Palling Bodies. — Russian Literature and Emtassies. 93 

 great number of women carrying lanthorns, broke in upon 

 the gallery in the church-yard, which containsid this master-^ 

 piece of antiquity, tore it from the walk, and in a few mi- 

 nutes succeeded in completely destroying it ! 



FALLING BODIES. 



Mr. Benzenberg, professor of physic and astronomy at 

 Dusseldorf, has published an account of twenty-eight ex- 

 periments made in the coal mines of Schehusch with balk 

 well turned and polished. They Were made to fall from a 

 height &f 263 French feet. At a medium they produced a 

 deviation of live lines towards the east : the theory gives 

 4-G lines. These experiments furnish an additional proof. 

 if anv were wanted, of the rotary motion of the earth. Ex- 

 periments made at Bologna by Mr. Gughelmini gave nearly 

 the same results. 



PROGRESS OF LITERATURE IN RUSSIA. 



In the year 1804, fifteen new journals were printed in 

 Russia, and 1 13 new books were published the same year at 

 St. Petersburg and Moscow : among the latter were transla- 

 tions into the Russian language of the following works — _ 

 Stcrne^s Tristram Shandy ; Rousseau's Confessions, and his 

 Eloisa; Hufeland's Art of prolonging Human Life; Bar- 

 thelemy's Travels of Anacharsis ; besides a variety of original 

 works in the Russian language. 



RUSSIAN EMBASSIES TO PEKIN AND JAPAN. 



Petersburg!), Jan. 1:5. 



Several persons who were appointed to travel with the 

 embassy to Pckiu have returned from Irkuzk, and have al- 

 ready arrived here. The counsellor of state. Fosse, who 

 accompanied the chamberlain Resanow on the embassy to 

 Japan, has also arrived here from Kamtschatka. After a 

 stay of seven months, the embassy left Japan and returned 

 to kamtschatka in the Navcrchda, a vessel commanded by 

 captain Kruscnstiern. Chamberlain Resanow set out from 

 thence to Kodiak, and the other possessions of the Russian 

 American company, according to his instructions, after hav- 

 ing di=;patchcd connscUcr Fosse here by the way of Ochnzk'.^ 

 Captain Kruseniteirn sailed with the ren of thv embassy for 



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