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bottom of the decanter. M. tee 
of Paris, recommends fmal]l brafs wire to 
be ufed inflead of thread, part of which 
fhould be fixed perpendicularly to the bot- 
tom of the zinc, and turned in a fpiral di- 
reftion, by which every particle of zinc 
will be covered with an infinite number 
of {mall metallic laminz difpofed in every 
direction. 
The national mufeum at Paris-has late- 
ly been enriched with Raphael’s ‘Transfi- 
guration. This picture had been left un- 
finifhed by the artift, and was laid upon 
his coffin, as a flent panegyric of his 
tranfcendant.talents. It was painted for 
Cardinal Julius de Medicis, and intended 
for the cathedral of Narbonne, of which 
lhe was bifhop; but was detained at Rome, 
in fpite of all remonftrances, until the 
wictorious Bonaparte wrefted it from the 
gra{p of the Italjans. 
From the report of the commiffioners, 
appointed by the King of Denmark to 
promote the introduétion of vacciolous 
inoculation, it appears, that, at the end 
of the year 1802, 648p perfons had been 
inoculated with the cow.pox, in the Da- 
nifh dominions. 
Mr. GoscHEN, the celebrated book- 
feller, in Leipfic, has announced a moft 
fplendic edition of the Greek New Tefta- 
ment, in three volumes large gto, or {mall 
folio: — the text to be revifed by the 
, Rey. Mr. Griefbach, whofe critical Ja- 
bours are well-known, and highly efteemed, 
by biblical fudents. But what will parti- 
cularly diltinguith this new edition, are the 
Greek types, in the forming of which the 
artift had the afliftance of an eminent pen- 
man, and cf feveral Gteek fcholars, who 
confulted the ancient manufcripts; and 
the refult of their labours is faid to fur- 
pals, for tafteful execution and flowing 
elegance, every former attempt of . the 
kind—even the {pecimens lately exhibited 
by Didot. The Reverend Mr. Maxwell, 
now at Weimar, who had feen the firit 
fheet of Golchen’s edition, gives the fol- 
lowing teftimony in its favor: 
«6 J admire the new types extremely ; the 
form is beautiful and diftinét; upon the 
whole, I do not believe we have any edition 
ef a Greek book equal toit in Britain, I 
have had frequent opportunities of feeing 
the famous editions of Foulis, at Glafgow, 
and Bulmer, of London, but récolleé& nothing, 
from either, fo beautiful as the prefent f{plen- 
did fpecimens.” 
1 The magnificent colietion of ftatues 
and antiques, which had hitherto lain un- 
‘Known and ulelefs, at the Michaelof pa- 
Literary “and Phil ofe phical Tateliigencs, 
f April 1, 
ee, te Peterburg, has been removed to 
the Taurian-palace, where the Emperor 
intends, in future, to pafs the vernal and 
autumnal months. 
The governnient of the Italian Repub- 
lic has appropriated the ree fums 
for public inftruétion. 
the falaries of the ores the wages 
of fervants, the expences of keeping-up 
the cabinets of arts and f{ciences, the bo- 
tanic-gardens, and obfervatories of the 
univerfities of Pavia and Bologna,400,000 . 
livres. 2. For penfions, and the gradual 
augmentation of the falaries of the pro-_ 
3. For the fup-~ 
feflors, 99,000 livres. 
port of the two academies of Belles 
Lettres, at Bologna and Milan, 100,000 
livres. 4. For the four {chools of metal- 
lurgy, hydroftatics, ftatuary, and the 
5. For 
veterinary art, 36,000 livres. 
extraordinary rewards, &c. 20,000 livres. 
6. For premiums for new economical and 
technological. difcoveries, 20, 000 livres. 
‘Total, 666,000 livres. 
The learned Abbé Cut Tae! formerly 
librarian to the unfortunate princefs de 
Lambatle,has been appointed keeper of the 
archiepifcopal library in Paris. 
Mad. SrazL pE HoLsTEin’s ¢ Del- 
phine,”’ a novel,read with great avidity by 
the Parifian publie, has been prohibited and 
confilcated by the officers of the police. 
PaNKOUKE, the moft deferving, en- 
lightened, 
world, ce been condemned to tranfpor- 
tation, for publifhing a fatire, at Paris, 
againft the ihe. intitled, Mentor 
at Corinth ! 
The new government feems to be refol-_ 
ved to reficre the univerfity of Geneva, 
the only one in France peculiarly appro- 
priated to the Calvinifts, te its former 
luftre. Several new profeflors have lately 
been appointed — Necker, De Sauffure, 
and Voucheur, profeffors of botany ; Ju- 
rine, profeffor of furgery ; Tingry of 
chemiftry ; Picot of ftatiltics, &c, 
3t is ftated in a late number of ies 
Moniteur, that of that official paper z0005 
of the Publicifte 2900, of the Journal de 
Paris 2800, of the Journal des Debats 
(which is moit favourable to the ancient 
order of things) 6000, of the Clef des 
Cabinets 11000, of the Citoyen Francais 
1200, of the Journal des Defenfeurs de 
la Patrie 1000, of the Décade Philofo- 
phique 900, and of the Englith newf- 
paper called. the Argus 720, copies 
are fold. ~ Nothing more ftrongly e= 
vinces the wretched ftate of French lite-' 
rature, and the public opinion of the me: 
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