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since the 15th century, and handed down 
to each succeeding generation. This 
genealogy commences with the daughter 
of Laurens Coster, who published the 
first printed impression in 1441, and 
closes with her descendants about the 
year 1585. 
ITALY. 
At the villa of the Count Morony, 
near Rome, were lately discovered the 
tombs of the ancient Roman families of 
the Manlii. They were found to contain 
two statues, five busts of an urn, all in 
tolerable preservation, and distinguished 
by the name of Manlius. Two skeletons 
dug up at the feet of these statues, still 
had rings upon their fingers. Close to 
the skeleten of a female, named Aga. 
thonia, were found the sheil of an egg, an 
oil bottle, a broken mirror, and a lamp. 
Upon this lamp was represented Tarquin, 
carrying a dagger, in his band, at the 
moment he was going to violate Lucre- 
tia. Baron Hasselin, minister from the 
King of Bavaria, to the Holy See, has 
purchased these valuable relics, which 
are at least two thousand years old, 
RUSSIA. 
From a very interesting work, writ- 
ten by Count Romanzow, entitled, 
“State of the Commerce of the Rus- 
sian Empire, from 1802, to 1808,” 
we learn that in 1808, the value of foreign 
commodities imported into Russia, 
amounted to 55 millions of rubles, and 
the exports to sixty-seven millions. ‘The 
duties exceeded those of the preceding 
years by 110,000 rubles. In 1804, owing 
to the difficulties of commercial specu-— 
lations, the imports were, sainus six, and 
the exports three, millions of rubles. Eveu 
then the balance in favour of Russia, 
which in 1803 had been 21,590,968 ru- 
bles, still amounted to 9,517,440.. In 
1805, notwithstanding the aimost total 
stagnation of trade, the imports exceeded 
those of 1804, by six millions; and the 
exports by 184 millions; and the balance 
in favour of Russia was 254 millions of 
rubles. The number of ships which ar- 
rived at, and departed from, the Russian 
ports during that period, was as follows: 
Arrived, Sailed, 
In 1802 3,730 3,622 
1803 4185 A,15T 
180% 3,478 3:471 
1805 5:3382 5;085 
Tow largé a proportion of these were 
English may be judged, from a compa- 
rison with the year,1808, when the num- 
ber of ships trading to the ports of Rus- 
sia was—arrived 996—zailed 926. The 
exchange on Hamburgh, which in 1802, 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
489 
and 1805, had sustained itself from 23 
to 274, and 29, fell in 1808 to 15 and 16. 
ASIA. 
In the night between the 11th and 
12th of October, after the Franciscan 
Monks, who reside in the Holy Sepul- 
chre, in Jerusalem, had retired to rest, 
_ they heard an uncommon noise in the 
church, They immediately hastened to 
the spot, and on entering it, they disco- 
vered the wooden altar, and the cells of 
the Armenian ecclesiastics, situated over 
the columns of the gallery in flames. 
The fire thence descended upon the 
choir of the Greeks, and to the floor of 
the church, assuming a most awful an- 
pearance, and threatening the elevated 
wooden cupola of the temple with im- 
mediate destruction. The Franciscans 
used their utmost efforts to stop the 
progress of the conflagration, but they 
were too few in number, and also wanted 
the implements necessary for that pure 
pose, At 
alarming the ecclesiastics of the adjacent 
church of St. Salvator, as well as the 
police, but by this time the flames had 
reached the cupola. As soon as the 
alarm was given, the whole of the Reman 
Catholic youth of the city immediately 
rushed to their assistance, but notwiths 
standing they exerted themselves with 
the utmost zeal and intrepidity, it was 
impossible to stop the fury of the de- 
vouring element. Before six in the 
morning, the cupola, with all the melting 
lead, with which it was covered, fell in, 
and gave this extensive building the 
appearance of a burning smelting-house. 
The excessive heat, which proceeded 
from this immense mass of liquid fire, not 
only shivered the marble cotumns sup. 
perting the gallery, but likewise the 
marble floor of the church, together with 
the pilasters and inages in bas-relief, 
that decorated the chapel of the Holy 
Sepulchre, situated in the centre of the 
church. Soouafter the massive columns 
that supported the gallery fell down, to. 
gether with the whole of the walls. No 
lives were lost ; and it is remarkable that 
the 1utenor ef the chapel, containing the 
Holy Sepulchre, in. which service is per- 
formed, has mot been in the jeast in. 
jared; though situated unmediately ander 
the cupola, and consequently in the mide 
dle. of the flames. After the’ fire had 
been extinguished, it was found that the 
silk-hangings, with which it is deco- 
rated, and the splendid painting of the 
resurrection upon the altar at the en- 
ranee, had not sustained the smallest 
damage. 
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