1802,] 
were found, fome years ago, in the print- 
ing-office of the Congregation’ de Propa- 
ganda Fide. ) 
From. an excellent Geographico- ftatif- 
tical View of the German Empire before 
and after the Peace of Luneville, by M. 
von Horr, it appears that. France ac- 
quired, by that Peace, from 1290 to 1260 
{quare German miles, or nearly one-ninth 
of the whole Empire, which, before the 
French Revolution, comprehended. 11,500 
{quare German miles, 2300 cities, 3000 
market-towns, 95,000 villages, and 28 
millions. of. inhabitants. By the Peace, 
Germany lofes 3,900,000 of inhabitants, 
that is, nearly one-feventh of her whole po- 
pulation. The difmembered portion pro- 
duces cattle, venifon, flax, grain, wine 
{the mott efeemed forts, however, grow 
on the right bark of the Rhine), goid, 
filver, copper; tiny quickfilver, iron, mar- 
ble, pit-coal, falt, &c.: By the ceffion 
of the provinces on the left bank” of: the 
Rhine, ‘Germany has likewife given up 
fome of her moft»confiderable rivers, the 
Scheld, the Maefe, Mofelle; and Saar; the 
mineral-waters of Aix-la-Chapelle, Spa, 
and Chaufontaine; and the important 
manufactures of linen, laces, cloth, and 
leather, in the Low Countries. 
The following paragraph, refpe&ing 
the fate of La Peroule, the -much-la- 
mented French circumnavigator, is ex- 
traéted from the 8th Number of a Jour- 
nal pubdjithed at Paris, entitled * Ze Nou- 
wellifte des Iles de France et de la Re- 
union.’-—Pluviolez3, Year io, Feb. 12, 
1802.—‘* Captain INGZNOLL, command- 
ing the American fhip Charlotte, arrived 
from China, fays, ‘he learned in his voy 
age to the South: Sea, at the Sandwich 
Ifles, and the north-weft coaft, that ‘be- 
fore the French Revolution, but the pre- 
cife year he could not determine, a thip 
that had failed from-Breft in the month of 
April, anchored: in the Bay of Conther- 
var, which lies in 53 deg. 13 min. -N, 
oppofite to Englefield-bay, in ‘Queen 
Chariotte’s Iflaad; that this vefiel] having 
on board a great number of fick, was at- 
tacked: by the iflanders,. who went’ on 
board at the moment, when they were 
employed in fecuring the fails; that they 
maffacred the Captain, who was’ upon 
deck, and the whole crew, except one 
young man, while fate is not -known. 
It is added, that the iflanders’ dettroyed 
the -veffel after unloading. it"“"*ilt is to 
be prefumed, that’this veffel was either 
that commanded by ’M. de la Peroufe,‘or 
her conforts? 2... . ahs gifstso 
MONTHLY Mac. No. 92. ° 
Literary and Philofophical Tateiligence: “063 
The Library of St. Mark, at Venice, 
contains a curious marine chart of the 
American Seas, by Biancut, finifhed | 
before the voyages of difcovery by Ame- 
ricus Ve{putius, and on which the iflands 
cailed Antilles are marked. This chart, 
which proves, beyond all queftion, that 
the Europeans had fome knowledge of 
America before the difcovery by Ameri- 
cus, will be publifhed fhortly by Mo- 
RELL}, the Librarian. che 
During the lat 20 years the reading 
propenfity has fo increafed amongft every 
clafs of people in Germany, that in the 
Proteftant part only of that country there 
are from) 8e0 to tooo circulating Jibra- 
ries, in moft of which, however, novels 
and plays are principally read.’ Hence 
the incredible number of novels that every 
year make their appearance at the Leip- 
zig Book-fairs; as the publifhers calcu. 
late that, be the production good or bad, 
he will be able to difpofe of a copy to 
each circulating library. The larger 
cities, however, feem to vie with’ each 
other in the eltablifhing of well-planned 
and well-conduéted Reading-infitutions, 
in which the fubferibers are fupplied with 
the beft' German and ‘foreign newfpapers, 
magazines, journals, &c. Such of thefe . 
inflitutions as are upon a larger feale, are 
called Mufeums. One’ of the moft cele- 
brated of thefe mufeums is ‘that of Bey- 
gang, in Leipzig, which contains more 
than 60,oco volumes. In the beauti- 
fully ornamented hall belonging’ to ‘this 
inltitution concerts of mufic are held every 
month, . ‘ai ii, 
For fome timé paft the Greeks, efta- 
blithed in the northern parts of Turkey, 
andeven without thofe limits,havebeenem- - 
ployed on the ‘means of enlightening their 
nation. Among other of their labours, , 
we may notice thofe of AnrHimus Ga- 
zi, fetiled at Vienna,in Aria, who has 
tranflated from the Byelia mto modern 
Greek the General Grampeir of Sciences 
of Benjamin Martin, which he printed at 
Vienna, in 1799, in two vo umes, octavo; 
likewife DanieL DameTrRivs PHivip- 
Pipes, who had publithed a firft volume 
of a Modern Geography, at Vienna, in 
£791, octavo-fize ; he has likewife printed 
at Vienna, in one volume, o@tavo, a Tranf- 
lation ‘of «the Logié of Ceandillac, with 
Notes: . This aft pevfen” propoles ’ to 
tranflate the beft elementary books on dif 
ferent’ {ciences, -and ‘particularly “from 
French works. ‘But in geography they 
have’ already” done ‘more than, tranflate 
bouks+they have tranilated charts,” and 
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