French and German Literature, Sc. 
pofed by the National Inftitute of Sciences 
and Arts, in their public fitting, Jan. 4, 
1798. 
GENERAL CONDITIONS, to be obferv- 
ed by the candidates in all cafes : 
<< Perfons of all countries, the members and 
affociates of the inftitute excepted, are at li- 
berty to contend for the prize. 
“¢ The candidates not to affix their name to 
their manufctipts, but only a fentence or de- 
vice: or, they may, if they prefer it, attach 
a feparate note, under feal, which, exclufive 
of the fentence or device, fhall contain the 
name and addrefs of the writer. ‘This letter 
the inftitute engages not to open, except the 
manufcript to which-it is affixed fhall obtain 
the prize. ~, 
‘¢ The feveral eflays, intended for the infti- 
tute, may be fent under cover to the minifter 
of the interior, or addreffed, poft-free, to one 
of the fecretaries at Paris, of the clafs which 
has propofed the prize. In this latter cafe, 
the fecretary will. give a receipt, and minute 
down the fentence affixed tothe works, with 
its number, in the exact order in which the 
feveral works come to hand. 
«¢ The commiffion of the funds of the infti- 
tute will deliver the golden meda! to the © 
bearer of the receipt; but, in cafes where 
the author has not obtained a receipt, the 
medal will not be delivered, except into his 
own hands, or to his truftee, producing a fa- 
tisfa€tory certificate of his being duly autho- 
rized to receive the fame.” 
CLASS of LITERATURE @ud FINE ARTS. 
This clafs not having received any ef- 
fay, which appears deferving of the gramm- 
matical prizes prorogues the diftribution 
to the following year. The fubdject to 
remain as before, viz. 
To examine the fucceffive changes which 
the French language has experienced fice 
Malherbe and Balzac, to the prefini pevio.2. 
The feveral candidates are requelted 
to confider this {ubject in its double re- 
lation, with refpect to the mechanifin of 
the language, and the charafter which 
the moft celebrated French writers have 
fucceflively impreffed upon it. 
The prize a gold medal, of the weight 
of five heftograms; to be prefented in 
the public fitting of the inftitute to be 
holden Jan. 4, 1799, being the feventh 
year “of the republic. The memoirs to 
be written in French, and tranfmitted to 
the inftitute previous to the 22d of Sep- 
tember at the farthett. 
VAUQUELIN has made an analyfis of 
the emerald of Peru, in which he recog- 
nifes the new metallic fubftance difco- 
vered by himfelf, in the red lead of Si- 
beria. It is to this metal that the eme- 
_rald owes its green colour. VAUQUELIN 
defigns to repeat his analyfis, to deter- 
Mont. Mac. No. xxx. 
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mine, with greater precifion, the exact 
proportion of the feveral component parts> 
The art of Mofaic Painting being very 
little underftoad in France, the govern- 
ment, on learning that an Italian, who 
peffeffed great {kill and eminence in this 
line, refided at Paris, have employed him 
to finith ieveral pieces of workmanfhips 
and commiifioned him to inftruét a num- 
ber of pupils; by which means, France 
will owe the acquifition of a new art to 
her Italian conquetts. 
The Citizen CassEL, one of the di- 
rectors of the national menagerie, who 
was deputed by the French government 
to Tunis, to collect animals for the above 
inftitution, has been prevented, by the 
plague, which defolated that city, from 
accomplifhing the objeét of his mifhon fo 
completely as he could have wifhed. He 
has only been able to procure the follow- 
ing; viz. a beautiful lion and lionefs, 
both three years old, another- lionefs, 
eighteen months old, and extremely fierce, 
prefents from the Dey of Conftantine ; 
two oftriches, a female lionceau (a fpecies 
of fmall lion), two white camels, and 
two antelopes, prefents from the Dey of 
Tunis; and three vultures, which he pur- 
chafec. : 
A literal tranflation has been publifhed 
by DusauLT, at Paris, of the Anec- 
dotes of the Founders of the French Re- 
public; a work which was publithed 
in London laf winter.. A German tranf- 
lation of the fame work, has appeared at 
Leipfic. A fecond. volume of new cha- 
racters is in the prefs in London. 
The Academy of Sciences, in Goettin- 
en, has advertifed a premium of 56 
ucats, for the beft effay on the following 
guettion :— Quaeritur in qguibuinam in- 
fectorum et vermium ordinibus, ref{pira- 
ionis, feu fpiritum ullo modo ducendi 
uinGiio et effectus ejus primarius, qui 
vuigo proceffus pnlogiftici, combufturaé 
certe refpectu comparandi nemine venit, 
obfervationibus et experimentis demon- 
ftrari poffit.”” 
A. very valuable: treatife on’ metallic 
irritability, involving a difcovery which 
promifes to prove highly beneficial to the 
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interefts of humanity, has been lately , 
publifhed in German, by C. C. CREVE, 
Profeflor of Medicine at Mayence. M. 
CREVE maintains, from anumber of ex _ 
periments made on the corpfes of perfons 
juit deceafed, as well as on animal bodies, 
that the Symptoms of putrefaétion de not 
conititute an infallible evidence of the ac- 
tual death of the individual; and that 
the application of the principle of me- 
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