1802.] 
lifhed at Leutfchau, in 1794, with the ap- 
probationofaHungarian licenfer of the prefs. 
M. AKERBLAD, a learned Swede, who 
has refided fome time at Paris, has written 
a Differtation on the Infcription found at 
Rofetta. {t is printed at the National 
Prefs. This gentleman likewife is print- 
ing at the fame office a Latin Differtation, 
in which he gives a new explication of the 
~Pheenician Infcription at Oxford. 
A new metrical verfion of Homer into 
the Slavonic language, by a Proteftant 
clergyman, will fhortly make its appear- 
ance in Hungary. Little or nothing has 
hitherto been donein that country towards 
promoting the cultivation of Slavonic li- 
terature, though the majority of the inha- 
bitants are Slavonians, and their copious 
far-{pread language certainly merits more 
attention than has hitherto been beftowed 
upon it. 
The Emperor of Germany, defirous to 
recompence the talents of the celebrated 
dramatic author SCHILLER, has recently 
conferred on him the title of Baron of the 
Empire. 
Two antique fragments have been lately 
found at Suza, in Piedmont, under the 
rubbith of a ruined baftion, a Defcription 
of which has been lately publifhed by 
Citizen Tarin, Direétor of the Mufeum, 
and Prefident of the Academy of Sciences 
and Arts, at Turin. From this defcrip- 
tion we learn, that thefe fragments make 
part of two ftatues of marble of Carrara, 
known to the Romans by the name of 
marble of Luna. They were about two 
metres and a half in height, and reprefent- 
ed two Roman Emperors in a military 
habit. There remains of thefe two monu- 
ments no more than the torfi, a part of the 
left leg, and a head entirely mutilated, 
the traits of which, pretty well preferved, 
leave no doubt but that they reprefent 
Auguftus. The apparel of the other, and 
the ornaments engraved upon it, give rea- 
fon to believe, that it may reprefent Jue 
lius Czefar. 
There is now announced for fale at 
Paris, a fuperb cabinet of medals, the re- 
fult of refearches made for more than forty 
years in Afia, in Africa, and in Europe, 
by D. BaLLyer, ci-devant Bifhop of Ba- 
bylon,andConful of Franceat Bagdad. This 
collection, confitting of near 6500 medals, 
in gold, filver, bronze, &zc, has been claffed 
and arranged by BaLLYeEr, nephew to 
the Bifhop, a diftinguithed amateur, of 
Befancgon, the place of depdt of the me- 
dals, to whom it had defcended by inheris 
tance, 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
4537 
Citizen MECHAIN, Member of the Nas 
tional Inftitute, and of the Bureau des 
Longitudes, difcovered, on the roth of Vex 
demiaire, year 11, about g o'clock at 
night, a new comet, in the conttellation 
of Serpentarius. It was fome degrees be- 
low the two nebulous fpots that are on the 
left fide of that figure, and near the equa- 
tor ; he determined its pofition, and found 
that it was rifing rapidly towards the 
north; he continued to obferve it on the 
following days. ‘The light of this ftar 
did not appear to him to be fenfibly aug- 
mented. Its nucleus does not become 
more brilliant, and the nebulofity which 
environs it does not become more extend- 
ed. The following are the firft and the 
laft obfervations which were made by Ci- 
tizen Mechain, on the 15th of the month: 
—mean time, 9° 24’ 6”; right afcenfton 
249° 18’; fouth declination 6° 11’ 31”. 
We may obferve, from the actual pofition 
of this comet, that its diftance from the 
fun is neceffarily greater than that of the 
fun from the earth. It rifes towards the 
north pole, proceeding by the left fide of 
Serpentarius, and the oppofite fide of Her 
cules. 
The Pope has lately ordered fubterra- 
nean refearches to be made at Nettuno, to 
excavate the antiquities that are prefumed 
to lie buried there. There have been 
already found the hand of a coloffal ftatue, 
and fubfequently the tail of a horfe in 
bronze, and a part of its drapery of the 
fame metal. ‘There have alfo been re- 
cently difcovered. paved faloons of Mo- 
faic, decorated with paintings that are 
very mach damaged, with the exception 
of ahead in perfect prefervation. Thefe - 
refearches are made at the expence of the 
Holy Father. He has lately prohibited, 
under the moft rigorous penalties, the 
exportation of fuch antiquities as fhall 
be excavated out of the territory of 
Rome. 
The firt fair of books at New York, 
Jately inftituted, and held in. imitation of 
the famous fairs of Leipzig and of Franc- 
fort in Germany, has furpaffed all .the 
hopes that had been conceived of its fuc- 
cefs. A fecond fair of the fame kind is 
intended to be eftablifhed at Philadelphia, 
which will be opened every firft Tuefday 
of September. The geographical fub-di- 
vifion, and the numerous diftin& capitals, 
in Germany and America, render thefe 
fairs neceflary and ufeful. 
There has lately appeared, at Jena, the 
firft volume of a Colleétion of the Works of 
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