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The gems fent by Buonararte from 
Ttaly, have been arranged in the Cabinet - 
des Antiquités of the National Library ; an 
inttitution that has been greatly enriched 
by the -viStories of the republic: it is 
open to public infpection, every tenth 
day excepted, from ten till two. 
The new metal titanium difcovered 
by Profeffor KLaproTH, has been fince 
examined by feveral able chemifts. Pro- 
fefor Lampaprivs, of Freiberg, has ef- 
fe&ted the analyfis of the titanite of lime, . 
by means of borax and common glais ; it 
was, however, only reduced into metal- 
lic leaves of a darkith copper colour. It 
appears to have a ftrong affinity with 
oxygen, being immediately converted in- 
to a white oxide, and afterwards into a 
globule of blue glafs, on heated charcoal, 
by means of vital air. A more complete 
redu@ion of this metallic fubftance has 
been effegted by Profefior KLAPROTH, 
and M. HecurT, jun. directors to the 
laboratory of the miming department at 
’ Paris; both of whom obtained a regulus 
of a gold colour. 7 
FRENCH AEROSTATION.——Citizen 
GARNIER has afcended in his balloon for 
the ninth time, in the laft two of which he 
has been accompanied by a young lady of 
the name of Cele/lina Henry. They made 
the park of Moufleaux, (the villa of the late 
duke of Orleans) the place of departure. 
The-account this aeronaut gives of the 
incidents whish occurred in his feveral 
voyages to the upper regions, contains a 
great deal of novel and interefting infor- 
mation. His higheft point of afcenfion 
he judges to have been 3000 toifes or 
6000 yards, equal to almoft three miles 
and a half. Of this fa&t, however, he 
could not be very exact, as the preceding 
day he had the misfortune to break his 
barometer on defcending at Eganville. . 
But he judges by the quantity of ballaft 
he threw out, by the dilatation of the bal- 
toon, by the whiftling noife of the gas 
as he let it efcape through the tube, but 
above all, by the extreme cold he felt, and 
efpecially by the great numbnefs of his 
fingers. In pafling*through the different 
currents.of-air, or rather from one cur- 
rent to another, the machine was fome- 
times whirled round, and once the balloon 
revolved upon tts-own axis.——In his {e- 
cond voyage with the lady he landed her 
on the Plate de Dugny, and afcended again 
by himfelf with 2 view to find a current 
of wind fair for the metropolis, above that 
which blew near the earth in a contrary 
direStion. It was in this attempt that 
he crofled the river Seine three times, and 
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paffed through three beds of clouds with- 
out finding the cuirent which was to car- 
ry him hack to Paris. He preiumes he 
attained the exceffive height: before men— 
tioned, and believes it to be the maximuns 
of elevation ¢ nfiftent with the prefirva- 
tion of the adventurer. In the direction 
of north-eai., he fays his eyes fir beheld 
the rifing of the tun, for it was between 
four and five o’clock in the morning on 
the 24th of July. This fight he repre- 
fents as moft brilliant and majeftic. 
Though the fun’s rays tempered the vai 
coldneis of the air in his afcent, yet wnen 
at the higheft he defcribes it as abiolutely 
infupportable. _ This is the moment, he 
remarks, that the aréonaut fhoul’ pre- 
ferve his fang froid, and call up all his 
courage, not io much for the purpofe of 
braving the afpeét of the immenfe abyfs 
below, as to furmount the indifpoiitions 
he may experience, and which he calls in- 
definable ; among other diftreffing fenfa- 
tions a tingling in the ears, a vomiting, 
an accelerated impetus of the blood, with 
an inflation of the arteries from fuch in- 
creafed circulation. - He finifhéd this ex- 
pedition at fix o’clock-the fame morning 
on the plains of Sempigny, on the borders 
of the river Oife, at 20 leagues from the 
place whence he fat out, which run he 
had made iman hour and three quarters. 
He concludes his own account of the voy- 
‘age, and the probable utility of the fur- 
ther cultivation of the fcience of aérofta- 
tion, by fignitying that a difpatch might 
_be carried to Holland in eight hours ina 
balloon, with advice from the Directory 
for the failing cf the Dutch fleet out of 
‘the Texel. 
The great political changes which have , 
taken place in Europe during the laft fix 
years, from the Batavian republic to the 
ifland of Corfu, Zante, &c. have produc- 
ed in Germany the two following maps : 
1. The whole of Upper, Middle, and 
Lower-Italy, according to the bounda~ 
ries eftablithed by thé peace of Udina : 
2. Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, and 
Holland. : 
Mr. SocoLoFF, of Peterfourgh, has 
repeated Dr. Franklin's experiments on 
recovering flies drowned in fpirituous hi- 
quors. He found that when thefe infects 
had been apparently dead for a quarter of 
an hour in {pirit of wise, they were 
fpeedily recovered by covering them wita 
warm afhes. Beetles and fpiders were 
reftored to life in like manner. 
An eloge, by LaLanpE, on the cele- 
brated Charlotte de Cordai d’ Armout, is m 
the prefs, and is underftood to be hichly 
favourable. 
