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The publication of the Memoirs of 
the Life and Writings of the Rev. Hucu 
Farmer has been delayed, in confequence 
o! fome doubts which had arifen refpect- 
ing the propriety of printing fome of the 
manuf{cripts which had been announced 5 
but all difficulty on that ground having 
been removed, the public will foon be in 
poffetiion of the whole. 
Dr. BisserrT is engaged ona novel, in 
which he purpofes to expofe ‘the craft 
of Methedi{m.”’ 
The feventh volume of the Biblio- 
graphical Diétionary, which will complete 
the work, will fpeedily be publifhed. 
This laft volume will contain an account 
of the beit Englifh tranflation of each 
Greek and Latin claffic, an Effay on Bib- 
hography, &c. &c. 
HoRNEMANN, the African traveller, 
for whofe fafe-y fome apprehenfions were 
entertained, is reported to be on his re- 
turn from the interior tothe coaft, whence 
he will embark for Europe. 
A new edition of the works of Bzn 
Jonson, with a Life, is preparing for the 
prefs by a gentleman of Dublin. 
Mr. Crass is compiling a new Dic- 
tionary of the German and Englifh Lan- 
guages, in which he propofes to comprife 
the really ufeful for the Englifh or Ger- 
man fcholar, within the fpace of a pocket 
dictionary. 
A volume of Sermons, by the late 
Rev. Mr. Howe, of Bridgewater, 
will fhortly be put to prefs for the benefit 
of his family. 
Mr. THomas Tay tor is employed 
in tranflating into Engiifh the whole Works 
of Ariftotle, with the fubftance of the com- 
mentaries of his beft Greek interpreters. 
Dr. RoBert Scorr is about to pub- 
lifh a volume of Diflertations, Effays, &c. 
Dr. Curriz’s Medical Reports on the 
Effects of Water as a Remedy in Fevers, 
will be therily publiihed in two volumes, 
of which the tecond volume confifts wholly 
of new matter. 
A new editicn of the late Rev. Mi- 
CAIAH Towccon’s Letters in Jufiifica- 
tion of the Principles of Diffent is in 
the prefs. To this edition will be pre- 
xed a vindication of the fentiments and 
character of the author from fome recent 
mifreprefentations. 
A new, edition of Dr. CAMPBELL’s 
Tranflation of the Gofpels and Diflerta- 
tions, with the author’s laft correétions 
and notes, will be publifhed in the courfe 
ef the prefent month. 
The Life of the late Dr. PRIESTLEY 
2 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[Auguit ae 
will be written by his fon, affifted by Mr. 
CooPer, between whom and the Doétor 
a great intimacy fubfilted for many years. 
A work is in the prefs to be entitled, , 
‘€ Proteftant Afcendancy in Ireland con- 
fidered, by an Englifhman.” t 
A new, cheap, and lafting paint has 
been Jately invented, and fuccefsfully ap- 
plied to gates, rails, and palifadoes : it is 
mace of two quarts of fkimmed milk, 
eight ounces of frefh flaked lime, fix 
ounces of boiled linfeed oil, two ounces 
of Burgundy pitch, and three ounces of 
Spanifh white. The lime is to be flaked 
by dipping it in water, and then expofing 
it to the air till it falls to powder. Then 
mix it with the milk,~adding the oil, in 
which the pitch has been diffolved, a little 
atatime. Stir it well with a wooden 
f{patula, and add the Spanifh white. Two 
coats are to be laid on with a psinter’s 
brufh; the expence of which will be abouc 
a halt-penny a fquare yard. . 
An inftance has lately been given, by 
Mr. J. Heatu, of Grocers’-hall-court, 
of a young gentleman in the laft flage of 
the typhus fever being cured by the ule 
of yeait. . 
M. DizuDONNE’, a French phyfician, 
has fuccefsfully employed as a fubftitute 
for coffee, the feeds of the common goofe- 
berry, dried, roafted, and ground in the 
fame manner. ‘This preparation has 
nearly the flavour of real coffee; and if 
two-thirds of it in powder be added to 
one third of coffee, it will be impoffible to 
perceive by the tafte that it has been mixed. 
M. Ernst, an ingenious mechanic of © 
Mefeburg in Saxony, has improved the 
hand-mili to fuch perfeétion, that as much 
corm may be ground with his in a quarter 
of an hour, as in an hour wiih the hand. 
mills in common ufe. e 
The Scciety of the Friendly Searchers 
into Nature at Berlin, have offered a 
prize of thirty.ducats fcr the paper that 
fhai]l contain the beft account of the nature 
of bafalies;. with the moft fatisfaétory 
conclufions on the fubject ; and the befx 
expofition of the errors in the different 
opinions hitherto offered refpecting it. 
M. Von Novos!tzor prefented in Fe- 
bruary lafi to the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences at St. Peterfburgh, a fone which, 
about eight years ago, fell from the at- 
mofphere, in the neighbourhood of Kark- 
of, and which is faid to be perfeétly fimi- 
lar to that which fell laft year in Norman- 
dy. Itisto be fubjeéted to chemical ana- 
lyfis, as well as a piece of native iron, fent 
to the academy by the celebrated Pallas. 
KLaPRoTH 
