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the public, Contains arguments td thew, 
that Jofephus was a believer, though, in 
confequence of his political fituation, le 
had not the magnanimity openly to avow 
his faith; and that the doétrines of the 
divinity and fupernatural birth of Jefus, 
are reprefented by him as having been 
fabricated by the priefts of Ifis, in con- 
junction with a wicked Jew at Rome; 
after the introduftion of the gofpel inte 
that city, in the reign of Tiberius. The 
firft volume will be put to prefs as 
foon as a fub{cription fufficient to defray 
the expence of publication fhall be cb- 
éained; nor will fubf{eribers to the firit 
be confidered as pledging themfelves to 
fubferibe for the fubfequent volumes. 
. ‘The fubfcription for each volume is eight 
fhillings, to be paid on the delivery. Sub- 
{criptions to be received by Mr. Johnfon, 
St. Paul’s Church Yard. 
Early in January will be publithed, 
dedicated by permiflion to his Royal 
Highnefs the commander in chief, a new 
and much improved military and naval, 
Telefcope, for meafuring diftances, &c. 
at fight; with defcriptive letter-prefs, 
and a plate of figures, explanatory and 
illuftrative of its ufefulnefs and value in 
general taétics; it is the invention of a 
gentleman at Lewes, in the county of 
Suffex, late of the ordnance department. 
Mr. DuTTON, the tranilator of «+ N3- 
eolar’s Sebaidus Noth-anker,’? has in the 
prets a fatirical poem, entitled the ‘ Li-»* 
éerary Cenfus.”” 
A tranflation of Herder’s celebrated 
work, the “* Philofophy of the Hiftory of 
Man.” is in the prefs, and will very 
fhortly be publifhed, as the tranflation is 
finifhed. In this valuable and interefting 
performance, the author traces the origin 
and progrefs of man, in his natural, mo- 
ral, civil, and political hiftory ; fhowing, 
that he, as well as every thing around. 
him, is fitted to the {phere in which he 
is defigned to aét, by the hand of con- 
fummate wifdom and beneficence; that 
fie, and aill- things elfe in the univerfe, 
could not have been formed otherwile, 
confiftently with the plan of producing 
the greateft {um ofgeneral happinefs ; and 
tuat he is merely educating on. the ftage 
of this world for the enjoyment of a nrore 
perfect itate of exiftence hereafter. Thus, 
while vindicating the ways of God to 
man, and proving, that all partial and 
apparent evil is productive of real and 
general good, the author ably executes 
his grand defign of pointing out to men 
the road to prefent and future happinefs, 
and teaching them, that it is equally con. 
| Englifh Warks in the Prefs. 
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dufive to theif immediate and remote in< 
terefts, to itrive after the attainment of 
wifdom, virtue, and goodnefs. 
Dr. Garnett, profeffor of phyfies 
and philofophy in Anderfon’s univerfity, 
Glafgow, during the faft fummer vaca- 
tion, made a tour through the Highlands 
of Scotland, and part of the Hebrides, an > 
account of which he is preparing to lay 
before the public: The work will cons 
tain a particular defcription-of the mans. 
ners and cuftoms cf the inhabitants, agri- 
culture, fifheries, natural curiofities, mi- - 
neralogy, botany, &c. with a particular 
account of the two remarkable Iflands, 
Staffa and Icalmkill. Dr. Garnett 
was accompanied by Mr.WATTS, an in-. 
genious artift, who made a great number 
of drawings, from which plates are en- 
graving in the manner of Aquatinta, by 
an eminent artift, to illuftrate the work. 
Mr. J. CooPpER WaLKER, member 
of the Royal Irith Academy, already 
known by his °* Hiffory of Irie Bards,” 
and other ingenious works, has jaf put 
the laft hand to an ‘* Hiffortcal Memoir on 
Italian Tragedy,” which will fhortly apé 
pear. : 
The late difcovery of Dr. PERKINS, 
of North America, relative to the in- 
fluence of metallic tragtors in removing 
difeafes, has excited much attention on the 
continent. A fmall traét, publifhed by 
the difcoverer in America, has been 
tranflated into the Danith language, by 
HERHALDT, divifional furgeon; and 
from thence into the German, by Pro- 
feflor Zope, phyfician to his Danifh 
majefty, and who has alfo publithed a 
very fingular critique on the American 
teftimony adduced in fupport of the trac- 
tors. Several eminent phyficians and pro- 
feflors at Copenhagen, have been employ- 
ed in inveftigating this novel fubject by 
experiments, and the refult of their en- 
quiries are prefented to the public, ina. 
pamphlet cf about 120 pages. This con- 
tains many curious phenomena, hitherto 
unobierved inthe annals of medicine, and 
which, on the whole, have contributed 
not a little to eftablifh the principle, that 
metals, as employed by Dr. Perkins, 
have an influence in removing difeafes. 
"The fcience they term Perkimifm, in ho-_ 
nour of the difcoverer. _ 
We are happy to fee, that Mr. Davip 
West, ot Bofton, is about to add to 
the many ufeful publications -with which 
he has benefitted his country, an edition 
of “ Count Rumford’s Efjays, Political, 
Economical, and Philofophical.” ‘This 
eminent philofophey is one of thofe felf- 
taught 
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