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Miscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical
Intelligence.

Domestic.

A TREATISE concerning Po-
litical Enquiry, and the Li-
berty of the press, by Tunis Wort-

man, Esquire, has just been pub-
lished by Mr. Samuel Campbell.

Mr. Folwell is printing the Jour-
nals of the Old Congress, and of

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those under the new Constitution,
together with the reports of the se-
veral officers of departments, and
select committees. The work will
be completed in thirteen volumes
8vo.

Chancellor Livingston, in a letter
to Dr. Mitchill of the 14th March,
asserts his claim as original disco-
verer of the use of the Conferva ri-
vularis in making paper. He
states that about nine or ten years
ago, he remarked on the bed of a ri-
vulet, which was then dried, some
of the conferva which had become
whitened, and good paper, though
brittle. Some of this self-formed
paper he deposited, the ensuing
winter, in the Museum of Mr.
Gardiner Baker in this city, and
though he often mentioned the dis-
covery to his friends, the experi-
ment of manufacturing the paper
was not made until August, 1799.

From the circumstances men-
tioned by Chancellor Livingston,
as well as from the testimony of Mr.
Delabigarre, to whom he commu-
nicated the discovery in 1797,
there can be no doubt that he was
wholly ignorant of a similar disco-
very made by Mr. Senger, of West-
phalia, and has, therefore, an inde-
pendent and just claim to all the
merit that may be attached to the
invention.

The Chancellor states the con-
ferva used by him, to be a large
species of the conferva fluviatalis,
growing to many feet in height, in
Hudson's river.

The Booksellers of Philadelphia,
are seeking to rival those of London,
in elegant editions of valuable
works. Mr. James Humphreys, is
printing by subscription, “Mungo
Park's Travels in the interior of
Africa,” in large 8vo. on the best
paper, with a large map of the route
of Mr. Park through Africa. An
abstract of this work has been given
in the first volume of this Maga-
zine; and our readers will now be

gratified with the whole of this very
interesting performance, which will
make its appearance in May next.
Mr. Humphreys has also issued pro-
posals for publishing, in Weekly
Numbers, “The History, civil
and commercial, of the British Co-
lonies in the West Indies: In two
volumes 4to. By Bryan Edwards,
Esquire; to which will be added,
from the pen of the same author,
an account of the proceedings in
regard to the Maroon Negroes in Ja-
maica, with observations on their
character and manners, and a de-
tail of the origin, progress, and
determination of the Maroon war
in that Island: Also, an Historical
view of St. Domingo, its political
state, population, production, and
exports, and the events which have
happened there to the end of the
year 1794.” This edition will like-
wise be illustrated with a large map
of the West Indies, and ten other
maps of particular Islands, and em-
bellished with eight copperplate
prints.

This publication will be com-
pleted in fifty numbers, the price
of each 25 cents. The very high
and deserved reputation this work
has long enjoyed, and the present
additions and embellishments, will
strongly recommend it to the Ame-
rican reader, to whom the infor-
mation it contains is peculiarly
valuable and interesting.

Messrs. Dickins and Maxwell
are reprinting, in an elegant man-
ner, from the last London edition,
the Pursuits of Literature; a work
which has attracted more attention,
and received higher praise, than
almost any other literary perform-
ance in the present age.

The moderate price of two dollars,
at which this edition is offered, will
extend its circulation in the United
States, where it is little known.
The author is said to be Mr. Mat-
thias, a Clerk in the Queen's Trea-
sury.