arb 
tute for coffee.” When ‘preffed, they firft 
produce a quantity of oil, and afterwards, 
when boiled, furnifh a liquid much.re- 
fembling that produced from coffee. The 
practice is rapidly becoming general in 
Germany. 
Profeicr Perit, of Helfingoer,* has 
invented a nautical machine to fave per- 
fons from drowning. To try the cffedts of 
it agaioft the united currents of the North 
Sea and the Baltic, a young waegoner, 
named Peterfon, having equipped himfeif 
in this machine, fprang into the fea, in 
the prefence of numerous  fpectators, 
many of whom accompanied him in fail- 
ing-boats. At his departure he fired a 
piftol twice ; and on his paflage be eat, 
drank, and {mcked a pipe, to fhew that he 
had the entire ufe of his arms. Being 
Dbenumbed with cold, he get into a boat 
to warm himfelf by rowing ; but foon 
fprang into the water again, and happily 
reached the Swedifh fhore, after a paflage 
of one hour and three quarters. On his 
arrival he faluted the tpectatcrs witha 
piftol-fhot, and waved a flag which he 
diew trom the fea. Having remaineda 
fhcrt time at Helfinburgh, he returned to 
the Danifh coalt, where he arrived amidit 
the fhouts of the curious, who lined the 
fhore. The machine weighs but feven 
pounds, and faltens round the waif of the 
wearere a 
From the following authentic particu- 
Jars we may form a pretty correct idea of 
the commercial profperity to which Aftra- 
chan has attained. 
plantation for fiik-worms, twenty-four 
filk manufaétories, eighty-one cotton-ma- 
nuiactories, five manutfactories of morocca- 
-Jeather, feventy four dyeing-houles, twen- 
ty-four brick-kilns, ninety-two vineyards, 
212 mills, &c. The guild of merchants 
confilts of 1189 Ruifians, three foreigners, 
eighteen Tartars, and four Hindoos. The 
city contains two thoufand fheps, fix con- 
vents, fifty {even churches, and a temple 
for Hindoos. 
The Clafs of Sciences of the National 
Inftitute being defirous to know the varia- 
tions which the ‘magnetic-needle experi- 
ences in ihe atmolphere ; BERTHOLLET 
and Biot have reiolv.d to undertake fe, 
vera] 2€roiiatic alcenficns in order to al- 
certain thefe variations. er 
In a Letter to the Editors of the Decaze 
Pailofophique, the celcbyated BERNaRDIN 
St. Pierre. complains bitterly, that, 
* Helfingoer is about eight miles from 
Helfinburgh in Sweden. 
Literary and Phitlefophical Inteliigence. 
This city contains a> 
[April fy 
through the unprincipled rapacity of the 
beok-pirates, and the bankruptcy of the 
perfon in whofe hands he had trutted the 
fruits cf his literary labours, he finds him- 
felf deprived ofthemeans of making a pro- 
vifion for his. wife and children. .** Dam 
now nearly fixty years old, (faysthis vener- 
able philofopher;) my eldeft daughter is 
pot more than nine, and my youngeft boy 
is ftill carried about in the arms of his 
yourg mother, who fuckles him. As for 
myfelf, Iam defcending the mountain of 
life, without a ftruggle, and without re- 
gret: but they have to climb it when | 
am goné, without my fupporting hand, 
Doriog the difficulties of the journey, they 
will be looking for fome marks of my 
paternal forefight ard. folcitude.” For 
this purpofe St. Pierre prepoles to give a 
new coriected edition of bis Paul ana Vir- 
ginia, which, both with re:pect ta typogra- 
phical execution, and the ftyle of the en- 
giavings and other embellifhments, will 
be executed-in fuch a manner as to defy 
the arts of the pirates. “When we confider 
that this charming work has won the ap- 
probation of every feeling reader througn- 
out Europe, we may confidently predict 
that the hopes of the amiable author 
will not be difappointed.. oy 
Profeffor Matrueé1 has diftovered, ina 
Manu(cript belonging to the Public Li, 
brary of Augiburg, a fragment contain- 
ing three hundred vertes of the Clytem. 
neitra of Sophocles, which he intends to 
publith. ‘Phis fragment commences af 
the Piclague pronounced by Tyfiphone, 
and finifhes with a chorus; from which 
it may be hoped that it contains the 
whole of the firt ag&t. © ant att 
A new edition of Milton’s Paradife 
Lo&, and of Goldfmith’s Peetical Works, 
have lately heen pripted. at Paris, by 
Barkols, who intends publifhing there a 
collection of Englihh Claflics. 7 
“In Ogtober 1803, ALFIERE, the Ta- 
lian poet, died at Florence, in the fixtieth 
year of his age. It is faid that he has 
left a MS. Italian Tranflation of Sallutt, 
of the Zineid, and of two of the Trage- 
dies of Euripides ; and two sow Clee 
and a Tragedy. — :. ae i ’ 
A new religious fociety has lately been 
formed in Holland, entitled, Caryfo Sa- 
crum. At firft it confifted of only four 
members ; but in a fhorc time the number 
of the feét increafed fo rapidly, as to 
amount to from thrce to four thoufand.— 
The. objeét of this Society is to unite all 
religious fe&ts.. The principal place of 
meeting is at Delft, where the Society has 
already built achurch, in which we find 
= hs oe a a ~ Calvinifisy 
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