1860.) 83 fy Articles of Literary and Philofophical Intelligence.. 26 
At the fame time will be publifhed Dr. 
Mitter’s Nez Infirudor for the German 
Flute, rendered ealy to the meaneft capa- 
city: a work he has been ftrongly folicited 
to publifh, as he is perhaps one of the 
oldeft public performers on that inftrument 
now living, having affifted at Handel's 
Oratorios during his life time. 
The Univerfity of St. Andrew’s, for 
which the feffion for 1800—1801, com- 
mences within a few days, has lately been 
rifing very much in fame, as a feminary 
for liberal education. Drs GeorGe 
_Hixu, at this moment, perhaps, the moft 
eminent among all the Scottifh clergy 5 
Dr. RoTHERHAM, well known in Eng- 
land by his writings, and his difcoveries 
in philofophy; Dr. Hunter, the difci- 
ple and friend of the late Lord Monboddo ; 
Dr. Barron, from whom an important 
work on the principles of compofition has 
been for many years earnef#ly expected ; 
Mr. VILANT, a gentleman of the higheft 
diftinction among mathematicians, and 
other gentlemen fcarcely lefs eminent for 
genius, erudition, and fcience; are the 
profeffors and governors of the feminary. 
A correfpondent -informs us, that Po- 
TATOES /xveetencd by the effects of froft, if 
wathed, fliced, prefled, boiled, and inthe 
boiling purified, firft with powdered char- 
coal, and afterwards by the ordinary me- 
thods of purifying fyrup, and refining fu- 
gar, will afford a fufficiently profitable re- 
turn of fine and wholefome suGaR; 
while the refufe may be ufed either in feed- 
ing cattle, or as manure. Fro/fed pota- 
toes are at prefent fuffered to go to 
watte. 
Towards the clofe of the laft year the 
difference of religious opinions caufed a 
{chifm in the fynagogues of Amfterdam. 
A Jew of confiderable talents is the leader 
of the new and more enlightened fect, 
which would abolifh all the abfurd ufages 
with which the rabbins have loaded the 
Jaw of Moles. The heads of the fyna- 
gogues applied to the Batavian magiftrates 
for afliftance, hoping by their interpofition 
to bring back the feparatifts into the old 
fociety. But no attention was paid to 
their application, becaufe it militated 
againft the principles of toleration; and a 
complete {chifm enfued. More than a 
hundred families joined the retormers, and 
have now a feparate fynagogue. 
The unfortunate naturalift Doro- 
Miev has, according to the laft accounts 
from Palermo, been transferred to a more 
healthy prifon. Admiral Nelfon and Sir 
William Hamilton are faid to have pro- 
mifed the French General Dugua, that 
they would apply to the Queen of Naples 
to have Dolomieu treated, in future, as a 
prifoner of war. 
The French captain Baudin, and a 
number of learned men and artifts, ‘will 
‘fhortly fail from Havre, on board the cor- 
wettes Le Geographe and Le Naturalifte, 
on the voyage of difcovery of which we 
{poke in our laft. He has received the 
neceffary paffports from all the govern- 
ments at war with France. : 
Mr. Evxuicort, the gentleman ap-~ 
pointed on the part of the United States 
of America, as a commiffioner for run- 
ning the boundary line between that coun- 
try and the Spanith dominions in Ame- 
rica, 1s about to publifh the journal which 
he kept during the time he was employed 
in that undertaking. Mr. Ellicott pros 
ceeded from Philadelphia to Pittfburgh, 
at the head of the Ohio; whence after’ ‘ 
providing himfelf with every neceflary for 
his expedition, and being accompanied 
with artificers, furveyors, &c. together 
with a part of one of the legions of the ’ 
United States, to proteét them through the 
Indian country, he proceeded down the 
Ohio and Miffiifipp1 to Natchez, a {mall 
town about 400 miles above New Orleans, 
and the appointed place ot rendezvous. _ 
The celebrated aftronomer, ScHROTER, 
writes to M, Von Zach, cf Gotha, that 
he has drawn the following conclufions 
from his late obfervations upon Mercury. 
1, That the rotation of that planet is 
within a few minutes of 24 hours. 2 
That its figure and atmoi{phere are hotice 
to thofe of Venus. 3, That its hicheft 
mountains are on its fouthern hemilphere, 
as in the earth, the moon, and Venus, 
4, That the mountains bear a {till larger 
proportion to its diameter than thote ot the 
moon and Venus. © 
In the ele€torate of Saxony there are 49 
Latin {chools, 7a0 German {chools in 
the towns, and 6000 in the country. 
A tranflation of Dr. Arkin’s General 
Biography, vol, 1. is now printing in Ger- 
many. 
In 1799, the population of Riga, ace 
cording to the authority of M. KaramMe 
SIN, was, of Germans, 6,025 males, 
6,119 females ;- Ruffians, z,154 males, 
1,746 females ; Poles, 2,066 males, 1,607 | 
females; Livonians, 2,965 males, 3,707 
females ; Finlanders and Eithonians, 15 
males, 1o3 females; Foreigners, 7it 
males, 192 females; and of Jews, 135 
males, 121 females. Total, 27,703. 
K.onigfberg, on the authority of the fame 
traveller, contains 40,000 inhabitants. 
Proteflor WiEGLEB in a differtation 
on 
