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compoted of fele&tions from Sappho, The-. 
ocritus, Bion, and Mofchus; accompanied 
by a profe tranflation, with notes. To 
which are added, valuable obfervations 
on Shakefpeare, and an attempt to prove 
his compiete knowledge of the Greek and 
Latin languages ; alfo a comparifon be- 
tween Horace and Lucian. ‘The author’s 
name is Du Bois. sey 
Amore the new chemical books we 
have to notice the ‘ Elementary Treatife 
OX Chemifiry,” tranflated from the Ger- 
man, in:two vols. 8vo, of the late cele- 
brated Dr. Gren, Profeffor at Halle, ° 
which is now in the prefs. All the phe- 
momena are in this work explained, ac- 
cording to the antiphloyiftic fyftem; and 
it bontius all the faéts relating to this 
fcience, down to the year 1796. 
Mr. NemnicH, of Hamburgh, has cir- 
€ulated, propofals for publifhing by fub- 
feription an entire new work, entitled, 
€* NomegclaterPathologicus Decemlinguis >> 
being a collection cf the names of all the 
various difeafes which afflict the human: 
frame, in the Latin, Bnelifh, French, Ita- 
lian, Spanifh, Portuguefe, Dutch, Ger- 
man, Danifh, and Swedifh languages. 
The ‘‘ Origénal Poems,” ot Mr. Tuo- 
mas SANDERSON, will fpeedily be printed 
at Carlifle, by fubfcription. 
The ** Walpoliana,” part of which has 
conferred velue on the pages of the 
Monthly Magazine, will fpeedily be pub- 
lithed in two elegant little volumes.— 
The articles-are none of them feleted 
from publifhed works of Mr. WaLPoLe, 
but were preferved from his aétual con- 
Verfations with the Editor, and by the 
implied approbation: of Mr. W. himfelf, 
who furnifhed many of the articles in his 
own hand writing. Fae Simuiles of Mr. 
Gray and Mr. W ALPOLE, with a por- 
trait of the latter centleman, will be fub- 
Jape 
. WURZER gives an account of the 
economical employ ment of the nitric acid, 
in Piekel’s manufactory at Wurzburg, 
where the manner of re-oxygenating this 
acid, decompofed by copper, attraéted the 
whole of his attention. The nitrous‘gas 
difengaged by the felutions is introduced 
into receivers containing water and fhay- 
ings of copper. This gas is re-oxygenated 
‘by its conta&t with atmofpheric air, dif- 
folved by the water, and again decompofed 
by the copper. 
M. Heper affirms that he has been 
enabled to obtain a very efficacious tinc- 
ture of antimony, by mixing with alcohol 
Rquid tartar digefted on ‘Vitrified. anti- 
mony. To this article a French editor 
fubjoins the following curious remark ; 
| Literary Intelligence. 
[Augut 
«© When we fee remedies fo violent, and 
at the fame time fo uncertain in their pre- 
paration, daily introduced undernew forms, 
and admitted into the Materia Medica, we 
cannot form a very favourable opinion of 
the philofo phy which has hitherto er nlight- 
ened that {cience.’ ; 
Profeflor BERGMAN, of Leyden, has 
difcovered a teft for afcertaining whether - 
cotton be adulterated with an admixture 
of wool, by fubmitting it to the aétion of 
oxygenated muriati¢ acid, which bleaches 
the cotton, while it gives a yellow tinge 
to the wool. The Profeffor has, by fimi- 
lar means, been enabled to diftinguith 
with accuracy the medullary fubftance of 
the brain from that of the zerwes ; and to 
trace the-latter even to their moft remote 
origin. / 
LeonHaroi, the German editor of 
Macquer’s Chemical Diétionary, has lately 
publifhed an eflay “* Ox the Reconciliation 
between the Theories of Phlogifton and Oxy- 
gen.’ Wan Mons remarks on this occa- 
fion, ** that this is a puerile attempt at a 
mixed theory, behind-which the German 
chemifts have entrenched themfelves after - 
their defeat.” Citizen Van Mons ought 
to make himfeif betier acquainted with 
the lateft chemical produétions of Gren, 
Richter, Gottiing and Hermbftaedt, in the 
original, and he Soe we doubt not, there 
Jean that this defeat is not greater than 
that of which one hypotheiis may boait 
over another. 
A work has been lately publi hed at 
Paris, intitled, ** The Corre/pondence of 
Voltaire and of Cardinal de Bernis, from 
1761 1017775 as copied jtom their Origi- 
nal Letters, with Notes, Gc.” The edi- 
tor-is citizen BoURGOING, ci-devant mi- 
nifter of the Republic at Madrid, and now 
affociate member of the National Inititute. 
The authenticity of the letters cannot be 
contefted, as the manufcripts are in the 
pofieffion of M. the chevalier AzaRa, 
ambaflador of Spain to the- French Repub- 
lic; who, it appears, was the friend and 
teftamentary executor of the cardinal. 
In fat, the reader will eafily diicern in 
them the imprefs of the well known cha- 
racker of Bernis, as well as Voltaire’s turn 
of wit in the epiftolary kind. Of ninety 
letters in this colle&tion, two only have 
been printed before, in the. ‘* Corre/pond- 
ance générale de Voltaire;” and-thete are 
now printed again, to preferve the corre- 
eee of ‘thole two celebrated men 
entire.* 
* The Cardinal died at Rome in 1794, that 
is to fay, about 16 years after Voltaire. He 
had refided in that city fince 1769, under the 
charaCters 
