1821. 



Lilrrary and Philosophical InLelligcnce. 



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the Arabic MSS. into whicli language 

 many or all the best Greek au<l Roman 

 authors are known to have been trans- 

 lated. 



The flock of Cashinire Goats, consist- 

 ing of 175, imported into France in 

 1819, and placed at the north-east of 

 Toulon, has been renioveil to a more 

 congenial climate at St. Onier, near 

 Paris. The kids from til is flock are 

 abundantly covered with magnificent 

 down of which the Caslisnire sliavvls are 

 made ; and they are superior in strength 

 and appearance to the indigenous kids 

 of tlie same age ; which leaves no doubt 

 of success from the naturalization. 



GKRMANY. 



The silly antipathy of tlie Emperor 

 of Austria to revolutianari/ dortrines is 

 too well known. His Majesty lately 

 edified the Professors of the Lyceum of 

 Laybach, with the following significant 

 Lecture: — 



" Gentlemen— The Students of Car- 

 niola have ever deserved my praises ; 

 study to preserve to them this high dis- 

 tinction ; faitlifully adhere to your 

 ancient institutions; these institutions 

 served for our ancestors, and why 

 should they not be good enough for us. 

 In other places people have become en- 

 amoured of new doctrines, of wiiich I 

 cannot, or will ever, approve. Preserve 

 yourselves from the contagion of these 

 fancies — attach yourselves to that which 

 is certain and practical {pnsii/f.) I 

 want no philosophers (savans) : my 

 ambition is to reign over loyal and vir- 

 tuous citizens, and those you can edu- 

 cate for nje. He who serves me must 

 obey my orders; and he who feels that 

 he cannot condescend to do so, Iiad a", 

 well remove Jiimself, or I will remove 

 him." 



ITALY. 



Tlie Abbe Amadeus Perron, Pro- 

 fessor of oriental lau'^uages in the uni- 

 ^■ersity of Turin, has dlscovcre.i some 

 fi-agm(;nts of Cicero, in a MS. horn the 

 monastery of St.Coloniban di Bobbio, a 

 town on the Trebia, in the Kin?; of 

 Sardinia's dominions. This MS. con- 

 tains important new readings of orations 

 already known, and confirms the iden- 

 tity of several texts wliich have been 

 tortur(!d by indiscreet critics. It con- 

 tains, besides fiagments of theonitious, 

 pro Scriuro, pro I'l. Tulli.o in (.'lodiuin 

 Ornlionis, which are unfortunately los!. 

 Some of these fragments have been 

 alreiwly published by M. Mai, after a 

 MS. of the same library at Colombau, 

 preserved in the Ainbrosiuii library at 

 Milan. 



Dr. CoRRADORi at llutoin Tuscany, 

 informs us, that he lately saw a snake 

 with two heads ; and adds, it sometimes 

 Iiappened that the heads difl'ered as to 

 the use of their faculties ; thus the one 

 head would cat while the other was 

 asleep. 



SWEDEN. 



The Swedish journals announce that 

 IMajor Graner, who sailed last year (o 

 explore in tlie South Sea a new route 

 for ships from Cliili to the East Indies, 

 has discovered a group of islands 

 hitherto unknown, and has named the 

 largest of the group Oscar Island. 



RL'SSIA. 



Count Romanzow has ngain fitted out 

 two new expeditious for the discovery 

 and investigation of unknown coun- 

 tries. One of the expeditious is to en- 

 deavour to travel along tiie solid ice on 

 the coast <xf Tschutksi from Asia to 

 America ; tlie other to ascend one of 

 the rivers in the north-west coast, in 

 order to ])eiietrate the unknown space 

 which is between ley i ape and Macken- 

 zie's River. 



SPAIN. 



A Negro slave in the gold mines of 

 Condoto, in the government of Choco, 

 in South America, found u mass of pla- 

 tina of extraordinary magnitude, and 

 which is now deposited in the Royal 

 Museum, in Madrid. It weighs rather 

 more than 1 + pound, and is the largest 

 piece of this metal hitherto met with. 



EAST INDIES. 



The three thousand eight hundred 

 and forty-six children, who have been 

 admitted from the beginning, into the 

 schools round Trancjuebar, were of the 

 following description : — 

 English and Tasiuil schools : 

 Protesituit christian . . 265 

 Roman chiisti;in •. . 161 



Brahmin be;illien . .174 



Soodra lumtlien . . 2535 



Mahomethm . . 84 



Lo'.v-caste schools : 

 Soodra 



Protestiint lioj's find girls 

 Rom;!ii iinys 

 Houthen 

 Mabouiediiii 



33 IT 



12 



403 



70 



13T 



7 



629 



Total . . 3846 



The children in the schools are thus 

 classed in (lie last returns: 



Proicstnnt christian . 184 



Roiuan christian . .119 



Brahmin luid Soocha heathen 12<J« 

 Mahonitdnn . . 44 



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