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that Pfenninger, Tobler, and Afsprung 
‘were the immediate’inftruments of his de- 
portation : Lavater, however, treats even. 
them with greater lenity than the Ex-di- 
rector Ochs. E 
It is well known, that of late years fe- 
veral attempts have been made to re-éfta- 
blith the order of Jeluits, whofe diffolution 
is by a certain party held forthas the chief 
caufe of the revolutions that have lately 
fonvulfed Europe. To the new Pope 
Pius VII. (CaHiaARAMONT!, 2 man, who 
during the victorious campaigns of the 
French in Italy fo conducted himfelf, that 
he gained the efteem of Bonaparte, and re- 
tained his bifhopric of Imola) a memorial 
was on his *elevatign to the papal throne 
prefented, in which ‘the reftitution of the 
order of Jefuits is demanded asa meafure 
of the greateft utility. And it is worthy 
‘ of notice, that the Ex-jefuit. Jofeph Ma-- 
Vi. in his ~ 
rotti, who accompanied Pius 
exile to France, has been appointed by the 
new Pope his. fecretary for Latin corre-\ 
fpondence. er 
j. S. SCHROTER, of Buttitads, in Ger- 
many, has offered for fale his Cabinet of 
Natural Hiftory, confifting of 7423 con-: 
chylia; 487 corals, feliz marinz, and fea- 
urchins; 2146 kinds of {tone ; 4900 pe- 
. trifa&tions; 2734 -ores'3 198 kinds of 
earth, and at lealt 2a00 infefis.. The price 
is 1000 louisd’ors. 
Of Munco’ Parx’s {Travels into the 
‘Snterior of Africa, two German tranfla-’ 
tions have appeared at the fame time ; one 
at Hamburg, and the other at Berlin. 
In the courfe of the 7th year of the 
French republic, there appeared in France 
3407 new publications: among thefe were 
60 on legiflation, 177 romances, 33 alma- 
nachs, and 16 philofophical and 3 theolo- 
gical writings. 
The French adjutant-general, QUATRE- 
MERE D?Isyonvat, of whofe difcovery. 
of the ule of Spiders as prognotticators of 
the weather an account is given in the laft 
volume of our magazine, refides at prefent 
in Bern, where hz is publifhing his lateft 
obfervations on that interefting fubject, as 
an appendix to Boddaert’s Araneologie. 
On occafion of the Emperor Paul L.of Ruf- 
fia’s declaring himfelf Grand-mafter of the 
Order of Malta, a medal was firuck.. On 
the one fide is a buft of Paul, looking 
from right to left, with the hair tied after 
the Pruffian milicary fafhion, a crofs of the 
Order of Malta on his breaft, and. a broad 
ribbon of another, order, and a Ruflian 
Jegend. ‘The butt is a very ftrixing like- 
ne(s.of the emperor. Under the arm are 
the initials of theename of the artilt who 
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éngraved the die, viz. C, M..F. The re- 
verfe has only the crofs. of the Order of 
Malta, withour any legend. Even in Pe- 
ferfburg this coin is extremely fcarce, as 
not a fingle one came into circulation, and 
the die was‘immediately deftroyed, as the 
medal did not meet with approbation. 
In the prefent prevailing tafte for Gers 
man literature, many who have not leifure 
or inclination to perufe a long feries of vo- 
lumes, may with to take a rapid view of 
the, chief beauties of German poetry, fe- 
lected from, the molt efteemed authors, im 
the manner of our Elegant Extracts. The 
beft, and indeed the only tolerable felection 
of the kind: that has yet appeared in Gers 
many, is the Chrefiomathie leut{cher Gé- 
dichte, sefammelt und erklant von C. Vet 
terlein.: Kothen, Aue, 2.partsin 1796, the 
3d in 179%, in the whole 3 parts, r60e 
pages. “The work is divided into $ fec- 
tions, viz. fables, tales, romances, odes, 
hymns, mixed poems, (clegies, epiftles, fa- 
tires and epigrams.) In the copious anno 
tations, the readey is madeacquainted with 
the plan and train of ideas of each poem, 
the allufions.and beauties in it are pointed 
out; and parallel paffages; which were 
prefent to the mind of the poet, or which 
by comparifon may convey inftruction, are 
adduced from ancient and modern lan- 
guages ; and throughout grammatical and 
metrical illuftrations are added where re= 
aired. | 
Italian literaiure.—A diplomatic work 
on Venice has. been printed at Milan, in 2 
volumes, quarto. Jt bears the pompous 
title: “* Raccolta cronologica ragionata de” 
Documenti inediti che forimano la Storia dt- 
plomatica della rivoiuxione e caduta della 
Republica di Venezia, corredata dt crptiche 
oferwazioni..’ The contents however do 
not wholly anfwer to the title. —-Of La Vita 
ePoutificato de?’ immortal PioVT. the fourtly 
edition has: appeared. The Orazione fit- 
nebre on the late Pape, held in the Con- 
clave by the Nuncio Brancadore, is like- 
wife read with mucly intereft by the Ita- 
lians, Of the Storia della Campagna fatta 
tn Italia daPrincipe Suwarrow, unitameme 
a Melas, Kray, Froelich e Klenau, the two 
firft tolumes-have been publifhed by the 
bookfeller Pagani at Florence. The por- 
traits of thefe generals, with which the hif- 
tory is embellithed, are good likeneffes: 
and the maps are well executed. The 3d 
volume isin the prefs. Mallet. du- Pan’s 
Mercure Britannique, the Mufen-Almanach 
of Gotha, the Vienna Court-Calendar, and 
the Memoirs relative toBgypt, are the new- 
efttranflations into'the Italian language. 
Parijfian. literature. . Vranflation is the 
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