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ef the firft confequence, and which has 
already made a great noife among the 
German literati, is a formidable attack on 
Profeifor Kant, by no lefs a champion 
than the celebrated Herder. This wri- 
ter, no lefs acute than Kant himfelf, and 
far more learned, to a more fertile ima- 
gination joins all the graces of diétion; 
ina word, a man, whom his co-tempora- 
ries already ftyle the Plato of Germany, 
has undertaken to fhake the reputation of 
that Pruffian idol, and bring it down to its 
proper level, in a work entitled, «* J. G. 
HERDER’S Metakritik zur Kriiik der pei- 
nen Vernunft. ¥. Theil, Verficndund Er- 
fabrung. 1. Theil Verimngi und Sprache. 
Leipzig p. t. HARTKNOCK, 8V0. 1799.” 
WiIELAND’S §¢ Gefprache unter Vier 
Augen” (an ingenious fatire againf the 
French, and their unjuftifiable conduct 
towards the Swifs), is now trauflating at 
Weimar, by Mr. MELLISH, an Englith 
gentleman, refident in that city. rie 
fame gentleman is engaged upon Go-_ 
ETHE’S new and celebrated poem, entitled, 
“s Herrman und Dorethea,’’? in blank 
verle. 
Of WIELAND’s 
fecond and lait volume has appeared. 
The venerable bard is {aid to look upon 
this as his beft profazc work. It is cer- 
tainly fraught with genuine wifdom, and 
will afford an exquilite mental repaft to 
thofe who relifh the ma aly beauties of 
the Grecian and Roman writers. It con- 
tains the life of Apollonius of ” Pyana. 
‘T owards the clofe of this work is a feries 
ef moftcurious and ingenious conjeftures, 
on the mannerin which Chriftianity made 
its way through fo coniiderable a part of 
the globe. 
State of Pup KE Affairs. 
graphic § aciety.”” 
“ Agathodamon,” the 
BACH. 
[June 
At Deffau, in Upper Saxony, there 
has been formed for three years paft an 
eftablifhment for publithing Prints and 
Engraving, denominated the ** Chalco- 
barked in this undertaking, which has 
already proved an excellent refource and 
encouragement to the German artifts of 
every deicription that cultivate defign. On 
the merits of the periormances, which this 
inftitution-has produced, GOETHE has 
given a very candid and ingenious critique, 
in his ¢* Propylaeon,”’ a periodical work, of 
which two numbers are already edited. 
GOETHE’S critiques poficfs this merit, 
that they intruét, without wounding the 
feelings of any individual artift, It there- 
fore cannot tail of producing the molt 
folid and extenfive adv antages to the pro- 
grefs of the graphic art, in Germany, 
which boatts the origina al jaiention of that 
art. 
Mr. GOESCHE Ny of Leipzic, a gentle- 
man of extenlive information, ‘aed great 
liberality, and who ranks with our BENs- 
LEYS and BULMERS (having carried the 
art of printing in Germany to its higheft 
pitch of excellence), has nearly completed 
the {plendid edition of the new TefPament 
in Greek, with ingenious  proligomena, by 
that eminent philologi tt, Dr. Grigs- 
Our German corre {pondent to 
whom we are indebted for thefe notices, 
and who has {een a {pecimen of this work, 
fays, that no lover ot facred criticilin, or 
amateur of fine’.typography, can behold 
it without admiration. Our readers inay 
expect a detailed account of this {plendid 
edition of the xew Teffement m a future 
number of the Mon ibiy Magazine. 

STATE 
FRANCE. 
URING the eventful years which 
have elapfed fince the commence- 
ment of the French Revolution, democra- 
tical rage has enacted fome enormities at 
the mention of which humanity fhudders. 
But a maflacre has lately been committed 
in the vicinity of Raftadt which, for cru- 
elty and breach of public faith, equals if 
not exceeds, any event of modern hiltory. 
_ he affafination of the minifters of 
the French Republic at Raftadt, was an- 
nounced by the French Direttory to the 
Council of the Ancients on the 5th of 
OF PU BEIT 
In Mayy 1799. 
AFFAIRS, 
May. As the narrow limits to which we 
are confined only ajlow ot an outline, it is 
taken from the account of Jean ea 
who can fay with /Eneas, 
oe quzeque ipfe miferrima vidi, 
Et quorum parsniagna fui. Quis talia fando, 
Myimydonum, Dolopumve, aut duri miles 
Ulyfiei, 
Temperct a lacrymis ?” 


Jean Debry, in his letter dated Straf- 
burg, the 1ft of May, fiates, that on the 
28th of April, at half pait fe. in the 
evening, a captain of huilars of Szeltzer, 
ftationed at Geechee came on the part 
i or 
©. 
A‘ vaft capital is em- - 
