Sketch of the priacipal Works in the lafi Leipzix Fair. 
nich,?; .‘The, honeft, cruelly-perfecuted 
MILLIKER when at Paffau, now profeflor 
of hiftory at Ingolitad:, comes: forward 
with a fketch of the Hiftory of the Ger- 
‘man Nation. Befides the bookfeller Krijll’s 
a new. book fellor’s- fhop is opened at In- 
golftade under the title of. a §¢, Comptoir” 
torIntelligenceand Inc ditty 5 ; and whoever 
takes a view of the articles printed for 
thefe two bookfellers, and for Leitner and 
Lindauer at Winmch, will remark with 
pleafure the liberal fyftem of the prefent 
book-licenfers, and from a bright dawn 
prognofticate a ferene, and, pleate God, a 
long day, in acountry groaning till late 
ender the fevereft yoke of prieftcraft, but 
fparkling with genius and full of charac- 
ters of the higheft refpectability. People 
may now fpeak there with modeft frank- 
nefs en the interefis of the country, as is 
fufficiently proved by the writings, men- 
tioned in the Catalogue, on ne cuftoms, 
and the colleclions relating to the hiftory, 
of the Bavarian States. May Maximilian 
Jo! ph, a. prince elevated, above, every 
minute apprehenfion, and free trom. fear 
of that bugbear Lluminati{m, fet.up only 
to. terrify children and. beguile unwary 
priaces and minifters into, the fnares of 
Jefuitifm—may | he reign long and happily ! 
all yood. Bavarians sill form a bulwark 
with their bodies arcund hin. 
A preffing want, caufed | by the difipation 
of his predeceffor and the unmente riches 
accumulated by his baftard- fons, of which 
he ‘is innocent, aad the inex aisle law of 
circumftances ony. could bring the good 
father of his people tO mealtires w. hich he 
difapproves, and..vifhes himfelf to alter. 
With equal fatisfagtion the friend of 
humanity, and reform rinds inthe fame Ca- 
talogue new. preots of the firm, intention 
of Frederick William TEL. to ‘enlighten 
an improve, wu the patis. of the Prufan 
Monarchy. The foundation of this, mutt 
be laid in the infiruction of the tifing g ve- 
neration. Hence the ative endeavours, 
fav ored | with royal encouragement, to 
give a better organization to, the lower 
{chools ; to deftroy the old monaftic form 
of the. {chools for fae middling clafles, to 
infpire foldiers’ children with public ipirit, 
to bring up idle boys and girls to. andut- 
try io (eae: exclufively founded for that 
purpofe. An author of KGnig {berg unites 
aphorifms en popular education with pro- 
pofitions for a better regulationof country- 
{chogls. LocHMANN’s crowned treatife on 
the three moft important fubjedis, concern- 
ing the refounding of Latin and Military 
{chools, by which the Council for {cholaflic 
Infitutions and the Board of War are kept 
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bufy at the fame time, svill certainly be 
read likewife in foreign countries. dna 
monarchy, where every topic of public 
regulations may be examined with mo- 
deftly and, centured by arguments—a cha+ 
racteriftical. trait of the Prufhans fince 
Frederick the Great roufed their reflecr 
tion by his example—the now appearing 
Examen of the cireularorders of the King 
concerning the garrifon-{chools, may be 
brought before the throne ,itlelf, The 
treatifle “ On the Improvement of the 
Condition of Country ‘Clergymen” now 
appears, with a remarkable cabinet-letter 
of the king. NiiMever being profeffor 
oi divinity at Halle, and head mafter of 
the moft celebrated ‘academy in Saxony, 
and of confequence living near the moft 
plentiful fountain of feboo! as well as 
academical experience, in an Addrefs to 
the Students of Divinity, comments on the 
lateft infiruétions relative to theological ex- 
amens in the Pruflian States—Infiructions 
in which TELLER’s (the, moft, venerable 
and Hep Ewdices divine in the Proffian 
monarchy )not Wollner's fpirit reigns. Mr. 
GEDIKS, member of the upper. confittory 
and of the f{choo!l-commiffion, publithes a 
peculiarjournal for the fchools of the Mon- 
archy.. Thus, whatever may. be done 
by writing for the reformation of {chools 
is certainly not neglected. And what a 
liberal {pirit appears. every where in the 
legiflation and adminiftration! which fears 
neither reafoning nor publicity, and whick 
even, as on the: ftill-debated fubjeét of the 
Boutin code of laws, calls for it defign- 
edly. The. Academy of Architeéture, 
the funds of which have been renewed by 
the King, and the Academy of Painting, 
cali forth the exertions of new powers, 
and the propofing of new meafures. On 
the latter fubject, the archite& Ge- 
NELLY-of Berlin comes forward with 
his ideas... To favor the productions, of 
the Monarchy itfelf,. new’ fhackles have 
been laid on the fair at Francfort on the 
Oder, which tend to render all concur- 
rence of foreign countries impofhble. We 
find fome Remarks on this arf Meafure 
announced, which fhow by the title, and 
may freely lay open, their difapprobation. 
On villanage, the corvée, and the late aug 
mentation of the pay of,the Pruffian army, 
the mof free difcutfions have appeared. 
Even a prifoner of ftate, the unfortunate 
ZERBONT, writes, from his gaol at Ka- 
lifch in South Pruffia, “* Thoughts on 
the Impcov ement of that Part of the Mon- 
archy,” and foudly rejoices at the exalra- 
‘tion of the noble Vo's to the place of a 
minitter, wae well knows how to procure 
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