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might attempt to decypher this ancient 
Egyptian writing. 
The painters and other artifts, reGding 
hitherto at the Louvre, have received or- 
ders to quit that palace by the 1ft Floreal, 
or the 21 of April next; this is done for 
the purpofe of giving room to the National 
Library,which is to be transferred thither, 
from its prefent fituation. 
mous painter David is faid to be excepted 
from the general rule. The report, which 
has lately prevailed, that the decree of the 
Minifter and Firft Conful, tor removing 
the library, had been countermanded, ap- 
pears to be altogether groundlefs. 
DiboT, the eider, is ftill confidered as 
the firft and moft elegant printer in Paris. 
He occupies, at the Louvre, the fame 
place which was formerly occupied by the 
Royal Printing-ofiice, and has far more 
commiffions for printing than he can rea- 
dily execute. 
Marcuanb’s Voyage round the World, 
beautifully bound, has been fent, by order 
of the French Government, to the different » 
Sovereigns of Europe, and, among others, 
to the King of England. 
Many of the Manui{cripts collected in 
Egypt, are already arrived at Marfeilles, 
for Paris.. The French young gentle- 
men, that. are likewife returned from 
Egypt, fpeak and read the Arabic as 
fluently as the different natives of that 
country, who have accompanied them to 
France. It is confidently afirmed and 
believed at Paris, that certain of the Eng- 
lith now or lately in pofleffion of Egypt, 
have undertaken a journey to the Temple 
of Jupiter Hammon, in order to afcertain 
the real fituation of that famous ruin, faid 
to be lately difcovered by Mr. Brown. 
‘The German Opera Houfe, lately opened 
at Paris, was foon after fhut up. The 
Italian Opera is much more in the French 
taite than the German. The beautiful 
French Idylls of JaurFrReET, tranflated 
into German, have lately made their ap- 
pearance at Paris; the types (very fine 
German) have been caft_on purpofe. Ie 
is remarked as rather a fincular circum- 
ftance, that German books fhould be now 
printing in the capital of France. 
The celebrated Italian poet, Abbate 
Casti, who has been a; refident of Paris 
' for fome time pat, is now publifhing an 
original poem, in three volumes, intitled 
Git Animalt Parlanti, or the Speaking 
Animals, price one louis. 
Mefirs. Du Turet and GossELin 
propofe to publifh fhortly a new edition | 
of Strabo, in French, accompanied with 
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Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
Only the fa- , 
(April 1, 
the original Greek text, and emendated 
agreeably to the MS. now in the National 
Library. 
The Cabinet of Medals at Paris has 
been augmented during the revolution, by 
the collection at Rome, formerly belong- 
ing to the Pope, and, of late, by, feveral 
gold medals found between Amiens and 
Abbeville. Thefe medals reach from 
Julius Czfar to Septimus Severus—their 
number is reckoned to be about 2000.— 
A great number of them, however; have 
been either concealed or difperfed amonge 
the country-people that found them. As 
foon as the medals of the above-mentioned 
Cabinet fhall be properly arranged, a ca- 
talogue is to be formed: of them, by the 
prefent curators of that cabinet, Meffrs. 
Mituin and GosseLin. There has 
been hitherto no catalogue publifhed of 
this colle&tion, unqueftionably the richeft 
in Europe, as it confifts of more than 
60,000 numifmata, amongft which are 
upwards of 3000 gold coins. 
The National Inftitute, in its fitting of 
the fifth Pluviofe, year 10, received the 
prefentations for three places of foreign 
Affociate-members, and for one place of 
Refident-member, vacant in the Mineralos 
gical Seétion of the Clafs of Phyfical and 
Mathematical Sciences. - The following 
is a lift of the candidates, and the number 
of the votes obtained in the refpedctive 
claffes, by each of them :—For the places 
of foreign Affociate-members, Clafs of 
Literature and Fine Arts, Meffrs. Heyne, 
323 votes; Klopftock, 272; Sheridan, 
251. Clafs of Moral and Political Sci- 
ences, Meffrs. Rennel, 334; Rumford, - 
289; Muller, 278. Clafs of Phyfical and 
Mathematical Sciences, Mcfirs. Mafkelyne, 
2663 Herfchell, 246; Prieftley, 219. 
The Clafs of Moral and Political Sci- 
ences of the National Inftitute hea@td with 
a lively intereft, in its fitting of the 27th 
Nivofe, year 10, the reading that Citizen 
COUTELLE, member of the Committee 
of Sciences and Arts in Egypt, made of 
a fummary of his journey to Mount Sinai, 
with Citizen RozieRes, mineralogift. 
The long refidence of Citizens Coutelle 
and Le Pere, architects, at the Pyramids, 
to perform there all the neceflary opera- 
tions for the ftucy of all thofe mcnuments, 
induces a prefumption that, in future, we 
fhall have nothing more to wifh for, rela- 
tive to their ufe, their conftru@ion, and 
their dimenfions; we are affured that they 
have found the precife bafes ; and that 
they have meafured every thing by the 
millimetre. Several members of this com~ 
ery / ~- miffion — 
