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\ ATR. Marsa, the tranflator of Me- 
chaelis, and author of ‘ Letters to 
Mr. Travis,” is now employed at Leiptic 
in tranflating his work in the German lan- 
guage, which he lately publifhed, inti- 
tuled, “¢ Az hifforical Reviexy of the Polt- 
tics of Great Britain and France, from the 
time of the Treaty of Filnitz and the De- 
claration of War againft England, fouuded 
througheut oz authentic Documents which 
ave been carefully collected.’ In this 
work the Engliih nation and government 
are vindicated from the afperfions thrown 
on them in Germany, as being the au- 
thors ef the prefent war. The Englith 
tranflation will be in London at the end 
ef the fummer. Ain offer has lately been 
made to Mr. MARSH to accompany the 
embaffy to Conitartinople, with a view 
of examining the Greek and Oriental 
MSS. in the Ottoman libraries. ‘The 
lovers of literature are in hopes that it 
will fait his health to take this journey, 
as the republic of letters may expect to 
derive important dilcoveries. 
he Rev. H.. Boyn, tranflator of the 
‘© Inferno of Dante,’ is now employed 
upon a trantlation of the “ Filippo, Don 
Garzia,” and ** Congiura de’ Pazzi,” of 
Count Alfieri. 
A work is in the prefs, under the title 
of the ** General Apiarian,’ wherein a 
fimple, humane, and advantageous me- 
thod of obtaining the produce of Bees, 
without deftroying them, is pointed out 
in a feries of letters to a friend; by Mr. 
Isaac, Secretary to the Weltern Apia- 
sian Society. 
An ‘* Aufwer to Mr. BetsHam’s Re- 
view of Mr. WILBERFORCE’S Treaitfe,” 
is in the prefs, written by the author of 
the * Age of Infidelity, &c.’? with a word 
to the author of ‘ Letters on Hereditery 
Depraviy.”” 
The soyal Humane Society has pro- 
pofed the following queitions tor the year 
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1. What are the bef? means of preferv- 
ing Mariners and others from Shipwreck ? 
Il.—What wiil be the mot probable 
means of keeping the Veffils afloat, fo as to 
preferve the Lives cf thofe who may be in 
Such perilous Situaticits ? 
TII.—The mof? certain Methods of con- 
eying Afiflance from Shore, io Veffels in 
Diftrejs, within a ceriain Diftance of Land, 
aad when Boats dare not venture out to 
the aid of Shipwrecked Mariners ? 
On the 20th of May was opened, at 
No. 118, Pall-Mall, the Milton Gallery ; 
conlilting of a feries of pictures from the 
poetic works of John Milton. Painted 
by Henry Fuseti1, R.A. Admiffion 
zs. Catalogues, with the pallages to 
which the pictures refer, 6d. \ 
Mr. SHERWIN, of Enfield, intends to 
publith a work on the “*-Affeéyens both 
moriid and folutery, excited in the Humen 
Frame by external Abforption.” In the 
year 1787, Mr. SHERWIN communicated 
a paper on this fubjeét to the Medical 
Sociely of London, a part of which, re- 
lating to the abforption of emetic tartar, 
was publifhed in the fecond volume of 
their Memoirs. In the introdugtion to 
that paper, which was not publithed by 
the Society, appears the following ftriking 
paflage, on account of recent difcoverics 
re{pecting the cow-pox: 
‘¢ May it not be conceived, that fome 
particular unfufpeéted fubftance applied to 
the human frame, in a ftate of moifture or 
efiluvia, may be imbibed and excite an in- 
fectious diforder, which thall afterwards pro- 
pagate icfelf from one patient to another ? 
Smail-pox, meafles, infectious fore throat, 
&c. may. have been thus originally excited, 
though mankind may for ever be ignorant of 
their refpective fources.”” “ 
We learn that Mr. PARKINSON is a- 
bowt to enlarge his work of ** Medical 
Adnuwizitions,”’ by the addition of a table, 
pointing out the degrees of danger mani- 
felted by various fymptoms ; and an Effay 
on the injurious conlequences of the ex- 
ceflive indulgence of children. Such a 
work is truly a detideratum in Enelifh 
literature, and cannot tail to be preduc- 
tive of the molt beneficial effects, elpe- 
cially among thofe ciafles of fociety, 
which are prejudiced in favour of quack- 
ery. 
Mr. Lr SAGE has circulated propofals 
for publifhing by fubieription, “* 4 Gene- 
logical, Chronological, Hyfwprical, and Geo- 
graphical 

