1799-] 
The Motule = 
Comparifon of E nglifh and French Meafures. 
333 
2 toifes — 12 feet French = 12.789 feet Englifh. 
METRE = 0.256537 module = 3.090444 feet Fr. == 3.28084 feet Eng. 
Seconds pendulum at Paris = 0.993827 metre.== 3.260587 feet Eng. 
Merid. arc from Dunkirk to Mountjouy = 9:6738 degrees = 275792.36 modules, 
“Middle of faid arc is in latitude 46° 11° 5” 
Length of 1° in lat. 46% 11! 5° = 28509-206 modules =° 69.054 miles Eng. | 
. Merdional quadrant = 2565370 modules == 6213.74 miles.: 
MEAN.DEGREE of lat.. = 28504 modules sx 69.044 miles. 
Meridional circle ==» 10261480 modules =) 24854.93. miles 
lattening ofthe earth at the poles = the 334th»part. — ” 
Equatorial circle == 10276872 modules = 24892.22 miles. 
Mean circumference of the earth — 10269176 modules == 24873.57 miles. 
Polar axis == .3261436 modules = 7899.73 miles.) 
Equatorial! diameter = 3271230 modules = 7923.44 miles. 
Mean diameter = °3266333 modules — 7912.58 miles. 
Diff. of polar and equat. axes = 9794 modules —= 23.777 miles. | 
KILOGRAMME = 18827.15 grains Fr. = 2.255 lb. avoird. = 2b. 4'oz.13.dr. 
The Kilogramme is the unit or ftandard of weight, being the weight of the cube of 
the decimetre, or of the roth part of a metre of diftilled water, weighed invacuo, when 
at its greateft denfity, which is in the temperature. of 39 degrees.of Fahrenheit’s ther- 
mometer. 
* © Further particulars on this very interefling and important fubjet will be given ix 
gur next Number. 

ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MEMOIRS OF COUNT BRUHL. 
(From the German of M. von Zach.) 
WOHN Charles Count.von Bruhl, Privy 
J Counfellor to the Elector of Saxony; 
Envoy Extraordinary from that prince at 
the court of Great Britain, and Knight of 
the Order of the White Eagle, was born on 
the zoth of December, 1736, at Wiederau, 
in the Electorate of Saxony. . His father, 
Fred. William Count von Bruhl, of Mar- 
tinfkirch, Bedra, ,and Wartenburg, who 
died in 1760, was likewife Privy Coun- 
fellor to his Majefty, the King of Poland 
and Elector of Saxony, and Intendant of a 
Province. The beautitul ode by Gellert, 
on the fourteenth birth day of the young 
Count, then a ftudent at the Univerfity of 
Leipzig, and likewife the epiftolary corre- 
fpondence that paffed between him and 
Gellert, till the death of the latter, evince 
the great expectations even then formed 
_ from his talents and character. 
» In his r9th year, 2755, he went to 
Paris, where, till 1759, he had an im- 
portant fhare in tranfacting the ambafla- 
dorial: affatrs of his court ; and there 
chiefly fupported his countrymen, whom 
the warshad driven to take refuge in that 
city, and to apply for affiftance trom him. 
In 1759, he was called to Warfaw, 
where he was: made a Chamberlain, and 
appointed Intendant of Thuringia. From 
the confidential regard and credit which 
his excellent charaéter and multipliciteus 
knowledge had procured him with the 
whole court, and efpecially with his uncle, 
the then prime minifter, Count von Bruhl, 
he often found an opportunity to draw 
forth unnoticed men of merit from the 
ob{curity that impeded. their progrefs, and 
to place them ina {phere of action where 
their talents might be ufefully employed. 
Among thofe who thus owed their ad- 
vancement to his difcernment, was the late 
privy cabinet minifter of the Elector of 
Saxony, Baren yon Gut{chmidt, who died 
a few months ago. - Ino1764, Count von 
Bruhl was fent’ as Envoy. Extraordinary 
to the court of Great Britain, in which 
charaéter he till refides in England, pof- 
feffing the confidence of both courts. In 
1778, the Elector of Saxony nominated 
him one of his aétual privy counfellors. 
- Count von Briihl has been twice mar- 
ried in London. His firft wife was a 
daughter of Lord Carpenter, and reliét of 
the Earl of Egremont, formerly fecretary of 
ftate. Atter her deceafe, in 1794, he mar- 
ried Milfs Cherone, a lady defcended from 
an ancient Englifh family. By his firft 
countefs he had one fon, George, whois 4 — 
captain in the fecond regiment of horfe- 
guards ; and a daughter, Henrietta, who 
is married to Mr. Scott. 
‘The Count has acquired too much cele- 
brity in the republic of letters, and his lite- 
rary merits are too well known, to require 
here a particular developement. Not only 
did he prove himfelf an intelligent ftatel- 
; Mays, 

