“480 
ing to: two hundred and fifty-six years 
and proving, from the contemporary exe 
istence, camadence of date, reigns, and 
other circumstances, that the six Assyrian 
kings mentioned in Scripture were the 
very same persons with the first six kings 
of the Medes enumerated by Ctesias, al- 
though under different names, as given to 
them by the Persians on the Bast of” Ba- 
bylon, from those ascribed to them by the 
Syrians and Jews on the west of that 
country, agreeably to a hint given by 
‘Prideaux, as appears by the harmonious 
testimonies of Polyhistor, Herodotus, /Era 
of Nabonassar, Eusebius, and Scripture 
when compared with the Account of 
Ctesias as abridged by Diodorus. 
Mr. JaAMEs TEMPLEMAN has a work in 
the press, entitled | Alphonso and Cle- 
mentina, or the Triumph of Reason, 
with a variety of other tales and bal- 
lads. 
A satirical poem, in four cantos) under 
the title of Dei Larvati, or a Visit to 
the Terrestrials, will shortly make its ap- 
pearance. 
Mrs.. Qpre has nearly ready for publi- 
cation a new volume of Miscellaneous 
Poems. 
Colonel Cricuton hes invented a car- 
riage for the safe removal of sick and 
wounded soldiers, which has received: a 
public testimony of approbation from the 
College of Surgeons at Edinburgh. The 
machine is stated to be perfect in its 
kind, simple in its construction, and. well 
calculated to mitigate the sufferings of 
those requiring its application. 
The West Lothian Agricultural Society 
has ofiered a premiem of five guineas for 
the best Essay on a System of Husban- 
dry adapted to the different Soils and Chi- 
mates of Linhthgow. 
“The Strabo”. of the late Mr. Fat- 
CONER is nearly ready for publication at 
Oxford. It forms two volumes 1 folio, 
with fine maps. 
Mr. E:msty is engaged in a critical 
edition of Sophocles, which is to contain 
collations of the best manuscripts and 
editions, with a text carefully corrected 
frem both. 
The first ae of WytTTrENBACH’s 
Notes to his edition of Plutarch isin 
great forw ardness at the _ Clarendon 
press. 
The second volume of Mr. JoNES’s 
History of Brecknockshire is in the press, 
and will speed ily be published. This 
volume will nes a considerably greater 
number of plates and sheets of ‘letter 
press tha Lt the former. 
Litérary and Philosophical I ntelligence. 
_ ibeers, 
The Report of a Deputation frona 
the Hibernian Society for the Diffusion 
of Réligious Knowledge in Ireland, is in 
the press, and will speedily be published. 
This report will exhibit a correct yiew of 
the present state of religion in that coun- 
try, and suggest tne best probable means 
of effecting the object of the society. 
Mr. Pankryson has nearly ready for 
publication the second volume of his 
work on the Organic Remains of the 
former World. 
Mr. Prouss purposes to publish, in 
the course of the winter, Physiological 
Essays on Insanity, with Reflecuons and 
Analytical Researches relative to the Cir- 
cumstances which predispose the Mind 
to that Disease, and which cause and 
continue it. 
A Translation of Berruanp’s Art of 
managing and regulating Watches, may 
shortly be expected. 
A new work on the Policy of Great 
Britain in respect to the Foreign Corn 
Trade, is expected shortly to make its 
appearance. 
The seventh and eighth volumes of 
Bratson’s Naval and Military Memoirs 
are in preparation, and will appear in 
the course of the winter. 
The sixth part of Mr. Nrcnors’s great 
and valuable Uistory of Leicestershire is 
_sproposed to be published beforeChristinas. 
The Rev. C. Wonpsworri is prepar- 
ing for publication a work, to be en- 
titled Ecclesiastical Biography, or Lives of 
Eminent Persons, connected with the 
History of Religion from the Reformation 
to the Revolution. 
Mr. Brrtzon has in the press a Catai- 
logue Raisonée of the noble Collection of 
Pictures belonging to the Marquis of Staf- 
ford, at Cleveland-house. 
M. Caseut, a celebrated Neapolitan 
astronomer, accounts for the extraordi- 
nary heat of the past summer, which con- 
tinued so intense throughout the whole 
month of September, by ascribing it to, 
the extreme purity of the face of the sun, 
which this year was turned towards the 
earth. For near two months he observed 
none of the spots which are commonly 
perceived in it. Hence M. Caselli cons 
cludes, that the sun’s rays having been 
emitted in greater abundance, and with 
less interruption, produced that violent 
degree of heat, which, though it scorched 
the fields, never theless increased their 
fertility. yo 
The late considerable extension of in- 
Jand navigation in Ireland has produced 
the happiest cfects, not only in Dublin, 
but 
