1800. ] 
a tranflation from a tranflation; a French 
tranflation being the bafis upon which the 
author of it founded his fuperftruéture. 
The fcene of the event was but a few Ger- 
man miles from the place of Mr. Render’s 
education ; one of Charlotte’s brothers was 
his fellow-ftudent ; and he lived on the 
moft intimate footing with the family ; he 
therefore propofes to prefent to the world, 
not only the real names of the perfons 
and places, but likewile the profiles of 
Charlotte and Wetter, and the mufic 
and words of feveral favourite fongs of 
Charlotte’s, to which he has many times 
liftened with admiration as fhe fung them, 
accompanied by her -harpfichord. ‘This 
new tranflation will be printed inan elegant 
manner, and decorated with fome beau- 
tiful engravings. 
PETER PInpar, with whofe inimitable 
productions i verfe the public have been 
delighted many years, is preparing a fatiri- 
cal work zz pro/e, in the manner of a novel, 
of which report fpeaks highly. 
Mr. Renwick, fo long known to the 
public for his profeffional attention to the 
welfare of the Britifh navy, is about to 
publifh Memorials tranfmitted tothe Lords 
Commiffioners of the Admiralty, on the - 
fubject of Medical Service, together with 
an Addrefs to Parliament on the Scarcity 
of Corn. 2 
he gactous oxid of azote, carefully prea 
pared from the xitrate of ammoniac, was 
inhaled at the houfe of the RoyaL INsTI- 
TUTION, in Albemarle-ftreet, in the pre- 
fence of fome hundreds of fpe€lators. ‘The 
firft gentleman who made the experiment, 
inhaled it without any perceptible effects : 
he had inhaled this gas before, both in 
large and {mall quantities, without its pro- 
ducing any fenfible effects. On another 
gentleman it produced a ftrong difpofi- 
tion to involuntary laughter, which con- 
tinued about ten minutes; he after- 
wards felt his fpirits. uncommonly live- 
ly. for the remainder of the day, took 
his dinner with a better appetite than ufual, 
and faid that he felt a particular activity 
and fenfe of lightnefs, as if he could have 
mounted into the air. The pulfe of the 
third gentleman gradually diminifhed in 
ftreneth, and increafed in frequency during 
_theinhalation; at lait his vifion and-hear- 
ing became indiftinét and confufed, and a. 
fyncope was with difficulty prevented. No 
other effe€tthan flight head-ach and con- 
fiderable languor fucceeded. The quan- 
tity of gas inhaled by each gentleman was 
abeut two gallons. 
Mr. Lunn, Bookfeller, of Oxford-ftreet, 
has recently imported fome very rare qal- 
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fical books, frem the Continent: amongft 
them are a few Epition£s PRincires. 
Mr. CHarues Lioyp’s Edmund Oli- 
ver has been publifhed in French at Ge- 
neva. | ! 
The firft volume of the abridged edition 
of Dr. DopprivGe’s Family Expofitor 
will be ready for delivery in a few days, 
to fuch fub{cribers as fend for it to the 
publithers. 
Mr. E. PaLMEr, Stationer, in Cheap- 
fide, has invented a method of binding large 
account-books, which open fo as to admit 
of being written in clofe to the back, and 
are even ftronger than thofe bound in the 
common method. ‘They are found to an- 
{wer the purpofe better than any that have 
been made upon other principles. 
Plan and conditions of the New Greek 
and Englifh Lexicon, propofed to be pub- 
lithed by Mr. Gilbert Wakefield. 
1. This Lexicon willbe a thick velume in 
quarto; and is propofed to be publifhed by 
{uofcription: the price 21. 2s. one half to be 
paid at the time of fubfcribing, and the re- 
mainder on the delivery of the book. 
2. It will be ready for the prefs foon after 
the editor’s releafe from Dorchefter Gaol, 
on May 3oth, 1801, as the principal mate- 
rials have been long fee provided ;-and wil! 
be printed off with all poffible expedition. 
3. The execution will be conduéted on 
the plan of Hederic, as enlarged and cor- 
reCted by Morell, (from the commodioufnefs 
of that plan for common ufe); but with 
great and very important improvements in. 
many refpect on that lexicon. The compila- 
tion and compofition of a complete lexicon for 
the Greek language would be an enterprife of 
tar greater labour, and ampler compafs, fo as 
to require a much more liberal fubfcription 
and general patronage, than is eats for 
the prefent undertaking. 
4. The interpretation of the Greek wou 
will be univerfally i in Englith, as incompara- 
28) preferable in every re{pect for domettic 
ule, to a Latin interpretation 3 and this fingle 
variation will render, it is prefumed, this 
projected lexicon a moft eligible acquifition 
to fchools, and all private ftudents in the - 
Greek language. A’ Latin interpretation 
muft generally appear inadequate to an Eng- 
lifh ftudent, Is frequently no lefs obfcure 
and unintelligible than the original, and’ 
often ferves only to conceal the doubts and 
ignorance of the lexicographer. On the con- 
trary, the true power and nice peculiarities 
of the Greek idiom may he communicated 
more fully and clearly in the Englith lah- 
guage, which is, for the moft part, extreme- 
ly well calculated to reprefent the elegances 
and proprieties of the Greek Bonne. 
oe An addition will be made of many 
words, not fewer than from 15,000 to20,000, 
or upwards, almoft entirely accumulated by 
bhe editor, in a courfe of years during the 
Na profecution 
