576 
» Asthe Helvetic territory contains anti- 
quities but very little known, the Sieur 
AUBERT Parent, architeé& and fculp- 
tor, Member of the Academy of Arts of 
Beilin, has been affiduoafly employed in 
the inveftigation of them. Atfirft heap- 
plied himfelf to examine the ruins of the 
an‘ient Augufia Rauracorum, on the fite of 
which the villace of Augft, near Bafle, 
now fiauds. He afterwards made impor- 
tant difcoveries in the year 1801, and was 
enabled to colle&t fragments enough to 
form to himfelf a juft idea of the decora- 
tions cf. a temple that food there, as like- 
wife of its order of architeSture, which is 
a compofite very uncommon. . The learn- 
ed J. D. Schoepfiin, author of Alfatia Il 
lufirata, although he had not feen any of 
the ornaments which the archite&t and 
{culptor Parent has difcovered there. ne- 
verthele{s effures us that the temple afford- 
eda fhining proof of the ability of the 
Romans in the contruction of edifices like 
this, the moi beautiful ornament of the 
capital of the Raureci »—** Adficium hae 
venufium & elegans, optime Romanorum 
in arte ecificand: etatis partus, Raurice 
colonia ornamenium baud exizuua attulit 
aique decus infigne. De Rud. Temp. Aug. 
Rau. Se&@.87. The Sicur Parent: pro- 
pofes to publ.th by fubécription, at Ber- 
lin, Margraven Strafe, No. 25, and at 
Paris chez M. Karcher, rue Michaudiere, 
Ne. 10, a work centaining his obferva- 
tions on the antiquities of Switzerland at 
Jarge. It will contain the defcription, 
plans, and dcfigns, of the principal an- 
tique monuments that have adofned the 
moft flourifhing cities of that remarkable 
country, fuch as temples, public baths, 
bricges, aqueducts, mofaic pavements, 
fiatues, bas-reliefs, and infcriptions.— 
The whole work is divided into five parts, 
thus defignated:—1. Awenche, Aventi- 
cama Helweticorum. 2. Aug, Augufta 
Rauracorum. 3. Windifch, Vindouifa. 
5. Otimarfbeim, a part antiently detached 
from the country of the Rauraci. 5. Ba-, 
denvzeiler, about three miles from Baile, in 
the Brifgaw, well known for its famous 
Roman baths. Every article will he pre- 
ceded with an abridged Hiftorical Notice, 
the refult of minute inveftigation : the 
details of the excavations made on the 
{pot will follow. The work in folio, to 
be printed on vellum; the engravings are 
to the number of twenty-four plates, the 
whole coloured by the author, &ec. Price 
of the fubfcription, half of which to be 
paid on fubfcribing, to be three Frederics-~ 
dor. The fubfcription was open till the 
rt of April 1803 ; after that term the 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
- the arts. 
[July 1, 
work cofts four Frederics-d’or. The 
fubfcribers, whofe names will be vrinted 
at the head of the volume, will receive 
the work complete April 1ft, 1804. 
Some hitherto unpubdlifhedlettersof VoL- 
TAIRE to Frederick the Great, have been 
lately publifhed at Paris, from the ori- 
ginals ; which, it appears from the edi- 
tor’s account of them, have been fent from 
Weimar to M. Baft, fecretary of lega-~ 
tion to the Prince of Heffe Darmftadt, at 
Paris. M. Boiflonade, who is authorized 
to publifa them, confeffes his ignorance 
how and where thefe letters have been. 
found; but he makes no doubt of their 
authenticity, being affured of the fame by 
fome. well known. literati, who were in 
habits of correfpondence with Voltaire, 
and from his having aiually confronted 
theie Jette:s with other autographs pre- 
f-rved in the National Library. ** Befides, 
(fays M. Boiffonade) we find inthefe letters 
the well-known ftyle of their avthor; and 
this proof of their authenticity willnot be the 
lefs trong,even if it beobjectedthatthe hand» 
of M. de Voltaire may have been counter- 
felted, forundoubtedly it cannot be fuppofed 
that it would have been fo eafy to imitate 
his ftyie.”. “*And, indeed, (fay the French 
reviewers,) we cannot here miftake the 
hand and feal of Voltaire. "—In the edi- 
tion of Kehl are a number of mutilated 
and incorrect letters, which are reprinted 
in this volume, with confiderable additions 
contained in the above manufcript ; the 
author has taken care toinfert in notes the 
variant readings of the printed text, col- 
lated with the original text. A number 
of thefe letters were without a date, or 
had falfe dates. M. Boiflonade has en- 
deavoured, as far as poffible, to place the 
real epoch to each letter. ‘The litigation 
with the Jew Hirfchel, the death of the 
Comte de Rothembourg, the thefis of the 
Abbé de Prades, the affair of the Akakia, 
arid other known faéts, have guided him. 
This correfpondence embraces fix or feven 
years, from 1746 to 1753. This volume > 
may be read with pleafure even by thofe 
who have the eighteen volumes of the edi- 
tion of Kehl. 
The Society of Encouragement of Na- 
tional Induftiy of Paris, has lately pub- 
lifhed its profpectus of the prizes to be 
offered to thofe who fhall beft refolve cer- 
tain queftions relative to agriculture and 
The fubjeéts propofed are, the 
manufacture of wooden f{crews, 1500 
francs; the purification of irons, 6000 
francs; the fabrication of alum, 1200 
francs ; experiments on combuttible wood, 
1400 francs; for preferying the faculty of 
germination 
