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volutionary government, nor was it ag 
tated firit by the /:terati of the Rare 
at having been ‘propofed i in the year- 1789 
by the antics of the pr rincipal mercantile 
etties of Fx ance, to Femedy the abufes and 
to prevent the impofitions which the great 
inequality of meafures occafioned. Thefe 
abulés prompted Bownaz te propofe, A) 8, 
¥790, in the conftituent aflembly, the in: 
trodution of uniform meafures, “which re. 
peatedly had ee ‘aitempted i in vain. In 
his urgent remonftrances. 
the afi fembly decreed, that the king thould. 
be petitioned to ioron fuch a "yefoiny: 
and to invite the king of Engiand to re- 
queft his parliament to join in this meade 
fure.” Both kings were to appoint com- 
rniffion eres who were to be chofen from 
among the focieties of arts and fciences of 
this country and of Paris, anc to meet at 
a place to be agreed upon, to confult upon 
the beft means of executing the plan. 
However, the unfortunate turn which the 
affairs of Europe took foon after, fruftrated 
the execution of the project. 
Dr. Bruna has deduced, frorn the ob- 
fervaticns of the interior contaet, in the 
fate tranfit of Mercury: (fee page 636), 
which were made by others, and which he 
thinks could f fcarcely be attended with an 
error of more than 5”, the following geo- 
graphical longitudes. WN. 8B. The nam- 
Bers fignify the differences from the meri- 
dian of Paris in time; Jetter O. fignifies 
that the refults have been compared with 
the obfervation made at Ofen; and letter 
W. that they have been compared with 
that which was made at Vienna. — 
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Literary oe ina Intelligence. 
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Pr. Minden. 
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ee B. ‘The’ Parifian aftronomers having 
publifhed only the medium of their obferva- 
tions, we fhall not infert them here, as we 
hope to be enabled to give in our next num- - 
ber a ftatement of their rea/ obfervations, 
The Grecian, Profeffor HOocEVEEN, 
who died lately in Holland, at the ad- 
vanced age of eighty, had left, among 4 
variety of manufcripts, highly interefting 
to the, lovers of ancient literature, a Lexz- 
con Analogicu m Lingue Grace. Imme- 
diately after his death the Univerfity of 
Cambridge, who were informed of his 
being employ ed in that laborious perform-_ 
ance, inquired of his fon whether Profeffor 
Hoogeveen had finifhed it; offering at the 
fame time, if it were ready for the prefs, 
to publifh it, at their expence, for the be- 
nefit of his heirs. Young Hoogeveen, 
fenfible of the difti neuifhed honour con- 
ferred on the memory of his father by fo 
learned a body, very readily tranfmitted 
the MS copy of the above diétionary to the, rc 
Univerfity of Cambridge, where, we un- 
derfiand, it is now printing with great 
typcsrap hical fplendor. 
The Univer rity Of Pavia.—Concerning 
this celebrated feat of learning we meet - 
with the following particulars in a foreign 
journal. . Pavia “had almoft been aban- 
doned by its. government for. two years 
pat, when Citizen Tr. uve, French Am- 
baffador to the Cifalpine Republic, in the 
courfe of 798, paid a vifit to that Uni- 
verity. The profeffors, who with much 
difficulty obtained their falaries from the 
Court of Vieana, were affured by him, 
that fafe funds fhould be appropriated ta 
the fupport of the Univerfty. Thus he 
encouraged them feduloufly to purfue their 
learned labours. Accordingly Profeffor 
Prefcinni publifhed the fecond volume of 
his phy, yhological lectures; Spallanzani pre- 
pared the edition of his excellent experi- 
ments on breathing; and Brugzatell: con- 
tinued the impreffion of his Annals of Che- 
mifiry, as wel) as of his Elementi. Brera, 
Volta, Muff, Carnevali, and Lotterio, all 
of them men eminent in their refpective 
branches of {cience, edited various valuable 
works. ‘This literary contention was not 
limited-to the profefiors alone, but feized _ 
the ftudents, feveral of whom diftinguifhed 
themfelves by the publication of different | 
learned thefes and differtations. The Cif- 
alpine Diregtory, at the French minifter’s 
a inftigation, 
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