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Sig. Angelo Maio, Editor of these fragments, and discoverer of other literary documents, also, and to whom perhaps, the world may be indebted for discoveries much more valuable, has panied these publications with prefaces, has also translated the Greek discourses into Latin, and has added notes historical and critical, full of various learning-especially to the text of Themistius.

Critic will inspect the volume, without making due allowances for the effects of a calamity so destructive and dreadful.

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A principal article, so far as we accom-judge, is an Alphabetic Catalogue of the plants, and other objects of Natural History in use in China, so far as observed by Father Incarville, The notices of these articles are short; but the scientific names, and the Chinese appellations, are given in the notes. This article is a continuation of what has been begun in prior volumes, and will be resumed, in following volumes until complete.

Dr. Fanzago, at Padua, published sometime ago, a Dissertation on the Virtues of the purple Digitalis in cases of mental alienation. His general conclusions we shall state for information of the faculty. He thinks this substance particularly useful in cases of mania produced by a Sthenic cause. But, in those which are accompanied by a Diathesis Asthenic, or such as are without Diathesis, it is useless, if not hurtful. As to the mode of its action, the Dr. professes his entire ignorance.

Antiquities: Roman Measures.

There has lately been found, in a newly discovered temple at Pompeia, a stone, on which are engraved the linear measures which the Romans made use of.

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Von dem Verhaeltniss, &c. Discourse on the connection between the ancient German fictions, and public education, by Ch. Besselt, Koningsburgh, 1816. We should think this gentleman, if he does not extend bis Theory too far, as likely to touch on certain truths, as most who have lately started. It is certain, these fictions were not composed without design: and that design concerned the public at large: possibly the youth of the State, especially,

RUSSIA.

That the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, should be able to publish the fourth volume of their Memoirs, from the University Press, during the course of the year 1813, is surely cheering on the behalf of Science, considering what that Capital had suffered from the French in the year 1812. Whether the contents of the volume are equal in importance to what they would have been, had no enemy ravaged the city, may possibly be doubted; but no candid

SAXONY.

structed of wood, and so light as to be A cheap steam engine, wholly conplaces in the neighbourhood of Leipsie, to portable, has lately been used in some draw off the water from peat-mosses and turf beds, and other pits where the water is not overwhelming by its abundance, or instrument is of moderate expense; and by deep beyond reasonable expectation. The its size is applicable where larger instruments cannot be used. It is the invention of Count Bouquoy, who has published an ample description of it. Some of the same construction have given satisfaction, when

used in coal-mines.

SICILY.

Antiquities sought for.

We learn by reports from Sicily that the people in some places, especially at Gir genti, the ancient Agrigentum, continue their excavations and searches after antient vases; the most beautiful of which, decorated with paintings, mythological and historical, fetch a very great price. In fact, the major part of them are sold to English travellers, they having the more ready command of cash for the purpose. We also learn that the temple of Diana and that of Concord, have received certain reparations, to prolong their existence;under the direction of Sig. Prosti.

SILESIA.

Evangelists; old Latin Version.

There has lately been published at Bresgelists, in the old Latin Version, before lau an Account of a copy of the four EvanJerom; with a Specimen of the text. Whether it contains a correct and entire copy we do not know; but, we believe, that such a copy would be very acceptable to Biblical Students. The title is,

De codice quatuor Evangeliorum BiblioAnte-Hieronymiana versio continetur. Acce, theca Rhedigerianæ, in quo vetus Latina, dunt Scripturæ Codicis specimina. David Schulz. 2to. 1816.

Ed.

INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE

FROM THE

BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA.

ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS.

New Church at Trichinopoly. The Right Reverend the Bishop of Calcutta, reached Trichinopoly on the 28th Feb. where he was received with all due respect. During his stay at that station, His Lordship cousecrated the new church of St. Mary's; and confirmed upwards of one hundred persons.

CALCUTTA.

Extract of a Letter from Cawnpore, March

19, 1816.

"We breakfasted on Tuesday at the Residency at Lucknow, where the Vizier came, which he does generally on this day, once a week; the same elegance and abundance of every thing in season that could be procured, was displayed here, as at the Vizier's own palace. His Excellency was received at the foot of the grand flight of steps to the old mansion, by the Resident, and next of rank, all the European Gentlemen attending: when retiring, his Excellency was conducted with the same cere

Marriages by Authority of the Church of mony and respect to his carriage, and otto

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The Ecclesiastical establishment of the Church of England in Iudia, has given out that now the Bishop is arrived no marriage is good, that has not a licence from the Bishop or his Surrogate: the Scottish Ecclesiastical authorities deny the inference, as appears by the following article.

