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Cawn, and take all our wealth, {trip us 
of all our precious ftones, of all our gold 
and filver, but take not the life of m 
hufband. Innocence is fated on his 
brow, and the milk of human kindnefs 
flows round his heart. 
Let us wander through the deferts, let 
us become tillers and labourers in thofe 
delightful {pots of which he once was lord 
‘and mafter! But fpare, O mighty Sir, 
{pare hislife! Let not the infrument of 
death be lifted up againft him; for he 
bas not committed amy crime. Accept 
our treafures with gratitude, thou haft 
them at prefent by force; we will re- 
. member thee in our prayers, and forget 
that we were ever rich and powerful. 
My children, the children of Almas Ali, 
ndup their petition for the life of him 

° Sis WES i 
Varieties....0dr. Pratt....Dr. Mavor, &&c. 
VARIE TI 
‘ [ Sept. 
who gave them birth. They befeech 
from thee, the author of their exiftence, 
from that humanity which we-have been - 
told glows in the breaft of European love 
linefs. By the tender mercies of enlight- 
ened fouls of Englifhmen, by the honour, 
the virtue, the honefty, and the maternal 
feclings of the great Queen, whofe off- 
fpring is fo dear to her, the miferable 
wite of thy prifoner, befeeches thet to fave 
the life of her hufband, and reftore himte 
her arms. 
Thy God will reward thee, thy coun- 
try muit thank thee, and fhe now peti- 
tioning will ever pray for thee, if thou 
granteit the prayer’or thy: 
Humble vaffal, 
ALMASSA ALI CAWS, 



iss: 
_. DLirerary and PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Including Notices of Works ix Hand, Domeffic and F Orel gi. 
®* Authentic Communications for this Article will ales be thankfully received. 
W ‘HE fecond edition of Dr. RoLLo’s 
Ms wark on the “ Diabetes Mellitus,” 
with the Refults of the trials of various 
acids and other fubftances, in the treat- 
ment of the Ives venerea, containing 
many additiona? facts and illuftrations, is 
in the prefs, and will be ready for publi- 
¢ation carly in November next. 
An Engiifh tranflation of the late Dr. 
STEWART’s “ Propofiiiones Geometrice 
wre veterum Demonfiraie is announced 
for publication. It confifts of 
geometrical theorems, 

a feries of 
_The utility of fuch 
a work is-evident, and the celebrity of the 
criginal, which is now {carce, will render 
the prefent tranflation more valuable. 
There is printing at the Glafeow Uni- 
verfity Prefs, a fmall impreffioh (to com- 
‘plete fets) of “ Clarke's Homer's Odvffey.”” 
the text of which is accurately compared 
by the Glaiecw folio Homer, and the 
notes, fc. by the quarte edition of Dr. 
@iarke’s Homer. 
'. “Mr. PRaTT is variouily occupied, be- 
ing cradually proceeding en three com- 
poiitions, the cne ** Gleanings in Ene- 
dard; the fecond, 2 novel, under the 
title of “© Great and Little Folks;? and a 
third, to he called “* Recollections of Bu- 
éofjius; the Man of one Hundred and one: 
ing Views retrofpsctive of the Four 
Sealens of Life.” 



Py 
oh 
he 
’ Dr. MAvor, of Woodftock, has in the 
‘preis a {mall, though -very important 
Biographical Work, defigned for the ufe. 
of Schcols. It is matter of great fur- 
prize and aftonifhment that there has 
never exifed in the Englifh language a 
portable ichoel-book of Britith Bic- 
graphy, to ferve as a mirror to our 
youth, as a model by which to excite 
their emulation. This very promifing 
fchool book will have for its title “* The 
Mirror, or felect Lives of illuftrious Britons, 
«who have been diftinguifbed for their vir- 
tues, talents, or remarkable progres in life, 
with incidental and praétical Refiefiens. 
“Mr. BLatr, Surgeon of the Lock Hof-- 
pital, &c. is upon the eve of publifhing 
another ColleGtion of Cafes and Obferva- 
tions on the Effects. of the New Anti- 
Venereal Remedies, which have been pro- 
poied by various medical gentlemen in 
the treatment of Syphilis. 
On Monday, Ottober the 8th, at fever 
o’elock in the evening, Mr. JoHN PEAR- 
son will commence, in “Golden-{quare, 
his autumnal courfe of Leétures on the 
Principles and Praétice ot Surgery. 
A curious and moit eloquent Epifle 
has been addrefied by the famous Lava- 
E ay 
to the French Direétery, dated 
“Zurich, May 10, 1798, in the firft year 
of Heluca> Slavery.” It is written with 
the ufual energy and eccentricity of that 
celcbrated writer. A twanfation has ap- 
peared in Londoa, . 
brs The. 
