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labours of the Society areheld. Ina fu- 
ture Number. in our Account of the Pro- 
ceedings of other Public Societies, we 
fhai! prefent our readers with an analy fis 
of the novelties contained in this vo- 
luime. 
The Abbé DELILLE has given a new 
fpecimen of his poetical talents, in his 
Amélie & Voluis. 
The Duke de LAVAUGUYON, who 
was lately difmiffed from the command 
of the body-guards of the perfon ftyling 
himfelf Louis XVIII, has pubiuthed a 
pamphlet, entitled, “ Lettre de Monf. le 
Duc de Lavauguyon au Roz, fur ja \ Dif- 
grace.” 
General FirzPATRICK's {peech, re- 
lative tothe imprifonment of La Fayette, 
has been tranflated into French at Ham- 
burgh, and is now in circulation through- 
out the continent. 
LALLY TOLLENDAL, fo celebrated 
on account of his own and his father’s 
misfortunes, has written an eloquent ap- 
peal to his countrymen, in behalf of the 
exiled French: the following is a copy 
of the title-page: ‘‘Defenfe des Emi- 
eres Brangais, addvefée au Peuple Fran- 
Gals.” 
J.B. Gatt, profeffor of Greek litera- 
ture in the college of France, has lately 
publifhed a French tranflation of a num- 
berof the Dialogues of Lucian; he has 
fele€ted thofe which prefent, in their 
enfenble, a fynopfis of the mythology, 
which that philofcpher fo ingenioufly ri- 
diculed.—T he fame author has alfo lately 
ublifhed a tranflation of the Idylls of 
Theocritus. 
M. MiraxBeau formerly publithed a 
literary fragment, called Effar fur [ Am- 
fie; this has lately been reclaimed by the 
eriginal author, and republifhed,. with 
additions... M.de RivaRrot 1s the per- 
fon who complains of this literary pi- 
racy. 
DuMmouRiIER, after regulating,. for 
fome time, the defiinies of Hurope, now 
fupverintends the literature of the North, 
in a Journal publifhed at Hamburg. 
The Academy of Stockholm has of- 
fered a reward of 26 ducats for the bef 
Hiftorical Differtation on the Herring 
Fifhery on the coaft of Sweden. 
The German poet KLopsTock, has 
juft publithed an ode, entitled, Diz 
ZWwWyTeE HoHE, which he has tranflated 
into French: ; 
_ Aufgefchwungen « hatteft du hoch uber der 
menf{chheit. 
 Elamee tétois tu hautement au-deffus de ?huma- 
nite. ; 
MonTHLY Mage. No. XVIII. 
Varies Literary and Philofophical. 
465 
Groffe dich, Gallien, hatteft dem Krieg’ enfta- 
gend, der Erde 4, ON 
Grandeur toi, France, avois &, la guerre renon= 
cant de la terre. i 
Volkert alle befiegt des Alterthums und die 
{fpatern, 
Peupjiles tous vaincus de lantiquite—&S les plus 
tardifs, a 
Durch das melodifche himlifche wort. 
Par la mélodieufe celefte parole, Ge, 
About 300 Letters of Hutt, the 
bifhop of Avranches, in Lower Nor- 
mandy, have been lately difcovered (to- 
gether with other vaiuable manufcripts) 
in the library of an emigrant Eix-yefuit. 
Thefe are all written in Latin. It ap- 
pears, however, from the eulogz m on 
Huct, pronounced by the Abbé de 
OLrvet, that there were originally be- 
tween 500 and 600 letters of that learned 
man, written in Latin and French, ta 
different men of letters, his cotempora- 
ries. ; 
The following remarkable and inte- 
refiing experiment in Galvanifm has 
been lately made by VALLI, an Italian 
experimentalift ; it does not appear to have 
been made by any other foreign chemift, 
and therefore may be confidered as origi- 
nal: Let a frog be prepared after the 
manner of Galvani; {trip off that part of 
the fkin which covers the mufcles of the 
iegs and thighs, fo that the mufcles may 
remain expofed; take in one hand ome of 
the legs of the frog, and af-er that man- 
ner fufpend the reft of the body of the 
animal, you will then have elevated the 
leg of the frog, which you hold in your 
hand; next you will have fufpended to 
the fame leg the thigh, the thigh pan 
and the crural nerves bare; and laftly in 
the lower part the vertebral column, 
The other leg, of which you have not hold, 
will, of courfe, remain floating in the 
air. According to this difpofition, take 
the laft-mentioned leg in the other hand, 
bend it back on the thigh, and aufe one 
of the mufcles of the leg, or of the thigh 
to approach gradually to the crural nerves; 
you will perceive, at the very infiant of 
contaét, very fenfible agitations and con- 
traétions. ‘This experiment is the more 
remarkable, as the refult ftrikingly ex- 
emplifies the power of animal electricity, 
without the intervention of metals. or of. 
any other fubftance foreign to the body 
of the animal. It will fucceed equally 
as well, if in the procefs, you ufe filk 
gloves, or gloves of any other deicrip- 
tion, competent te intercept the com- 
munication between you and the animal 
you handle. 
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