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CAMPENON, a relation of LEONARD 3- 
and author of a uurney to Chambery. 
This edition, befides the advantage of a © 
careful revifion ‘by LEonaRD himfelf. 
willbe enriched with many pieces which 
never before appeared in print. 
CHENIER has Jately publifhed a fati- 
rical poem, intitled, Epztre fur la Calomuie, 
which has excited a confiderable fenfa- 
tion at Paris. Far from {paring his ene- 
mies, he gives their names at full length, 
and lathes them with a poignancy of wit, 
which thofe who feel the fmart of his 
fatire will not eafily forgive. He 1s 
equally free and liberal of praife towards 
feveral dead and living characters, who 
sre all named in the work, which evinces 
throughout the genius of its celebrated 
author. * 
The fociety of Natural Hiftory meet, 
annually, on the birth-day of LinNavs, 
to celebrate, by a convivial excurfion, 
the memory of that greatman. ‘Their 
refearches extend to the three kingdoms, 
under the direétion of three commiffaries. 
Their excurfion this year was to Ville- 
d’Avre; the meeting was numerous, 
confifting of 150 perions, among whom 
was the celebrated naturalif FasRi- 
cius, profeffor at Kiel, in Holftein. 
M. WiLpENow, of Berlin, is prepar- 
ing for the prefs a new edition of the 
Speeres Planiarum of Lixn#us, which 
will be enriched with all the new dif- 
coveries of modern botanifts. 
The univerfity of Pavia, which had 
been for fome time diforganized, has re- 
commenced its ufual courfe of leftures. 
The celebrated CaRMINATI has. been 
recalled, and created perpetual direétor. 
The theclogical faculty has been confi- 
derably reduced, whilft the number of 
profeffors of philefophy have been in- 
creafed to thirty. : 
M.le Comte dHarRACH, of Vienna, 
propofes to publifh immediately a trea- 
tife on the Diforders which originate in 
Prifons and Charitable Enftitutions. This 
work will form avaluable fupplement to 
’ thofe imurenfe labours to which the cele- 
brated How ARD is indebted for his im-: 
mortality. 
Among the prizes which the Academy 
of Infcriptions, Beiles Lettres, Hiftory 
and Antiquities of Stockholm, has pro- 
pofed for this year, there is one for the 
beft Latin infcription to be affixed upon 
the Exchange at Stockholm, and another 
for the plan of a medal upon any one of 
the mof remarkable events of the age, to 
we chofen by the author. ‘The effays 
Sixty Articles of Literary and Scientific Intelligence. 
108. 
are to be fent, under feal, with a device, 
tothe academy before the 2oth Jan, 1799.. 
At Copenhagen, M. ie Chevalier de. 
Havucu has juft prefented the public 
with the “ Elemeats of Experimental 
Phyfics,” in the Danifh language. He 
has eftablifhed his fyftem on the new dif- 
coveries in phyfics and chemiftry. Two 
German tranfiations of it have already- 
appeared. yea 
Bonk, the Berlin aftronomer, continues 
to publifh, in German, his Aftronomical 
Calendar, which combines the advan- 
tage of a colleétion of the moft recent 
effays, obfervations, and reports relative 
to the fcience of aftronomy, with that 
of an Ephemeris, calculated¢for the fe- 
cond year after its publication. 
Profeflor Buscu has juft publithed 
an Efiay on the Hiftory of the Com- 
merce ct Hamburgh, in the German lan- 
guage, which has been printed in that 
city, and is confidered as a book of great 
political and mercantile value. 
The Society of Health at Paris are at 
prefent occupied in an attempt to deter- 
mine what advantages medicine is likely 
to derivefrom the internal ufe of the mu- 
riate of barytes, as recommended by Dr. 
CRAWFORD, for ferofulous complaints. 
It is requifite to adminifter it in very 
{mall dofes, as is is'a veéty aétive, andf 
often dangerous remedy. ‘They have 
alfo appointed Citizens HusarD and Br- 
RON to try its effeéts on horfes. To 
horfes afflicted with the farcy, they have 
adminiftered bota the muriate and the 
carbonate of barytes, in the quantity of 
two drachms a day, which, ina very fhort 
time, feemed to operate a complete cure. 
At the end of fourteen days, however, 
the horfe who had taken the muriate of 
barytes, died, without any previoup 
complaint ; as did, in- like manner, in a 
few days, the one who had taken the 
carbonate. On being opened, no traces” 
of the aétion of the medicines could any 
where be found. Since that period, i 
third horfe, alfo, who had ufed the carbo-. 
nate of baryres, alfo died fuddenly, and. 
without any previous fymptoms of ill) 
nefs, We may hence conclude, that both 
of them are dangerous medicines, mot 
to be adminiftered in any cafe without 
the utmoft caution. 
I. Van OVEN, of Holland, who ha 
recently travelled mto Siberia, where h 
retided a confiderable time, propofes 
publifh, in the Dutch language, with 
plates, an account of his very inftrucy 
tive voyage, under the title of “T re 
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