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rifes to the furface, which muft be taken 
off and preferved. The cloth intended 
to be black, mutt be printed with this 
‘feum, and then dyed; after which it is to 
be patied through lime water, which 
changes the printed figures to a full and 
permanent black. 
Mr. Hornsiower, of Featherftone- 
fireet, City-road, has fo moditied the 
confiruétion of the fire engine, as to 
render it a valuable acquifition to thole, 
who are under any apprehentions of ac- 
cidents by ire. It ftands in the compals 
of fourteen inches fquare, and two feet 
high, and may be carried from one room 
to another with eafe. 
RUSSIA. 
M. pe Krusenstern, being returned 
from his voyage round the world, is now 
about to prepare his account for the 
prefs. He will be afiitted by a committee 
of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, in 
verifying the aftronomical. obfervations. 
All the drawings brought home by that 
celebrated vavigator will be placed in 
the hands of the meft {kilful engravers. 
An engagement has been made “with a 
London bookfeller for an Englith edition. 
SWEDEN. 
Some years ago, feveral Swedifh na~- 
turalifts formed a Society for the purpofe 
of giving a complete account of the Bo- 
tany of their native country. Forty-fix 
numbers of this work have already ap- 
peared, each containing a coloured en- 
graving, of four or five plants, with their 
names, in the principal languages or Eu- 
rope, and a fhort and luminous delcrip- 
tion, in Swedifh. The Editors of this 
work have began another work on the 
fame plan, relative to the Zoology of 
Sweden, of which the firft Number has 
already ‘appeared. Mr. WerrrinG, has 
lately pubiithed a very curious work on 
Lichens ; in which he gives an exact de- 
feription of each fpecies, and indicates, 
its ufe in medicine and domettic eecono- 
my, and particularly the mode of ex- 
tracting colours from them for the purpofe 
of dying Silk and Wool. ‘The Plates 
accompanying this work, which does 
honour to Sweden, reprefents, 1ft. The 
mofies of the clafs of Lichens, engraved 
and coloured, after nature; and 2d. the 
various colour which they communicate 
to cloth in the procefs of dying. 
M. ve ApLersetn, Author of fome 
much efteemed Tragedies, is now pub- 
lifhing a tranflation of the Aneid, i 
Swedifh hexameter verfe. Notwith- 
ftanding the prevailing prejudice againtt 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
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blank verfe, in Sweden, this produétion 
cannot fail of adding to the reputation 
of the author, who has acquired the 
efteem of his country, as well by his vir- 
tues as his talents: he intends to proceed 
with a tranflation of the Eclogues and 
Georgics. 
GERMANY. 
At the meeting of the Royal Academy 
of Sciences, at Berlin, in honour of the 
King’s birth-day, the perpetual fecretary, 
after announcing the prizes for the year, 
and the queftions propofed for the next, 
declared the fullowmg gentlemen foreign 
members, viz. M. Cuvier, member of the 
Imperial Inititute of France; Sir Jofeph 
Banks, prefident of the Royal Society of 
London ; M. Von Gothe, privy counfellor 
of the Duke of Weimar; M. Zoega, agent 
-of the King of Denmark at Rome, and 
author of various excellent works on an- 
tiquities; and MM. Hindenburg, profeffor 
at Leipfic. 
Never did the memory of LuTHER receive 
fuch univerfal homage, as it has done 
within twelve months. Befides the grand 
Drama,of which he is the hero, and which 
has been acted with prodigious applaute 
-at the Theatre Royal, Berlin, M. Krix- 
GEMANN, has juft performed at Magde- 
burg, a ‘tragedy, in fix aéts, entitled, 
Martin Luthe 
The ftate of sone tafle for the The- 
atre in different towns of Germany, may 
be partly inferred from the profits of be- 
nefits lately given in favour of the heirs 
of SCHILLER: at Riga, a city of thirty- 
five thoufand inhabitants, the receipt was 
one thoufand eight hundred florms; at 
Hamburgh, a city of eleven thonfand in- 
habitants, eight hundred florins; at Ber-. 
lin, a city of one hundred and fixty thou- 
fand inhabitants, the receipt was nearly 
five thoufand florins, 
Mr. E. Kutersar has obtained per- 
miffion to publifh a literary Gazette, in 
the Hungarian language, at Pefth, en- 
tirely devoted to the literati of Hungary. 
Another literary and political Gazette » 
in the Hungarian language, .is publifhed 
at Vienna, under the title of “ Magyar 
Kurir,” or Hungarian Courier. Many 
other ‘works on theology, ethics, educa 
tion, &c. and even fome novels, in the 
Hungarian, have lately iffued from the 
preffes of Pefth, 
Scurerer, the aftronomer, has deter~_ 
mined,that the higheft of three mountai 
which he has meafured in the moon, 8 
nine-tenths of a geographical mile in 
height. Ih 
The 
