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French writer) to that worthy friend and 
ornament of the {ciences, SirJofephBanks.”” 
The French government have taken all the 
means confiftent with its dignity to refcue 
Dolomieu from the terrible and upjuft 
fate which menaces him. All the true 
friends of the fciences muft be highly in- 
terefted in his deliverance. 
The ex-minifter, Francois ok NeEuF- 
CHATEAU, is going to give to the public 
fragments hitherto unedited, of the moft 
diftinguifhed French charaéters, under the 
title of * Confervateur Litteraire.’’ The 
firft volume is in the prefs, and in it will 
be feen letters and pofthumous writings of 
Buffon, Vauban, Voltaire, J. J. Rouf- 
feau, Dupaty, &c. &c. This work will 
contain choice pieces in profe and verfe, 
which have never before been printed, or 
at leaft they will have additions and notes 
entirely new. 
Cuvier has proved that the Medu/a is 
an animal. Reaumur gaye, in the year 
1710, agood figure of it. This animal 
holds the middle rank between the polypus 
and ftella marina. If it be injected with 
warm milk, on adding vinegar to coagu- 
Jate the milk and. feparate the wheyey 
part, a great number of fimall orifices, 
ferving the purpofes of mouths, are dif- 
covered, by which it approaches the plants. 
Nover has written from Egypt, that 
fome of the literati there intended to un- 
dertake an expedition into Upper Egypt, 
as far as the tropic of Cancer; at the time 
he difpatched his letter, he was on the 
point of fetting out on his journey thither. 
Fhe Cafile of Anzt, fituated in the de- 
pasement of Eure, was built by Philibert 
de Lorme, one of the moft able architects 
France ever produced. Every body knows 
that Henry II. ordexed this Palace to be 
built for Diana de Poitiers, and that he 
{pared no expence to render it worthy of 
his miftrefs, The celebrated Gougeon 
executed the fculptures, and Jean Coufin 
the paintings on glafs. Allthe ornaments, 
the ftatues, and the bafs reliefs, remind 
the beholder of the ardent. love of Henry 
for his beautiful miftrefs.—It is a melan- 
choly fact, that this chateau having been 
fold fometime fince as national property, 
the purchafers are about to demolifh it. 
Excellent Coffee has recently been made 
at Peterfburg from Acorns, by roafting 
them till the shell falls off, and adding frefh 
butter to them till mixed. Coffee has 
alfo been made at Berlin from the Beta 
cicla, after the {weet juice has been prefied 
out, 
The Diétionary of the Chinefe language 
propofed to be pubhfhed by Dr, Hacar, 
Literary and Philofophicat Intelligence, 
159 
will be put to prefs as foon as one hun- 
dred fub{cribers have been obtained. It 
will contain about 10,000 characters with 
their feveral variations, a number quite 
fufficient to read the common Chinefe 
works, and to converfe upon any fubject, 
The charaéters themfelves will not be ar- 
ranged as they are in the Chinefe Dictio- 
naries Ching-fu-tung, or Su-guez, vizs ac» 
cording to the Keys ; and as the Dictionary, 
which Menzelus began in 9 Vol. folio, laft 
century. They will be arranged in the 
prefent work according to their pronun- 
ciation and their founds, which are to be 
exprefied with European figns and cha- 
racters. By this means the fize of the 
work will be confiderably reduced, and the 
whole will be comprehended in one volume. 
At the beginning of it a fhort and clear 
grammar, with the neceflary directions for 
the perufal of the Dictionary, will be given, 
without that confufed and intolerable ver- 
biage of Fourmont’s Meditationes Sinica, 
whole pompous ftyle is more apt to per- 
plex the reader than to afhift him. ‘The 
accents will be faithfully exprefled, as in 
Diaz's MS. Dictionary at Berlin, and in 
the MS. Dictionaries of Cantoz, which 
are in the Royal Society’s Library at 
London * ; and alfy, according to the two 
elegant copies brought lately trom China, 
by Mr. Titfingh, the Dutch Ambaflador 
at Pe-King. By joining the accents thofé 
miftakes will be prevented, which from a 
neglect of this method, are apt to arife in 
Bayer’s Mufeum Sinicum; and the work 
will likewife be of ule to thofe who with 
to fpeak the language. An Index willbe 
affixed, by which the Digtionary will be 
adapted to the double purpofe of tranfla- 
tions from and into the Chinefe language, 
—As there is often no fmall difficulty in 
finding the characters, partly trom the 
change of form which feveral keys under- 
go when connected with others, partly 
from the number of lines, or other circum- 
ftances ; that difficulty will be removed ag 
much as poffible for the beginners, either 
by joining the different form of the keys, 
in the zable of the keys themfelves, or by 
giving feveral rules for that purpofe.—~ 
After the publication of the molt ufeful 
and weceffary characters, all the others 
contained in the Haz-pien, or Su haz, as 
well as the Shuen-Shu, or characters ufual 
in Inferiptions and Seals, or other forms of 
Chinefe and Japanefe characters, may be 
given for the curious in an Appendix. 

_ * One of thefe was fent to the late Dr, 
Morton from China, and the other by Sr 
William Fones from Yndia. 
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