Retrospect of. French Literature—Miscellaniess 
< The grand total of the Confederation 
of the Rhine is as follows; 
Number of confederates. 39 
Extent in square leagues - 7,185 
Number of inhabitants - 15,485,031 
Amount of revenues in 4 
German florins - 85,041,851 
Contingent - - - 118,950 
Certain provinces appertaining to Ha- 
nover were not at this period disposed 
of, viz. Kalenburg, Luneburg, Lauen- 
burg, Bremen, Verdun, Hadeln, Hoya, 
and Diepholz. The fate of the four 
Hans Towns too, comprehending an ex- 
tent of 38 square-leagues, with a popula- 
tion amounting to 298,000 inhabitants, 
and a revenue of 5,660,000 florins, was 
then unknown; their names are, Ham- 
burgh, Bremen, Lubeck, and Dantzic. 
Bonaparte had also at his disposal the 
Prussian. provinces of Erfurt, Blanken- 
hay, and Bayreuth; the Hessian pro- 
vinces of Hanau and Niederkatzenellen- 
bogen, the principality of Fulda, for- 
merly appertaining to the House of 
Orange, and Swedish Pomerania! These 
territories amounted in square leagues 
to 662,25, in number of inhabitants to 
17,005,098, with a revenue in German 
florins of 93,701,851. 
We formerly presented our readers 
with a table of the extent, revenues, and 
population, of certain of the German 
states, but the present account is far more 
explicit and complete. 
MISCELLANIES. 
“Description des Medailles,” &c.—A 
Description of Greek and Roman Me- 
dals, belonging to the late M. Benkowitz, 
by the Anse Don. Sesrint, Berlin, 4to, 
—The Greek and Roman medals, men- 
tioned here, formerly constituted part of 
the Farnesian Museum, from which they 
appear to have been pillaged. A Sile. 
sian, during his travels in Italy, obtained, 
ahd carried them into his native country, 
with a view of selling them to some public 
institution, but being unacquainted with 
the value, he demanded such an enor- 
mous price that no une would purchase. 
_ His death gave rise to a law-suit between 
his creditors and bis heirs, at the conclu- 
sion of which the medals in question 
were all sold by auction, M. Sestini 
having been employed to forma cata- 
~ Jogue of twelve hundred and fifty of 
them, found that many of these had for- 
qerly constituted the pride as well as 
the delight of Cardinal Noris, Vaillant, 
Morell, Hardouin, and Bandouri. Ses- 
tini has caused seventeen of the Greek 
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medals to be engraved, as they appeared. 
to him to be eminently worthy of atten-, 
tion, and among others we find those of 
the colony of Corinth, struck during tie 
reign of Marcus Aurelius, on which are 
impressed the grand altar of Melicesta, 
and the emblems of the Isthmian games.- 
Here also is to be found the enecdoticag. 
medal of Antoninus Pius, struck at 
Neoclaudiopolis, in Paphlagonia, which, 
bears the date of 191, and thus esta. 
blishes that of a second epoch, in imita- 
tion of the other cities of the same pros 
vince,. In addition to this we are pre= 
sented with a medal of Commodussg, 
struck at Nicea, in Bithynia, hitherto 
published with a false legend ; another of 
Julia Augusta, struck at Cyzica, in My- 
sia; one of Diadumenian, struck at 
Ephesus, which bears the image and the 
name of the philosopher Heraclitus, ori-. 
ginally of that city, &c. Among the 
medals of Heliogabalus, belonging to the 
colony of Sidon, M. Sestini has disco- 
vered a new type or figure, that emperor, 
beiag there represented under the attri- 
butes of a priest of Astarte. Zoega pres 
tended that it was_a Triptolemus, 
Among the consular medals, about se- 
venty in number, one only in the least 
remarkable has been found, impressed 
with the letters Q. L. C. which the edi- 
tor explains to be Quintus-Lutatius-Cer- 
co. The Roman medals of the Higher 
Empire are nearly all of the middle 
bronze, and for the most part in excel- 
lent preservation, Sestini has distin- 
guished a very precious one of a much 
venerated general, bearing the same in- 
scription as another struck in honour of 
Augustus: ‘f CONSENSU SENAT. ET EQ, 
ORDIN. P, Q. R ; which proves that by 
the unanimous consent of the senate, the 
Equestrian order, and the people, a stae 
tue bad been erected in honour of Aus 
gustus, and that Caligula had decreed 
the same mark of respect to Germa- 
nicus. 
‘¢ Dissertation sur le Dialecte de Pina 
dare,” &c.—A Dissertation on the Dia 
lect of Pindar, by Georrery Hermann, 
—The author of this pamphlet conibats’ 
the opinion of M, Sturz, who pretends 
that the dialect of Pindar is the Doric or 
iRolic, which greatly resembles the priz 
mitiye Greek, He on the other hand 
contends, that Pindar never wrote in any 
particular dialect but in the vulgar tongue 
‘of his native country, which was com- 
posed of all the dialects, and he quotes 
numerous ¢xamples ia support of his are 
gument, 
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