1800.] Sixty Articles of Literary and Ph lofophical Intelligence. 
ments are completely purified, and made fit 
to receive their now wholefome tenants 
with fafety. The advantages which have 
refulted from this admirable inftitution 
have exceeded the moft fanguine hopes of 
its benevolent founders. In feveral of the 
ftreets of Manchetter, where the fever was 
wont to rage in its moft deftruétive form, 
it is now nearly annihilated. 
We are happy to hear that fome public 
fpirited individuals have it ia contempla- 
tion to attempt the eftablifhmentof fimilar 
inftitutions in this metropolis. Every me- 
dical man, who is in the habit of vifiting 
the fick poor, muft give his teftimony for 
BAS 
the neceffity of fuch a plan; and when 
the inhabitants in general fhall be made- 
fully acquainted with the alarming mag- 
nitude of the evil, and the eafy and effectuak 
means of greatly diminifhing, ifnet ofabfo- 
lutely removing, it, we have good reafonto 
hope that the noble fpirit of charity, by 
which they are diftinguithed throughout Eu. 
rope, will not long delay to accomplith an 
object more important, and fraught with 
more ufeful confequences to the commu- 
nity, than any which for a long time paft 
has engaged the attention of the benevo- 
lent. WwW. W. 
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VARIETIES, Literary AND PHrLosoPHICAL, 
. Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
* 4° Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thaikfully received. 
=e ii 
N our laft Retrofpe&t of the Fine Arts, 
we gave fome particulars relative to 
the pictures on the walls of St, Stephen’s 
Chapel : many of them are now-depofited 
in the very cellar in which Guy Fauxcon- 
cealed his gunpowder. A very curious 
difcovery has been made in “* The Painted 
Chamber,” on removing the tapeltry with 
which it was hung, and clearing away the 
white-wath from the walls behind it, it is 
found that thefe walls have been originally 
decorated with a feries of hiftorical pic- 
tures containing figures larger than life. On 
the roof of an adjoining room, which has 
recently been ufed as a coal-hole, are a 
number of Monkifh verfes, which will af- 
ford matter for fpeculation to the curious 
in the black letter. 
_ Mr. ArrHuR Murpuy has compofed 
a hiftory of the Life of his late friend Da- 
vid Garrick, which will. be publithed 
in the courfe of the enfuing winter. Asa 
memorial of the fiate of the literary arts, 
of the moft interefting portion of our cuf- 
toms and manners, and of the tranfaftions 
of the flage, in London, during the mof 
interefting part of the eighteenth century, 
this publication will be valuable. 
Dr. Dickson’s great work of ‘¢ Praéti- 
cal Agriculture” is proceeding towards 
a conclufion, with all the rapidity which 
is pcflible in a defign fo comprehenfive 
and improving. We underftand he has 
applied all the recent difcoveries in che- 
miltry to foils and manures, and that there 
is no one fubject deferving of the tarmer’s 
attention, which will not be treated of inthe 
moft minute and Juminous manner. The 
MonTHLY Mac, No, 65. 
plates of implements, ftock, plans, 8c 
&c. will be nearly forty. 
The fubje&t of the SIEGE OF ACRE 
has awakened the long dormant pen of Mrs. 
Cows ry, who is preparing for the prefs 
an epic poem under that title: a work on 
this fubjeét can never be publifhed with- 
out genius; and it cannot fail to derive 
peculiar effeét from that of Mrs. Cowley. 
' The Rev. Mr. COLYER intends foon 
to publifh a new poetical verfion of the 
‘¢ Henriade”’ of Voltaire, with notes. 
A Poetical Romance, under the title of 
‘*Thaliba,”’ is expected toappear, from the 
pen of Mr. SouTHEY. 
Mr. Davip Irvine, whofe correc 
tafte is not unknown to the readers of 
the Monthly Magazine, has finifhed a 
highly ufeful and much wanted work, en- 
titled ** Elements of Fnglifh Compofition.”” 
Notwithftanding the attention which has 
been paid, of late years, to the improve- 
ment and perfection of the Englifh Jan- 
guage, it is extraordinary that we have 
not had any work, till the prefent, which 
profeffedly treats of ftyle, and of the rules 
by which the language may at all times be 
written with perfpicuity and elegance. 
Mr. Irving’s Book will, in a courfe of 
edacation, follow the Engiith grammar, 
and the Latin and Greek languages. 
A new Work, from the pen of that firft 
of Britifh Novelifts, Mrs. CHaR LOTTE 
SmiTH, will very foon make its appearance, 
Mr. W.H. IRELAND will, ina fhort 
time, publith a volume of ** Imitations of 
Ancient Englifh Writers.” 
A fac fimile edition will {peedily be 
Yy publithed 
