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treatife ; which, from the diftreffing fa- 
mine which that year pervaded the coun- 
try, never got properly into circulation. 
It was called ‘* Pracepta Grammatica 
atque Specimina lingue Philofophice five 
univerjilis, ad omne vite genus accommo- 
date.’ This work contains general 
rules for an univerlal fymbolical language, 
illuftrated by a great variety of examples, 
which the inventor has felected from phy- 
fical, mathematical, juridical, medical, 
chemical, metaphyfical and moral works 
of different writers; he has alfo added 
one of the pfalms o: David expreffed by 
fymbols, to prove how concilely every 
idea and fentiment may be reprefented by 
means of characters, the conftruction and 
ufe of which may be ealily retained in me- 
mory, and applied to practice. 
The Jena Reviewers ftate a requeft 
that has been made them bya clergyman, 
to give the review of hooks of religion 
not in the vernacular, but the Latin lan- 
guage, in order that the comments and 
ebfervations fometimes neceffary to be 
made on facred fubjeéts, may not be made 
too familiar to the vulgar, the rage for 
inveftigation into matters of religion, hav- 
ing begun to extend itfelf through Germa- 
ny in an alarming degree. 
The Imperial Free Economical Society 
ef St. Peterfburg, have lately prefented 
one of our moft eminent artifts and ma- 
nufacturers (Mr. Boron, of Soho, 
near Birmingham) with an Imperial di- 
ploma, which has been tranfmitted to him 
by the hands of the Ruffian ambaffador. 
There has been lately publifhed at Co- 
penhagen, in the only Norwegian Jour- 
nal printed, a difcourle delivered to a 
party of patriotic friends at Chriftiana, 
by I. N. Wise, a refpectable and 
learned clergyman, ‘ Ox the national in- 
activity and apathy that prevails im places 
far from the Capital ; chiefly applicable to 
Norway; with a view of the progres 
and impediments to the formation of ana- 
tional Academy. ‘The fentiments contain- 
ed in this difcourfe, by a perion fomuch 
refpected ; the patriotifm it inculcates, 
and the energy of its language, are {aid 
to have produced a very fenfible effect 
upon the Norwegians, attached as that. 
people are to ancient opinions, and who, 
of all the nations ef Europe, retain moft 
of original character. 
By a late ukafe, af private printing. 
effices in Ruffia are fupprefled, except 
fuch as are in the largeft cities; im five 
only of thefe, tribunals of ceniure are to 
he erected, and perfons inclinéd to print 
Articles of Foreign Literary Intelligence. 
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their works, muft fend their manufcripts 
to the diftance of two or three thoufand 
miles. All foreign publications which 
may appear dangerous tothe cenfor, are 
to be burnt on the {pot ; and, in order 
that they may come under the immediate 
notice of the centorfhip, they are tobe 
tranflated previoufly into the Ruffian lan- 
guage. Many numbers of the Uxiverfal 
Gazette of Literature of Jena have been 
already prohibited at Riga, and among 
other books, tte German work of Madame 
Mereau: Das Bluthen alter der Emp- 
findung, that is, theage of fentiment, or 
wherein fentiment flourifbes. It was re- 
ferved for the Ruffian cenfors to inform 
the reft of Europe that this isa very dan- 
gerous work, and which truly would 
hardly have been deemed fo any where 
elfe. Thoufands of perfons who lived by 
their typographical labours have been re- 
duced to indigence by thefe new arranges 
ments, 
Among other works, which have not 
yet been burned, but have been confifcat- 
ed, are the following: The Livonians, 
by M. MERNEL, in German ; the Specm 
tator of the North, in French; of the 
works of VOLTAIRE, ‘his Correfpondence 
with the Emprefs ; Le Salon, of DIDEROT 3 
and the Univerfal German Library ( Allg- 
meine Deutfche Bibliothek) one of the moft 
ancient, complete and beft literary ga- 
zettes in Germany. 
The fociety of natural hiftory of Bour- 
deaux, has been lately created into a foe 
ciety of {ciences, Belles Lettres and Arts ; 
it is divided like the National Inftitute, 
into three claffes; the Mathematical and 
Phyfical Sciences ; the Moral and Politi- 
cal Sciences ; and Literature, and the fine 
Arts. 
Citizen Huzarp, in a literary and 
bibliographical hiftory of a difeafe in 
horfes, viz. an involuntary {permatic 
running, defigned te be a fequel to a 
fmilar work publifhed by him in 1787, 
and wherein he fets afide the only means 
of cure, hitherto employed among all 
nations, as aftringents and corroborants, 
and recommends, what has never yet been 
fuggefted by any author, the application 
of acautery ; among other curious lite- 
rary refearches, advances and proves, that 
the Spaniards, whole fcientific works 
and labours are but little known in Eu- 
rope, poffefs a well-founded claim toa 
very diftinguifhed rank among authors 
who have treated of the veterinary arts, 
LAHARPE, whofename is fo well knowa 
to the learned, by his Cour/e of Literature, 
Philotzetus 