On Sunday the 24th March, the Rev. Dr. Bryce, read the following notice from the Pulpit of St. Andrew's Church, Calcutta, after Divine Service.

of roses presented to his Excellency and family. The strictest etiquette being observed at the Court of Lucknow upon all occasions, yet not disgustingly ostentatious, but as it ought to be, pleasingly dignified.

Afterwards we went to the Dowlut Khaunah, on the bank of and on the westera side up the river Goomty, passing the magnificent Emambarah and its mosque and courts, and then through the Roomee Durwagah. This building has already been described, also its decorations during the mohorrum. The present Vizier has left the three grand silver Tazziahs in the centre room: All the other decorations are removed-the centre Tazziah as before described, stands over where the princely Asoph ul Dowlab and his Begum lie interred, peace be to his generous soul! and it is very gratifying to observe this mark of respect to the memory of his Excellency's uncle, there never having before been any ornaments left in the Emambarah after the period of the ten days mo

"The Kirk Session of St. Andrew's Church being met aud constituted, Sederunt the Moderator and Elders, the Reverend the Moderator informed the Session that he had now commenced, under the instructions contained in the Charter of 1814, granted to him and the other Chaplains of the Church of Scotland in India, to discharge that part of his clerical functions, which consists in giving the sanction of Religion to the Civil contract of Marriage accord-horrum. ing to the Forms of our National Church. The Dowlut Khannah, originally built The Moderator also stated to the Session, by Asoph ul Dowlah, had great additions that he had doue himself the honour of in-made to it, by the late Vizier-There is forming the constituted authorities, that he was in future to exercise this right, which the Law of the Land has vested in him; and which the obedience he owes to his Ecclesiastical Superiors will not permit him to waive. The Session approve of the Moderator's diligence hereaueut, and direct that an extract of this minute be read from the Pulpit, on Sunday the 24th inst, for the information of the Members of the Church of Scotland at this Presidency. The Session also direct public notice to be given, that regular Records for the Registration of Marriages and Baptisms solemnized at St. Andrew's Church, are now kept, under the Authority and Superintendence of the Kirk Session,

(Sigued) JAMES BRYCE, Moderator."

| an octagon tower with a large dome, called Suliman ka-bruj (Soloman's tower) the dome and upper part covered with plates of copper and gilt, has a rich and grand appearance.

The house built by the late Vizier, is in the English style, elegantly furnished after the same nation. In it is a fine picture by Kettle, of Sujah ul-Dowlah, and another by Zoffany (some say it is a copy) of celebrated Cock-pit, where Asoph ulDowlab, Colonel Mordaunt, and all the European Gentlemen at Lucknow at that period, are introduced engaged in seeing a

Cock-fight.-In the upper rooms are several variegated marble tables, on which stand beautiful clocks, ornamented with flowers, composed of diamonds, pearls and

precious stones. In the rear, is a large building, called the Aynach-connah, erected by Asuph ul-Dowlah, now turned into a store room. On one side is a pucka tank of water, to the south of which stands an Indostanee arcaded building (a barahduree) of white marble, the borders of the compartments, and the angles of the arches, inlaid with red and yellow cornelians and black marble. Close to it, to the east, is a small mosque with two minerets and pavement, all of white marble; and at some distance to the north, a house where the European Officer on duty over the treasary, resides; all these houses are nearly surrounded with flower gardens-these buildings were erected by Asoph-ul-DowJah.

also given it a glass case, and made a stand about four feet high, of twelve fluted lonic white pillars, within an architrave and freize with Adams's Palmyrene orua

ments.

The Road to Cantonments is very bad, after you pass the bridge over the Goomty, it is a deep, heavy sand.

We went one afternoon through the grand street of the old City, where there is a prodigious quantity of all kinds of merchandise displayed for sale, but in general the streets are very narrow and very dirty. It is the new City, that deserves to be called Lucknow the Fair, which we left, well pleased, with the dignified politeness of the Vizier, and the hospitality, and unaffected urbanity of manners at the Re

From this we went to Barroon still high-sidency. er up the river, a palace built by Cojah Meeir Ellmos, to please Asoph-ul-Dowlah. Mr. Edmund Burke, it may be remembered, in a most eloquent speech of twelve hours, deplored the distress of Meer Cojah EliBarmos's wife and nineteen children. roon is three stories high, with an extensive flower garden in the rear, walled on three sides, the outside of which has an upper and lower colonade of doric pillars, which accommodates the Vizier's domestics, when he visits the palace; the principal room, in which is the largest of any at Lucknow ; except the ludostanee Barah duree at Furreedbuxsh. The Palace and furniture are in the English style and superb; there are two beautiful Florentine mosaick marble

and several other variegated marble tables, on which stand costly clocks, decorated the same as those at the Dowlut connah. It was observed to the Vizier, that if these tables and clocks were removed, and placed in any of the Rooms at Furreedbuxsh, they would have a grand effect, but his Excellency does not choose to displace those ornaments, which the late Vizier had been pleased to arrange in his various palaces.

