. ed to the possessor, he does not seem done so,) a new, general, and comdisposed to part with it at that price. plete chart of the kingdom of Hun

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There has been formed, a few gary, of Croatia, Sclavonia, Transylyears ago, in the same city, (Peters- vania, and of the military frontier, burgh) a literary society, under the in nine sheets, which may be comtitle of The Free Society of Lovers bined into one, the size a large royal of Literature, the Sciences and Arts. folio. M. Lipszky has been emIts members have lately published ployed a great number of years a volume of poetical pieces, and a collecting materials for this work, translation of the marquis of Bec- and in arranging the same; but some carias Treatise on Crimes and Pu- particular reasons or motives seem to nishments. They are further prepar- have deferred the publication of it, ing Russian translations of the po- and which have originated on the litical works of Filangieri, Mon- part of the government of Vienna: tesquieu, Tacitus, Seneca, and Ci-At length, prince Charles himself has accelerated the publication, on

cero.

Two literary societies, equally dis- the grounds of its obvious utility.tinguished by their useful labours, This chart will contain an accurate have for some time past existed in designation of all the cities, towns, the city of Rouen. These societies, villages, farms, rivers, great or small, from the unanimous wish of the mem- and even running streams of any bers, have been lately consolidated consideration: it will exhibit the into one, under the title of The Free lakes, the marshes, the highways, Society of Emulation, for the Progress of the Sciences, of Letters, and

of Arts.

post-roads, the physical totality and parts of the mass of mountains, the names of the principal mountains, and The tree called Gingko Biloba, of other remarkable objects: it will which came from China, and has indicate the limits of the different been planted about twenty years, was counties or districts, and, in genein flower in the month of Floreal, ral, of all the divisions, whether ciyear 12, in the garden of M. Cle- vil, military, or ecclesiastical; the menti, of Rouen. This tree is 12 boundaries of the dioceses, tribunals, feet in height, has a tortuous or wind- &c. As far as the extent of the chart ing trunk, and is about as big as a will permit, the limitrophe parts of man's arm it grows in the shadow the surrounding provinces will be of a fine cypress. This is the first given, such as of Gallicia, Silesia, time that it has flowered in France, Moravia, Austria, Stiria, Carinthia, although it had done so in England; Carniola, Turkish Croatia, Bosnia, and for this reason, probably, it is that Wallachia, and Moldavia. This chart the English have changed the name will be accompanied with a repertory, which its bears in its own country, which will enhance the value of it, and which Linnæus had retained, to and facilitate its use. that of Salisburia diantig Olia.

Domenico Viviani, of Genoa, has commenced a periodical work, in 4to. under the title of "Annali di Botanica," which contains no original papers, but is calculated only to make the Italian botanists acquainted with the discoveries of other nations.

A society of engineers, at the head of whom is Don Salvador de Ximenes, have been lately appointed by the chancery of state of Madrid to draw plans of the principal cities of Spain, and, at the same time, to construct a general chart of the whole kingdom. -The society has elected two of its A number of agriculturists, in difmembers to superintend the geome- ferent counties, are prosecuting, we trical and astronomical operations, are told, with success, a system of who have under their direction a clearing bean lands, by means of a number of pupils deputed to inspect flock of sheep, which, when turned and visit the said places. in, destroy the weeds without proM. John de Lipszky, captain in ducing any injury to the beans, by the regiment of hussars of the prince which not only the great expence of of Hesse-Hombourg, in the service hoeing is in a great measure avoided, of the emperor of Germany, intends but the land is thereby likewise con shortly to publish (or has actually siderably improved.

A new and improved edition, in A new and uniform edition of the quarto, considerably enlarged, of works of the late Richard Graves of Motherly's Medical Dictionary, is Claverton, is preparing for publicanow in the press. It will be publish- tion;-the author left considerable ed in four parts, and will make two additions and notes for most of his volumes. The first part is expected productions. The spiritual Quixote in November next. will be the first that will be published, forming three volumes, which will contain the life of the author, principally written by himself.

Mr. Serle, author of the Christian Remembrancer, Parent, &c. has now in the press, a new edition, considerably enlarged, of his Church of God; also a third volume of that invaluable work, Horce Solitariæ. Both of these works are in a state of forwardness, and are expected to be published in September next.

