1805.] 



'LUerarj and Phllefophhal IntelUgence. 



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from ihe balneum mnri a, andlet the liquor 

 cool 5 decant it, and you will have a per- 

 feft rolution, without mixuire of foreign 

 nutter. The v:unifli may be prepared in 

 the Time manner wirh oil oi tuipentinc, 

 by fubllituting the eflfence infte£ld of alko- 

 hol." 



M. Lenormand gives the following 

 as a new and eafy method of iaftantly re- 

 moving fpots of oil, greafe, and tallow, 

 from any kind of (hiff, without changing 

 its colour. " Take five or lix pieces of 

 lighted chircoal, about the fize of a v»al. 

 nut j wrap them m a piece of Imen which 

 has been previoufly dipped in water, 

 and fqueezed in the hancl to prefs out t'le 

 fuoerabundnnt moifture ; exiend the Itiiff 

 that is [potted on a table on which a clean 

 napkin has been fpresd, then take the 

 cloth containing the charcoal by the four 

 corners and lay it on the fpot ; litr it up 

 and put it down on the fpot ten or twelve 

 times fuccefllvely, preffing ligiitly upon it, 

 and the fpot vvi'l dif.ppear. 



TheCount of Hoffmansegg has, with 

 the permiJiloB of the Prince Regent of 

 Portugal, fent M. SiEDER.,a very able na- 

 turalift, to travel in Brafil. This gen- 

 tleman, in a letter to h^i^ patron, gives 

 an account ef the various obfervaiions he 

 has had occallon to make on the pioper- 

 ties afcribed to the ayapana, faid to be a 

 fovereign remedy for the bite of all kinds 

 of venemous animals. From thefe it le- 

 fults, that the juice of that plant, when 

 applied without delay, effefls an inltan- 

 taneous cure, but that when it is not im- 

 diately applied, it dees not always pre- 

 vent the fuppuration, though it abates 

 the infliminaiion and the fwelling,— 

 Among the tiiiee examples mentioned by 

 NT. Sieber, cue of the wounds was given 

 without the perlon injured b.ing ^ble to 

 diic'jver by what animal it was inflicted : 

 the two othert were only Itings of fcolo- 

 pendras. This obfervation mult Ibme- 

 whrtt diminifli the hopes entertained of 

 cniKig, by means of the ayapana, even 

 the lutes of mad animals. 



M. Canova, the fculptorof Rome, has 

 made defigiis of the celebrated hoiics at 

 Monte Cavallo. He thinks, that, to 

 produce all the efFeft of whii;h they are 

 fulceptible, they ou^ht to be placed in a 

 diffeient point of view fiom tiiat m 

 which they have hitiierto been exhi- 

 bited. 



The Elector of Bavaria nv-inifefts 

 increifed ztal for the arts and literature. 

 Nor content with having fupprcfled a 

 nnultitude o( monafteries and' eilablilhed 

 public fchoois in their ilcad, he has re- 



cently founded three univerfi;ies in his 

 new dominions in Suabia. Latin fchoids 

 already exi!t;d m thole provinces, but 

 they were not ftiiaci^Ht to the furmation 

 ct' a man of letters, and to > learned for 

 the limple arlifan. The Elector, there- 

 fore, ordered thefe fchiols to I)e fiipprei?^ 

 ed, and pubhc-i'chools to be ellablilhed 

 for the peiiple, and three univerfities at 

 Ulm, Dillmgen, and K.-nipten, Thefe 

 untverlities will be opened on the fii(t of 

 Novemher, and pupils of the various 

 Chriltian d.enomlnaf.ons admitted. The- 

 general infpeftion, compiled of learned 

 Proteltants and Catholics, is immediately 

 under the dirc;!ion of public inlirudion 

 eltabliflied at Miiiich. 



A fociety has been eftablifhed at Ber- 

 lin whofe objeft is to fend milfionaries 

 every year to Africa, and efpecially to 

 that pirt of it inhabited by the Negroes, 

 that with the light of Chriiiianity they 

 may difFule feme tinfturc of our arts and 

 fow feeds of a mere rfi.ed civilz ition.— 

 Tw] miifionarics luvc already ftt out for 

 Guinea. 



The Ruflian noliles continue (o dirtin- 

 guifh themfelves by their uonati n* to the 

 Itrhools and univerlities. Lieu"':n mt- 

 Gen. Urusoff has prefented the Univer- 

 fity of Mofcow with a very confiderable 

 cabiret of minerals and a beaut'ful col- 

 lecTicin of Moi'aics. The fame ofiicer has 

 given his own library and a lich collcofion 

 o( Rnffiin minerals to the Gymnafium cf 

 t, e Government at Porchovv. IM. de 

 SuDji- NKOi-F, nepiiew of the late Count 

 Besborodko, has depoiited in the han s 

 of tlie minifter who fuperintenls the ails 

 and fciences the him of 40,000 roubles 

 for the eltabliiliment of Ichools in his na- 

 tive province Little RiilFia, 



The Chevdliei Cai.c agni of Niples has 

 found a medal belonging to the ciiy of 

 Petra in Sicily, with the infcnptioii 

 OKTrEINwy. This medal repielcnts on 

 one fide the head of Hercules, and on the 

 ofher a female Ifanding and re!hng her el-^ 

 bow on a fmall coluirm. CItagniisat 

 prefent er.g;iged on a large work concern- 

 ing the coins of the ancient Coveieigns of 

 Sicily, vvhich will throw new light on that 

 iniertlting luojedt. 



By letters from Corfu it is faid that the 

 Englidi Vice-Conlul, with the aid of two 

 celebrated divers from Cdimno, and after 

 a labour ot two years, has recovered iroin 

 the bottom of the lea the precicus collec- 

 tion of works of art of ancient Greece 

 formed by Lyid El in during his rrlidencij 

 at C jniinntin>ipli;, and which was loft 

 wJiti» tlie veflel in i8oz nearCrrigo. 



M. Alibert 



