254, 
On the rft of June will appear the firtt 
~wumber of an elegant work under the 
title of Hibernia Depiéta; or, the Anti- 
quities, Buildings, Vowns, and PiGu- 
refyue Scenery of Ireland, from Drawings 
by Joun Craups Natres, Efq. to be 
engraved by Mr. FirrLer. 
A national work has been commenced 
by Meiirs. Pywe and’'Natrss, which is 
intended to exhibit a Picturefque Delinea- 
tion of the Aris, Agriculture, Manutec- 
tures, Trades, and Manners of the People 
of Great Britain, taken from real Life. 
it is to be publifhed in monthly Num- 
bers. 
Mr.Hasiam, of Bethlem Hofpital, has 
in the prefs a Series of Reflections on the 
Conftruction, Internal Economy, and Mo. 
ral Management of an Hofpital for Infane 
Perfons. 
Three volumes are completed of Dr. 
SHaw’s Magnificent ‘Zoology; the next, 
containing Fi/des, and the remaining eight, 
are proceeding with every poffible difpatch. 
Tt is highly creditable to the author and 
proprietor, that the engravings have hi- 
therto improved in merit as the volumes 
have fucceffively iffued from the prefs. It 
affords as much pleafure to learn, that a 
- work fo creditable to Englifn literature 
meets with liberal encouragement. 
Mr. Farreurwn has finifhed a new and 
convenient Map of the United Kingdom, 
exhibiting. in a diftin& manner a complete 
view of all the iflands and circumjacenst 
feas under the dominion of George the 
‘Third. 
The Critical Differtations of the late 
Rev. N. Capps, announced by us fome 
time ago, will be publifhed during the 
next month, iftwo volumes, octavo ; Me- 
moirs of the Life of the Author are prefix- 
ed. The following,are fome of the contents 
of thefe volumes :—An Expofition of the 
Proém of St. John’s Gofpel; on the 
Phrafes, Kingdom’ of God, of Heaven, 
and of Chrift, as ufed in Scripture 3 Chrift 
in the Form of Ged, Phil. if. 6—i2; 
Idea of -Judaifm; Differtation on Bap- 
tifm ; Differtation on the Future Life of 
Man. 
Dr. Joun jamixrson, of Edinburgh, 
author of an Anfwer to Dr. Prieftley’s 
‘Hiftory of Eartv Opinions, has in the prefs 
a work on the Ufe of Sacred Hiflory, to. 
which will be prefixed two Diflertations— 
the firft on the Authenticity of the Hiftory 
contained in the five Books of Mofes and 
that. of Jofhua ; the fecond ‘proving the 
Books afcribed to Mofes to be written by 
him, under the Influence of divine in{pi- 
ration. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
{ April 1, 
Mr. D. Turner, of Yarmouth; is at 
this time engaged in publithingja Synepfs 
of the Britifh Fuci, intended to comprize 
the Defeription and Hiftory of every known ~ 
Species, and the work will appear in a 
few weeks. 
The fecond volume of Dr. GaRNETT’S 
Annals of Philofophy, Chemiftry, and the 
Arts, is in the prefs, and will fhortly be 
publifhed. 
A medical gentleman informs us of the 
following efficacious methed of driving 
away rats:— Lake the exprefled juice of 
the ftalk or leaves of the deadly night foade, 
and make it into a foft pafte with oatmeal or 
wheat flour, place it in the holes or tracks. 
which the rats frequent, and, though they 
will not eatit, yet it is fo difagreeable to 
them, that they will inftantly leave the © 
premifes. Ay, 
Mr. MircHELL, bookfeller, of News 
caftle, deligns to commence a new weekly 
paper at that place on Tuefday, the 1ft of 
June, on a plan of improvement and lite- 
rary excellence, which cannot fail to re- 
commend it to a very extenfive circulation. 
Dr. Joon Murray, Leéturer on Na- 
tural Philofophy and Chemiftry at Edin- 
burgh, has made a sreat number of expe- 
riments to afcertain whether fluids be or 
be not condastors of caloric. The expe- 
riments which he has laid before the pub- 
lic, though. very curjous, and feemingly 
made with great accuracy, are not fufn- 
cient to eftablifh or controvert the opinion 
advanced by Count'RUMFORD, that fluids 
are non-conduétors of caloric. We may, 
in a future communicaticn, expe& a detail 
ofa feries of experiments made to de- 
termine the point. 
Dr. JENNER, in a Letter to Profeffor 
WaTERHOUSE, of Cambridge, in North 
America, gives the following asthe goiden 
rule of vaccination,viz, ** Never totake the 
virus from a vaccine puftule, for the pur- 
pole of inoculation, after the efflorefcence 
is formed around it. I with this efloref- 
cence to be confidered as a facréd boun- 
dary over which the lancet fhould ne~ 
ver pafs.”” . ! . 
The Medical Repofitory of New York, 
contains the following dreadful pitture of 
Trifh Emigration. Several fhips which 
had carried flax-feed to Ireland returned " 
in the months of june and Jay .to New. 
York, crowded with needy and wretched. 
emigrants from that ifland. “They were 
fo thick between decks that the air was de- 
prived of its ufual portion of oxygen, in-. 
fomuch, that, on bringing the fick pafiene ~ 
' gers to fhore, the common pure atmofphere 
was too ftimulant for their lungs, and a 
number 