Mr. E. Donovan, has just announced a new work of Natural History, elegantly printed in quarto, entitled, "An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, and other Islands in the Indian, Southern and Pacific oceans: including the figures, and descriptions of 138 species of the most splendid, beautiful, and interesting insects hitherto discovered in those countries, and which for the most part have not appeared in other works."

The British empire in India, is continually teeming with new and diversified sources of unexplored literature. Mr.Maurice is now preparing a vindication of his History of Hindostan, against the attack of the Edinburgh Reviewers.

Mess. L. W. Dillwynn and Dawson Turner have in the press a new botanical work to be called the Botanist's Vade Mecum through the counties of England and Wales; containing the habitats of the raner plants, with authorities."

Mr. L.W. Dillwynn's admired work on the British Conferve is now resumed, and will be regularly continued till complete.

Mr. Curtis, florist, of Walworth, is preparing for publication a new botanical work, on a large scale, intended to represent faithful likenesses of the best specimens of fancy flowers cultivated in England; they are to be accurately coloured from living specimens.

We learn that the excavations at Pompeii, at Fresola, in Thessaly, and in Sicily, in search of antiquities, are carrying on at present with active and successful energy. Several MSS. long lost, as well as statues, vases, coins, &c. have been recently discovered in a state of excellent preservation.

We are happy to inform our readers The essential oil of hops obtained that Mr. Beloe is preparing for the by distillation, and afterwards mixed press, anecdotes of literature, from with a small quantity of sugar, is anrare books in the British Museum and nounced and recommended in some other rare libraries. journals, as the best way of using this Mr. David Macpherson, is about plant in brewing, and the most efpublishing a new work, called, "An- fectual method of preserving it for a nals of Commerce, Manufactures, term of years. Fisheries, and Navigation," in 3 parts, with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected therewith, from the earliest accounts, to the meeting of the Union Parliament, in January 1801. A new and elegant edition, embellished with engravings, is preparing for the press of Oberon, by Mr. Sotheby.

Bark, which has hitherto been considered as almost destructive in cases of the consumptive malady, has, it is asserted, in numerous recent instances, been administered with singular efficacy and success.

Certain artists have been lately employed by order of the prefect of the department of the Seine, in cleanThe Rev. Theophilus Brown has ing and embellishing the fine sculpture in the press, a selection of the devo- of the fountain de la Rue de Grenelle. tional parts of the old and new testa- Messrs. Quatremere de Quincy, ments, from the most approved Molinos, and Le Grand, charged modern versions; for the use of fami- with this undertaking, have employles. It is expected to be ready for ed in their operations the encaustic delivery in about six weeks. process described by Valvulrus and

Pliny, as applicable to antique sculp- wax, and the public are doubtless intures. This revived method, consists debted to the magistrate and to the in closing up all the pores of the mar- antiquarians and artists that assisted ble, by a mixture of huile d'oeillet or in the above useful experiment to a composition made of pink flowers, revive the application of a process infused in oil of olives, and virgin long out of use, and to which, if gewax applied hot on the marble, which nerally adopted, we shall owe the is likewise heated; this will preserve preservation of our finest sculptures. it in future from those black spots A composition of tar and fish oil, which humidity occasions, and which mixed in equal quantities by mea are nothing else but a vegetation of sure, and well rubbed upon fruit lichen, the roots of which get im- trees with a brush, has been lately planted into the pores of the marble recommended, in some of the conand afterwards spread themselves and temporary journals, as a sure method corrode the surface. The success of of extirpating that destructive race of this first experiment on figures of a insects which assume the appearance large proportion has perfectly answer- of white mould on the bark and ed the expectation of the prefect. The branches. figures have not experienced any alte Some of the diurnal prints make ration from the heating of the marble mention of a machine for cleaning by hand-chafing dishes, made for the gravel walks, which has been lately purpose, and found to be very conve- invented by a Mr. Thompson, servnient to diffuse heat through all the ing now or late in the corps of Perthparts of a figure, or of a groupe, shire Volunteers, of North Britain.previously to the coating of it with a This machine turns, rakes, and rolls mixture of oil and wax, and afterwards the gravel by a simultaneous operato renew the heat, and to make the tion, or by one and the same act, layer of wax melt which remains on and has this peculiar advantage atthe marble, when it gets cold. The tending it, that it can be wrought by above operation, when performed a small poney, and will perform as with precaution, completely stops up much work in an hour, as a dozen the pores of marble and fills them to men can do in a day. a certain depth. The superficies is The new mode of reefing, now geafterwards besmeared with cold wax, nerally adopting through the navy, and then rubbed with a fine linen promises to be attended with extracloth all which then forms a kind ordinary advantages. By this imof varnish, over which water slides proved plan, the main-sail of a firstwithout making any stop, and no lon- rate ship may be reefed by two men ger permits the intrusion of the lichen on the yard, with more facility than or its roots. There can be no doubt when forty were before employed to that the best executed antique figures effect the same purpose by the ordi such as the Antinous, the Apollo, and nary method. others, have been thus polished with