Asoph ul Dowlah built a grand palace, or Barah duree, of Chunar stone, a little way in the city, we saw it in 179, it has a beautiful warm bath, the floor mosaicks of cornelians and various other precious marbles, and agates. It is now repairing, and not to be seen by strangers.

We passed our last day with our old shipmate, and again saw his beautiful model: since we first saw it at Barrackpore,

he has added the embankment of the river Juna, the length of the Tajh, the Chabautrah, and mincrests, (the whole length is 1000 feet, and forty feet high.) This embankment in the original is of red stone, with basso relievos, of vases with flowers; end inlaid with white marble. He has

Ye courtesies of life all hail;
You give to joy an added charm,
And woe of half its pangs disarm,
How much in every state he owes
To what kind courtesy bestows,
To that benign, engaging art,
Which decorates the human heart,
To every act it gives a grace
It adds a smile to every face,
And goodness' self, we hetter see,
When dressed by gentle courtesy.

Syntax in search of the Picturesque.

MADRAS.

KING OF KANDY. Madras Feb. 27,

His Majesty's Ship Cornwallis, Captain O'Brien, anchored in the Roads on Wednesday evening last. On the following evening, the captive King of Kandy, with his Family, landed on the North Beach, and early on the subsequent day, the whole proceeded under an escort to Vellore.

Hail Storm damage done.

Private letters from Hyderabad inform us of a violent Hail storm, accompanied by wind, having been experienced in the early part of this month at that city and the surrounding Country. The Hail Stones which fell were generally 14 inches in circumference. A considerable number of Sheep were killed during the Storm.

BOMBAY.

ANTIQUITIES: SHEETS OF COPPER INSCRIBED.
Bombay, March 16. 1816.

Some months ago a curious relict of Antiquity, was turned up from the ground by a ploughman, in the Plantation at Bandoop on Salsette-it.consists of three thick sheets of Copper, uearly eight inches long, by four and a half inches broad: united by

The force under the command of Colonel East has proved equally successful in Okamundal, the fastnesses and forts of Dhingeey, Dwarka and Bate having, after some little demur, surrendered, and the whole of that territory has been reduced to the subjection of the Guycuwar Government.

We trust therefore that the Provinces of

Cutch, Wagur and Okamuudal, which

ing on depredations by land and sea on their peaceable and industrious neighbours, will in future respect the rights of civilized States, and themselves enjoy the Peace and happiness which flow from a well organiz

ed and efficient Government. These beneficial views however will not be realized, and the spirit of depredation will relapse into its former channel, and reproduce all the evils which have for so many years been experienced from its unrestrained indul

a clumsy ring of the same metal: which has a raised figure of Paravatty on the back of it. The point of the Plough fixed itself into the ring, and dragged it several feet before it was discovered. The sheets are covered with an impression of letters, said to be pure Sanscrit, with the Jaim character: and are thought to be 1170 years old. When it was first discovered it was carefully concealed from the Proprie-have, for ages, subsisted chiefly by carry. tors of the estate; and the figures that were decyphered on it, were supposed by the credulous people into whose hands it fell, to indicate the amount of a treasure, of 18 lacks of Rupees, hidden under ground. An excavation was in consequence commenced, but after proceeding a few feet those engaged in it, began to be sensible of their folly, and desisted from further search. It appears to be nothing more than a Cowle, or Grant of Land; many of which, of a similar description have been discovered at 'different times on this side of India; some have been sent here from Kaira, and others have been seen at Cochin. When the verdigris which covered the sheets was washed off with a little tamarind juice, the characters were as distinct as if they had been impressed only yesterday. This in a great measure arises from the manner, in which they have been preserved from the air. The centre sheet of Copper, is impressed on both sides, but the exterior sheets, have letters, only on the interior surface. When the alterations were made on the Esplanade at Tanna, on Salsette falling into our hands; a stone box, containing several of these Grants' was discovered: One was

sent to Calcutta, and a translation of its contents has been published in the Asiat Researches. A Gentleman familiar with geology, remarked that the manner in which these plates were ploughed up, indicated the quantity of Soil, that must have been washed away, by the periodical rains, before they could be so near to the surface. A Lawyer on the other haud observed, what a high value landed property must have borne in those distant ages, to have induced people to draw out such kinds of deeds, on so durable a substance.

