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OO aR : 
HE public will shortly be gratified by 
the publication ofa series of interest- 
ing Letters from Madame Ja Marquise du 
Drrranp to the Hon. Horace Wab 
pole, aftemvards Earl of Uriord, between 
the years 1766 and 1720. «To these will 
be added, some Letters from the same 
Lady to Voltaire, published from the 
originals at Strawberry Hill, A Life of 
. Madame du Deffand will be pretixed. by 
the Editor; and the letters will be ac- 
companied with copious explanatory 
notes. 
The first volume of the Rev. Ricuars 
Crcrz’s Works, containing the Memoirs 
of the Hon. and Rev. W. B. Cadogan, 
of John Bacon, Esq. R.A. and of the 
Rev. John Newton, with three portraits, 
will appear this month. 
The New Herbal for which Mr, Be- 
wick has engraved the cuts, and Dr. 
Tuornton has written the text, wall 
appear in a few days. 
The Rev. Dr. Rezs has in the press, 
a Sermon which he delivered at the 
opening of the new Chapel in Jewin- 
street, Cripplegate: 
A Gentleman is preparing for publi- 
cation, an Historical Narrative of the 
late War in the Levant, from 1793 
to 1801; to be accompanied with 
picturesque views, marine scenery, and 
a map of the Ottoman empire. The 
‘author is already in possession of an 
abundant stock of materials, but is still 
desirous of consulting the log-book, or 
other nautical journal, kept during that 
period on board any of the following 
ships—Theseus, Tigre, Lion, Swiltsure, 
Cameleon, Transfer, or Alliance, He 
wishes for further testimonies concerning 
the charges upon record against Buona- 
‘parte, for the treatmentof the Othman 
garrison ef Yafta; of hissick and wounded 
soldiers in the depdt on Mount*Carmel ; 
and of the hospital scene at Yalla, on 
the retreat. He will be thankful also 
for the loan of any sketches, plans, or 
surveys ; tobe addressed to_the care of 
Mr. Gold, 103, Shoe-lane, London. 
Messrs. DaniELLs intend to publish, 
under the title of Picturesque Voyages 
and Travels, a. connected series of Views, 
exhibiting the most remarkable objects, 
natural and artificial, which presented 
e 
themselves in the different regions of the 
East that they have visiied; and eaelz 
plate to be accompanied with a portion, 
of narrative and descriptive letter-press. 
Dr. Mavor has made great progress 
on his new Edition of ** Tusser’s Five 
Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,” a 
work which may be considered as a ca~ 
lendar of rural and domestic economy 
for every month in the year; and as a 
picture of the state of agriculture, cus~ 
toms, and manners, in the sixteenth cen- 
tury. Thouglr it ran through upwards. of 
twenty editions, it 18 Row so scarce, 
that it was with great dithculty, copics 
of the early impressions, by far the best, 
were obtained for the use of the present 
Editor, who intends to enrich his edition 
with notes Georgical, illustrative, and 
explanatory, a glossary, aad other im- 
provements» j 
Mr. Lrs, Surgeon, of Shields, is about 
to publish a Treatise on Mortification. 
‘The public are.partly acquainted with 
the successful practice of Mr. Lee in. 
these cases. 
Dr. Uwiys, of Aylesbury, has ja 
the press a-smail tract, entitled Cursery: 
Remarks on the Causes, Prevention, and. 
Treatment, of Fever, cccasioned by a 
recent epedemic in Aylesbury, and its 
neighbourhoed. ) 
The Society for the encouragement of 
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 
have lately presented Mr. Joun Monri- 
son-with their silver medal and_ forty 
guineas, for his ingenuity in providing 
himself with artificial arms, after he had 
experienced the misfortune to lose his 
natural ones by the discharge of a can- 
non. This worthy man, wholives in the 
neighbourhood of Holborn Bars, under 
takes to supply other persons Jabounug 
under similar misfortunes. with that 
which he deplores, with artificial arms, 
legs, and other instruments, adapted to 
almost every purpose of life. 
A work will make its appearance on 
the ist of March, consisting of Pictv- 
resque Views of twenty of the Parochial 
Churches of London, freely etched from 
original drawings, by W. Pearson. 
in the first week of the present year 
will be published, a new edition, being 
the seventh, of the ‘* Laboratory, or 
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