v 
1797+] 
publifhing by fubfcription, a treatife on 
Spherical Geometry ; containing its fun- 
damental properties, the doétrine of its 
loci ; the maxima and minima of fphe- 
rical’lines and areas: with an applica-. 
tion of thefe elements to a variety of 
problems. 
Despaze, the author of the Hiftory 
of the Direétory, entitled ‘* Les Cingue 
Hommes’, has been confounded with 
Paces, the circumnavigator. ‘The for- 
mer of thefe, has ferved in the armies 
of the Republic, and refides at this 
moment in Paris, Rue de la loi, mai/on 
des Landes. The latter is author of 
L’ Hiftoire fecretie de la Revolution, which 
work will fpeedily appear in an Englifh 
drefs. \ 
' The German almanacks have of courfe 
followed the example of their ref{pective 
courts. While there remained any hope 
of fubjugating France; that country was 
not acknowledged as a republic in the 
Almanac de Gotha; and a cautious neu- 
trality was inoft rigoroufly obferved, 
equally avoiding the recognition of the 
common-wealth, and of Louis XVIII. 
The victories in Italy, have however 
overceme the fcruples of the German 
Lillys; the wife men of Gotha, in their 
Calendar for 1797, have tardily, but 
humbly, acknowledged that France is no 
longer a monarchy ! 
We are enabled to announce to the 
public, the revival in London of the long 
loft art of painting, as formerly praétifed 
in the VENETIAN SCHOOL. It now 
appears that the fuperior effe€t of this 
{pecies of painting is produced by a. pe- 
culiar property in the vehicle, which at 
once renders the colours more brilliant 
and tranfparent, and abridges materially 
the labour of the artift. The difcovery 
has been made by a perfon who fortu- 
nately preferved/ from fire, a copy of the. 
original recipe, which had been brought 
from Italy, by his father, many years 
fince. The firft experiments were fuc- 
cefsfully made by his daughter, and the 
fame method has been practifed for the 
Jaft two or three months, by the prefident 
of the royal academy, with equal effect. 
Many of the artifts have given the pto- 
ptietor ten guineas each for the fecret, 
which they bind themfelves, under a 
penalty of 2000]. not to divulge, during 
his life, and that of his daughter, and 
alfo nevereto divulge it to any foreigner, 
thereby to preferve the advantage to 
their own country. 
Tiepoo SULTAUN, or as he is more 
Montrury Mac. No. XIV. 
Varieties, Literary and Philofsphical. 
principal god. 
fides 
other, as the vices and the virtues, good © 
{aid to have written Memoirs of the hifs 
tory of India, which have been tranflated 
into the French language. fa 
The late Emprefs of Ruffia prefented 
the celebrated philofopher ‘Vi. PALLAS, 
a few months before her death, with a 
confiderable eftate in the Crim, upon 
condition that he fhould make it his 
principal refidence. Sanguine expecta- 
ticns are formed, that fome very ufeful 
difcoveries will be made, by a man fo 
fkilful in the book of nature, now he is 
become refident in a country abounding 
with a rich variety of natural objects. 
Amidft the various improvements 
which have been made upon the Tele- 
graph, fince the firft difcovery of that 
curious inftrument, none perhaps have 
furpafiied thofe.made by M. AcHARD, 
fuperintendant of the academy at Berlin. 
He has compofed a didtionary adapted to 
the inftrument, which contains upwards 
cf 23,500 words, placed in a regifter 
oppofite to certain figns, that are ren- 
dered confpicuous to the diftant obferver, 
by means of atelefcope. Two experi- 
ments have been made with fuccefs ; 
at one of which the KinG of PRussIa 
alfifted, ACHARD direcied a telegraph 
eftablifhed at Spandau, and his majefty, © 
attended by fome of his courtiers, di- 
rected the other at Bellevue, the villa ’ 
of Prince Ferdinand, at the diftance of | 
The King ma- 
about a German mile. 
nifefted his fatisfaction, by prefenting 
M. AcuHarp with a draft upon his 
treafurer, for the fum of 500 rix- 
dollars. 
A Ruffian, of the name of Poporr, 
has lately publifhed a work on the Scla- 
vonic Mythology, by which it appears . 
that the ancient Sclavonians did not yield 
to the Greeks and Romans in fuperfti- 
tion and polytheifm.  Peryfn was their 
author of thunder and lightning, of all 
the meteorological phenomena, and their 
In the fecond rank they 
placed Yolofé, god of animals; in the 
third, Koupa/, god of vegetables. Be- 
thefe, there were innumerable 
and evil, &c. Starues and temples were 
erected for them; Feftivals were efta- 
blithed in compliment to them; and 
Priefts were atligned to them, with im- 
menfe revenues, 
A very interefting work is at this 
time preparing, at the King’s Library, 
at Madrid; it is to confift of a feries 
of medals, which relate to the Bue ee 
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