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graphical Atlas,” exhibiting all the Royal 
Families in Europe; their origin, decen- 
dency, marriages, &c. together with the 
various poffeffions, foreign wars, civil 
commotions, famous battles, religious 
troubles, minorities, titles and orders, 
courts of law, remarkable events, &c. of 
each kingdom. 
Profeflor ScuRancK, of Ingolftadt, 
has lately enriched the {cience of Botany 
with a work treating on that very curious 
and interefting branch, called phyfslogy 
of vegetables. The author has taken a 
particular view of the fecondary veflels of 
plants, by which he underitands the 
down, the fpicule, the glands, and the 
vefficles. His principal object is to fhew 
that thefe veffels may afford an additional 
mean of determining, with accuracy, the 
claffifcation of Linnzus, when his dif- 
tinétions are equivocal ; and that fuch 
vefiels, according to MALPIGHE, form the 
extremities of thofe canals, in which the 
fluids that fupply the pliant with nourifh- 
ment circulate; and which only inhale 
the air, without exhalmg ic. Much has 
been done in this curious branch of bo- 
tanical fcience, by the ingenious labours 
of Hates, INGENHOUVZ, DUHAMEL, 
BONNET, and SENNEBIER; but the Ger- 
man profeffor aims at a fyftematic ar- 
rangement of this fafcinating fubject, 
which has not been attempted by his pre- 
deceffors. 
Our dramatic readers will remember 
the report, which was induftrioufly cir- 
culated laft winter, that the Emperor of 
Germany had difmiffed the celebrated 
KOTZEBUE from his court, and the ap- 
pointment he held, as Poet Laureat, and 
Direétor of the Imperial Theatre, for 
reafons which (it now appears) muft have 
been fabricated by his enemies. 
The following is an accurate ftatement 
ef fags, on the truth of which our rea- 
ders may fully rely :—M. von KoTzs- 
BUE had, for various reafons, but moft 
probably of the fame nature as thofe 
which induced him to quit the Ruffian 
fervice,* voluntarily applied to the em- 
péeror for his difmifion. This requeft 
FRANCIS complied with; and, befides 
expreffing the fulleft fatisfation with his 
condu&, granted KOTZEBUE a penfion 
for life, of one thoufand florins, or about 
one hundred guineas; with liberty to 
fpend it in whatever country he pleafed.— 
Yo fill this important office, the emperor 

* Vide the ‘* Monthly Magazine,” vol. vi. 
page 118 and 1193 for Auguit, 1798. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
has appointed the learned M. von Rer- 
ZER, and the Aulic Secretary, von 
EscHRIcH, who in future, in conjunc- 
tion with the three oldeft members of the 
Imperial Theatre, are to form a com- 
mittee, and divide the former fun&tions 
of KoTzeBvE. It is confidently report- 
ed, that this celebrated dramatitt has al~ 
ready left Vienna, and is now on his 
way to England. . 
As a dramatic anecdote, connected 
with the preceding article, we are re- 
quefted at prefent to mention, that Kor- 
ZEBUE’S “ Stranger,” as performed cn 
the Drury-lane Boards, in the Spring of 
1798, has not been io great a /iranger to 
French literature, as he has been to our 
own. 
French, but very imperfect and mangled 
tranflation of this play was publifhed at. 
Warfaw, under the title, ‘* L’Inconnu 
Drame en cing actes, traduit librement, 
&e.-—-(Vid. Magazin Encyclopedique, 
No. xxiv. p. 567.) The further parti- 
culars of this interefting difcovery have 
been promifed us, by the fame corref- 
pondent, for a future Number. 
Profeffor BELLERMANN, of Erfurt, has — 
juft publifhed the fourth volume of his 
clatiical work, intitled, ** 4 Manual of 
Sacred Literature; containing a critical 
and hiftorical retrofpect of whatever re- 
lates to Africa, and has a tendency te 
illuftrate the ancient a¢counts of .that 
country, as recorded in the Bible.—In 
the prefent political convulficns of E- 
gypt, it muft be highly fatisfattery to — 
the Divine;>-as well as to the lovers of 
literature in general, to learn that the 
learned Profeflor, who is one of the most 
accute German critics of the age, has, in 
avery ingenious manner, conneéted the 
earlieft information we poffefs of that 
colontxig country, with the moft intereit- 
ing recent events ; while he has furnithed 
the reader with a complete Alphabetical 
Index to the four volumes of this werk, 
which affords an excellent view of the 
whole Archeology and Geography contain- 
ed in the Sacred Volume. 
The two firft numbers of a fplendid and 
highly-finifhed work have lately been pub- 
lifhed at Leipzig, which claims the at- 
tention and patronage of every lover of 
the arts. The publifhers are the reipeét- 
able hookfellers Vofs and Co. and the 
work is written with great tafte by the 
celebrated fenator, Dr. STIEGLITZ, under 
the title, “<* Defigus of Ornamental Archi- 
teéiure, or Reprefentations of adiual and 
ideal Buildings, uxth plans and elevations, 
| in 
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As far back as the year 1792, a 
