Galicia begun by the latter-Count Waldstein, in conjunction with the physician M. Kataibel, is engaged in the publication of Planta rariores Hungarie, a work magnincently executed, of which two deliveries have already appeared. Thus you see that though this part of Germany is not very fertile in authors by profession, it has, however, a considerable number of men in easy circumstances, who are well persuaded that one may possess a great deal of knowledge without being obliged to write books; who have well furnished libraries, and employ their leisure in reading and improving their minds*.

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.

SEPT. 22. The posthumous works of Metastasio were sold by public auction at Vienna. They consist of three volumes in large octavo, and contain the most remarkable of his posthumous manuscripts on theatrical science, with a life of the author.

Mr. Fuyer, director of the Imperial gallery of paintings at Vienna, is painting the portraits of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson.

Soldau, a German, has translated Hudibras, a work of which Voltaire said that it could not be translated.

Mr. J. W. Herbst, a clergyman of Berlin, has translated Vancouver's Travels into German. They are published in 2 vois. octavo, with plates, by Voss at Beriin.

The Chevalier Boufflers, who has resided for some years past at Berlin, has lately returned to Paris.

The King of Prussia has ordered 30,000 rix-dollars to be paid out of his treasury, towards improving the condition of the schools in his dominions.

If we may credit some of the public prints, Buonaparte, during his stay on the borders of the Lake of Geneva, invited the ex-minister Necker, to visit him, and held a conversation of two hours with this celebrated politician and author.

A German translation of Colquhoun's Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, by J. W. Volkman, L. L. D. has lately been published. As a specimen of the interesting contents of this work, the editor ulla the public, in his advertisement, that they will here and an account

To this catalogue of learned men in the Austrian states, which might be rendered still considerably more ample, we shall only add for, the present the name of Dr. Gall of Vienna, (with whom our readers have become acquainted in the course of our Magazine,) whose lectures on his celebrated collection of human skulls are a subject of great public curiosity in that city. Of the works of Mr. Dennis, the translator of Ossian, we shall give a list in a subsequent number.

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of a city in which reside 2000 thieves by profession, 3000 persons who deal in base coin, 500 foreigners who live by gaming, 2000 procuresses, and 50,000 prostitutes. "A work," he says, "which describes all these things so circumstantially, cannot fail to be interesting to every reader.”

Of the thirty-eight members who belonged to the French Academy at the time of its dissolution, only fifteen are still living. Eleven of these are at present resident in France, viz. Saint Lambert, Roquelaure (cidevant bishop of Senlis), de Lille, Suard, I Harpe, Ducis, Target, d'Aguesseau, Boufflers, and Gaillard: the remaining four are emigrants, namely, Cardinal Rohan, Boisqelin (Archbishop of Aix), Choisseul Goufier, and Cardinal Maury. The names of those who have died since that event are, Nivernois, Card. Bernis, Count Bissy, Segaier (avocat general), the Abbé de Radonvilliers, Marmontel, Card. Lomenie, Prince de Beauveau, de Brequigny, Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Mareschal Duras, Chabanon, Lemierre, Chamfort, Condorcet, Bailly, Mo..tesquieu, Guiberl, Sedaine, Rulhières, Florian, Vicq d'Azyr, and Barthelemy.

An alphabetical catalogue of atheists has lately been published at Paris. The author seems to have intended it for nothing more than a piece of humour, as amongst the names of many deceased and living literary characters, whom the public is used to consider as atheists, such as Lucretius, Hobbes, Spinosa, and Lande, we also find those of Bossuet, Fenelon, Abbadie, and Clarke, who have written books in defence of the Christian religion and the existence of the Deity. Nevertheless, several of the French literati have thought proper to defend themselves seriously against the imputation; among others the celebrated Mercier.

According to accounts from Madrid, the King of Spain has made application to the King of Naples, in behalf of the celebrated Dolomieu, who is at present in confinement at Palermo.

J. le, Francq van Berkhey, lecturer on natural history at the University of Leyden, has just completed his Natural, Anatomical, and Economical History of Ruminant Animals, a work upon which he has been employed nearly forty years. He intends shortly to publish it in 6 vols. quarto, with upwards of eighty engravings after his own drawings. This author is already known to the literary world by his Natural History of Holland, in Dutch.

