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eftablithed at Strafourgh, confifting al- 
ready of nearly 40 members. Profeflor 
SPIELMANN Is prefident, and Cit. Kampe- 
MANN fecretary. 
At Saltzburgh, the publication of a 
Journal of Italian literature, for the ufe of 
Germany, has been recently undertaken. 
The author or editor is a Mr. WisMay- 
ER. The fixft number contains varicus 
articles of curious information c. necrning 
the tranfations of the literary fociety of 
Sienna, the ftate of Jiterature in Bologna, 
the Arcadian Society (the oldeit literary 
fociety in Europe,) &c. &c. Tie readers 
of the Monthly Magazine may, in due 
courte, expect to be prefented with all the 
interefting acticles publifhed in this jour- 
nal. 
Mr. G. HerMann is about to publith 
at Leipfic a new edition of the Hecuba 
of Euripides, with notcs, of which it will 
be the chief object to examine and refute 
many of thote of Profeflor PoRSON. 
The Mifcellaneous Works of Sultzer, 
have juft been publithed in a third edition, 
by Weidman, the bockfeller, at Leipfic. 
Of ail thofe who, in Germany, have ap- 
plied to the improvement of ihe fine aris, 
Suitzer is the moft eltcemed by his own 
countrymen. Itis, perhaps, dilgraceful 
to Britifh literature, that, while fo many 
German works of litle merit are eagerly 
tranflated into our language, the writings 
of Sultzer have, hitherto, been ignorantly 
flighted. 
. A controverGal ccrrefpondence between 
Hufeland, Steffens, Schutz, and Schelling, 
to the great edification of the German li- 
terati, has, for fome time, madea figure 
in fome of the German literary journals. 
A German tranflation of Butler's Hu- 
dibras, has been lately publifhed, by a Mr. 
Soltau, at Konigfverg. Mr. Soltau hos 
adhered, with religious fidelity, to the 
fenfe of the original. ‘ 
A hiflory of Hungarian ‘Jiterature, in 
claffical Latin, bas been lately publithed 
at Prefburg. 
A new edition of the Republic of Plato 
bas lately been begun to be publithed at 
Altona; and another at Leiplic. Nothing 
can be more natural, than that the prefent 
ftate of the political world fhould tavour 
the revival of the politics of Plito, 
The Ruffian-American Company, com- 
poied of ftock-proprictors, and having ‘or 
its object a trade with the Ealtere ocean, 
has lately received its charter from the 
emperor, ana has begun its uodertaking 
with great a€tivity. The co:npany has 
engaged to give 60,000 roubles for the 
coatiruction of fone caferns for the troops 
cantoned at Irkuctk, | 
Literary and Philsfephical Intelligence. 
[Sept. L, 
The new prefident of the academy of 
arts and fciences at Peterfburgh, named 
by the emperor, is the Count Sirogonow, 
who is allo dire€tor of the Imperial libra- 
ry, and chief direétor of the expedition, 
underiaken for the difcovery of marble 
quarries in the government of Perm. 
The generals and officers of the ftaff in 
Ruffia have been enjoined, previous to 
contraéting marriage, to afk permifhon of 
the emperor, and to give the name and 
condition of the woman to whom they are 
betrothed. 
The price of provifions having rifen ex- 
ceflively high in Sweden, a private per- 
fon has to:med the plan of a fociety for 
their reiief, by fupplying them at a mo- 
derate rate. The king bas made a con- 
fiderable gift to this fociety and autho- 
iized it to be called The Inftitution of Gus~ 
tavus, for the Relief of the poor Labourers 
of Stockholm. Otrher individuals and cor- 
porations have alfo beftowed on it valu- 
able prefents. This efablifhment tock 
piace onthe birth ef the prince-royal ; 
and on this cceafion too, the king par- 
d. ned and reftored to his eftates and pri- 
vileges of nobility—the Baron D’Arm- 
feld, who was condemned, in 1794, to 
death, with confifcation of property. The 
king has alio required of the new Board 
of Tradeto make areport on the dittrefled 
fituation cf the manufacturers, and the 
beft means for their relief. 
Proteflar CaLLisEN, of Copenhagen, 
has lately read a paper in the Royal So- 
ciety of Medicine of that city, in which 
he fhews that the external ufe of boiling 
water to the fkin, in interaal inflamma- 
tions, is more {peedy and fure in bringing 
rehef, than common blifters. 
As foon as the invention of the tele. 
graph was known, it was adopted in 
Sweden, to give intelligence concerning 
the paflage from Stockholm acr:fs the 
iilands. Another has jutt been eftablifhed 
at the entrance of the Malitrand, which 
promifes to be of great advantage to the 
fifhery. 
The births and deaths for the year 
1799» in fome of the continental towns are. 
the following : 
Deaths. Births. 
At Vienna - £5427. = 12008 
Petes tborg 9869 - > 7489 
Kerlin - .§590...= Gass 
Hamburg 3636 - 3595 
Copenhagen 3601 - 3407 
KGnigierg .24gr |= 2973 
Leipzig - 1297 .- 1027 
Nofd Litteraire, Avril, 1800. 
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