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lish periodjcally a work characterising 
the influence of philosophy on laws 
and civilization, 10 recommend civic 
and domestic virtues, &c. 
M. Dupetit Tuovars, who has been 
for some time employed in collecting 
herbs and plants at Madagascar, and 
in India, has also deyoted his atten- 
tion to philological researches respect- 
ing the languages of those couutries. 
He finds a very great analozy between 
the Madagascar and Malay languages; 
this he traces by comparing the 
names of a considerable number of 
plants that are of native growth, where 
these languages are spoken. 
SPAIN. 
The Cortes of Spain have published 
a decree, purporting that vessels con- 
cerned in the slave-trade shall be oon- 
fiscated ; and that the owners, masters, 
and crews, shall be adjudged to ten 
years’ hard labour. Foreign vessels 
that enter Spanish ports, with slaves 
én-board, to be liable to the same 
penalties, and the slaves to be set at 
liberty. 
The Cortes, in 1820, decreed the 
establishment of a journal appropriated 
to the discussions and speeches of its 
members, that the public might be 
truly informed on subjects so impor- 
tant. Two volumes for the session of 
1820, and two others for 1821, have 
already been published ; and recently 
the first volume of the extraordinary 
session of the last-mentioned year. 
Their importance to illustrate the mo- 
dern history of Spain will readily be 
admitted. 
UNITED STATES. 
An ancient manuscript volume, of 
three hundred and fifty pages, has 
lately been discovered at Detroit, in 
ihe United States. It is in good 
preservation, and the penmanship is 
beautiful.—The characters in which it 
is written are unknown, being neither 
Hebrew, Greek, nor Saxon; the only 
parts intelligible are a few Latin 
quotations. 
Mr. James Booru, of New York, 
has invented a new printing-press, 
which will throw off fifteen hundred 
impressions an hour, and requires only 
two hands to feed it, and the engine 
which moves the whole machinery is 
only a one-horse power. 
In the states of the union; North 
America, public instruction and the 
education of youth are considered as 
Literary and Philoscphical Intelligence, 
national objects, requiring consider- 
able'sacrifices. ‘Che state of Conneo- 
ticut has appropriated a fund of a 
million aud a half of dollars to the 
support of public schools. In that of 
Vermont, a portion of lands is allotted 
to each district, for the same purpose. 
The colleges throughout the union 
are forty-eight in number, and in ge- 
neral, are well endowed. Of these, 
the most distinguished is Harvard Uni- 
versity, at Cambridge, near Boston, 
founded in 1698. Children of every 
description, sex, and colour, are ad- 
mitted to the rights of elementary 
instruction. 4 
The American missionaries of Ran- 
goun, from the little prospect of 
success in their labours, and under 
apprehensions for their personal safety, 
repaired to Ava, the residence of 
the emperor, to solicit permission to 
propagate Christianity within his do- 
minions. The emperor’s answer was 
forbidding, and the government of this 
country, like that of China, will not 
endure the profession of any novel 
religion. The missionaries have, in 
consequence, returned to Rangoun. 
In 1804 a-house was built at the 
mouth of the Delaware, near Cape 
May, at the distance of three hundred 
and thirty-four feet from the sea. In 
1820, from the encrcachment of the 
Sea, the distance was only one hundred 
and eighty feet. This advancement 
of the waters varies from year to year, 
but is progressive. The same’ obser- 
vation will apply to the coasts of 
Brazil, though no measurement has 
been made, and in a proportion much 
more rapid than in the United States. 
In the province of Ohio, near the 
village of Milan, on the banks of the 
river Huron, United States, there isa 
spring, the water of which is inflam- 
mable, and takes fire on the applica- 
tion of a lighted torch. The flame, 
which is very pure and very ardent, 
might probably’ be used for the pur- 
pose of giving light. 
INDIA. 
In the Calcutta journals appears the 
prospectus of a new weekly publica- 
tion, to be written in the Bengalese 
language, and composed and conduct- 
ed by natives only. It is intended to 
discuss matters political, religious, and 
moral, with others of an interest 
purely local. The title to be Sungbaud 
Cowmuddy, or Moon of ne 
