1805. | 
The new planet difcovered by M. 
HarDING, at Libenthal, has been named 
Juno. 
_- In a Series of Hiftorical Memoirs-re- 
lative to the Cardinals of the Catholic 
Church, lately publifhed at Rome, by 
M. Lorenzo CaRDELLA, the fellowing 
ftatement is given of the Cardinals fur- 
nithed by each of the monattic orders: 
the Benediftines, 130; the Francifcans, 
50; the Dominicans the fame number, 
and the Jefuits only 10. Of the French 
nation there have been 362, which num- 
ber exceeds that of any other, excepting 
the Italian, which has always furnifhed at 
leat two-thirds. 
From the account which has been pub- 
lihed of M, Gay Lussac’s fecond 
aerial excurfion, at Paris, we are informed 
that he afcended 21,600 feet above the 
level of the fea; that at the height to 
which he attained, the magnetic power 
underwent no variation.’ The chemical 
properties of the air, its weight excepted, 
remained the fame, and the heat of the at- 
mefphere diminifhed, as he afcended, very 
nearly in an arithimetical progreffion. 
As the prefs is the moft dangerous of 
all inftruments to defpotifm, the different 
Courts in Europe are employing all their 
efforts to countera& the poflible effects of 
this formidable weapon. There is (cur 
own country excepted) fearcely a fove- 
reignty, in this quarter of the globe, 
where a literary cen{orfhip is not bufily en- 
gaged in crufhing the freedom of the 
prefs. The Court of St. Peterfburgh has 
lately publifned a long edict, containing 
regulations with regard to the ciiculation 
of literary produftions of all forts. What-. 
ever relates to religion muft, previoufly 
to publication, be examined and approved 
by a cenforfhip compoled of members of 
the eftablifhed church. Bonaparte has 
iffued the fevereft decrees againit the im- 
portation of all foreign journals. The 
King of Sweden has probibited all French 
works and journals; and the Court of 
Spain has forbidden the circulation of 
Portalis’s Difcourfe on the Conclubon of 
the Concordat, as being full of dangerous 
principles, 
A work is juft publifhed, in the Hun- 
garian language, on the jurifprudence of 
that kingdom ; it is entitled ‘* The Pa- 
triotic Code of Elias Geotfch.’ ‘The au- 
thor is Profeffor of the Academy of Pref- 
burg. 
Literary and Philofaphical Intelligence. 
935 
The ELecror of Bavarta has pur. 
chafed for the Univeriity of Wurzburg 
the Blankian Cabinet of Natural Hiftory, 
confilting of 28,000 {pecimens. The Li- 
brary of the Univerfity has likewife been 
confiderably enriched with the books that 
belonged- to many of the fecularifed mo- 
natteries. : 
The library of the Academic Inftitu- 
tion at Colmar, contains a manulcript, 
which, by the character, appears to have 
been written at the conclufion of the 
twelfth century. It appears under the 
fimple form of a narrative, bur it is ren- 
dered extremely valuable by the idea, that 
the author intended to give it a complete 
piciure of his own times. 
In all the Catholic academies of Hun= 
gary, and the hereditary ftates of the Em- 
peror of Germany, there have been ap- 
pointed catechilis, in order thatthe know- 
ledge and practice of religion may keep 
pace with other improvemenis. In the 
infiructions to the German: catechifts is 
the following paragraph: .**. As the 
grounds of religion have been quettioned 
by philofophers, it is neceflary that reli- 
giaus infraction in the academies fhould 
be founded upon authority and faith, and 
that whatever may tend to fap this foun- 
dation, even critical-and hiforical difquifi- 
tions concerning it, fhould be carefully 
avoided.” 
Several {cientific men have formerly 
vifved Sa'zburg and the Tyrol, on mi- 
neralogical purluits. KaRsTeNn, a Ger- 
man mineralogit of reputation, has em- 
ployed the laft fummer in examining the 
minerals of thefe mountainous countries 5 
and the lovers of that f{cience may expect 
foon ta have the refult of his refearches 
laid beforethem. Another fcientific rour 
has been undertaken by Profefior WiLDE- 
Now, of Berlin, a botanift of confiderable 
reputation. His route was through Vi- 
enna to Triefte and Venice. 
Francois DE NEUFCHATEAU, the Ex. 
direélor, is preparing a work on agri-~ 
culture. One part is already publifned, 
containing the Refults of Experiments on 
the Cultivation of Carrots and Parfnips by. 
the Plough. 
It is found, by M. ParmMonrTiER, 
that the belt method of preferving eggs 
confifts in plusging them, for two fe. 
conds, in boiling water; they may be then 
kept for many months, if depolited in a 
cool place, or in falt, 
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