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A method has been difcovered and prac- 
tifed with fuccefs, by M. Ben TRAND, at 
Metz, of extracting a fpirit from potatoes. 
‘The proce(s is as tollows: Take 600 Ibs. 
of potatoes, and boil them in fteam about 
three-quarters of anhour till they willfall to 
pieces on being touched. ‘The veffelinwhich 
they are boiled confits of a tub, fomewhat 
inclined: In the lower part of it are two 
koles, one for the purpofe of bringing 
in the fteam produced in another veflel 
aver a coal fire, and the other made to 
carry off occafionally the condenfed wa- 
After the potatoes are. boiled, they 
are crufhed and diluted -with hot water till 
they are of a liquid confiftence;, then add 
twenty-five pounds of ground malt, and 
two quarts of wort; the mixture is to be 
flirred, covered with a-cloth, and kept to 
the temperature of 159 of Reaumur, or 
of 66° nearly of Fahrenheit. After fer- 
mentation, and the exhalation of the car- 
bonic acid, the matter finks down, and is 
fit for diftillation. By means of two fills, 
this mafs may be reétified in one day, and 
it will produce about forty-four quarts of 
fpirit, worth a guinea and a half, while 
the whole colt, including coals and labour, 
is about twenty-three fhillings and fix- 
pence. The refiduum is good food for 
hogs. 
A manufattory of cloth impermeable to 
water has lately been eftablifhed at Paris. 
Veffels are made of it capable of contain- 
ing liquids, extremely light, and not liable 
to accidents. It is likewife ufed for co- 
vering fheds, for horie cloths, water- 
fpouts, bags, and even great coats. [It is 
not affected by drynefs or humidity, or 
by boiling water: and it has already fur- 
nifhed many of the public as well as pri- 
vate eftablifhments of Paris with buckets 
to be ufed in cafe of fire. 
KoTrzEBueE, the celebrated German 
dramatift, has begun to publifh a journal 
at Berlin, under-the title of Sizcerity, on 
fubjeGts of general literature and politics, 
The King has fent him the following let- 
ters - 
‘© His Mayefty the King of Proffia is ex- 
tremely glad to fee M. Yon Kotzebue at 
Bertin, whofe writings, and in particular 
whofe theatrical productions, have leng 
charmed the public. His Majeity, pleafed 
with the talents of M. Von Kotzebue, as 
well as with the ufe to which he applies 
them, defires te give him fuch a proof of it 
as may engage him, if not to fettle in Ber- 
lin, at-leaft to prolong his flay. For this 
purpofe, his Majefty has this day ordered the 
Academy ef Sciences to receive iim in qua- 
lity of an Honorary Member; and, a3 foon 
as there fhall he a vacant place in-any of the 
62 Literary and Philofephical Intelligence. 
* 
[March t, 
claffes, whether of philofophy, anatomy, or 
hiftory, to elect him an ordinary member. 
His Majefty has, at the fame time, granted 
to M.Von Kotzebue the reverfion of a prebend 
in the chapter of St, Nicholas at Magde- 
burgh, with permiffion to wear the canonicals © 
of the chapter, ‘on condition of hearing a 
part in the ufual expences. His Majefty has 
accordingly given the neceffary orders to Mu 
Von Maffow, Minifter of State; and, in 
communicating all this toM. Von Kotzebue, 
avails himfelf with pleafure of the opportu~ 
nity of giving him, at the fame time, the af= 
furance of the good will with which he is. 
his affeftionate, &c.” AGS 
Since the commencement of the reign of 
the prefent King,Guttavus IIL. of Sweden, 
the progrefs of letters. and arts has,within 
a fhort {pace, been confiderably accelerat- 
ed in that country. It is to this prince that 
Sweden owes a national opera and the efta- 
blifhment of an Academy of Mufic ; and 
that of Painting and of Sculpture is indebr- 
ed to him for fome new regulations. . This 
prince, moreover, founded, or, at leaft, 
fettied the Swedifh Academy, on a plan fi- 
mijar to that of the French Academy, and 
laid the foundations of the Royal Mufeum. 
Under his aufpices, poets and prole-wri- 
ters of the fir order have diftinguifhed 
them(elves ; he has animated and encou- 
raged the fongs of the Counts Gyllenborg, 
Creutz, and Oxentftieraa ; the writers Kell- 
gren, Leopold, Belman, Thorrild, Lidner, 
| Franzen, &c. The collection of the pieces. 
of M. Leopold, one of the coadjutors of 
Guftazvus, and who was very fuccefsful 
in moral fatire, appeared at Stockholm in 
the years 1800 and 1801, in 2 vols. fome 
pieces not before publithed are to be found 
in them. The Swedifh Academy has be- 
gun to publifh a new edition of its me- 
moirs in 8yo. it will form two colleétions, 
one to contain the memoirs of the interval | 
from 1756 to 1796, and already printed ; 
the other, thofe which date from 1796, 
and are yet unpublifned. The firft vo-. 
lume of each cojlection has already ap- 
peared. ; eee 
M. Nicotas KaLuGin, citizen of — 
Motcow, having lately laid before his 
Imperial Majefty the particulars of a pro- 
cefs of his invention, whereby, woollen 
ftuffs may he dyed a dark green with the 
juice of nettles, has received a reward of 
500 roubles, with an order that his pro- 
cefs fhould be placed in a manufacture ap- 
pertaining to the crown, and in fuch a. 
wnanner as fhall do honour to the talents 
and genius of the inventor. 
The Bohemian, or, to fpeak more pro- 
perly, the Sclavonian literature, has, at _ 
piefent, very zealous advocates and pa- 
trons in. Hungary, There has been re- 
. cently 
