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ble acquifition and treafere, and form a 
new zia in literature. It is extremely 
fortunate that the characters of thefe 
manulciipts, whether they fhould be 
Greek or Latin, muft be very obvious and 
Jegible.-» Before the year of our Lord 79, 
and fome time after it, the Majufcule or 
Unciales Litterze, capital letters, were 
folely ufed. A page, therefore, in one of 
thefe manulcripts, would prefent to. your 
Royal Highneis an exaér image of fome 
murilated inf{cription in thole languages 
on an ancient column, ftatue, or fepul- 
chre. There cannot remain a doubt, 
even omitting the affurances from. men of 
official fituation to that effect, that your 
Royal Highnefs’s fuperintendant will re- 
ceive every poflible =fiiftance from the 
Marquis del Vaitto; and in that cafe it 
feems improbable that the objeét of this 
miffion can be altogether froitlefs. With 
fuch a termination ef it, however, your 
Royal Highnels, by having propofed to 
concur with his Sicihan Majetty in the 
quicker and more effectual developement, 
tianfcription, and publication of thefe 
manufcripts, will reap the fatisfaQion of 
having made a moft princely attempt in 
behalf of knowledge and literature, on an 
occaficn where their interetts might oe af- 
fefled moft materially, and in a manner of 
which no annals have afforded,’ or can 
hereafter afford, an example. Your very 
interpofition will be your glory: your 
want of fuccefs will only meke the learned 
world feel with gratitude what you would 
have done.”? The interpofitign of the 
Prince of Wales has had the bappy ef- 
feét of reviving the drooping fpirits of the 
Italian Literati, and the confequence has 
been, that the bufinefSof unrolling and. 
trantcribing the manuferipts now. pro- 
ceeds with the moit promifing fuccels. In 
forty-fix years not mcre than eighteen 
rolls had been developed before the inter- 
ference of his Royal Highnels, but under 
his encouragement nine: y have been re- 
Covered in two years! Several of thefe 
will be publithed, in the firft inftance, at 
Naples ; and afterwards in this country, 
under the fanétion cf his Royal Highnels, 
by Mr. Puitt. hte who will alfo have the 
honcur of publifhing the fix original Rolis 
which have alicady arrived at Carleton 
Houfe. 
Milfs TemPpxe, whofe elegant seeliead 
predugtions have long commanded the 
admiration of the readers of the Monthly ; 
Magazine, hasa volume of Original Poetry 
in the preis, which will make lis apptar- 
ance at Chrifimas. 
Literary and Philfophical Intelligence. 
[Dec I, 
Mr. PrattT’s Harveft-Home,. having 
been honoured by the particular favour of 
the PRINCE of WALEs, will be dedicat- 
ed, by permifiion, to his Royal Highnefs, 
and wili appear early in. December. 
There is in the prefs, and wi'l be pub- 
lifhed in December, a Clinical History of, 
Diieales, deduced entirely from perfonal 
Obfervation and  praétical Experience.: 
Part I. being -(rft.) A Clinical Hiftory 
of the Acute Rheumatifm; and, (2d.) 
A Clinical Hilicry of the Nodofity of the 
Jeints, by Jj. HayGartu, M.D. F.R.S. 
Mr. Goupson, cf Portimouth, has 
made feyeral experiments to aicertain 
the effect of vaccination in the hand, 
and has uniformly produced a veficie 
diltinétly different from that, from the 
fame matter in the arm, having every re- 
temblance, both in sefpect to Aze and the 
peculiar é/ue tint, to that which takes 
place in the cafual difeafe. The refult of 
thefe experiments, with further fa&ts and 
obfervations on tmall pox jubfequent to 
vaccinaticn, will be fent to the prels in a 
few days. 
A new ceconomical Lamp, applicable 
to domeliic purpofes, and which poflciles 
the vatuable property of effeAing the 
perfeét combuition of common lamp-oil, 
of half the price of fpermaceti oil, fo as 
to yield a chearful, durable, and fleady 
light, without prodacuie the leaft fmoke or 
{mell; wall fhoitly be laid before the pub- 
lic. 
A fpirited literary undertaking is about 
to be commenced on a very extenive {caie, 
under the title of Scleé&t Modern Claflics. 
This work, which is intended tu form a 
complete collection of the mok diftinguith= 
ed produéticns of French, German, Italian, 
and other foreign writers, will be embel- 
lifhed with numerous engravings, and 
priated in a ftyle of elegance fimilar to 
Sharpe’s Brith Claffics. The tranfla- 
tions contained in this colleGion will be 
entirely new, andthe works of each writer 
wiil be accomppapict with a biographical 
memoir aid explanatory notes... This 
felection will appear in periodical num- 
bers, commencing with Zimmermann’s 
celebrated wo:k on Solitude, which will 
occupy two volumes. Singular as it may 
appear, this is the firlt Englith tranflation 
of that popular pe: formance, that has ever 
been atrempted from the language in 
which it was originally written. 
Dr. MILLER’ long expeSted Hiftory of 
Dencafer and its neighbouring towns, 
with anecdotes of eminent men, will ap- 
pear early next menth, , 
Mr. OrnPATO; 