Prof. F. C. Exter of Strasburg, is about to publish a new edition of Athenæus, for which the Parisian MSS. have already been collected.

The celebrated republican writer, Jean François de la Harpe, has published a Commentary on the tragedies of Racine, in 7 vols.

Professor Paulinus a S. Bartholomeo of Padua, has lately published a very learned Dissertation concerning an Egyptian mummy belonging

to the museum of the Marchese Thomas de Obiciis at Catajo, intitled, Mumiographia Musei Oficinni, exarata a P. Paulinσα δ. Bartholomeo, Carmelita discalceato, linguar. Oriental. Professere, &c. Patavii, e Typographia Seminarii Super. nerm. 1799.

Two Spanish translations, after the French, of Kotzehuc's Misanthropy and Repentance, have appeared at Madrid. 'i he one is in metre, and intitled Misantropía y arrepentimiento, drama en tres actes: traducido del francos, puesto en verso, y arreglado á nuestro teatro por el Sr. Dionisio, Solis. The second, in prose, is intitled La Misantropia y el arrepentimiento, drama en cinco actos, en prosa, del teatro aleman de Kot-bue; refundido y arreglado á la escena por la ciudadana Molé actriz del teatro francos, y traducido fielmente en prosa castellana pør D. A. G. A.

J. D. Gries has translated into German torquato Tasso's Jerusalem, and published by Frommann of Jena.

The 18th of August the degree of doctor of the civil law was conferred on the learned Jew, Joseph Horniker of Lemberg. This is the first precedent of the kind known at Vienna.

Professor Alter of Vienna, to whom we are indebted for various articles of information in the foreign journals respecting the modern Greek literature, has lately announced the following grammar of Demetrius Nicholas Darvar: Γραμματική γερμανική άκριβεςάτη ἐκ διαφόρων και νεωτέρων Συγγραφέων επιμελώς συλλεχθεῖσα και εις την κοινοτέραν τῶν νῦν ̔Ελλήνων διάλεκτον διά κοινὴν ὠφέλειαν εὐμεθόδως ἐκτεθεῖσα ὑτὸ Δημητρίου Νικολάου τοῦ Δαρβάρεως δαπάνη πατρικῆ ἐν Βιίνη της Λουρίας ἐν τῇ τυπο γραφία Ιωσήπου τοῦ Βαουμεῖζερου ἔτει αψπέ. δ. This grammar is destined for the purpose of assisting the Greeks to learn the German language. The author in the preface says, Αλλ' ουδεμία Γραμματική της γερμανικῆς διαλέκτον μέχρι τῆς σήμερον ἐφανη πρὸς χρησιν των Γραικών και πάλαι ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἐζητεῖ το. A Greek planisphere, on one sheet royal paper, has been lately published also at Vienna, with the following title, Γεωγραφικὸς πιναξ τῶν δύο ἡμισφαιρίων ἁπάσης παλαῖας τε καὶ νέας εγνωσμένης γῆς ἑλληνις) εκδοθείς δαπάνη καὶ ἐπιμελείᾳ ίωασαφ ἱερομονάχου τοῦ ἐκ τῆς σεβασμίας μονῆς τῶν Ιβήρων. Προσφωνήσεις τε τῷ περιφανεςάτω γένει τῶν ̓Ελλήνων, τῇ πατρίδι, τοις Ελλενομουσείοις, τους εν αὐτοῖς τροφίμοις καὶ μαθητῶσι χάριν ενγνωμοσύυνηςω.

Ossian's Poems (Ossian's gedichte) translated in verse by J. G. Rhode, are publishing in a very neat 18mo edition by H. Frölich at Berlin.

Catalogus Bibliothecarum Fischeriæ et Winkleriæ duiabus partibus comprehensus quarum prior sistit libros, præcipue Græcos et Latinos ab M. I. F. Fischero Lit. Human: in Alma Universitate Lips. Professore public. extr. Scholz Thomanæ Rectore, &c. Auctione Publica A. D. X Novbr. 1800, in Collegio Rubro vendendos.

A copy of this catalogue is to be seen at the Publisher's of the Museum, where orders are received for this sale.

