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quence of the refearches made at Offia, 
by order of the Pope, under the direction 
of Canova the iculptor : The Pope has 
likewife ordered feveral ancient moou- 
ments at Rome, fuch as the Colifeum, 
the Triumphal Arches of Titus and Septe- 
mius Severus, &c. to be freed from the rub- 
bith. Hyd 
The Mufeum Napoleon in Paris, will 
fhortly be enriched with a buft of Alex- 
ander.the Great, befides the Pallas of 
Velletri.and the {tatues of the river gods, 
Wile, and Tiber. The buft of A'exan- 
der has been prefented to the Mufeum by 
Bonaparte, to whom it was prefented by 
the Chevalier Azara, the Spanith am- 
baffa. at Paris. It was found at Ti- 
voli, in 1777, in the ruins cf the Villa 
of Pifo, and purehafed by M. Azara. Se- 
wen new rooms in the Mufeum are now 
fitting up; fome of which are exclufively 
defigned tor the reecption of Egyptian 
monuments, and cthers are to contain only 
works compotfed of coloured marble. 
A. Decree bas Jately been iffued at Vi- 
enna, that, in cafe of the death of any 
perion poffefiing a library, fich library 
thal} be tealed up, and one of the licenfers 
tent to examine the contents, and take 
away ail prohibited books found therein. 
It has likewife been ordered that all 
books publitned by permiffion of the li- 
cenfers under the reiga of Jofeph II. thall 
be fubjected to another revifion. — 
The lat volume of the Life of General 
Suwairow, by ANTLING, is now printing 
at Peterfburg, at the Emperor’s expence : 
it will coft 4009 dollars.—A_ ftreth proof 
of the unexampled liberality wi h which 
Alexander T.-patronizes ali literary under, 
takings. ‘ ’ 
M. von Livow, a Ruffian councillor 
of fiate, is now publithing a Temple 
of Ruffian Heroes,” or a kind of Military 
Pantheon; for which the hiftory of the 
Ruffian empire furnifhes ample materials. 
» We may fhortly expect from the pen 
of M. von Guinka, p:ofeflor of Ruffian 
}terature in the unive:rfiry of Dorpat, a 
«| Mythology of the Ancient Sclavonians,”” 
which will probably fi] up a corfiderable 
hiatus in that hitherto much neglected 
part of Rutan hittory. — 
On the sit of Vendemigire a new Jour- 
nal was begun at Paris, entitled Le Me- 
mortal Antibrilannique, the editor cf which 
is the noted Bertrand BarRere. 
A.M, Z0«£GE, a learned Danifh gentle- 
man has drawn up a Catalogue Ratlonnée 
of the Copric manuleripts belonging to 
Carainal Borgia at Rome, amounting to 
Liserary,and Philofophical Intelligence. 
-[Jan. 
300; and it is now printing by order of 
“his Emimence.* °. s 
The fhips fent by the Ruffian Govern- 
ment on a Voyage of Dilcovery, failed 
from Copenhagen in the month of Sep- 
tember. | Befides Mr. Tittesrus, Dr. 
LanGsnory¥, another learned and zea- 
lous naturalift, offered his gratuitous fer- 
vice; and, as it was too late to write to 
Peterfburg relative to him, the Com- 
manders, of their own accord, accepted 
of his offers and with a praifeworthy dif- 
interetiednels agreed to defray the ex- 
pences of his mels, &¢. during the voy- 
ave, which will amount to about $00 ru- 
bles annually. 
Mr. BurGManN, a German traveller, 
has been refiding during the laft three — 
years among the Calmucks of the Defert ; 
and, from the fpecimens which he has al- 
ready fent to his friends, and which have 
been publifhed under the title of Mogalifche 
Blatter, we are ied to expeét on his return 
a moft interefting account of that people, 
with which we are {till {9 very imperfectly 
acquainted, 
The Hungarian Government has re- 
folved to erect at the univerfity of Peft, a 
Praétical Inttitute for the ttudy of Rural 
Economy. © Geer 
The Board lately ere€ted at Vienna for 
the fupcr-revifion of Books, has begun 
their’ work by prohibiting ail the editions 
of the warks of Voitaire, Rcufleau, and 
Helvetius. Whole feis of Voltaire’s 
Works hed hitherto been permitred to be 
publicly fold, as only people of fortune, » 
or at leait in eafy circumftances, were 
able to purchafe them. Pezzl’s Sketch of 
Vienna has |:kewife been added to the 
catalogue of prohibited books, His Im- 
perial Majelty has indeed lately decreed 
that the religivus books of the Protettan’s ~ 
fhould not be confidered as belonging to: 
the clafs to be prohibi'ed ; but that fuch 
of them, however, as contaned Socinian 
doctrines or principles, ot attacks againit 
the Roman Catholic religion, its eccleti- 
aftical and hierarch cal confitution, its 
difcipline and ceremonies, fhoy!ld be pro- 
hibired generally, and confequently even 
the Proteftant fubjets of the Auftrian 
dominions debarred trom the ufe of them. 
Countellor PospELOW, direétor of the ° 
imperial loan-bank ‘at Pete:fburg, is, 
with the Emperor’s approbation, em- 
ployed in tranflating Tagiius into Ruffian ; 
a'd, tocnable him to purfue that work 
without interruption, he has been dif- 
chareed from all fervice, with his entiue 
laisty as a penfion tor life, 
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