a.] 
tdterary and Fhuosophkal Intelligence. 
If the discourse should contain a direct 
provocation to a disobedience of the jaws, or 
other acts of public authority, or ten<l co arm 
one part of the ccmmunity against the other, 
the falnistcr of worship pronouncing it, shall 
be punished by an imprisonment of from two 
to five vears, even should the provocation 
prove nugato’.y ; but should it be followed 
by any eifect, then the punishment shall 
be banishment if that effect be but a simple 
act of disobedience j but if it amount to sedi¬ 
tion, the minister shall undergo the penal¬ 
ties provided for sedition. 
“Any minister of worship who, J.n any 
pastoial instructions couched under any form 
•whatever, shall take upon himself (se sera 
ingere) to criticise or censure either the Go¬ 
vernment or any act of public authority, 
shall undergo the penalty of banishment, 
and a stiil heavier intiiction if his writings 
be of a sedlticas tendency. 
Any minister of worship v/ho shall hold 
a cort’espondence with a foreign court or 
power, upon any religious matters or ques¬ 
tions, rvitliout bating first apprised thereof 
the minister of the jErnperor charged with the 
superintendence of the public worship, and 
without having first obtained his sanction, 
shall, for this act alorie, be punished by a 
fine, and by an imprisonment of not more 
than two years and no: less than two 
months. 
“ It the above-mentioned correspondence 
he accompanied or followed, by any other 
act, contrary to the formal dispositions of a 
law, or a decree of the Emperor, the cul¬ 
prit shall undergo the penalty of banish¬ 
ment, &c.” 
OER>rANY. 
It is to be collected from the last 
catalogue of the fair of Leipsic, that 
there are now’ in Germany, ten thousand 
two huntired and forty-tfiree authors, 
full of health and spirit, each of whom 
publishes at least once a year. In a re- 
.. port made not long since to the French 
Institute, on the subject of German au¬ 
thorship, it is kated, that, in the depart-^- 
ment of ancient literature alone, inor^ 
than five hundre^i works have been pub- 
iished within the last three years ! 
The most remarkable and interesting 
of the late publications of the North of 
Jjufope, is a work entitled “ Nestor, or 
rtuseian Annals in tt)e original Sclavo- 
ivian, compaied, trai^lated, and inter¬ 
preted, by Louis SciiLCETZER, Professor 
of History and Politics, in the Univer¬ 
sity of Gottenbuigh.”—In 17G5, Mr. de 
Scimtzer, ilien a resident academician of 
Si. Petershiirgh, was charged by virtue 
of a paiticidar ukare from the Empress 
Catharine, to investigate all the most 
Kothentic and ancient documents, in rsr 
Mojsu jVU&.} Dec. 1, 1811- 
o:> 
Jation to the Russian History, and to 
digest and arrange the annals of tne 
empire from the earliest periods. The 
work which the learned professor has 
now begun to publish, is the fruit 
of the labours of nearly a wiiule life 
consecrated to the study of history iia 
genera!, aiid of this particular subject. 
It is dedicated to the Empercr.Alexaii- 
der, raid will consist of twelve volumes. 
The following notice is taken of it by tha 
most celebrated of the Parisian amateurs 
of German literatures “We have in 
this work not only -a full elucidation df 
the old chronicle of tlie Monk Nestoj-p 
who may be called the Muscovite Gre¬ 
gory of Tours, and who has unfo]de{I 
the origin and the increase of the most 
considerable empire that exists, but also 
a history of the relations of tlie Sclavo- 
nian people with all their neighbours, 
with the Byzaiitine empire, and witii 
Westerti Europe. In the critical anno¬ 
tations which Mr. de Schkerzer has an¬ 
nexed to liis version of the Russian an¬ 
nalist, and in vvhich he displays a won= 
derful store of erudition, as w-ell as an 
extraordinary vigour and subtdty of mind, 
he has sifted, compared, and elucidated, 
tlie various relations of the history of tiie 
ancient IMuscovites, with that of their 
cotemporaries, and has thus rendered 
Ins work a solid foundation forilie gene¬ 
ral history of the modern nations of a 
part of Asia and Europe. The first 
volume is but ‘ An Introduction to tiie 
Ancient History of Russia,’ in. which, 
however, the author has given tlie most 
profound and luminous views of the cha. 
raeter of historical criticism in general.’'* 
Kotzebue has recently published ,at 
Riga, a work in four volumes octavo, 
entitled “ The Ancient History of Prus¬ 
sia,” %vhicb embraces that of the Teuto¬ 
nic order. This production has excited 
a very lively inferest in Germany, both 
on account of the merit of the executi on, 
and the nature of the materials. The 
writer, by a combination of lucky cir¬ 
cumstances, obtained access to the se¬ 
cret archives^ of Koenigsberg, vvhetice ha 
drew a body of authentic documents of 
a curious character, and of gre'at impott- 
ance, in relation to the caj-iv history of 
the north of Europe, and to the career 
of the Teutonic knights. A French 
translation of Kofzebue’s hisorry has 
been undertaketi in Paris, but be appears 
to have eiven great oifence co the Ficmct! 
critics, by bis declan’attc'.ts .agamst op¬ 
pression. and his tdniosouiiicai 'nmnons. 
