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perfectionating their trades and profeffions. 
‘The teachers are nominated by a com- 
mittee of the academy at Berlin. The 
pupils are taught drswing in the drawing~- 
ic hools already eftablifhed at a former pe- 
riod, 
A perfon at Paris has difcovered a kind 
of ink, which cannot be effaced by oxy- 
genated muriatic acid,.nor by any re- 
aétive chemical preparation. 
Citizen Lanciss has lately ¢ printed in 
Paris, a Notice on the Hiftary of Gzen- 
Giskan, extracted from a Perfian manu- 
fctipt, which gives a new proof of the ta- 
Jents and the enlarged views of that con- 
gueror, who was likewife a legiflator. 
‘The curious reader will fee here a pretty 
long and very interefting extract from the 
code which he pablithed, and which 1s 
rinted in the work here announced, in its 
original language, with the Peifian cha- 
racters in the poffeffion of the National 
. Printing-office. This Perfian morceau 
contains thirteen pages, and is larger than 
any fimilar fragment printed in Fra ance for 
more than a centur y pat. 
‘In another notice by Citizen LANGLES, 
on a Vatin-Chinefe-Mantchou Dictionary, 
in manufcript, the reader will further fee 
“a model of the Mantchoux charaéters, the 
‘firft which have been engraved in Europe, 
and fo much the more valuable as the 
Mantchoux language may perfectly fup- 
ply in Europe the knowledge of the Chi- 
nefe. In fact, the. Empecrors_of the 
Mantchou race, who have governed China 
for 250 years paft, have not ceafed during 
that period to caufe to bg tranflated into 
their maternal tongue all the good works 
which exift in China... Kam at, the fe- 
cond of that dynafty, eftablifhed for tHis 
very purpofe a. Tribunal of Tranflators, 
which even fubfifts fo this,day. In ex- 
pectation that the peace may finally re- 
eftablith the relations .which formerly ex- 
iftedj between Citizen Langles himfelt and 
the Miffionaries in China, he informs us 
that there is already a collection of 200 
Mantcheu works, both original and tranf- 
Fated from the Chinefe, that have been ac- 
cumulating for 150 years paft in the Na- 
tional Library ; ; and that it is his intention 
-to profit by the Continuation of the No- 
tice: and ExtraGs, to make thefe works 
known to the public. Thefe Notices and 
Extracts, taken from the manu(cripts of 
the National Library and other libraries 
are publifhed, from time to time, by the 
National Inftitute of France, and are in- 
tended to form a fequel to the Notices and 
_Extraéts formerly read to the Commitree 
‘eftablithed in the ci-devant mec ay of 
~ 
*) ‘ 
Literary and Philofephieal Intelligence. 
438 
ink criptions and Belles hicdieees Before 
the revolution the manulcripts of all kinds, 
contained in what is now called the Na- 
tional Library, amounted to morte thaa 
80,050 3; but this valuable depét having 
been fince enriched with the manutcripts 
that have come-from Belginm and Italy, 
and with all thofe, which formerly mak- 
ing a part of other public or private cole 
lections, have been thought wey to en- 
ter into this, it is now more complete than 
ever in its enfemble,and more rich in rares 
valuable and well preferved works, fo. that 
no other exilting collection in Europe can. . 
now be com pared with it, The above 
work is intitled Notices and Extraéts, and 
is the firth volume of a collection, defigned 
in its progref{s, to execute an, inancnte and 
dificult undertaking, viz. by fimaller oz 
jarger extracts, to fpread the knowledge of 
fuch an ‘immenfe quantity - of valuable 
works, which, however well, preferved 
now, muit neceffarily, in time, undergo the 
common law of returning to duft.* 
The Mufeum Galle ry of Antiques at 
Paris, has been open fince the 18th of 
Brumaire laft.: On the three laft-days of 
each decade, the entrance is public ; the 
other days are referved for the artifts that 
go there to perfect themfelves in the fludy 
of defign. What intereft, what refources 
willthey not henceforth find, in this collec- - 
tion of the finett remains. of antiquity!—a 
colleGtion fuch as could never have been 
met with at Rome, where they were, for 
* It was the Academy of Tnicriptions and 
Belles Lettres, that in 1785 conceived the idea 
of this great and commendable undertaking. 
t nominated for this perpofe eight commil- 
faries, and moreover invited all its members | 
to concur in it; the Academy further ad- 
dreffed a general invitation to all the /Herati 
of France, to make known the manufcripts 
contained in public or private depéts where 
they had accefgs. The firt volume of the 
Notices and Extraé&és appeared in 17375 the 
fecond in 1789, and the third in-the following 
year. The printing of the fourth volume 
had been begun in 1791, but circumftances, 
and, above all, the fuppreffien of the Academy, 
which was decreed in 1793, retarded its pub- 
lication, and it was only lately carried into 
effeét. After the ftorms of the revolution, 
on the revival of fciences and letters, the 
National Inftitute was charged by a formal 
law to continue the notices of the manufcripts ; and’ 
it has accordingly, in every point, followed 
the plan of the Academy, and the fifth vo- 
lume, already announced, is the fruit of this 
new labour 5 it contains 43 Extracts or No- 
tices of Arabic,’ Perfian, Turkith, Tartar, 
Mantchou, Greek, Latin, and etch Manu | 
f{cripts, with toute anecdotical pieces. — ‘i 
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