?52 Literary and Philosophical Intelligence 



Ihe (hurch of England; conlainin;; a 

 eoiHrneiitary on tlie services, :ind rctlec- 

 tioiis adapted to the piosent times. 



Essays on liteialnrc, men, and man- 

 ners, under IJje title of, " tlie Ronnd 

 Table," are announced by Messrs. 

 Il!;xT and Hazlitt. 



In the ])ress, a sixth edition of Cnrio- 

 ^itics of Literature; and at tiie sanivi 

 time vvill appear an additional tliirvl 

 \olumc, wliich will bo ]iublislK'd ?ci)a- 

 ratelv, for the convenience of thcysc 

 •«ho may be desirous of completing 

 their sets. 



TiiF. SAME Author lias also nearly 

 ready for press a IJistory of Men of 

 Genius ; being Ids Jissay on the I>itrrary 

 Ciiaractcr, which has been out of print 

 many years, considerably eidargcd. 



A Committee appointed by the Board 

 f)f Ordnance lately inspeclcd a machine 

 invented by Capt. Manhy, for the o\- 

 linclion of fire by anti-phlogislic fluid, 

 at the Committee Room, AVoohvich 

 Jsarracks. He shewed that it could be 

 instantly ap|)lied (as it might be kept 

 ready loaded) to a fne which was so 

 sitnaled that a common (ire engine 

 would be of no service: for instance, in 

 tlie back apartments of a liouse, or under 

 t!ie deck of a vessel. I Jc explained the 

 nature of the fluid which the machine 

 was charged with — which consists of 

 lime potash, and a certain rpiantity of 

 water, wliieli might be made in two nii- 

 tiiites; and on-board a ship a cask of it 

 might always be in readiness, besides 

 the machine being charged with it — and. 

 to exhibit the extraordinary clfects of 

 the anti-phlogistic ingredients, lie iin- 

 mersed in it a (|uantiiy of hemp, canvas, 

 and (If al wood, whieii arc the most com- 

 bustible materials used in a dock-yard ; 

 lie also immersed the same materials in 

 common watir, and applied a certain 

 lieat fo ca"i. ; tlmsc which have been di))- 

 f ed ill tlie anti-phlogistic fluid would not 

 burn, and tiiose dipped in common water 

 blazed immediately. He also sprinkled 

 gome hemji with the fluid, and also some 

 with corium'U m atcr, which had the same 

 citccl: that sjiriiikled wi'.h water b-.nned, 

 ami tiic other did not. t'ajitain Manby 

 then exhibited various means he had in- 

 vented f(ir rescuing persoiiNfrum danger, 

 where they were so situated, f>eing snr- 

 roundfd by fire, that the only means of 

 escaping fiom the elements ^\as through 

 the windoiiVs, or from the tops of houses. 



Sni E. IToMK has discovered tiiat 

 many animals have from one to three 

 jisjckers on each foot, which, making a 

 "Vitcuuui, cutibie the animal to proceed 



[Oct. 1, 



securely along a ceiling with its back to«- 

 wards the carlli. Sonic species of in- 

 sects, particularly grasshoppers, have 

 their feet supplied with another apjiara- 

 tus, that is, round elastic balls, which 

 yield on pressure, and serve to break tli« 

 violence of their fall IVom long leaps. 



The transport which carried iNIajor 

 Peddie and his comjianion Capt. Camp- 

 bell to Africa has arrived after a te- 

 dious passage at Gorec ; but the death 

 of the surgeon who was to have accom- 

 panied them, and the troops which were 

 to have ;nTived from .Sierra Leone in 

 Dec( iiibcr not joining till too late, th« 

 departure of the expedition from the 

 coast is deferred till next season. This 

 delay has enabled Capt. Campbell to 

 make a great number of observations of 

 distances of the sun and moon, and 

 moon and stars, from which he found 

 the longitude of Senegal dilVcrcnt from 

 w hat is given in the tables, and th« 

 latitude he fixes at 16° 2' ,30" N. 



31r. ^Iattiiew Guegson, of Liver- 

 pool, is |)riiiting in small folio, IVag- 

 incnts of the History of the County of 

 Lancaster, with numerous cngra^illgs. 



iMr. KoBiniT Fellowes, of St. Mary 

 JTall, Oxford, has in the press, a His- 

 tory of Ceylon, from the earliest period 

 to the year 181.5, witli characteristic 

 details of the people. 



A General Catalogue of Rooks, with 

 their sizes and ])rices, published since 

 September 1814, to the present time, 

 will ajipear about the end of the month. 



The Abbe J. A. DnnoLS, missionary 

 in the IMysorc, will speedily publish a 

 Description of the People of India; witlj 

 particular reference to their separation 

 into casts; their idolatry and religious 

 ceremonies ; and their various singular 

 customs, habits, and obscr\aiices, which 

 distinguish them from all other na- 

 tions: drawn during a residence of many 

 V'ars auioiigst tiicir various tribes, in 

 unreslraineil intercourse and confonnily 

 with their habits and manner of life. 



Some letters of tjneen Anne to Sir 

 Charles Hedges, secretary of slate, cu- 

 pies of tlieuholc nfichifh tippcared some 

 years since in the ISloidlihj HJtigdzine, were 

 lately sold by a tlescendaut of Sir 

 Charles, together with about three hun- 

 dred original letters of .John duke of 

 Marlborough, the greatest military ge- 

 nius which ISritain ever produced, and 

 a man whose iionour was never tarnish- 

 ed by the brcacli of his scdemii Conven- 

 tions. ' We understand these letters are 

 about to be given to tl'e world ; and, 

 combiiicd with the Memoirs pici>aring 

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