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danger. Soon after this he descended 
in the vicinity of Thienhoven. He 
calculates his greatest elevation at 20,552 
feet, and the distance he had travelled at 
about sixty-six miles. 
The following simple method of pre- 
venting the destruction of flax by the 
caterpillar has been practised with success 
in this country, It consists in making 
persons waik twice a day along the fur- 
rows, with a rope fastened to two poles, 
So as to cause the rope to drag over the 
plants, by which the insects are swept 
off them. This operation repeated for 
four succeeding days preserves the flax; 
though, in some instavces, in three days 
it has been fuund to produce the desired 
effect. 
. Colowel de Massenzacu, late Lieute- 
nant-General, de |’Etat Major of the 
Prussian army under the command of 
the Prince of Hohenlohe, a man, who. 
enjoyed during twenty years the confi- 
dence of the three kings of Prussia, and 
particularly that of the late Duke of 
Branswic, and who was employed in the 
highest and most important functions and 
business, has, announced at Amsterdam, 
the early publication of the following - 
wofks: 1. Memoirs of his own Life; 2. 
Materials ‘for the History of Prussia, 
between the years 1794 and 1807; and 
3. Remembrances of great Men, con- 
taining particularly Eulogies of Frederic 
IJ. and his brother Henry. 
~ The King of Holland, by a decree dated 
July 29, established a naval and. military 
academy for the education of foundlings, 
orphans, and all other children, whose 
parents are unable to provide for their 
subsistence. 
“ FRANCE. 
M. Fouecur, a merchant of Havre has 
proposed a plan to form by authority a 
society for the purpose of supplying 
France with colonial produce. According 
to this plan eight goelettes, vessels be- 
tween a brig and a snow, are to pe built 
»after the model constructed by Paul 
Jones, and to be sent out armed to the 
Windward Islands. In this enterprize 
the projector would take a principal 
share, observing. that if, out of these 
eizht vessels, only three should return in 
safety, it would produce a clear profit of 
15 per cent, but that uf, by an unexpected 
share of good fortune, the whole eight 
should be successful, it would produce a 
a dividend of 200 per cent, His calcu- 
lation is founded on the success of the 
vessels bringing the government dispatch 
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es, which are built on the above principle. 
and are seldom or never taken. fle pro- 
poses dividing the stock into one hundred 
shares to consist of 10,000 francs each,” 
and will himself becume a principal 
subscriber, 
In the department of Gers, are grown 
the annual or soft cotton, and that of 
Ivica, which thrives extremely well, 
Many land-owners have applied them- 
selves to the culture of this important 
article, and they already reap the fruits 
of their care and industry. 
Av interesting analysis of coffee has 
recently been made by M. Caper, apo- 
thecary in ordinary to the French impe- 
nial household, from which it appears 
that the berries contain mucilage in abun- 
dance, much gallic acid, a resiv, a con- 
crete essential oil, some albumen, and @ 
volatile aromatic principle. » To these 
may be added such as are found in most 
vegetables, viz. line, pot-ash, charcoal, 
iron, &c. Roasting developes the solus 
ble principles; but it ought to be mode- 
rated, if it be wished to preserve the 
aroma, and not decompose the acid, the 
gum and the resiu. Mocha coffee is of 
all kinds the most aromatic and resinous, 
M. Cadet advises that coffee be neither 
roasted nor infused till the day it is in- 
tended to be drunk. 
Garnepin, the aéronaut, ascended 
with his illuminated balloon on the eve- 
ning of the 16th of August, at fifteen mi- 
nutes past eleven at night, from the garden 
of Tivoli, and descended the following 
morning at past six, at Broussig, in 
Woevre Arrondissment of Commerij in 
the department of the Meuse, a distance 
of 230 miles from Paris. ‘he villagers 
were so extremely terrified at the sight 
of the aérial vehicle, that they all refused 
him their assistance to secure the balloon 
excepting one man, who together with 
Mr, Garnerin used every endeavour 
to accomplish it, hut the wind being 
very powerful, it forced the ropes from 
their hands, and the balloon again as- 
cended taking an easterly direction. Mr. 
Ganerin is returned to Paris. 
HUNGARY. 
The greater part of the celebrated 
vineyards of Tokay have this year been 
entirely destroyed by a tremendous storm, 
accompanied with hail and the bursting 
of a cloud. The hail-stones were as large 
as walnuts, and the bursting of the cloud 
was so violent, that stones of great weight 
were thrown from the vineyards into the 
village. By this accident seven men and 
a bay lost their lives, and a great caer 
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