r8or.] 
troduced. at Milaz and other parts of 
Italy, and this inoculation has in one year 
made more progrefs in Italy than had pre- 
vioufly been made in the inoculation for 
~ the fmall-pox. 
The fuil liberty of the prefs now pre- 
vails at Rome, as it ought iS all coun- 
tries, except in what relates to libels upon 
private character. 
Mc. MunrTer, at Copenhagen, is pre- 
paring a work on the Perfepolitan infcrip- 
tions, the decyphering of which occupies 
at this time the particular attention of 
the erudite. 
Don Josep CeLestino Muris, Di- 
reCtor of the Royal Botanic Expedition in 
the new Kingdom of Granada, in South 
America, is about to publifh the Flora of 
Granada, which will comprehend fome 
thoufands of plants, anda great number of 
new {pecies, with their defcriptions. The 
Profeffor has been forty yearssin America, 
mott of which he has devoted to betany. 
Don Hypotito Ruir, and Don Pa- 
Von, after having traverfed Peru and Chili 
upwards of ten years, have returned to 
Madrid, where they are publifhing the 
Flora of Peru and Chili on large paper, 
with fine engravings. 
= Mr. Tirsinc, who brought fo many 
literary treafures and‘ valuable medals 
from Yapan to this country, is about to 
retire with them to Holland, his native 
country ; and we fhall probably be deprived 
of the pleafure of feeing them publifhed in 
London. . 
As the naturalift DoLoMigv has at 
length been releafed from his long and 
cruel confinement in Sicily, it is to be 
wifhed that the fame may be the good for- 
tune of the learned MOsCaTl, who is fill 
detained in Auftrian captivity, and who 
was erroneoufly faid to have been hanged 
when Suwarrow and his Tartar hordes 
took Milan. 
M. LaMBeErRTI, who has recently pub- 
lifhed at Paris an elegant tranflation of 
Tyrteus, from the Greek into Italian, has 
been appointed Profeffor of Belles-lettres at 
Milan. : 
The Attic Mufeum of Wievanp is 
one of the beft productions of modern 
German literature, and is as worthy to be 
known in England as it appears to be in 
Peranees 3s 
M. Rupicer, a learned linguift at 
Halle, bas exhibited a new proof of the 
literary forgery of Damberger’s Travels, 
by proving the diffimilarity of the lan- 
guage of Congo and Caffres, as given by 
Damberger, and of that given by Olden- 
dorp, Sparrman, and by the Miffionary 
Literary and Philfophical Intelligence, 
431 
Brefcisitea Vetralla in his Grammar. The 
French Magazin Encyclopédique, however, 
was not aware of the talfehood of this 
work, and gravely inferted an analyfis 
of it as authentic! : 
’ Le VaiLuantT, author of the Natural 
Hiftory of African Birds, is about to pub- 
lifa a Natural Hiftory of Parrots. He 
poffeffes no lefs than one’ hundred and 
twenty different fpecies of parrots, vhilft 
Buffon gave a delcription of only feventy. 
MiLLotT, a Member of the late Aca- 
demy of Surgery at Paris, has juft pub- 
lifhed the Art of Procreating the Sexes at 
will. He pretends to have unveiled this 
myftery, and to have rendered thereby an 
important fervice to human feciety, 
The new Emperor of Ruffia has ren- 
dered a great fervice to literature in his 
country, by permitting foreign books to 
be again imported, and by allowing 
fiudents to vifit, as formerly, Leipfc, 
Halle, Fena, Gottingen, Erlang, and other 
foreign univerfities. Under the former 
eign the bookfeller of Riga, Hartknoch, 
had been obliged to retire to Leipfc, for 
fear of being fent to Siberia. : 
The great French painter, Dayip, is 
occupied in executing a grand piéture of 
Bonaparte. The illuftrious hero is re- 
.prefented on horfeback, feeing his troops 
defiling before him on the Paflage of Saizt 
Bernard. The King of Spain has folicited 
from the artift a copy of this pilure. 
The following very curious difcovery 
is recorded among the litefary news of the- 
Magazin Encyclopédique. A prelate in 
the environs of BaGl had ftretched out in 
his garden an iron wire, of pretty confi- 
derable length, to which he attached a 
moveable butt or mark, to fhoot at. He 
remarked, that at the time of the varia- 
tions of the atmofphere, which modified 
the change of the weather, this iron wire 
gave a found more or lefs ftrong, accord- 
ing to the nature of the change. He com- 
municated this obfervation to M. Haas, 
whom he then had ona vifit, and who, at 
his return to Bafil, caufed a fimilar wire 
to be ftretched out in his garden, and he 
ebferved the fame phenomenon. Some 
time after, the celebrated Volta, on a vifit 
to Haas, was witnefs to this new kind of 
barometer. ‘That learned man, the better _ 
to inveftigate the nature of this meteor, 
caufed wires of different metals to be 
ftretched in different direfions, and found 
that the vibration only took place on the 
iron wires ftretched in the dire&tion of the 
meridian ; M. Voltaattributes the phenome- 
non to theveleStric fluid, and fo {peaks of 
it in his writings. M, Haas, the fon, 
3K2 fays, 
