The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-11
FROM TIE LONDON "GLORE."
SECRET WRITING.

nave Invented a mode of fecret writing,
which, from the belt information can obtain,
appears 10 be new and eafy of application. 1t
may he praetifcd by ten thouIand perfons, with
ont endangering diicovery, for, i'll were to
teach this art to you, if would not at all ailiff
me m decyPhering your writing, nor would you
he thereby enabled TO read my letters, if in
tended 70 conceal their meaning As many
diNerent alphabets may be competed by my
plan, as would fupply one for all the inhabitants
OF TIE world. and there are twenty five dif1irni-
lar modes of writing with each of thefc alpha
bets, while all the twenty-five are to be decv-
phered the fame by key or clue. a perfon
VINO is Killed in the art of decypherng, and
who would explain any common fecret writing
(or,. perhaps, any which has been yet
made pub!ic,) would find that the ordinary
rules OF decyphering do not appyto the fyftem
have invented, becaue he could neither af-
certain the number of letters in word, nor the
frequency with which the Ggn of each letter is
repeated in an epitolary correfpordence.
ICNoTUs.
It is afcertained, By experiments, in the New
York ihips, which 90 on whaling VOYAGES of 90
months duration and more, that fcorbutic lymp-
toms appear among the crews, unlefs they have
temporary tupplies of frefh vegetable matter.
heie will of themfelves work cure, but il is
well known that they are more ef1icacious when
continued raw than if they are fubieqed to any
culinary operation. Under this conviction, the
Americans eat their pumpkins, potatoes, &c.
In their natura! and crude tate.
London PAPER.
OssIAN'S POEMs.-Tbe long difputed ma
nuicriPts of the Poems Of Oifian, in the original
Celtic, are now in the prefs under the aufpices
OF the Highland Society, to be accompanied ~
a latin tranilation by the late Mr.. Macfarlane.
The whole, fays the London monthly magazine,
VIII form two large volumes octave. ID.
Noi me tangere.--The publication of bio
graphicaS work. containing the genealogical and
revolutionary hiltory of sew princes of the i'm
penal court of Bonaparte, having been lately
announced in the Mercantile 7dyertifer, an aid
de-camp OF general Thureau, French minfter
pieripOteDtiary in the United States, came
po't-chafe to town for the exprefs purpoie of
preventing the faii publication. The mniiter
ioreieeing that this work would location MANY
poieInlc dicuilions, and Of courfe highly diff
pleaie the rev Imperial court, thought It adj
"iabIet to- Rop the publication by buying the
ma7ufcript.
The bargain was accordingly made, and NJ.
Dauhet the author of faid work, who lodges at
Mrs. Bouquet and Fre1inet's boarding houfe, in
GTecnwich-itreet, gave up his mauufcript to
' a,'''-uS-SdHP, IoT tDe commentator OF
1000 dollars and free pahage to Martinico,
where he is bound
we are informed that the gentleman who
was 10 tranlldte the faid work hearing of the
traniaftion, offered 500 dollars for it, but tbat
Ms. Daudet who had palled his word, declined
the offer.
The pnhlic curio6ty would no doub; have
been highly grsti6ed by the publication of the
work, as it would have provoked criti-
eilns and repiies, by which thefe rpaart prin-
ces would have appeared in their true i,shi.
The article concerning falleyraad & Perigorde,
particularly would have turaiGled matter
for many critical obferyafione.
~ z. Daily Adu.