ents.

STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

AN end has been put to the long knowing that the country is ful sittings of the parliament, and suspicion on the conduct of public its members are returned into the affairs, and that its money profusely country to receive the expostulations voted is wantonly squandered; that or congratulations of their constitu- there is the utmost irregularity in the In this recess, both they and accounts, and that the house of the people have much to do. The commons, whose duty it is to at members have, in this last session, per- tend particularly to the public purse, formed a great and an arduous task; have permitted the minister to go on but they have separated, leaving at his own way, have agreed to his mothe head of administration a man tions for taxes, and for an expendiwho has been the great friend of the ture of seventy millions, without havdelinquent, whose crimes are to be ing had the opportunity to understand brought before the highest justice of the revenue and the expenditure of the country they have separated, the preceding year.

In such a case, it is the duty of This conduct of Mr. Pitt occasioned the public to look to themselves, and some changes in administration.— to the fate of their posterity; and Lord Sidmouth seceded from the since they have the bravest men the cabinet, carrying with him, whate world ever saw exposing their lives ver may be thought of his abilities, abroad, to sit idle at home, and to the character of honour and integrity, take no care for the public cause, is He was determined that the flatenfold disgraceful. The evil and the grant deeds of lord Melville should cause of the evil are known. Both not go unpunished, and he resisted arise from the violation of the con- to the utmost the grant to the duke of stitution, settled at the revolution, Athol, which had been repeatedly which has thrown immense power resisted in the council, and by every into the hands of the minister, or ra- great law officer, for the last forty ther the oligarchy, whose tool he is; years. What could have occasioned and thus neither king nor people have such a change in the opinion of his the influence which good govern- majesty's ministers, it is not easy to ment requires. It is in vain to ex- ascertain; but suspicion will be on pect better things, while this system float, when it is considered that lord lasts, and the representative looks up Melville was in the privy council to the minister and not to the people. when the claim was recommend-To bring the people and the repre- ed to the consideration of parliasentative to their ancient connection ment.

is the first thing to be obtained, with- A more melancholy thing has oc· out which all the rest is nugatory, curred. The commissioners for na and this cannot be done but by the val enquiry, whose reports have been unanimous voice of the public for the means of bringing to light so many restoring the duration of parliaments enormities, find too much reason to to the accustomed term of three complain of the obstacles thrown in years, and in all their meetings im- the way by those who ought to be pressing upon their representatives their supporters; and one of them the necessity of not voting a single has expressed himself very warmly farthing to the supply of a future upon this subject in parliament. year, till the accounts of the last then, and the continuance of their year have been perfectly balanced.- services, the people look up, and it is Indeed what can we think of a mem- to be hoped that they will persevere ber of parliament, who goes into the house of commons without any intention to perform this great duty, and what greater injury can be done to their king and country, than by members regardless of their trust, and faithless to their duty!

