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the two Academies of Science and of 
Arts in Berlin, he was also a member 
of the Academies of Paris, London, 
Petersburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen, 
and Munich, and of many associations 
of learned men at Edinburgh, Berlin, 
Paris, Moscow, Brussels, Erfurt, Halle, 
Erlangen, Jena, Potsdam, Leipsic, 
Hamm, Rostock, and other places. 
Among his papers there was found, 
after his death, not less than thirty 
diplomas from learned societies ; and 
the king (of Prussia) added to these 
honours, in the year 1811, the order of 
the Red Eagle of the Third Class. 
The State, too, in acknowledgment 
of Klaproth’s merits, rewarded his in- 
dustry in a variety of ways. So far 
back as the year 1782, he had been 
assessor in the Supreme College of 
Medicine and of Health, which then 
existed ; at amore recent period, he en- 
joyed the same rank in the Supreme 
Council of Medicine and of Health; 
and when this college was subverted 
in 1810, he became a member of the 
medical deputation attached to the 
ministry of the Interior. He was also 
amember of the perpetual court com- 
mission for medicines. His lectures, 
too, procured for him several munici- 
pal situations. For as soon as the 
Stephensiana, No. XII, 
[Oct. 1, 
public became acquainted with his 
great chemical acquirements, he was 
permitted to give, yearly, two private 
courses of lectures on chemistry, one 
for the officers of the royal artillery 
corps, the other for persons not con- 
nected with the army, who wished to 
accomplish themselves for some prac- 
tical employment. Both of these lec- 
tures assumed afterwards a municipal 
character. The former led to his ap- 
pointment as professor of the Artillery 
Academy, instituted: at Tempelhoff, 
and after its dissolution to his situation 
as professor in the Royal War School. 
The other lecture procured for him the 
professorship of chemistry in the Royal 
Mining Institute. On the establish- 
ment of the present university, Klap- 
roth’s lectures became those of the 
university, and he himself was ap- 
pointed ordinary professor of chemis- 
try, and member of the Academical 
Senate. Besides these public lectures, 
our departed friend was an active 
member from 1797 to 1810, of a small 
scientific society, which met yearly, 
during a few weeks, for the purpose of 
discussing the more recondite myste- 
ries of the science, and of which all 
the members retain lively recollections. 
STEPHENSIANA. 
No. XIE. 
The late ALEXANDER STEPHENS, Esq. of Park House, Chelsea, devoted an active and 
well-spent life in the collection of Anecdotes of his contemporaries, and generally entered in a 
book the collections of the passing day ;—these collections we have purchased, and propose to 
present a selection from them to our readers, 
As Editor of the Annual Obituary, and many 
other biographical works, the Author may probably have incorporated many of these scraps ; 
but the greater part are unpublished, and all stand alone as cabinet pictures of men and 
manners, worthy of a place in a literary miscellany. 
—— 
DAPHNE AND BRIGHTON. 
NTIOCH, the once flourishing 
and populous metropolis of Asia- 
Minor, and of the extensive kingdom 
of Antiochia, had a seat of luxury and 
pleasure for its inhabitants, in a small 
town on the sea-coast, called Daphne. 
The warm constitutions of Asiatics 
rendered Daphne, however, a scat of 
vice and criminal indulgence, and the 
place is never mentioned by writers 
of antiquity except with reprobation. 
Perhaps its original uses were abused ; 
for nothing can be more reasonable 
than that the inhabitants of a great 
city should seek change of scene and 
occasional relaxations from the pur- 
suits of ambition, wealth, and com- 
merce. The changes in the fortunes 
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of nations has now, however, reduced 
Antioch to an inconsiderable town, 
and has extinguished Daphne. Both 
have fallen victims to the barbarous 
policy of the Turkish government, un- 
der which millions languish, that few 
may enjoy overgrown wealth,—the 
short-sighted egotism of whom sepa- 
rates their supposed interests from 
those of the community. Brighton 
is the Daphne of London, without its 
vices. 
FISHERY AT GRAVESEND. 
In 1714, only three British fishing- 
smacks, of about forty tons each, 
were employed in the cod-fishery, and 
about twenty-one hands. The Dutch 
not being permitted to bring cod to 
Billingsgate market, they increased to 
twenty 
