47956) 
A depot has bgen eftablifhed in Paris, 
under che title of a: Mussum oF 
FRENCH MONUMENTS, to which are 
to be removed. all the monuments, fta- 
tues, tombs, painted windows, &c. of 
the churches and alienated edifices. This 
mufcum will be formed in the c:-devant 
church jorthe little Auguitines. les is 
folely appropriated to the prefervation of 
National monuments, which may throw 
a light on the French hiftory, and 
amounts already to a very interefiiog 
colleétion. 
All the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman 
antiquities nave been Pee ee to}, the 
MivseuM of *HE LouvRE, which, 1a 
other refpeéts, is to be confidered as the 
central muleum of the whole republic. 
BoH.pé Sr PIERRE, weliknownto 
Englitt readers,. as publiibed the protpec- 
tus of a work, catitled, the Harmontes of 
Nature, as an elementary ‘treatile on 
m. irals, and for the ufe of the primary 
{chools. 
Mr. JoHN SHERLOCK, of St. Alban’ Ss 
_ has announced the ditcovery of a fubfti- 
tute for yeatt, perfectly harmlefs, and at 
the fame time wholefome and nutritious. 
He »ropotes to communicate his fecret to 
all perfons who fubicribe not leis than 
five lhillings. 
' The Executive Directory, at the in- 
fiance ot the Museum of Natural Hiftory, 
have ordered a {cientific voyave to be un- 
dertaken to the Spaniih ifland of ‘Trini- 
fad and the neighbouring continent. 
Bauoin, aflifted by two maturalifis and 
a garcener,, have charge he wee 
ANGLES, profeflor of the Oriental 
Languages, &c. at Paris, announces a 
tranilarion, with copio sus noies. of Hoeft’s 
celebrated and learned Deicription of 
Worceco and Fez. 
On the 6thiof lat Auguft, the day on 
which GrIESBACH,. wes inftalled into 
the office of Proveétor of the Univerfity 
of Jena,,.the. ufual (peech was. made 
by ScHEUBY. His fubjeét was, Crifcos 
WaKEFELDIANE Ey “pides quibuflam 
locis adib.te cenfura fecunda. 
Prowy, at Paris, has finifhed a table 
of Logarithms, Sines, and Tangests, cor- 
refponding with the New Decimal Divi- 
fion of the Circle, more accurate 
and extenfive than any in prefent ule. 
A new and more complete edition 
is publifhing in France of the Works of 
Voltaire, under the fuperimtendance of 
Paxtsso; The firft 30 volumes were 
pretented by him to the National initi- 
gute at theirs Jaft fitting. 
S° 
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Varieties. —Literary Notices, Se. 
BoP 
An unfuccefsful attempt has been made 
before the Lyceum of Arts, at Paris, on 
the. Harmonica, or Mufical Giaffes, by 
Krasa. The failure ot the inftrument 
was aicribed to the circumftance of the 
found not mee produced at the inftant 
the ylafles were ftruck, and from its want- 
ing a detente begining and end. 
“A (plendid edition of ¥ OUNG 3s NIGHT 
THOUGHTS, In large quarto, enriched 
wich 150 etchings upon <ne borders, and 
frontiipieces to en book, from original 
defigns by BLAKE. is in forwardncfs. 
The price of the work to fubfcribers is 
FIVE ‘sUINEAS ; tonon-fubfcribers Six 
GUINEAS. 
A Treatife on the Law of Bonde is 
preparing foi the Prefs, by a Barrifter at 
Law. 
A new mufical work is in foitvatanels 
at Dublin, of all the Lri/b Norronal arrs, 
many of which would otherwife become 
aes 
Vir, PAPPELBAUM, of Berlin, , has 
publithed his letters to Mi. TRavis, in 
Latin, on the fubject of the controyerred 
text in john. A parcel of them was 
fhipped from Hamburgh to England ; but 
no intelligence can be vained of them. 
—Though the ietters of vir. Porson 
and Mr. Mar a leave us m no doubt 
reipecting the abilities and 
the archdeacon, the puvite mult be anxious 
to\fee what new errors Mr. PappEtr- 
BAUM can have difcovered, atter the al- 
mott An Bieeable ones detected by our, 
own Grecians and tes es 
A work, in fix volumes, is announced 
at Paris, under the Titic of Yravels of 
Py‘bagoras, fimilar in defign and exe= 
cution to the Abbé Barthelemy’s Travels 
ot Anacharfis. 
Fouxcroy is engaged in delivermg 
a courfe of chemical ieciures in Paris.— 
Lamarck has publithed a refutation of 
Fourcroy’s Theory. There has lately 
been much f {parring among th: chemifts 
of France and Germany, refpecting their 
feveral theories, more particular notices 
of which will appear in future Numbers 
of the- Monthly Magazine. 
Herfchel’s great Reflecting Velefcope 
is 40 Emeliih, or 37 French ‘eet in length; 
another Refle&ting Telefcope, however, is _ 
now coniiructise at the ey in 
Paris, which will meafure 65 Engli‘h, or 
60 French feet in lengts. A focond fap- 
ply of platina is on its its way ‘rom 
Spain, for the purpofe of conftruéting 
the g-eat mirror, which is to be 6 feet in 
diameter ! i 
ORIGINAL 
induitry of.” 

