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Literary and Philofophleal Intelligence. 



54:^'. 



Dr. Anderson, of Mad.ras, has ptib 

 lifljtd in the Madras Gazette the following 

 Letter, which he had lately receivfd from 

 Manilla, announcing the formation of a 

 Literary Society in that city : . 



" There is lately inftituted berc,'' under 

 the immediate proteftion of Government, a 

 Literary Society, to which they have done rae 

 the honour to appoint me Secretary. The 

 intention of this Society is to produce a Jour- 

 nal every month, treating of the different 

 branches pf ufeful fciences of the Piiillipine 

 Iflands, in order to encourage induflry. Each 

 win begin with an Hiftorical Extraft of thefe ' 

 Iflands fmce the commencement of their el>a- 

 biilhment by the Spaniards, drawn from the 

 moft approved authors on this fubjedl, de- 

 prived of all fuperftition in the ancient rela- 

 tions. After that they v.-iU fpeak of the 

 three kingdoms, the animal, the vege:able, 

 and the mineral. Agriculture will occupy a 

 great fpace \ and commerce and induftry will 

 furnifh the |oL.rnal with fomething upon na-' 

 vigation. \ few (heets will be referved for 

 t^e remarkable events of every defcription 

 which may have occurred, with obfervatrions 

 on their different accidents. This is nearly 

 the plan, which you will be able to judge 

 more of by the Profpectus, which J ftall 

 liave the honour of fending to you by the hrft 

 opportunity, but it is at prefent in the prefs, 

 and will not appear before the end of the 

 month. TheSoci(ity, wiihing to acquire all the 

 information and li;ht which can tend to ren- 

 der their work more ufeful, and at the fame 

 time enter into a correfpondence with the 

 other different focieties who are occupied by 

 the fime views, have retjuefted me, and in' 

 particular the Prefident, Don Domingo Goy- 

 ena, to inform the Society at Madras of their 

 intentions by this opportunity, until they can 

 do it more formally by fending the Hrofpetl;us 

 of their Journal. Not knowing any of the 

 other members of this Society excepting you, 

 Sir, I take the liberty torcqueft you will en- 

 gage the learned Members of your afi<;mbly 

 in favour of this infant focisty, — Friends of 

 Lupnia, —zni engage them to admit with be- 

 nevolence the requeft to enter into correfpon- 

 dence, and make known to tliis infant in the 

 cradle their lights, their works, and, in fine, 

 toaffill it with their fuccour, that it may one 

 day be enabled to tread in tSie fteps of its maf- 

 ters. I cannot help being extrcaicly flattered, 

 Sir, by a commilfion v.'hich brings to my re- 

 collection a pcrfon of your merit, and which 

 will often give me the opportunity to affure 

 you ot the fentlments of reipcil and high con- 

 £4cration with which 



" I have the honour to be. Sir, 

 " Your very humble and very 



Mtinillu, obedient fcrvant, 



toth Feb. 1804. '« J. M. Davot." 



A Life of Mrs. Chaponi; will (liortly 

 appear, prefixed to a new edition of her 

 Letter^ on ihe Iinprovetnent of the Mind. 



A New Italian Diclionary for the 

 Pocket will be publifhed in a few days. 



Mr. Morrison, of Penh, has an-, 

 flounced a neiv wurk, to be publifhed in 

 nine parts, making two hindfome vo- . 

 lumes in oftavo, under the title of Bi- 

 bli'ifheca Sacra, or a Dictionary of the 

 Holy Sci^tures, expUining the various. 

 Terms, Doclrine.^, Hiftories, Cnar.iflers, 

 Ordinances, Inilitvitions, Law*, Precepts,, 

 and Figures, in the Sacred Oracles ; to be 

 liluftratcd v.'ith a complete Set of entirely 

 new M^ps. 



PrnfelTjr Scott, of Aberdeen, is pre- 

 paring a work fpr ptibllcation, int.itled 

 Elements of Intcileitual Philofophy, or 

 an Anaiyfis of the Powers of the Human 

 Unierlfanding, tending to afcertain the 

 Piinciples of Rational Logic. 



Dr. Cox hii in the prels a new edition 

 of his Practical Ohfirva ions on Infanity. 



The late Dr. Irvi mil's Eflays, chiefly 

 on chemical fubjecls, with fume additional 

 Elfavi by Willia.-j Irvine, M. D. 

 will fhortly make theii appearaiice. 



The Rev. Robert F£Llo\ves has in 

 the pr fs a Body • f Speculative and Prac« 

 tica! Theology, a vols 8vo. 5 likeuvil'e a 

 volume of Poems, chiefly trar.flated or 

 imitated bom the German Idylls and other 

 works of Gefner. 



The R;v. Mr. Harwood's Hiftory of 

 Litctifield, very much enlarged from his ori- 

 ginal deugn, will appear about Chriftmas, 



T-v;) Volumes o( Sermons of the late 

 Timothy Kenrick, of Exeter, are 

 neiriy ready for publication. 



Dr. Valpy's New Greek Grammar, 

 written on the plan of his Latin Gram- 

 mar, will be (hortly publifhed. 



Mr. Richard Wiston, of Leicefler, 

 author of feveral ufeful Woiks on Agri- 

 culture and Gardening, is printing a Na- 

 tural Hiftory of Strawberries, with the 

 Improvements in th-eir Cultivation. 



J. C. Davie, Efq. has in the preft, 

 Travels in South America, in Letters ad- 

 drelTed to the late Mr. Yorke, of Taunton 

 Dean. 



The following is a new method of pre- 

 paring cerule in the l.irge way .-—Take 

 any quantity of lead-aflies, and diflblve 

 them, by the aid of gentle heat, in a fuf- 

 ficient quantity of dilute nitric acid j filr 

 tpate the folution, and piecipitate it by 

 decanted chalk. The precipitate, wafhed. 

 and dried, gives the pureft and moft beau- 

 tiful cerufc that can befeen. 



Dr. Thornton has lately recorded 

 two inftances of peifoiis completelv cnrtd, 

 of confumption by means ot the hvdr;»- 

 azotic gus. 



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