1802. ] 
called a Temple of the Arts. Additions 
are, from time totime, made to the library, 
which js now under the care of three aGtive 
Keepers, HAMBERGER, JACOBs, and 
SCHLICHTEGROLL,—ta the collection of 
pictures, and to the almoft unique cabinet 
of medals, which is now likewife under 
the care of Schlichtegroll, who is arrang- 
“ing it. Thecabinct lately received a con- 
fiderable augmentation by. the purchate of 
the Seckendorf colleStion in Dreiden. 
The foreign journals made mention, 
fome time ago, of an earthquake which 
was felt at Bolegna. The following par- 
ticulars relative to that event have been 
inferted in the regi(ters of the oblervatory, 
by Cirizen Cicco.ini, a pupil of the 
altronomer LatanpE :—=** This morning 
(16 Vendemiaire), at 52 minutes, 53 fe- 
conds, paft eight, the air being calm, the 
weather cloudy, the thermometer of Reau- 
mur at 13° 3, I felt three ftrong fhocks of 
an earthquake. Thefe three fhocks were, 
in general, taken fora fingle one; but I 
.was.able to diftinguifh them exaétly, as 
they lafted halra minute. One of the pen- 
dulums of the obfervarory having ftopped, 
I had the precife time of the earthquake. 
The bells of the hotel of the Inititute 
rang of themfelves, as alfo the pendulum 
which is on my commode. Some chim- 
nies fell down in the city, and one was 
near overfetting the pla-form of the cham- 
ber where the celebraied mathematician 
Saladini. lodges. The remembrance. of 
the earthquakes, which have afflicted Bo- 
logna for a” year paft, had rendered the 
confternation general. It fhould be ob- 
ferved, however, that the ftate of the at- 
motphere was very different from what it 
was at that period, when the fun was pale, 
the fky habitually darkened by lead- 
coloured clouds, and the horizon em- 
browned with very thick mifts. The 
lightning fell pretty thick; fiery meteors 
were repeated in different figures, and 80 
No- 
boreal auroras were perceived, 
State of Publc Affairs in May, 1802. 
469 
thing of all this took place at the feafon 
above alluded to. This earthquake was 
likewile felt at Cefena and at Ceuta. 
Citizen Rit pie, gardener in the expe- 
dition of Captain Bauvin, has wrirten 
home from his refidence in the Ifle of 
France. His letter is dated the 30th of 
Germinal, year 9; and the following is 
an extract :—‘* We arrived here on the 
25th Pluviofe, five months after our de- 
parvure from Paris. .I have already col- 
lected 255 {pecies of plants, without reck- 
oning the duplicate {pecimens forthe Her-~ 
bary of the Mufeum. I have completed 
the Catalogue of tie Colonial Garden ; 
IT have marked the trees which are to be 
found in the Garden of the Mufeum at 
Paris, and thofe which are not there ; thefe 
Jaft are to the number of 60. Citizen 
Cere has promifed to remit me plants of 
them, on our return from the South Sea ; 
T have fent him, in exchange, two culti- 
vated or grafted olive trees, two pear- 
trees, two apple trees, a cherry-tree, an 
apricot-tree, a peach tree, an almond- 
tree, a chefnut-tree, two horle-che(nut- 
trees, and eight walnut-trees, making part 
of the colleftion of trees of which T had 
the charge on my leaving France. I have 
eat of the fruit of his bread-trees, and find 
it delicious; he has diliributed fome 
among the principal inhabitants of the co- 
lony, to infpire a tafte for it, and a defire 
to cultivate it. That which we ate 
weighedeight pounds. There yet remain 
eight on the two trees which have fruéti- 
fied ; thefe trees are eighteen inches in 
circumference, and frcm fifteen to fixteen 
fect in height; they would be loftier if 
they had not been broke off at the extre- - 
mity by a guft of wind. I cannot extol 
enough the civilities which I have received 
from the inhabitants of this ifland; I have 
vifited their gardens, and every where left 
among them feeds of the vegetables and 
flowers of Europe. 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In May, 1802. 
EE la 
FRANCE. 
HE celebration of the return of 
Peace, and the re-eftadlifiment of 
Popery, took place on Eafter Sunday, 
with great parade and oftentation, in the 
cathedral of Notre Dame, at Paris. The 
Chief Conlul was introduced into the 
church by the Cardinal Legate, and af- 
terwards took his place on the throne 
which was formerly allotted to the Kings 
of France, but which, for this occation, 
inftead of a throne, was denominated a 
temple! The fermon was preached by 
the Archbifhop of Aix, the very prelate 
who officiated in the faine character be- 
tore Louis XVI. on his coronation. 
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