1808.] 
Sir, 
My time has been so taken up this last 
week, that I could not find a moment to read 
your inclosure till this day, nor of course to 
answer your letter. The account in the 
paper corresponds exactly with what I have 
been able to collect, concerning the papers 
both here and in France. I liad+ lost ail 
hopes of finding the Scotch College papers 
before I went to that country, and the chief 
object of my journey was to consult the 
archives of the Secretary of State’s Office 
for Barrillon’s and D?Avaux’s correspondence, 
In this 1 succeeded, and found much very 
useful and curious matter. There were not 
in the National Library any papers that 
either had, or were pretended to have, be- 
longed to the Scotch College. I can have 
no doubt but Carpentier’s account is true; 
for if he had them in his possession, he 
would certainly either have restored them to 
the tight owners, ur have disposed of them 
to his own advantage, which he might easily 
have done. 
I hear there are in Scotland, at present, 
some manuscripts which are, or pretend to 
e, compilations from the Scotch College 
papers, and I am now actually engaged in an 
enquiry concerning them. ‘This is al! the 
intelligence I can give you upon this subject. 
The story you heard of the offer to me was 
grounded only upon a very loose conversa- 
tion, but I am sorry to say that 1 am not 
near enough’ to a conclusion to attend to 
this part of the business. Tam, Sir, 
St. Annes Hill. Your most obedient servant, 
Sunday. C. J. Fox. 
In the threatened scarcity. of rags, 
and consequent high price of paper, it 
becomes incumbent on all persons to 
diminish the consumption as much as 
possible, and to husband both the rags 
and waste paper. Our supplies of rags 
for paper-making have been received 
hitherto chiefly throngh Holland and 
Hamburgh, and those channels are, for 
the present, closed against us. The use 
of ceremonious envelopes of letters, and 
of thick writing papers, ought to be gene- 
rally discontinued, and a rigid system of 
economy observed, in this article, in the 
Tax-Office, and other public offices. 
The Rey. Jostan Pratt, has in the 
press, in three large wolumes, octavo, the 
Works of Bishop Hopkins; including all 
the Pieces contained in the Folio, with 
several scarce Posthumous Treatises. 
A Life of the Author will he ‘prefixed, 
and a copious Index be given at the end. 
A work of Mr. Jeremy Bentuam’s, 
which hitherto has been inaccessible, but 
to a very few persons, is about to be 
made public. Its chject is a Scotch 
Moxituty Mas, Ne, 168, 
ba 
Literary and Philosophical £ ntelligence. 4261 
Reform; considered, with reference. to 
the plan, proposed in the late parlia- 
ment, for the regulation of the courts, 
and the administration of justice in Scot- 
land; with illustrations from English 
non-reform, in the course of which, di- 
vers imperfections, abuses, and corrup- 
tions, in the administration of justice, 
with their causes, will now, for the first 
time, be brought to light. To this, Mr. 
Bentham has added, in the form of ta~ 
bles, a View of the principal Causes of 
Complication and Delay, and thence 
of Vexation and Expence, that have 
taken their Rise under the Technical or 
Fee-gathering System of Procedure, in 
which, Judges have heen observed to pay 
themselves, in whole, or in part, byFees. 
Mr. Raymonwp will shortly publish, 
The Passions, written by William Collins 
embellished with sixteen superb engra 
vings, hy Anthony Cardon, from desiga 
by Robert Ker Porter; with Notes, and 
comparative Review, by the Editor, o 
the Life of Collins, as written by Mr 
Langhorne and Doctor Johnson. The 
Notes contain also Biographical Re- 
marks, and Anecdotes of the Peet, which 
have escaped the notice of those Bio- 
graphers. 
Dr. Rem will commence his next 
Course of Lectures on the Theory-and 
Practice of Medicine, on Monday, the 
7th of March, at’ ten o’clock in the mor- 
ning; at which hour the course will be 
continued, on Mondays, Wednesdays, 
and Fridays, for three months, at his 
house, Grenville Street, Brunswick 
Square. hee 
Dr. Crarke and Mr. Crarxe will 
begin a Course of their Lectures on 
Midwifery, and the Disorders of Women 
and Chidren, on Tuesday, March the 
22d. The Lectures are read every day 
at the house of Mr. Clarke, No. 10, ' 
Upper Jchn Street, Golden Square, from 
a quarter past ten o’clack in the morning 
till a quarter past eleven, for the conve- 
nience of Students attending the Hose 
pitals. 
Mr. Francis Battey, has in the 
press, an Analytical Treatise on the Doc- 
trine of Interest and Annuities; which 
will contain several new and useful tables 
on the subject, together with their varie 
ous applications to different questions in 
Finance, &c. &c. 
A new edition of the Plays of Beau- 
mont and Fletcher, is preparing for pubs 
lication, The tasks of collation and 
criticism will be executed with the Edis 
tor’s greatest industry and best judg- 
meg. 
