1803. | 
recting of air balloons; and afterwards 
exhibited the machinery in one of the 
rooms belonging to the Academy. Gar- 
nerin, the celebrated atronaut, who was 
then in Berlin, is faid to have greatly ad- 
mired this invention. ; 
A Latin tranflation will fhortly be pub- 
lifhed in Italy, of the Important Papers 
and Memoirs of ANTONIO DE LEONE 
AND Gama, who lately died at Mexico, 
where ke was attached to the office of Se- 
cretary of State. He poffefied the moft 
ample collection that ever exifted of an- 
cient Mexican monuments of every kind ; 
ftatues, idols, talifmans, and MSS. on deer- 
ikins, &c. He was diftinguithed by his inti- 
mate knowledse of the calendar, the 
chronology, the numifmatics, and gno- 
monics of that civilized people, which 
has been erroneoufly confidered as plunged 
ina grofs and degrading ignorance, but 
which, on the contrary, without any in- 
tercourfe with the Old World, had made 
confiderable progrefs in arithmetic, aftro- 
nomy, mechanics, and other {ciences. 
The Ruffian Major ANTHING, the bio- 
grapher of Suwarrow, intends, in con- 
junction ‘with Mr. SAUNDERS, an inge- 
nious young Englifh engraver, (who had 
been invited to Peterfburg by the lately 
deceafed Prince Befborodko, to engrave 
the principal pieces of his valuable col- 
Jeftion of pictures) to publifh a ‘* Piétu- 
- re{que Tour through Ruffia.””. Something 
more than common may be expected from 
the undertaking, as Major Anthing has 
accefs to the extenfive Befborodfko Col- 
. lection of Drawings, exhibiting Views in 
Ruffia. The firft number will begin with 
the Ruffian Antiquities in Mofcow. © 
A Statiftical Saciety has lately been 
eftablifhed at Paris; the object of whofe 
attention will be the collection and exa- 
mination of ftatiftical data relative to 
France and other countries. The refults 
of their labours will be communicated to 
the public in the Newfpapers or Journals, 
er in feparate Differtations. Mentelle, 
Review of New Mufical Publications. 367 
the geographer, has been elected prefident; 
Defgenettes, vice-prefident ; and Ballois, 
‘editor of the Annales de Stati/lique, per- 
petual fecretary. 
CavaLizre-LANDOLINA, of Syracufey 
has re-difcovered the art of making paper 
of the Papyrus, which grows abundantly 
in Sicily. 
Of the progrefs of Dr. SecrzEn’s 
journey to Africa further accounts have 
been received at the Obfervatory of See- 
berg. The number and accuracy of aftro- 
nomico-geographical obfervations, which 
he has already communicated, muft excite 
admiration. Baron Zach, in his Mozat- 
liche Correfpondenz, afferts, that, in the 
fhort fpace of a quarter of a year, Dre 
Seétzen has contributed more towards per- 
feCtionating the geography of Hungary 
and the adjoining countries, than had been 
done before him in the courfe of a century. 
The refults are detailed in Von Zach’s 
Mer. Cor. Jan. 1803. His fecond letter 
from Buchareft, the capital of Wallachia, 
- dated Nov. 1, 1802, contains a very in- 
terefting account of the earthquake ob- 
ferved there by him on the 26th of Octo- 
ber, between the hours of twelve and one 
at noon. The éarth had a completely 
undulatory motion. The ftecples of the 
Greek church fell down; the chimney- 
tops were precipitated to the ground 5 
maflive houfes burft afunder; the large 
and frongly-built feeple of the monaftery 
Koldza fplit afunder, and half of it fell 
in; the gaping earth vomited forth in 
many places muddy water: yet amidft the 
terror and defpair of that populous city, 
(containing 25,000 inhabitants) not- 
withfianding the horrors that furrounded 
him, Seétzen calmly obferved, in thecourt | 
of his houfe, which was two ftories high, 
the duration of the earthquake, by means 
of his chronometer.’ From Buchareft he 
proceeded to Giurgervo, Ruftfchuck, Ga- 
latz, &c. through Wallachia, Moldavia, 
Bulgaria, and Beflarabia. 
REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
Vocal Mujic. Dedicated to the Prince of Wales. 
Confifting of Songs, Duettss and Glees. . The 
| Mslodies compofed and adapted by Charles 
Dignum, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. 
Iss. 
‘R. DIGNUM, in his advertifement 
. to this volume, which contains 
above a hundred pages of vocal mufic, 
informs us, that he was encouraged to 
the undertaking by the fuccelsful fale 
of ‘¢ Fair Rofalie,” the * Fight off 
Camperdown,’’ the ‘ Maid of the 
Rock,’’ and other melodies formerly 
fubmitted to the public; which effufions 
of his fancy were certainly qualified 
to pleafe by their artiels, eafy, and 
natural 
