1799.] 
born blind; previous to the operation, 
feveral perfons, among others, Citizens 
GaratT and LEBRETON, of the National 
Inftitute, examined him, in order to be 
fatisfed of the ideas he entertained refpect- 
ing bodies. His anfwers were plain and 
diftinét. He had learned vocal mufic by 
an artificial memory, kept time correctly, 
and fung with an accompanyment. He 
was not without fome idea of colours, 
bemg able. to perceive a ftrong light, 
which afforded him a fort of twilight, 
but too faint to ailow him to diftinguifh 
objects. He had however been taught to 
be fenfible ofa bright red. When placed 
obliquely he took notice of the {carlet 
colour of C. GararT’s 
LEBRETON having fhewn him a bobin of 
erim{on filk, he faid it appeared a kind of 
red ; but he could not at all perceive 
purple or any other dark colour. After 
a variety of queitions put to him by the 
perfons prefent, he was leit to reft for an 
hour. ‘fhe operation was then verform- 
ed, in prefence of the adminiftrators of 
the department of the Scine, the members 
of the central bureau, Citizens GAaRAT, 
LEBRETON, MERCIER and HaLLeE of 
the National Inftitute; Citizens THou- 
RET and Havy, and two eminent foreign 
phyiicians. It was extremely difficult 
_ from ‘the exceffive mobility of the lens ; 
but the aftonifhing fkill of the cculif, 
Citizen FORTENZE, of the Hoj/pice de 
Phumanit, f{urmounted every thing. The 
patient, on perceiving the light, exclaimh- 
ed feveral times, how bright! and could 
not bear it: nor did the oculift with him 
to attempt to make ufe of his new fente. 
The complete refult of this cure has not 
yet been publifhed ; every thing however 
has the moft fayourable appearance. The 
firft bandage was taken off his eyes the 
fourth day after the operation; and it 
was afcertained, that the light forcibly 
ftruck the new and {till extremely delicate 
organ. On the gth Pluvidfe (28th Janu- 
ary) when the fecond bandage was taken 
off, the patient was fully examined. He 
could fcarcely yet fupport the ftrong 
light, but diftin&tly difcerned the fha- 
dows, and a deep green feemed to give 
him pleafure. He took notice readily and 
quickly of the motion from right to left 
of a body balanced before him, and form- 
ed a tolerable judgment of the diftance of 
a body expofed to his fight, 
In the Paris Journals, a work is an- 
nounced for immediate publication, which 
has been long and anxioufly expected, 
Leing the fruit of the unremitting labours 
. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
waiftcoat, C.. 
323 
of its learned author for the laft three 
years;—* The Natural Hiftory of the Moun- 
tain of Saint Pierre of Maeftricht, with a 
Topographical Chart, and fifty four Splendid 
Engravings, from the drawings of Mar- 
efchal, Natural Hiftory Paiater at the Na- 
tional Garden, and other able artifis. 
he provifional government of Pied- 
mont have direéted both the univerfiy of 
Turin, and the provincial college to be’ 
again- opened, ‘‘ thefe feminaries having 
they fay greatly contributed to defieminate 
the immortal principles of liberty.” 
The public have been intormed, that 
the Directory have inftituted a jury of 
Ariijis to determine the refpective value 
of the works of art ordered, and to be 
paid tor, by the French government; and 
to fettle and afcertain in what manner and 
by what proportions the hundred thoufand 
livres, appropriated for the reward of 
artifts, are to be diftributed and appor- 
tioned among the painters, {culptors, ar- 
chitects, and engravers, &c. The follow- 
ing perfons coimpofe this Jury: . Vien, 
David, Gérard, Meynier, Vernet, Vincent, 
Naigeon, Fragonard, Barthilemy, Redoute 
and Morel-Darleux, Painters ; Biexaimé, 
Thibault, Allais, Architects, and Giraud, 
Sculptor; with the following Sufpleans 
or fubftitutes, Lebrun, Painter, and 
Moitte, Ramey, Auger and Fulien, Sculp- 
tors. f ; 
The Hiftorian and Poet Nanescuriez, 
who died lately in Poland, has left be- 
hind him no lefs than three hundred and 
fixty manufcript volumes, on a variety of 
fubjects, written and collected under the 
patronage of the unfortunate Stanniflaus, 
and a great proportion of them by his 
order. That monarch had enjoined the 
learned author in particular to publifh 
every poflible document and account re- 
fpeéting the firft partition of Poland. 
GERARD Dow’s celebrated picture of 
the Dropfical Woman, which the King 
of Sardinia, at the moment of his abdicz~ 
tion, gave to Clauze/, adjutant general of 
the French army of Italy, has been by 
that officer prefented to the Nation, and 
is now placed in the central Mufeum of 
the arts at Paris. 
There is now publifhing at Peris, in 
numbers, a {plendid work, intitled “* Plans 
of the Palaces and other modern Buildings 
of Rome’. By Percier, FONTAINE, 
and BERNIER. 
In the French Nationa], Mufeum there 
is, among other monuments of antiquity, 
one of great value. It fs an infcription - 
of the names of the Citizens who fell im , 
err 
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