morial, 
1808. ] 
The celebrated painter Dayrp, has re- 
cently finished a capital picture, the 
scene of which is placed in the church of 
Notre-Dame, and represents the mo- 
ment when the Emperor is proceeding 
to place the crown on the head of the 
Empress. On the left of the picture, the 
artist has represented the chief altar of 
Notre-Dame, behind and around which 
are ranged the Viceroy of Italy, the 
princes, the arch-chancellor, and arch- 
treasurer, the Prince of Benevento, Car- 
dinal Fesch, several other digmitaries, and 
a number of priests and singing boys, Be- 
fore the altar his Holiness is seated, and 
beside him Cardinal Capraya, an arch- 
bishop, and a priest with a long beard, 
Bonaparte in the centre of the picture 
has his hands raised up, hoiding a crown, 
which he is going to place on the head of 
the Empress. The Empress is on her 
knees, her hands joined, and awaits the 
conclusion of the ceremony in a con- 
templative attitude. 
M. Doverr Ricnarpotr has long 
practised with success a new method of 
curing cattle whose stomachs are swoln 
from having fed upon wet forage. It 
consists in administering to the ani- 
mal the twentieth part of a pound of 
gunpowder, mixed in a pint of milk, 
when first seized with the colic, from eat- 
ing grass or clover highly charged with 
dew. This remedy was some time since 
announced in the French journals; but 
M. Richardott has been the first to 
publish the results of its application. 
M. Atvarre, a French chemist, has 
published a new ‘method of scouring wool, 
which consists in dipping it repeatedly 
into a lye of quick-lime. The chalky 
earth forms an animal soap with the 
grease. By this means the wool is spee- 
dily and economically scoured, and with- 
out altering its quality. 
The Agricultural society of the de- 
partment of the Seine proposes to give a 
premium of 6000 francs for the best 
plough, accompanied with the best me- 
theoretical and practical, con- 
taining the soundest views, and the best 
ascertained experiments, on the compo- 
sition and use of that instrument, and the 
price of the plough will also be allowed 
besides, ‘The two next best ploughs and 
memorials will be entitled to 1500 francs 
each, with the price of the ploughs like- 
wise. 
ITALY- 
M. Treyttno has lately presented to 
the Agricultural Society at Turin a Me- 
morial relating to the Extraction of a 
Montutr Mac. No, 169. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
porated to the consistence of en 
Missionaries were using all 
217 
Saccharine Substance from Black Mul- 
berries. When the juice is expressed, it 
is clarified with white-of eges, and eva~ 
The quantity of silk gathered this year 
in Italy has been double what it usualy 
has been. 
A new grotto has been discovered in 
the neighbourhood of Naples. It is si- 
tuated on the banks of Lake Agnaro, 
not far from Lake Averno, and conse- 
quently at no great distance trom the 
Grotto del Cane, to which it is in many 
respects similar, This grotto, from the 
name of its discoverer, has been called 
Grotta Pully. After following many 
windings, M. Pully discovered at the ex- 
tremity of the grotto a spring, so hot 
that evgs were’ boiled hard in fifty-seven 
seconds, Reaumuy’ ’s thermometer, which 
at the outside was two decrees above 0, 
rose to sixty-one degrees in the interior, 
on being kept in an elevated situation. 
On bringing i it within a foot of the yround, 
it fell five. degrees; but on being stuck 
into the earth it rose to seventy-five de- 
grees, and a barometer in the same situ- 
ation fell some degrees. 
POLAND. 
The University of Wilna has announ- 
ced the following as the subject of a prize 
question for the present year:—* What 
are the chief Diseases of Plants, and 
what Analogy exists between them and 
those of Animals.?” The prize is one 
hundred ducats, and sill be adjudged in 
January, 1809; but the memoirs, writ- 
ten in Latin, French, or Pelish, must be 
sent to the rector of the University be- 
fore September 1, 1808. 
AFRICA, 
The Missionaries im the country of the 
Hottentots have lately introduced vacci- 
nation among that people, by the ex- 
press orders of the English government 
of the colony at the Cape. Upwards 
of six hundred Hottentots had been vac- 
cinated with the best effect, and the 
diligence 
among their congregations to promote 
the veneral introduction of so beneficial 
a measure. 
AMERICA. 
A survey has been made, by order of 
Congress, of that part of the coast of 
North Carolina which lies between Cape 
Ifatteras and Cape Fear. This survey 
Wits performed during the last summer by 
Captains Price and Cores, who have 
made a valuable report of their observa- 
tions, accompanied with a new chart of 
the coast, In this they consider that the 
Kk shoals 
