148 Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
A Colleétion of the Moral and Religi- 
' ous Works of the pious and learned Sir 
MattHew Hate have been collefted 
by a clergyman of erudition, and will be 
publifhed early in March. 
. We have great pleafure in announcing 
the appearance of a Monthly Mifcellany 
in the ifland of Jamaica, (a part of the 
world hitherto confidered as devoted iolely 
to the fervices of Plutus and Baccius) to 
be regularly continued under the title of 
the Jamaica Magazine. Part of the fecond 
number contains fome original Memoirs 
of CHARLES Westcore, which have 
proceeded with much fpirit through the 
fucceeding numbers. We ardently with 
fuccefS to an attempt calculated to intro- 
_ duce a fpirit of literary curiofity and en- 
guiry into fo confiderable a community 
as that compofing the flourifhing ifland 
of Jamaica. 
Mr. ABEOT, of the Temple, has re- 
ently finifhed for publication, a {mail 
volume of Initructions to Mafters of hired 
Tranfports and other Veffels in the Service 
of Government. 
An Effay, Philofophical, Moral, and 
Political, on the prefent extended Com- 
merce of Great Britain, and on its Advan- 
tages and Difadvantages, is in the prefs, 
and will fpeedily be publifhed. 
Mr. MacruHerson’s Work on Com- 
merce will be ready for publication in the 
courfe of the fpring. It will be entitled, 
Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fifh- 
eries, and Navigation, with brief Notices 
of the Arts and Sciences, conneéted with 
them ; containing the Tranfaétions of the 
Britifh Empire and other Countries, from 
the earlieft Accounts to the Meeting of the 
Union Parliament in 1801; with an Ap- 
pendix, containing a Commercial. and 
Manufaftural Gazetteer of the United 
Kingdom, and it will confit of four large’ 
volumes, quarto. 
A new edition of Dr. Smirn’s Hiftory 
of the Peloponnefian War, with a Life 
of the Tranflator is nearly ready for pub- 
lication. 
A tranflation of the “Efflay on the 
Spirit and Influence of the Refempation of 
- Luther, which gained the prize given by 
the National Inftitute of France, will very 
fhortly be publifhed in London. It has 
already been tranflated into the German, 
with notes, oblfervations, &c. by D. Ro- 
SENMULLER. To the Englifh edition 
will be added copious illuftrations, intead- 
ed to correct the views of the author, 
and paflages from the writers of our own 
country, who have thrown out fo many 
important ideas on the fubject. 
{March }, 
A work intended as a continuation of 
Dr. Paiey’s Natural Theology, is in con- 
fiderable forwardncfs, and will be pub- 
fithed without delay. as: 
A fecond part of Dr. VincENT’s 
Periplus of the Erytbvean Sea will thortly 
make its appearance. - 
Mr. KinG has nearly completed the 
lait volume of his Munximenta Antiqua, . 
JouN WarBurRton, Efg. has in the 
prefs a complete Hiftory of the City of 
Dubiin. 
The long difputed manufcripts of the 
Poems of Offian, in the original Gaelic, 
are now in the preis, under the aufpices of 
the Highland Society. They will be ac- 
companied by a Latin Tranflaticn by the 
late Mr. MacraruLaNe. ‘The whole 
will form two large volumes, oétavo. 
The Rev. WitLtram Coxe’s Hiftory 
of the Houfe of Auftria will be publified 
without delay. 
A Tranflation of Giraldus Cambrenfis, 
elegantiy printed in quarto, may be 
fhortly expeéted. é‘ 
The firft volume of Mr. Lyson’s Ge- 
neral Survey of Great Britain, contain- 
ing the Counties of Bedford, Berks, and 
Bucks, will fpeedily be publifhed. Ta 
accompany this worsx, Mr, Byrne will 
publifh a feries of Engravings of the moft 
interefting and pi€turefque objects in the 
feveral counties of Great Britain. ‘The 
Jatter work will beentitled Britannica De- 
picta. 
A new Tranflation of the works of the 
Swifs Theocritus, the amiable GEsNER, 
is in confiderable forwardnefs. It is in-- 
tended to follow the popular eflay: of 
Zimmermann on Solitude, executed for the 
Sele&t Foreign Claffics, a work which, 
from the numerous advantages it com-. 
bines, bids fair to fuperfede all the pre- 
ceding tranflations of modern claffic au- 
thors. ; 
The following is a method of giving 
the grain and hardnefs of fteel to copper. 
Take the metal under the metallic form, . 
fufe it with two. parts of animal glafs, 
and a twelfth of charcoal-powder ; as it 
is effential that the copper fhould prefent 
a great deal of furface, the fhavings of 
that metal are to be placed in ftrata, with 
animal glafs mixed with charcoal-pow- 
der; and the crucible fo expofed to a fire. 
fufficiently ftrong to fufe the glafs. There 
is then formed phofphorus, the greater 
part of which burns, while the reft com- 
bines with the copper. When the cru- 
cible has cooled, and is broken, the phof- 
phorated copper is found in the form of 
a grey brilliant button under the glafs, - 
which 
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