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patient in the second or third week 
after the commencement of the disease. 
Thisis aa important discovery, andthe 
‘experiment is.at least liarmless. 
A second edition of the Family Cy- 
clopedia, by Mr. Jennines, which has 
been sedulously revised throughout, 
with considerable additions, will shortly 
be ready for publication. 
The overflowing state of the public 
treasury warrants, it seems, the reno- 
vation and splendid decoration of the 
ancient palace of St. James’s, for state 
purposes. In like manner the super- 
fluous wealth of individuals enables 
them to erect a costly monument in 
his life-time to the man who com- 
manded the allied troops under a con- 
vention in Paris,at the time the heroic 
Marshal Ney was shot. 
A new edition of the Observations 
on the Spitalfields Act, with a Reply 
to Mr. Hale’s Appeal, will appear in a 
few days. 
There are now in Europe 1350 obser- 
vatories. Of these there are perhaps 
only three that arrive at any useful 
results; and eyen these three might be 
reduced to one, viz. that of Greenwich. 
The exhibition of a Northern Society 
for the Encouragement of the Fine 
Arts will open on the Ist of May at 
Leeds. 
A second Magazine in the French 
language is announced for publication 
in London, on the Ist of June, under 
the title of, Ze Musée des Variétés Lit- 
téraires, to be continued monthly. 
Another weekly literary journal, to 
be called, the Museum, or Record of 
Literature, Fine Arts, Science, Anti- 
quities, the Drama, &c, is announced. 
It will be devoted to—lst. General 
Literature, including reviews of books, 
and essays on men and manners. 2d. 
The Belles Lettres and Fine Arts, 
3d. Science and Philosophy. 4th. An- 
tiquities and Biography. 6th. Varie- 
ties and Facctix, including poetry, &e. 
The reviews, will be of such works as 
present, from the choice of subject, in-. 
trinsic merit, or celebrity of the author, 
a fair claim to. public notice. 
Mr. Copter has taken an ostensible 
partin the composition of the States- 
man Evening Paper, and ifs circula- 
tion, in consequence, has greatly 
increased. 
Soame JENYNs’s. Disquisitions on se- 
veral Subjects, are reprinting in reyal 
16mo. and will be embellished with a 
portrait of the author, from an original 
picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
_ by himself and. sons, 
[May 1, 
The. ‘Society for Promoting Chris- 
tian Knowledge jin dhe Diocese of St. 
David's,” has awarded) a premium of 
501. ‘too Mr. A. V.'Tepns,; proctor, of 
Doctors’ Commons, for the best Nssay 
on ‘‘the Scripture Doctrine of Adultery 
and Divorce, and onthe Criminal :Cha- 
racter and Punishment of Adultery»by 
the Ancient Laws of England, and 
other Countries,” and. which he, will 
shortly publish. 
Rivington’s Annual Register for the 
year 1810 will appear in a few days. 
On the Ist of May will be published, 
in imperial oblong quarto, (tobe eonti- 
nued monthly,) an unique’ graphic 
work, entitled, the ‘Tour -of . Paris, 
pourtraying, in a series of beautiful 
engravings, the peculiar characteristies 
of the Parisian people, and: faithfully 
illustrating their manners,, customs, 
and institutions, ‘The plates. are,to 
be engraved from a series of admirable 
drawings, made in view of ihe scenes 
which they pourtray, by: Mr. Joun 
CLaRKE, in a rich aquatint style, and 
every design is accompanied by a brief 
literary essay, into which all the infor- 
mation necessary to elucidate its, sub- 
jectis carefully condensed. 
Sketches of the Life and Character 
of Patrick Henry, by Mr. Wm. Wirt, 
of Richmond, Virginia, is. reprinting 
from the American edition. 
The author of “ Select Female Bio- 
graphy” has in the press, a work,enti- 
tled, the Wonders of the Vegetable 
Kingdom Displayed. It. is: designed 
to illnstrate the beauty, order,., and 
utility of the vegetable world, and con- 
iains a variety of elegant and scicutific 
information relative to the economy. of 
plants, 22t 
Mr. W. H. Crook. is prepariag for 
publication, a Synoptical Paradigm of 
the regular and irregular Verbs of} the 
Hebrew Language, exhibiting .on.a 
sheet at one view all their varieties, of 
inilexion, characteristic marks amd mu- 
tual dependance, ona néw and, simple 
principle of analysis, whereby Ahis (bi- 
therto diflicult portion of the, Hebrew 
tongue may be perfectly acquired with 
considerable facility, and in a short 
lime, , This arrangement will beequally 
useful to the punctist.or antipunctist. 
Mr. Sowerby, of Lambeth, a\ few 
months. ago completed: a» new) |ar- 
rangement of his extensive Collection 
of Fossil Shells, and other organic re- 
mains, which have been extracted from 
their places in the British strata, chiefly 
Since the, pro- 
mulgation 
