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fame refults. Thus, the gluten and the 
fibre may be diffolved without alteration, 
by the acetic acid. According to the expe- 
riments of Vauquelin and Brongniart, the 
meal contains only $4 grains of calcarious 
phofphate per pound; fo that a perfon, 
who fhould eat a pound of meal per day, 
would only take 3 pounds 6 ounces 4 
drams and 44 grains of calcarious phof- 
hate per year. It is remarkable, that the 
Fein of wheat produces no carbonate of 
lime ‘by incineration, although rhe ftraw 
of wheat furnithes a large quantity of ir, 
together with a very flight mixture of 
phofphate of lime. 
CuHar.es D’AGRAIN, a military of- 
ficer, who ferved under the celebrated 
and unfortunate La FayerTrre, has 
publifhed, at Paris, an heroic poem, ens 
titled, “the Captivity of La Fay- 
ETTE,” embellifhed with cuts, and en- 
riched by interefting hiftorical notes, 
containing a great number of faéts rela- 
tive to the early part of La FAYETTE’s 
captivity, hitherto unknown to the pub- 
lic. In our next Number, we fhall give 
a curious extract of a letter, written by 
La FAYETTE, to the refpeétable and 
wretched RocHEFOUCAULT, which 
cannot fail to intereft ftrongly all thofe 
‘ who are alike inimical to royal defpotifm 
and popular tyranny. 
The French colle€tors have a new ac- 
quifition to the Arts at Rome, which is 
the more pleafing, fas it enriches France, 
without impoverifhing the nation. by 
which it is fupplied. [tis a colleétion 
of the moulds of all the foreign types 
and charaéters from the prefs of the 
Propaganda, amouuting to no lefs than 
fiye thoufand five hundred and eleven 
matrices. MonGeE. flates, that he had 
given the neceffary orders, and that this 
colleétion would make a part of the next 
convoy trom Rome, which would alfo 
contain five hundred manufcripts. his 
mmmenfe quantity of characters, jomed 
to the magnificent Greek and Oriental 
characters belonging to the prefs of the 
Republic, for which they are deftined, 
willform the completeft; and the bet- 
executed typographical collection in Eu- 
rope. 
J. LacHaPe ce has juft publifhed, 
at Paris, a very interefting work, enti- 
tled, “* Philofophical Confiderations on 
the French Revolution; or an Examina- 
tion of the general Caufes, and principal 
Immediate Caufes, which have deter- 
Mined that Revolution, infuenced its 
Progrefs, and contributed to its moral 
Deviations, and political Exageerations.”’ 
It is very highly fpoken of by the 
French eritics, 
Varieties, Literary and Phibfophical- 
acknowledge. the: other. 
$5 
EpME SEBASTIEN JEAURAT has 
been lately nominated to the place of 
Aftronomer to the National Inftitute, 
vacant, in conféquence of the non-refi- 
dence at Paris of Cassini. 
The Phil-Harmonie Society at’ Paris, 
has offered a premium of a gold medal, 
of the value of zoo livres, to the mufi- 
cal compofer, who fhall prefent the fineft 
fymphony, before the firft of Ventote 
next. ~ ) 
A new lyceum (the third of this name) 
has been lately eftablifhed at Paris, the 
eee of which are, LaHaARPpeE for 
iterature, who is to begin his courfe 
with an analyfis of the Theatre of Ra- 
cine ; Sux for Natural Hiftory and Ana- 
tomy; AUDIN RouvVIERF for Logic, 
and the Art of ftudying Mankind, the 
Charaéteriftics of Women, &c.; and 
DemoustTIER for Morality. Although 
the above courfes are intended to form 
the effential parts of the new lyceum, 
profeffors will alfo be. provided for all 
the European languages, the French and 
foreign journals, and the moft intereft- 
ing productions of the day. | Orations 
and pieces ef poetry, together with 
dances, concerts, &c. are aifo to be 
given occafionally. : 
A tranflation from the Italian of the 
heroi-comic poem of Tassoni, called 
The Capture of the Bucket, has lately ap- 
peared in the French language at Paris. 
This poem is confidered as the Lutrin 
of Italy, and was firft printed at Rome, 
tn the year 1622. The French tranfla- 
tor has'reduced the twelve cantos to ten 3, 
which he has alfo abridged fo confidera 
bly, that the work is diminifhed to lefs 
than one-half of its original bulk. This 
tranflation is written in eétaves, like the 
poems. of Taflont; Ariofto, Taffo, and 
Camoens, and is the firft example of « 
poem in this fort of verfification, attempt~- 
ed inthe Frenchlanguage. The hiftory 
of the Bucket is briefy this: in the 
thirteenth century, Italy, with othe: 
countries of Europe, was wholly occu- 
pied with the broils of the emperor Fre- 
deric IL with the Popes, his contempo- 
raries. Lombardy was particularly ex- 
pofed to the ravages of the conte 
ntending 
iE 
parties. The Papifts were called Guelphs, 
and the Imperialifts Gibelizs. During 
thofe bloody contefts (as we have feen in 
Our own times) cne part of the humaz 
race appeared unwilling, as-it were, to 
‘Truces were, 
neverthelets, concluded by both parties, 
at intervals ;--and it was one of thefe 
which was broken by ‘he Canure of a 
Bucket. 
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