ENGLISH

ENGLISH LITERARY NEWS.

(At the request of some of our continental correspondents, we shall in future, insert under this head, various notices respecting the latest occurrences of English literature.

The Nautilus, Capt. Bishop, on her passage in 1799 from New South-Wales to China, discovered a group of islands between 175° and 176° E. long. from Greenwich, and between 50′ and 1° 30′ S. lat. This group has been named Kingsmill Group, and will be inserted by Mr. Arrowsmith in his new map of Asia.

The question whether Van Diemen's Land is connected with New Holland, has lately been decided by Lieut. Fliaders, who circumnavigated that island, and named the streight by which it is divided from New Holland, Base's Streight.

The two hundred and fourteen elements of Chinese writing, together with a history of the Chinese characters, from their first invention down to the present day, by Dr. Hagat, is printing at Mr. Bensley's in a superb folio edition, with a great number of engravings. Dr. Hagar has just published a Latin dissertation against a learned Hungarian author, intitled De Vár Hunnorum atque Hunga

rorum.

Sir William Ousely is preparing to undertake a voyage to China, chiefly with a view of making investigations relative to the celebrated inscriptions of Persepolis, the ancient languages Lend and Peblevi, and the ancient books of the Fire-worshippers. Several learned men are communicating their queries to him, in order to render this voyage the more instructive and useful.

A new expedition round the globe is soon to be undertaken by order of the French republic, with a view of compleating the discoveries which the unhappy fate of La Peyrouse prevented him from pursuing.

Mr. Boscawen is about to publish an edition of his translation of Horace, with the original; as also a small volume of poems.

Sir William Ouseley's great map of Persia, on which he has been employed these two years, is nearly compleated. The scale is rather large; it comprehends, besides Persia, the adjoining countries on the East and West part of India and Tartary, Mesipotamia, Armenia, &c. All the names are written in the Arabic or Persian character, and we understand that Sir William intends to present it to the Persian monarch in person. A copy with the names in European characters will probably be published.

Messrs. S. Malgo and J. Merigot are publishing by subscription, picturesque views of the different glaciers of Switzerland, Savoy,

Lapland

Lapland and Norway, in six numbers, each number to consist of two large plates in colours, executed by themselves after drawings by Chatelet, Belanger, and other eminent artists. The price of each number is two guineas. A description of those glaciers and an account of their natural history, with plans, elevations and views of such parts as are not represented, is proposed to be published by subscription.

Dr. Callcott intends to publish a musical work, which is to appear before his Dictionary of Music.

A collection of essays, mathematical and physical, is intended for publication, by Jared Mansfield, of Newhaven. Among other subjects, it will contain a dissertation on the negative sign in Algebra, with an explanation of the mathematical limits of nothing and infinity, a theory of fluxionary analysis, and an explanation of the theory of

the moon.

At New York has been published a new periodical work, intitled The Monthly Magazine. The three numbers already published, contain, besides a variety of original matters, a review of American publications, literary intelligence, &c.

A history of North Carolina, by Dr. Hugh Williamson, is soon to be published, and will, no doubt, form a valuable addition to the stock of American literature.

At New York is composing a dictionary of the American language; there being already a great difference between the English and American languages.

A history of the military and political transactions of the British nation in Hindestan, from the commencement of the war with France in the year 1714, to the conclusion of the peace with Tippoo Sultan in 1784, will soon be ready for the press. Dr. Moodie, of Bath, who was professionally employed with his majesties forces in fadia, during the last war, is the author of the work, and intends to publish it by subscription. The work will be contained in three large volumes, royal quarto, embellished with upwards of thirty maps, views and plans.

A volume of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in 1797 and 1798, by John Barrow, auditor general of public accounts at the Cape of Good Hope, will soon be published. A description of the present state of the colony at the Cape, and a map constructed from actual observations will be added.

Messrs. Daniel and Samvel Lysons have prepared a new general survey of Great Britain. The work will be embellished with plans and engravings of antiquities, in quarto.

The inoculation of the cow-pox being a subject of universal attention, has induced Mr. H. R. Aikin to collect in a small pamphlet all facts relative to this important subject.

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