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tics of senatorial and popular eloquence, 
the causes of the present declining state 
of oratory and popular taleut, and the 
mieans of improving our mace elocu- 
tron. The lectures will commence on 
the evening of Monday, June 8th, and 
will be continued on Monday evenjnys 
only. ‘They will be illustrated by ora- 
torical recitations, extemporary ‘decla- 
inations, and critical sketches of several 
ot the most celebrated statesmen and 
parhamecniary orators of the preceding 
generation ; including Juords Chatham, 
Mausheld; Camden, Astburton, Mr, 
Grenville, Charles Townshend, . Vite, 
Burke, Fox,. &c. Mr... Thelwall also 
profters his private instructions to young 
senators, desiroas of improving their 
oratorical talents; and oilers to superm- 
tend a select number of pupils frum the 
coleges and public ‘schools, during the 
approaching recess. 
SWEDEN, 
A Swedish naturalist has discovered 
the smallest animal of the order of maim- 
mata that has been yet seen: ke calls 
this animal sorer caniculatus ; it isa kind 
of earth-mouse, 
DENMARK. 
Mueh has of late years been done in 
Denmark for the education of the poor. 
A law, respecting the 
country schools, which was promulgated 
in October last year, seems to crown 
the honourable endeavours of the 
Danish government. towards this impor- 
tant object. Schools tor the peasants 
aud -the poor have long heen established 
throughout the country ; ; but partly they 
were too few; partly the school-masters 
were not suttic ently paid, and therefore 
mostly compelled to seek a livelihuod 
by other employments, Vhe present law 
directs that tue country shall be divided 
Into school-districts, in each of which 
there is to be a school, and no district 
must be larger than the children may, as 
to the distance, without inconvenience 
attend the school. A decent income, 
with free house, is appointed fur the 
master’; and all parents are compelled to 
children regularly to school 
after the age of seven years. The chil- 
dren are divided according to their age 
aud proficiency into different classes, 
which are to attend the school at dit 
ferent times of the day and the week, so 
that no child is taken away from its 
parents more than a part of the day. 
Instruction is to be given in reading, 
writing, arithmetic, and religion, and to 
those who have capacity and inclination 
Monrury Mac. No. 157, 
send their 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
establishment of 
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for it, in the history and geography of 
their Country. None are to be dismissed 
-from school before they can read both 
print and plain writing, and give a ra- 
tional account of the principles of chris- 
tianity, These reyulations are, for the first, 
limited to the islands of Zealand, Funen, 
Coland, and Galster; but after they have 
been tried, they will, no doubt, perhaps 
with some alteratious and improvements, 
he extended to all the rest of Denmark. 
The Supreme Court of Justice.at Co-’ 
-penhagen, has ¢aid before the King an 
account of all criminals in the Danish 
dominions, (including [celand and the 
Tidian colonies,) gn w hom sentence hag 
been passed in the year 1806; in which 
it is stated that two hundred anal five cri- 
minals, eighteen of whom were foreigners, 
were in that year sentenced to corporeal 
punishment, tive for murder, eight for 
other capital crimes, seven for forvery, 
the rest for inferior offences, aud that the 
number of criminals bears a proportion 
to the whole population.of the kinvdom 
and colonies, as one to ten thousand, 
A. Gross, afurricr of Copenhagen, has 
invented a method of making black hats 
of seal-skin, and bas obtained a royal 
patent, which enutles him to the sole 
filbueation of that article tor three years. 
An official paper ot Copenhag 9en, vives 
an account of the state ot the Damen 
colonies in Greenland for the year 1804; 
from which it appears that there were in 
that year caught forty-seven whales, ive 
thousaud one hundred seals, six bears,and | 
two hundred and ninety unicorns. Seven 
ships were employed in the trade, and 
exported goods to the amount of SIXty~ 
pine thousand one hundred and five rix 
dollars, of which were provisions for. 
twenty-five thousand three hundred and 
forty-five rvix dollars. The total popu- 
lation of all the colonies was, as‘far as ~ 
could be ascertained up-to, June ee 
six thousaud and forty-six persons, which 
is an increase of one hundred and eight y- 
one smee the year 1802. It is much 
complained of that. nothing could tll 
that time be done in the inoculation of 
the cow-pock, because the matter sent 
from Copenhagen had been found me. 
elfective. 
GERMANY. 
Dr. Scura@rer, from a variety of ob- 
servations made at Lilienthal, has 1 eason 
to believe that the planet discovered by 
Dr. Olbers, some time back, and called 
by his noni iS about the size of the 
noun; that the Piazzi is about three- 
fourths of the size of the Olbers; and the 
ae Harding 
