1302.] 
been all faved from the Englifh army and 
the ravages of- war. About three hundred 
Oriental manufcripts, for the moft part 
Arabic, are already fafely arrived at Mar- 
feilles, to be depofited in the National Li- 
brary, together with a large collection of 
other ancient monuments of all kinds. 
M. pe La Porre, the Librarian of the 
National Inftitute at Grand Cairo, has 
lately arrived at Paris, from Egypt and 
Marfeilles, with this important intelli- 
gence. He has himfelf fixty manulcripts 
in his own pofleflion, as alfo drawings co- 
pied from the molt interefting moouments 
of Upper Egypt, object of natural hifory, 
&c. which willenable the French Govern- 
ment to publith fuch a defcription of that 
once celebrated country, as has never yet 
appeared in any part of Europe. 
M. Dacisr, formerly perpctual: fecre- 
tary of the Academy of Inicriptions, and 
at prefent one of the keepers of the manu- 
fcripts at the National Library of Paris, 
propofes f{peedily to publifh the lait four 
volumes of the Memoirs of the Academy 
of In{criptions, in the Years 47, 43, 49 
and 50. Thefe will form the conciuhon 
of the Memoirs of the faid academy, now 
extinét, and befides feveral interefting dil- 
fertations, will likewife contain a hiltory 
of that academy. 
M: Decuiengs, the fon, who is lately 
arrived from China, has brought with him 
a number of original drawings or views of 
China, taken on the fpot, which, together 
with his defcription of that country, where 
he has beenarefident fixteen years, and an 
account of his voyage, will be publifhed 
with all convenient {peed. 
The fame gentleman has been, likewife, 
prevailed upon by his friends, to deliver 
up for publication the learned Differta- 
tions of his deceafed father, now in manu- 
fcript, the moft remarkable of which is, 
. that which treats of the afhnity that fub- 
fifts between the Egyptians and the 
Chinefe. 
“M. Lanctes, who has likewife com- 
pleted his elegant French edition of Nor- 
den’s Voyages, in three volumes quarto, 
enriched with learned Notes and other 
Additions, propofes ihortly to publifh, in 
quarto, the fix volumes of the Ajiatic Re- 
Searches of Calcutta, in French. In this 
tranflation, copious notes, taken from the 
Oriental manu(fcripts of the National Li- 
brary will be inferted, in addition to the 
original text, by which every volume will 
be augmented, at leaft, a fourth part 
. of its prefent fize. The firft and fecond 
volumes are in the prefs; the Arabic cha- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
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raxters will be thofe of Vitray; and the 
Sanfcrit, Malabar, and Thibet ditto, are 
thofe taken from the Propaganda ; exclu- 
five of the Tartar Mantchou charaéters, 
which were cut by Firmin Divor, in 
1789, under the direction of M. Langles. 
The MiMfionaries of Pekin have fent to 
the fame M. Lancuies,a Corean Alpha- 
bet, with the Lord’s Prayer, in the fame 
language. M. Langles intends to augment 
our European colleétion of Alphabets and 
Lord’s Prayers, by publifhing both the 
above. Their publication will ferve to 
decide, whether this alphabet of Corea is 
diffimilar to that publifhed by Dr. Ha- 
GAR, about two years ago in London, in 
Sir WILLIAM OUSELEyY’s Oriental Col. 
lection, and which was copied’ from a 
Japanefe Defcription of Corea, in the pof- 
fefion of Mr. Tirsinc. Mr. Titling 
himfelf, who refides now at Paris, intends 
fhortly to travel ; fo that there is very lit- 
tle profpect of the {peedy publication of his 
Japanefe literary treafures, 5 
The zircon earth, which had hither- 
to been only found in the Jargon of 
Ceylon,. has lately been difcovered in an 
analyfis, by Tromsporr, of a red 
garnet from Greenland. 
Ta the Turkith printing eftablithment 
at Conftantinople, which has exifted for 
the laft two years, under the favour of the 
Sultan SELIM, a Diétionary is now print- 
ing of the Turkith, Greek, Latin, French, 
and Perfian Languages, in three volumes 
folio; and ninety fhee's are already print- 
ed. In Conftantineple there are, befides, 
two Greek printing-offices, under the in- 
fpection of patriarch Neophytus, but in 
thefe only church books are printed. 
When by a decree of the French Nas 
tional Convention, the bells of allthe fup- 
prefied churches were ordered to be con- 
verted into money, methods weredifcovercd 
by PELLETIER and others, of extracting 
about 60 per cent. of copper from this 
mixed metal, which was employed accord- 
ing to the above law: the remaining 40 
per cent. was converted during the procels 
of refining into fcoria, and applied to no 
other ufe than that of mending the roads. 
Citizen ANFREY, of the School of Mines, 
has of late difcovered a method of work= 
ing over again ‘this refufe, from which he 
obtains an additional quantity of copper, 
and a large proportion of tin: this tin is, 
however, rather brittle and of more diffe 
cult fufion than common, on account of 
an allay of antimony, from which no cheap 
way ot feparating it has yet been dilcover- 
ed, In its prefent ftate, however, it (erves 
perfecily 
