BY SUBSCRIPTION,

A NEW ATLAS OF SCOTLAND.

1. THE object of this publication is to form a NEW ATLAS OF THE COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND, each County to compose a separate MAP, or if of importance, from extent or population, two will be allotted, each of which will be contained in a separate Map, except as in a few cases, where, from their greater proportion to the common scale, two Maps require to be assigned.

2. The Size will be that of Imperial Folio, that is, each County will be delineated on a space extending to 21 by 26 inches; a scale which is considered as sufficient to include or exhibit all places, of whatever importance.

3. The engravings will be executed by the first Artists in the kingdom, in the style of the Maps in the NEW GENERAL Atlas.

4. The Drawings will be made from the best authenticated sources of information, and will be transmitted for corrections and additions to persons residing in the different Shires, of tried diligence and accuracy, and on whom the most implicit confidence can be placed; by these means the utmost attainable accuracy, or the nearest approximation to the truth, will be secured; and the Publishers anticipate their being able to produce the completest COUNTY ATLAS hitherto published.

5. With the last Number will be given, AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESSIVE GEOGRAPHY OF SCOTLAND, illustrating the Topographical Divisions of the Country.

6. A Consulting Index will also be given, which will enable the Reader to find out every place, of whatever importance. The nature and utility of this new method of indexing Maps will be easily understood from a specimen in the hands of most Booksellers. BY THIS PLAN,

ALL THE GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES IN THE COUNTRY WILL BE THROWN INTO AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT, AND BOUND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK, SO THAT EVERY PLACE WILL BE FOUND OUT WITH THE UTMOST FACILITY.

7. The Work will contain about 42 Maps, which, with the letterpress, will make a respectable volume. The price will be as moderate as possible; and it is intended to deliver it to Subscribers, done up in Numbers to be published at short intervals: the whole completed as speedily as possible. As soon as a sufficient number of Subscribers is obtained, the Engraving will be begun; and in the mean time the Publishers will proceed with the Drawings, and the preparatory measures for ascertaining their accuracy.

The Publishers are in hopes of securing the attestations of the Surveyors of the Counties, and of being able to procure at least four names to authenticate the accuracy of each Shire; in which case this Book will have 132 names to verify its correctness, and have claim to the distinction of a National Work superior to any published.

Edinburgh: Drawn and Engraved for JOHN THOMSON & COMPANY; BALDWIN CRADOCK & JOy, London; and JOHN CUMMING, Dublin.

PARLIAMENTARY WORKS.

THE FOLLOWING WORKS, WHICH WILL BE FOUND PECULIARLY INTERESTING AND USEFUL TO EVERY

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, STATESMAN, AND LAWYER,

ARE IN THE COURSE OF PUBLICATION BY

Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; J. Booker; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. M. Richardson; Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen; J. Hatchard; J. Ridgway and Sons; E. Jeffery; Rodwell and Martin R. H. Evans; Budd and Calkin; J. Booth; and T. C. Hansard.

I.

THE

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY

OF ENGLAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD,

TO THE YEAR 1803:

From which last-mentioned Epoch it is continued downwards in the Work intitled, "Hansard's Parliamentary Debates."

THIS Work will be completed in Thirty-six Volumes: the Thirty. third is just published; the remainder are in a great state of for wardness, and will be published on or about the Meeting of the New Parliament. The last Volume will bring the Work down to 1803; it which period, THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, now ublishing under the superintendence of Mr. T. C. Hansard, comnenced. The Public will then be in possession of the only uniform Parliamentary History of the Country, that was ever attempted. The lan of the Work will be seen in the following Extract from the Preface to the First Volume:

"Whoever has had frequent occasion to recur to the Proceedings in Parliament of former times, must have experienced those difficul ties which it is the object of the present Work to remove. Merely to find the several works wherein is contained an account of the Pardimentary Proceedings, is, at this day, no easy matter: some of them being very scarce, and others excessively voluminous. Hardly any of them, those of the last twenty years excepted, are to be pur chased regularly at the Booksellers. The far greater part of them are to be come at by accident only; and, of course, sometimes not to be obtained at all. But, supposing them all to be at hand, the price of them is no trifling object; and, in many cases, must present a difficulty not to be easily, or, at least, willingly surmounted. Of these works, taken in their chronological order, the first is, "The Parliamentary or Constitutional History," in Twenty-four Volumes: the second, "Sir Simonds D'Ewes Journal of Queen Elizabeth's Parliaments;" the third," Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons in 1620 and 1621, collected by a Member of that House, and published from his Original Manuscript in the Library of Queen's College, Oxford," in Two Volumes; the fourth, Chandler's and Timberland's Debates," in Twenty-two Volumes; the fifth, "Debates of the House of Commons, from 1667 to 1694, collected by the Honourable Anchitell Grey, Esq. who was thirty years member for the town of Derby," in Ten Volumes; the sixth, "Almon's Debates, from 1743 to 1780," in Twenty-four Volumes; and the seventh, "Debrett's Debates, from 1780 to 1802," in Sixty-three Volumes But still, with all these, the information wanted is very imperfect, without perpetually having recourse to the Journals of the two Houses, which Journals occupy upwards of a hundred volumes is folio: so that the price of a complete set of the works, in this way, cannot, upon an average of purchases, be reckoned at less than One Hundred and Fifty Pounds.

