1807.] 
complete the above number. The King 
zppoints a perpetual secretary, and the 
“Academy has the power to elect a pre- 
sident for three months. | The directors 
of the Museum, of the fowller excava- 
tions, and of the royal press, are always 
to be members. The Minister of the 
Royal Household will annually allot to 
the Academy 8000: ducats, to be fur cur- 
rent expences, Wc. and 2000 for prizes 
to the authors of four works, which, ac- 
cording to the judgment of the Academy, 
shall be most deserving of such a reward. 
There will be a grand meeting every year, 
when the prizes are to be distributed, and 
analyses of the works read. The Acade- 
my may nominate a correspondent i 
each of the fourteen provinces of the 
kingdom. ‘The members will enjoy the 
privilege of being admitted to Court. 
The first meeting was held on the 25th 
of April. The King, after having re- 
ceived the oaths of the members, pro- 
nounced an oration replete with expres- 
sions of the lively interest he takes im the 
labours of the learned men thus brought © 
together, M. Francesco Daniele, the 
perpetual secretary, in his reply, gave a 
sketch of the glorious epoch, when Na- 
ples was the cradle of the arts and the 
eclences, 
; SPAIN. 
Don Prpro pe Escata has recently 
completed bis Universal ‘Traveller in 43 
volumes. It comprises the best Voyages 
and Travels in all countries, either at 
large or in abstract. The same author is 
engaged on Travels in Span. 
The Court of Madrid has prohibited, 
according to ancient edicts, the introduc- 
tion into Spain of Journals in the Spanish 
language, which are printed at Bayonne 
and at Paris. 
Don Juan Lopez has translated and 
commented on such parts of the Geogra- 
phy of Straboas refer to Spain. 
TURKEY. 
Bast, a Greek physician, has printed, 
at the Patriarchal Press of Constanti- 
nople,a Collection of Letters, as a model 
for the epistolary style in modern Greek. 
In this collection are several letters of 
Alexander Mainacordato, the celebrated 
Minister of the Porte, andinise Of lis son 
Nicholas, Prince of Wallachia and Mol- 
davia. | It likewise contains notices of 
several learned Greeks. 
EAST INDIES. 
Dr. AnpERson, Physician-General and 
President of the. "Medical Board at Ma- 
Wras, has made public some highly intee 
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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
73 
resting facts respecting the progress of 
vaccination in India. He declaves, that 
no serious alarm bas been caused by the 
smaill- -pox In that vast extent of country 
which is now subject to Great Britain in 
India, since the introduction of vaccine 
inoculation : nor has the vaccine matter, 
although transferred from one human 
subject to another for fonr or five years, 
produced any other disease. The cow- 
pox, under the direction of the Presi- 
dency of Madras, has resisted the test 
of 1500 varivlous inoculations, Some of 
the native chiefs begin to countenance 
vaccination, and even submit their own 
persons to the practice! and Dr. A. ea= 
tertains little doubt but the vaccine tin= 
cet will soon be as familiar to the Hin- 
doos as the plough or the shuttle. There 
had been 429,821 persons successiully 
vaccinated in that presidency and its de- 
pendencies, . between the begining of 
September 1802, and the end of May 
1805, at the expence of 55,865 star pa- 
godas. Of these, 2,816 had | been subse= 
quently inoculated ° for the smail-pox, 
which they all resisted. In the same 
presidency, from September 1, 1805, to 
August 31, 1806, there had been 178,074 
other persous vaccinated, of whom 
101,762 were males, and 76,312 females, 
AMERIGA, 
An Official Account of the Voyage of 
Discovery up the Missouri, undertaken 
by order of the American Government, 
by Captains Lewis and CLarkg, is in 
great forw ardness, and will shortly make 
its appearance in London. 
Dr. B. S. Barton, Professor of the 
Materia Medica in the University of 
Pennsylvania, is about to publish Ele- 
ments of Zoology; or, Outlines of the 
Natural History of Animals. 
An edition of Mr. Burke’s Works is in 
the press, and will soon be ready for pub- 
lication. 
Dr. Toncvue has lately published an 
Account of the Country on the South 
Shore of Lake Erie; including a brief de- . 
scription of the chinate, soil, productions, 
commerce, and manufactures of that 
district. 
The Culex of Virgil, with a Bene 
into English verse, by Lucius M. Ser- 
gEANT, has lately been published. 
An Experimental Enquiry into the 
Chemical and Medical Properties of the 
Statice Lemonium of Linnxus, . has lately 
been published at New York, by Vaten- 
TINE Mort, President of the American 
Orsculapian Society. 
L Dr, 
