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the expedition under the Athenian Hero 
Cimon, in Egypt, Phenicia and Cyprus. 
‘This teftimony of the gratitude of a free 
people towards their detenders, although 
only painted on wood, has exifted from the 
450th year before the chriftian era. 
it was difcovered in 1674, by Golland the 
tranflator of the Arabian Nights Erter-. 
tainments ; and the French obtained pof- 
feffion of it by means of NoinTEt their 
ambaflader at Conftantinople. 
The French government have put a 
ftop to the intended fale of the materials 
of the Cathedral of Rheims; the portal 
of which, a mafter-piece of gothic archi- 
tecture, we are happy to find will be 
thus preferved. -It would indeed have 
been a difgrace to a nation that boafts of 
her colle€tions of the monuments of art, 
to fuffer this admirable ftruCture to be 
deftroyed for the paultry value of the 
price the materials might produce. 
A Literary Almanack is announced, at 
Paris, to be publifhed in September next, 
and to be continued annually. It will 
contain a fyftematic and alphabetically 
arranged lift of all the men ot letters now 
living in France, or whio have died fince 
the revolution, with their names, fur- 
- names, the places and dates of their birth, 
their places of refidence, and literary 
titles, the titles of their works, the places 
where publifhed, the different editions, 
the pirated editions, the dates of publi- 
cation, the number of pages and volumes, 
with the forms and prices, including the 
{malleft tracts, and likewife the time of 
the death of thofe who are nomore. 
The King of Sardinia was in poffeffion 
of a manufcript in fix volumes folio, 
which he valued fo much, as hardly to 
permit it to be infpected. It contains the 
works ef a man toe little known, the 
architect PrrrRo Licorio, who died in 
1780. This we underftand the French 
government, in whoie poffeflion it now is, 
mean to make public; and in doing fo 
they will afford a treat to artifts and men 
of tafte in general. Ligurio was a man 
of fortune and alfo of genius, an ar- 
dent lover of the arts, and an indefati- 
gable enquirer into the monuments of 
antiquity. By a judicious and laborious 
attention to the remains of ancient build- 
ings, and to every veftige and authentic 
account he could find, he has delineated 
Rome, as it was in the time of the Czfars. 
His works are enriched with admirable 
details; and the plans which he has given 
have all the charming fimplicity ot the 
ancients. 
[May 
No city in Europe abounds with fe 
many hofpitals, and other charitable ins ~ 
ftitutions, as the capital of France; for 
not only the kings, but many wealthy 
ptivate individuals have expended im-= 
menfe fums, in eftablifhing philanthropic. 
afylums, which have rendered their me- 
mory revered by pofterity, however un- 
worthy in their private life and charaéter. 
And it is to the credit of the exiiting 
government of France, that by far the 
greater number of thefe foundations in 
Paris, have been refpecied, and are ftill 
tolerably well fupported, notwithftanding 
the extraordinary and frequent changes, 
which the finances of that nation have 
experienced during the long continuance 
of the revolutionary war. ‘This confola- 
tory remark cannot however be applied 
with juftice to fimilar eftablifhments in 
the departments, or the country at large. 
Weread of cne particular inftance, namely, 
the hofpital of Aix in Provence, where 
are{pectable infirmary for the reception 
of infane and lame patients was jormerly 
maintained, that the poor and wretched 
objects of this charity have for fome time 
paft been difmiffed, there being a total 
deficiency of the means of fupporting the 
current expences of the houfe. Under 
thefe circumftances, it is a grateful and 
interefting intelligence to the friends of 
medical icience and humanity, that the 
French councils have lately decreed the 
fum of fixteen millions of livres, annually, 
towards the fupport of the National Hof 
pitals. 
The French Direftory have lately 
granted a gratuity of 500 livres to AN- 
TOINE LASALLE, author of feyeral in- 
genious publications, who notwith{tand- 
ing his having been reduced to great 
diftrefs, has for thefe two years paft been 
engaged in the tranilation of Bacon, and 
already completed the works ‘* De digui- 
tate et augmentis [ctentiarum,” and ‘¢ No- 
vum organum,’ and nearly finifhed the 
work entitled, * Sidva fivarum.’ The 
Director NEUFCHATEAU concludes his 
letter to Citizen Berihier of Sémur, (where 
Lafalle refides,) notifying this gift, in 
the following terms.—* It will be grati- 
fying to you to announce ta him, that go- 
ernment anxious toremedy as muchas pof, 
fible the misfortunes of perfons of merit, 
grant him a fum of 500 livres, to enabie 
him to attend to his tranflation of Becaz, 
without being diftratted by the painful 
fenfation of neceflity.”” . 
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