1801.] 
E a quefte fogtie 
Rivolgi il piedey 
Ove ti invoca 
La mia Licoride, 
E qualche tregua 
Al duol ti chiede. 
Vengan le immagini ' 
‘Teco ridenti, 
Venga la calma 
D’ obblio, che tempera 
Gli acuti fpafimi 
Dei cor dolenti. | 
‘Teco la rofea 
Salute antica 
Venga, e s’é d’uopo,y 
Qualch’ ora.involami, 
E all’ egra donala 
Mia dolce amica. 
There are at prefent in Paris 455 book- 
fellers, 340 printers, 138 bookbinders, q1 
fiitchers of pamphlets, 327 engravers, 35 
copper plate printers, 49 printfellers, and 
71 old-book-fhops ; 240 fellers of lemon- 
ade, 200 keepers ; of cook’s fhops, 630 
wine-merchants, 146 perfumers, 154 lot- 
tery-office-keepers; and 975 actors, ac- 
trefles, fingers; dancers, &c. 
A recent cenfus of the United States in 
North America makes their population 
amount ‘to about 6,000,000;- merchant 
thipping, above 100,000 tons; the value 
of their yearly exports, above 70,000,000 
of dollars; and their public-revenue, 
35,000,000 of dollars, 
M. CasT1LLo, Secretary to the Em- 
baffy of Spain, an enlightened friend of the 
fciences ; and M. Zea, a naturalift, pen- 
fioned by his Catholic Majeity; have lately 
introduced the vaccine-inoculation at Ma- 
drid. The-officers and minifters of ftate 
have been anxious to fet the .example, 
by fubmitting their children to this new 
kind of inoculation. ‘The celebrated M.- 
ALonzo, to whom natural hiftory owes fo 
much, accelerates the progrefs of this dif- 
covery, by aflifting the phyficians with all 
his means, and the credit which he derives 
from his place of Minifter of Grace and Juf- 
tice. Mi Cosra, a diftinguithed Profeffor 
of the Royal;College of San Carlos, has been 
appointed to dire&t the operations ; and M. 
Alonzo is to communicate the refults to 
the learned focieties of Paris. 
TheTheological Clafs on the Teylerian- 
foundation, at Harlem, propofes, for the 
fubject of a prize, to be adjudged April 8, 
2802—the Inconveniences of a National 
Religion ; that is to fay, of a Form of Wor- 
Seip privileged and paid by the State.—The 
fouddation admits memoirs in Latin, 
MontruLy Mac, N&. 78. 
Literary and Philjfophical Intelligence, 
wl 
Dutch, French, and Englifh. The coms 
petition will be clofed on the firft of Die . 
cember, 1801. In the developement of 
the proofs of the fubject propoied, the clals 
invites the candidates to join a plan’ of or- 
ganization for different religious focieties, 
founded on the grand priuciple of equality 
of rights. re 
The Teylerian Society has caufed to be 
conftructed, at its own expence, under the 
direction of D. VanMaRUM, a Dige/ter 
of Papin, in acomplete ftyle, for the pur- 
pole of making foups, to be diftributed 
gratuitoufly to the poor. Sixty-two 
pounds of ox-bone boiled and boiled over 
again a fecond time, for two houts toge- 
ther, in this cauldron, have produced fix. 
teen pounds of a very nourifhing jelly. 
A correfpondent of the Decade Phi- 
lofophique has lately communicated to the 
editors, a difeovery which he made by ac- 
cident, of a method of preferving muth- 
rooms dry, without deforming them. Bo- 
tanifts, he obferves, know how to colleét 
and preferve plants, but he has never yet 
heard of their being able to preferve mufh- 
rooms, The authcr lives near the fea- 
fhore, in a country, the foil of which is 
fandy, and where downs are formed which 
frequently fhift their place. Intraverfing 
on foot one of thefé downs, he met with 
mufhrooms buried. under the fand, and 
which preferved their form. He madea 
colle€tion of them, and found that they 
fuffered no alteration afterwards ; indeed 
they ferved him for an hygrometer ; but 
if they foften in moift weather, they re- 
cover their hardnefs in dry weather; and, 
every principle of vegetation being’ de 
ftroyed, their form does not alter either 
by wrinkles or by rottennefs. In imitat- 
ing the procefs of nature, and drying thefe 
mufhrooms in a ftove of fand moderately 
heated, as they dry flowers the fhape and 
natural colour of which are intended to be 
preferved, it will be poffitle to form a col- 
lection of mufhrooms. The only thing 
required will be to have fand very pure, 
deprived, by repeated wathings, of all its 
terrene particles, to inclofe the mufhroom 
in it; dry it in the oven after the baking 
of bread, and afterwards fecure it from 
duft and infeéts. Citizen pe CETTE, the 
difcoverer, is of opinion, that the prefence 
of a part of muriat of foda, contained in 
the falts'on the fea-fhore, is not neceffary 
to the confervation of mufhrooms; onthe 
contrary, it may injure them, as it favours . 
humidity, and humidity favours a vege 
tation, which requires to he checked. 
The fands under which Citizen Cette 
Le * foun 
