Foreign Literary Cazette. BAVARIA. New Measurer of Time. The Artists Messrs. Rancis of Munich, and Buzengeiger, of Tubingen, have taken advantage of the Galvanic Balance of Zamboni, which has obtained the appellation of the "perpetual motion," to direct it to the measurement of the flux of instants. They have constructed Time-pieces in which the oscillation of the pendulum, placed between the piles, is not the principal regulator, but the moving principle of the machine. FRANCE. Journal des Sarans. This Journal which dates its first appearance from so far back as 1665, and which proceeded without interruption till 1792, supported its reputation and justified its success during the long period of 127 years. It is now, to be resumed under express order of the King, executed according to official routine, by the Chancellor, Keeper of the seals of France. The inspection, composition, and other literary superintendence is committed to men of distinguished distinguished talents, members of the Institut. The first number appeared on the first of September last; and the work will be continued monthly. Each number containing eight sheets, or sixty four pages in Quarto. The learned throughout Europe will anticipate much advantage from this resumption. Parish Churches easily re-built. Among the most troublesome events to which the public is subject, is the dilapidation, or falling to decay of Parish Churches. Scarcely is the Vestry of any parish proof against animosity on such occasions: insomuch, that the Edifice being pronounced unsaje by the neighbouring carpenter, complimented with the title of "Surveyor," it terrifies the people, usually stands empty for years, and proceeds with due rapidity, from bad to worse. The subject has engaged the attention of M. Cointereau who has published a pamphlet intitled "An easy and economic method of repairing and rebuilding Parish Churches; and of ornamenting them at a small expense." As to the ornamenting them, we shall not greatly trouble the author; but, if his plans for re-edification are practicable and substantial, we should rejoice to see them naturalized among us, for the benefit not only of the present, but of succeding generations. VOL. V. No. 27, Lit. Pan. N. 8. Dec. 1. GERMANY. There is something amusing enough, provided it be not carried too far, in the new scope of Titles obtained from Oriental performances. They are certainly expressive, extensive, and poetical. Among these we may distinguish a work lately published at Stutgard, in two volumes octavo, Rosenoel Otto of Roses; or a Selection of the traditions and tales of the East, from the Arabic, the Persian, and the Turkish. The editor and translator of these Tales apparently is no stranger to the East, but has made some stay in those parts, where, probably, he obtained some familiarity with their general literature and languages. In a preface, placed at the head of the second Volume, the author explains the plan he has adopted, saying, that the difference which exists between the smaller stories of the thousand and one nights, and those which he has here collected, consists in that the former are merely tales, while those which compose his work, are always founded on some real or admitted historical fact. The Legend of the Prophet, contained in the first Volume, begins with the Creation of the world, and closes with the birth of the Prophet, where real history begins. This legend has served as a basis for the mythology of the Persians, the Arabs, and the Turks, as well as for a great number of symbolical ideas and traditions still current. The anecdotes which are comprized in this legend refer principally to the life of Mahomet, and the lives of the four Caliphs of Egypt, and present a picture changing and shifting of the manners of the great, and the prejudices of the lower classes. In this picture are displayed alteruately caliphs, princes, viziers, women, eunuchs, inhabitants of cities, Bedoweens, slave merchants, &c. acting in the Divan, the Harem, the Seraglio, at court, or in the desert; under the canopy of state, equally as under the feeble shelter of the shepherd's tent. What renders this publication peculiarly interesting to the lovers of Oriental litera. ture, is the care taken by the author, every where, to mark his authorities; together with the notes and illustrations with which he has accompanied his translation.Many of these are drawn from history. We have not seen this work; but are obliged, for this account of it, to a continental pen. It seems to us, as if it might repay the trouble of translation into our own language. Ancient British Druids. Count Stolberg has lately published, at Munster, a Life of Alfred the Great, in R sophy. ITALY. one volume of $12 pages. The introduc-Geometrician Measurers of Land (Land tion contains an abridged history of the Surveyors) and thirteen Doctors in PhiloIsland of Britain till the days of Alfred; or rather, to the Saxon invasion. This Abridgement, which is necessary to a proper understanding of the life of Al fred, is intermingled with interesting observations on the condition of ancient Albion, on the Juhabitants, and particularly on the Druids, in whom the author believes, that he has discovered the Brains of India, and the ancient Chaldeans, or Wise-men of the East. His opinion is, that the Sciences spread themselves as the human race spread themselves, and that one was the companion of the other: the whole departing from the original Chaldea. It is but just, that the diligence, perseverance and learning of Sig. Angelo Maio, which have heen rewarded with various discoveries in the Ambrosian library, of which Sig. Maio is curator, should be fully set before the learned world, and duly estimated by the public. The first of these fragments, which commands our attention at present, is I. M. Acci Plauti frogmenta inedita, Idem ad Publium Terentinum commentationes et picturæ inedita. Milan, 1815. These fragments of Plautus were found in the Ambrosian library. Sig. Maio has caused an exact copy of them to be engraved. They consist in near sixty entire verses, never before published; and in fragments of many others damaged by time and accident, of which part belongs to the Vidularia, a lost comedy of Plautus. These which also contains observations and critical notes on eighteen comedies of Plautus. This theory appears to us to be somewhat singular in a foreigner. If the Count has found any supports to his statements in the authorities of his own country, it is possible that his volume may contain something new. The rest of his work is found-pieces form the first part of the volume, ed entirely on English authorities, principally Nennius; and is not likely to differ from what is generally received among us. The University Calendar, or Almanack for the University of Heidelberg for the current year, answers at the same time the purpose of a guide to the inhabitants, as well as to straugers. The