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Foreign 
FOREIGN. 
nw ITALY. : i 
~ A’celebrated improvisatrice, named Rosa 
Taddéij‘is now at Rome; where she excites 
the enthitisiasm of numerous audiences, who 
behold her performances’ with delight and 
astonishment: ’'On the thjrd of last month, 
she posed; extemporancously, on seven 
subjects’ indifferent metres. An elegant 
style, ‘splendid “imagery, rhymes always 
happy}‘and verses always harmonious, have 
distinguished her effusions. She unites pro- 
found learning’ to'the most lively wit. ‘The 
Latin’ academy: have hastened to inscribe 
this new’ Corinna in the number of their 
members. 
In’ Piedmont they ‘are breeding two 
varieties of the silk-worm, one producing a 
yellow cocoon, the other white. In France 
there is a third species, which was brought 
there from China, of a perfect white; con- 
cerning which the proprietor asserts, that 
the little difference in the superiority of the 
silk is not worth the expense of breeding, 
as the quantity does not equal the price 
of the leaves consumed. ; 
furl GERMANY. 
Vienna.—M. Antoine Rothmiiller, di- 
rector of Prince Esterhazy’s gallery of 
pictures, has discovered a new process for 
oil-colouring engravings and lithographic 
prints, so that they may haye the same 
effect as if they had been painted with the 
utmost care. He calls it Eleochalcography. 
| Leipzig-—The Novice, or the Man of In- 
tegrity, a translation of which we noticed in 
our last number, from M. Picard’s Z’ Hon- 
néte Homme, ou le Niais, is already also 
translated into German. It is astonishing 
what a thirst for foreign literature pervades 
all Europe: ‘not & work appears of any 
celebrity, or of known talent, but it is laid 
in wait for by the several booksellers, and 
immediately translated into their vernacular 
tongues. — 
Hungary.—The Emperor of Austria has 
ordered a committee of the Hungarian 
States:to publish a code of public rights, 
reconciling the privileges of the Crown with 
those of the States. ‘The president of the 
committee is the celebrated Count Czinsky, 
also president of the Austrian court, well 
known for a Latin work on the “ Ancient 
Laws of ‘Succession among the Hunga- 
rians.") 9) 
Pest.—The Archduke Palatine has 
purchased’ the Museum of Sankoviez, to 
add to the one in this town, for 1,400,000 
florins, containing many curious classical 
MSS., among which is a copy of Titus 
Livius; of the twelfth century. It also 
affords some early German documents up 
to the eighth century; and among the 
antiques is an onyx medal of Jupiter Sera- 
pis, sixteen inches long. 
A Wild Man.—In the woods and moun- 
tains of Hartswald, in Bohemia, a ‘savage 
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creature of the human species has been 
lately found, who, it is to be supposed, 
strayed, and was lost there in his infancy. 
He appears to be about thirty years old, 
but cannot articulate a syllable. He makes 
a curious sound like an ox, or rather barks 
with the voice of a dog, though to which. 
of these animals his tones may more pro- 
perly be referred is by no means clear. He 
runs on all fours, and as soon as he per- 
ceives any one approach, climbs q tree like 
a monkey, and leaps from branch to branch 
with incredible activity. When he sees a 
bird, or any other game, he pursues, and 
seldom fails in catching it. He has been 
taken to Prague, where every effort is 
made to civilize him, but hitherto without 
effect. y 
A farmer of Slippeback, in Moravia, has 
just invented a new plough, drawn by a 
single horse, which makes three furrows at 
atime. The Society of Sciences of Vienna 
have rewarded him with a gold medal. 
PRUSSIA. 
A royal edict has been issued in Berlin, 
forbidding the publication of all works 
against the established religion; at the 
same time ordering that, in all discussions 
on these subjects, invectives and personali- 
ties should be avoided. Defamatory writ- 
ing is decidedly forbidden; and if, by 
chance, the censor should permit their 
publication, they are not the less liable to 
be seized: but in such case the editor has 
redress in the censor, who, being found 
insolvent, the government is charged with 
the debt. Since the Ist of January this 
year, this penalty has been suppressed, and 
the editor is subjected to a fine. More- 
over, he is obliged to send two copies, one 
to the Berlin library, and the other to the 
university: a third copy is considered as 
‘the right of the censor, as before. No 
foreign work must be sold without express 
permission. 
POLAND, 
Warsovia.—The following information 
is extracted from the report of the Minister 
of the Interior, Count Mostowski, as to 
the state of affairs since the second diet, 
that is, during the last. four years. In 
consequence of the number of reformers, 
sixteen extra parishes have been created, 
and they have already commenced building 
houses for their Lutheran ministers. The 
organization of the Jews has been melio- 
rated, and 327 inspectors have been esta- 
blished, to watch over the affairs of the 
ecclesiastics. The funds allowed for public 
instruction, have amounted to 6,536,509 
florins, and the profits arising out of the 
schools amounted to 896,784 florins ; which 
sum has remunerated the temporary class- 
masters, and purchased a great addition of 
books, mathematical! instruments, &e. &c. 
The botanical garden belonging to the 
university is beginning to vie with the best 
in Europe—containing 10,000 species of 
plants. The university library, which is 
always 
