Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
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Mr. L, accordingly purchased a small 
bottle at the warehouse in St. James’s- 
etrec-t, and took at night half of it, being 
the quantity of a large tea'Spoon full. 
Theinmifcdiate operation, thoughattended 
with a nausea, was by no means violent; 
but the effects w'ere, and still continue 
Co be, absolutely miraculous. On the 
following day he ate three or four 
hearty meals, and from that time till 
now, nearly seven months, his appetite 
has contijtued as good, his digestion 
as perfect, and his health and spirits 
equal to those of any period of his life. 
In short, one small dose of this precious 
medicine has removed or destroyed the 
cause of a debilitating, excruciating, and 
destructive disease; and its removal has 
given full play to all the vital stamina, 
and restored this excellent man to the 
vivacity, vigour, and activity, of youth. 
Happily for mankind this miracle has 
not been wrought in a corner, but in the 
centre, of the metropolis, and, on a public 
character, whose afflictions from the dis¬ 
ease, and whose sudden regeneration, 
are known to thousands. Scepticism 
and prejudice taunt Mr. L. with prog¬ 
nostics of the return of the disease.— 
Yet, let it be so—he has the other half 
bottle to meet it with, and he has al¬ 
ready enjoyed seven months of well-being 
and happiness, from the salutary etFects 
of the former half. 
Mr. James Moore, an eminent and 
philosophical surgeon, iit order to remove 
the opprobiuin of secrecy which apper¬ 
tains to the above medicine, has taken 
much laudable pains to produce it from 
known materials. The results of bis 
trials are the following formula;—Take 
of white hellebore root, eight ounces; 
white wine, two pints and a half: the 
root to be cut in thin slices, and infused 
for ten days, occasionally shaking the 
bottle; let the infusion be then Altered 
through paper. I’he mixture employed 
for the gout, to consist of three parts of 
the above wine of white liellebore, and 
one part of liquid laudacmm.” I’his 
may satisfy the scruples of many of the 
faculty; but, as Mr. Lucas paid but ten 
shillings for the bottle above alluded to, 
it may be safer to have recourse to the 
genuine medicine, and the more respect¬ 
able plan will he for the College to ad¬ 
dress Parliament, recommending the pur- 
«hase of the secret from the proprietor. 
We have only to add further, that, having 
mentioned Mr. Lucas’s case to an emi¬ 
nent physician, he stated that he knew 
several «ases equally striking, in vi/hich 
similar good effects had resulted, and 
tliat he had no doubt the Euu Medicinale 
was a very important acquisition to the 
art of medicine. 
Mr. J. M. Flindall, bookseller, of 
Lambeth Marsh, has, in a state of for¬ 
wardness, a Catalogue of Scarce and 
Rare English Portraits, and of Book# 
containing sucli Portraits, chiefly com¬ 
piled from the more bulky volumes of 
Bromley and Grainger; and, for the con¬ 
venience of collectors, it is printed in a 
pocket size. Subjoined are notes by the 
compiler, who has for several years etn- 
ployed his leisure hours in this task. 
Mr. Flimdall has likewise nearly 
ready for publication, a volume of Ori¬ 
ginal and Selected Bons Mots, Droll 
Tales, Comic Songs, &c. 
We feel it due to the illustrious per¬ 
sonages wlio are the objects of mis-repre- 
sentation, and to the literary public, to 
state, that the work called The Spirit &f 
the Book, is the fabrication of one Ash, 
an able, but unhappy and unfortunate, 
man, enlarged from the King’s Bench by 
the late Insolvent Bill. Having ourselves 
perused the book, of which Ash’s work 
professes to be the Spirit, we can assert, 
without the hazard of contradiction, thae 
this spirit bears no resemblance what¬ 
ever to its alledged original; and, from 
oircumstances within our knowledge, we 
are enabled also to assert that Ash never 
saw that original of which he professes 
to have extracted tlie spirit. After all, 
Asii’s work is a well written romance, but;^ 
ought to be read only as a romance, and 
without reference to any living characters. 
Mr, Harwood, son of the late Rev, 
Dr. 'Harwood, is about to publish in 
Latin, a Description of more than a 
Hpndred iuedited Greek Coins, lately 
acquired ; with illustrations and plates, 
Ihe Rev. J. Goldsmith is preparing 
a Second Part of his far-fauied Grammar 
of Geography, the object of winch is 
to describe the British Empire at hoina 
and abroad, as a proper study for all young 
Britons. Of course it is founded on the 
interrogative system of exercises, of which 
tfiat editor was the inventor and hrst 
promulgator. 
Since the article was printed at page 
321, relative to the wmx of the candle- 
berry myrtle, we learn, by a puldic ad¬ 
vertisement, that Messrs. Robert Bell, 
and Co. of Hail, ha’i actually begun to 
make and vend such candies on very mo¬ 
derate terms. It seems too, that these 
berries are known in Africa, and that a 
few years since Colonel Edwards pre¬ 
sented 