work is introduced by a history and short description of the city. This article is followed, by a history of the organization of the University; of its principal Magistrates, of its public establishments, &c. An Alphabeti cal list of the principal magistrates, the public establishments, &c. A list of the chief inhabitants is added, the number of which amounts to 8,983. A list of the principal streets; times of arrival and de. parture of the post, are also given; and on the whole, this Calendar of the University of Heidelberg, seems as if it might pass for a model for similar works, not in Germany only, but elsewhere. HUNGARY. University of Pesth, State of. The University of Pesth reckoned in the season 1814-1815 nearly 800 Students; of which those in Theology were 77; in Jurisprudence 210; in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy, 62; in Philosophy and Mathematics, 322. In the same year the University created eleven Doctors in Theology; seven Doctors in Civil Law; two Doctors in Medicine; one Master in Surgery; nineteen menmidwives and allowed Surgeons; one Master in Pharmacy; two practitioners as Oculists; forty-six female midwives; twenty-six Veterinary practitioners; fourteen The second part of the volume comprises several writings and unpublished docu ments concerning Terence, consisting in a life of that famous comic writer-a commentary on five of his pieces, prior to the tenth century of the Christian era, and in three engravings of the comic characters and masks, serving as a kind of substitute and supplement to the famous Vatican copy of Terence, already published. Secondly. Isæi oratio de hereditate Cleo nymi nunc primum duplo auctior. Inven tore et interprete Angelo Muio. Milan. 1815.-Hitherto little more was known of the pleadings of Isæus for the heritage of Cléonymus, than about half of the discourse, which is placed at the opening of this orator's works. A copy in the Ambrosian library has furnished the remainder. To harangue of the same orator, for the heritage these are added sundry variations in the of Menecles, first published at London in 1785, from a copy then preserved at Florence. Themistü Philosophi Oratio in eos a quibus ab præfecturam susceptam fuerat vituperatus. Inventore et Interprete Angelo Maio. Milan, 1816.-According to Phocion, the number of discourses of Themistius was thirty-six, of which thirty-three have been published. Another has been discovered in an Ambrosian copy; in this Themistius replies to the reproaches of his detractors for having accepted from the Emperor Theodosius, the place of Prefect of Constantinople. It is accompanied with au unpublished introduction to another harangue of Themistius. Sig. Angelo Maio, Editor of these frag- ( Critic will inspect the volume, without ments, and discoverer of other literary documents, also, and to whom perhaps, the world may be indebted for discoveries much more valuable, has accompanied these publications with prefaces, has also translated the Greek discourses into Latin, and has added notes historical and critical, full of various learning-es-pecially to the text of Themistius. 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. PRUSSIA. Der Schlussel zur Edda, &c. The Key to the Edda, by E. C. Trautvetter, 8vo. pp 163. Berlin. 1815. We have repeatedly noticed the Disposition for tracing Northern learning through all its turnings and windings, that at present animates the learned of the North: this writer has favor ed us with an explication of the Edda, according to the principles of Philosophical Chemistry!! Von dem Verhaeltniss, &c. Discourse on the connection between the ancient Germaa 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. making due allowances for the effects of a calamity so destructive and dreadful. A principal article, so far as we can 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 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 of what has been begun in prior volumes, and will be resumed, in following volumes until complete. SAXONY. A cheap steam engine, wholly constructed of wood, and so light as to be portable, has lately been used in some places in the neighbourhood of Leipsie, to draw off the water from peat-mosses and turf beds, and other pits where the water is not overwhelming by its abundance, or deep beyond reasonable expectation. The instrument is of moderate expense; and by 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-wines. 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 Breslau an Account of a copy of the four Evangelists, in the old Latin Version, before Jerom; 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 Bibliothecæ Rhedigerianæ, in quo vetus Latina, Ante-Hieronymiana versio continetur. Acce, dunt Scripturæ Codicis specimina. Ed. David Schulz. 2to. 1816. R2 .... 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 consecrated the new church of St. Mary's; and confirmed upwards of one hundred persons. Marriages by Authority of the Church of t Scotland. 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, Cal cutta, after Divine Service. "The Kirk Session of St. Andrew's Church being met and 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 according to the Forms of our National Church. The Moderator also stated to the Session, that he had dove himself the honour of informing 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 hereaneut, 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." 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, ali the European Gentlemen attending: when retiring, his Excellency was conducted with the same ceremony and respect to his carriage, and otto 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 western 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 Dowlah 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 mohorrum. The Dowlut Khannah, originally built by Asoph ul Dowlah, had great additions | made to it, by the late Vizier-There is 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. Iu 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 ulDowlah, 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 buildingía barahduree) of white marble, the borders of the compartments, and the angles of the arches, in laid 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-Dowlah. Bar 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 orna 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 Elimos'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 Juma, 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; and inlaid with white marble. He has Ye courtesies of life all hail; 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 11⁄2 inches in circumference. A considerable number of Sheep were killed during the Storm. BOMBAY. ANTIQUITIES: SHEETS OF COPPER INSCRIBED. 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, nearly eight inches long, by four and a half inches broad: united by |