1801. ] 
will only have the fame effect as 80 pairs 
ef filver and zinc vlates.. This compofi- 
tion however is lefs expenfive, and not fo 
extily oxydabie. The metallic compofi- 
tion for making types has nearly the fame 
effeét. 
The French General ViaL, whois lately 
returned from Egypt to France, has pre- 
fented tothe Chief Conful an antique sor/o 
of the greateft beauty. It repreients the 
‘body of a youth of 15, worked quite ana- 
tomically. It was found in the Delta, 
and is {uppotfed to originate from the Ba- 
byionian temple. Connciffeurs value it as 
the moft exquifite prece of fculpture that 
bas been found by the French in Egypt. 
The hieroglyphics, with which it is cover- 
ed, are perfectly well prelerved. 
- By Order of General MENov an Ara- 
bic Journal is printing at Cairo, in order 
to publifh the tranfactions of the French 
government throughout Egypt, to ba- 
nifh the prejudices and fears of the inha- 
bitants, and to eftabliti more confidence 
between them andthe French. It is en- 
titled Tombeyéh (accounts) conducted ‘by 
the Secretary of the Divan, Cheik Leyd Is~ 
wiael et Kharbab, and printed in the na- 
tional office atCairo. The chieftains of 
the different caravans that refort to this 
place receive feveral copies, and are to take 
every opportunity of {preading this publi- 
cation through the medium of trade to 
Yemen, Syria, and the interior part of 
Africa. Previoufly to its being printed, 
it pafles the cenfure of the Ulema, that no- 
thing contrary to the religious and civil 
laws may be inferted in it. It confifts of 
the, following fe€tions: 1, Tranfaétions 
of the French Government. 2, Tran{- 
aétions of the Divan. 43. Account of the 
Nautical Affairs of Europe and Afia, as 
far as they poffefs any intereft to the Egyp- 
tians. 4. Papers and treatifes relating to 
arts, fciences, morals and politics. ‘The 
fuperintendance of this journal is intrufted 
to Citizen Fourier, chief of the law ad- 
miniftration. | 
Several Members of the Philological 
Society of Leipfic have formed themf{clves 
into a fociety, with a viewof publifhing 
a new Journal of Philology, written in 
Latin, and edited by profeflor Beck. It 
will appear under the title of Cosmmentarii 
Societatis Philologice Lipfienfis, and will 
contain Memoirs on Philology in general, 
critical ob{ervations on authors and an- 
cient monuments, withthe method of in- 
veftigating and explaining them. It is 
alfo intended to be a repofitory for inte- 
refting paflages, and extraéts from works 
on philology, which, on account of their 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 53 
fhortnefs, are often too foon forgotten or 
neglected. This work will alfo contain 
extracts and tranflations from foreign jour- 
nals, notices of new works, and, in fhort, 
every thing which may promote the ftudy 
of this interefting branch of fcience. One 
number of this Journal, containing twelve 
fheets, 8vo. will appear every three 
months, beginning from 18o0r. 
The Epidemic Diftemper, which ra- 
vaged Andalufia, has entirely difappear- 
ed. This is attributed, in a great mea- 
fure, to the fumigations with muriatic 
acid, recommended’ by C. Guyron. 
The flattering reception given to the 
three phyficians fent by the French govern- 
ment to thele diltrefled countries, do ho- 
nour to the choice of the School of Mont- 
pelier. Thefe three Profeflors, on their 
return from Andalufia, experienced the 
moit honourable attentions at: Madrid. 
M. vE MasDewaLt, firft Phyfician to the 
King, prefented them to the Prince of 
Peace, and afterwards gave a fraternal 
dinner, at which all the moft celebrated 
phyficians of Madrid were prefent. M. 
de Mai{dewal did not hefitate to declare, 
that he owed his rank and fortune in the 
profeffion to the education which he re- 
ceived at Montpelier, under the celebrated 
practitioner CHaPTAL, uncle to the pre- 
{ent minifter, and eminent chemift. ; 
A; young botanift in Saxony, Dr. 
SCHWEGRICHEN, is about to publith two 
volumes of the pofthumous works of 
HeEpwic, with a greatnumber of coloured 
plates. 
Three numbers of a valuable work have 
appeared, publithed by the Count of 
WaLpsTeEN and Dr. KiraiBEL, intix 
tled Plante Rariores Hungarica imdigene. 
They contain a nuiwber of interefting 
plants, with plates, nearly in the ftyle of 
JaCQuin, that is to fay, (ome of them very 
good, others indifferent. It is remarkable 
thar thefe fkiltul botanifts have found, in 
the fpring-head of a mineral-water in Hun- 
gary, the Nymphea Lotus, a plant which 
has hitherto been thought to belong ex- 
clufively to Egypt and the Haft Indies. 
Tu. De SaussuRE, has been making 
fome very interefting experiments on the 
combination of alumine with carbome 
acid, and with water. Re(peéting the ex- 
iftence of carbonated alumime, very diffe- 
rent opinions have been entertained by 
chemifts of the firteminence. FouRCRoY 
afirms, that, if toa folution of common 
alum, carbonated potafh be carefully ad- 
ded, there will be a copious precipitate, 
without any confiderable extrication of 
carbonic acid 5 and that if the precipitate, 
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