ad 
1805.] 
Mr. MacpIARMID Is about to: publifh 
a work entitled, An Enquiry into the 
Syftem of National Defence. It is in- 
tended in this work to confider the influ- 
ence which the prefent fyftem of National 
Defence has on the internal profperity of 
Great Britain, as well as the improvements 
which it may be expedient to intoduce into 
that fyfem. 
A new edition of the Rev. Hucn 
FarMeEp’s Diflertations of Chriftt’s Temp- 
tation in the Wildernedfs is in the prefs. 
’ The Rev. T. BetsHam will fthortly 
publifh a feries of Letters, in Anfwer to 
the Rev. J. P. Smiru, on certain impor- 
tant Theological Subjects. 
The Rev. THomas Warsow has in 
the prefs, a Work on the Popular Evi- 
dences of Natural and Revealed Reli- 
gion. 
It is faid that M. ScumuwvT, a native 
of Mecklenburg, has invented a new and 
very fuperior diving machine. 
The Police of Paris has prohibited the 
laft new novel of LeBrun, entitled Je- 
rome. 
It is reported that the works of M. Von 
MuLLER, councellor at Berlin, have 
been prohibited in the Auftrian flates. 
From fome obfervations of M.Burcx- 
HARDT, it fhould feem that the period of 
the planet Juno, difcovered by M. Harp- 
ING, is about 53 years. Its inclination 
is 21%, excentricity one fourth of its ra- 
dius; mean diftance from the fua three 
times greater than that of the earth. 
According to the experiments of Spa- 
LANZANI, {nails abforb oxygen, not only 
by other organs than the lungs, but alfo 
through their fhells ;.and this abforption is 
faid to continue fome time after theirdeath. 
Even when the fhell is freed from the ani- 
mal it contained, it feems to continue to 
abforb oxygen. 
M. REGNIER has invented a Meridian 
which may be placed in the window of an 
apartment. It confifts of a quadrant fur- 
nifhed with a lens, and a plate of brafs in 
the plane of the meridian, with a black 
horfe-hair, which, when it breaks, lets go 
the catch of ahammer that ftrikes on a bell. 
When the fainteft ray of the {un appears, the 
hair crifps and breaks: a ray lefs brilliant 
than that which makes the fhadow on the 
fun dial appear diftin&ly, is fufficient for 
this purpofe, and the mechanifim is ftrong 
enough to ftrike noon on a large bell. 
The mean diftance of the {mall planet, 
difcovered by M. Harpvina, 1s faid to be 
about three hundred millions of miles, 
which is fomewhat more than the diftance 
of thofe difcovered by Prazzi and OL~ 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
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BERS. The diameter of this newly dif- 
covered planet has not yet been mealured, 
but it appears like a ftar of the eighth 
inagnitude, ! 
The Emperor of Russia has granted 
ample emancipation to the Jews, in his 
dominions. An Ukafe lately publithed 
grants them the privilege of educating 
their childrenin any of the fchools and 
univerfities of the empire; or they may 
eftablifh fchools at their own expence, 
The Seciety of the Friends of the Sci- 
ences at Warfaw, has charged two of its 
members to undertake a mineralogical 
tour to the Carpathian mountains, Ano- 
ther member of the fame fociety has al. 
ready explored the eaftern part of thefe 
mountains, and is now engaged ina like 
‘tour through the mountains of Interior 
Auftria ; from which he will proceed to 
Upper Italy and the Swifs Alps. On his 
return, he will go on a fimilar tour to the 
Caucafian mountains. 
Dr. Goupruss, of Erlangen, will fet 
out in the courfe of the prefent {pring on 
his travels in Africa, the expences of which 
will be defrayed by the King of Proffia. 
He intends remaining a year at the Cape, 
and in the two following years he means to 
penetrate as far as poflible into the coun- 
try, both on the eatiern and weftern 
coat. 
An Embafly is about to be fent by the 
Ruifian Government to China. Among 
thofe who are to accompany Count Go- 
LOFKIN in this miffion, are SCHUBERT, 
the aftronomer; General SUCHTELEN, as 
hiftoriographer ; and RUTTOFFSKY, as 
botanift and landfcape painter. Great 
advantages, both ina commercial and {ci~ 
entific point of view, are expected from 
this embafly. 
Lat year fome workmen began to clear 
away the rubbifh around the ancient tem. 
ple of Peum. In the courte of the pre- 
fent year the diggings will be completed, 
and a defcription of all the remains of an~ 
tiquity which liave been difcovered will be 
publifhed. Vhe antique vafe of Parian 
marble, the railed work of which repre- 
fents Bacchus in his infantile ftate deliver. 
ed by Mercury to a nymph to be educated, 
the work of Salphion, the Athenian, 
which formerly ferved as a baptifmal font 
in the cathedral of Gaetta, has been con- 
veyed to the King’s Mufeum at Naples. 
M. Perrini, who fet on toot fome re: 
fearches at his own expence in the neigh- 
bourhood of Oftia, has found a fitting. 
ficure of the Tiber, which the Papal Go- 
vernment has purchafed of him for 7000 
fequins. 
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