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tify their regard: thofe of Calcutta voted 
a maufoleum, and thofe of Bombay a 
ftatue. 
Thus died Charles Marquis Cornwal- 
lis, a nobleman whofe name will be long 
remembered in the remoteft portions of 
Afia, netas a mercilefs aad unpcincipled 
{poiler, but as a man who praétifed all the 
offices of humanity, and a Goveraor who, 
copies of the preceding orders to be tran{mit™ 
ted to the Government of Fort St. Georges 
Bombay, and Prince of Wales’s Ifland, and 
alfo to the Government of the Britifh poffef- 
fions on the Ifland of Ceylon. 
By order of Government, 
]. Lumspen, Chief Sec, to the Gov. 
The Calcutta Gazette of the 26th Oéto- 
ber ftates, that at a general meeting of the 
inhabitants it was refolved, 
‘¢ That in addition to the general mourn- 
ing which has been adopted as a public token 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
[April 1, 
while he fu pported the interefts of his own 
couttry, foi got not the claims and preten- 
fions of the native Princes. All perfons 
and all parties concur in lamenting the 
death of a chief who in his own perfoa 
combined the remote, and too often dif- 
cordant, qualities of a Siatefman and a 
General, and who on no occafion profti- 
tuted his authority to the difhonour of the 
Britith name. 
of the concern felt by this fettlement, on the 
death of Marquis Cornwallis, a maufoleam 
be ereéted, with the permiffion of Govern- 
ment, over the place of his interment at 
Ghazepoore, as amemorial of eiteem and re- 
verence for his virtues, and of gratitude for 
his eminent fervices.” 
Committees were at the fame time elected. 
for India and Europe, to carry the above Re- 
folution into execution. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 
HE moi important paper read be- 
fore the National, Inftitute at Paris 
during feveral months, was tranfmitted 
by Meflrs. Fourcroy and VAUQUELIN. 
It related to the phenomena obferved in, 
and the refults obtained from, animal 
matter, when acted upon by nitric acid. 
Thete celebrated chemifts, in repeating 
the experiments made by M. Berthollet 
on the mufcular fibre, found that a mix. 
ture of 150 parts of mufcular flcfh, with 
an equal quantity of nitric acid, at 32°, 
and water, put into a matrafs, and heated 
till it boiled gently, gave 96 cubic inches 
of gas, compofed ‘of azote and carbonic 
acid in the proportion of nine to one. 
The refiduum confifed of matter which 
had not lo% its fibrous formation, a yel- 
jowifh liquor, anda greafy fubftance of 
a yellow colour which floated on the fur- 
face of the liquor. 
The liquor being filtered, the refidue 
gave a yellow colour, and the property of 
reddening vegetable blues. Its folution 
in alkalies was of a deep blood-colour : 
it was precipitated by acids in yellow 
fiakes : it feels fat and pitchy ; and from 
other circumftances it had a firong refem- 
blance to fat fuoftances, notwithitanding 
its acidity. . 
In the yellow matter the following pro- 
pertics and characteriftics were oblerved. 
Tt fo faturated alkalies as nearly to mafk 
their properties. Its combinations with 
potath and ammonia lathered like foap and 
water, and are not decompoled by carbo- 
nic acid, bet precipitated the folutions of 
mercury and lead in yellowith white flakes, 
The yellow matter decompofed alkaline 
carbonates, with effervefcence, and like- 
wife the acetate of potath. 
Alcohol was next made ufe of, and they 
found that the yellow matter was compof- 
ed of fat which was taken up by the al- 
cohol, and of a certain acid denomina- 
ted yellow acid. This acid, when de- 
' prived of its fat, was of a deeper co. 
lour, more readily reddened the paper 
of turnfol, and exhaled fetid and ammo- 
niacal vapours. The yellow acid com- 
“bined with ammonia, and deprived it of 
its fmeil, eud by diftillation it yielded all 
the produ&ts of animal fubftances. Irs 
conftitueat principles therefore are azote, 
hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen, and it 
mult be placed among animal acids. 
The combination of yellow acid and 
fat, on being again fubmitted to the ac- 
tion of nitric acid, at a temperature of © 
g0°, underwent no remarkable alteration. 
The action of the acid féems confined to 
giving it properties which make. it ap- 
proximate to an oily ftate, without de- 
firoying its original acid character. 
The nitric acid in which the mufeular. 
-flefh had been decompofed, was examined, 
and its yellow cclour refembled chat of 
the folution of chromate of potath. When 
faturated with carbonate of potafh, the 
liquor 
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