1799.) 
‘inftigation, even inftituted a new profeffor- 
fhip for the purpofe of delivering clinical 
lectures. But all thefe fair profpects dif-. 
appeared on the recal of Citizen Trouvé, 
and the change of the Cifalpine Direétory. 
Moft of the profeffors were then either dif- 
miffed or gave in their refignation. Since 
the beginning of this year affairs have 
taken a more favourable turn, though the 
Univerfity has fuffered an irreparable lofs 
by the death of Spdl/anzam. This great 
man died of a neglected ftrangury, which, 
occafioned an apoplexy. On the 17th of 
February the profeflors Scarpa and Brera, 
his colleagues, having perceived fatal 
{ymptoms, communicated to him, that 
this day muft terminate his life: an intelli- 
gence which he received with the utmott 
fortitude: he expired in the evening at 11 
o’clock. The hiftory of his difeafe has 
been publifhed by Profeflor Brera, who 
had been his phyfician for two years im- 
mediately preceding his death. 
Though Bavaria during the reign of the 
jate'Elector began, principally through the 
exertions of the humane and philofophic 
* Count. Rumford, to rife into notice, and , 
take fome fteps towards that cultivation 
for which the zortherz provinces of Ger- 
“many are diftinguifhed, letters were greatly 
difcouraged. Under the prefent govern- 
ment, however, liberty of the preis,: free- 
dom of fpeech, and an amended {yftem of 
adminiftering public juftice, open the hap- 
pieft profpects to the general felicity of the 
Bavatians, and efpecially to the advance- 
ment of learning. Among other literary 
performances which are announced, we 
particularly notice a work of great utility 
eompofed by the learned Dr. Baader, of 
Freyfng; its title is, Das gelebrte Baier, 
or Bavaria in a, literary view; being a 
complete account of all the writers who, 
in the courfe of the 18th century, have 
either been natives of, or have actually 
refided in, Bavaria. Hines 
Lalande; his nephew, Burckhardt, Mef- 
fier, Meéchain, De Lambre and Bouvard, 
notwithftanding the cloudinefs cf the wea- 
ther, were able to obferve the tranfit of 
Mercury over the fun on the 7th of May. 
The difference between thefe intelligent 
aftronomers was only a few feconds. This 
tranfit confirms the accuracy of Lalande’s 
Tables: the exror at the ingrefs {carcely 
amounted to a quarter of a minute of 
time. 3 
Lalande writes to M. von Zach: -«* I 
am preparing for the prefs a new catalogue 
of 1400 ftars., Kepler, {peaking of his 
‘Rudolphine Tables, exclaims: Totis xxii. 
aunis uicro ceffi, et cece me dolores partis Of» 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 
primunt! Altering the «xt. into decem, 
I may truly make the fame exclamation.— 
Sorlin is calculating the longitude, Jati-~ 
tude, and angles of pofition, of 600 of the 
principal ftars ; which I mean to publith 
in the Conn. des Tems for the year X.”” 
The optician Carrochez, of Paris, is- 
forming a large mirror of 22feet 3; to be 
ufed for making obfervations without 
{mall mirrors, -after the manner of Le 
Maire’s. 
In the beginning of lat April Quenor 
returned to Paris from Egypt. He left 
Alexandria on the 18th of Novembex, 
1798, and arrived at Ancona on the 4th 
of December, in a tartan belonging to 
Marfeilles. Thence he proceeded through 
Milan and Turin to Paris; and brought 
with him from Turin the celebrated Ta- 
bula Ifaca. ' When he left Egypt, good 
otder prevailed, and every thing promifed 
final fuccefs to the expedition. 
afiures us that Buonaparte will be able to 
maintain his ground: he is endowed with © 
talents of the firtt magnitude ; and forefees 
and fruftrates the fchemes of his oppo- 
nents. The enemy whom the French 
dread the moft is the plague: but every 
precaution is ufed and the beft meafures 
adopted ta prevent the ravages of that de- 
ftructive {courge. During the laft fifteen 
years, the plague has only three times 
made its appearance in Egypt. 
Novet, the aftronomer, who accom- 
panied Buonaparte in his expedition to 
Egypt, makes a number of aftronomical 
obfervations there. He very narrowly 
efcaped aflaffination, while-employed in 
meafuring the bafe of Alexandria. A 
fimilar fate had like to have befallen 
Dolomieu during an excurfion. - The lon- 
gitude of Alexandria is 1 4. 50’ 20/ ealt 
from Paris. The number of inhabirants: 
of Alexandria is .twenty thoufand ; of 
Cairo 300,000. Fhe French litterati 
dwell together in a large houfe, which 
formerly belonged to one of the Beys : 
adjoining to their dwelling is a {pacious 
and beautiful garden, in which it is intend- 
ed to ereét the obfervatory.* Several of 
the literati. have accepted pofts in the 
government; and perform the duties of 
thefe offices conjunétly with their literary 
Jabours. The land-tax (pot territorial ¥ 
amounts to twenty millions of livres ;. be- 
fides duties paid for inregiftering, &c.— 
The watchmaker has opened a fhop in 
Cairo. , 
The Trait? des Montres a Longitude, Se. 
4to. with fix copper plates, by the cele. 
brated artift Ferpinanod BrRTHOUD, 
which was printed already in 1792, was 
galy 
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