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was heard, not only by all the inhabitants 
of La Basse, but in the neighbouring com- 
munes, the report lasting about ten minutes, 
A farmer went to visit the place of explo- 
sion, and found it on the high road, not 
more than twelye feet distant from his 
cart. The stone had worked itself a 
round hole in the paved causeway, the 
sides of which were smoking, and contained 
the remains of a mass of stone, black on its 
outward surface, and grey within, grained, 
friable, spangled with brilliant points, and 
with ferrugineous lines in the metallic 
State ; a great number of its fragments had 
been scattered about the adjacent fields, 
He took it up, and rated its magnitude 
at that of a six-pounder ball. 
The following is an exact list of the 
Protestant journals that have been 
begun, or are publishing, in France. 
The Archives of the Faith in the 19th 
Century, at Lausanne, 1801-2, though ap- 
pearing in Switzerland, were especially in- 
tended for the French churches :” this 
journal did not survive a year. 
The Archives of Christianity : — this 
journal commenced at Paris in January, 
1818, and is still continued. 
‘The Protestant Annals appeared in Sep. 
tember, 1819. At the end of six months, 
the conductors were invited to submit to 
the Censorship, by a letter from the 
Minister of the Interior. This made them 
renounce their project. 
Miscellanies of Religion, Morals, and 
Sacred Criticism, the first number of which 
bears the date of January, 1820, were 
originally published, and continue to be 
so, at Nimes, by M. the Pastor Vincent. 
This work has reached its third year ; and, 
like the others here noticed, appears 
monthly. 
Two Protestant journals are publishing 
at Strasbourg, in the German language, 
one entitled “ Christian Communications,” 
edited by M. Krafft, and the other, 
“Timotheus, or a Journal for the Ad- 
vancement of Religion and Humanity,” 
which appears, in numbers, two volumes a 
year. ; 
SPAIN, 
From the Report of a late Commis- 
sion, presented to the Cortez of Spain, 
it appears, exclusive of an annual re- 
venue paid to the Pope of 686,000 
reals, that every year 344,000 reals were 
paid as St. Peter’s pence, or for the 
church of St. Peter, at Rome; 13,020 
reals for that of St. John de Lateran ; 
and 100,000 to the Nuncio: and that 
annually five or six millions were sent 
out of the country to obtain bulls, 
dispensations, indulgences, and apos- 
tolic graces, 
EGYPT, 
The following is a correct copy of 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Aug. 1}, 
the Firman granted by the Pacha of 
Egypt to M. Lelorraine, when the latter 
Was introduced to him. After a gra- 
cious reception, a question was pro- 
posed, by the drogman, (for Mohammed 
Ali does not speak the languages of 
Europe,) what was the object of his 
visit to Egypt? M. L. replied, that he 
wished for a licence to search for anti- 
quities in Upper Egypt. ‘The pacha 
granted it without hesitation. At the 
head of the writing is the monogram, 
God; at the lower end, the seal of 
Mohammed Ali. 
Order.—Agreeably to the declaration 
and petition of a French voyager, named ~ 
Lelorraine, who is desirous to repair to 
Wadi-Halsa for the gratification of his 
curiosity, and to make researches and ex- 
cavations in certain ancient buildings, this 
present order is issued, and is granted to 
him, that he may travel, without fear, in 
pursuance of the object here mentioned, 
and that no hindrance may be thrown in 
the way of his enquiries relative to ancient 
monuments, On the contrary, we hereby 
signify to the governors of provinces, and 
other officers at the head of the administra- 
tion in the different countries, that they 
afford him their aid and protection. If it 
please God, let these injunctions be at- 
tended to, : 
[Given the 20th of the month of Rebial- 
thany, 1235. January 27, 1821.] 
UNITED STATES. 
Original works appear with great 
rapidity in the United States, and the 
following specimens of them have just 
reached London :— . 
American Medical Botany: being a 
collection of the native medicinal plants of 
the United States, with coloured en- 
gravings; by JAcop BiGeLow, M.D. 
3 vols. 
An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy 
and Geology; by PRoFessor CLEAVE- 
LAND, 
An Essay concerning Tussis Convulsiva, 
or Whooping Cough: with Observations 
on the Diseases of Children; by BENJAMIN 
WATERHOUSE, M.D. 
A Treatise on Verminous Diseases, pre- 
ceded by the Natural History of Intestinal 
Worms, and their Origin in, the Human 
Body; by Vatertan Lewis Brera, 
Translated from the Italian, with Notes 
by Dr. Bartoli, and M. Calvet; by Joun 
G, CoFFIN, M.D. Wie 
A Public Lecture on the Pernicions 
Effects of Smoking: with Observations on 
the Use of Ardent and Vinous Spirits; by 
BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE, M.D. 
The Elements of Chemical Science, 
with plates; by Jonn GorHAM, M.D. 
professor of Chemistry in Harvard Uni- 
versity. ¥ 
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