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very considerable in that country. In 
the dioceses alone of Upsal, Vexio, Cal- 
mar, Ikera, and Carl-stadt, more than 
two hundred and eighty of these unfor- 
' tunate people have been enumerated. 
DENMARK. r 
The envoy of the Emperor of Morocco 
at Hamburgh has announced that he 
wishes to have the Description of Morocco, 
published in Danish by M. Horsr in 
1799, translated into Spanish, and has 
promised a considerable reward to the 
translator. 
Mr. Wever is publishing in numbers 
at Copenhagen, an Account of his Tour 
in the Interior of the Danish Provinces, 
In 1799, 1800; and 1801, the author 
visited Zealand, Funen, Jutland, and the 
Duchies of Sleswick and Ffolstein. He 
. Rives detailed accounts of the manners 
and customs of the inhabitants, of the 
state of rural and domestic economy, and 
of the productions, arts, and manutac- 
tures of those countries. 
Dr. Frost, of Aalborg, in Jutland, has 
begun a new Danish Journal, entitled, 
“Cimbria,” which contains historical, 
political,, and theological essays, and 
literary news. 
Professor Wan read at a late meeting 
of the Scandinavian Society, a Memoir 
on the Specimens of Minerals, sent by 
M. Oucsen from Iceland to the Board 
of Finances. The specimens have been 
deposited in the Royal Museum at Co- 
penhagen. 
An interesting Description of the Ni- 
cobar Islands has lately appeared at 
Copenhagen; from which it should seem 
that the Danes intend forming a settle- 
ment there. . 
GERMANY, 
Professor Body took ad vantage of the 
nihe weather between the 23d of April, 
aud the 5th of May, to view the new 
planet Vesta, which he did nine times at 
Berlin, from the Royal O bservatory, with 
the mural quadrant. On the Sth of May 
at 9" 2’ 56” mean time, its right ascen- 
sion was 178° 29/56” and northern de- 
clination 12° 35! 49.” 
A new method of curing those dread- 
ful convulsions which carry off so many 
brave wounded soldiers, has been prac- 
tised in the hospitals of Germany with 
“great success. Jt was first resorted to by 
the late M. Srurz, a physician of emi- 
nence in Suabia, and he was led to this 
important discovery from the analogy of 
a simple fact. M. Humsorpr had an- 
nounced, in his Work upon the Nerves, 
that on treating the nervous fibre alter- 
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nately with opium and carbonate of pot- 
ash, he made it pass five er six times 
from the highest degree of irritability, to 
astate of perfect asthenia. The method 
of M. Stutz, who has been employed 
with the greatest success in. the German 
hospitals, consisted in an alternate inter~ 
nal application of opium and carbonate 
of potash. {t has been seen that when 
thirty-six grains of opium, administered 
in the space of twenty-four hours, pre~ 
duced no effect, the patient was consi- 
derably relieved by ten grains more of 
opium, employed after having given the 
alkaline solation. This new treatment 
ot Tetanus is worthy of attexrtion. 
The Austrian empire, according to a 
Report lately published, contains 11,688 
square miles, and a population of 
23,590,000 souls. The revenues amount 
to 104,000,00* of guilders, the exper- 
diture to 103,000,000 and the national 
debt to 1,200,000,000. The present 
establishment of the army consists of 
344,315 men. 
There has been established at Prague, 
a School for the Deaf and Dumb, which 
is supported by subscription. The chif- 
dren of those parents who are in good 
circumstances, are received into: tlre 
house on paying, annually one hundred 
aud twenty-tive florins, for which sum 
they are provided with food, lodging, and 
Instruction; and the directors of  thig 
establishment are by these means enabled 
‘to aiford gratuitously the same advan- 
tages to a certain number of deaf and 
dumb children, belonging to poor parents, 
The whole is under the direction of M. 
Frortan Kiet, who is assisted by 
other able instructors. 
“A periodical work is published at 
Prague, entitled “ Flasatel Cesky,” or 
Bohemian Intelligencer, by Joun Ne- 
GEDLY, LL.D. and professor of the Bo- 
bemian lanonage and literature, in the 
University of Prague. . The principal 
object of the editor is to improve the 
language and literature of Bohemia; and 
tiie articles in the namBers which have 
already appeared are well calculated for 
that purpose; consisting chiefly of trans- 
Jations from Lucian, Cicero, Pope, the 
Messiah of Klopstock, and biographical 
accounts of eminent Bohemians. 
Mr. Merwers has published ‘a History. 
of the principal Insurrections which have 
happened among the Students at the 
different Universities of Europe. 
The third and fourth Volume of Mr. 
Maurice Arryp1’s Travels in Swéden 
have appeared. The Author gives a2 
very interesting account of the country, 
The 