in the discharge of their office in spite of every impediment. A complete examination, we repeat it, of the immense expenditure of Mr. Pitt's administration, is absolutely necessary, and the more it is opposed, the stronger must be our suspicions that The impeachment of Lord Mel- they who oppose it have reason ville occupied much of the attention to dread the enquiry. The bill of of the house, and Mr. Whitbread pur- indemnity is passed to Mr. Pitt, for sued his course with indefatigable in- lending forty thousand pounds, withdustry. The change from a prosecu- out interest, to two members of tion in the law courts, to one before parliament:what other bills of the the lords, is not a thing in itself of same kind may be necessary, it is much importance; but the manner much better that they should be in which it was done places the mi- passed, than that the nation should nister of the day in a very aukward continue in its present state of uncersituation. He is the friend of the tainty with respect to its accounts delinquent, who has done every They may, and ought to be, kept with thing in his power to support him, the same exactness as those of a merwho voted against both impeachment chant; and a simple and plain expoand criminal prosecution, at last votes sure of the whole would save a vast for his impeachment; and one friend deal of expence and trouble, which thus impeaches another, not out of are now occasioned by the calling for ill will, but because of two evils the and printing separate papers for each impeachment was thought the least. article of enquiry.

Whilst administration were en- send it, there is little likelihood of gaged in its parliamentary warfare the treaty being completed; for Prusand internal disputes, the fleets of sia threatens Sweden with an immeFrance were at last discovered, and diate attack on Pomerania, if it should with the knowledge of their situation, attempt to bring the war into the arrived the news that Lord Nelson north, and this salutary threat will was in pursuit of them. This brave probably be the means of keeping the othcer lost no time, and with a small, king of Sweden on his throne. The but well manned fleet, disdaining the two kings have amused the public by difference in numbers, he crossed the their variance: the king of Sweden Atlantic. His arrival was hailed with having sent back the decorations of the utmost joy by the inhabitants of the order, which he received from Barbadoes, and his name alone gave Prussia, and the king of Prussia in security to the islands. A short time return writing a laconic epistle to the only he staid to refit, and this country king of Sweden, in which the chahas been in a state of great anxiety racter and imbecility of the latter are for farther intelligence. Reports are strongly delineated.

daily made, and the stock-jobbing of Russia seems inclined to negociate the alley is alive in this state of un- with France, and a minister has been certainty but it is probable that, dispatched to Brussels for this purbefore this magazine can be delivered pose. What are the points of this to the public, our brave admiral may negociation, and whether we are to bring himself the intelligence of his be interested in it, time must disvictory.

cover. As the French sovereign has If we entertain little dread of the male overtures of peace to the king French preparations on the sea, we of England, and has even written a cannot but observe, not without alarm, letter in his own hand to the latter, how regularly, and with what success with this view, he may, and with their sovereign proceeds in all his at- reason, refuse to listen to any overtempts on land. Scarcely was the iron tures which do not come immediately crown of Lombardy placed on his from this country. The war is by no brow, when Genoa was declared to means injurious to his interests; for be annexed to the French territory. it is a pretext for the large army which Lucca is intreating to retain its con- he keeps up; and as by it we are efstitutional republic; but its request fectually. throwit out from negociais not likely to be granted. Every tions with one half of the continent day will manifest some new aggression, and the powers of Europe are too much divided in their interests to concur in any plan of resistance.The conduct of the English ministry is not calculated to encourage them, and the hint thrown out by them in the speech from the throne, of foreign negociations not being brought to such an issue as to be communicated When he has thus established comto the public, gives no hope of suc- pletely his Italian kingdom, he may cess in their plans, nor indeed is any turn his thoughts in good earnest to wish entertained on the part of re- the invasion of this country; unless, flecting people that they should suc- though the Grand Seignior has writceed. Poor Sweden seems to be the ten him the desired letter to congiaonly power that is willing to take that tulate him on His accession to the money which this country is so ready throne, he may choose to join with to throw away; and it was said that Austria and Russia in a partition of a treaty was on foot for a subsidy of Turkey in Europe.

of Europe, he has no great reason to desire a cessation of arms. It is said, indeed, that the popedom is to be annexed to the Italian throne, and that the pope is to reside at Avignon.This will make Buonaparte effectually the spiritual sovereign of the Catholic world, and the Neapolitan dominions cannot then escape his grasp.

two millions to its monarch, and in Of Spain we hear but little. Its return we were to have twenty-five efforts are continued, and Gibraltar thousand of his men at our command. is to be the point of attack. Moreau This poor supply could be of no use conducts the operations, and the gunin the war; but small as it is, and boats, brought into the bay, have alimpolitic as it would be in Sweden to ready annoyed our shipping. Hol