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VARIETIES, Lirerary Anp PHILOSOPHICAL. 
Fncluding Notices of Works in Hand, Domeflic and Foreign. 
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GaRNetTrT has at laft vacated his 
fituation of Profeffor of Bhilofophy in 
the Royal Inftitution of Great Britain, 
owing, as he modeftly intimated when he 
took leave of his generous, refpectable and 
applauding audience, to infupportable ill 
_ ufage from a quarter whence he had reafon 
to expect very different treatment. We 
confine ourfelves to thefe general terms ; 
becaufe the DoStor, on the fame occafion, 
fignified his intention of fubmitting to the 
proprietors, and of courfe in fome degree 
to the public, his reafons for retiring from 
a fituation which, he faid, he could no 
longer hold with credit to himfelf or ad- 
vantage to the Inftitution. 
Our Readers will obferve with pleafure, 
7T N 7 E are forry to announce that Dr. 
by the advertifement upon our blue cover, © 
that the African Education Society has 
been found to anfwer the intended pur- 
pofe, and that twenty-one African boys 
and five girls will be likely foon to carry 
back to their native country a knowledge 
of the arts and policy of Europe. 
We learn from the firft Annual Report 
ef the Vaccine Pock Inftitution, that it 
is already fupported by two hundred fub- 
fcribers ; that of fixty thoufand perfons 
who have already been inoculated, it is 
doubtful whether four have died of the 
inoculation ; and that of ten thoufand who 
have been re-inoculated with the {mall- 
pox not a fingle well-attefted cafe has 
been produced. of this difeafe having 
taken. | 
Mr. Wm. SmituH, Land Surveyor, and 
Member of the Bath Agricultural Soci- 
ety, has in the prefs a work, intitled, 
‘é Accurate Delineations of the Natural 
Crder of the.Various Strata to be found 
in different Parts of England and Wales; 
with Practical Obfervations.’’ This work 
wiil be comprifed in one volume quarto, 
will contain a correét map of the various 
firata, accompanied with a general fettion, 
defcriptive of their various proportions 
and relations, all in their preper colours, 
fo as to prefent a faithful reprefentation of 
nature. 
The Rev. Mr. Estuin, of Briftol, has 
in the prefs a Difcourle on the Patriarchal 
and Jewith Sabbath, and the Religious 
Obfervation of Sunday. : 
Mr. G. Dyer is preparing for the Prefs, 
MONTHLY Mac. No, 74 
an improved edition of his Differtation on 
the Theory and Practice of Benevolences 
in which will be interfperfed fome Obfer- 
vations on Dr. Parr’s Spital Sermon on 
the fame fubject. 
Mr. Freperre Accum, Experimental 
Operator at the: Royal Inftitution, pro- 
poles {peedily to publith, by fub{cription, 
‘(printed on fuperfine paper, made of Strava 
only) a Syftem of Experimental. Chemif- 
try, comprehending a feries of entertain- 
ing and ftriking Experiments, fyftemati- 
cally arranged, and calculated to teach, 
in a pleafing and familiar manner the 
Science of Chemiftry, according to its 
prefent State of Improvement. 
Mr. BROWNE, who was the firft that 
undertook, fince the time of Alexander the 
Great, to fearch for the famous Temple of 
Supiter Ammonin Africa, has again fet out 
for the Eaft. 
_ A fplendid edition of Moore’s Odes 
of Anacreon is in the prefs and will be 
publifhed in December next. 
Luoyp’s éxpected Shipping Lift, in- 
cluding alfo the Royal Navy, makes its 
appearance on the 1ft day of July. 
The lnveflegator, at Sheerne/s, waits only 
for the neceffary paflports, to conve 
painters, aftronomers, and botanifts to the 
fouth-weftern coaft of of New Holland at 
prefent unknown, and to bring new plants, 
new animals, and other curiofities back 
to Europe. 
A Profpeftus has been circulated for 
publifhing by fubfeription a Seleftion of 
the moft interefting and celebrated Caufes, 
&c. &c. which have occurred in Courts 
of Judicature, &c. and particularly fuch . 
as relate to Life, Perfonal Liberty, Cha- 
ratter, &c,. &c. divefted of fuch legal re- 
petitions, and other matter, as lengthen 
and confufe, without adding to informa- 
tion. Thefe caufes will be occafionally 
illuftrated by, and contrafted with, fuch 
criminal arid civil cafes in foreign tribu- 
nals, as may be deemed worthy of a 
placein this Sele&tion: interfperfed with 
fuch curious anecdotes, as are calculated 
to expand the hunvan mind, to extend the 
fphere of judicial knowledge, and to in- 
troduce a new and rational fpecies of ° 
amufement, ‘in which a greater variety of 
charaéter will be more faithfully exhibited 
than in any other work, 
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