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jects to be proposed for the ensujng. A- 
prize of 3,000 francs for a loom for weav- 
ing all kinds of gold and silver stuffs, 
was adjudged to M. Jacquard, an artist 
of Lyons ; towhom the Emperor has also _ 
granted a premium of 50 francs for each 
of these luoms, with which he shall sup- 
ply manufacturers... He has already re- 
ceived fifty-one of these premiums. 
Among the other prizes, were: one of 
600 francs for improvements in combs 
for wool, and another of 500 for an 
improved method of constructing brick, 
tile, and lime-kilns. The society voted 
its thanks to M. Gillé, type-founder and 
printer at Paris, for having stimulated 
the industry of several engravers on 
wood, who had executed under his di- 
rection, a great number of works of that 
kind; to M. Reynouard, printer and 
bookseller; and M. Peyrard, professor 
of astronomy and mathematics, at the 
Bonaparte Lyceum, for having seconded 
the views of the society, by placing wood 
cuts, the one in his edition of Morceaur 
ehoisis de Buffon, and the other in his 
‘translation of the Works of Archimedes. 
The prizes proposed for the year 1809, 
are as follow :—For machinery for comb- 
ing wool, 1500 francs.—Vor machinery 
for carding and spinning thread, 1500 
francs.—For machinery for carding and 
spinning silk, 1500 francs.—For the dis- 
covery of a method of printing copper- 
plate engravings, in a permanent manner 
on stuffs, 1200 franes.—For the manu- 
facture of cinnabar, 1200 francs.—For 
the encouragement of stroke engraving, 
2000 francs.—For the manufacture of 
utensils of metal, covered with a cheap 
enamel, 1000 francs.—For the sizing of 
paper, 6000 francs.—The prizes, the de- 
cision of which is deferred to the year 
1810, are: 1. The prize of 3000 francs 
for the manufacture of iron and steel 
wire, fit for making needles, and cards 
for cotton and woal. 2. That of 1000 
for determining the produce of the dis- 
-tillation of wood. 8. That of $000 tor 
the best mode of constructing lime, tile, 
and brick-kilns, besides two inferior 
premiums of 500 and 300 francs for the 
same purpose. Two new prizes were 
proposed, namely,-one of G000 francs for 
the discovery of a process, for commu- 
-nicating with madder to wool the beau- 
tiful red colour of Adrianople cotton ; 
and the other of 1200 fur the person who 
* shall exhibit a bureau made entirely of 
the wood of trees indigenous or natura- 
liged in France, 
_ Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. [Nov. 15 
A translation of the Rev. J. Gorpon’s 
History of Ireland, has just appeared at 
Paris in 5 vols. 8vo. : 
M. Grecorre, formerly bishop of 
Blois, has recently published a work en- 
titled De la Litterature des Negres, being . 
an examination of the intellectual facul- 
ties, moral qualities, and literature of the 
Negroes; to which are annexed notices, 
relative to the lives.and works of such 
negroes, as have distinguished themselves 
in the sciences, literature, and the arts. 
M.V. Avarin, apothecary of Valence, 
has recently made a number of chemical 
experiments, on the saccharine matter 
contained in the stalk of Indian corn; 
The results deduced from this examina- 
tion are: 1. That the stalk of Indian 
corn, cannot be employed for the ex- 
traction of sugar, because the expence 
would exceed the profit; since one hun- 
dred weight yields only two pounds of 
saccharine matter. 2. That this sac~ 
charine matter constantly retains the 
consistence of treacle, and is incapable 
of being crystallized by any known pro- 
cess. 3. That the gummy extract might 
be employed in medicine, as an attenuant, 
in consequence ofits saponaceous quality, 
HUNGARY. 
A child three years old, the son of 
one of the members of the City Council 
of Brunn in Hungary, died on the 19th 
of July last, of the natural small pox, in 
consequence of which the Imperial police 
ordered it to be buried in the most pri- 
vate manner without the city, and its 
grave to be made considerably deeper 
than was customary; the parents-are uni~ 
versally blamed, and even despised by 
sonie of the citizens for having neglected 
to have the child inoculated withthe vac- 
cine pock. 
ITALY. 
On the 25th of June the vallies of 
Montaldo, in the department of Sturia 
were visited by a dreadful calamity, At 
11 A.M. a violent hurricane arose, which 
was succeeded by several shocks of an 
earthquake, and a very heavy fall of 
hail, “by which every thing within its 
compass was destroyed. All the trees, 
together with a great number of houses, 
were thrown down; one hundred fami- 
lies have been reduced to the greatest 
poverty, and it is confidently asserted, 
that fifty years will scarcely be sufficient 
to repair the damages occasioned by 
this catastrophe. fj 
A capuchin of Vicenza, named Joun 
Baptist De Saint Martin, has ira 
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