£30 
bury, from the Papers left by Mr. Ben- 
yamMin Mariywn, author of the tragedy 
pf Tim oleon, 38 propofed to be publithed 
by fubicription. This work was written 
under the immediate aufpices of the late 
Earl of shaftibury, and will doubtlefs 
abound with valuable and mterefling par- 
ticulars. It will be put to prefs as foon 
as aluficient number of fubicribers have 
been obtained. 
Mr. LAURENCE, the writer on ve- 
terinary fubjects, is at prefent employed 
upon a.philotophical and practical Trea- 
tite on Horles. Humanity to the brute 
creation will be one of its meritorious 
objeéts. 
Dipor is preparing, at Paris, anew 
edition of Norden’s Travels, in three 
quartos. LANGLES, the prefent guar- 
dian of the Eaftern Manu{cripts, fuper- 
intends this edition. At the end of the 
third volume will be added the Remarks 
made by TEMPLEMAN, In his Englith 
tranflation, enriched by the notes of 
Langles, from Abulteda, Abdeolatif, and 
Magrizy. The type was made by Ve- 
tray, and was formerly ufed in the royal 
preis, in the Louvre. ‘The maps are to 
be engraved afrefh, by Brion, and Nor- 
den's Arabic rames are to be retained. 
Le Brun’s Odes have lately been pub- 
lifhed by the Committe of Inftruétion ; 
and the poet has been rewarded with 
apartments in the Louvre. 
Russta is not fo loft to literature as 
the world may imagine. The publifh- 
ing of a Monthly Wiagazine in that em- 
pire is a proof of the increafe of readers 
yn the middle clafles of life. A feciety, 
confifting of eight men of letters, has heen 
formed, “which. is to publith, monthly 
at Dorpat, in Livland, a magazine, under 
the title of the ‘¢ Livland Library, for 
the extenfion of ufeful knowledge, and 
particularly that of our own country.’ 
UseFruL ARTs. 
By letters juft received in England, 
from Dr. PxirsTLEY, it appears, he is 
profecuting his experiments in America 
with confiderable fuccefs, and has lately 
made fome intereiting communications to 
the Philofophical Society at Philadelphia. 
In a future Number we fhall take 
opportunity of prefenting thefe to the 
pubiic. 
LOESCHER,; formerly a lead miner in 
Bohemia, and at prefent in the fame em- 
ployment at Friburg, has announced to 
the public that he has invented an hy- 
draulic machine, which, by means of two 
bellows, conveys water to a very confi- 
Ufeful and Polite Arts. 
[ April 
derable height. In this machine nothing 
is in motion but the bellows. All the 
wooden and metal parts are at reft: aif 
and water go up together. Whoever 
wifhes to fee this machine in aétion, and 
can agree with the inventor on the terms, 
may have the whole of the fecret ex- 
plained to him. ‘The amateurs of mine- 
ralogy may be alfo fupplied with all forts of 
models of machines employed Im mining, 
and with various fpeeies of cryftalizations, 
by application to him, at Friburg, either 
in perfon or by letter. 
PoLITEe ARTS, 
That in many branches of fcience 
this little ifle has for ages boafted of 
charaéters as diftinguifhed for their ta- 
lents as thofe of any quarter of the globe, 
the bicgraphy of our country abundantly 
teftifies. In philofophy, Sir Francis 
Bacon; in aftronomy, Newton; and in 
poefy, Spee: rhe boaft ae Britain 
and of Wature, have been defervedly 
placed at the hesd of each different clais, 
But with all thefe marks of mind im 
other fciences, and all our celebrity in 
other arts, the Abbé Winckleman, and 
many other writers, have boldly afferted, 
that it parnting the Englifh would pout 
zo beyond a portait. The BoypELLs’ 
SHAKSPEARE GALLERY, and Mack- 
LIn’s Poets’ GaLLeRyY have antwer- 
ed, and refuted them. The firft of thete 
magnificent exhibitions, which does equal 
honour tothe propr ieters andthe painters, 
retains its wonted fuperiority ; the *fe- 
cond, after being a fhort\time clofed, for 
a new arrangement, &c. was, about the 
middle of April, again opened for public 
infpeétion, with the addition of fix very 
capital pictures, by LOUTHERBOURG, 
Opre, and Norrueots. Thefe, sdden 
to above eighty other delimeations, many 
of them by the firft artifts in thts country, 
arranged with equal judgment and tafte, 
render this a eculiatly pleafing, as well 
as an uncommonly fplendid exhibition. 
THE Royvat ACADEMY. 
The annual difplay of paintings 1s 
highly honourable to the artitts of this 
country ; andthe exhibition, on the whole, 
is confidered as the beft fore the time of 
the late Prefident. A particu‘ar account 
will be given in our next. 
In Engraving, our artifts have greatly 
diftinguifhed themfelves. The long ex- 
pected print of Major Pearfon’s Death 3s 
now pubiifhed, and comes in the very iri” 
clafs,, aes in truth, itought ; for, including 
the picture, &c, it has coit the proprietors 
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