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educated inthe Oriental Academy at /7- 
ewna, and at prefent emploved in the Em- 
peror’s fervice at the Legation of Conitan- - 
tineple, has undertaken a literary excur- 
fon into 4fa-auxor, and chiefly in the pro- 
vince of Trees. 
The celebrated Fontana (formerly di- 
geGtor of the Grand-duke’s colleS&ion of 
natural hiftory at Floremce) who had re- 
tired to Mrax, is returned to his former 
refiience at Florence, where he is makirg 
Wery curious exveriments on the /exfrive 
faculty of vegetables, which experiments 
will toon be publithed. 
By a decree of the Confuls of the 
Freach Republic, of the 3d of Fradidor, 
the National Library is to be removed 
from its prefent place (Rae Vivierre) into 
the Leuwre, or the great palace joining 
the Thaslleries. In confequence of this 
decree, the private lodgers of that quarter 
are obliced to leave their apartments be- 
fore the firft of the next month (Frinaire). 
From that day, no fire of any kind wiil be 
perraitted to be lighted in the whole cir- 
cumference of the Louvre. The library 
will be completely eitablifhed there during 
the courlé of the rrth year. 
The Miniter of the Interior has juft 
publithed a Programa, in order to excite 
the artifts to render their machines for 
working wool more perfet. To this end, 
after having ordered the machines hitherto 
known to be de‘cribed and engraved, he 
has propof a firft prize of 40,000 livres to 
the artift, who, before the rt of Meffidor, 
fhall have confiru@ed his machines of a de- 
gree of excellence the moft advantageous 
to commerce; and a fecond prize of 
20,000 livres, for the artift who fhall 
have deferved the fecond beft.. The fen- 
tence of the jury will be proclaimed on 
the x1ft of Frudfidor, of the year 10 3 and 
in the fame yearthe machines, which have 
received the premium, will be publicly 
expofed among other produdlions of French 
anculry. — 
The Society of Sciences and Arts in the 
department of the Giyerde is about to en- 
courege plantations of trees in the ceme- 
leries round the towns, and onthe high- 
ways. . 
The King of Spain has lately given or- 
Gers, that, through his whole kingdom, 
only one kind of weights and meaiures 
fhali be ufed. 
The Botanical Garden of Madrid, 
whofe direéter at prefent 1s the Abbé Ca- 
VANILLEs, has lately obtained a new or- 
anization. Its fpace is to be enlarged, 
fo as to receive the guizguiaa, the balm- 
are, the fg the cece, and other palm- 
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Literary and Philofsphical Intelligence’ 
Ruffias 3 
[Nov. Ty 
trees. Thefe precious plants were firft 
traniplanted from their native foil to the 
Canary Ifands, and thence todndalujfia, the 
moft jouthern province of Spain. By this 
fucceflive tranfplantation, they are ac- 
cultomed to the climate of the capital, 
Madrid. It is to M. CEVALLOs, Mi- 
nifter of State, that. Spain is indebted for its 
progre(s in natural hiftory, and particu- 
larly in botaby. His tafte for plants. 
has been cOMmunicated to a number of 
Spanith pupils. They feduloufly frequent. 
the leffons of M. Cavanilles, the only pro- 
feffor of that feience at Madrid. 
M. Kant, the German philofopher of 
Konig foerg, has been elected an honorary 
member of the Academia Italiana, efta- 
blithed at Sienna in the year 1799. The 
CountVarcas, in his letter directed tohim, 
fays, among other things, that the Ita-- 
lian Academy has propofed particularly to — 
make known his fublime philofophy in 
Ttaly. 
Captain Bavuprn, on his voyage of 
dilcovery, left the [fe de France the 24th 
of April laf, and was to that time fafely 
profecuting the objects of his voyage. 
The celebrated German -eompofer, 
Haynn, is about to publith a new mufical 
performance, under the title of “* The Laff 
Judgment. 
The fame gentlemamhas lately received 
the gold medal, coined on purpofe, from 
the Mufical Society of the Dhéatre des 
4ris at Parit, as a token of their high 
efieem for his talents difplayed in the ora- 
~ torio of ** The Creation,” 
At Fienna there has been eftabfifhed a 
Panorama after the Englifh fafhion, in 
which Londen, from the point of the A 
bion-mills, is reprefented. At Copenhagen 
another Panorama will be ereéted, to exhi- 
bit the Jaft naval battle in the Soumd. M. 
LORENZEN, the aulic-painter, has juft fi-- 
nithed his great pi€ture, in which the 
battle of the 2d of April is to be exhibited. 
The King of Spain has ordered, that, 
in the capital of each province a Profeffor- 
fhip of Chemijiry and Botany thall he 
eftablifhed. . hha 2 
A new Tranflation of Offian’s Poems, 
in poetical-profe, by ScHRoDER has Jate- 
ly been publifhed in Germany. 
The celebrated artift, M. Abramfon, at 
Berlin, has ftruck a medal on the accef- 
fion. of the prefent Emperor of Ruffia. 
One fide reprefents the image of the Em- 
perer in uniform, with an infcription in 
German: Alexander I. Sovereign of all the 
on the reverfe is imprefltd a’ 
young Hercules, who, inftead of the club, 
holds a rudder in his hand, embracing the 
Goddefs. 
