f the last two,
the following MS. note is inserted:

"The speculations in the two following sheets included views that
related to the disorganised state of Turkey, and the unhappy dependence
of the Bourbon family; which are now, from the changes which have taken
place, altogether unfit for publication."

The sole indication of the authorship which I have observed throughout the
volume lies in the following foot-note, at p. 893.:

"This is all that seems to be necessary to say on the subject of
education. In a treatise published by me a few years ago, entitled
_Improvements in Glasgow_, I think I have exhausted," &c.[6]

The only treatise with such a title which I find in Watt's _Bibliotheca
Britannica_ is thus entered:

"LAURIE, David. Proposed improvements in Glasgow. Glasg., 1810,
8vo.--Hints regarding the East India Monopoly, 1813. 2s."

My _Queries_ then are these:

1. Is anything known of such a treatise on "circulable wealth," &c., as
that which I have named?

2. Is any biographical notice extant of the "David Laurie" mentioned by
Watt?

I may add that the volume in question was recently purchased along with
about 1000 other pamphlets and books, chiefly on political economy: all of
which appear to have formerly belonged to the late Lord Bexley, and to have
been for the most part collected by him when Chancellor of the Exchequer.

E.

Old Trafford, near Manchester.

[Footnote 6: I find no mention of Mr. Laurie, or of his "Improvements in
Glasgow," in Cleland's _Annals of Glasgow_, published in 1816, nor is he
mentioned in Mr. McCulloch's _Literature of Political Economy_.]

* * * * *

"DONATUS REDIVIVUS."

Can you, or any of your correspondents, give me any information relative to
the history or authorship of the following pamphlet?--

"Donatus Redivivus: or a Reprimand to a modern Church-Schismatick, for
his Revival of the Donatistical Heresy of Rebaptization, in Defiance to
the Judgment and Practice of the Catholick Church, and of the Church of
England in particular. In a Letter to Himself. London, 1714."

The same tract (precisely identical, except in the title-page) is also to
be found with the following title:

"Rebaptization condemned. Wherein is shown, 1. That to Rebaptize any
Person that was once Baptiz'd, even by Laymen, in the name of the
Sacred Trinity, is contrary to the Practice of the C