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republifh in London, from DiporT’s 
fplendid Virgil, a new and beautiful edi- 
tion of that claffic, in two volumes, large 
oftavo, cmbellifhed with fifteen engray- 
ings irom the defigns in Didot’s folio 
edition. The fub{cription fer the beft 
paper will be two guineas; upon the 
fo.aller paper one guinea. 
Mr. f. W. WixLtrams has been for 
fome time paft engaged in preparing for 
the prefs, an abridgement of all the law 
reports of the prefent reign. A work of 
this nature was much wanted. We un- 
derftand that it will be comprifed in about 
four volumes 8vo. and that the firft is 
nearly ready for publication. : 
A tranilation from the German is per- 
paring for the prefs, of the laf edition of 
Dr. GIRTANNER’S treatile on Syphilis. 
This valuable treatife contains, in the 
firft volume, the etiology, femiotics, the 
general and fpecial therapeutics of the 
difeafe; together with a colleétion of 
formule, judicioufly felested. The -fe- 
cond and third volumes comprehend the 
literature or bibliography of Syphilis: 
his, being an analyfis of one thoufand 
eight hundred and two publications on 
this iubject. ; 
Dr. PRIESTLEY’s lait defence of the 
declining caufe of phlogifton, has been 
anfwered in America, by citizen ADET, 
envoy from the Freach republic, and by 
Dr. MacLEAN. 
A gentleman who has paffed fome time 
_ in Italy, and is poflefled of a large col- 
leftion of fcarce and curious Italian dra- 
mas, has in the prefs, an hiftorical me- 
moir on Italian tragedy, from the ear- 
lieft periods to the prefent time. The 
work will be enriched with the original 
mufic of fome ancient chorufes, and we 
underftand the refearches of the author 
have led to the difcovery of the origin of 
two favourite Englifh dramas. 
It is in contemplation to commence, on 
the firt of O&tober, a Monthly Military 
Journal, or Magazine, on the plan in 
which refpe€table Military Mifcellanies 
have for many years been conducted at 
Berlin, Hanover, Vienna, and Paris. In’ 
the prefent military fituation of this 
country, fuch a work can {carcely fail to 
be very ufeful, and at the fame time to 
be univerfally patronized. Several en- 
gineers, and other military men of great 
experience, have already contributed their 
affiftance. 
Mr. NEMNICH at Hamburgh, the ce- 
lebrated author of the Polyglot Lexicon 
of Natural Hiftory, and of the Dictionary 
of Merchandize, has ready for prefs, a 
Forty Articles of Literary News. 
[ Aug. 
“© Nomenclatura Patholgica Novemlin- 
guis,” containing all the denominations 
of difeafes in the Englifh, “German, 
Dutch, Danifh, Swedifh, French, Ita- 
lian, Spanifh and Portuguefe ianguages. 
For the better illuftration of each term, 
the mo common Latin name of every 
diforder is fubjoined to it. 
Extrad of a 
Mijor von 
29th, 1798. 
‘© I fend you by this opportunity a 
large packet* of manufcript, conhfting 
of the Hiffory of my Life, written for 
my children. To your charge I entruft 
it; make ufe of it as-you may think pro- 
per after my deceafe, or even during my 
life-time; I leave you at perfect liberty 
in this refpe€t, and congratulate my felf 
at being in fuch good hands. I may 
now exclaim with the Roman Lyrif. 
‘© Non omnis meriar.” 
«© T know there are many perfons, who 
account it ftrange and even ridiculous, in 
men of letters to write their own bio- 
eo 
letter from LALANDE % 
ZACH, dated Paris, March 
graphy ; but to this objection I reply 
with Tacitus: Plerique fuam ipfi vitam 
nerrare fiduciam potius morum quam ar- 
rogantiam arliirati funt. I have as yet 
no ambition to die; the lefs fo, as I with 
for nothing more ardently than once 
more to fee you face to face. My ftate 
of health, confidering my years, is truly 
aftonifhingly good. To illnefs I am an 
utter ftranger, for which I ftand indebted 
to a uniformly regular and rational 
mode of living, as you will perceive frem - 
the biographical fketch which accom- 
panies this letter. My avocations are 
many and laborious. ‘The whole fcience 
* This manuicript confifts of 43 pages in 
arge quarto. When the fplendid literary 
career of this aftronomer is taken into due 
confideration; his unwearied zeal and fuc- 
cefsful labours to promote the intereits of 
fcience; and his extenfive connexions with 
the fir& literary charaéters of the age in 
every part of the civilized and learned world, 
the reader will at once conceive the amazing 
value and importance of this biography. It 
wes begun, under Lalande’s direétion, by 
two of his favorite pupils, Tabary Merfais and 
Le Paute d’ Agelet (the former of whom pe- 
rifhed in his voyage to the South Sea Iflands | 
with Kerguelen, anno 1774, the latter in his 
voyage round the world under La Péreuje, 
1778) and has been fince completed, or rather 
continued to the commencement of the pre- 
fent year, 1798, by De Lalande himielf. 
Major von Zach gives us room to hope, that 
the with of the public to be made acquainted 
with the memoirs of this great and excellent 
man, will not be left ungratified. : 
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