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Citizen DEsGENETTEs,profeffor of the 
Military Hofpital of Inftruétion in Paris, 
has publifhed an Abftraét of a Courfe of 
Leétures on Phyfiology, to facilitate 
the ftudy of this branch of {cience. 
His plan, which may, ina certain de- 
gree, be termed novel, lays down direc- 
tions for purfhing, in phyfiology, the 
fame order of demonitrations as in ana- 
tomy; and announces a difquifition on the 
hiftory and ftudy of phyfiology, arranged 
according to the nine different functions 
of the animal fyftem, viz. offification, 
_ irntability, fenfibility, the circulation of 
the blood, refpiration, digeftion, nutrition, 
fecretion, and generation. Each of thefe 
diftinet funions is farther fubdivided into 
a number of fettions, and the abftract 
concludes with a general recapitulation 
of thefe fun@ions, and a table of the dif- 
ferent ages of human life. ~ 
Among the infurgents lately fhot in 
Piedmont, was a perfon of efteemed li- 
terary charaéter, named TINEVELLI. 
This gentleman was author of feveral, 
hiftorical works, the chief of which is 
a Piedmontefe Biography, in fix volumes, 
comprifing the lives of the moft illuftrious 
perfons who have done honour to this 
province of Italy: ‘Tinevelli was a pu- 
pil of the celebrated Denwrna, and for- 
merly profeffor of Belles Lettres at Mont- 
callier, : 
Citizen PancKOUKS has folicited per- 
mifhon of the Direftory to ereéta fone 
.bridge acrofs the Seine, at Paris, facing 
the Mufeum of Plants, which will effec a 
communication between the fuburbs of 
Marceau and Antoine. In the centre of 
the bridge, he propofes to place a ftatue of 
General BUONAPARTE, and to embellifh 
the fides with pedeftrian ftatues of Mas- 
SENA, BERTAIER, and the rett of the 
commanders who have honorably diftin- 
guifhed themfelves in the army of Italy. 
CitizenPANCKOUKE requires no pecuniary 
affiftance from government to carry his 
defiyn into execution, but propofes to in- 
demnify himfelf by a toll for thirty years, 
to be fixed and regulated by the Direétory. 
He has farther made an offer of decorating 
the bridge de /a Révolutior, with ftatues 
of the generals of the army of the Sambre 
and Meute, and of fuch other commanders 
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as the two Councils and the Directory 
fha!l deem worthy of this honour. 
The anniverfary of Virgil’s nativity 
was celebrated at Mantua, on the :5th-of 
Ogtober, with great pomp. The public 
Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts met in 
their hall on the evening of the 14th. 
They were joined by the Arcadians, the 
' Virgilians, and the Philharmonic Society. 
‘The theatre of the academy was brilliantly 
illuminated, and the .reoms opened for 
the accommodation of the public. Not 
only the academicians, but all whorevered 
the memory of the immortal Mantuan 
bard, were admitted to recite their com- 
pofitions in whatever language they pre- 
ferred, depofiting a copy of their recita-, 
tions, to form a collection, which it is in- 
tended to print. Onthe morning of the 
rsth, every place and building, public 
and private, adorned with bufts or images 
of Virgil, was decorated with crowns of 
laurel and garlands of flowers. The 
names of fifty marriageable damfels were 
proclaimed, to whom a dower was affign- 
ed, payable from, the national treafury, and 
to whom a frugal but elegant repaft was 
given in the public fquare of St. Peter. 
At two in the afternoon, the military 
drew up under armsin honour of the foe. 
lemnity, . Immediately after, the members 
of the adminiftration, the municipality, the 
tribunals of juftice and of commerce, toge- 
ther with the young damfels.who were.ta 
receive their portions.from. the. public 
treafury, embarked for. Pieotoleum, the 
place of Virgil’s nativity. The proceffion 
by water was accompanied by a barge, on 
board of which were all the muficians of 
the country. \.A .cowing match, with 
horle and foot-races, fucceeded ; the va- 
rious competitors were habited in white, 
and crowned with civic. wreaths and gar- 
lands of flowers. Upon the termination 
of the races, public dances commenced. In 
the evening, allthe conftituted authorities 
returned to the city, accompanied by the 
boats.of the fithermen, carrying lighted 
‘torches, which threw a moon-day blaze 
acrofs the furface of the lake. The fefti- 
val concluded with a ball atthe New The- 
atre, which was beautifully illuminated, 
and to which eyery member. of the ftate 
had free accefs. ig 
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