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VARIETIES, Lirzrary AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeflic and Foreign. 
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A Plan of a Telegraphic Eftablifhment 
y for Dometic and Commercial Pur- 
poles having been fuggefted fome time fince 
to Mr, Boaz, the ingenious patentee of a 
Day andNightTelegraph(vide vol.13,page 
250), that gentleman has lately fubmitted 
propofals for a local experiment to the 
inhabitants of Liverpool. A line of Te- 
legraphs is in confequence about to be 
eftablifhed from Liverpool to Holyhead, 
for the purpofe of announcing the arrival 
of fhips bound for Liverpdol, and of pro- 
curing pilots. Another line has been 
fuggelted, from Liverpool to Hull, through 
Manchefter and Leeds; and another from 
Liverpool to London, through Chefter 
and Birmingham. Thefe feveral lines 
would not colt more than 15,000). and, 
on a moderate calculation of the meffages 
which would be fent through them, at 
the rate of a guinea per eight words, per 
roo miles, there is no doubt, but the 
eftablifhment would, on the average, net 
an annual profit of 2 or 300 per cent. 
The perfon with whom this plan ori- 
ginated, hoped to fee it executed by go- 
“vernment, and a telegraphic eftablifhment 
extended from thé metropolis to every 
market town in the kingdom ; but it is 
probable that its utility and profit muft 
firftt be demonftrated by the experiment 
of private individuals, before the nation 
at large can be made to participate in the 
advan'ages of fo wonderful a fyftem of 
conveying intelligence—a fyfem which 
would confer a fort of ubiquity on thofe 
who might choofe to avail themfelves of 
it, and which wou!d render the whole of 
this bufy and extended nation like one 
concentrated metrorolis. 
Mr. Roscor’s Life and Pontificate of 
Leo X. which will form four volumes, 
quarto, is confid rably advanced in print- 
ing, more than one half being already 
worked off. 
The manufcript of the fecond volume 
of the Life of General Wafhington has 
been received in London, from Mr. 
BusHROD WasHINGTON. It will make 
its appearance early in July. This vo- 
lume commences with the birth of the 
General, and concludes with the cam- 
paign of 1776. 
A new edition of Milton’s Profe 
Works, with a Biographical and Critical 
Preface, by Dr. Symmons, fix oftavo 
volumes, printed uniformly with Todd's 
MONTHLY Mas, No. 116, 
edition of the Poetical Works, will be 
fpeedily publifhed. | 
Dr. Moopiet, of Bath, has ufed,. with 
the greateft fuccefs, the aqua kali purt 
(olzm lixivium faponarium), in cafe of 
a woman who had been bitten by a viper, 
and who was apparently in a dying con- 
dition. A tead-fpoonful was at firft ad- 
miniftered in water, every three or four 
hours, and afterwards every fix hours : 
fhe was relieved immediately after the Artt 
dofe, and in four days was perfeétly re- 
ftored to health. ‘The Doétor further ob- 
ferves, that when perfons are bitten by 
animals whofe venom is highly delete- 
rious, the progrefs of the diforder may 
be ftopped, and the perfon faved, by the 
fpeedy adminiftration of the Axzvium fa- 
ponarium. Hence alfo, if any of the 
ftrong mineral acids fhould fall on any 
part of the body, the immediate appli- 
cation of this fubftance will prevent them 
from doing further mifchief. Or, if a pere 
fon fhould accidentally {wallow any ot the 
mineral acids, or hydrargyrus muriatus, 
or any other corroding falt, which an al- 
kali will decompofe, a {peedy exhibition 
of a folution of the alkaline {:lts, in pro- 
per dofes, affords tne moft likely means 
of relief, and of preventing fatal effects. 
The Right Hon. Lord TE1GNMouTH 
is about to pub:ifh the Life of Sir Wil- 
liam Jones, in one volume, quarto, of an 
uniform fize with his works. 
Mr. Ezex1eEL WALKER recommends, 
as the beft method of obtaining the Jongi- 
tude at fca, that five or. fix timekeepers 
be taken in the fame fhip, and that the 
longitude be computed by each feparately, 
and the mean of their refults taken, which, - 
even at the end of three or four months, 
will be found exceedingly near the truth. 
A new and very large edition (cor- 
rected) of ** A Colle&tion of Hymns and 
Pfalms, for Public and Private Wor- 
fhip,” is nearly ready for publication, 
to anfwer the demand of feveral congre- 
gations in various parts of the United 
Kingdom. Thiscolie&tion was made by 
Drs. Kipprs and Ress, the Rev. Tuo- 
Mas Jervis, and the Rev. THoMas 
MorGAN. 
The fourth yolurre of the Vafes of 
Pore Greek Workmanfhip, in the collec- 
tion of Sir WiLLtaM HamiLTon, has 
recently appeared, and completes the pub- 
lication, 
4H Mr. 
