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MapaME DE GENLIS_ is’ repub- 
Hthing “ Quelques difcours pohtiques 
moraux.’ This work, originally writ- 
ten in 1770, is in the Berlin prefs, and 
will make its appearance in the courfe of 
the winter. She alfo is about to pubtith, 
under her own eye, at Hamburgh or Al- 
tona. a volume of Mifceilantes, and an ac- 
countof her travels fince the revolution. The 
latter will alfo include a variety of par- 
ticulars that occurred during her refi- 
dence in London, Bury St. Edmund's, 
Paris, Mons, Tournay, Schaffhaufen, 
‘Zurich, &c. She at prefent refides in 
the houfe of General Valence, who has 
married a near relation of her’s, in Hol- 
ftein, and is extremely defirous of return- 
ing to her native country. 
HARRINGTON’s Oceana, after having 
been tranflated into French, is at length 
to appear in a grand drefs at Leipfic. 
Almoft the only knowledge which fo- 
reigners formerly had of this celebrated 
work, was confined to the fcanty fpeci- 
men to be found in Mr. Hume’s idea of 
66 a Perfeét Commonwealth.” 
The Baronefs STAEL (formerly Mad. 
Necker), has finifhed her ‘* Zulma,” 
a {pecimen of which fhe diftributed about 
two years fince among her friends. The 
{cope of this work 1s to exhibit the in- 
fluence of the paifions on the happinefs 
of individuals and of nations. She Is 
about to return with her hufband, who 
is once more appointed ambaffador from 
Sweden to Paris. 
The French republic has fettled a pen- 
fion of 2000 livres per annum on the widow 
of the late Peter Fofepo DESAULT, fur- 
geon in chief of the grand hofpital of 
humanity (ct-devant Hotel-Dien) a mem- 
ber of the council of the board of health, 
author of a workin furgery, &c. Mott 
of the medical men at prefent accompa- 
nying the different French armies, were 
the pupils of this great anatomift. 
PAsfORET, author of Legifiation de 
Movie, and a number of other celebrated 
produdions, moved in the covnei of Five 
Hundred, on the 18th Frime re (Decem- 
ber 8), that Madame Ba1L1y fhould be 
confidered as the widow of one of the 
reprefentatives of the people. This idea 
having obtained the unanimous appro- 
bation of the members, fhe will be entitied 
toa penfion fuitable to herown condition, 
and the merits of her learned, but un- 
fortunate hufband. 
Mrs. WoLusroNncRaFtT’s laft work, 
“© Travels through Sweden, Norway} and 
Deimark,’ has juft been tranflated into 
Varieties, Literary 
and Philofephical. [Jane 
German, and publifhed at Hamburgh 
and Altona. Her book on the “ Rights of 
Woman’ has alfo been weil received on the 
continent, where Italian, French, and 
German editions of it have fuccedfively 
appeared. 
Several of DipERoT’s pofthumous 
works have juft been printed at Paris. 
They were in the poffefiion of his friend 
Prince Henry of Pruffia, who has returned 
them to the native country of the author. 
Terefa LEV ASSEUR, the widow of F. 7. 
Reuffeaux, on receiving a handfome pro- 
vifion from the National Convention of 
France, prefented it in return with 
‘« Morceaux inédits ou differens qui fe trou- 
«ent enire le Manuferi, & les editions de 
Roujeau.” This contains a variety of 
curious particulars, and fupplies all the 
blanks and initials in his “ Confetfions.’” 
The cabinet of natural hiftory belong- 
ing to the late Canon Conrad Gessner, 
of Zurich, is about to be difpofed of by 
his heirs. It has always been confidered 
as one of the firft colleétions in Switzer- 
land. x 
The ow-Duich Mufes, after long ogling 
our Englith poets, have attempted to 
tranflate part of the works of one of the 
moit mellifluous ef them ; the title is not 
very fonorous: Pope's Verfuch vem Menf- 
chen, von Brocke iiberdezt. Englifh & 
Deut{cb.” 
It was obferved at the laft Leipfic fair, 
that books of divinity, theology, and 
controverfy, had decreafed 70 per cent. 
and that thofe which had made their ap- 
pearance there were chiefly purchafed for 
the clergy themfelvés. 
Mopficur de CALONNE has hitherto 
been prevented by political motives from 
publuhing his elaborate and long-ex.. 
pected work, on the Ancient Govern- 
ment of France. 
CHEATER, the French republican and 
poet, fpeaking of the Englifh, prefumes 
ro call them ‘* ux peuple aujourd’bui fa- 
gonné & Pefclavage,”’ and Dav ip is pleafed. 
to term us ‘' ze demi-uation.” 
Monfieur —-——, now Sir Francis 
D’IvERNOIS, after having long prediffed 
the utter annihilation of the French 
per money, has at length demonffrated in 
his,** Hi/torre del adminytration des finances 
Sf la Republique Frangaife pendant Pannee 
1796, that the government is in a ftate 
of the moit depiorable bankruptcy ! Sir 
Francis is perhaps the firft prophet who 
hg arrived at tht honour of knight~ 
ood. 
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