1805.] 
A Statitical and Hiftorical Enquiry in- 
to the Population of Ireland, will thortly 
be laid before the public. The object of 
this work is to fhew how effential the in- 
ternal profperity and tranquillity of that 
ifland are to the general interefi of the 
United Kingdom. 
The fecond edition of a Narrative of 
Events that have lately taken Place in 
Ireland, among the Society called Qua- 
kers, will fhortly appear. The writer of 
this interefting publication is faid to be 
Mr. Wm. RATHBONE, a merchant of 
great refpectability in Liverpool, a mem- 
ber of the fociety of Quakers, who, in 
their difcipline, have inftituted proceed- 
ings.againit him, for unneceffarily, as 
they conceive, expofing the weaknefies of 
their members, and for deviating from 
their advice; which is intended to re- 
firain publications by any member, affect- 
ing the principles of the Society, unlefs 
previoufly fanétioned by their approbation. 
Dr. THORNTON is engaged in a work 
in defence of the Vaccine Syftem. 
Propofals have been iffued for publith-. 
ing, by fubfcription, Six Views in Der- 
byfhire, viz. four in Dove Dale, and two 
in Matlock: from original drawings, 
taken on the {pot, by THomMas Hor- 
LAND and THOMAS BARBER: to be en- 
graved- by J. BLuck, in the firft ftyle of 
excellence. 
The Englith language continues to 
-make confiderable progrefs on the Conti- 
nent. In all the new Rvoflian inftitutions, 
and in moft of the German univeriities 
and academies, there is a mafter appro- 
priated for teaching it; and a number of 
elementary books, and feleétions, alfo, 
from the writings of the bef Englith 
authors, have been Jately publiflied. 
It will be gratifying to our readers to 
be informed of the remarkable decreafe 
of deaths by the Small-pox, occafioned by 
the adop'ing of Vaccine Inoculation, as 
it appears by the following comparative 
View, extracted from the Bills of Mor- 
tality :— : 
Deaths in 1803. In 1804, 
AGU aye cc MOE eee: cele. Ys ZO 
Peoruary so. de tar ee 
eraten sy tg ht hie 
APT ce MOL b es ih CINE be; 
Mays 54 dee 
pend) o..22. 
Jelly ite orgs: FOL... « 
Pongal’, Sats B76. 
September.. 85.... 
OUSGUET Biase (Ai 4\ ois, nln: c.n Rey S| 
PPOMERODEN 6 TO. is ao ss en, 0.0 45 
RPEGE RICE EGO. t's. sh gmre s ixe) 
Total ——mes173 ——— 586 
eeeee 
eesere en re 27 4 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 59 
This decreafe will appear ftill more im- 
portant, whea compared with the an- 
nexed ftatement of deaths by fina!l-pox, 
for 50 years, within the Bills of Moita- 
lity, averaged by ten years :— 
Deaths, | 
From 1750" to’ 4750... .. 19,642 
T7600 0s os W709 i 24 ASS 
TOs SeN Towa. 22,089 |) 
17 SOs, S sie L7SOQUOG. 17 ADT 
L7G: Fees a KIQH oI 79685 
Total, in 50 Years 100,922 
Making an annual average of 2018 deaths 
by finall-pex.—The following is an an- 
nual ftatement of deaths in the prefent. 
century :—- 
i Deaths. 
BUCO sweats oaie Agog 
WOT Hae ens oe AOE 
TOOQH caja lace iacel 576) 
BOOZ aia te ete mar 7g 
HOO Aero -ishata alae dee) FOO. 
Mr. Goutpson, of Portfmouth, hag 
made feveral experiments to afcertain the 
effect of vaccination on the hand; and 
has uniformly produced a veficle diftin@ly 
different froma that in the arm, though 
the fame maiter was ufed in both cafcs. 
(The refult of thefe experiments, with 
further fais and obfervations on the 
fmall-pox fubfequent to vaccination, are 
now in the prefs. . 
Mr. Joun Forster, of Royfton, 
Hertfordthire, has made a fuccefstul expe- 
riment of feeding fheep, during the 
months of winter, on potatoes. In the 
courfe of the laft winter, his turnips fail. 
ing, he gave his fheep potatoes, and with 
them nothing more than frefh fraw, night 
and morning; and, at the end of Mach, 
the ewes aiid lambs of his flotk were al- 
lowed to be in better condition than thofe 
of any flock in the neighbourhosd, 
A new method of forming: roads on 
cliy, or wet bottoms, is the following :— 
Firit throw the {oil from the fides, leaving 
‘a groove in the middle for the materials, 
beginning with kid er brufh-wood plen- 
tifully, then ftones and gravel: if the 
gravel be very fharp and good, there is no 
occafion to round the road. Even a con- 
cave furface is found to anfwer very well ; 
but where the materials are tender, it 
may be better to round ita little, but not 
fo much as is frequently done, being often 
dangerous, and hurtful to the road, by 
obliging the carriages to keep in onetrack. 
A new method has been difcovered of 
dying cotton a rofe colour, for which 
purpofe wild plums and muriatic or ful. 
phuric acid, are employed, 
2 A very 
