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profecution of his fudies,, with an immediate 
view to his own private ufe, but with fome 
profpeét of the prefent undertaking: words 
not inferted in Hederic, nor, as the editor be- 
lieves, in any extant lexicon whatever. 
6. A retrenchment of fuperfiuities will 
take place, and a correétion of errors and ab- 
furdities without number. 
7. Greater accuracy and fimplicity will 
_be obferved, in ftating the primary, and the 
derivative, or inferible fenfe of words, in 
conformity to the original principles, and, fub- 
fequent procefies, of all learned and long pre- 
vailing languages. . 
8. This lexicon will be enriched alfo by a 
wery confiderable addition of legitimate con- 
ftruétions, elegant phrafes, and varieties of 
formation in verbs and nouns, from the moft 
approved writers of antiquity; all highly 
neceflary to a juft perception of the beauties 
and proprieties of the languge. 
g. Laftly, numberlefs words will be afcer- 
tained and confirmed by the moft claffic au- 
thors, which now appear in the beft editions 
of Hederic, with exceptionable, or no autho- 
rity atall. 
As the execution of this work, both in 
point of labour and expence, appears very 
formidable to the editor, and is indeed a moft 
arduous enterprife for an individual; and as 
the public literature of the country is mate- 
rially interefted in a work of this nature, he 
fhall not feel himfelf induced to proceed in 
the printing of it with a lefs encouragement 
than a fubfcription for 2000 copies. 
Subfcriptions are received, and propofals 
may be had at Mr.J.T. Rutt’s, No.139, Upper 
Thames-{treet; and at Mr. Phillips’s, No. 71, 
St. Paul’s Church-yard. 
Dr. OGiLviE has iffued propofals for 
publifhing by fubfcription an epic poem, 
entitled Britannia, the fubject of which is 
the landing of Brutus on the ifland, his 
wars with the Aborigines or natives, and 
the fubfequent fettlement and civilization 
of the country by him and his followers. 
‘This well known legend or fable has en- 
gaged the attention of various poets, but 
particularly of Pope, the plan of whofe 
“projected performance has long been before 
the public. If we except the AEncid of 
Virgil perhaps no poem, ancient or modern, 
has fo jufta title to the appellation of a Na- 
tional Epicas the prefent, whether we con- 
fider the general fubject, which refpeéts the 
origin of the nation, or particular parts, 
which embrace a fuccinét view of the moft 
interefting periods of the Englifh hiftory. 
The price to be one guinea. 
The Third and Laft Volume of that 
truly fplendid, and valuable work, Mr. 
BEAUMONTs’s Travels through the Le- 
pontine Alps, illuftrated with 26 large, 
Views, beautifully engraved, and a Chart 
of Places conneéted with the Rout from 
Lyons in France to Turin and Lombardy, 
Literary and Philfophical Dien 
[April 1; 
including the principal peaks of that 
chain of the Alps from the Bochetta to 
Mount St.Gothardjin the Lepontine Alps, 
which -has been lately delayed on account 
of the advanced and extravagant price of 
paper, will fpeedily be finifhed. 
There is now among the French prifon- 
ers at Liverpool, a young man of 21, born 
on the frontiers of Poland, very remarkable - 
for his powers of devouring food, efpecial- 
ly raw meat, which is his favourite ali- 
ment. In one year he devoured 174 cats, 
"many of them while alive ; and when The 
Hoche, on board of which he was taken, 
ftruck, after a fevere action, his hunger 
led him to lay hold of a man’s leg which, 
had been fhot off, and on which he was | 
making a hearty meal when it was taken 
from him. In an experiment, madeat the 
prifon laft September, before the commif- 
fioner of fick and wounded feamen, and 
other refpectable witnefles, he devoured in 
one day, of raw cow’s udder, 4lb. raw 
beef, rolb. candles, 2lb. in all 16lb. with 
five bottles of porter. He is never fick ; is 
healthy and lively, ‘and not remarkable in 
any other conftitutional circumftance, ex- 
cept that he is extremely hot in the night, 
and {weats profufely, by which evacuation 
nature feems chiefly to get rid-of her bur- 
den. He is fix feet, three inches, in height, 
pale, of a pleafant countenance, and goeod- 
tempered. His father and eight brothers 
are all diftinguifhed for voracity of appe- 
tite. Med. and Phyf. Journal. 
The furgeons of the Manchefter Infir- 
mary have advertifed a commencement of 
gratuitous inoculation for the cow-pox on 
March 1oth;. at the fame time they mean ~ 
to continue the ufual inoculation for the 
imall-pox. 
In PaLuas’s new Travels is mentioned 
a method praétifed in Ruffia, by which the 
quantity of {pirits producible froma given 
quantity of grain, is greatly increafed. 
It confifts in reducing the temperature of 
the hot water ufed in the math, by the 
addition of cold water and ice, whereby the 
e(cape of the fpirituous particles, durin 
fermentation, is prevented. 
A long lift has been publified of near 
a hundred works, in French and Latim, 
which were forbidden in’ April, May, and 
June laft, at Vienna, to be circulated ’in 
Germany. Among théfe is one, entitled. 
<< the Birth of William Pitt, Son of the 
Earl of Chatham ; or, Angelina @ ine 
Hiffory ;” ‘© the Taking of Paris,” a 
drama in one act; “© the Travels of the 
Duc dela Rochefoucault Liancourt, in the 
United States of America,” | 
M. SonNENLEITAER, of Vienna, whe 
is at this time on his travels in the north, 
has — 
