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“among the different speakers; and par- 
ticular portions of them were recited, in 
full chorus, by the whole of the pupils, 
mm correct time and harmonious accor- 
dance of voice; a novelty which had a 
very striking aiid noble effect; while it 
Ulastrated at once the practicability. and 
importance of reeulating the speaking 
voice, by the principles and proportuons 
- Of: the musical: scale. Mr. Thelwall 
proposes to have another sinilar exlu- 
bition im the month of August, ‘Tickets 
of Admission to which will be given to 
pies ladies and gentlemen as send their 
ames and direction s to the Institution 
for that purpose, as soon as the precise 
time is determined upon, 
Mr. Ryvance has in considerable for- 
wardness a Treatise on Comparative 
Elocution, designed as an elementary 
book forthe use of schools and grown 
persons, who may be prevented by their 
‘confirmed habits of utterance, from. cul- 
tivating a practical knowledge of the 
foreign Janguages. It will comprehend a 
-general enquiry mto the veculiarities of 
pronunciation in the modern European 
dialects, aud ito the means of facilitating 
their acquisition. 
The EmperorJustinian’s ChartaPlenarieg 
Securifatis is one of the most ancient 1n- 
struments written on Egyptian paper, and 
as such deposited in the Library of the 
‘Fate king of France, and_ is published 
by Mabillon in his work, De ve Diplo- 
‘maticd. St. Augustine’s Epistles, and 
part of Josephus’s Anuquities, in Latin, 
of the sixth century, were in the Bene- 
‘“dictmme Library at Paris, at the coin- 
mencerment of the French Revolution 
all written on this kind of paper. The 
use of Egyptian paper seems to have 
been laid aside in the ninth, or at the 
beginnmg of the tenth century, when 
ilk paper was introduced as more con- 
venient and lasting than the weed that 
grew on the banks of the Nile. ne to 
the paper im use at this da ay; Petrus Mo- 
ritius, surnamed Venerabilis, who lived 
in the twelfth century, calls Charta é 
rasuris veterum penorum fucta, a kind of 
paper made of the lint of old rag; it 
scems to have been invented inthe eieventh 
century, The exact time, however, of tbe 
invention of our modern paper cannot be 
ascertained. Reniboid, in’ bis Disser- 
tation on paper, princed at Berlin, in 
1774, fixes the time of its invention in 
1470, but upon very slender grounds. 
Matilion met with a manuscript on mo- 
dern paper, which was fine hundred 
years old, in’a Monastery it Lorraine. 
The observations of the learned Car- 
Literary and Philosophical Intellig 
[July 1, 
melite Orlando, on this subject, have 
been taken notice of in the Act. Erudit. 
Lips. An. 1724, p. 102, in these words, 
* Then discoursmg of paper, he refers 
the invention of it almost as far back as 
the eighth century, when Eustathius 
published his Commentary on Homer, 
which is said to have been written ou 
paper; he adds, that a manuscript of 
Tiomer was she wil in Geneva, in. his 
time, said to be eight huidred years 
old.” 
ENCE. 
RUSSIA. 
M. KiLAPRoTH does not go to Pekin 
with the Greek missionaries, as had been 
formerly announced; he lias set Wout for 
Krachta, with Mr. Helms, a botanist, for 
the purpose of making a tour along the 
frontiers of Russian and Chinese Tartary. 
A new school of practical jurispru- 
dence has been established'at Petersbur 
in which four professors teach the law of 
nature and ethics; the Roman law, and the 
history of Russia; to which is added a 
course of lectures on the labours of the 
Commission of Legislation. All the lec- 
tures are im thie Russian language. 
Translations of ARCHENHOL2’S = Enaliad 
and Ltaly, Gatterer’s Art of Heraldry, and 
Condillac’s Logic, have lately been 
published at St. Petersburg; but few 
original works have appeared, The most 
interesting of which 1s a Life of Paul [.: 
SWEDEN. 
M. Drvusere has published the fourth 
and last volume of his Geography, which 
treats of the geography and statistics of 
Sweden. 
' M. Svepenst1erna has published at 
Stockholm, in one volume 8vo. an Ac- 
count of his Travels in England and 
Scotland in 1804, undertaken at the ex- 
pense of the proprietors of the Great 
Swedish Iron Warks, for the purpose of 
acquinng a kuewledge of the processes 
used in those of Great Britain. Muine- 
ralogy is at present much cultivated in 
Sweden, where Baron d’ -Hermelm has 
added to the stock of knowledge by his 
Essay of a Mineralogical History of 
Lapland. 
M. Norsere, professor ‘of Oriene 
tal languages at the University of Lund, 
has publish ed several. Essays relative i 
diferent branches of Oriental literature; 
such as the Agriculture of the Basean 
Nations, the Militia of the Arabs, the 
Temple ‘of Mecca, and other.interesting 
objects of inquiry. 
Tt is intended to estab lish in Sweden, 
an Institution for the education of the 
Deaf aud Dumb, theiz number bemg 
very 
