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the fecond and third years of the republic, 
in order to fupply the enormous demands- 
of 900,000 troops of the frontiers, be- 
fides the fea-fervice, and the interior of 
thecountry. The report of GuyTon to 
the Convention on this fubject mentions 
that, ina fingle month, the different foun- 
deries made 597 pieces of ordnance of dif- 
ferent calibre in bronze, and 452 of iron, 
and that the eftablifhments were able to 
furnifh annually feven thoufand bronze 
pieces, and from twelve to thirteen thou- 
fand of iron. Inthe fame year, the offi- 
cial report relative to the manufacture of 
rough faltpetre returned the amount of 
16,754,039 French pounds (about 8077 
tons Englifh) of this article delivered to 
the refiners for the manufacture of gun- 
powder, the whole of which was produced 
within the boundaries of the republic. 
An ingenious Frenchman has invented 
a kind of ftove which completely confumes 
all the f{moke from the ignited fuel, emits 
no vapour, and has moreover the addi- 
tional advantage of requiring lefs fuel by 
one half than the ordinary floves—A dif- 
covery which, if generally practicable, is 
of the utmoft importance to the inhabitants 
of great cities. 
The art of pafigrapay has begun to be 
publicly taught in fome of the {chools of 
France. Seven or eight lectures are faid 
to convey fufficient infiruétion to the 
learner. 
The following fa& deferves to be made 
known, as it proves how attentive the 
prefent French government is to prevent 
the fraudulent invafion of literary proper- 
ty.—As foon as the Homme des Champs af 
Delille appeared in Paris, feveral book- 
fellers attempted to defraud the proprietor, 
by printing pirated editions. he officers 
of police having been made acquainted 
therewith, they difcovered at the printer 
André’s a fearcely finithed re-impreffion 
of the edition in 18mo. They immedi- 
ately feized the whole; and as the law 
condemns the piratical re- printer to pay as 
a fine to the proprietor a {uni equal to the 
price of 3000 copies of the original edi- 
tion, they likewife feized, as a fecurity 
for the payment thereof, the prefies of the 
offender, and put feals upon all his move- 
_able property: André himfelf abfconded. 
Every bookfeller, againft whom piracy 
cannot be proved, muft pay merely for 
felling one copy of an edition of a wotk 
piratically re-printed by another, the value 
of 500 copies of the original edition. _ 
J. CirBieD, profeffor of the Armenian 
language at Paris, has written an eflay to 
prove that the Armenian is the primitive 
Sixty Articles of Literary and Philofophical fntelligence. 
[Dec. 1, 
language of mankind. He founds his 
opinion on the following circumftances— 
that Noah and his fons muft certainly have 
fpoken the primitive language—that the 
ark, which contained the only remnant of 
the ancient race, re(fted on Mount Ararat 
in Armenia—that Armenia was the coun- 
try where Noah and his pofterity fettled— 
that they did not afterwards abandon that 
country in a body and carry their language 
elfewhere, but fent forth colonies whole 
language was afterwards changed from the 
mother tongue. 
An elegant edition of Cay’s Fables has 
lately been printed at Paris, with the ad- 
dition, it is faid, of fome fables before un- 
known. 
To thofe who are curious to be inti- 
mately acquained with the particulars of 
the French revolution, the two following 
works will no doubt prove acceptable.— 
Dictionnaire univerfel de la Réwolution 
Francaife, fervant de Table générale, par 
Order chronologique et alphabétique, au 
Journal intitule: Gazette Nationale, ou le 
Moniteur Univerfel, depuis 1788 jufqw au 
premier Vendémiaire An %8.—Diiionnaire 
Neclogique des Hommes et des Chofes, ou 
Notice alphabétique des Perfonnes des deux 
Sexes, des Evénemens, des Epoques, des 
Monumens, des Ouvrages de tout genre, 
des Infittutions de tout efpece, des Pays, des 
Découvertes, et des Mots, qui ont paru les 
plus remarquables a I’ Auteur, daus tout 
le Cours dela Réwolution Frangaife. 
A ftriking phenomenon was lately ob- 
ferved in the department of Var. The 
Mountain of Foudules—making part of 
the fub-alpine ridge that borders the right 
bank of the Var, and elevated about rine 
hundred and eighty-four feet above the 
level of the Mediterranean—was fcen to 
gape in its fide, opening by ftrata, and 
gradually finking, fo as to prefent the ap- 
pearance of an amphitheatre. The upper 
parts of the mountain. were foon affected 
by the motion below; and at length, dur- 
ing a feafon of perfectly calm and fe- 
rene weather, the fummit tumbled with 
a crafh like that of thunder, and the 
earth poured like a torrent of lava downto 
the bale. i 
A remarkable inftance of liberal enter- 
prife is exhibited by the publifhers of 
<* I’ Homme des Champs,” a georgic poem 
from the pen of Delille, weil known to 
the literary world by his tranflation of 
Virgil’s Georgics. Not content with pub- 
lifhing, as in England, a common and a 
fine paper edition, thofe f{pirited French- 
men offer to the public the choice of no 
fewer than fixteen different editions in ya- 
r1ous 
