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to Canton, and from thence im- 

 mec'iately to the Yellow Sea, and 

 there land the embassy. The 

 persons gone in the suite of his 

 Excellency Lord Amherst, are — 

 The Hon. Mr Amherst, Mr. 

 Ellis, Public Sectretavy ; Mr. 

 Hayjies, Private Secretary ; Rev. 

 Mr. Griffiths, Chaplain ; Mr. 

 Abell, Naturalist ; Dr. Lynn, 

 Physician ; Mr. INIurriage, Mine- 

 ralogist and Assistant Naturalist; 

 Mr. Pole, Draftsman : Sir George 

 Staunton will join the Embassy 

 at Canton. 



Some Laplanders, who were on 

 their way to London some days 

 since, arrived with their game, 

 wliich is selling by different poul- 

 terers in the city. These poor 

 fellows expected, when they left 

 Gottenburg, that the packet would 

 land them in London, and that 

 they would have no duties to pay ; 

 Avheroas they have been obliged 

 to ])ay upwards of 50l. for duties, 

 besides 10 guineas for freight 

 from Harwich to London. The 

 state of preservation in which these 

 birds are is really surprising, after 

 travelling upwards of 1000 miles. 

 They are preserved by being himg 

 up to freeze as soon as killed, iu\(\ 

 afterwards being [Kicked in cases, 

 lined with skins to keep out the 

 air. This process so eftectually 

 preserves tliem, that when the 

 packages aie opened, the birds 

 are found frozen quite hard ; and 

 tliose packages wliich are not 

 opened, will continue in tins 

 state for some weeks. Tlie mode 

 in which tlie small bfrds are 

 dressed in Sweden, is by stewing 

 tliem in cream with a little butler 

 in it, after i>eing larded, which, it 

 is said, gives them a very exqui- 

 site flavoui' : the l;trge ones are 



loasted, and basted with cream, 

 which is afterwards served up as 

 sauce. These Laplanders wear a 

 kind of gieat coat, made of rein- 

 deer skin, with caps and gloves 

 of the same, which gives them a 

 very grotesque appearance : they 

 are very shy of appearing in the 

 streets in this attire, on account 

 of their attracting so many people 

 roinid them. 



Heidelberg, Feb. 10. — News is 

 just arrived here, that his Holi- 

 ness the Pope, on the application 

 of the Imperial Austrian court, 

 has consented to restore to the 

 university of Heidelberg all the 

 MSS. and works taken from the 

 Palatine library, and hitherto pre- 

 served in the Vatican, consisting 

 of 847 volumes. 



Count Trautmannsdorff, the 

 Austrian ambassador at Carls- 

 ruhe, officially communicated this 

 news, so highly desirable for us 

 and all Germany, to Baron von 

 Hake, Baden minister foi- foreign 

 affairs, in the following letter : — 



" The undersigned has received 

 from his court the advice, taken 

 from a letter of the Imperial aiu- 

 bassador at Rome, that his Holi- 

 ness has consented to restore to 

 the university of Heidelberg not 

 only the 47 (•'^^) volumes found 

 at Paris, belonging to the former 

 Palatine libiary, but also 847 vo- 

 lumes, likewise belonging to thai 

 coUectinn, which are still in the 

 \'atican library — a resolution to 

 whicli his Holiness has been in- 

 duced by the v»"ish of giving plea- 

 sure to his Majesty the Emperor, 

 and out of special regard for his 

 intervention, and which acquires 

 the more value from the circum- 

 stance that his Holiness thinks he 

 may consider us his leg;il j)ro- 



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