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W TE Rae e to announce among the pub- 
lications for next winter, one of. 
great curiciity and importance, which 
Meflrs. RopINsons have at put to the 
prefs ; a complete edition of the works of 
the late Horace Waipole, carl of Orford. 
Tt too frequently happens that the charac- 
ter of fuch a writer is injured“by the in- 
judicious felections made from his manu- 
{cripts after his death. This wili por be 
the cafe in thig inftance, as this new edi- 
tion will be publifhed agreeably to the 
terms of his svill, and will confit of fuch 
pieces only as he had prepared for the prefs 
and eft with a view to immediate publi- 
cation. 
This editien will be printed in five 
large quarto volumes, and will confift— 
befides the works a ready printed—of the 
following :— . 
A Supplement to ar Royal and Noble 
Authors. 
Account of the Gidste 
Nature will prevail: a Drama. 
Defcription of Strawberry Hil: 
Private Anecdotes’ of the Courts of 
George I and HI 
Hieroglyphic Tales. 
Pavers relative to Chatterton, and two 
original Letters from Chatterton. 
Detters on Tragedy. 
Thcenghts on. Comedy. 
Life of Mr. Thomas Baker. 
Prologues, Epilogues, and Mifcella- 
neous Verfes. 
A fatirical Introdu€tien and imitation 
of {ome of Lord Chefterficld’s Letters ; 
and other Milcellanies in Profe. 
Letters from Lord Orford to Marfhall 
Conway, from the year 174010 1795. 
Letteis to Mr. Gray, and fome from 
him.. 
Letters to Mr. Weft, and-fome from 
- him. 
Letters to Mr. Bentley and Mr, Chute 
—and to the earl of Strafford, from the 
year 1756 to 1790. 
Letters to Lady } Herv ey, lady Avlefbu- 
ry, and others. 
The whole will be embeltlifhed with 
one hundred and fixty-four engravings. 
The works already pubiithed, the Royal 
and Noble Authors, Anecdotes of Paint- 
ing, &c. ate all enriched with valuable 
manufcript additions. 
The new part of this edition amounts to 
nearly one half, and from the ftate of for- 
wardnefs the work is in, it may be ex- 
pected to 40pear in Sts month of February 
or Apr] next. 
A coniiicrable number of experi- 
ments on the effects of the nitric. acid 
in the venereal diféafe, have been made 
in thes Royal Hofpital, at Plymouth. 
The refult has been in the higheft degree 
faticfactory. An account of thefe ciles 
has been fent co Dr. BepDOES, by whom 
it has been committed to the prefs. It 
will appear in Auguft. 
Authgntic Memorrs of the Right Hon. 
Edmund Burke, are announced for ipeedy 
publication, in one volume in quaro. It 
promifes an tmpartial review of his privare 
life. Is pubic conduct, bis fpeeches in 
parliaments and of the-different produc. 
tions of his pen 5 to be interfperfed with a 
variety of curious aneccotes, and with ex~. 
traéis from his fecret correfpondence with 
fome of the moft diftinguithed characters 
in Ecrape. 
The Rev. Joun Evans is preparing 
fer the prefs a Manufcript of the late 
reverend and learned Charles Buikley, 
entitled, ‘* An Apotogy for Human Na 
ture.” 
Mr. RoueH, author of Lorenzino de 
Medici, is preparing for the prefs.a Come _ 
parative View, in a Series of Letters, of 
the moral and metaphytical Opinions. of 
Hume, Godwin, and Hartley. 
Mr. RicuteR, ~of Wewman- Greet, 
has jut de edicated to the fubfcribers ‘to 
MAacKLIN’s great Dible, an elegant print, 
from a painting by STOTHaxD, of Chrit 
confecrating the Sacrament. The print is 
intended to form a frontpiece to the New 
Tettament. 
Mr. J. CurisTte, mufic-mafter, reft- 
dent at the Alvlum for the Blind, in 
Liverpool, is now employed in conftruét- 
ing a theograph, or an affittant for teaching 
mufic to the blind, . This machine is des 
figned to initiate young pupils in the art 
oF mufic, and to ena ble them not only to 
read but (if they have a genius for come 
pofition) to compofe their own mufic iz 
tangible charaéters. A more particular 
account of the invention is promiled for a 
future Number of this work. 
A corre{pondent of the Norfolk Chro- 
nicle recommends as a means to reftore ine 
fe€tious air to purity, to wet a cloth of any 
Kind in water mixed with quick lime, 
and to hang the cloth fo fteeped in a room 
till ic become dry, after which to renev 
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