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the united kingdoms, with an obituary In the Antiquarian Society an acof remarkable characters.

count has been read of the splendid The first fasciculus of the long ex- equipage and sumptuary retinue of the pected Flora Græca of the late Profess- Earl of Northumberland, at his emor S1BThorp, edited by Dr. SMITH, barkation for France in the reign of will make its appearance in a few days. Henry VIII.—The gospel of St. John, It will consist of 50 plates, beautifully in Latin, but written on parchment in coloured, with descriptive letter-press. Roman characters mixed with Saxon, This splen lid work will form, when was exhibited to the society by the completed, ten volumes in folio, contain- Rev. Mr. Milner. This volume is said ing one thousand figures, executed by to be 1,200 years old. Sowerby from the masterly drawings A Catalogue of the particulars of of Mr. Ferdinand Bauer.

the manuscripts, collations, and books, Mr. P. Kelly, the eminent master with manuscript notes, of the late of the commercial academy in Fins, James Philip D'Orville, Esq., purchasbury-square, is preparing with great ed by the University of Oxford in 1805 labour a new and accurate work on ex- for £6.1025, will shortly be printed. changes, to be published in one large In the course of August last Messrs. volume quarto, under the title of the Boydell & Co. of London were to pubUniversal Cambist. He takes for his lish the third edition corrected of Ho. foundation the work of Kruse, entitled garth Illustrated, by J.Ireland, in 3 vols. the Hamburgh Contorist, which he has royal 8vo. This work contains not only an modernized, adapted to the English explanation of each print, but numerous standard, and considerably enlarged anecdotes of that great artist, and the from unquestionable living authorities. times in which he lived. The 3d volume, Among other numerous and important compiled from Hogarth's MSS., and conadditions, are new essays of the princi- taining upwards of 40 new prints, and a pal current coins by which the intrinsick correct list of the numerous variations in par of exchange is determined. The his engravings, may be had separate for price will not exceed three guineas ; the completion of sets, to accommodate and the charge to subscribers will be those who purchased the two first volhalf-a-guinea less than to the public. umes before the third was published.

The Rev. J. Robinson, master of the Mr. Cromek intends to publish in the grammar school at Ravenstondale, is course of the ensuing winter a series engaged in a new and complete work of twelve engravings, etched in a very on the Antiquities of Greece, similar superior style of excellence, by Louis in design to the Roman Antiquities of Schiavonetti, from the original invenDr. Adams. Besides introducing eve- tions of William Blake, illustrative of ry thing valuable in the works of Arch- Blair's popular poem “ The Grave.” bishop Potter and others who wrote In consequence of the originality of on Grecian antiquities at a distant pe- the designs, and the vigorous expressriod, Mr. Robinson has availed himself ion, the work has been honoured with of the Travels of Anacharsis, of the the patronage of the first professors of works of Stuart, Choiseul Gauffier, art in the metropolis, and by the subSonnini, Winkleman, and other recent scriptions of upwards of 250 of the writers and travellers, to enrich his most distinguished amateurs. work, and render it useful and desir.

GERMANY. able to students and admirers of Greek A splendid edition of the Poetical literature.

Works of the celebrated Schiller, with Accounts have been received from plates, will speedily appear. the Baptist missionary in Bengal, bear- Sturtz is publishing Muitaire de lingue ing date November 15, 1805, by grece dialectis opus auctum et emendatum. which it appears that the converts had

Rrssia. increased since the commencement of A letter has recently been received the year from 34 to 70. ' Three of the from M. Rhemann, the physician in the natives are preaching the gospel. The suite of the Russian embassy to China, missionaries are proceeding in tlie tran- dated Kiachta on the frontiers of China, slation and printing of the Old and October 14th, 1305; in which he says New Testament in four or five castern that he has raccinated a great number languages, and they hope to accomplish of the children of the Moguls. “These the translation into all the languages of people (continues M. Rehmann,) have the East.

retained the simple manners and cus

toms of their ancestors. They live in this country. The mercurial practice
tents, and still make use of bows and is employed with ardour by some, and
arrows, which they employ with such with doulst by. others ; perhaps this is
dexterity and precision, that when they to be explained by the fact that it is now
went out with the Russians of the am. and then brilliantly successful, in other
bassador's suite they killed six times as cases inefficient, in a few hurtful.
much game as the latter, though pro- This powerful medicine would be more
vided with excellent fowling-pieces.” frequently useful, if the principles for
He likewise writes that he has discov- its application were understood. The
ered a little portable pharmaceutick occasional, though cautious, use of ca
collection of Thibet, from which the tharticks, in a way very similar to that
science of medicine is likely to derive recommended by the judicious Dr.
advantage. It consists of sixty different Hamilton, is . very well established.
articles, very elegantly wrapped in pa- Cold water is gradually removing the
per. Among these are some remedies obstacles opposed to it by the prejus
known in Europe ; but with a much dices of the vulgar, and will probably
greater number the botanists attached become a common and useful remedy
to the embassy were unacquainted. The in fevers. The cholera of infants has
latter consist of small fruits, nuts, and been more fatal in this, than the last
some chemical preparations. M. Reh- month ; but the number of cases not
mann has procured a translation of the greater.
list of them, which was written in the The cow.pock practice increases.
language of Tangut. He proposes to
bring with him some of these collec- Interments in Boston from August 29 to
Lions of medicines, which are much in Sept. 26, from the Sextons returns.
use among the Bucharians.

Mal. Fem. Ch.
SWEDEN.
Accident

2 Colonel Skiöldebrand, whose Pictu. Apoplexy

1 resque Tour in Lapland is well known, Colic, bilious

1 is at present engaged on a History of Consumption

3

1 all the publick festivals held in Swe- Dropsy

2 den, . which will be a splendid work Drowned

1 with engravings. He is said to have Fever, nervous

2 received an advance of 12,000 rix-dola

1 lars towards this work, of which great

slow bilious expectations are entertained.

Fits
The fifth part of Icones Plantarum Hooping cough

1 Japonicarum, by Thunberg, has made Inf. complaints its appearance ; but it is likely to be Imprudence

2 the last the learned professor will pub- Intoxication

1 lish, unless some foreign bookseller

2 1 will undertake to give his admirable Quinzy

1 collections to the world.

Diseases not mentioned 2 71

12

-, putrid

13

Old age

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STATEMENT OF DISEASES, &c.

17 22 20 from Sept. 20 to Oct. 20, 1806. THE atmosphere has been clear Interments from Sept. 26 to October 23. during great part of the past month, Accident

3 and the weather cool. Winds from the Colic, bilious

1 north. west and north-east.

Consumption

6 7 The attention of physicians has been Dropsy

2 2 principally called to the autumnal fe- Drowned

2 1 ver : yet this disease has not been so Fever, slow

1 common, and für less fatal than in most

bilious

1 1 years. It is right to have it stated ;

nervous

1 1 though we are not desirous of making Inf. complaints

15 any general inferences from it at pre- Mortification

1 sent; that the depletion of the sanguifer. Old age

2 1 ous system is rarely, if ever, resorted Suddenly

2 to by our physicians; and we suspect Diseases not mentioned 6 2 18 that as few die of fever here, in the same number of cases, as in any city of

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