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Literary and Miseellaneous Intelligence. 



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plates in imperial folio, atid tlie text 

 entire in quarto. 



The Miscellaneous Writings of the 

 celebrated John Evelyn, are in the 

 press. 



The Private Memoirs and Confessions 

 of a Self-justified Sinner, written by 

 liimself, and found in his grave 112 

 years after his death, is in the press. 



Extracts from a Journal written on 

 the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and ]\Iexico, 

 in the years 1820, 21, and 22, contain- 

 ing some account of the recent revolu- 

 tions, will soon be published, by Capt. 

 B. Hall, r.n. author of " a Voyage to 

 Loo Choo.^' 



A carriage was lately conducted to 

 London from Barnstaple, by a French- 

 man, at the rate of eight miles per hour. 

 Hills were ascended with compara- 

 tively little labour. The principle is 

 that of the turning-lathe, worked by the 

 hands and arras, and guided by the feet ; 

 a cord passes over two wheels before 

 the operator moves the two hind-wheels; 

 and with a third before it is guided. To 

 make the cord act, knots are made in it, 

 which answer to knobs on the surface 

 of the wheels above, and on the pulleys 

 attached to the fellies of the two hind- 

 wheels. It is now exhibiting in Loudon. 



RUSSIA. 



From a census of the population, in 

 the fifty governments of Russia, taken 

 In 1822, the sum total of inhabitants 

 amounts to 40,067,000. The following 

 details the enumeration of the principal 

 governments, including the surface in 

 geographical square miles: — 



Inliahitanls. Sq.MUes. 



Moscow 1,5;75,900 470 



Smolensk •••• 950,000 1,000 

 Novogorod . . 673,000 2,300 



Tobolsk 430,800 16,800 . 



Com land .... 410,000 330 

 Petersl)urg •• 590,000 840 



Irkutsk 310,000 126,400 



Archangel 200,000 11,900 



Astrachan 190,000 3,100 



The Russian senator Soimonof, and 

 Dr. FucHAS, professor of Medicine in 

 the university of Casan, have returned 

 from s^ recent journey to tlie Mounts 

 Oural. Here they visited the gold 

 mines, situated to the east of the Oural, 

 that were discovcre<l about three years 

 ago. The metal is found in abundance, 

 in the form of goldeu grains, almost 

 immediately under the turf, in a bed of 

 potter's clay. 'I'lte labour of children 

 would suflicc to wash and cleanse the 

 auriferous particles of the soil. Among 

 lliem have been discovered .some pre- 

 cious stones ; one of which, resembling 

 Monthly Mag. No, 31)4. 



the sapphire, has received the name of 

 Soimonof. 



The iman of Muscat, in pursuance of 

 a treaty with SirT. Farquhar, governor 

 of the Island Mauritius, has published 

 a proclamation prohibiting any traffic 

 in slaves in the islands and territories 

 subject to his dominion. 



GERMANY. 



The total population of the German 

 confederation may be divided into nearly 

 17,000,000 of Catholics, 13,000,000 of 

 Protestants, and 200,000 Jews, These 

 are scattered over a superfices of 

 11,870 demi-square miles of Germany. 

 The federal army in time of peace is 

 fixed at 301,780 men, and iu time of 

 war at 4.52,670. 



The privileged Biblical Society of 

 Wurtembnrgh distributed from Oct. 24, 

 1820, to Sept. 14, 1821, 42,949 copies 

 of the Bible entire, and 25,235 of the 

 New Testament; of these, 7,510 Bibles, 

 and 4,822 New Testaments, were in- 

 tended for foreigners. They were dis- 

 tributed partly gratis, and partly at a 

 very moderate price. 



FRANCE, 



In the course of the year 1823, the 

 number of pieces represented at the 

 Paris theatres amounted to 217. Of 

 these, 8 were tragedies, 22 comedies, 

 4 dramas, 4 operas, 3 Italian operas, 

 14 comic operas, 124 vaudevilles, 19 

 mclodrames, 4 ballets, and 15 pieces of 

 various kinds. Out of this number, 112 

 succeeded, and 6 may maintain their 

 reputation for some time, more or less; 

 77 are of doubtful merit, and 28 were 

 finally rejected, 



A discovery has been lately made of a 

 horse and cavalier petrified, between 

 Moret and Montigny, in the forest of 

 Fontainebleau, 



SWITZERLAND. 



M, ScoUFFUS, a native Greek, in- 

 structed in a European college, is now 

 giving lectures on modern Greek lite- 

 rature in the College of Lausanne. 



M, Albert de ITaller, youngest 

 son of the great Haller, and a skilful 

 naturalist, has bequeathed his hcrbary 

 to the Public Library of Geneva. He 

 died at Borne, March 1, 1823, at the 

 age of sixty-five. His father's herbary 

 and library (which were sold soon after 

 his death to the government of Lom- 

 bardy,) arc carefully preserved at Milan. 

 There are some unpublished works of 

 Haller, jun, which will add considerably 

 to the Helvetic Flora, 



In the Literary College of Berne, 



among other regulations lately adopted, 



2L are 



