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appearance. 
‘to-acguired any celebrity. 
Varieties, Literary 
“A Correfpondent has furnifhed aino-_ 
tice of the following work of ANTHONY 
CoxLtins, in addition to thofe contained 
in the Lift, in page 849 of the Second 
Volume of this W ork—A Difcourfe con- 
cerning Ridicule and Irony, in Writing, 
in a Letter to Dr. NATHANIEL Mar- 
SHALL, 1729. 
It appears, by an original letter of 
Ruspens, lately publifhed, that he was 
addiéted to the ftudy of Antiquities, and 
alfo to that of Mechanics. In regard to 
the latter, this great Painter fell inro the 
foily of his age, and fpent much of his 
time in conftructing Machines in fearch 
ef a Perpetual Motjon- It'is believed, 
that one of thefe Machines is ftillin ex- 
iftence in fome part cf Flanders. 
> A fociety of Men of Letters has lately 
been formed in Parts, under the name of 
Les Diner ds Faudeville, whofe objcétis 
to compote humourous Ballads on Baccha- 
nalian, National, and Popular Subjects. 
They: have already publithed feveral 
numbers, containing the compofitions 
produced at the'r monthly dinners 
In one of the fittings.cf the National 
Inftitute, GUY TON read an extraé¢t from 
a work of M. MuxBowpn, well known 
as the author of a botanical werk, enti- 
tled, Flora Subterranea, and. not lefts for 
the extraord nary and whimfical experi- 
ments that he has made on his own 
perfon. He latcly facrificed.himielf to 
his ardent love of ‘Science, fo far as to 
apply four blifters on his own body, and 
todraw fome of his teeth ! 
The Ruffian Literature has not hither- 
The Chma- 
zifis will, perhaps, acccunt for this, by 
‘the geceraphical pofition of an empire, 
part of which is fituated within the 
arctic circle. Certain if is, however, 
that, except’ in aftronomy and natural 
hiftory (even here they-were aflifted by 
foreigners) little or no progrefs has 
been made. ‘Their poetry is confined to 
fongs compofed by their anceftors, while 
they yoved in the deferts.. In their 
profe, little original ts vifible, for they 
have been content to berrow from other 
nations, whofe genius they in vain en- 
deavour to transfufe into a barbarous 
idiom, which, even their own fovereigns 
have not, of late years, condefcended 
cultivate. Thefe ideas are fuggelted 
by a little Ruffian novel. of fifty-one 
12mo0. pages, the produétion of a Mr. 
KaRAMZiN, which has lately made its 
tis tranflated into French, 
by M. de Bourxriers, and publifhed 
by F. CourtTENER, bookfeller, at 
Molccw. 
bare) 
ey 
{ March, 
The profpeétus of a: new monthly 
journal has been lately circulated by P. 
F. Faucue, bookfeller, at Hamburgh, | 
who is to aét in the capacity of Editor. 
It is to be written in the French lan- 
guage, and called, “ Le SpeGateur du 
Nord. Sfournal Politique, Litévaire, & Mo- 
ral.’ 
The prefent war feems, at length, to 
have aroufed the Germans to a proper 
fenfe of that flavery to which the free 
of all nations has been degraded: A 
work, in three volumes 8vo. preaching 
up the neceflity of an immediate reform, 
is now read and circulated throughout 
the empire with great avidity, and three 
large editions are already fold! The 
author invites the heads of the Germanic 
body to meliorate the firuation of the 
people, ot out of love to the people, a 
motive too little attended to, but from 
felf-love, and felf-prefervation, as fuch 
an event can alone’ prevent a revolution | 
This work is very appropriately termed, 
* Free Thoughts.” 
M. MONTLOSIER, an ex-member of 
the French Legiflature, has publithed a 
weekly journal, inthe form of a pam- 
phict, in his native language. This, 
and M. PELTIER’s Tableau d’ Europe, 
are both publifhed in Lendon, a circum- 
ftance which proves, that the readers of 
French in this country, have increafed 
wonderfully fince the revolution. Before 
that period, the only French journal 
publifhed in London, was the Courier de 
2 Europe, now the Courier de Londres. 
M. Humsotp, counfellor of Mines 
to the KinG of PRUSSIA, annountes 
a method by which the effect of gun- 
powder in mines may be confiderably 
augmented. This difcovery confifts in 
the application of the known faét, that 
a fufee will burit when the wadding does 
not touch the powder ; and he therefore 
propofes, that in applying gunpowder to 
the purpofes of mining, &c. a confide- 
rable {pace be left between the powder 
and the wadding. 
Cassat,one of the guardians of the 
Mufeum of Natural Hiftory at Paris, is 
going, under the authority of the French 
Government, with the Ambaflador of 
Tunis, to procure in Africa the rareft 
and moft beautiful fpecies of Animals. 
The profeffors of the Mufeum hay, 
pointed out the rollowing, as the no 
proper .for him to procure:—The lion . 
and lionefs—the male and female, pan- 
ther—the leopard—the ounce—the tyger= 
cat—the hyena—the antelope—various 
{pecies of rats—the Barbary fheep—the 
inale and female dromedary—ftallions of 
, different 
and Philofophical. 
