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form, was 7 degrees 23 min.: the black 
vapour which seemed to issue from it 
was 4 minutes 36 secoi^ds in dissipating 
itself. The duration of the beautiful 
effect of the light and the zig-zag in its 
most brilliant state was 13 minutes 13 
seconds: the splendour continued to di¬ 
minish from its first appearance.—On the 
same day, at a quarter past 3 o'clock 
in the evening, the same meteor pheno¬ 
menon was observed at Lausanne, in the 
north-west region of the heavens. It 
.was 45 degrees above the horizon. The 
weather was calm and serene. It was a 
kind of water spout, formed apparently 
of a thin cloud completely resplendent 
with light; the base of it something 
larger than the top, the whole length 
occupying a space of about 30 degrees. 
Its direction was at first vertical; but it 
afterwards bent itself insensibly into the 
■figure of an S. This meteor rested per- 
iectiy stationary without any visible pro¬ 
gressive morion; and without any per¬ 
ceptible noise whatever. It disappeared 
after having lasted about a quarter of an 
hour. 
The population of the three new de¬ 
partments in the north is stated as being 
1,118,964 persons, viz. 
Mouths of the Elbe - - 373,284 
-Weser - 329,862 
- --Upper Ems 415,818 
“Guyton DEMoRVE4U,says a late fu¬ 
gitive Tour in France, is one of the most 
extraordinary men of the age, both for 
the prodigious extent of his acquire- 
.ments, and the versatility of his powers. 
His history is exceedingly curious, fie 
was, before the revolution, attorney-ge¬ 
neral in the parliantent of Dijon, and at 
the head of the bar in his native pro¬ 
vince. He was sent to the legislative 
assembly in 1789, and became, first the 
secretary, and then president, of that 
body in 1792. Here he distinguished 
himself as a financier, and as a most in¬ 
furiate republican. In the convention, 
of which he was made a member, he co¬ 
operated zealously in all the views and 
.atrocities of jacobinism, and voted for 
the death of the king with marked aspe¬ 
rity. He afterwards acted as secretary 
to the convention, and as a member of 
the committee of public safety. He w'as 
sent by the convention to the army of the 
Moselle, to superintend the aerostatic 
expeditions, and at the battle of Fleurus 
was seen hovering over the French army 
in a halloon. He became sub-equentiy 
a member of the council of five hundred, 
iiiid was iheie conspicuous the de¬ 
partment of finance, and of inland na¬ 
vigation. He presented at the same 
time various and very able reports, on 
questions connected with the physical 
sciences and the arts. In 1800 he was 
appointed administrator of the mint, and 
director of the Polytechnic school, and 
in 1804 an officer of the legion of honour, 
&c. I saw him in 1807 as president of 
the first class of the Institute, and rank¬ 
ing amon«: the leading cliemists of that 
body. His works are voluminous, and 
comprise numerous essays upon natural 
philosophy, natural history, and che¬ 
mistry; a copious treatise on practical 
and theoretic chemistry; a dictionary of 
tfie same science; several volumes of 
forensic speeches, and of discourses upon 
jurisprudence, and a collection of fugi¬ 
tive poems. All these possess uncom¬ 
mon excellence of their kind. The 
world owes to him the important disco¬ 
very of the mode of purifying air by the 
evaporation of muriatic acid. Guyton 
is a very short man, with a sharp visage, 
and a most piercing eye. His elocution 
is sometimes brilliant, and always digni¬ 
fied, easy, and energetic. 
The Georgies of M. Delille, in the 
course of a forty years’ sale, have pro¬ 
duced a fortune to a whole - family, as 
not fewer than 200,000 copies are sup¬ 
posed to have been circulated; and the 
copy.right has at length been sold to 
Messrs. Michaud, of Paris, for 1000 
guineas. 
The members of the Society of Agri¬ 
culture and Botany, in the city of Ghent, 
have an annual exhibition of flowers, 
plants, shrubs, and trees, in the month of 
June. At the last, which was uncom¬ 
monly fine, Flora on this occasion, pre¬ 
sented every thing beautiful in point of 
form, brilliant as to colours, and rare in 
respect to species. The amateurs too 
vied with the gardeners, who are generally 
supposed to be the best in all Belgium. 
The chief magistrates themselves did not 
disdain to send their contributiems, for 
M. d’llondetot, prefect of the depart¬ 
ment, and M. Pycke, mayor of the city, 
exhibited bo'h plants and flowers, no less 
distinguished by their scaicity than by 
their beautiful colours. M. de Coulom- 
bier obtained the medal lor a very fine 
plant in flower of the Fliimeria Rabra^ 
which comes originally from .Jamaica, 
and which was consecrated by the friend¬ 
ship of Tournefort to P. Plumier, a 
minor.te friar and learned botanist. Tlia 
first Accessit was a'so ^ bestowed on the 
same gentleman, for a charming plant 
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