348 Sixty Articles of Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. (Nov. Ty 
fa&is it follows,.that there are rays coming 
from the fun, which are lefs refrangible 
than any that affeét the fight; that thele 
invifible rays of the fun probably far ex- 
ceed the vifible ones in number, and if we 
eall light thofe rays which illuminate ob- 
jects, and radient heat thofe which heat 
bodies, it may be queftioned whether light 
is effentially different from heat. 
The Hanoverian government has pur- 
chaled, for the univerfity of Gottingen- 
the excellent attronomical inftruments of 
the celebrated aftronomer Schioter, under 
the condition, that the prefent poffeflor 
fhall retain them during his life. 
A.French commiflary, lately returned 
from Rome, ftates, that the works of art, 
which the French had not been able to 
carry away from that city, have not been 
purchafed by the Englifh, but are to re- 
main in Italy; the king of Naples having 
feized them by the right of conquett. 
Four hundred chefts, filled with articles 
taken from the Villa Albani, which car- 
dinal Albani demanded back again as his 
property, have been retained by the king, 
becaufe at the time of the capture of the 
city they were French property. 
About the middle of Augutft, the cele- 
brated madame de Genlis, whofe name 
had till that time ftood in the lift cf emi- 
grants, returned to Paris. 
An edict, fill more ftri&t and fevere 
than the furmer, has been !ately publithed 
in ‘Ruffia, againft all private printing- 
prefles. At Riga and Revel all the book- 
fellers’ fhops and circulating libraries have 
been fhut, and feals put upon the doors. 
Letters coming from other countries to 
Ruffia are opened and examined. 
We learn from a foreign journal, that 
Kotzebue has been fet at liberty, chiefly by 
the interceffion of the duke of Wei- 
mar. 
Profeflor Reicu, ef Erlangen, whole 
remedy for the fever had, on trial, been 
found ufeful, has, as a reward for the dif- 
covery of it, been appointed by the king 
of Pruffia, proteifor in ordinary, with a 
yearly pention of 500 rix-dollars, one half 
to be continued to his widow after his 
death. ; 
Of a remarkable work, illuftrative of 
the hiflory of the fine arts in Spain, en- 
titled Diccionario Hiftorico de los mas 
iluftres profefores de las bellas artes en 
E(panna compuefto per D. Juan Acus- 
TiN CEaN BERMuDOZ, y publicado por 
ta Real Academia de S. Fernando,” the 
firft volume, containing the letters A. B. C, 
has lately been publified at Madrid. The 
author has been twenty years engaged 
in the compiling of this Hiftorical Dic- 
tionary ; and confulted a great number of 
manulcript accounts, which had been col- 
le&ted for the purpofe from every part of 
Spain. 
fe volumes in oftavo. At the end of the 
lat volume, Chronological Lifts and Geo- 
graphieal Tables will be fubjoined ; by the 
help of which it will be ea'y to find out 
the mafter-pieces whicl: have hitherto re- 
mained unknown or hidden from the pub- 
lic-eye in the churches and convents. The 
author himfelf is a member of the Aca-" 
demy of St. Fernando, which carefully ex- 
amined the work before its publication. If 
is fold at the Cafa de lo Academia, Calle 
de Alcala. 
A new edition of the ** Noticia de un 
Catalogo de Ics Manufcritas de cafa det 
Marques Caprilupi de Mantua, compuefto 
por e! Abate D. Juan AnDREs, has ap- 
peared. The firit edition was publifhed 
at Mantua in 1797. 
added a Letter on the utility of fuch cata- 
logues in Spain. The whole property con- 
filts of only two leaves; and is fold by 
Sancha, Calle del Loabo.—A {mall volume 
of Literary Differtations, by the fame au- 
thor, is likewife in the prefs. 
Of the publications on fubjeéts of naru- 
ral hiftory, the following are deferving of 
notice: ** Nuevo Difcurfo fobre la gene- 
racion de las plantas, infectos, hombres, y 
animales, con usa adicion apologética y 
difcurfo fobre el alma brutal, que eftablece 
no fon los brutos piiras maguinas, ferie 
que tienen alma realmente fenfitiva,”’ por 
D. Franc. Garria Hernandez ; and ** Ob- 
fervaciones practicas fabre el cacahuete 6 
maride América, fu produccion en Ef. 
panna, bondad del fruto, y fus varios ufus, 
particularmento para la extraccion de 
aceyte,”’ por D. Franc. Tavares de Ulloa. 
As for the drama—at the fame theatre 
with Kotzebue’s ‘* Mifantropia,” &c. is 
acted ** Nabucodonofor y Profecias de Da- 
niel,’” a facred drama, in three a&ls.—A 
fuitable companion to this Nabucodonofor 
is * Judit, drama facro on dos aétos de 
mufica ;* which was acted laft lent at the 
opera-houle de los Cannas del Peral. 
The middling towns of Spain likeswife 
begin to colleét their police-regulations, 
&c. and to have their periodical papers. 
Thus, for infance, about the conclufion 
of laft year appeared ‘*‘ Ordenanzas de poli- 
cia de la ciudad de SANTIAGO,” imprefas 
en el anno de 1799. Inthe fame town is 
publithed, fince latt May, ‘* El Caton Com- 
poftelano”™ (price eight reals every aR 
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