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articles , writ ten in theTongut language , M . Kebman has ^ translated . From the measures adopted , he assures his father , tfoat the Vaccine will be practiced from Jekutzk to Jakuch , and of course from England to the titmo t of the mast hern extremity of the globe . He expresses a hope that he shall bring home some valuable Chinese books for the library of the Prince of Furstenberg .
A Polyglot Pa £ erno $ ter . —Xrx tlie sitting of the French Legislative Body on the ^ th of April , f& . NougarecJe presented this -work , printed \ inder the inspection of the Director of the Imperial Printing Office . This orator , after bestowing a warm eulogtum upon the typographical lexeCBtTon of 150 languages , alluded to the circumstance of the Pontiffs late
visit to the Impvimerie Imperiale , when he received a copy from each of the 150 presses , in as many different languages , and the greatc t part of them , in the characters pecularto the nations with whom they originated . - M . Nougarede further observed , tEat instead of being
compelled , as they had been , to make use of Jjlates to represent the Chinese characters , that language , if he mi e . ht use the expression , would in a manner find itself surprised in being represented in separate and divisible signs . An ingenious application of a recent invention " ne said had furnished them with the
means of printing the Chinese language in the usua £ European manner . The orator congratulated the Assembly upon the recovery of the beautiful characters of M . Legay ^ s Polyglot , wiiich were supposed to have been lost without recovery , and observed that tlie perfection © f M . Garamond ' s great character , led other artists to despair of equalling them .
M . dc Lalande , tlie astronomer , seems to ha vie recovered from the effects of the late check which he received from the head of the French Government , for the improper obtrusion of his anti-religious and atheistical opinion ^ , in his work en ^ titled JL'Almanach des Athees : as it tvii / jl ft %
V * v 4 VVl ' Mk y * + •* mm a . m *~ + * m ^* w ^_ •» ^ wjia >^> ^* % j m » v •* - *¦> has been announced in a recent Moniteur , that he will continue the illustration of astronomy in all its branches , and its uses at sea in particiijar , in conof
formity with the regulation ^ tlie Bu" reau des Longitudes . •' j The Literary Censorship , Mt is thought , is upon the point of being con" si ^ ierably mitigated at Vienna , and in the * j&nperor of German ^ s proper territory .
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Hitherto , it is * observexj , tkq -most £ »«• lightened men have rather chosen ta keep their manuscripts by them , than submit to tile scissars of the censors ; while others have sent tlieir writings , to their friends in foreign parts , who have ,
published for them . But since the press has lost its thost cruel enemy in the late Collorcdo , it is thought several states * men will unite in establishing regulations more reasonable and consistent with , the
national honour . M . Kieifer , Secretary and rnterpre * ter to the department for Foreign Affairs , has undertaken to deve ^ ope the principles of the Turkish language . The Danish Government is engaged
in building - a regular city in Iceland , which is to X ear the name of Reykuwig ; Bein ^' situated upon the sea ^ coast , it is to be a free port . A JLatin school is already established there , and is in a very promising situation .
X Plan of the city of J erusalem and its envi bhs is now publishing at Madrid , such as they were in the time oif J esus Christ ; with the various places spoken of in the Scripture > viz . the pixbr lie edificeSj gates 3 streets , &c .
partictllarly the "way by which our JL . O'cl was conducted from the garden of Mount Olivet to Calvary , To -which tsadded , the-recent voyage of a Spaniard to the Holy . Land ; and an account of aU tli : 0 convents and sanctuaries remaining it present .
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S 7 S Ileligicus and Lileroiy Intelligence *
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* Wz are happy in having to notice that a new edition , in six vols , Svo . qf Mr . Roscoe ' s very elegant and vajiuable work , the Life and Pontificate of J ^ eo % * is now printings by Mr . M * Creerf « ( late of JLi verpool ) whose Press Has already produced « o many beautiful and correct specimens of typography .. . A fifth edition of Mr . Roscoe ' s XAtc
of Lorenzo de JVleaici f is also in a coiisiderabLe state of forwardness , at the same Pres ^; . . Aft article in the Journalde Francfort 9 states that on the aist of April , Dr . Gall had been at the Hague some days , and had begun his course of lectures on Craniology to an audience of about a hundred persons .
The Sertrions , with a Memoir of the Life , and an Account of the Writings of the late Rev . Edward Evaneon , are preparing for the press , and ivill l » . e so ^ n published } n % Tots 8 vp « The Rev . Wm . Coice is exp ^ tc ^ shorts
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/54/
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