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tereft of letters, and above all, on the 
fpirit of the laws of property. 
Profeffor RerseuR has lately publiffied 
at Vienna, a pamphlet, in which he main- 
tains that easles may be applied to the 
» purpole of directing balloons ; he {pecifies 
the number of thole birds which is necef- 
fary, according to the dimeniions of the 
balloon, aslikewife the manner of elevat- 
ing and guiding them. 
Mr. BERESFORD, at Berlin, propofes 
fhortly to publifh a Dramatic Library ; 
or, a Colleétion of the beft Pteces of the 
Englith Theatre. The very heavy taxes 
paid by Englifh works bave likewife in- 
duced a number of beoktfejlers of France 
and Germany to reprint the claflical Eng- 
lifh authors, which re-impreffions will 
cof cent. per cent. lefs than the Englihh 
editions! It is well-known, adds the Ma- 
gazin Encyclopedique, that the Englith 
have been long in the habit of only pub- 
lithing editions on fine paper. It is na- 
tural to fuppofe that the price of thofe edi- 
tions fhould be regulated by this degree of 
typographic luxury; but they will not 
fuit foreign amateurs, who prefer having, 
for the fame price, a great number of 
works, printed, however, correctly, and 
on fine paper, but without luxury, than 
to have but few, executed with the greateft 
typographical expence. 
There has been lately placed in the 
Hall of the Mufeum of Antiques, called 
Des Romains, at Paris, one of the fineft 
monuments of ancient {culpture extant, 
known by the name of the Tor/us of Bel- 
vilere. This figure was found without a 
head, without arms, and without legs; 
the fkin of a lion, laid on the rock on 
which the figure is feated, has demonfirat- 
ed to antiquarians, that it reprefented 
Hercules, and WrnKELMANN has very ju- 
dicioufly obferved, that the total abfence 
of the veins, whilf the vigour of the 
mufcles indicates that the hero is in the 
vigour of age, proves that the ftatuary has 
fei "zed the moment when Hercules is par- 
taking of the divinity, and gives reafon 
to prefume, that the very infant of his 
apotheofis is that which has been chofen to 
reprefent. The learned Visconty has 
given new illuftrations of this opinion, 
in a notice inferted in the Journal des 
Arts. He is of opinicn, that this beauti- 
ful foure made partof a groupe, in which 
that of ge was affociated with htm, 
and ‘that NN FLaxMan, an Enslith 
feulptor, ¥ Ais has a. this groupe 
in the ahove fenfe has perfedily fucceeded. 
This fragment was difcovered towards 
the end of the fifteenth century, near 
ir. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
devotes himfelf entirely 
[June 1, 
Pompey’s Theatre at Rome ; an infcrip- 
tion engrav-d on the rock announces, that 
it is by Apollonius, the fon of Neftor, 
who flourifhed about the latter times of 
the Roman Republic. 
Some plants of different kinds of hemp, 
collected from various parts of the conti- 
nent and iflands of Afia, have recently 
been cultivated, with much fuccefs, at 
the Cape of Good Hope; and it is fup- 
pofed that this plant will thrive better in 
that colony than in India, the climate 
being more congenial to its habit and na-: 
ture, than one of a warmer temperature. 
A fpecies of nemp has for many years 
been produced at the Cape, and partially 
cultivated, under the name of Dacha, 
not for the purpofes of coriage, but mere- 
ly for the Slaves and Hottentots to ule as a 
fuccedaneum for tobacco; the qualities 
of which are fo narcotic, that the farmers 
would do well to difcontinue the ule of it 
altogether. The growth is fo rapid and 
luxuriant in the Cape, that when planted 
fingly, it aflumes the habit and fize of the 
Jargeft fhrubs ; but, if fown broad-caft, 
in the manner of grain, rifes with a tall, 
ftraight flem, and the fibres appear to be 
equally even and ftrong with any that is 
produced in Europe. 
The celebrated German poet GoTHE, 
who, in a fmall circle of intimate friends, 
to the arts 
and fciences, has been making experi- 
ments. relative to the prifm and theory of 
colours. He has likewife been finithing 
his poem, entitled Fauftus. 
WIELAND lately loft his wife, with 
whom he had lived 35 years in wedlock 
and by whom ‘he had 16 children, 10 of 
whom /are ftill alive. Her death greatly 
affliéts him. She is buried under an um- 
brageous arbour in his garden, at Ofman- 
ftadt. The fourth concluding volume 
of his Ariftippus will be publifhed at the 
next Leipzig Eafter fair. 
Herper has been ennobled by the 
Elector of Bavaria: he continues his Adraf- 
tea, a journal which he publifhes, and 
the materials for which he draws from his 
own inexhauttible ftores of learning. 
Among the literati whom the prefent 
excellent Duke of Gotha has affembled 
arcund him, we find names dear to the 
fciences :—-LENz and JACOBS, SCHLICH- 
TEGROLL and BECKER, LOFFER and 
Zacu. In the Obfervatory there are a 
great number of excellent aftronomical in- 
firuments, which were made in England, 
agiveabiy to the direction of M. von 
Zach. The Duke’s palace, one of the 
moft beautifulin Germany, may jultly be 
called 
