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the nobility of Eithonia and Livonia more 
than one hundred thoufand rubles. Several 
learned nren have been invited and arrived 
from foreign parts to fill the profeflienal 
chairs, as, for inftance, Hemel, from 
Gielien. — Dr. ScbSee!, a ton of the cele- 
brated biftorian in Goreingen, has hke- 
wile beea called from the Univeriity of 
Moftow, to Dorpat, and is. to receive a 
falary of ene thoutand five hundred rubles. 
From the Emperer, the Military Acade- 
my, which has likewife been erected in 
Dorpat, receives, as might be expected, 
mott favour and fupport. It is faid, that 
Major General Klinger, whom Germany 
honours as one of her mot original poets, 
and who is at prefentDiredtor of the noble 
Corps of Cadets, at Peterfburg, takes an 
aGive part in promoting thefe plans, and 
from a man of his intelligence fomething 
well-digeited may be expected. Full per- 
miffion is now again granted to vilit foreign 
fehools and univerfities; and in conie- 
quence, about feventy Livonians, Eftho- 
nians, and Courlanders now profecute 
their ftudies at the Univerfity of Jena; 
and a proportionate number at the other 
‘wuniverfities of Germany. 
~The book-trade, which had been en- 
tirely annihilated, has for the mott part 
broken the iron fetters impofed by the h- 
cenfers: it is indeed a highly beneficial 
change, that no Tumanikow and other 
Ruffian zealots, but Germans, are ap- 
pointed toexamine German books, Here 
however. many things fill require to be 
corretted. The new Emperor, notwith- 
ftanding his almoft. incredible activity, 
cannot at once difcover all the abuies and 
improper applications of fome of the laws; 
nor by an Jemere? Ukaj® open to every 
innoxious book (as was the cafe with re- 
fpe&t to Keisebue’s Mof Remariable Year) 
the gate that had been fhut againit it by 
the liceniérs. For Kotzebue’s work would 
not have been permitted to pals, if the 
Procurator General in Peterfburg had not 
Jaid_a copy before the Emperor himfelf, 
and received a particular: (ameexer) nka/e 
in its favour. Another great impediment 
is, that all books muit be imported by fea, 
and that confequently during the winter, 
when the navigation of the Baltic is inter- 
rupted by the ice, no new publications 
can be procured from abroad. The 
greateft difficulty arifes however from this 
eircumfance, thata Rufhan wta/? remains 
always in full force until it be exprefsly 
repealed by another. Hence,. fome feru- 
uloufly-timid licenfers, though men of 
enlightened minds, adhere with a ridicu- 
The Hiftory sf A®ronemy, by C. Lalande. 
April, 
lous ftritnefs to the old forms and regit+ 
lations. Previous to the reign of Paul, 
the examination and hecenfing of books, 
in the German provinces, was entruited 
to the chief magittrates of their refpettive 
capitals, But Pavel appointed Tmperial 
liceniers for that purpote ; and the fame 
regulation continues, until altered by a 
particular aejfe. Lieutenant Colonel 
Fito: Richter is licenfer in Reval, Under 
Paul, nothing was permitted to be printed 
in the large printing-office of thatucity, 
except advertilements, playhoufe-bills, 
hymns from the Reval Hymn-book, and 
the Weekly Newtpaper, the articles in- 
ferted into which were however fubjeSted 
to a ftri@ previous examination —And 
according to the late accounts from Re-. 
val, the fame reitrictions fil] continue to 
been forced, becaule no Janmemoi Ukajehas > 
yet abolithed them, although repugaant 
to the Emperor's intentions. Theretore 
when it was lately intended to print a 
very edifying hymn taken from the » 
Augiburg Hymn-book, the Licenfer Rich- 
_ter would not permit it ; and was at lait — 
only prevailed upon to grant his leave, by 
the applicant’s afferting, in a note ad- 
dreffed to him, the untruth, that the 
hymn was taken fromthe Reval) Hymn- 
bock, A wine-merchant, in Rev ihed 
to have fome tickets printed for the pur- 
pofe of dittinguifhing his different forts of © 
wine. At firft the licenfer would not 
grant to any of the French wines the ho-- 
nour of having their names. printed: at 
lait however he relented with refpeé to 
this point; but {bil the. printing of the 
words Si, Uber’s Winey and of ‘Dilbep (a 
well-known drink compofed of wine and 
oranges) was deemed by him quite mad- 
miffible; decaufe S#. denotes fainthip and 
eught not te be prefaned by being 
to a wine-bottle; and becaufe Biffop de- 
notes an ecclefiaitical dignitary. From 
thefe fmples, the reader may judge of the 
ret. No where is greater liberality evinced 
than at Peterfburg, where M. Adelung, 
nephew of the celebrated lexicographer, 
executes the office of licenfer io a manner 
conformable to the wilhesof the Em- 
peror. 
Ee 
Fer the Monthly Magazine. 
The wisTORY of asTRONOMY for the 
‘YEAR 1X, (1801) 4p CITI4EN LA- 
LANDE.: - 
HE firft day of the nineteenth cen- 
TT tury was remarkable for an impor- 
tant aftronomical event, the difcovery of a 
new planet, at Palermo, an ancient = 
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