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known.—Laftly, certain antiquities, part- 
ly deftroyed at Bourdeaux ; there only re- 
main the lower gateway, a Roman work; 
as yet uninjured, and the palace of Gal- 
lienus, the dettruétion of which had been 
begun. At the requeft of the Society, 
the Miniiter of the Interior -has given 
orders that this Vandalifm fhould be put 
a ftopto, and that thefe antiquities fhould 
be preferved. 
A Statiftic Society has been lately form- 
ed at Paris, the objeét of which is to fix 
the principles of the {cience in a pofitive 
manner, to trace the circle which fhould 
circumicribe its limits, to realife the idea 
of opening a public courfe for inftruétion 
in the fame, by the eftablifhment of a {pe- 
cial chair for that purpofe, to add to, or 
compare with, the labours already known, 
fuch faéts, documents, and critical obfer- 
vations, as may be obtained from judicious 
well-informed perfons ; to deduce from 
thefe faéts interefting refults and confe- 
quences for phyfics, medicine, natural- 
hiftory, agriculture, commerce, legifla- 
tion, cc. &c. ; and Jaftly, to concentrate 
an aflemblage of men devoting themfelves 
to this hitherto too long-neglected ftudy. 
Citizen Moneaxton has read to the 
fame Society( Bourdeaux) a Notice on two 
fepulchral monuments found in the exca- 
vatiogs made on the fcite of the antient 
palace of Lombriére, and now depofited in 
one of the faloons of the Academy. They 
were confecrated to conjugal love. Time, 
and the Vandalic ravages have refpected 
their pious deftination ; and notwithftand- 
ing the difplacements which they appear 
to have undergone, thefe two monuments 
have been found together. In confulting 
the ftyle of the infcription, and that of the 
architeétural ornaments which they offer, 
Citizen Monbalon refers them to the age 
of Auguftus. Without attempting to de- 
cide any thing on the figns and the abbre- 
viations which the in{criptions contain, 
he endeavours to furndh fome data to- 
wards their difcuffion, by an accurate and 
rapid fketch of the hiftory of Aguitaine, 
and of that of Bourdeaux, from the mof 
remote times. 
According to the A]lmanack of the Court 
of Peking, lately receivedin Europe, it is 
proved that the name of the prefent Empe- 
ror of China is not Tai-hoii/fing, but Kza- 
Kiag, and with the family prexomen, as it 
Is found inthe fame almanack, Ta-tfing 
Kia King. The firft of thefe names, Kia, 
is common to him with Kia-tfing, the 
_ twelfth Emperor of the preceding dynafly ; 
the fecond Kiw is the fame as the firft of 
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the King-yuen’s, the fourth Emperor of 
the fouth swags. Kia-King is the fifteenth 
fon of Kien-lung, who abdicated the {cep 
tre in 1796, at the age of eighty-fix years, 
after having reigned fixty years and fome 
months. Neverthelefs, although the acts 
of Government have paffed ever fince that 
epoch under the name of the new Empe- 
ror, his father, who thenceforwaid was 
named Tai-chang hoang-ti, or, the Supreme 
and Sublime Emperor, regulated, at plea- 
fure, all the affairs of State till his death, 
which happened on the third day of the 
firit mooa of the fourth year of the reign 
of Kia-King, or the 6th of February 17995 
at the age of eighty-nine yeats. The 
reign of the prefent Emperor commences, 
according to the aforefaid almanack, from 
the firt moon of the fifty-third year of the 
feventy-fifth cycle ; which correfponds 
with the month of February in the year 
1796 of the Chriftian wxra; fo that this 
Monarch will enter the eighth year of his 
reign in the moon of the month of Febru- 
ary in the prefent year. The Chinefe 
year, which commences in the month of 
February in this year, is the fixtieth or laft 
ef the prefent cycle. ‘This cycle of fixty 
years 1s the feventy-fifth from the reign of 
Hoang-ti, that is to fay, 4500 years ago 5 
fo that the next year in the month of Fe~ 
bruary will begin a new cycle, waich will 
be the feventy-fixth. 
Letters from Peterfburg mention that 
Counfellor KoH.LeR intended to pubdlifh 
‘there, in the courfe of the fummer, a very 
interefting work on the ancient Coins of 
the Crimea, in which not only fach as 
were known before will be iluftrated, bute 
likewife delineations given of feventy nor- 
defcripts, the explication of which, by aa 
antiquary of Mr. Kohler’s penetration and 
erudition, cannot fail to prove a moft ac- 
ceptable.prefent to the literary world. 
- Mr. Ropowsky, a learned phyfician 
and botanift, who has been refiding for fe- 
vera] years with Count Alexis Razumow!- 
ky, has publifhed at Peterfburg a Cata- 
logue of the plants in the botanic-garden 
at the Count’s country-feat, which con- 
_ tains above three thoufand articles. 
It is calculated that the fums allotted 
by the prefent Emperor ALEXANDER of 
Ruffia, for the fupport and melioration of 
the {chools, univerfities, &c. amounts to 
more than eight millions of roubles. 
The Emperor has refolved to fend a con. 
fiderable number of youths, who have 
given proofs of their capacity and dili- 
gence, tothe moft celebrated of the Ger- 
man univerfitics, to purfue their fludies, 
s and 
