1802.] 
The Rev. Ricuarp WaRNER, curate 
of St. James’s, Bath, will fpeedily publith, 
by fubfeription, Twenty Praétical Dif 
courles, inciuding four fermons on the 
Evidences of Chriftianity. 
‘Mr, Lysons is at prefent engaged 
upon a large and magnificent work: on 
the Via Romana. The Roman highways 
will then be illufrated as elegantly as the 
_tafk can be performed by the Jabours of 
modern artiits. 
The late Rev. Mr. ButKtey’s Notes 
of the Bible are now finithed at the prefs, 
with fome Memoirs of the Author, in 
three large oftavo volumes, and will be 
peblithed in the courfe of the month. ~ 
Profeffor Ropison is about to publifh 
a Chemical Le&ture of the late celebrated 
Dr. Joleph Black, Regius Profeffor of 
Chemiftry of Edinburgh, from the au- 
thor’s manufcripts, with. Notes, philofo- 
phical and hiftorical, by the Editor ; part- 
ly to illuftrate the Text, and partly to af- 
certain the Claims of Dr. Black, Dr.Priett- 
ley, and othereminent Philofophers of thefe 
Kingdoms, to the great Difcoveries and 
Improvements which have been made in 
Chemifiry fiace the Year 1756. 
Mr. MurruHeap, Librarian to the Uni- 
verlity of Glafgow, will fpeedily publifh 
his Travels in Parts of the Auftrian Low 
Countries, France, the Pays de Vaud, and 
‘Fulcany, ia the Years 1737 and 1789. 
Dr. PrirsTLey is ‘printing in Ame- 
rica his Notes on all the Books of the 
Old and New Teftament, and a Continua- 
tion of his Church Biftory to the prefent 
Time... Thefe two works will form eight 
or ten volumes, in oftavo, which will be 
delivered to fub{feribers-as they appear. 
The fub{cription for the whole is five 
pounds. 
A complete and improved Tranflation 
of Pascau’s THouGuts on Religion, 
and other interefing Subjects, is an- 
nounced ; to which will be prefixed Me-) 
moirs of his Life and Writings, recently 
obtained from moft authentic Sources. 
A Bibliographical Catalogue, including 
De Bure, Ofmont, Bayer, De la Caille, 
Mattaire, and fele€tions from the Har- 
leian Catalogue, will foon be brought out 
by Baynes, in two or three vols. 12mo0. 
Kt is the work of a book/eller in the city, 
and edited by a gentleman refident at 
Liverpool. 
GarDINER’s Logarithms are now en- 
graving in a ftrong manner upon copper, 
and mathematicians will foon be invited 
to examine the firft plates, in order that 
all errors may be totally removed, and the | 
work become an advantage to the nation,as 
Literary and Philofephical Intelligence. 261 
well as a fubje& of glory on account of 
the invention. 
Mr. Reap has invented a pneumatic 
apparatus, the whole of which may. be 
made for lefs than a guinea, and may be 
introduced to the bed-tide of the patient, 
who, by turning a cock, may take an in- 
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fpiration of gas as often as he pleafes. - 
Dr. ALDERSON, of Hul!, has iffued 
Propofals for eftablithing a Commercial 
Coliege in that town; the objects of 
which are—rft. To obtain for men of 
bufinefs precife 4nformation on the nature 
and value of every article of commerce, 
whetlier crude or manufaétured :—2d. Toa 
point out the country where fuch articles 
are belt to be procured :—3d. To render 
them acquainted with the various proceffes 
by which they are rendered. marketable: 
—~and gth. Tolinfrué them in the lan- 
guayes of the different countries to which 
the objeéts of commercial intercourfe may 
lead him. The advantages of fuch infti- 
tutions in every commercial town are too 
obvious to ftand in need of any comment, 
Sir Joon Stnctair, in his Effay on 
Longevity, withes the following queftions 
to have an extentive circulation, and in- 
vites\ all perfons, as far as their expe- 
rience and obfervation will admit, to an- 
{wer them with minutenefs and accuracy. 
1. What is the effeét of the climate in 
which you refide, on the health and longe- 
vity of the human race ? 
2. What form is reckoned moft conducive 
to health and longevity ? 
3. Is it found, that being defcended from 
young and/from healthy parents, is eflential 
for good health and old age? ~ 
. 4. Is it found, that health and old age de- 
pend much on the difpofition or temper of the 
individual ? . 
5. Is there any perceptible difference in 
confequence of fituation of life? 
6. What profeffions are reckoned favour- 
able to longevity, or otherwife? 
7. Is_exercife or moderate labour found 
neceflary for preferving health and long life ? 
8. Have the long-lived in general been in 
the marriage-ftate ? 
9. Have the greateft proportion of the 
long-lived confifted of males or females ? 
so. Have their been any inftances of per- 
fons renewing their age, getting new teeth, 
new hair, &c. ? 
11. What are the other circumftances 
tending to promote long-life ? 
12, What is the effet of diet on health 
and longevity? : 
13. What are the effe&ts of clothing ? 
14. What the effe& of habitation, andthe 
difference of living in a town or in the coun 
try. . 
15. What are the effects of habits and 
, cuftoms 
