68 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Sept. 2I« 



For the Bee. 



InteUigence refpcB':tig Literature, and H'mts to the Learned. 



Germany, which for many years pad has been in various ter- 

 ritories agitated, firll by the imprudent quarrel of the late 

 Emperor with the King of J'ruflia, about the Bavarian and 

 Palatine Pacts, and then by the foolilh novelties introduced 

 into the Belgic States, and iVincipality andBiihoprick of Liege, 

 begins now, under the mild adminillration of Leopold, to look 

 forward to bevter profpects. 



Reformed religion, liberty and learning, unfettered by ari- 

 flocratical and violently monarchical prejudices, will be gradu- 

 ally advanced by llie new conftitution of Poland, and it feems 

 highly defireablc that onr Britifh Republic of Learning fhould 

 ditfufe as much as poffible its attainments on the Continent, 

 and receive from thence in refe^rn as much ufeful erudition, as 

 a quick and free participation of mutual knowledge can af- 

 ford. 



The libraries in Germany contain treafures of learning that 

 have been little examined ; and German writers, overawed by 

 their refpective Sovereigns, have not been able (however willing) 

 to make a proper ufe of the materials for hiAory and biogra- 

 phy which are in thefe repofilores. 



ProffJJbr Schmidt (whole hiltory of Germany is now tranf- 

 lated and publilhcd in Fiench at Berlin), tho' he had fupe- 

 rior advantages as Infpector of the Impel ial Records, has been 

 prevented from tifing them, v.-Len he came to treat of the fe- 

 paratlon of ths I'roteltanl Cluirchfiom the Roman* 



In free converfation, however, all over Germany, and even 

 at Vienna, many reputable and refpedted clergymen, and men 

 of letters, avow the principles of unlimited toleration, and thefe 

 writers fcruple not to confefs that the Roman Catholick 

 Church was much amended by the Reformation ; that the 

 fpringing up of fefts forwarded toleration and the cultivation 

 of the fciences ; and that fuice the Reformation, the Roman 

 Catholic world has become more enlisbtiiied by the new doc- 

 trine'; and fpirit of us heretics. 



