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concerning that obfcure portion of ancient 
hiftory, which may have become known 
to the learned in this country. 
The Rev. Mr. Lapsure mimifter of 
Campfie, a Sesttith Clergyman, who has 
greatly diftinguifhed himéelf in the 
general aflembly and other courts of the 
church of Scotland, by copioufnefs and 
parade, if not by pointed propriety and 
wue perfuafivenefs of eloquence; has 
‘been tor feveral years employed in the 
compofition of a Hiffory of the Church of 
Scotland ; which will alfo, neceffarily in- 
voive much of the Civil Hiftory of that 
country, during the laft century ; which 
would have been ere this time, ready for the 
prefs,had not his houfe been fome time fince 
fet on fire, by the malice of a militia 
mob, and his manufcripts reduced by the 
conflagration, into the ,ftate of the e/s 
precious ones of Herculaneum; but which 
will now, at laft be fpeedily fent forth, to 
gratify the impatient curiofity of the 
public, 
Dr. JENNER, to whom the world is in- 
debted for the important information re- 
lative to the preventive ufes of the cow- 
pox, has in the prefs further obfervations 
on that difeafe, which will fpeedily be 
publithed. 
' At Guy's Hofpital the following are prize 
gueftions for the prefent year. —W hat is the 
origin of the cow-pox—and in what does 
it differ from the {mall-pox—are its effects 
on the human conftitution milder than 
thofe of the inoculated fniall-pox—and is 
a patient who has been inoculated fot the 
cow-pox, and experienced its conftitu- 
tional effects, equally fecure from the 
contagion of the {mall-pox ?— 
How dothe vegetable and mineral poi- 
fons act upon the body ?—and what are 
the beft means of preventing their delete- 
rious effects? 
Mr. ALEXANDER THOMSON, of Scote 
Jand, the author of two poems entitled, 
“< The Paradifeof Taffe,” and ‘* Whi,” 
has in the prefs, we underftand, a poeti- 
eal work of fome confiderable extent, to 
be entitled, ** Pictures of Poetry.” 
Mr. THomas CaMPRBELL, of Edin- 
burgh, is alfo priating a poem entitled, 
6s The Pleafures of Hope,’ in two parts, 
with engravings, defigned by GRAHAM. 
_ The new edition of Biographical 
Memoirs of Public Living Chara&ers of 
1798-9, has been deferred by the quanti- 
ty of new and original materials that 
have been communicated to the Editors. 
- Aletter from Dr. Eustis of Bofton 
which appeared in the firft number of 
Articles of Foreign Literary Intelligence. 
[ Aprif 
the Medical and Phyfical Fournal confirms 
by new and ftrong cafes, the ufefulnefs of 
the application of cold water in fevers 
lately developed by Dr. Currie of Li- 
verpool. : 
‘The apple-trees in the Englifh orchards 
having been much injured of late years 
by an infect appearing like a white efflo- 
refcence, which, being bruifed between the 
fingers, gives out a blood-red fluid, Mr. © 
ForsyTH has difcovered a remedy for 
this difeafe, which confifts of a mixture 
of human urine and cow-dung, of the 
confiftence of paint, wherewith the in- 
tected trees are to be anointed about the 
end of March. id) 
A magnificent work is now announced 
at Paris; ‘‘P% fure/que Travels into Syria 
Phenicia, Paleftine, and LowerEgypt.’ The 
celebrated French painter Cassas, in the 
courte of his travels in the above countries, 
having executed a great number of defigns, 
has procured the affiftance of feveral emi- 
nent literary characters, particularly Du- 
THEIL, LEGRAND, and LANGLES, ts 
introduce this work to the world in a 
fhape thet will do honour to himfelf, his 
affociates, and the nation. This will be 
the more readily believed, when we learn 
that the French Government, feconding 
the efforts of the author, have undertaken 
to furnifh the whole expence required for 
the {plendid engravings, as well as print- 
ing the text.. 
A fingular coincidence has lately taken 
place in refpeét to an extraordinary pub- 
lication. "Two authors, Mr. WOLKE, 
a German profeifor of the inftitute at Def- 
fau, and thelearned citizen MEYVIEUX, 
of Paris, have almoft at the fame time an- 
nounced the dilcevery of an univerfal 
fymbolical language, which all nations 
may rerdily underftand, without the ne- 
ceflity of tranflation from the language of 
the writer to that of the reader. The 
German calls his fyftem Pafiphrajia, and 
the Frenchman ftiles his Pafgraphie. 
Which of thefe ingenious men hasthe beft 
title fo originality may be worth enquiry. 
The idea is tar trom being new, but it 
has never been reduced to practice. Bi- 
fhop W1iLKiNS, in 1668, publifhed “ Az 
Effay towards a real Character. and a 
Philofophical Language.” And about the 
fame time Profeffor BrEcCuHER, the cele- 
brated chemift and phyfician to the eleStor 
of Bavaria, publifhed a book entitled 
‘<< Charadter pro notitia linguarum univer- - 
ale.’ And in the year 1772, a noble 
and learned Hungarian writer, GEORGE 
KALMAR, wrote an ingenious and elaborate 
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