1799.) 
The adminiftrators. of: the French Na- 
tional Museum of Natural Hiftory have 
fent to Perpignan a hundred and_ fifty 
plants of pitt-aloes from the Antilles, in 
order.to eftablifh on the dry mountains of 
that country a culture ufeful to the arts ot 
f{pinning. hs | 
A French privateer having found in an 
Enelith veffel a collestion of bulbs of li- 
liacedus plants, coming from Botany Bay 
and Port Jackfon, has tranfmitted them 
to citizen CRELiER, of the Council of 
‘Antients, who has given them (to the 
Mufeum.- Thefe bulbs, to the number 
of twenty different {pecies, have been 
planted in one of the hot-houies, where 
they are now fhooting forth their  firtt 
leaves: it is prefumed that moft of than 
belong to new genera. 
“<< The Efjay$ of Montajgne,” one of the 
mott fentimental and poignant of French 
books, has been fo dishgured in the print- 
ing, that more than fix thoufand capital 
faults have been found in the beft edition. 
The laborious and learned citizen Nar- 
GEON has been employed many years in 
re-eftablifhing the text, and reétifying 
falfe quotations ; and this incomparable. 
work was about to be ftereotyped by D1- 
DOT, when they learned that the Minifter 
of the Interior had formerly feen and col- 
lated at Bourdeaux an original manufcript 
of the Effays, with correétions and margi- 
nal additions in the hand of Montaigne. 
This manuicript likewife contains fome 
very bold matter, which Mademoifelle de 
Gournay, the friend of Montaione, durft 
not publifh. DrpoT has, intreated the 
minifter to fend for this valuable manu- 
{cript, in order to enrich his ftereotype 
edition with all the additional correétions 
it'may offer. In confequence of this re- 
queft and of the with formed by the mini- 
iter himfelf, the Commiffary of the Direc- 
tory at the central adminiftraticn of the 
department of Gironde has been charged 
’ to make fearch for the manufcript, , Be- 
fore the revolution it was in the library. of 
the Feuillans monks of Bourdeaux, who pof- 
{effed in their church the afhes of the au- 
thor. It has been lately found acain.in 
the hands of the fecretary of the ci-devant 
academy of the fame city; and the com- 
miffary of the Dire@tory, with becoming 
zeal, caufed it to be placed (8th lait 
Pluviofe) in the library of the central 
fchoo],—-whither it is to be retui’ned after 
it fhall have ferved, under the infpestion of 
thé minifter, to the edition of Pierre Didct. 
This edition will be employed to’ reSity 
all thofe which have preceded it, and-may 
ferve as a. model\to thofe which are‘ to 
_. Monruty Maa.-No. xLyin. 
Literary and. Philofiphical Intelligence. 
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follow. It is to be withed, however, adds 
a French journalift, that the characters to 
be employed in this work may, be larger 
and the lines at a greater diftance than in 
the firft ereotypes made by him, the cha- 
racters of which are too fimall for the eyes 
of the generality. Pate 
- Notwithftanding the reverfes , of | the 
French in Italy, it ts confirmed that a 
large convoy of the monuments of the arts 
which remained at Rome, have arrived on 
the coafts of the fouthern departments, and 
that they were initantly expedited for 
Lyons. This convoy confifts of ftatues, 
bufts, paintings, medals, cameos, books, 
and manufcripts. The agent charged to 
f{uperintend this. convoy, traverfed Tufeany 
and Liguria in the midft of the greatelt 
dangers, but furmounted all obttacles. 
Oi the monuments declared French pro- 
perty at Rome, there remained hardly any 
thing but coloffal ftatues, which, becaufe 
of their weight, could not be tran{ported 
by land carriage. - Fete. 
. It appecrs alfo, that the Madonna Della 
Sedia of Raphael, which ornamented the 
palace Pitz at Florence, has been expe- 
dited for France, as well as the famous 
manufcript of Virgil, which was in the 
library of Saz-Lerenzo. ‘This manuicript 
has been depofited in the hands of the cen- 
tral commiflary of the maritime Alps, who 
is about to forward it to Paris. 
The National \Iaftitute has given an 
example of the dimunitions to be made in. 
regard to the expences of the year vill. 
Thofe cf this eftablifhment had been laid 
for the year vil. at 414,000 francs... The 
Inftitute, coniulting with the Minifter of the 
Interior, has, demanded for the year viir, 
only 272,000 francs; that is 142,000 lefs 
than laft year.. It has retrenched, among 
other expences, that of travels, affign- 
ing as a motive that ‘¢ it would conduce 
{till further to the prefervation and glory 
of the {ciences and the arts, to drive back 
into their antient Jimits the Turks and, 
Ruffians,’” whom, it /brands as ‘* impla< 
cable enemies of philofophy, cf the arts, 
of the fciences and of all liberal ideas.”’ 
_.) The adminittration of the department 
of the Seine and Oife had nominated Com- 
miffaries to make experiments relative to 
a procefs indicated by citizen Lamrry, 
to prevent the dropping off of grapes. 
This procefs confifts in making a circular _ 
. incifion in the wood, and,in cutting away 
a ring of, the -bark about. the length of 
two millimetres. It refults fram the pro- 
cefs verbal of the commiffaries,, in whofe 
prefence.the experiments were made at 
-Branoy, that the fuccefs of this, method 
weit AC behe ee 
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