1799-] 
Mr. GEIswELLER, a bookfeller in 
Pall-Mall, has elegantly illuftrated a 
copy of the ‘* Travels of Mr. CoXE 
through Switzerland,” with fine plates re- 
-prefenting the drefles of the 16th and pre- 
{ent century—the portraits of Lavater, 
Sauffure, Geffner, Mechel, Erafmus, 
Holbein, Balma, Phifer, Paccard, Shup- 
pach, and with a nuinber of other in- 
terefting fubjects. . 
In the ** American Medical Repofitory,” 
Vol. 1. we meet with an excellent hil- 
torical and pathological account of the 
deftructive ** Plague of Athens,’ which 
broke out in that city 430 years prior to 
the chriftian era, and which in many 
points bears fo great a refemblance, both 
in its nature and origin, to the epidemic 
fevers of America, that the author thinks 
himfelf juftified in declaring it to have 
been, in all effential particulars, the fame 
difeafle—A due confideration of every 
circumftance cannot but imprefs the mind 
with a deep conviction of the unity of 
caufe in ages fo remote. This point 
being fo well eftablifhed ought to make 
us careful how we overlook the more ob- 
vious fources of peftilential difeafes, in 
our fearch after thofe which are foreign- 
and remote. If local caufes originated 
a peltilence in Athens, local caufes may 
generate a yellow fever in Philadelphia 
and New York. ; 
The late Dr SmiTH, phyfician to the 
New York Hofpital, informs us in the 
fame repofitory, that he has fuccefsfully 
treated a cafe of mania ina girl, 17 years 
old, with frong mercurial frictions, 
which, after inducing a gentle falivation, 
reftored her reafon. ‘The Doétor at the 
fame time directed ftrong cathartics of 
jalap and calomel, which brought off 
large mafles of dark and hardened excre- 
ment. He ‘f{eems however to doubt, 
whether to confider the diforder in quef- 
tion as a variety of hy fteria, of intermitt- 
ing fever; or whether the caujfe of yellow 
fever could have excited the mania of this 
girl, whole period was that of many fe- 
vers, and whofe cure, fuppofing it to have 
been affected by the falivation, is not hof- 
tile to the fuppofition. 
There has lately been commenced at 
Leipfic, a complete magazine of works, 
printed by the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences of St. Peterfburg. The printed 
catalogue, containing not only the tranf- 
actions of the academy, but Jikewile the 
works of Euler, Fuis, Georgi, Ginelin, 
Pallas, and other celebrated writers, to- 
gether with a colleétion of the valuable 
maps, publifhed by the academy, is to be 
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had of Mr. Escuer, the German book- 
feller, in London. 
On Saturday, the 16th of June, the 
learned and ingenious Mr: GILBERT 
WAKEFIELD was removed from the 
King’s Bench to Dorchefter jailf, in 
puriuance of his fentence. As_ this 
gentleman’s literary character is not 
like his political opinions, the fubject of 
difpute, but highly and univerfally 
efteemed, our readers of every defcription 
will be happy to learn that he has made 
arrangements for purfuing his philo- 
logical ftudies, with. his accuftomed 
zeal and induitry. His immediate and 
direct employment, we underitand, will 
be an enlarged and improved Greek Lexi- 
con, the want of which has been long a 
fubject of regret to {cholars. He alfo 
will continue making his collections for 
a dictionary of our own language, on 
the new grammatical principles. 
The following is a lift of the deaths, 
births,. and marriages at the undermen- 
tioned cities, in 1798. 
D. B. M. 
At Berlin, = 4 Gyh3 0) 6,206 | 2,304 
At Hamburgh, 3,842 3,542 , 1,492 
ext, Copenhagen 2.927. (3. 21ck. Tong 
AG Vienna 1 =) 525370) 11550 5!) tn f 5 
M. RaeEn has lately read to the aca- 
demy of {ciences at Copenhagen, a trea- 
tife, containing the procefs and refults 
of certain experiments made by him dur- 
ing the laft three years on the vegetation 
of plants, by the favour of divers mix- 
tures of many forts of earth; experiments 
which he propofes to continue, and, ac- 
cording to which, it appears to him, that 
it is properly carbone, which ferves to 
the nutrition of plants and to the fertiliza- 
tion of the foil. | 
A fecond convoy of obje&ts of the arts, 
collected at Turin, is now on-its way to 
Paris, or is lately arrived there. It con- 
tains a number of antique idols, Egyp- 
tian, Greek or Roman, of Apis, Cano- 
pus, Venus, Cybele, &c, curious pieces 
of antique furniture, as keys, lamps, 
weights, clafps or braces &c. ; mummies 
of-children and animals ; an infcription 
found in the ruins of Induffria; of pic- 
tures, Apollo and Marfyas of Guido, 
Adam and Eve by the fame painter, the 
children of Charles I. confidered as one 
of the beft works of Vandyke, and a 
Bacchanalian by the fame; two or three 
pictures, which are not of his higheft 


+ In Dorfetthire, where he is fentenc:d to 
be imprifoned two years, for his pamphlet in 
aniwer to the bifhop of Llandaff’s Addrefs. 
finifhing, 

