1799-4 
ferves to be ‘known, and imitated in ail 
eleétious of the fame kind. Each mem- 
ber writes on his lik the three names 
prefented by the clafs which has _va- 
¢ancies to fupply-; he adds tothe name 
that he prefers, the number 3, to thar 
which obtains his fecond degree of pre- 
ference, he adds the number 2; and the 
number 1, to the laft. They then cait 
up the numbers affixed to each name, 
and the higheft figures obtain the eleétion. 
For example, the candidates in a late 
vacancy in the clafs of mechanics were 
Carnor, BeeGuET and Janvier; 
every voter placed oppofite to one of 
thefe names, the numbers 3, 2, or 13 
CaRNorT in confequence obtained 250 
units, BREGUET 182, and JANVIER 
ATA = 
A yolume of poems, by the Rev. F. 
WRaNGHAM, is. preparing for -publi- 
cation. 
Another pofthumoys work, by the 
celebrated and unfortunate ConvorR- 
ceT,.on the Elements of Arithmetic, has 
‘been publifhed at Paris, and is adopred 
as an elementary treatife gn the public 
fchools. 
By a tate regulation, the national in- 
-ftitute are ordered to take charge of in- 
ventions and projeéts conneéied with 
arts and trades, in order that induftrious 
and indigent perfons may be fully en- 
abled to avail themfelves of the rewards 
and hononrs which the French goverp- 
ment make it a primary oaject to hald 
eut to them. 
A valuable periodical work has lately 
made its appearance at Geneva, under 
the conduét of M. A. Pacter, Profef- 
for of Philofophy there, and Fellow of 
the Royal Society of London. It is 
entitled “ La Bibliotheque Brittanique,” 
and is compofed folely of traéis from mo- 
ern Englith pubiications, and the trant- 
aétions of our literary and other fo- 
cieties. 
The national commiflioners in Italy, 
‘have lately fent tothe rational library at 
Paris, five manufcripts fele€ted from the 
celebrated Ambrofian Library. ‘They are, 
x. Virgil, in which are notes in the-hand- 
writing of Petrarch. 2. Pwo mann- 
fcripts of Gallileo upon tides and fortifica- 
tions. 3. The work of Leonardode Vinci, 
upon mathematics and mechanics, in his 
own hand. 4. A MS. on the antiquities 
of Jofephus, by Ruffin. 5. Another on 
the hiftory of the popes. 
The rich and extenfive libraries of 
‘LAVALLIERE, 
she count p’ARTOIS, have been pre- 
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DE PavLiny, and: 
893 
fented tothe National Iniitute: by the 
direétory. “Phe librarian is SaUGRAIN; 
it will be open to the public every fifth 
day. 
The Sratue of Voltaire, which ftood 
under the veitibule of the ct-devant 
French Theatre, has been removed into 
the Hall of the public fittings of the Na- 
tionai Inftitute. The bard of Ferney is 
reprefented as fitting in 4 great chair in 
a pofture of meditation; the fculptor was 
Houdon, > 
The CoLLece oF France, hereto- 
fore called the Col/éze Royal, held a pub- 
lic fitting on the, 1rith of November. 
Memoirs on various fubjeéts, chiefly li- 
terary and {fpeculative, were read by 
PERBEAU,, PORTAL, COURNAND, 
Gait, Caussin, and LALANDE. 
The Praétice of Irrigation is becoming 
very popular in France. An extenfive 
canal for the exprefs purpofe of irriga- 
ting lands, is about to be made in the 
department of the Higher Pyrenées, from 
which much benefit is expected to—re- 
fult. 4 
On the 22d of Oé€tober, the School 
of the Military Hofpital, at Paris, was 
opened by the Infpeétors General of 
health for the armies, CosTe pronounc- 
ed a dif{courfe, which principally related 
to the medical treatment of the military. 
The profeffors, &c. are GILBERT, 
CHAYRON, DESGENETIE, &e. &c. 
The butcheries of Paris have been res 
moved out of that city and fuburbs: an 
example deferving of imitation in Lon- 
don, and. every great metropolis. ~ 
A refident of Hamburgh has announce 
ed the difcovery of a new procefs for 
taking copies of any fpecies of MSS. with 
little expence, and in any place, inftan- 
taneoufly. His invention is attefted by a 
certificate of twelve merchants, and the 
foreign confuls in that city. 
Mr. Ricumonp, of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, is preparing for the prefs a 
work of a very extenfive nature on the 
theory of found, harmonics, and the 
principles of mufic in general. i 
_ Mils BLetsog, of Cambridge, is pre- 
paring a fmall work for the prefs, to be 
entitled, Botanical Recreations, to which 
will be fubjoined Fables of Briti/h Plants, 
on the plan of Dr. Thornton’s. 
The expected work of Sir FREDERIC 
EDEN, entitled, °° Political and Econo- 
mical Refearches,” will wake its appear- 
ance, in.tswo volumes quarto, early in the 
month of January. ~ 
The Account of the Embafiy of Lord 
Macartney to China, publifhed under 
5 ha the 





