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years in that country for the converfion of the natives : It 

 will be no little honour to the fciences, if M. Giefecke ftiall 

 bring himfelf to make a like facrificc for their advancement. 



Charts printed The Royal Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Mechanical 

 types!* 6 * C ^ rts °^ Betlib; have received among their members M. F. 

 H. Wagener, who has difcovered a new method of printing 

 geographical charts by a fpecies of moveable types, which is 

 found to anfwer better than engraving, -and will undoubtedly 

 be much cheaper. 



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Prizes given by Marflial Berthier, war minifter of France, at the requeft 



the French f g er , era { Marefcot, has again eftabliflied the prizes which 

 war minifter for ° . * b ; r 



was given tor the belt works on fortification. 



a work on fub- Two prizes have been granted to the bell treatifes on fub- 

 terranean for- terraneous izorks. The firft was adjudged by the committee 

 ti cation, o ^ fortification to Major Mouze, the fecond to Captain 



Gillot; the committee has adjudged a third treatife defer ving 

 of honourable mention, which has for its infcription artem 

 experienlia fecit ; the author of it is not known, 

 and one on a Another prize on the fubject of a project for a fortified 



plan rorafom- i arrae / Cf nas Dee n given to Captain Laurent. The com- 

 mittee have judged the project of Captain Biofchevalier, 

 -and that of Lieutenant Colonel Gefbert, to deferve honour- 

 able mention. The committee has rejected, for not corref- 

 ponding with the pTOpofed fubject, a project of Captain 

 Mallet, for a barrack intrenchment ; but have thought it worthy 

 of particular mention, as a work which gives a very ad van ta- 

 geous idea of the talents of this officer. 



Many of the works which neither received prizes, or par- 

 ticular mention, exhibit ingenious contrivances, and interest- 

 ing obfervations. In general thefe two contefts have fully 

 » proved the goodnefs of the Institution, of which the object is 

 to exite emulation in all the corps of the army, to propagate 

 knowledge among them, and to extend the perfection of all 

 the branches of the military art. 



Catalogue of THE catalogue of the Leipfic fair, has this year contained 



Leipftc fair, con- ^ vo fl ie ets more than ufual. The mufical publications have 



turned 3647 been 



publications. w^w* 



