150. 
ed by women, who, inno cafe, handle horfes” 
hecls ; the diftafe therefore cannot arife 
from this fource. We have the pleafure 
‘to find from Dr. Stacco’s performance, 
that the inoculation for the cow-pox: pro- 
ceeds rapidly in Italy, under the patro- 
nsge of the various Italian Governments. 
Agreeably to the law of the French Le- 
giflature (of the roth Germinal, year 3,) 
purporting, tat there fhall be eftablifhed, 
within the premifes of the National Li- 
brary, a public {chool, appropriated to 
the teaching of the living Oriental Jan- 
guages, for the purpofes of politics, com- 
merce, Sc. the couries eftablithed that 
law will commence on the 25th Frimaire, 
year 30, in the Special School of Oriental 
Janguages, near the National Library, in 
the following order :—Courje of Perfan: 
Citizen LaNGLES, a member of the Na- 
tional inftitute of Sciences and Arts, will 
give two JeCtures in the decade, on the 
principles of the Perfian tongue, and two 
ethers on the explicationof the firft chap- 
ter of the Golifian of Sa’dy, and on fome 
articles of the geographical detcription of 
Hindooftan, inferted in the Agjin Akbery, 
ex Cormentaries of the Great Mogul 
Akbar. Courfe of Arabic. Citizen SiL- 
WEsTRE Sacy will give two fittings in 
the decade, if neceflary, in elucidation of 
the principles of the Arabic. language; 
the two others wil be employed in the ex- 
by 
- 
plication ef fome chapters of the Coran, 
and of the Hifory of ‘Tamerlane by 
Ahbhmed ben Arabfchah. Two kflons in 
ezch month will be appropriated to the 
explication of the poem ot Ebn Doraid, 
innithd, Al-makfoura.—Courfe of Turkifh. 
Citizen Jaupert, Secretary, Interpre- 
ter ta the Republic for the Orientai 
layguages, will give two ].flons im illuf- 
tration of the principles of that language, 
and two for the explication of a deicrip- 
ticn of the White Sea and of the Archipe- 
lace, with a treatife on navigation, by 
Rhadjy Khaliah, furnamed Kiatib Tché- 
leby.—Courfe of Modern Greek: Citizen 
Bb Ansse-ViLLoison will develope the 
origin and the principles of the vulgar 
Greek, compared with the antient, and 
will explain different fele€t pieces of the 
modern Greek authors. 
The program of the prizes propofed laft 
year by the Academy of Berlin, for the 
clafs of philolophy, was conceived in thefe 
terms :—** The important queftion of the 
orizin. of ovr knowledge, agitated in all 
times, has been diicuffed in our days more 
warmiy thanvever ; it iS; certainly, of -a 
high fotereft, and it is to be wifhed that 
the proois, pre OF con. avan 
a destec of perizClion and of evicence, 
| Literary and Philofophicat Intelligence. 
were advanced to- 
[March 1, 
which might enable philofophers to take 2 
decided part on this object, without failing 
into a fincretifm, which, by fubftituting 
indifference for intereft, would derive no 
advantages for the progrefs of philofophy. 
The Academy docs not enter into the ideas: 
of thofe who confider it as a point demon- 
{trated with mathematical evidence, that 
one part of our knowledge has its only 
fource in the very nature of our under- 
ftanding; the Academy is perfuaded, en 
the contrary, that efiential objeétions have 
been raifed againft this opinion, objeétiens 
which have remained hitherto without 
atisfactory anfwers,and that there are very’ 
firong proofs in favcur of thé opinion 
which deduces all our knowledge from ex- 
perience, although, perhaps, thofe proofs 
have not yet been placed in their true 
licht. The Academy, defirous to con- 
tribute, as far as lies in its power, to the 
folution ef the problem, propofes for the 
fubje&t of the prize, which the clafs of 
-philofophy is to adjudge in 1801 :—*¢ To 
demonitrate, in an inconteftible manner, 
the origin of all our knowledge, either by 
offering arguments not bitherto employed, 
or if arguments already employed are re- 
forted to, to prefent them in a new and 
perfpicuous light, and with a force that 
fhali furmount all objeétions.”’ 
The Planet which was fuppofed to be 
dilcovered by M. Piazzi, at Palermo,’ - 
about a year fince, has hitherto eluded the 
refearches of other aftronomers. Similar 
in brilliancy and light to the ftars of the 
eighth magnitude, it has none of thofe pe- 
culiar appearances which ferve to diitin-— 
guifh comets of the fame fmall fize. In 
refpect to colour, it refembles Jupiter ; 
and, from the meridional obfervations- 
taken by M. Piazzi, and his colleague; M, 
CacciaToORE, it appears, that this ftar, 
if a planet, pofleffes a revolutionary pe- 
riod that may be calculated at four and a 
-half or five years.» About the beginning 
of May, 1801, the fuppofed planet crefied 
the Meridian at an early hour, when it 
difappeared. Since that time, M. Piazzi, 
aflitied by M. M, Cacciatore and Cari- 
oTTi, have been unable to difcoyver it 
again either wit a night telefcope, or with 
anachromatic, having largeapertures. It is, — 
net {urprifing, therefore, that during the 
jaf nine menths other aftronomers have 
tailed in their refearches, fince to common 
dificulties is ad led an uncertainty of fome 
degrees as to the precile point of the 
heavens in which it fhould be fought for. 
-It has lately refumed the fame fituatien in- 
which it was at the time of its difcovery 5 — 
we expect, therefore, in-a fhort time te be * 
able to fiate the reperts of the foreign , 
aftros 
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