264. 
enriched by feveral tranflations from Kot- 
zebue, &c. Inftead of a general journal 
of the theatres, an Indice degh Spettacoh 
teatrali rapt refentalt nel decorfo 17995 € 
carnevale 1800, is printed by Bianchi.— 
“I'wo new literary journals have likewife 
appeared, viz. La frujira Letteraria fer 
P anno 1800, and I] Corriere Letterario 
per [' anno 1800, on the plan of the Jena 
Review, and Algem. Litterar. Anzeiger. 
In the hiftorical account of the progrefs 
ef literature in Germany, publifhed by 
M. WILL, in the German Muieum, the 
following curious initance is mentioned of 
the fcarcity of books before the invention 
ef printing. The Elector Palatine 
Lewis, who had been indefatigable curing 
his life in collecting books, and who, in 
3421 left his library to the Univerfity of 
Heidelberg, had not been able to obtain 
more than 152 volumes, of which $9 
treated of pe ag 12 of canon and civil 
‘law, 45 of medicine, and 6 of aftronomy 
and philofophy. 
The Emperor of Ruffia has publifhed 
an Ukafe, ordering the eftablifhment of a 
colony of 10,000 perfons in Siberia, on the 
confines of China. The colonifts are to 
confift of difcharged foldiers, and of per- 
fons fentenced to banifhment. The go- 
vernment engages to build houfes for the 
firft 2,000, and to fupply them with 
grain, &c. for eighteen months, and each 
colonift is to be exempt from taxes during 
ten years. One of the avowed objects of 
this colony is, to increale the trading in- 
tercourfe between the Ruffian and Chinefe 
empires. 
By the letter of a Jefuit, lately pub- 
lifhed in Germany, it appears that in 
3702-an accurate meafurement of a de- 
gree of latitude, took place in China, by 
order of the Emperor Kanghi. It com- 
prehended exa@ly 56,987,9 French toifes. 
M. Fourcroy, at Paris, is now em- 
ployed in the compofition of a new Syftem 
Lift of Diftafe 
‘cation at -Leipfic. 
> 
[ O&ober x; 
of Chemical Knowledge, intended to fuper-= 
fede his former great work on this fub- 
ject. . 
Mr. P. F. TissoT has recently pub- 
lifhed, at Paris, an admirable tranflation, 
in French verfe, of the Eclogues of Virgil, 
with the addition of feveral pieces from 
the works of Theocritus, Bion, and Mof- 
chus. + 
Rural Economy is, at this time, a 
principal fubject of the publications of 
German literature. A work intitled, 
‘¢ Traéts, Veterinary and Economical, on 
the Management, Breeding, and ‘Stalling 
of the common domeftic Animals,” is, at 
this time, in a train of publication; in 
numbers, at Leipfic. Three numbers; 
on fheep—cn hories—and on cattle, have 
been already publithed. The work will 
be completed in feven. or eight numbers. 
Its author is Mr. Profeflor RenTeER. It is 
illuftrated with engravings. This is but 
one of many publications on. rural eco- 
nomy, in which Germany abounds. 
A private inftitution under the name of » 
the Latin Society, has fubfifted at 
ine; ever fince the year 1734. It had 
allen into neglect and decline. It has 
ick revived. Profefior. Eichftadt, the 
prefent direétor of that fociety, has pub- 
lifhed an able and elegant eflay, defending 
its plan, deducing its hiftory, {pecifying 
its proper purfuits, exciting its members 
to the active culture of every thing con- 
nected with claffical literature, and aim- 
ing to attract to the fociety the curiofity 
and re{pect of the public. 
An edition of the Antiquarian and 
Technological Works of the celebrated 
BREITKOPF, is now in atrain of publi- 
They confit of en- 
quiries into the origin and hiftory of 
playing-cards, -the manufaéture of paper 
from linen-rags, the art of printing, &c. 
&c. 


LIST or DISEASES 1n LONDON, from Augu/? 20. to September 203 
In the DifiriG of the Finftury Difpenfary. 
—= 
ConTINUED Fever 54 Afthenia - a =, 2r 
Small-Pox s) 3 =1 apie Ami 8 Dyfpepfia - - 6 
Cholera - - - - 20 Gaftodyniaand Entrerodynia - - 9 
Diarrhea and Dveneery - 62 Hypochondriafis . ~ ° 3 
Sore Throat é - - - 3. Hyfteria - - 3 
Rheumatifm - - - Iz Chlorofis and Mec anne - - Io 
Pleurify - ~ = ~ - . @ Menorrhagia - ~ - 3 
Pulmonary Coafumutis - - § Cephalzaand Hemicrania - - sa 
Catarrh < - - 1 Dropfy = wes at ee 
Cough and Dyfpaca ° - 8 Vertigo ~ - - 
2 
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