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which thefe engravings are to be taken 
were painted ea frefco by Ricaup and 
SMIRKE, and are beautiful and obvious 
allegorical emblems of Providence, Inno- 
cence, Wifdom, Happinefs, and Conju- 
gal Aifeétion. 
My. Pearson, furgeon of the Lock 
Hofpital and Afylum, and of the Public 
Difpenfary, is prepariog an account of 
experiments he has made with the nitrous 
acid In venereal cafes, which he intends to 
publifa in the fpring of 1798. He alfo 
propoles to add fome obfervations on the 
effects of feveral other medicines, which 
he has tried at different times, during 
_ nearly feventcen years that he has had the 
opportunity of cultivating fuch enquiries 
at the Lock Hofpital: 
M;. Pearsan has been many years 
employed in colleéting materials for a 
treatife on the lues venerea, and the dif- 
eafes connected with, or dependent upon, 
the action of the virus, and the effects of 
mercury. He ikewife intends to give, in 
a more’ detailed form, the opinions he has 
during many years delivered m his lec- 
tures, on the origin of that difeafe; and 
to offer his proofs of its not having been 
imported from America by Columbus, or 
the companions of his voyages. if 
The fame gentleman will begin his 
le€tures on the principles and practice of 
furgery, in the middle of January, 1798, 
at his houfe in Golden-fquare ; in which 
he will, as ufwai, deliver the hiftory and 
treatment of fcrofula and lues venera. 
Mr. Roscok, the jufily celebrated au- 
thor of the Life of Lorenzo de Medici, has 
been, for fome time, engaged upon a lite 
ef Burns, the Scorch poct. 
A novel in three volumes, called the 
ReAeor’s Son, by Miss PLUMPTRE, is 
in the prefs, and will be publifhed foon 
after Chrilimas. 
The Avbrey papers, fo long expected, 
both from Mr. Matone and his oppo- 
nent, Mr. CAULFIELD, are at length 
promifed im the prefent month by the 
latter gentleman. Of the embellifhments 
we have heard high encomiums, which 
we truft will prove to be merited. 
Dr. RoBERT ANDERSON, of Heriot’s 
Green, Edinburgh, isemployed in revifing 
and enlarging his Biographical and Critical 
refaces tothe Works of thé Britifb Poets, for 
a feparate edition. This work will con- 
tain the Lives of the moft eminent Bri- 
tith Poets, from Chaucer to the prefent 
time, with critical obfervations on their 
works. Hints and notices, for fupplying 
deficiencies and reétifying miftakes in the 
lives of the poets of a remote period, and 
authentic information refpecting the lives 
- Domeftie Literary and Scientific Intelligences 
[ Nov. 
of the modern poets, efpecially of thofe 
lately deceafed, of whom there are no 
written memorials, will be thankfully re- 
“ceived by Dr. ANDERSON, either com- 
municated through the chante] of the 
MontTHLY MaGAzinE, or tranfmitted 
to J. and A. Arch, Gracechurch-fireet, 
London ; Mundell and Son, Edinburgh ; 
and J. Mundell, College, Glafgow, 
A new edition of Adams’s Effays on 
the Microfcope, which has been for fome 
time preparing, will appear in a few 
days, with confiderable additions and im- 
provements by Mr, F. KANMACHER, 
F.L.§. illuftrated with thirty-three 
folio plates, 
The poem entitled Purfurts of Litera- 
ture, afcribed in London folely to Mr. 
T. J. Maruias, treafurer to the queen, 
and author of .Runic Odes, and of an 
Effay on the Evidence refpeéting Rowley’s 
Poems, is generally confidered at Cam- 
bridge as the joint produétion of Mr. 
Matuias, Mr. MANSELL, the public 
orator, and of Dr, RENNEL, How far - 
the Jattcr opinion be correét, or how much 
was the degree of affiftance afforded, we 
do not take upon us to determine. ~ 
Mr. RicHARD PARKINSON, of Don- 
cafter, hes announced a work ijn two 
volumes oétavo, by fubfecription, under the 
title of “ The Experienced Farmer” In 
this work he propofes to explain the 
whole fyftem of agriculture, hufbandry, 
and the breeding of cattle; and to point 
out at large the beft methods and the 
moft recent improvements in every branch 
of the farming bufinefs. 
Mifs-Ciark,the grand-daughter of the 
late Col. Frederic, fon of Theodore, king 
of Corfica, has announced a novel, under 
the aulpices of the PRINCE OF /WALEs, 
for which fuch a refpeétable fubfcription 
has already been obtained, as does great 
honour to LApy James, Mr. NortTH= 
MORE, and its other active patrons. The 
novel is to be entitled, “ Jamive, sor the 
Flozver of the Creation,” and to_be -pub- 
lifhed in two volumes, at a fubfeription of 
halfa guinea. The interefting memoir of 
Col, Frederic, which appeared in the 
Monthly Magazine for February lat, has, 
we hope, not left an ufelefs imprefiion 
upon the minds of our opulent readers. 
In addition to the information given in 
cur laft, of an intended courfe of lectures 
on anatomy and phyfiology, by Mefirs. 
BowLes and SmyTH, furgeons, of Brif- 
tol, under the patronage of Dr. Ben» 
DOES, we'are now able to ftate, that the 
undertaking has bcen encouraged in the 
moft flattering way. The introductory 
leGture, on the general means of pre- 
? ferving 

