4801.] 
Ttalicus, in feventeen Books; tranflatéd 
inta Ryme-verle by himfelf, and written 
by his own hand upon two hundred fheets 
of quarto. At the fame time were ftolen 
a packet of Mifcellanies, {ome part profe ; 
written on the fame fort of paper and by 
the fame hand: among which was one 
piece in the, French language, inthe hand- 
writing of the Earl of Bucuan. 
In January a Firft Number will make 
its appearance of the Coftume of Turkey, 
Afiatic, as well as European ; alfo includ- 
ing that of the Greek Iflands of the 
Archipelago: ina feries of coloured En- 
gravings, illuftrative of, the fingular and 
diverfifed Manners, Cuftoms, and Dreffes 
of thofe interefting Nations. Faithfuily 
copied from drawings, taken on the {pot, 
by Ocravian Datvimart, with De- 
fcriptions in Englifh andFrench. It will be 
publithed by MivLer, who has acquired 
fo much credit by his elegant work on 
the Coftume and Punifhments of China. 
The Rev. Cooper Witiyams will 
f{peedily publith in quarto, A Voyage up 
the Mediterrancan, in his Majefty’s Ship 
the Swiftfure, one of the fquadron under 
the command of Admiral Netson. Se- 
veral Views on the fhores of Egypt and 
Syria, from drawings made by the author, 
on the fpot, will be given to elucidate the 
defcription. The events attending the re- 
capture of Naples, and fome Memoirs of 
the Court of Sicily, at Palermo, will be 
related : alfo fome new light will pro- 
bably be thrown on the caufe of the hor- 
rible butcheries and difgraceful profcrip- 
tions which followed the re-capture, 
It has been the misfortune of the pro- 
prietors of the new edition of Calmet’s 
Di&tionary, to find that the materials of 
paper bleached with the mumiatic acid 
produce an article wholly ufelefs. 
natures Z, Aa, and Bb of the fine paper 
copies in the third part of the Supplement 
have been printed on this over-bleached 
paper; and the confequence is, that the 
leaves fall to pieces by their own weight, 
and if {queezed in the hand crumble to 
powder. This kind of paper may be 
difcovered by its acid tafte when applied 
to the tongue; it is otherwife not to be 
deteced till it is wet down for printing. 
‘The proprietors of Calmet will gladly 
exchange the three fheets printed on this 
kind of paper. 
Sir W, OusELy, after having publithed 
his learned Obferyations on the Peblavi 
Medals of Dr. Hunrer’s Mufeum, is 
now preparing moveable types to exprefs 
the true and ancient Peb/awi character for 
Literary and Philgfephical Intelitgence. 
Sig- . 
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his Treatife on the Numifmatick and Mif- 
céllaneous Antiquities of Perfia, to be pub- 
lithed in the begining of next year. 
Mr. TitLoca, the editor of the Pdr- 
lofophical Magazine, has publithed an Ac- 
count of the Origin and Progre({s of Stere- 
otype Printing in England, in. which he 
bears fo great a part. By this account i 
appears, that the Engli/h Stereotype is 
much anterior to Dipotr’s invention in 
France, and has been praétifed by Mr. 
Tilloch himfelf for twenty years and up~ 
wards. 
Citizen CaapTat, the French Minifer 
of the Interior, has given orders to have 
the Babylonian infcriptions at Paris copied 
forDr.HaGER,of this metropolis. As foon 
as Dr. Hager has received them, he in- 
tends to join them as anh appendix to his 
Diflertation o2 the newly-difcovered Baby- 
lonian Infcriptions, now priating. 
The Abbé DeLiLLe, advantageoufly 
known for his Poem on the Gardens, has 
_been engaged by the book(fellers of Loudox 
to tranflate Milton's Parudifé Loff into 
French verfe, for which he is to re~ 
ceive the fum of roool. 
The Duke of Brunfwic-Oels has order= 
ed a monument to be ereéted to the late 
M. Kafiner, the celebrated German ma- 
thematician, in the library of the univer- 
fity of Gottingen, with an infcription com- 
pofed by the Duke himéelf. 
Kafiner, with whichthis monument is dee 
‘corated, is of Carrara-marble. 
The Academy of Scieuces at Berlin hag 
lately granted prizes for two memoirs con- 
cerning the queftion of the Origin of Hu- 
man Knowledge: the firk.has been given 
to M. Ben-david, of Berlin; the fecond te 
if Degerando, Proteffor of Philofophy at 
aris. 
The King of Pruffia has bought for 
80,c0o-rix dollars the library of the late 
M. Forfter, Profeffor at Halle, with which 
the royal library at Berlin is to be enrich- 
\ 
The new univerfity for the provinces 
of Finland, Efthland, Livonia, and Cour- . 
land, in Ruffia, will beettablifhed at Dorpar. - 
The royal cabinet of Natural Hittory 
at Madrid, has deen Jately enriched by the 
return of the botanifis, Don HipPoLyro 
Ruiz, and Don JosepH Pavon, from 
South America, with above fitty boxes 
filled with minerals, quadrupeds, birds, 
fifhes, infecbs, fhells, American monu-« 
ments, feeds of different plants, barks, 
roots, gums, and balfams celebrated for 
their ufefulnefs and medical virtue. 
M, HaMMeER, one of the gentlemen 
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