468 Sixty Articles of Literary and 
The Banker Heigelin, at Naples, has, 
received, by the hands of M. Buccs’, the 
Danith aftronomer, a coufiderable fum of 
moncy, collected in Denmark for the un- 
fortunate Dolcmieu, who is ftill detained 
in a prifon at Palermo. 
The Eleétor of Saxony has appointed 
the celebrated painter, JOSEPH Grass of 
Vienna, dire&tor of the academy ot Fine 
Arts at Drefden. 
The firft volume of the Hiftory of Ty- 
‘pography, commenced by the late Breit- 
kopf,a learned bookfeller at Leipzig, will 
be publifhed i in May next. 
WIELAND is at prefentcompofing anew 
work, to confift of four volumes, entitled, 
Aviflipp. und fein Zettalter. Yt will pro- 
bably form a counterpart to the. Traveis of 
Andachariis. 
Yt is well known that the beautiful and 
valuable pigment called Ultramarine, is 
obtained by a tedious and difficult procefs 
‘from lapis lazuli. The bafis of this co- 
lour was long fufpeéted to be copper, but 
the experiments of Margraff fhewed that 
%t was iron, in fome unknown ftate of com- 
bination. New light has been thrown on 
this fubject by Morveau, who has difco- 
vered that felenite loaded with tron, wnen 
decompofed by carbonaceous matter, yields 
a blue fulphuret of -iron of equal perma- 
nenicy with the true ultramarine. 
The long expeted new German Tranf- 
lation of the Propnet Micha, by A. E. 
HartrMann, Prorector of the Frederician 
Gymnafium at Herford, has been pub- 
lifhed at Lemgo. After an introduétion, 
which treats of the life and contemporary 
hiftory of the prophet, and of the plan, 
contents, divifion and genius of the book, 
‘and contains .a catalogue rai/cune of for- 
mer editions, tranflations and commenta- 
ries; follows the tranflation, accompanied 
with explanatory notes, and five excurfive 
differtations on the frequent ule of a “play 
‘upon words by the E Kailern nations; on 
the true meaning of the word prophet, and 
on his office, on the defcriptions of a gol 
den age, in the Hebrew, poets, &c. \ Solid 
learning, a tafe formed by the Rudy of the 
ancient relating: and an intimate acquain- 
tance with the genius of the Eaftern, and 
particularly the Hebrew poets, appear here 
m-union with enlightened theological fen- 
timents ; avd the author proves himielf a 
BVO rthy difciple of Heyne and Eichhorn. 
M. Zink of Hombure, neat Frankfort, 
has invented a mufical inftrument, which 
plays a full concerto, and comprehends 
‘fourteen different inftruments. It has 
three fets of pe kst the uppermoft plays 
the harmonica of Franklin, the middle one 
@ piano-forte, and the undermoit a harphi- 
chord without quails. 
Philofophical Intelligence, [June $5 
The celebratedGerman poet ScnitLer, 
author of Fhe Robbers, &c. has tranflated 
Macbeth into German iambies: and is 
new employed in writing a new tragedy, 
the fubjeét of which is the melancholy fate 
of Mary Stuart, queen of Scots. 
The following advertifement lately ap- 
eared in the Riga papers, fromi the lices- 
he of the preis. <¢ “All the fhort pieces 
in verfe or profe, which, being temporary, 
are meant for immediate publication, muft 
be fent to the licenfer before eleven in the 
morning, if their authors would receive 
them, with hberty to print on the fame 
day.” 
The remains of BorLeauDESPREAUX 
have been dug up from the Sainte Chapelle, 
and have been depofited: in the garden of 
the Mufeum of French monuments, near 
thofe of Deicartes, of Moliere, and of La- 
fontaine. 
Technology. On the firft-of Germinal a 
new work commenced at Paris, confecrated 
entirely to thearts and manufactures, in 
the way of annals or technological me- 
moirs upon. the modern difcoveries con- 
cerning the arts, agriculture, commerce, 
and manufactures. 
An imperial order is iffued to the h- 
cenfer of the prefs at Vienna, forbidding 
all books on fiories of enchantment, ghofts, 
robbers, impoftors, and affociations ‘of fraz 
ternity. ‘The coffee-houies of Vienna are 
forbidden to have literary gazettes or jour- 
nals. Three of the reading-reoms have 
been fhut, and are_again opened, but un- 
der very different reftriGtions. 
It has been propofed by an Auftriam 
engeneer, to unite by means of canals the 
Adriatic fea with the Baltic; and to open 
a communication by water, from the he- 
reditary dominions of the emperor, with 
four feas, viz, the Baltic, the North Sea, 
the Black Sea, and the Adriatic. ri 
The central adminiftration of the depart- 
ment of the Seine, in the view of contriba- 
ting to the -health, fafety and coinfort of 
the citizens of their metropolis, have pro- 
vided a prize extraordinary froin their 
funds which they have authorized the Me- 
dical Society of Paris to appropriate.- It 
is a cold medal of the value of 300 livres, 
for the belt ‘* expo/ition in detail of the phy- 
Jical topography of the city of Paris and its 
envirois, in a circle of tivo miriamelers ak 
at leaf of radius. 
St. Croix has jut publithed learned 
refearches concerning the libraries of Alex- 
andria. He particularly labours to deftroy 
the received table, that they were burnt 
by the command of Omar, and that being 
diftributed they warmed the baths of ' the 
city for three months. St. Croix then 
fhows, that the moft ancient and ie 
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