"These difficulties surmounted, another, and a still more for midable obstruction to the acquiring of information, is found, not merely in the number and the bulk of the volumes, but also in the want of a good arrangement of the contents of most of them; and, further, in the immense load of useless matter, quite unauthentic and very little connected with the real Proceedings of Parliament to be found in many of them; in the first mentioned work, we find a narrative of battles, sieges, and of domestic occurrences. The real Proceedings of Parliament form but a comparatively small propor tion of it; whole pamphlets of the day, and very long ones, beirs in many places, inserted just as they were published and sold; and when we come down even to the Debates by Almon and Debre (taking in Woodfall and others occasionally), we find, that, in nume rous instances, three-fourths of the volume consists of Papers l before Parliament, of mere momentary utility, repeated in subseque

and more correct statements, and now a mere incumbrance to the reader, and a constantly intervening obstacle to his researches; to which may be added, with respect to all the Debates from Almon's inclusive, downwards, that there is a total want of all that aid which is afforded by well-contrived Running Titles, Tables, and Indexes, and which is so necessary in every voluminous work, particularly if it relate to the transactions of a long series of years.

"In a Work of this nature, the utmost impartiality is justly expected; and it is with confidence presumed, that a careful perusal of the following pages will convince the reader, that that impartiality has been strictly and invariably adhered to. Nothing has been inserted without due authority; and, as the object has been, not so much to dive into matters of Antiquity, as to preserve what was really useful, many things have been omitted which would have swelled the bulk of the Work, without adding to its usefulness. Nothing, however, has been left out, except what was judged to be spurious or not agreeable to the design of such a Collection; nor any thing added, merely on account of its being favourable to the reputation or the doctrines of any particular party. In short, whatever appeared to have been actually said or done, in either House of Parliament, that had any tendency to what ought to be the chief object of such a Publication, has, as far as authentic materials could be procured, been recorded with scrupulous fidelity."

"It would be improper to conclude, without returning thanks to the several Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have obligingly offered the use of their valuable collections, some of which have already been found to be of great advantage to the undertaking, and others will, in the course of the Work, be applied for and gratefully received. The many judicious suggestions, which have, from various quarters, been communicated, have been, and in future will be, carefully attended to; and, it is hoped, that the execution of the Work will prove that no pains, of any kind, have been spared to render it equal to that expectation, which, with respect to the manner as well as the matter of it, has evidently been formed by no inconsiderable part of the well-informed men in this kingdom."

Extract from the Edinburgh Review, June, 1815, p. 208-" We cannot quote this careful and judicious Collection without bearing testimony to its singular merits. It deserves, as well as the New Edition of the STATE TRIALS, to be numbered among the most useful and best conducted Works of late years. Both are indispensable parts of all collections of English History?

THE PAR

II.

THE

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES,

FROM THE YEAR 1803 TO

THE PRESENT TIME:

FORMING A CONTINUATION OF THE WORK INTITLED,

THE PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO

THE YEAR 1803."

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDANCE OF

T. C. HANSARD.

THE Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Volumes of the Parlia mentary Debates, containing the Proceedings in both Houses during the last Session, are ready for delivery.

In presenting them to the Public, the Editor avails himself of the opportunity it affords him, of returning his acknowledgments for the liberal support which he has received. The declared object of the Work, at its outset in the year 1803 was, to give the Proceedings of both Houses at greater length, and with much greater precision, than it was ever before attempted to give them. To accomplish this object, neither labour nor expense has been spared. Aid of every ufeful kind has been resorted to, and, in most instances, with complete success. The Editor has felt that to his Work after times would refer, for the Public Character and Conduct of the Members of both Houses who took a share in the important measures therein recorded. He has, therefore, not considered himself at liberty to garble or abridge their Specches, at his own discretion, and according to his own views of the importance of the matter before him. To his unremitted endeavours to procure from Members of both sides of the House, the fullest and most correct reports of what has taken place on every