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fying-gout. He gives an account of feve- 
ral cafes where the dileafe was wholly re- 
moved by thisremedy. The patient hav- 
ing previoufly taken a cathartic or emetic, 
muft drink, in the courfe of three days, 
two pounds of olive-oil. Maroni thinks 
himfelf from experience juftified in af- 
ferting, that the rheumatic flying-gout 
may be moft quickly, eafily, and furely 
vemoved by this remedy, if ufed according 
to the above method. He likewife found 
it produce the heft effects as an anodyne, 
fudorific and purgative. 
The celebrated phyfician and naturalift 
Carapori has found from feveral experi- 
- quents which he made with fifhes, that they, 
as well as Jand animals, feparate by refpira- 
tion oxygen from the air, and cannot live in 
air whichhas ferved other animals for ref- 
piration. He likewife found, that water 
pofieffes a very great aptitude to imbibe 
from the atmofphere the air which ferves 
fithes for refpiration. When the barometer 
ftands very low, and confequently the pref- 
fure of the atmofphere on the water is very 
(mall, the fifhes do not find*a fufficient 
quantity of airin the water. They there- 
fore rife to the furface, and {nap at the air 
above the water. 
The following are the principal collec- 
tions of antiques at prefent exifting in 
Italy.—In Rome, Mufeum Capitolinum, 
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Mufenm Pio-Clementinum, Villa Albani, 
“Jilla Borghefe, Villa Ludovifi, Palazzo 
‘Mattei, Palazzo Barbarini, Galeria Giuf- 
tiniana, Palazzo Rondanini.—In Naples, 
Capo di Monte, in which are likewife 
placed the antiques formerly belonging to 
the Farnefe palace in. Rome, but which 
were carried away to Naples by .order of 
the prefent king.—At Portici, the cele- 
brated mufeum which contains the frefco- 
paintings, coins, gems, articles of houfe. 
hold furniture, and warlike inftruments, 
&c. of the ancients, which were dug up 
from the ruins of Herculaneum and Pom- 
peii.—In Caxtanea, the mufeum of Prince 
Bifcari.—At Palermo, in the college for- 
merly belonging..to the Jefuits.—At Flo- 
rence, the Grand-duke’s gallery.—At Ty- 
rin, the royal mufeom.—At Milan, the 
Firmiani mufeum.—In Verona, the collec- 
tion of antiques, which Maffei prefented 
to his native city.——At Venice, in St.Mark’s. 
library. , 
GiraRDAMI, a Tyrolefe peafant, and 
felf-taught artift, who now refides at 
Vienna, has invented an air-gun, which 
may be difcharged fifty times without 
pumping again. The firft twenty fhots 
penetrate through a board at an wncom- 
mon diftance. Girardami makes thefe air- 
guns himfelf, and likewife very good 
wooden watches. ; 
REVIEW. OF THE NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS, 
The Création, an Oratorta. Compofed by Jofeph 
Haydn. Adapted for Voices and the Piano- 
forte, by Muzio Clementi. 11, 4s. 
Longman, Clementi, and Co. 
T was with much pleafure that we 
heard of the intended adaptation of this 
work for the piano-forte by Mr. Clementi ; 
our expectations were, in courfe, confider- 
ably railed; but they have been more than 
equalled by the matterly {kill and addrets 
with which the tafk has been executed. 
When we confider the clofe and artful com- 
preffion of this copious and multifarious 
{core into two ftaves, the judgment with 
which the parts are fele&ted, and the adroit- 
nefs with which the whole is brought un- 
der the command of two hands, we know 
not which the moft to admire; the pro- 
found fcience, acute ingenuity, or patient 
Jabour neceflary tothe fuccefsful comple- 
tion of the undertaking. As Mr. Cle- 
menti’s is the firit Zzgli/h publication of 
this oratorio, we embrace it as the firft 
opportunity afforded by the plan of our 
critiques, of noticing its merits and de- 
merits. In the opinion, that it pofleffes 
numerous and very confiderable beauties, 
we truft, we thall be joined by moft con- 
noiffeurs; but are not certain that they 
willagree with us in our objections. The 
introductory, fymphony, or overture, is 
ftrongly imitative of the chaotic ftate of 
matter previous to creation, and the burft 
of found at the words ‘* and there was 
light,” is fublimely conceived. The air 
** With verdure clad the fields appear,” 
contains fome particularly tafteful and cha- 
racteriftic paflages, and the concluding 
chorus of the firit at is great beyond de- 
{cription. The air «* In native worth and 
honour clad,” is a rich and manly melody, 
and the fubject of the fugue introduced in 
the chorus of ‘* Awake the harp,” at the 
words ‘* For he the beaven and earth has 
clothed,” is firm, bold, and original; the 
fall of a feventh in. paffing from the firt 
bar to the fecond, is ftrikingly happy, and 
difplays the great mafter. But thefe and 
many 
