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en the ftrand at Cape Prior. It was 
addrefled to M. BerNarpin DE ST. 
Pierre, and was immediately for- 
warded to him by the French Vice-c6on- 
ful at Ferrol. A third traverfed upward 
of 900 leagues, in a dire&t line, and 
janded at the Cape of Good Hope, con- 
taining an oiled letter, which was fent to 
the Governor of the Ifle of France. 
M. CamPE, jun. has lately eftablithed, 
et Hamburg, a Mufeum or Repofitory, at 
which are taken, not only all the princi- 
pal German, French, and Englith journ- 
als, to the number of 150, bur Jikewife 
the moft interefting new works and co- 
pies, or chef da@uvres fent thither by ar- 
tifts, to whom this efablifhment affords a 
convenient ard eligible method of making 
known their abilities. This Mufeum is 
faid to be the molt complete in its kind 
exifting in that or any other city, and is 
already encouraged by more than 400 fub- 
{cribers, | 
A new metallic fubftance has lately 
been difcovered in Sweden. The ore has 
a blackith colour, with the metallic afpect 
of cryftals of oxidated tins its colour is 
equally dark; its gravity is confiderable ; 
it ftrongly fcratches glafs. M. Exepurc 
has extraéted from this mineral a new me- 
tallic fubf&ance, to which he gives the 
name of Tantalite. 
Several fpecimens of paper have been 
invented by M. Perrin, of Paris, to 
guard again{t forgery, for the ufe of banks 
and commerce in general. 
Befides the handfome library which Bo- 
NAPARTE has at Malmaifon, he has ano- 
ther at St. Cloud, his prefent refidence. 
M.RipaurT, one of the literati who were 
with him in Egypt, is his librarian, and 
he is expected to read, in the night-time, 
to the Firft Conful, who is very partial to 
books and learning. 
The famous Venus di Medicis is not yet 
arrived at Paris, but is every day expect- 
ed. Inthe meantime, M. Canova is oc- 
‘cupied in enriching the ftatuary with the 
bujt of Bonaparte. - 
M. AMEILHON, Member of the Na- 
tion Initirute, is about to publifh the 
‘Text and Tranflation of the Greek In- 
{cription found at Rofetta, which was 
partly publithed by him two years fince. 
The fame gentleman is printing the twen- 
ty fifth and twenty-fixth volumes of the 
Hiftery of the Lower Empire, ferving as a 
continuation of the celebrated Roman Hif- 
tories of Rollin, Crevier, and Le Beau. 
A Series of the Coftumes, or Charac- 
teriftic Drefles, worn at the German The- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
f Dee. 1, 
atrein Berlin,’ is now publifhing there. 
They were defigned according to the di- 
rectioss of IFFLAND, the manager of that 
theatre. } 
In Hungary and Auftria, feveral reftric- 
tive regulations have lately been enacted 
by Government, which, it is feared, will 
prove injurious to the caufe of truth and 
{cience. All private leétures at the Auf- 
trian and Hungarian Univerfities have 
been prohibited, except a fpecial licence 
for that purpofe be granted ; but fucha 
licence is not obtained without the greateft 
difficulty. In order to entice recruits 
into the facerdotal order, and induce the 
{cholars to apply to the ftudy of divinity, 
the degree of Doctor of Laws, and the 
qualification for the ofice of an advocate, 
and of a court-agent, is not to be con- 
ferred for the future until this regulation 
is repealed. The Catholic gymnafia are 
removed from the large to {maller towns, 
as in the latter the education of youth 
may be more eafily conducted according 
to the monkifh plan. The profefforial 
chairs of rhetoric, poetry, and philofophy, 
are exclufively occupied by clergymen. 
Even the Univerfity of Peft was to have 
been transferred to another fmaller city : 
it has, however, been gracioufly refolved, 
to defer, for the prefent, the execution of 
this wife project. For the future, the 
profefforfhips of the philofophical faculty, 
and, in the juridical faculty, that of canon- 
law, are to be beftowed upon ecclefiattics. 
At the univerfities and academies, the 
Proteftants are virtually excluded from 
the profefforial chairs. 
By an edict of his Imperial Majefty, all 
the ftudents in Hungary, even thofe of 
medicine and law, at the Univerfity of 
Peft, are forbidden to vifit the theatre, 
coffee-houfes, public-houfes, balls, &c, 
The profeffors are enjoined to fee this 
order ftriétly executed, and the magif- 
trates, in cafe of need, to affift them to the 
utmoft of their power. ‘The keepers of 
coffee-houfes, &c. are for every offence te 
be punifhed by a certain pecuniary fine. 
Some juvenile excefles of the fludents, 
which the bigots never fail to exaggerate, 
probably gave rife to thefe fevere regula- 
tions. 
The reprinting of GREGORY DE Ber- 
ZEVICZY’s excellent work De Commercio 
et Induftria Hungariez, which difplays a 
thorough acquaintance with the funda- 
mental principles of political wifdom, and 
is pervaded by a zealous fpirit of patriot- 
ifm, has been prohibited by the Vienna 
licenfers. ‘he firft edition had been pub- 
3 lifhed 
