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towns, or in.the provinces newly incor ° 
porated with the empire. Besides the 
money necessary for the journey, the Kus- 
siin government undertakes to furnish 
these visitors with lodgings, workshops, 
uteusils, and wool, besides: maintainmg 
them, tree of expence, fur six months. 
Every piece’ of ‘cloth manufactured by ’ 
them 15 to be paid for in ready mouey. 
They are to be allowed the privilege of 
chusing theirown wool, anda fixed price - 
is to be put upon it by the govermment. 
When they have given proofs of their dex- 
terity, houses are to be built for them, to 
which garden ground will be added. 
They are uct to be called upon for re- 
payment of any of these advances, so 
long as they work oy account of yovern- 
ment. knaddition to these advantages, 
they will enjoy the same privileges with the 
other colonists of New Rassia,and will not 
be oblived to pay, during ten years, any 
other impost than the ordinary per cent- 
age. 
prefer working on their own account, to 
continuing in the employment of go- 
vernment, they will be at hherty to enter 
into trade at large, with all the privileges 
of ordinary manufacturers, upon refund- 
ing the advances which have been made 
to them. ‘ 
The Russian government has lately 
united the navigation of the Baltic and 
Black Seas, by means of the canal of 
Berini, which, communicating with the 
Duna, in the government of Mittau, and 
the Dnieper, adimits the easy transport: 
of the produce of White Russia, aud of 
the Crimea to the capital. 
‘GERMANY. 
It is said that Korzrsur intends to 
ublish a complete edition of all bis works 
m forty volumes, 
The improvements making in the for- 
tifications of Cassel, have Jed to some 
discoveries relative to the history ‘of the 
Romans in Germany. In the month of 
August, the workinen employed in them: 
found five Roman altars, conseerated to 
Jupiter and Juno. Some weeks before 
an altar of the same description had. been 
discovered in a high state of preservation, 
with a like inscription on it. Only two 
of these altars bear the date of their erec- 
tion. One was dedicated A.D. 215, and 
the other A.D. 242. Ts 
The new government of Westphalia 
has projected a’ junction between the 
Elbe and the Weser, in order to favour 
the interior.circalution of the produce of 
the kingdom, and to facilitate its expom 
. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
If at any time these manutacturers : 
munications are’ to be opened between 
‘the frontiers of the kiigdom, and the’ 
shores of the Baltic. Lhe marsliy and 
low grounds are to be drained, and a™ 
grand communication by water opened 
from Bremen to the Vistula: an’ niland 
navigation 15 also, in contemplation ty 
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tation to foreign countries. Direct eom-— 
: 
Holland and the banks of ihe ‘Rhine, «~ 
while commercial relations are td be en- 
couraged with the south of Russia and 
the north of Germany. , 
The first number ot a magnificent work 
has been published at Leipsie, entitled, ' 
“Scenes from the Dramatic Works of 
Schiller.” This work promises to be iu 
Germany, what the Shakspeare Gallery 
was in England. mr 
; FIANCE. 
The junction of the Atlantic Ocean’ 
and Mediterranean Sea, by a commiuni- 
cation between the rivers Saone and 
Yonne, a measure’ which has heen so 
Jong in coptemplation, has Jately beer 
resumed with: vigour, As early as the 
reign of Tlenry 1V. a tax of forty sous for 
each measure of'corm was imposed on the 
bakers of Dijon towards defraying -the’ 
expences of continuing the canal of the 
river Ouche, from Dijon to St. Jean de 
Lone. Jn 1607, a report was published 
of a survey of this river, which it was in- 
tended to render navigable, im order to 
open a communication with the Seine, 
by the Armancon, which falls into, the 
¥onne, and the Youne into the ‘Seine. 
In 1724, the states of Burgundy ordered 
the engineer. Abeillo to take a survey of. 
the country, which he delivered in 9727. 
In 1775 a beginning was made, ‘but the 
works proceeded very slowly. In 1779 
they were entirely suspended, but ‘were’ 
resumed in 7808, sitice which period 
they have been continued without inter- 
nnission, Theat part of the canal which 
is situated between Dijon and the Sanne, 
is in great torwardness and nearly com- 
pleted: in ‘that between Dijon and the 
Yonne, little progress has been mate. .. 
The artificial embankments begin be= 
tween Dijon and La'Cude. Since the 
year 1802, the sum of $19,198 francs has 
been expended on the works between 
Dijon and the Saone; and by thes law of 
the 16th of September, 1807, new funds 
shave been allotted for the completion of: 
the whole. This canalwill facilitate the 
conveyance of goods from ci-devant 
Burgundy,’to the southern provinzes, and 
the interior; and hay, iron, corn, and 
hemp, will avoid the great civeuirthey now 
make by the canals of Charolais and 
Auxerre, 
