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exeafed to 240 or even 300 thalers a year. 
In confideration of this munificent offer, 
and the great expences of the journey, it 
is made a condition, that all the produc- 
tions of nature which the couple of tra- 
vellers may colleét on this expedition, 
fhall belong exclufively to the patron; 
but if the travelling companion fhould 
have a pa-ticular fondnefs for fome fpe- 
cimens, there is encouragement held out 
to him that his wifhes will be ecatified. 
JeauRatT, of the Obfervatory at Pa- 
ris, has lately invented and conftruéted a 
Diplantidian Teleleope, which forms two 
, equal images of the objeét, the one up- 
right and ‘the other reverfed. This in- 
ftrument will prove highly ufeful to the 
practical aftronomer, by enabling him to 
obferve, with greater promptnels and ac- 
curacy, the paflages of flars over the me- 
Fidian. 
Tt isa fact little known in eacisha: 
that the valuable collection of objects in 
natural hiftory made by LaBpibiar- 
DIERI, in the South Seas, was lately 
tak en, by cur cruizers, and brought into 
rn Hnelith port. On the reprefentaticn, 
Tee of the Directory, the Englith 
Government, greatly io the honour of its 
Hberality, inftantly reftored ae He 
and in Sepiember, : an Englifh veffel, fole- 
ly freighted with the collection, lanee di it 
at Havre-de-Grace. By the Frenc hh lite- 
rary journals, it appears, that the: ve le 
confifted of about 4000 various Y ants, 
half of them new ones; a variety of feeds 
defigned for the Botanic Garden ; 1500 
infeuis « 300 fpecies of curious brtelels a 
number of quadrupeds ; {pecimens of 
wood, reptiles, and fifh, preierved in {pi- 
rits of wine ; ee ae in lithology ; cle- 
ven bread-fruit trees, ¢.c., and many in- 
firuments of the Sotrh Sea landers. 
An abridged tranflation of the Agri- 
cultural Works of ARTHUR YOUNG is 
eae oss at Pari ris, to be made by La- 
“MARCK, BENOIST, and BILLE: 0CQ; to 
which notes are to be added by Par- 
MENTIER, DE ta Lauze, and AR 
NOULD. The worl: is expected to ex- 
tend to fifteen or gighteen volumes in oc- 
tavo. 
_ The artifis employed by the French 
Government to make colleétions for their 
Mujeum of Arts, have obtained fifteen’ pic- 
tures at Parma, twenty at Modena, twen- 
ty-five at Mi ian, forty at Bologna, and 
ten at Ferrara. 
Mr. C. Gower; of Oriel. College, Ox- 
ford, has publithed the peel fpeétus of an 
Gee ed work on the Matter of Arti- 
Acial Light, One of the uleful objetts 
Varieties —Literary Notices, Sc. 
4 
of this work is to direét the public at- 
tention to the beft materials pointed out 
by chemiltry and Philctophy, as fubfti- 
tutes for the ufe of wax and {permaceti. 
Mir. Dippin is preparing for publi- 
cation a Complete Hiftory of the Englith 
Stage. 
M. PELTIER, of: London, announces 
his intention to publith, in England, an 
edition of the celebrated work on Pafi i - 
grapoy, invented and arranged by DE 
Memreu andthe AppE Srcarp. This 
curious work profeiies to teach the firt 
elements of writing and printing, in any 
one particular language, fo as to be under- 
ftood in any other language, without the 
help of tranflation; fimilar in their effeé 
to the Arabic figures, or to the notes in 
mufic. 
An important | political work is in great 
forwardnels in London, under the titie 
of “ Plard-yer pour les Hmigres Fi ancors 3 
par Mi. le Comie LALLY TOLEND ee 
By a decree of the French legiflature, 
the new library in the national palace is 
eftablifhed, under the infpeétion of the 
archivifts of the republic, forthe ufe of 
the members of the two houfes of legif- 
lature. As this is at once the general 
place of, refort for the deputies, and a 
centre of union for all foréign journals, 
and other periodical works, it is’ proba- 
bly the moft inter efting place for politi- 
cal information in the 
Llhiree poetical works are at this time 
inthe GRisTOL prefs : 
rala fecond edition ‘oF Miria6erar: 
CoLERIDGE s poems. 
2. Poems on the death of Prifcilla 
Farmer, by her grandfon, Mr. Cares 
LLoyD. 
3. A volume of Poems, by Mr. Ros 
BERT SOUTHEY, author bi Joan of Are. 
An enormeus terreftrial globe, eight 
French feet in diameter, has been placed 
in the library of the Four Nations, at Pa- 
ris, by B ERGEVIN. Its external fubftance 
is of copper, which is covered with a 
hard and poliihed enamel. on which the 
oa &c. are engraved in ive Fy black ; 
the colour of the fea is a very delicate ikv4 
blue, and that of the land a light brown. 
—Ii is ebvicus, that a Slane of thefe, di- 
menfions is an object rather of curiofity 
then of utility. 
The Provincial Adminiftration of Lom- 
bardy have offered a gold Medal, value 
200 fequins, to the writer of the beft 
Difcourie on the following quettion— 
Of all poffible free governmen. whith 75 
ibe beft adapted to ibe gemus and chaivacier 
of the Italians ? 
world: 
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