The Rev. Sir Henry MoncrieFs 
WELLWOOD, of Edinburgh, is preparing 
‘for the prefs a volume of Sermons, which 
will appear in the courfe of the winter. 
Mr. Bar TLey, the ingenious Secretary 
of the Bath Agricultural Society, is about 
to publith a ieries of interefting Letters 
on fine-qwooled Spanifh Sheep, pointing out 
the fuperior advantages attending the in- 
troduction of that breed. 
Dr. Dickson’s Complete Syftem of 
Pra&tical Agriculture will be delivered 
to the public in a few days. When it 
appears, it will juftify the labour of feven 
years, which have been employed in re- 
ducing to order the confufion and contra- 
di€tion which, on the fimpleft points, have 
hitherto charaéterifed the numerous books 
on this important fubject. Dr. Dickfon’s 
work confifis of two large and ciofely 
printed quartos ; and the text is illuftrated 
with nearly one hundred plates, many of 
them coloured from nature. 
Propofals have been circulated for pub- 
lifhing in three volumes, a volume to be 
delivered every four months, the princi- 
pal Works of the late Rey. Davip Simr- 
son, A.M. 
__ A new edition of Mason’s © Self- 
Knowledge,” with Memoirs of the Au- 
thor, will thortly be publifhed. 
Mr. Hucu Farmer’s “ Treatife on 
the Demoniacs of the New Teftament,” 
which has been feveral years out of print, 
4s-now in the prefs, and will be publifhed 
about Chriftmas. 
The Rev. T. Harwoop is about to 
publith the Hifory and Antiquities of 
Litchfield. 
Mr. ELLts is engaged in an Abridg- 
ment of fome of the moft ancient Englith 
Metiie¢:] Romances. The tales will be 
told in profe, with occafional ex:raéts from 
the original poetry ; and criticif{ms on each 
tale will be annexed. 
The Memoirs of the late Rev. GILBERT 
WAKEFIELD will be publifhed, in 2 vo- 
jumes, in the courfe of the prelent month. 
A. new edition of the ** Works of Ben 
ee with a Life, is preparing for the 
prefs. 
Brown’s Explanation of the Aff'm- 
blies’ Catechifm, improved by the Rev. 
Witiiam More ey, having had a rapid 
fale, the editor intends immediately to 
print a third edition, 
Dr. Joun Rep, the fenior Phyfician 
of the Finfbury Difpenfary, whole name 
is rendered tamiliar to the reeders of this 
Magazine by his able monthly Reports, 
Intends to deliver, in the pretent wister, 
a Courfe of Letiures on the Theory and 
Practice of Medicines 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
(Oa. 4, 
An Authentic Account of the aétual 
prefent State of Peru, and of the adjoin- 
ing Countries, will fhortly appear, drawn 
from documents which deferve the public 
attention. In1794, Mr. JoseraH SKin- 
NER had the good fortune to purchafe 
from among the cargo of the St. Jago 
Spanifh galieon, a moft curious Journal, 
or Mifcellany, written and printed in Pe- 
ru, by a fociety of men of letters ; and 
alfo, a picture of immenfe magnitude, re- 
prefenting all the drefies of the Peruvian 
nations, painted by a native artift, and 
which coft in Lima 10,000l. fterling.— 
Thefe Journals contain detailed accounts 
of Peru on every point that can interett 
the politician or philofopher; and Mr. 
Skinner has drawn up a Work, emoeilifhs 
ed with engravings of fubjeéts felected 
froin his great picture, which will anfwes 
every enquiry relative to the ftate of that 
remote and almoft unknown part of the 
world, ’ 
Extra& of a letter from the Honorable 
FREDERICK NorTH, Governor of Cey- 
lon, to the Right Hon. Lord Hopart, 
dated January 1, 1804, received by Lord 
CampDeEn, one of his Majefty’s principal 
Secretaries of State, and communicated 
by his Lordfhip to the RoyaL JENNE- 
RIAN SOcCi\ETY.—‘‘ Vaccination was un- 
fortunately fufpended, in fome degree, 
while the Englith Medical Gentlemen at- 
tended the army at Kandy ; and a {puri- 
ous virus had been made ufe of in tie 
Northern Diftriét, the failures occafioned 
by which had difcredited that beneficial 
practice. True genuine vaccine matter 
has, however, been fent thither, and cone- 
fidence is reftored, throughout all the 
fettlements, in that mode of inoculation. 
At Columbo, it is kept up with fome 
difficulty for want of fubjeéts, as almoft 
all the inhabitants of the neighbourhaod 
have had the fmall-pox, in fome manner 
or other; and the falutary confequences 
of the attention of government to that ob- 
ject, appears in the total abfence of that 
difeafe from the province during ‘the laft 
fix months, a circumftance hitherto un-.— 
known.” 
Preparations are making at the Britifh 
Mu‘eum for building a gallery for the re- 
ception of a fine Colleétion of Antiquities. 
It is to adjoin the prefent reading-reomy 
and will extend a confiderable way along 
the terrace, on the fouth-fide of the gar- 
den. 
A new quadruped is arrived in a 
king’s thip from Port Jackfon, with teeth 
relcmbling thofe of a kangareo, and the 
hind-feet thofe of a lemur, ewes - of 
the tribe marfupialis, or pouch. 
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