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procured from Otaheite, Java, and 
the adjacent islands. He has neg- 
Jected no means of enriching Natural 
History, by furnishing several kinds hi- 
therto unknewn, 
Bonaparte has founded at Marseilles a 
Professorship of the Arabic language, to 
which he kas appointed Don GazrieEL, 
formerly Missionary at Cairo, with a sal- 
ary of 8,000 francs. 
The new planet discovered by Dr. OL- 
BERS has hkewise been seen at Paris. 
It is visible to the naked eye, and its size 
seems to be nearly that of a star of the 
fifth magnitude; and its distance nearly 
the same as that of the other newly dis- 
covered planets, Ceres, Pallas, and Juno. 
HOLLAND. 
M. Hessr, a native of Germany, who 
has been settled some years as a book- 
seller, at Amsterdam, has undertaken 
the publication of a collection of Greek 
classics. He purposes printing three 
different editions, two in octavo, and one 
m quarto. Of the latter, only fifty 
copies will be taken off, and they cannot 
be procured without subscribing. 
Another enterprise of a similar nature, 
but comprehending all the classic writers, 
as bee commenced by Messrs. Leoy 
and Van Spaawn, booksellers, of Rotter- 
dam. It is printed in ducdecimo, with- 
out notes. 
SWITZERLAND. 
Tn the summer of last year, in digging 
a cellar at Coire, about two hundred 
Roman coms were found scattered in 
the earth, but no traces of foundations, 
or old walls, were perceptible. All these 
pieces were of copper, most of them ex- 
hibited on one side a genius holding a 
garland, or a cup, with a cornucopia 
in lis hand and this legend, “ Genio po- 
puli Romant.” On the reverse are the 
heads of Maximianus, Diocletian, and 
Constantius Chlorus. Most of them and 
the small ones in particular,were correded 
by verdigrease. The finest of them 
has a head of Antoninus Pius on one 
side, and a Victory on the other. At 
. the same place some fragments of uten- 
~gils, or ornan.ents of brass were dis- 
eovered. 5 
ITALY. 
The CarpixaLt Arcuprsuop of Gr- 
woa has issued Orders for the Suppres- 
sion of many Religious Festivals in the 
country beyond the Alps. The feasts.of 
St. Peter and Paul; the Patron Saints of 
parishes ; those of St. John Baptist, St. 
Laurence, the Conception, and St. Ber- 
nard, are transferred to Sundays. The 
Festivals which fall on Sundays are re- 
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tained; and also Christmas, the Circum=_ 
cision, the Epiphany, the Ascension, 
Corpus Christi, All Saints, and the As- ~ 
cension of the Virgin. 
A German of the name of SERIGBR, — 
who resides at Rome, has obtained from 
the Papal Government an exclusive pri- 
vilege for carbonising Turf or Peat from _ 
the Pontine marshes, in order to be em- 
_ ployed as fuel, an article very scarce and 
dear in that capital. ; 
The streets of Naples were lighted by 
lamps for the first time on the 16th of 
December last ; in consequence of which 
the crowds of people to witness this new 
spectacle were immense. 
AMERICA. 
A new Literary Institution has been 
recently established at Boston; it is de- © 
nominated the Boston Atheneum, and 
is constituted, as to its general plan and 
object, much after the model of some of 
the public Literary Institutions in Eng- 
land. The reading-room is supplied with 
the principal newspapers printed in Ame~ 
rica, with the most interesting literary and 
political Pamphlets in Europe and Amer!- 
ca; Magazines, Reviews, and Scientific 
Journals, in the English, French, and other 
modern languages ; Memoirs oi learned 
Societies ; London and Paris Newspapers; 
and various other periodical publica- 
tions. The Library is to consist of rare 
and valuable hooks in various languages. 
This Institution is also to contain 2 Mu- 
seum, or Cabmet of Natural and Arti- 
ficial Curiosities; a Repository of Arts, 
to contain models of new and useful ma- 
chines, and also specimens of Painting, 
&c. a Laboratory and apparatus for Ex- 
periments in Natural Philosophy. It 1s 
likewise intended, when the Institution 1s 
sufficiently established, to commence 4 
course of Lectures on literary and philo- 
sophical subjects. 
EAST INDIES. 
Mr. Kroc has heen presented, by the 
Fast India Company, with 1,500 pago- 
das, for a Translation of a work on Ma- 
homedan Jurisprudence, _ 
A new monthly publication has been 
begun at Madras, called_ the Indian Ma- 
gazine, and European Miscellany, con- 
taining a selection of literary and other 
intelligence from Europe; and original 
information on subjects connected with 
the British possession in India. The 
first number, embellished with a view of 
Mathias from the beach, made its ap- 
pearance on the ist of February, and it 
contains some articles which we shall 
have pleasure in introducing to our 
readers. 
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