1806. } 
_ Dr. Doucuas, Bithop of Salifbury, 
is reprinting, with corrections, The Cri- 
terion; or, Miracles Examined, a work 
that has long fince been out of print, and 
which is unqueftionably one of the ablett 
defences of revealed réligion that ever 
was publifhed in this or any country. 
The expected work of Mr. Ensor on 
the Formation and Developement of the 
Principles and Faculties of the Human 
Mind, will appear in a few days. 
New editions, in oftavo, of Roscor’s 
Lite of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and of Leo 
the Tenth, forming in the whole eight 
uniform volumes, will be fhortly pub- 
hifhed. 
A fociety has lately been eftablifhed 
in London for the improvement of Her- 
ticulture. The report of the Committee, 
drawn up by T. A. Knight, Efq. is 
publifhed and circulated: in this they 
fay, ‘that they have long been convinced 
as individuals, and their aggregate obier- 
vations have tended to increafe their con- 
viction, that there fearcely exifts a fingle 
fpecies of efculent plant or fruit, which 
(relative to the ufe of man) has yet at- 
sained its utmoft ftate of perfection ; nor 
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any branch of practical horticulture which 
is not fill perceptible of efntial improves 
ment ; and, under thefe impreffions, they 
hope to receive the fupport and affiltance 
of thofe who are interefied in, and capable 
of promoting, the fuccefs of their ens 
deavours,”’ 
Dr. Kipp has given an Analyfs of a 
new mineral found inone of the Gwennap 
mines in Cornwall, and forming an ins 
crufation round projecting particles of 
{pongy pyrites intermixed with quartz. 
Its colour varied from a light afh to a 
dark brown; frafture like that of flint, 
prefenting feétions of conceniric layere s 
texture clofe and polithed like that of a 
nut, and of a filky luftre, It is foluble 
in the nitric and muriatic acids with effera 
vefcerice, violently decompofing the fore 
mer, and giving out fulphurated hydrogen 
gas in abundance with the latter; and in 
both inftances depofiting a confiderable 
proportion of fulphur. From an geeue 
rate feries of experiments and analyfis, 
this mineral appears to confift of about 
33 parts of fulphur, and 66 of oxyd of 
zinc, with a very minute proportion of 
iron, 
The following is a Copy of the elegant Infcription to the Memory of Dr. Pricftlag, 
avritten by Iw. Parr, and noticed in our laft. 
This Tablet 
id ig confecrated to the Memory 
of the Rev. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L.L. D, 
by his affectionate CONGREGATION, 
in Teftimon 
of their GRATITUDE for his faithful Attention 
to their fpiritual Improvement, 
and for his peculiar Diligence, in training up their Youth 
to rational Piety and genuine Virtue: = 
of their RESPECT for his great and various Talents, net 
‘which were uniformly directed to the nobteft Purpofes : 
,; and of their VENERATION 
for the pure; benevolent, and holy Principles, 
which through the trying Viciffitudes of Life 
and in the awful hour of Death, 
gnimated Kim with the hope of a BLESSED IMMORTALITY. - 
‘. His Difcoveries as a Philofopher 
will never ceafe to be remembered and admired 
by the ableft improvers of Science. 
His Firmnefs as an advocate of Liberty 
and his Sincerity as an Expounder of the Scriptureg 
endeared him to many ; 
of his enlightened and unprejudiced Cantemporaries, 
His Example as 4 Chriftian 
will be inftru€tive to the Wife and interefting to the Goad 
of every Country and in every Age, 
He was born at Fieldhead, near Leeds, in Yorkfhire, March 13, As D, 1793. 
Was chofen a Minifter of this Chapel, Dec. 31, 1730, 
Continued in that office Ten Years and Six Months, 
Embarked for America April 7, 1794. 
Pied in Northumberiand-Tewn in Pennfylvania, Feb, 6, 1804, / 
Me, 
