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INTELLIGENCE 
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 
LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
SWEDEN. 
Tur Royal Academy of Infcriptions, the Fine Arts, 
Hiftory, and Antiquities at Stockholm has propofed the 
following as prize fubjects for the prefent year : 
HISTORY. 
‘* Refearches refpecting the hiftory of the herring-fifhery, 
both on the coaft of Scandinavia and all the coafts of coun- 
tries fubject to the Swedifh government, from the reign of 
Guftavus I. to the prefent time.’”’—The prize is a gold me- 
dal of the value of 26 ducats.. 
FOREIGN LANGUAGES, 
« §. treatife, either in Latin or French, on the duty of an 
hiftorian, when delineating the charaéters of great men, to 
examine carefully the charaéter and genius of the century 
in. which they lived, in order, on the one hand, that he may: 
not give importance to and propagate principles prejudicial 
to fociety ; and on the other, that, by cenfuring the errors 
of great men, he may not weaken and leffen that refpeé& and! 
admiration which are due to diftinguifhed talents, activity, 
refolution, courage, and other heroic virtues, the exiftence 
of which is fo neceffary for the independence and happinefs 
of nations.’’—The prize is a gold medal of the fame value. 
ANTIQUITIES. 
«© An inquiry into the origin, nature and object of the 
military expeditions and naval armaments of Sweden to the 
middle of the twelfth century.”—The prize is a gold medal 
of the value of 15 ducats. 
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