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Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
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VARIETIES, Literary AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
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GREAT BRITAIN. 
UR readers will learn, with much 
a{ftonifhment, that fince the publica- 
tion of our Jaft Number, the difcovery of 
Nanother NEW PLANET has been an- 
nounced by Dr. OLBERS, of Bremen. His 
announcement of the difcovery being dif- 
patched to England as foon as it was 
made, and few obfervations being taken in 
this country, we are not enabled to ftate 
the polition of its orbit with certainty. 
We cannot more completely gratify public 
curiofity on this moit interefting fubject 
than by giving place to a letter, which we 
received from Mr. W. WaLKER, at a 
late period of the month. 
To the Editor of the Mortily Magazine. 
SIR, 
THE {mall engraving you made of the 
ftars, in your laft month’s Magazine, will be 
very interefting to your numerous readers of 
this month, from the circumftance of a ftill 
more recently difcovered planet, being fitua- 
ted amongftthem. ‘The planet difcovered by 
Mr. Olbers, at Bremen, on the 28th ult. 
fs now in avery fmall degree, higher than 
the fpot you have marked, as the place of the 
Ceres, on the 25th of March—and will be 
found near this place for fome evenings to 
come,. It is not vifible to the naked eye, 
and through a telefcope appears more faint 
than the Ceres, and of.a pale colour. It 
feems probable, that it is about as far again 
from the fun asthe earth—-whilft the Ceres 
is near three times as far off—but I acknow- 
ledge, that I have much hefitation in believing 
ita planet. The Ceres has advanced near to 
Beta Leonis, and eachof thefe objects, by a 
night glafs, may eafily be difcovered. 
42 Conduit-fireet, London, 
Jam, Sir, 
April 20, 1802. 
Your's, &c. 
W. WaLKeER. 
Le&turer onthe Eidouranion. 
Amongft the many remains of antiqui- 
ty, which thé French had colleéted in 
Egypt, and- which it was ftipulated in the 
articles of furrender,betweenLordHutrcu- 
iNSON and Menou, thould be given 
up to us, the moit confiderable is the 
Stone lately arrived under the care of Co- 
lonel TurNeER, and placed at prefent, 
for infpection, in the hbrary of the Socie- 
ty of Antiquaries. It exhibits three in- 
feriptions, the upper part of the firft of 
which, in bieroglphics, is unfortunately 
broken; but the fecond, in the ancient 
Egyptian charaéer, and the third, in 
Greek, ave nearly perfeét, and the laft le- 
gible, and not difficult to be explained. 
As thefe infcriptions are the fame in dif- 
ferent characters, the laft will, no doubt, 
materially affift to the elucidation of the 
two former, and -ferve to throw light on 
the true mode of interpreting the ancient 
facred charaéter, which has remained fo. 
long a defideratum. Several members of 
the Society, we underftand, are engaged in 
explaining it, and we fhall be happy to 
have an opportunity, in an early Number, 
of prefenting our readers with a faithful 
fac-fimile from it. In Upper Egypt, as 
appears from thefe* infcriptions, a dupli- 
cate of this {tone was ere&ted, and, fhould. 
it be fortunately found, it would probably 
fupply the mutilations which its compa- 
nion has fuffered. . 
The intellecétual Phyfics, a work 
on which Governor PownaLu has for 
feveral years {pent his hours of Jeifure 
from the very many aétive employments 
in which he has been engaged, is foon to 
make its appearance before the public, 
and will add to the high reputation of its 
author for metaphyfical as well as political 
rcfearches. The work was printed in 
part fix years ago, and fubjeéted to the in-- 
{pection of a few of the author’s friends, 
who were. anxious for its publication ; 
but the Governor rightly judging that in 
the then difturbed ftate of the public mind a 
on the fubjeét of politics, refined fpecula-— 
tions on the nature of manand his higher 
deftinies, would fcarcely be admitted to 
that coolnefs of inveftigation which the 
fubject required, determined to wait till 
the peace of Europe was re-eftablifhed. 
During this interval, he was occupied in 
revifing his thoughts, and, from a perfon 
of his known abilities, and long acquain- 
tance with the beft writers of antiquity, it 
cannot be doubted that much will be 
found in them to intereft the philofophical 
and literary world. 
The friends of the late Dr. GeDDEsS 
will be glad to Jearn that Mr. MEDLEY 
had finifhed an excellent portrait of him 
only a week previoufly to his death, for 
TimoTuy Brown, Efq. of Camberwell, 
and that, after it has appeared in the Exhi- 
bition, a capital engraving will be taken - 
from it for publication. 
Dr. Toutmin, of Taunton, has nearly 
conducted through the prefs the late Rev. 
and learned CHARLESBULKLEY’s “ Notes 
on the Bible.” This work, more than 
h:If of the laft volume of which is printed, 
will form three large cétavo volumes. It 
is weil known that it was with the author 
himfelf 
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