1822.] 
in the very best style of the art, and 
wood-cut vignettes by Mr. Branston. 
The Annual Biography and Obituary 
for the Year 1823, Vol. VII. contain- 
ing memoirs of celebrated men who 
have died in 1821-22, will appear in 
January. 
A seventh edition is printing of the 
Rey. James Woop’s Dictionary of 
_ the Bible, newly revised by the author. 
GERMANY. 
In the month of August, last year, 
in a heavy shower of rain, there fell, 
near the Castle of Schoenbrunn, an 
immense quantity of insects unknown 
in Austria. They were about the size 
of beetles, and had some resemblance 
to them in form; they were covered 
with a kind of shell, and only kept 
alive by putting them in water, as if 
water had been their element. The 
conjecture assigned is, that they were 
brought away from some remote coun- 
‘try into Austria by a water-spout. 
FRANCE. 
M. Anpovarp, physician in the hos- 
pitals at Paris, who was sent to Bar- 
celona by the minister at war in 1821, 
has published Relation Historique et 
Medicale de la Ficvre ge qui a 
regné d Barcelone, in one large volume, 
octavo. 
Mr. Casati, a traveller who recently 
returned from Egypt, has brought se- 
veral ancient manuscripts; among 
which are two in Greek, and one in 
Greek and Egyptian. The first, which 
is sixteen feet six inches in length, 
and seven inches in breadth, contains 
a deed of sale drawn in the Thebais, 
on the 9th day of the month of Epiphi, 
and in the 4th year of the reign of 
Cleopatra, and of her son Ptolemy 
Soter 1]. which corresponds to the 
25th of July, of 113 years before 
Christ. 
Count Lasteyrie is publishing a 
grand work on the Anatomy of Man, 
in 240 folio lithographic engravings, 
and 120 sheets of letter-press, by 
Messrs. Beclard and Cloquet. It is 
altogether one of the finest and com- 
pletest works of anatomy that has ever 
appeared. 
The advantages gained at Paris by 
Napoleon’s Canal of St. Denys, which 
was opened last year, are very consi- 
derable. To feed this, the waters of 
the river Ourcq have been brought 
into a large reservoir, excavated near 
one of the barriers of Paris, in the 
suburb De la Villette. The declivit 
of the canal, from this rescrvoir to its 
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union with the Sciné, is surmounted 
by twelve sluices, wide enough to per- 
mit the entrance of large boats from 
the Seine and the river Oise. The 
passage from the Pont Neuf at Paris, 
to the bridge of La Briche, under St. 
Denys, pursuing the course of the 
Seine, is shortened by several days. 
The Police of Paris have interdict- 
ed the publication of some original 
Memoirs of the Regent Duchess of 
Orleans, in which the gluttonous and 
beastly habits of Louts le Grand, and 
the vices of his courtiers, are too 
freely and accurately exhibited. It is 
feared that it might be regarded as a 
mirror! The following are some spe- 
cimens :— 
The king (Louis XIV.) eats to a most 
frightful degree. I have seen him devour 
at his dinner, first, three plates of soup of 
different kinds, a pheasant, a partridge, 
roast mutton and garlic, two large pieces 
of ham, a plate of salad, a plate of pastry, 
and another of fruit, &c. He told me that 
Christina queen of Sweden, instead of a 
night-cap, always enveloped her head with 
atowel. Onenight, being unable tosleep, 
she ordered music in her chamber, and had 
the curtains drawn over her bed; but, 
enchanted with some part of the per- 
formance, she thrust her head through the 
curtains, and screamed, Mort diable! qwils 
chantent bien. The musicians, and espe- 
cially the eunuchs, were so terrified at her 
head and nose, that they ran away.—The 
Cardinal Richelieu had sometimes violent 
attacks of a kind of madness: sometimes 
he fancied himself a horse, and leapt over 
the billiard-table, neighing and capering. 
This would last for an hour, when his peo- 
ple would get him to bed, and cover him 
well with bed-clothes, to produce perspi- 
ration ; when sleep entirely restored him. 
NETHERLANDS. 
Messrs. WAHLEN and Co. of Brux- 
elles, are republishing, in fifteen vo- 
lumes, octavo, with 500 lithographic 
plates, the several Voyages Pittores- 
ques. Choiseul-Gouffier will make 
two volumes, with a hundred plates ; 
Melling’s Constantinople, one volume, 
with fifty plates ; Zurlauben’s Switzer- 
land, four volumes, with a hundred 
plates; St. Non’s Naples and Sicily, 
five volumes, with a hundred plates; 
and La Borde’s Spain, three volumes, 
with a hundred plates. Either work 
may be had separately, and will cost 
not the twelfth of the original works; 
and, as an application of superior li- 
thography, the design merits the pa- 
tronage of the libraries of all Europe. 
Messrs. Wahlen’s edition may be seen 
at the furcign houses in London. 
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