538 
an oxymyriat in folid form obtained, of 
which the lye is prepared. Another fub- 
itance however, that may be employed for 
that purpofe, is the fulphurated: lime, or 
the liver of lime, which, befides its aéting 
fill more on the fibre of flax,'has the ad- 
vantage of being lefs expenfive than potafh, 
and may be applied cold. Citizen Chaptal 
fucceded in employing vapours of oxyge- 
nated muriatic acid, for bleaching cotton, 
flax, and hemp, and invented the inftru- 
ments with which that operation is per- 
formed at the mannfaétory of Citizen 
Bawens, and through means of which, 
2000 or 3000 yards of cotton cloth are 
bleached in a day. Qld engravings and 
books of a high value can be revived 
in a fimilar manner, and the worft fort of 
rags prepared for very good paper. This 
method ef bleaching is likewile of great’ 
ule in cleanfing the linen of an hofpital, 
which is ftained with different morbid mat- 
ters,and of which it is not freed -by the 
mott careful wafhing- A full account of 
the whole procefs. is to be found in the 
work of Citizen Chaptal, publifhed by 
Citizen O'ReiLity: Effai fur le Blanche- 
mneni, avec la Defcription de la Nouvelle Me- 
thode de blanchir d@ apres les Procedés du 
Citoyen Chaptal, et fon Application aux Arts, 
Paris, 1801, with 14 engravings. 
A building is about to. be ereéted at 
Paris, deftined for the Confervatory of 
Mufic, the groundftone of which was 
laid by Citizen CHAPTAL, Minifter of the 
Interior, on the 5thot Augutt lat. The 
mufica] library confifts of more than sooo 
manufcripts of foreign mufic, the greateft 
part of which were collected by Bonaparte, 
in the year1797,10 Italy. Thenumber of 
pieces of French mufic is nearly the fame. 
Throughout the whole Reffian empire 
the booklelling-trade is again as free and 
unrefiritted as under the reign of the Em- 
prejs Catherine. 
Gorred? Lift of New Publications. 
It has been calculated, 
{ Jan. y 
that fince the death of Paul, 200,0ce rn- 
bles-worth of German books only have 
been imported into Ruffia. "The Cour- 
Janders, Livonians, and Efthonians are 
again permitted to ftudy at the German 
Univerfities. At that of Jena alone, 
above 65 ftudents arrived laft autumn 
from Roffia. 
In the margraviate of Baden, a Jaw 
was publifhed on the 18th of June, by 
which it was ordered, that in future no cir- 
culating library fhould be eftablifhed with. 
out previoufly obtaining a licence from the. 
magiftrate: and that ftrict inguiry thould 
be made relative to the character and qua- 
iifications of the perfon who forms fuch an 
inftitution. 
It having been found, that the number 
of printers in Prague had increafed beyond 
due proporticn, it was ordered by an Im- 
perial Ediét, dated the 14th of April, that 
not only agreeably to the regulation of the 
18th of May, 1793 the number of print: 
ing offices in the country-parts fhould not 
be increafed, but that in Prague too, it 
fhould be fo limited, that when two offices 
were relinguifhed, only one thould be al- 
lowed to be eftablifhed in their ftead, until 
the number of them fhall be fo far re- 
duced, that every printer may be able ta 
fupport himfelf, and pay taxes to Govern- 
ment by profits arifing from the printing 
of fuch books as are publifhed by the per- 
miffion of the licenfers. : 
Dr. HitpeBRAND, Profeflor of Medi- 
cine at Lemberg, has been trying fugar of 
lead as a remedy in pulmonic confumps 
tion. Of 17 patients, whom he had une 
der his care, he ftates, that four were com- 
pletely cured: but in the others, the fup= 
puration of the lungs had already proceeds 
ed too far, as appeared on opening them af- 
ter theirdeath. The fugar of lead is givens 
according to circumftances, mixed with, 
opium. 
LIST or NEW PUBLICATIONS 1n DECEMBER. 
ANTIQUITIES. 
Munumenta Antiqua; or, Obfervations 
en Ancient Cafties, on the Progrefs of Ar- 
chiteéture in Great Britain, and on the cor- 
refponding Changes in Manners, Laws, and-~ 
Cuftoms. By Edward King, Efg. vol. 2, 
3l. 7s. 6d. Nicol. 
_ ASTRONOMY. 
A Treatife on Aftronomy, in which the 
Elements of the Science are deduced in a ra- 
tural order, demonftrated on mathematical 
Principles, and explained by an application 
to the various Phenomena. By Olinthus 
Gregory, large volume, 8vo, with Plates, 
15s. Raia Kearfley, 
COMMERCE. : 
Obfervations on the Reports of the Di- 
re€tors of the Eaft India Company refpeting 
the Trade between India and Europe, Tao 
which is added, An Appendix, containing 
the Papers referred to in the Work. B 
Thomas Henchman, Efq. 10. 6d. 
Wright. : 
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