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fetted by Citizen Guietaud, and the pro- 
cefs made public by order of the French 
Government. It confifts in dipping the 
paper in a very weak fulpburet of ammo- 
nia (volatile liver of fulphur): the cha- 
racters are immediately re(tored of a dark 
brown colour, and very legible. Pruffiat 
of pot-afh will alfo reftore the writing of 
abluecolour: the firft method is, however, 
the fpeedieft and bett. 
In our Jaft number we mentioned the 
decompofition of water by Mr. Carlifle, 
by means of the Galvanic battery, invent- 
ed by Volta. Some very curious experi- 
ments have fince been made on the fame 
fubjeé&t, by Mr. Cruickfhank, of Wool- 
wich, On pafiing the Galvanic influence, 
by means of two filver wires, through a 
folution of nitrat of filver, the upper wire 
became oxidated and gradually corroded, 
while at the fame time a beautiful arbo- 
refcent precipitation of metallic Slver took 
place on the lower wire. Acetite of lead 
and fulphat of copper were in the fame 
manner decompofed, each of thefe fub- 
ftances in the metallie {tate being preci- 
pitated on the furface of the lower wire. 
Diftilled water, tinged with litmus, was 
then put into the tube, and in a fhort time 
that portion cf liquor in contaét with the 
upper wire became red, and that in con- 
tact with the lower wire was blue! When 
Brazil wood was ufed, the lower part of 
the infufion became of a deep blue, and 
the upper was almoft colourlefs. From 
thefe facts Mr. C. concludes, that by the 
paflage of Galvanifm through water, the 
wire that gives out oxygen, produces ni- 
trous acid, and that which yields hydro- 
gen produces ammonia. ‘The facts are 
very curious and important, but the de. 
duétions from them are certainly very haity. 
Amongft the number of excellent edi- 
tions of claffics that are produced by the 
induftry and learning of German feholars, 
an edition of Horace juft now publithed 
by profeffor MiTsCHERLICH, of Gottin- 
gen, claims a rank: AHoratii Flacci 
Opera; illufiravit Chr. Guil Mitscherlich, 
Profefor Gottingenfis t, 1, pp. 550. t. 2. 
pp. 700. Lips. 8300. 8. ‘This edition, in 
which the editor has been engaged for fe- 
veral years, is, in point of interpretation 
as well as of criticifm, mott elaborate and 
perfect. He has principally fhewn vatt 
learning in poetical reading ; and his ob- 
fervations on the language of Horace are 
both interefting and infruétive. 
A very elegant edition of Shakefpeare’s 
plays and poems, with the corrections of 
various commentators, Johnton, George 
Stevens, &c. and a gloflary, is now pub- 
lithing for Thurneilen, at Bafle in Swit- 
Literary and Phtlofaphical Intelligence. 
[Augnft 1, 
zerland, in four fets, each of which con- 
fitis of fix volumes. 
Nicotaus Boecanort, an Itahan, 
has propofed a plan for eftablithing a new 
order of Jefuits in the Auftrian dominions, 
by whole influence the propagation of re- 
volutionary and irreligious principles is 
to be beit prevented ; bu’ it has hitherto 
been rejected by two committees appoint- 
ed for this purpofe. It is, however, to 
be apprehenced, that, as he has fome 
friends at court, he may at laft fucceed in 
his plans. Meanwhile the feat of this or- 
der is to be ereéted in Italy, and particu- 
larly at Naples. 
Fhe Typographical Society, formerly 
eftablifhed at Deuxponts, is now removed 
to Strafburg, where the preffes are fully 
employed again with printing editions of 
the Claffics. HeLioporus, with whole 
edition Prof. Mitfcherlich, of Gottingen, 
was eharged, has made i's appearance, 
and another volume of Buble’sAR1sTOTEE 
is printed, but not yet publifhed. PLaTo’s 
works will be reprinted. 
A new fet of Jews is eftablithed at 
Amfterdam, whole foliowers are daily m- 
creating. It differs from others, by re- 
jeting all thole rites which have been in- 
troduced fince the Mofaic Law inte the 
Jewifh religion. The founder and prefi- 
dent of this fet is a man of knowledge, 
and of an enlightened mind. 
At the requeft of Profeflor BoprE, of 
Berlin, the King of Pruffia has granted 
a confiderable {um for repairing the ob- 
{crvatory in that city. 
The Homme des Champs; o#, les Géore 
giques Frangoifes, poeme en quatre chants, 
par Jacques DELILLE, which was an- 
nounced three years ago, has lately been 
pudlifhed at Bafle, by J. Decker. O¢ 
this charming poem, four editions of va- 
rious fizes have been printed at the fame 
time. 
The Apollo of Belvedere has been 
erected in the Louvre, with the following 
infcription: ‘* The fiatue of Apollo on 
this pedeftal, difcovered at Antium to- 
wards the clofe of the 15th eentury, ereét- 
ed in the Vatican by Julius II. at the be- 
ginning of the 16th century, and taken by 
the Army of Italy, under the command of 
General Bonaparte, in the 5th year of the 
Republic, was fixed here on the 21f of 
Germinal, of the 8th year, in the fir year 
of his confulate.”” . 
VoLNey, at prefent counfellor of ftate 
under the confular conftitution of Fianee, 
has, in a late publication, exprefled himielf 
to this purport—** That Paul 1]. by his 
conduét in the different epochs of the Co- 
alition, had proved himielf the faviour, 
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