a88 Deaths. 



gent fearch to be made in the Temple of Thefeus, we learn 

 that llicv were fo fortunate as to find there ahnoll all the bas- 

 reliefs which Cformerly ornamented the Temple of Minerva. 

 Thefe monimients, a great many infcriptious, and all the 

 urns capable of being tranfported, have been font by the 

 Porte to Eniiland. 



A M. do Hammer alfo has made valuable difcovenes at 

 Paphop, and has found at Rofetta a complete copy ot the 

 original of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Indeed, 

 fcveral copies of this work, in Arabic, have been found in 

 Eirvpt, as well by Mr. Hammer as by Mr. Clarke of .Icius 

 Culiege, Cambridoe, and by the members of the French 

 inltitute; but Mr. Hammer's attainments are intuiitely more 

 cxteniivcj and exchifively embrace Ibme obje6ts of the highefl 

 importance to the literary world. 



Mr. Hammer is a German gentleman of rank, who was 

 fent bv the Emperor of Gcrmanv, for the purpofe of exjilor- 

 ing the literary treafures of Perfia, Arabia, Egvpt, &c. 

 During the eventful, and we may fay miraculous, campaign 

 of Sir S. Smyth in Syria, Mr. Hammer, then un his travels, 

 became known to him, and profited by the extcnfive in- 

 fluence and character of our countryman to profecute his re- 

 fcarches. He has by thefe means, feconded by extcnfive 

 talents, and a perfect knowledge of the Arabic and other 

 lansruaocs, obtained more intcredinG; matter than even the 

 French In dilute was able to collect. Amongfc other cu- 

 riofitics, he has bnuight to this country an Arabian manu- 

 fcript of great antiquity, furniihing a complete key to the 

 hieroglyphics, by which he has been enabled to tranflate 

 various infcriptious on the pyramids, &c. and thus eflablifli 

 the ob)c6ts for which ihofe ftupendous mail'cs were erciAed. 



Le JMoniteur (the French official journal) of the i8th De- 

 cember, announces that the Chevalier dc Coral, the Spanifli 

 ambaflfador at Con(tantinop!e, received inttlligence at Her- 

 manlladt, on his journey, that a learned Spaniard, now tra- 

 velling at the king's expctiie, ha.* diicovered, in Morocco, 

 a complete manufcript copy of Titus Livius, written in 

 Arabic. 



DEATHS. 



Lately, at Chatcaunenf, in the department of Saone aiid 

 Loire, in the houfe of iiis brother-in-law, C. Dree, the cele- 

 brated Dolomicu, member of the National Inftitutc, and well 

 known by his important labours in regard toniineralogv. 



On the 19th of November lad, at Nice, Jofeph de i3cau- 

 chauip, the celebrated adronomer, who rofided many years 

 at Bu^idad and other places in the Eafi:. 



