3800.) 
‘tion of the affiliated Inftitute of Arts and 
Sciences, the types which had been 
brought from France were employed in 
printing the Gazette d’ Egypte, the editor 
of which affumed the revolutionary name 
Marc Aueele. The firft number was pub- 
lithed on the z2oth of September: 1798; 
and the laft in January 1799. During 
the dreadful carnage on the 21ft and 22d 
of October 1798, already, along with the 
apparatus of inftruments for philofophical 
experiments, a part of the printing mate- 
rials was deftroyed ; and, when the gene- 
ral in chief fet out on his, expedition to 
Syria, the Inftitute likewife. fell to decay. 
The accounts of political events. from 
Europe received in this journal a colouring 
calculated te keep the difpirited foldier in 
good-humour. The part allotted to arts and 
fciences contained the refearches and pro- 
ceedings of the National Inftitute. Ex- 
cept to Marfeilles, Toulon and Paris, no 
copies of this news-paper came to Europe. 
Thefe ephemeral produdctions of the re- 
volution vanifhed at the fame time with 
the fuccefs of the republican arms: but 
we may perhaps hope to fee a Chronicle, 
for purpofes directly oppofite, iffue, under 
the aufpices of the Britifh ambaffador and 
his learned /uite, from the printing-prefs of 
the Englifh embafly at Conftantinople. 
However, fince the ftandard of Mahomet 
is difplayed in union with the Papiltico- 
Ruffian, letters and the Italian journals 
more eafily and frequently than formerly 
find their way into even the inland pro- 
vinces of the Turkifh empire. Olivier, 
Brugnieres, Mungo Park and their pre- 
deceflors were for years deprived of all in- 
telligence from Europe: but at prefent, 
the traveller may be able to procure every 
month news-papers and letters from his 
4ar-diftant country. , 
ieee) Tel 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT OF THE POLITICAL JOURN- 
ALS, &c. IN THE DOMINIONS OF THE 
KING OF DENMARK. 
ie Danifh name for newfpapers is 
Tidende; another more ufual one is 
Efterretninger, but which comprehends in 
general every kind of intelligence ; and 
therefore requires to be qualified. by fome 
adjective; for there are likewife Kicben- 
havnke Larde, (learned) Efterretninger. 
Befides a lefs degree of journalittic en- 
terprife, and of avidity for political news ; 
the geographical pofition of the kingdom 
is the greateft obftacle to the eftablifhment 
of Danifh new{paper-manufactories. From 
this fituation of the country, a great cir<~ 
Political Fournals ia the Dominions of Denmark. 
327 
éulation, and, as it were, naturalization of 
the Hamburg journals unavoidably takes 
place. By land, political intelligence of 
importance flows in only through Ham- 
burg ; for by the northern route, Sweden 
and Ruffia furnifh but fcanty materials for 
the compofition of a newfpaper; nor on 
intelligence brought by fhips from the 
Continent is it poffible, on account of the 
ifregularity of their arrival, to eftablifh a 
journal which appears at ftated times. 
Even the paflage over the two Belts is a 
great impediment to the: Odenfee Neaw/- 
paper. In the interior of the country, the 
circulation of journals is rendered difficulg 
by the want of flage-coaches and good 
roads ; to which’ may be added, that the 
newfpaper-szania has wot yet feized the 
middling and lefs cultivated claffes. Tt is 
not fo ftrange then, as at firf fight it might 
appear, that, during the prefent war, the 
ftriét neutrality obferved by the Danit: 
government, the liberty of the prefs, the 
unlimited permiffion of importing foreign 
journals have not concurred with the fpirit 
of the times to multiply and promote 
newfpapers in Denmark, as has happened 
in other ftates. 
In Copenhagen, the capital, three poli 
tical journals, one commercial’ paper, and 
three other newfpapers or advertifers, are 
publifhed. Among them, however, we 
find no Court Gazette. One of the po- 
litical journals, as appears from its title, 
gives up all pretenfions to the merit of 
originality ; for it ftyles itfelt Den Ber- 
lingfke Tidende (The Berlin Journal), 
though it draws the greater part of its 
materials from ‘the Hamburg and other 
foreign journals: only two half theets, 
quarto, appear every feven days, befides 
fwo appendixes.containing advertifements. 
/ Every month an additional fheet is pubs: 
lithed, with the fignificant title, Staats T2- 
dende (State Gazette), in which we find 
chiefly internal occurrencess ‘The fecond 
is ftill lefs worthy of commendation: it is 
called by the publither, Hophner’s Avis; 
every week two half theets are publifhed, 
containing a congeries from foreign new{- 
papers: of manufcript er original fources 
of infelligence it feems to be entirely de~ 
ftitute. “The third of thefe journals fur- 
nifhes not fo much news, as reflexions and 
ftriétures ‘on the events of the prefent 
times: It is called Danjke Tilfkuer, and 
conducted by Profeflor Charles Ludwig 
Rahbek, a gentleman well known to the 
public by the profecution carried on 
againft him by the Englifh ambaffader. 
The firft number appeared in 1791 5 and 
one fhect, octavo, 1s publifhed every week. 
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