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the number of perfons vaccinated . was 
enly 6,349; but in 1805, it amounted to 
25,185. 
Germany. 
The reputation of Dr. Gaz, the 
ezaniologilt, feems to be on the decline 
m Germany. At Muntter, Cologne, 
Francktort, and other places, he was 
not able to collect a fufficient number of 
fubfertbers for a courfe of leétures; and 
his fyitem is now deemed in his own; ips 
well as other, countries, one of the mott 
abdfurd and vifionary that ever prefented 
itfelf to the credulity of mankind. 
Fhe extreme mildnefS of the prefent 
winter has given occafion to a German 
journalift to compare it with other win- 
ters not defs remarkable for their cle- 
mency, In 1289, fays_he, the winter 
was fo wa rm, that at Chriflimas and on 
New Year ’e-cday the young gurls ef Co- 
lozne wore HS of violets, eorn- 
flowers, and primrofes. In 1420, the 
trees flowered in March, and the vines 
aw April. In the fame month ripe cher- 
ries recite ga thered, as were good grapes 
nthe month of May. The winter of 
1596 was fo mild, that flowers were feen 
ur the garden m Pac bic and January. 
Jn 1572, all the trees budded in Janus. 
ary, and the birds built their netts in the 
following month. The fame phenome- 
non was oblerved in 1585, when wheat 
was In ear at Eaiter. In the winters of 
1807, 1609, 1617, and 7659, there was 
neither froft nor fhow. Laitly, in 1622, 
the month of January was fowarm, even 
in the north of Germany, that no fire 
was made in the ftoves, aud all the trees 
were in full bloom in February. 
Captain Hocetmutter, of Vienna, 
has publithed the follewing intereiiing 
addrefs to the friends of the arts and 
fciences: “ By the favour of his royal 
highnefs the Archduke Charles,. I {hall 
enabled, at the end of November, 
4807, to fet out on a journey to the Eait, 
prov ided with the nec effary infiruments 
aud attendants. Though the natural 
hiftory of the horfe is the principal object 
of this tour, yet I am ready to ufe my 
beft endeavours to procure aniwers to 
fuch gueftious for the :mprovement of 
natural hittary im pra, geography, 
hilology, technology, archzology, uu- 
mafmatics, &c. as men of learning and 
Yoeieties inay fend me before the end of 
Avguf.. Virft travelling through Hun- 
gary, Tranfylvamia, and Bu ckowina, to 
the Ukraine, I fhall embark at Qdeffa 
for Conitantinople, and praceed fiem 
that metropolis to Aleppo im Syria, 
Literary end Philosophical I niclligence. 
-members to repeat 
- [March I, 
France. 
By a vecene decree of Bonaparte, the 
church of St. Genevieve (the Pantheon. 
of great Frenchmen !!) is to be retiored 
to the catholic worfhip, and.that of St. 
Denis to be the fepulture of his reyal 
race !! The latter to have a chapter com- 
pofed of ten bifhops, the firlt of which is 
te be the grand almoner. 
A Spanifh newfpaper lately made its 
appearance at Pars, on the plan of the 
dda igus, of infamous notoriety. 
The holy crown of thors, given to 
St. Louis by Baldwin Emperor of Con- 
ftantinople, in 1238,.and which furvived 
the io a ge mania, was folemnly 
transierred. on Sunday the 10th of Au- 
cuft to the yee of Notre Dame ‘at 
Paris. 
It appears, from experiments made 
by! M. Prousr, -that fome fpecies tof 
erepes in Spain will produce 30 per cent. 
mufeovado, which may be converted 
cae white fagar The fociety of the de- 
yartment of Gers directed two of its 
the. experiment. 
The fuccefs was complete. The muf- 
covado which they obtained, and a fpe- 
cnuen of which was prefented to the 
Agneultural Society of Touloufe, will 
be conv eyed to Rourdeaux for the pur 
pote of being refined. 
Ata late meeting of the firft clafs of 
the National Infitute, ] M. Hauy, among 
othey papers, read a report on the gale 
vanic phenomena difcovered by M. Er- 
mann, a member of the academy of 
Berlin, for which the annual prize found= — 
ed ‘by the emperor was aqjudged to that 
philofopher. ‘The Galvanic Society has, 
by repeated experiments, alcertaiued twa 
curious phenomena; namely, 1. That 
diftilled water, tubjected to.the .galvanic 
action, evidently undergoes a change in 
its flate in a veffel in which oxygen is 
difengaged by a conducting wire, com- 
Wunicating with the -pofitive pole. 2; 
That water, in this new fiate, mvariably 
exhibits the real characteriiues of muri- 
aiic acid. 
Much has been lately aa and written 
in Germany concerning the art of me~ 
One & 7 ttudy which alfo begins to be 
cultivated in France. Qn this fubjeéé 
the celebrated uftronomer M. de La- 
lande bears teftimony to the following 
facis: “‘ L have witnefied,” fays he, “ the 
extraordinary elects produced om the 
mcinory by the method of M. de Fenai- 
gle; and-as hé took the pains to explain 
it to me, Iwas convinced that it could 
not fail to produce fuch. eilects.. It isa 
fact 
