[Edinbueob, August 1790.I 



PROSPECTUS 



OF AN INTENDED NEW PERIODICAL WORK, 



TO BE CALLED 



T H E B E E, 



O K 



UNIVERSAL LltERART INTELLIGENCER, 



To be publiflied Weekly ; 



AND TO CONTAIN, 



Bejtdes Original Mifcellaneous EJfays on Literature and the Belles Lettres, 



Early accounts of new discoveries in science and useful arts; an oc- 

 casional review of valuable publications at home and abroad ; extradls 

 from foreign journals, academical dissertations and domestic perform- 

 ances of merit ; biographical anecdotes and memoirs of eminent persons ; 

 notices of the heroic achievements of ancient and honourable families ; 

 observations on the topography and natural hiftory of Britain and other 



countries ; disquifitions concerning civil hiftory and the progress of the 

 human mind ; poetical essays and translations ; debates and distinguiflied 

 speeches in parliament, and in the political assemblies of other states ; 

 remarkable laws, and interesting decisions in courts of justice ; a concise 

 clironicle of recent events ; and a complete list of new publications in Bri> 

 taw, with the prices. 



THE WHOLE BEING CALCULATED 



To furnish an instruelive amusement for the present hoar, and to transmit to posterity a faithful pifture of the acquirements, modes of thinking, prevailinjj 

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JAMES ANDERSON, LLD. 



TRS. fSA. S. 

 H'jMrary Memher of ihc Society of Arts, Agriculture, Vc. at Bath ; of the Philotofbical, and of the Agricultural Societies i 

 and of the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Belles Lettres, Dijon ; Author of several Performances *, 



Manchefter ; 



ttuMis et rebus honestis. 



HoR. 



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