Banditti suppressed: Triumphant Entry. Bombay, March 20, 1816. Our letters from the Northward mention that the detachment under the command of Lieutenant-Col, Barclay had effected the restoration of the Province of Wagur to the Catch Government, and such of the fortressess as were not required for the protection of the Rao's Garrisons, and have hitherto proved the haunts of Bandit i have been demolished.

if the beneficent Power which has gence, and vigilantly employed in compelling produced so much good, be not actively those Petty States to adhere to the system controul-and that its influence will be which may be established for their future so directed, no doubt need be entertained.

tion which was observed in the interview The only ceremony of a novel descrip and Colonel East, was a person preceding which took place between the Rao of Cutch His Highness mounted on Stilts of about assistance of his hands, which were em seven feet high. He moved without the ployed in brandishing a sword and shield, but simply from the Stilts being fastened much dexterity and agility as if he had been to his legs, and displayed in his progress as marching on his natural stumps.

MAURITIUS.

Among the most eminent benefactors to mankind we must certainly reckon those who add to the natural productions of a place; those who communicate means of peaceful commerce, which once established' may last for ages. It is a curious question in Natural History by what meaus islands have been furnished with certain animals, &c. incapable of passing by sea, yet now found abundantly on them. Who knows what their former history has been, and bow far man, has himself by accident or design contributed to this effect? Supposing the Mauritius to be deserted during five hun dred years, by what means could a future

discoverer conjecture, that the silk-worm had found its way to the island?-Could it be native?-No;-but, how then?—

SILK WORMS INTRODUCED.

PORT LOUIS.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the following observations relative to the management of the Silk Worm, be printed for general information, as it is hoped that the production of silk inay form a valuable accession to the means of augmenting the prosperity of this Colony,

It may be necessary to premise that the best annual Raduagore Silk Worm has been introduced into the Mauritius, at the solicitation of His Excellency, through the protecting kindness which the Right Honorable Earl Moira has extended to these Colonies-and that the eggs of these Silk Worms have been chiefly entrusted to the care of Mr. Chazal, whose late travels in India enabled him to introduce the best species of Mulberry Trees, and who has already succeeded in hatching the eggs This Gentlemail will with the greatest readiness supply Silk Worms to such of the Inhabitants as are already possessed of the proper species of the Mulberry, for their growth and propagation, and he will give Mulberry slips to such Planters as wish to enter into this new branch of cultivation, or eggs may be had on application to Charles Telfair Esq. Private Secretary to His Excellency, at Reduit.

The Radanagore Worm will probably be hatched in February or March-it has been furnished by the Honourable East India Company's Resident at that Station, and the Resident has added a most intelligent sketch subjoined, of the mode adopted there for rearing the worm from its earliest period till the formation of the cocoon, and also the mode of winding off the Silk. An early occasion will be taken of draw ing the attention of the Colonists to the cultivation of the Indian Bamboo Rajah, for the construction of Houses, and to the multiplication of the race of the Buffalo, as eminently serviceable for the labours of the fields and roads in these Colonies.

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to submit the following remarks regarding SIR,-In reply to your letter, I beg leave the rearing of Silk Worms.

for the rearing and hatching of Silk Worms The receptacles or apparatus in ise here

are-1st. The small Dallah on which the young worrus are hatched, with the leaves of the mulberry chopped very fine and strewed over them, the leaves to be renewed twice in the 24 hours. They are to be fed in this manner five days, and then rethe leaves being scattered over as before, moved to the Colae or large Bamboo frame, but not chopped. Tho' the mode of cleansing them is a tedious office, it must be punctually attended to, and done every day, by throwing out their dung and the mul berry leaves and fibres, and substituting of the day, but the early part of the forefresh-This may be performed at any time noon is the best time. In the course of another five days the third change takes place, when they must be thinned and distributed among the other Coolahs or frames, and the fourth or last change in five days more, thinning and distributing them among the Coolahs each time in the proportions mentioned underneath, feeding and cleansing them as described before. The Worms are to be thinned and shified

into fresh Coolahs for the sake of allowing them, as they grow large, room for the purpose of feeding at large, and exercising themselves, which is essential to their health; the leaves must be also plentifully supplied, because if stinted in their food they will never thrive afterwards. Accord ing to the above statement, it is necessary to thin and shift the Worms into different

These objects have been successfully introduced here by the lasts ships from Cal-Coolahs, if in the first instance there are 4

cutta.

SIR-I beg to inform you, for the information of the Board, that this day dispatched under charge of Currim Chapresses, a supply of eggs, the production of the large annual cocoon, they were laid

Coolahs, on the first change they must be distributed among 8-on the second change 16-on the third change $2-and on the fourth among 64 Ceolahs, the leaves pientifully supplied once during the day, and once during night, mutil after the fourth change. when they begin to shew signs of their being about to spin, which is easily perceivaby

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