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3. Be pleafed to mention them: 
4. Of what profeffion ? 
5. Did he occupy any public employment ? 
What were the duties, and probable emolu- 
ments, é&c.? Dg 
6. Was he the author of any literary works, 
and of what ? 
7. Has he left any works behind him, 
either finifhed, or unfinifhed ? 
8. Did he make any difcoveries in any of 
the arts or fciences, and in what did they 
conhft > 
g. Did he make any improvements in any 
other branch of knowiedye? Pleafe to ftate 
them. 
zo. When did he die, and of what difeafe ? 
1r. Has any monument been erected to 
his memory; what is the epitaph, or in- 
fcription ? . 
“42. Be pleafed to mention any other par- 
ticulars not alluded to above, relative to his 
origin and family, and furviving relatives or 
children. 
The Rife and Diffolution of the Infidel 
Societies, alluded to by the Bithop of 
London in tie laft Charge to the Clergy 
of his diocefe ; general confiderations on 
the influence of Infidelity upon Society ; 
and a Poftfcript upon the declining ftate 
of democratical politics in this county, 
by Mr. W. H. Retp, is in the prefs. 
While the Britifh arms have been fecu- 
ring and extending our empire in India, 
the moit indetatigable exertions have been 
making by Dr. Anderfon, Phyfician Ge- 
neral at Calcutta, and the {uperintendants 
of the Company’s gardens in the feveral 
fettlements on the Coaft, in the importa- 
tion and culture of every uieful vegetable. 
AL correfpondent fuccels attends iheir la- 
bours, and probably in a few years every 
valuable plant that can exift m the vari- 
ous climares of our vali poffeffions in Afia, 
wil con{pire to enrich and adorn them 
by accumulating in thefe fertile regions 
the {elected treaiures of the vegetable king- 
Gomer; gt 
Plantations have been eftablifhed in fe- 
veral of the fetilements, of the various 
ipecie’s of Mulberry for flk-worms and of 
Nopal for -cochineal. Several hundred 
weight of feeds of the firit Bourbon Cot- 
ton, and of the brown Cotton of. Malta, 
have been diftmbuted among the natives. 
Indigo, fuperior even to the beft Guatima- 
a, has been produced in fuch quantities 
as to bid tair to drive all American and 
“Welt Indian competitors out of the Euro- 
pean markets. In the year 1798, there 
arrived from the Eaftern Iflands, by a 
‘fingle thip, 33443 nutmeg, 2663 clove, and 
334 chocolate trees, all in high health,which 
were diltributed througn the - Malabar 
Literary and Philfophical Intelligence. 
[May I, 
Coaft and Bengal. The famous white ropes 
of China have been difcovered to be made 
of the fibres of the great aloe, prepared — 
like hemp; this plant abounds ia the In- 
dian forefts, and an experiment has been 
made by order of Admiral Rainier, from 
which it_appears that a rope made of the 
aloe, is equal in ftrength to a hempen one 
of four times its fize. 
‘The Farming Society, lately eftablithed 
by Sir JouN Srnciark have viewed, and 
it is probable, will enter upon a farm of 
400 acres for experimental purpofts, fitu- 
ated near Merton in Surrey. The num- 
ber of sol. thares which are already en- 
gaged for, exceed 30,0001. Eighty thou- 
{and pounds, or enough to carry on eight 
farms, is the fum which is propofed to be 
raed. 
Mr. Duckett, Jun. and a number of 
other farmers, have recently failed for the 
Cape of Good Hope, under the patronage 
and Direétion of the Britifh Government : 
they have carried out with them European 
feeds and fiock, and implements of every 
kind, with a view to the improvement of 
the practice of agriculture at the Cape. 
This circumftance may feem to indicate 
that it is the defign of Government to re- _ 
tain poffeffion of the Cape in the event of a - 
a general peace. . ’ 
Mr. Carey has in the prefs a {mall 
tract on Latin Profedy and Verfifications 
which, befides the neceflary rules and ex- 
amples, is to contain /pzoptical tables of 
quantity, for the ufe of thofe who have 
forgotten the rules, or who do not choo 
to commit them to memory. 
Mefirs. WuiLLiams and JoHNs, of 
Plymouth, have announced for publica= 
tion, by fubfcription, a work in ten num- 
bers, at three fhillings each, under the 
title of Piéturefque Excurficns in Devon- 
fhire; to confit of highly-finifhed etch- 
ings, from drawings made for the purpofe, 
with letter- prefs defcriptions and obferva- 
tions. The firt number, containing four 
prints from eminently beautiful fubjeéts, 
will be publifhed in June. ; 
Mefirs. W1LLiams, whofe Paper Books 
for the counting houte have been fo generally 
approved of; have begun to apply their 
patent principle to the binding of printed 
Books, with an equal degree of fuccels: 
A new fimple Earth has been difcovered 
in the Saxon Beryll, dug out of the pit 
Frifchgliick, near Johan Georgentiadt, by 
Dr. Joun Barto. TromMspore, of 
Erfurt.~This new Earth poffeffes the 
following qualities, by which it is dif- 
tinguithed from other earths: it is white, 
and indviuble in water; in a frefh _ 
an 
