1798.] 
The fecond volume, which completes 
the account of the ‘* ate Dutch Embaffy 
to Pekiz’* has jult made its appearance at 
Paris. This authentic work, which may 
be at once confidered as a fupplement and 
appendage to that of Sir GEORGE STAUN- 
TON’s, nearly perfects the knowledge. of 
an immenfe empire, of which the only ac- 
counts publifhed before them were dis- 
fisured by prieftcraft and fuperftition. 
The Datch Embaffy, as a fource of new 
and curious information, poffefles the pe- 
culiar advantage, that it was undertaken 
at the exprefs requeit of the Chinefe Go 
vernment, which defied the gratification 
of having Ambaffadors from foreign na- 
tions prefent at the grand and remarkable 
feftival of the fixtieth anniverfary of the 
E-mperor’s agceffion to the throne. VAN 
Bram, the fecond pérfon in the embaily, 
and its hiftorian, refides at prefent near 
Philadelphia, and his works had the fin- 
gular recommendation of being patronized 
by the American and French govern- 
ments ; it is dedicated by permiifion to 
General Wafhinston, and the numerous 
drawings, extenfive collefticn of natural 
hiftory, &c. have been purchafed_ by the 
Directory, by whom, at fome futuye time 
they may be fplendidly publifhed. 
Mrs. WAKEFIELD has jult completed 
a fecond volume cf her “* Fuwenile Anec- 
dotes founded on Faéts.”’ 
A new and improved tranflation from 
the French of that highly-efteemed work 
“<¢ The Studies of Nature,’ of BERNARDIN 
SAINT PreRRE, will be publifhed early 
in O&tober, in 3 vols. o¢tavo. 
The Heavens in the firft 20 days of 
Oftaber, before fun-rife in the morning, 
will exhibit an uncommonly rich treat to 
the curious in aftronomy. On Saturday 
and Sunday, the 13th and 14th, there 
will be a wifible conjunction at only one 
degree diftant of Venus and Mercury, at 
which time they will rife full eaft about 
10 minutes befoye Ave in the mornittg. 
On thole mornings, and on feveral which 
precede.and follow, at r5 and 20 minutes 
pail five, thofe plancts will be vifible fe- 
veraldegrees above the horizon, nearly 
eaft. Saturn, much higher in-the hea- 
vens, will be vifible South by Eaft, ina 
ling with Caftor and Poilux, two fathous 
ftars of the firt magnitude, and juit below 
them. Halt way between Venus and Sa- 
turn, direStly in the line of the ecliptic, 
is Regulus, another fplendid fixed ftar. 
Jupiter, about the fame height as Regu- 
Jus, but almoft due weft, will eclipie by 
his {piendour the Piciades, or {even ‘tars, 
en the one hand, andthe fiery Aldeberan 
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on ghe other. Full South will fparkfe 
Sirius, the moit fplendid of the fixed 
{tars ; anda little to the right, or weft, 
the magnificent claffical coniteilation of 
Orion will prefent itfelf. AJ] perfons in 
poileifion of telefcopes of moderate power 
will doubtlefs avail themfelves of this op- 
portunity to obferve the horned, phafes of 
Venus and Mercury, the moons of Ju- 
piter and Saturn, the ring of the latter, 
and the nebulous apoearance in the {word 
of Orion. The Uranus. or Herichel,which 
is fituated half way between Regulus and 
Venus,a will alfo be vifible through a 
telefcope. 
The following has been fubmitted as 
an outline of a plan for the Improvement 
sot the Port of London: — 
ift. A dock to be excavated in Wap- 
ping, which wil#contain between 400 and 
§00 ihips. 
2d. lLondon-bridge to be taken down, 
and.a new one to be built about 200 
yards above where the prefent ftands, 
which will provide a commedious {lation 
for the coal and timber trade, near the 
heart of the metropolis. _ eae 
3d. Government is to purchafe the pre- 
fent legal quays, and the range of build- 
ings which it may be neceflary to convert 
into warehoufes: new quays are to be 
conftructed from ‘Tower-hill to Fith- 
ftreet-hill, in the centre of which the 
Cuftom-houfe is to be built: capacious 
warehoufes are to be ere€ted cver the 
quays, on the margins of the dock. 
This plan is faid to be the produ€tion 
of Sir FREDERICK MORTON RDEN. 
A German Phvfician, of the name of 
J 
Mark, has difcovered that acorns may 
be ufed with advantage as a fubfitute for 
coffee... Confidering the dearnefs of this 
article, it will prove a difcovery of great 
lm portance. i 
Dr. Freperick ‘Hirscu, Dentift to 
feveral German courts, has. lately pub- 
Iithed the following account of an ap- 
proved “ Remedy for the Tooth-ache :” 
<¢ In the practice of my profeffion of a 
Dentift,’’ he fays, * I have particularly 
turned my attention to the Cure of the 
Tooth-ache, and I learned from a cele- 
brated German Phyfician, as well as 
from the. Sournal der Erjindungen, Ss. 
¢* Journallof inventions, theories, and con-. 
tradictions, in natural philofophy and 
phyfic,. No. xiv, p, 135, that among 
other infeéts the well known Ladybird, 
Coccizella feptempunétata, pofletfed a pe-" 
culiar virtue againit the Tooth-ache ; I 
was induced to collet fome of thefe in- 
fects. Qn repeated trials I found it to 
iy exceed 
