1805.] 



Literary and Phtlofophltai Inttlllgence: 



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Sciences, (o attend the EmbafTy of Count 

 Golowkin, which is about to be Tent from 

 Ruflia to China. The embafly will con- 

 fift of 3000 perfons, and it is hoped that 

 very confiderable acctflions of knowledge, 

 in refpeil to the Chinefe empire, will be 

 derived from it. 



The new edition of OsterWald's 

 Geography has, by French ir.fluence, 

 been prohibited in Switzerland '. 



Dr. F. MuNTER has publifhed, at Co- 

 penhagen, in two volumes, a very com- 

 plete Hiftrry of the Reformation. 



A CoUeftion of Letters, which paffed 

 between Leibnitz and leveral of his 

 correfpondents, and which had not hither- 

 to been given to the world, has lately 

 been publi(hed at Hanover. 



By an Imperial Ukafe in the Court 

 Gazette cf Peter(burg, the rights of citi- 

 rens have been given to the Jews through- 

 out the whole extent of the Ruffian do- 

 minions. The children of the Jews will, 

 bencefortb, be admitted, like the other 

 Ruflian fubjeiSs, into the fchcols, col- 

 leges, and univerfities. The Hebrews 

 will b« divided into four clafles ; viz. of 

 farmers; nrtificer* and workmen; mer- 

 chants ; and citizen". The farmers will 

 be free, and, as well a» the artificeri., 

 may purchale landi ; and thofewho wifli 

 to engage in agriculture, and have no for- 

 t'une, are to have a certain portion of the 

 crown lands. Thofe who will eftabli(h 

 manufaftories are to enjoy, in their com- 

 merce, all the franchifes of Ruflian fub- 

 jei'ts. 



Profeflbr K1E6EWETTER has made a 

 variety of obl'ervations on the Deaf and 

 Dumb, at Berlin i and hclias dilcovered, 

 that, when taught to fpeak, they have a 

 great tendency to fpeak in rhyme ! 



M. Proust fays, that the fulphate of 

 copper and the nitrate, with a minimum 

 of acid, verdigris, the native and artifi- 

 cial muriates, cendre blue,' the carbonate, 

 kc. all yield to potafh both their acids 

 and hydrites. Potafh, tinged with hy- 

 drate of copper, throws down the hydrate 

 «n being mixed with water, and all th^ 

 bxydo-ulkaline Iblutions fullow the fame 

 hw. Slake<t lime, /haken in a bottle 

 with carbonate of copper and water, pro- 

 duces a fine cendre blue in about twelve 

 hours; after which, as lime deprives pot- 

 ■«(h of its carbonic acid entirely, and pot- 

 a(h it one of the Itrongtli' attraitors of 

 acids known, it it inipofTibie that it (houii 

 not have the fame power over an oxyde, 



and that oxyde poflcfied of the \veakeft 

 attraflion of any. 



M. DoBERlMER propofes the follow- 

 ing method to make white lead. Diflblve 

 litharge in weak nitric acid, and precipi- 

 fate this foiution with prepared chalJc. 

 The precipitate wafhed and dried affords 

 a cerufeof the whitcne-s of Ihow. 



In America, Mr. Richard Snow- 

 den is about to publifti a Hift&ry of that 

 Continent, from the difcovery by Colum- 

 bus to the prefeni period, in two volumes. 



Mrs. Warren is engaged in a Hilforf 

 of the Rife, Progrefs, and Termination of 

 the revolutionary War between Great 

 Britain and the United States of America j 

 interfperfed with biographical, political, 

 and moral obfervations. 



Dr. MiLi.ER, of New York, intends 

 to publiiTi Leftures on Theology, bf 

 Charles Niseett, D. D. late Preu- 

 dent of Dickenfcn Coliege, it\ CarliJle, 

 Pennfylvania ; to which he intends to pra- 

 f.-x. an account of the life and chaiailerut 

 the author. 



M. BergwtaNN, a Livonian clergy- 

 mat?, advantageoully known by the ac- 

 count of his travels, and his refidence for 

 ftveral years among the Caimucks, in- 

 tended to i'it off on a new tour among 

 the nations inhabiting Upper Alia, of 

 whom very little is at prcfent known. 

 We have the greater reafon to expert th* 

 mod fatisfaftory refults from this new^ 

 enterprife, as M. Bergmann is com- 

 plete mafter of the languages of molt of 

 the nations he intends to vifit. 



M. oe RrEs, Adjutant-General of the 

 King of Denmark, has invented a new in- 

 flrumcnt called Topognomon, by means 

 of whicb you may difcover the Ealt in the 

 darkeft night, and point out a place 

 where there is a light, though you cannot 

 perceive it. This invention is capable of 

 being of the greateft importance in war, 

 and particularly in fieges. The fame offi- 

 cer has likewife invented an initrument, 

 by means of which, in a given place and 

 in profound darkneft, you may afcertain 

 the moment when a veflcl I'ails from port. 



M. OtGG, formerly vicar of the cathe- 

 dral of Wurz'iurg, has fitbmitted to the 

 elefloral committee at Miinich a new in- 

 vention, by means of which all kinds of 

 mills may be fet in motion without the 

 aid of water. He lias offered to execute 

 one of thefe machines, on condition that 

 an txclulive privilege, for twentv years, 

 Ihould be granted to him. 



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