1806.] 



Literary anH Philosophical Intdligence. 



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Dr. Hedwig is engaged upon a work 

 entitled Adumbratio el delineatio Micro- 

 fcopico-unultjtua plantarum eali/ptrarum ; 

 tlie (irfl part of wliich, in folio, will fpee- 

 diiy be publiihed. 



Tlie garden Schwetzingen near Mann- 

 heim is reciioned one of tlie iinell in Ger- 

 many. Ten vievvs of it are foon expetted 

 to appear, from drawings l)y Kunvz, 

 and accompanied with a topographical, 

 botanical, 6ic. dcfcription. 



A (ierman and En;;hlh Dictionary by 

 KuTTNER and NicnoLsoN, after the 

 Englidi and German Diclionary of Adi;- 

 lung, will foon make its a]jpearance. 

 ■ M. NemiVich's iNarrative of his late 

 Toui ni England is expected with impa- 

 tience. 



Hollovd. 



The Teylerian Society at Haarlem has 

 propofed the following queftions, as the 

 fubjcct of a prize ciliiy, to' be adjudged 

 on' the 8th April, 1807 :—l. In what 

 does the diHcrcncc between natural and 

 revealed religion confill.? 2. Whether 

 various publications have not appeared at 

 (iitferent times which tend to oblcure this 

 dilFcrencc, and to caufe the advantages 

 polfefl'ed by Chriftianity over the religion 

 of nature to he forgotten ? 3. Whether, 

 in proportion as thefe writings are difle- 

 minated, and the two religions afliinilated 

 to each other in every point, the tnoll 

 fatiU ertects may not be expetted to re- 

 fult to chriitianity, morality, and the 

 happinefs of man ? — The prize is a gold 

 medal of 400 florins in value. The ef- 

 fays mull be written either in Dutch, 

 Latin, French, or Engliih. 

 France. 

 A machine, capable of being fet in 

 motion, and producing a powerful etlett, 

 without either the intervention of any 

 con)bulHble, the action of any current of 

 water or of air, or the exertion of ani- 

 mal flrcngth, but poifelling within itfelf 

 the inexhauftible principle of motion, 

 would douhtlefs prove of great utility to 

 mankind. Such is that of which j\'l. 

 DoDEMANT, profttVor of mathematics at 

 Lyons, announces himfelf the inventor. 

 At liis requcft the prefeCl has directed 

 two perfons, M. Carron, chief engineer 

 of the department, and M. MoUcr, pro- 

 fiflbr of natural philofophy, to examine 

 this machine. 



A procfs-verbal of the municipality of^ 

 Lille, in the department of A'auclufe, 

 has condrmed the fuccefs of a plantation 

 of indigo in the open held, in a farm be- 

 longing to M. Icap.d m; Bataglim. It 

 it (aid ill the p'lucck'Verbal, thut after an 



attentive examination of the indigo, the 

 produce of this trial, the commilfioners 

 gave it as their opinion, that this valu- 

 able plant might be naturalized in the 

 dejiartnient, and at fome future period 

 became a principal fource of its wealth. 

 Spain. 

 The following decree has been ilTued 

 by his Catholic Majelly the King of 

 Spain, on the occalion of fome experi- 

 ment* made at Carthagena, with refpe6t 

 to the etlicacy of anti-contagious fumi- 

 gations. " Don F. de Boija, command- 

 er in chief at Carthagena, having made 

 known to the king, in different reports, 

 the important fervices performed by Don 

 Micni L Cabanellas, during the pre- 

 valence of the contagious diftempcr 

 which raged in that place, his Catholic 

 Majulty was particularly ftruck with the 

 importance of the experiment made by 

 him in one of the hofpitals of the iaid 

 city, wl)ere he Ihut himfelf up with fifty 

 perfons in order to prove the efficacy of 

 the acid fumigations ; and actually flept 

 with his companions, including two of 

 his own children, in the beds where many 

 patients liad recently fallen v ictuns to 

 this terrible difeal'e, without employing 

 any other prefcrvative means than the 

 mineral acid fumigations, as directed by 

 M. Guyton. His Catholic Majefty, 

 moreover, learned with the moil unfeign- 

 ed fatisfattion, that the refult of the ex- 

 periment was fo fortunate that the fifty- 

 one perfons, after having been flricily 

 confined in this lazaretto, had come out 

 of it in a fiate of perfect health. Li 

 coniequence, and in order to afford a 

 proof of his royal munificence, his Ca- 

 tholic Majetty has remitted to each of 

 the galley llaves who voluntarily fubmit- 

 tcd to this experiment (not having pre- 

 vioully undergone an attack of the yellow 

 fever), one year of the time they were 

 fentenced to remain in chains ; and he 

 farther caufed his approbation of their 

 conduct to be notified to them, by his 

 captain-general. To Don Michel Ca- 

 banellas his Catholic Majelly grants the 

 title and honours of phylician to his Ma- 

 jclty's houfehold, with an annual falary 

 of' 24,000 reals, to be paid monthly from 

 the funds of the community of Cartha- 

 gena ; at the fame time is conferred on 

 him ;> right of voting in the municipal 

 body of that city, in the fame manner as 

 if he had been a natural-born Citizen. 

 The king, befides, charges himfelf with 

 providing for his two children, whofe 

 hves, like his own, were expofed for the 

 interell of the flute and of humanity." 



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