¥02 
-3V. The dafs of Correfpondents ; 
among whom are many German literati, 
as KaSTNER, in GOTTINGEN; Capt. 
MULLER, in Stade, &c. 
The following/is a lift of books, with 
their refpective prices, printed by com- 
mand of the Royal Society of Arts and 
Sciences in Lifbon : 
t. Brief DireGtions for the Correfpondents 
ef the Society relating to the Selection of 
Natural Curiofities, towards the Eftablifh- 
ment of a National Mufeum. 8vo. Price 
ZZO reeés. r 
2. A Treatife concerning the beft Method 
of bringing the Manufa€ture of Sweet Oil to 
Perfe€tion in Portugal; prefented to the fo- 
ciety by S.A. Detira-BELLa. 1 vol. 4to. 
Price 480 rees. 
3. Treatifes on Agriculture, which have 
merited the prize given by the fociety. 2 
vols. vo. Price g60 rees. 
4. A Treatife on the Cultivation of Olives. 
Ry S. A. Detra-Betrta. 1 vol. 4to. 
Price 480 rees. 
5. Ephemerides for Navigators. The 
yearly courfe. Price 360 rees. 
6.. Economical Treatifes by the Royal 
_ Academy in Lifbon; written for the advance- 
ment of agriculture, arts, and induitry in 
Portugal and its dominions. 3 vols. 4to. 
Price 24.00 rees. 
7. Remarks-on the principal Caufes of the 
Decay of the Portuguefe Empire in Afia. By 
D. Dre C. Written in the form of dialogue, 
under the title of ** The Experienced Soldier,” 
publifhed by command of the Royal Academy 
of Sciences, by ANTON. CAJETAN VON 
Amara. tIvol. gr. 8vo. Price 48orces. 
8. Flora Cochincninenfis, ftudio J. Dr 
Loureitio. 2 vol. 4to. Price 2400 rees. 
g. Remarks on the Ufe and Abufe of the 
Mineral Waters das Caldas da Rainka. Pub- 
lifhed by order of the Academy, by Fr. 
TAVARES: ~1 vol. 4to: ) Price:12z0 rees. 
ro. Lexicon of the Portuguefe Tongue. 
x vol. large folio. Price 48co rees. 
11 A Summary of the Theory of Limits; 
- defigned as an introduction to the ** Calculus 
Fluxionum.’ By Fr. De Borcra GarGao 
Stockier. Pricez4orecs. 
12. An Economical Eflay on the Come 
merce of Portugal and its Colonies. By ]. 
J. Da Cunua Da Azarenvo. Price 480 
Tees. 
13. A Treatife on Land-Surveying. By 
Esr.Caprat. -8vo. Price 240 rees. 
14. Chemical Experiments upon the Mi- 
neral Waters das Caldas. By WitTuweEx- 
wnG. Englifh and Portuguefe. Price 240 
ees. : 
The following Works are in the Prefs. 
y. Tranfations of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences. Part i. and i. 
2. Aftrenomical Tables for the Ufe of Na- 
Vigation. 
3. Economical Treatifes. to. 
Secret German Tribunal. 
[Aug. 
4. Memoirs iluftrative of the Hiftory of 
the Nations belonging to the Portuguefe 
Dominions beyond the Seas; or in their Vi 
cinity. 
ee i 5: CS ee 
For the Meathly Magazine. 
Tue SECRET TRIBUNAL. 
HE Secret Tribunal, which exifted 
in Germany about the 15th cen- 
tury, prefents an interefting fubject of 
Inquiry at the prefent day. As it is de- 
{cribed in .the celebrated romance of 
‘< Herman of Unna,’ and fome other re- 
‘cent publications, it conftitutes a remark- 
able picture of authority extending over 
a wide extent of territory, and acting with 
the moit formidable feverity and diipatch, 
whilft the whole of its operations were in- 
volved in impenetrable myftery. From 
the ob{curity neceffarily hanging ever an 
inftitution of this kind, and from the 
confequent vaguenefs and uncertainty of 
hiftorical documents on this fubjeét, fome 
perfons have been induced to doubt its 
exiftence: it may therefore be worth 
while to notice the teftimony of a writer, 
but little known, which preves that an 
inquifition of that kind exifted, and traces. 
it to a very remote origin. 
- Yobn of Trittenbeim (fo called from a 
city on the banks of the Mofelle, where 
he was born, A. D. 1462) was abbot 
of the monaftery of Spanheim, and after- 
wards of that of St. James of Peapolis: 
he compoled feveral works fuited to the 
genius of the times, and to that of his 
profefiion ; the moft remarkable of which 
was his ‘* Polygraphia :» a treatife, as he 
fays, of mot recondite feience, whote chief 
objeét was to develope the feveral arts of 
fecret writing by hieroglyphics, cyphers, 
or otherwife. 
In the fixth book of the *¢ Pelygraphia,” 
is the pafflage which appears to me to il- 
luftrate the fubjeét in queition; it is as 
follows: 
<< Carolus Rex magnus, Imperator Chrifti- 
aniflimus, annis non minus triginta cum Sax- 
onibus bellavit, quos tandem gladio fuperans 
Chriftianam convertit ad fidem. Veritus 
autem ne denuo, ficut plures fecerant, apof- 
tatarent a fide, fecretos quofdam inftituit ex~ 
ploratores, quibus judiciariam contulit potefta- 
tem, gui totam Saxoniam peragrantes, de 
fide, ac moribus gentis fecreté inquirerent 
diligenter, et quofcunque reperifient apofta- 
tantes a fide, raptores, adulteros, blafphemos, 
ecclefiz ac factrdotum ejus et “mandatorum 
contemptores, feu notoriis criminibus Chriftia- 
nam rempublicam perturbantes, aut popu- 
lum ad Paganif{mum revocantes vel follici- 
tantes, fine dilatione, imperiali et regali au- 
toritate, impuné Jagueo fufpenderent, vel alias 
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