to

of that Hiftory, and asked the King's Leave • write it. Which plainly fhews the Truth of what has • been faid by an excellent Perfon, that a Man must · • have fomething more than Wit to write a Book

AN ADDITION TO THE FOREGOING
ARTICLE.

After I had compofed the foregoing Article, I have received the Paris-Edition of the Book, which makes the Subject of it, and I find two Paffages in the Edition of Bruffels, that are not in the Paris-Edition.

The firft Paffage (page 161, 162) contains an Encomium upon his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, and begins thus. Ils (les Anglois) peuvent même fe vanter de pouvoir donner là-deffus (fur la guerre ) des leçons à tous les autres peuples; conduits, comme ils le font, par ce General invincible, la terreur des Conquerans, dont le nom feul eft capable de ⚫ renverser les plus fiers Ennemis. &c". That is, Nay, they (the English) may boaft of being able to inftruct all other Nations in it, (in the Art of War); being led, as they are, by that invincible General, the Terror of Conquerors, whofe bare Name is fufficient to overthrow the boldeft Enemies, &c.

The fecond Paffage (pag. 160, 161.) begins with thefe Words, Je ne puis mieux finir cet Article, que par le caractere des Anglois. C'eft, dit le Pere d'Orle

ans,

*This particular may be confirmed by the following Paffage of Count de Buffy. When I defired the Duke of St. Aignan to tell him (the prefent King of France,) that ⚫ before I should serve him again in the Army, I befought H. M. to approve my writing his Hiftory; the King fent me Word that what he had done, was not fufficient for my Furpose, but that he hoped he fhould afford me Matter enough in time". Letter 84. of the firft Volume of Count de Buffy's Letters.

ans, une Nation belliqueufe, &c. That is, I cannot better conclude this Article, than with the Character of the English. They are, fays Father d'Orleans, a Warlike Nation, &c.

Next to the Paffage of Father d'Orleans, I find thefe Words. Learning, which is in a manner banished from France, has now taken Sanctuary in that Kingdom (England. The English are full of Senfe: they have à vaft Genius, and apply themselves to learned Works with an indefatigable Labour. &c.

All the Paffages, which I have inferted in the foregoing Article, are in both Editions. The Paris-Edi-. tion is finer, and much more correct, than that of Bruffels.

ARTICLE IX:

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The New Law of Fluids: or, a Difcourfe concerning the Afcent of Liquors, in exact Geometrical Figures, between two nearly contiguous Surfaces. To which is added the true State of the Cafe about Matter's Thinking. Wherein it is fhewn, how very near that Controverfy now is to a full and compleat Decifion. By HUMPHREY DITTON, Master of the New Mathematical-School in Chrift's Hospital. London: Printed by J. Roberts, for Benj. Cowfe, at the Rofe and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1714. in 8vo. Pagg. 68, and 73.

BESIDES the Two Difcourfes mentioned in this Title, the laft whereof chiefly muft needs raife the Curiofity of the Readers, I think it neceffary to obferve

obferve that Mr. Ditton has drawn from his first Dif course a General Corollary confifting of twenty eight Pages, wherein he undertakes to establish the Certainty of the Doctrine of Attraction.

The Curious will be glad to fee how that ingenious Author answers the Obetions that have been raised against that Doctrine.

FAther Michael del Giudice will fhortly publish a Collection of all the Hiftorians of Sicily in three Volumes in Folio. That Collection will be attended with feveral Additions of the Editor.

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PARIS.

Ather Banduri, Benedi&tin of the Congregation of Melecta, who has published the Antiquities of Conftantinople in two Volumes in Folio, has lately put out a Project of a Collection of Medals ready to be fent to the Prefs That Collection will contain in two Volumes in Folio all the Medals of Emperors and Empreffes, which he has been able to collect from Trajanus Decius to the Palæologi. All the Collections that have been printed hitherto, are very imperfect; which is the Reason why Father Banduri has undertaken to go about this Work. Mezzabarba published only the Latin Medals, without distinguishing their Sizes:

† An Account of thofe Antiquities has been inserted in these Memoirs. See the Index.

Sizes. Befides he frequently omits the Difcription of the Heads of Medals, and the Infcriptions that are on that Side, not to say that he defcribes many of those Monuments only upon the Credit of others. Mezzabarba's Performance about Latin Medals was imitated by Mr. Vaillant, as to Greek Medals, and those of Colonies; and he has frequently omitted the Heads of the choice Medals mentioned by him. Most of the other Antiquaries, fuch as Patin and Begerus, have only published the Medals belonging to private Men; others, fuch as Triftan and Seguin, have only collectéd feveral choice Medals.

The Author begins with the Emperor Decius for these Two Reasons. 1. Because other Writers have been more careful to defcribe the Medals of the Emperors who reigned before Decius, than thofe of his Succeffors. 2. Because the new Medals of the former Emperors, that have been difcovered fince the Collections juft now mentioned, were immediately published and explained; whereas the others have been neglected.

This new Collection will therefore contain all the Greek, Latin and Egyptian Medals, which the Author has feen in the feveral Cabinets of France, from Trajanus Decius to the Paleologi. He will add to them all thofe that are in the Cabinet of the Great Duke of Tuscany, in that of the King of Pruffia published by Mr, Begerus, and in the Works of Mezzabarba, Va. illant, and others.

All the fcarce Medals of every Emperor will be accurately engraved. Next to thofe Cuts, the Readers will find the Life of each Emperor taken from contemporary Writers, and attended with all the Difcoveries that Medals can afford. Next to that Life, the Author will infert a Series of Medals ftamped for that Emperor, and divided into feveral Claffes. The gold Medals will come in firft, and then filver and brafs Medals. As for the brafs Medals, Father Banduri will give us, 1. The Medalions. 2. The Medals of large Brass. 3. Thofe of middle and little Brafs. The Medals of each Clafs will be difpofed according to the Alphabetical Order of the Reverses. The Head

and

and the Infcription on that Side will always be carefully defcribed. The Author will add fhort Notes, when there is occafion for it. In brafs Medals there will be other Divifions, befides thofe that have been juft now mentioned, for the Readers will find in the first Place the Roman Medals, afterwards thofe of the Colonies, and then the Greek and Egyptian Medals. All the brass Medals of Mezzabarba will appear at the end, because he took no Notice of their feveral Sizes.

There will be in that Collection about two hundred Copper-Cuts of Medals, and a Map of the Roman Empire.

When the Author has published this large Collection, he will earnestly go about the Editions of Nicephorus, Theodorus Antiochenus, Philo Carpathius, and other Fathers, which he promised some Years ago.

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PARIS.

Hundred Cuts, representing the feveral Nations of the Levant drawn to the life in 1707, and 1708. by Order of M. de Ferriol, the King's Ambaffador at the Port, have been lately engraved under the Direction of Mr. Le Hay.

Cent Eftampes reprefentant les differentes Nations du Levant peintes d'après nature en 1707, & 1708. par les ordres de M. de Ferriol Ambasadeur du Roy à la Porte gravées en 1712, & 1713. par les foins de ; Mr. le Hay.

M. de Ferriol, Ambaffador from the King at Conftantinople, made ufe in 1707, and 1708 of Van Mour an eminent Flemish Painter, to draw to the Life every Thing reprefented in these Cuts. Mr. le Hay, whofe Capacity is fo well known, has, as it were, directed the Hand of thofe excellent Mafters, who have engraved them from the Original Pictures. The best Judges will find nothing wanting in them. The Ground-work, the Objects which attend the Figures, the Figures themselves, their Cloaths, and Attitudes, offer to the Eye a Variety equally pleafant and inftructive.

Thofe