground-plot of the city, and on its borders; in the abundance of building-stone very near it: in the quarries of the finest marble,* and the best lime-stone, which are inexhaustible within ten or fifteen miles of it; in the quantity of boards, scantling, and other lumber, that every year is brought to it; in the quantity of excellent slate for roofing houses, stores, and other buildings: in short, in the plentiful supply of every material for building, and every article necessary for the comfortable support of human life. Wood, for fuel, in dwelling-houses and in manufactories, however, seems to be growing gradually dearer, and in time the supply must become inadequate to the demand. Hence a substitute, in part at least, for the probable deficiency of this article, seems imperiously to be demanded, and happily this substitute is provided, and within the reach of our reasonable exertions, on the head-waters of the Schuylkill, where coal exists in the atmost abundance, and of the finest quality.

This city, liberties, and neighbourhood, including the demands of brewers, brick-kilns, and other manufactories within their limits, there can be little doubt, have consumed annually, for several years past, from one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand cords of fire-wood, which has cost about one million and a quarter of dollars per annum. If half of this heavy expenditure, or one-fourth of it, could be annually saved to the

• Specimens of the Pennsylvania murble may be seen in this city, at the shop of Thomas Traquair, in Tenth-street, near Arch. Large quantities of it are exported to England.

citizens, it would be a great thing; the saving would amount to as much, or more than all the public taxes they now pay. But how is this to be realized? We answer, by subscribing liberally to the improvement of the navigation of the Schuylkill. By this means the navigation may be speedily accomplished, and the immense beds of coal, with which the county of Schuylkill abounds, will be seen in a very few years floating to this city. Ten bushels of it give as much heat, and are equal in the consump tion, to one cord of oak wood. If the proposed navigation was completed, this coal may be afforded to be sold in this city at the rate of thirty cents per bushel, weighing above eighty pounds, which will be equivalent to reducing the price of oak-wook to three dollars per cord. All the coun try too near the Schuylkill, which is bare of timber, and all the towns on that river, and on all the tide-waters of the Delaware, will reap the bene fit of this reduction in the price of fuel. This coal has little bitumen; it gives no disagreeable smell; it produces no more dust than a wood-fire, to soil furniture, it yields no perceivable smoke: of course houses, where it is used, cannot take fire from foul chimneys. All this is verified in the bo rough of Reading, where it is now commonly used in families, to such an extent that it has reduced the price of fire-wood at least two dollars per cord. Its fitness for manufactories has been demonstrated, in many places where it is now in use. It has also been found fit for burning bricks and lime, and is now used by several of the malsters and brewers in this city.,

The transportation of wheat, flour, flaxseed, iron, marble, plaister of Paris, and a multitude of other articles of produce and manufactures, up and down the river, will no doubt be greatly increased, especially when this navigation is connected with the river Susquehanna, by canals or turnpike-roads, where they approach the nearest together. This will probably introduce into the Schuylkill a large proportion of the produce of all the upper country on the wide-spreading branches of that river, comprehending a territory more extensive than either of the states of New Jersey, Vermont, or Maryland.

The stockholders who have subscribed, or may subscribe to this improvement, will also have the strongest reason to expect good dividends on their stock, from the tolls arising from the immense quantities of produce that will pass and repass on this river: without mentioning any thing else, the single article of coal will pay so much toll as to afford good dividends. Suppose, as above stated, the city and neighbourhood of Philadelphia now use at least one hundred and sixty thousand cords of wood annually, and that the place of only one half of this quantity should be supplied by coal; and suppose ten bushels of this coal equal to one cord of oak wood, then to supply this deficiency of wood would require eight hundred thousand bushels of coal annually; and allowing twenty-seven