1807.) 
A Life Boat, improved in Denmark by 
Captain Smiiinc, has been sent to Pe- 
tersburgh, ancl 1¢ is intended to construct 
several Gn the same model, in the Russian 
ports, 
A new Map of the Feroe Islands has 
appeared in Denmark, constructed by 
M. Lonververn, a distinguished naval 
officer. It comprehends a space trom 
latitude 61° 25’ to latitude 62° 25’, and 
there is aunexed to it a minute and inte- 
resting description of this little known 
part of the Danish dominions. 
The Theatre Royal at Copenhagen, . 
the course of 1806, had 158 performances 
among the, pieces represented were nine 
translations, aud only one original Danish 
comedy, by Professor SANDER, entitled 
The Hospital. 
A clergyman of Nykoebing, has given 
the des escription of a Dauatsh fsland, the 
name of which is scarcely known to the 
Danes themselves.’ This island is called 
Mors, and is situated in the north east 
part of Jutland, and formed by the great 
Gulph of Linfiord, which penetrates into 
the interior of the peninsula. Its Paps 
Jation amounts to 8,400, who speak a 
language peculiar to themselves, a Glos- 
sary of which has lately been published, 
containing 700 words not known elses 
where. 
An Institution for the eseacn Dumb 
has for several years been established at 
Kiel,with good success, Another institution 
of this nature is now establishing at Co- 
penhagen, at the expence of Government. 
It will consist of three teachers, besides 
one female teacher, and forty pupils. 
Seventy rix-dollars (141.) are to be paid 
annually for every pupil, which will be 
defrayed by the pupils themselves, or 
their parents, when they can afford it, 
otherwise by the poor-chest of the dis- 
trict to which they belong. Dr Casr- 
BERG, who has travelled two years to in- 
spect ‘the best institutions of this kind in 
Europe, and who has laid down the plan 
for this establishment, is appointed the 
head teacher of this institution. 
: GERMANY. 
Professor Bortrricer centinued last 
winter, at Dresden, his Archological 
Lectures with the success that might 
justly be expected to attend so lear ned 
an antiquary. In general, the taste for 
literature, which the disastrous events 
ef the war had disturbed but not ex- 
tinguished, begins to. revive in that ca- 
pit tal of the newly created kingdom of 
Saxony. . A Translation of the Lusiad 
of Caimoens, by MM. Kumn and Wink- 
ficaria ucris, and scelerata. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. at 
fer, has lately been published there, 
which.evinces: much accuracy and eee 
cal talent. 
The Chevalier von HoceLmMuLLer, of 
Vienna, who will set out, m the end of 
November, to travel in the East, for the 
purpose of elucidating the natural history 
of the horse, has offered his service to 
the Agricultural Society of Copenhagen, 
to receive queries respecting natural his- 
tory in general, and other subjects. 
Mr. Councillor Seyererr continues 
to observe the newly discovered planet. 
ile bas calculated, by approximation, the 
orbit of that planet, from observations 
made at Munich wp to the ist of May. 
His conclusions aver, that its mean mo- 
tion is greater than that of June, ef Ce- 
res, and of Pailas; that the excentricity 
of its orbit is greater than that of Ceres, 
and less than that of Juno and Pallas; 
-that the inclination is likewise less hate 
that of the three other planets, as well 
as its mean distance from the Sun; that 
it is the eleventh principal planet of our 
solar system, and that it moves betwixt 
Mars and Jupiter. 
M. SCHRAELL, aresvectable bookseller 
at Vienna, has just published j in that erty, 
a History or W allachia, i in modern Greek; 
translated from a manuscript mentioned’ 
by Engell in his History of Meldavia, 
pene at Halle in 1804. 
Dr. John Reid’s excellent Treatise on 
Consumption, lately published, has been 
translated into German by Dr. HeLmers- 
HAUSEN, Of Neustadt, in the duchy of 
Saxe- Coburg, 
The first number. of a Collection of 
Poisonous Plants, engraved on stone, the 
appearance of the prints being equal to 
that of well executed wood cuts, has been 
recently published at Batisbon.) ‘Phis 
number contains ten plaies, and the ge= 
neric aud specie characters of the fol- 
lowing plants are painted out; viz. Aco- 
nitum napellus, wolf’s bane; anemon 
pratensis, meadow anemone ; (euhe pa- 
lustris, raarsh marygold ; dedphinius m Std- 
physagria ; hell! ne us fotid us, bear’s foot; 
helteborus niger, black hell ebore; ranun- 
culus fumnula, small spear-wort; and 
he ebhon 
of this work, M. Kryser, has added a 
chapter on the methods of discovering an 
accumulation of mephitic gas in airy sittl- 
ation, and the best means of dissipating 
it with safety. 
FRANCE. 
The French have lately been success- 
ful in naturalizing cotton and indico in 
their southern provinces, and their at- 
tention 
