droit et du devoir dans l'homme et dans les peuples. The xxv chapters now published by Mr. D. are extracted from this manufcript. It had been read, fays the author, to Catharine the Great, in 1774, and to Guftavus III, in 1775, who applauded the views and plan of Mr. D. The work was likewife communicated to Frederic H, and to his brother, Prince Henry, and the King of Pruffia pointed out to the author different paffages which he wished to have read to the Academy of

Sciences at Berlin.

Ibid.

GERMANY,

ART. 45. Hiftorisch-statistisches Gemahlde des Ruffifchen Reichs, am ende des achzehnten Jahrhunderts, von H. Storch.-Hiftorico-falifical account of the Empire of Ruffia at the clufe of the 18th Century, by H. Storch. Voll. 3 and 4, each confitting of 34 theets in Svo. Leipzig, 1800.

The work of Mr. Storch may be confidered as intended to complete that published by Mr. Georgi, under the title of Geographical and phyfical defcription of the Empire of Rafia. It treats exclufively of the condition of the inhabitants under all their statistical relations, as also1 thofe of the interior adminiftration, referring to other works for whatever regards the geographical and phyfical defcription of the country, its productions, &c.

In the two firft volumes, the author makes us acquainted with the civil flate of the inhabitants of the Empire of Ruffia, and in the third he shows the progrefs by which induftry has brought this nation to the point at which it is now arrived. The Introduction to the fame volume reprefents fucceffively the arts tranfplanted from Greece to Nowogorod, to Kiew, dettroyed by the Mongols, and afterwards restored by Iwan I, Iwan II, and Alexei Michailowitfch. Mr. St. then gives a statement of all the articles of merchandize manufactured in, and furnished by Ruffia fo early as the year 1674, with the hiltory of what Peter the Great, Catharine II, and Paul 1, have done for the purpofe of promoting industry in their ftates.

He divides into three principal fcctions, whatever concerns the actual ftate of induftry in the Ruflian Empire. Firft fection: the particular occupations of the people in the country. Thefe occupations relate not only to agriculture, they comprife alfo a great number of other employments and means of induftry, which furnish many important objects for exportation. The author has added many reflections on the means of encouraging and extending the different branches of the na tional induftry. In the fecond fection, Mr. St. fpeaks of the trades, and of the measures adopted by Catharine to fupport and improve them, by fecuring a civil exiftence to thofe who are occupied in them. He reckons the number of individuals who depend on them, to be for the whole Empire 350,000. The third fection is confecrated to manufactures, which are here claffed under 45. heads.

'The

The fourth volume prefents a circumftantial hiftory of the Commerce of Ruffia from the most remote times to that of Peter I. It concludes with a ftatistical view of the commerce of Ruffia, during the second moiety of the 17th century, under Alexei Michailowitsch. Jena ALZ.

ART. 46. Annales typographiciab Anno MDI ad annum MDXXXVI continuati poft Maittairii aliorumque virorum doctiffimorum curas in ordinem redacti, emendati et auêti cura D. G. W. Panzeri, &c. Vol. VIII. ii and 564 pp. 1. 4to. Nüremberg, 1800. Pr. 5 Rixd.

This new volume of a very important work begins with Paris, and with the year 1513. Ibid.,

HOLLAND.

ART. 47. Nieuwe Verhandelingen van het bataafsch Genootschap der Natuurkunde.-New Memoirs of the Batavian Society of Experimental Phyfics. Vol. i. 4to. 564 pp. 1800.

Twelve volumes compose the first collection, of which this, which we here announce, is to be confidered as the continuation, and which chiefly relates to the Fire-engine. The three Memoirs on this subject by John Wright, William Chapman, and Reinze Lieuwe Brouwer, to which prizes were adjudged by the Society, form a part of this volume.

ART. 48. Inftitutiones phyfice in ufum auditorum digefta, à Simone Speyert van den Eyck, A. L. M. et Phil. D. Math. fublim. et phyfices in Acad. Lugdun-bat-Prof. ord. Leyden, 1800.

This excellent compendium confifts of 20 chapters, in which the Profeffor has comprised whatever is effential in natural philofophy, and on which he enlarges in his lectures to his auditors.

ART. 49. Gerardi Sandifort Tabule Anatomicæ. Fol. magn. Ley? den, 1800.

The cabier which we have now before us, is recommended by the execution both in the defign and in the engraving, and does honour to the fon of Edward Sandifoṛt.

ACKNOW

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have received feveral letters and communications from Dr. Montucci, of whom, from all that we can learn, we are inclined to think highly; but, conscious of our want of knowledge in Chinefe literature, we have been very cautious of hazarding a judgment, in the difpute between him and Dr Hager, and must reserve our opinion till we fhall feel ourfelves able to give it without much fear of. error.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

An account of fome interefting Travels in the North of Europe, may speedily be expected from the pen of Mr. Sauer. Profeffor Vince, of Cambridge, is about to publish a second volume of Aftronomy, containing Tables of the Motions of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Jupiter, Satellites, with an Introduction, explaining their conftruction and use.

We are very happy to be able to announce, that Mr. Gifborne has been prevailed upon to publish a volume of Sermons, which is now in the prefs.

A tranflation of the Analytical Inftitutions of Maria Gaetana Agnefi, a learned Italian lady, is in great forwardnefs at the prefs, under the inspection of the Rev. John Hellins, B. D. F. R. S.-The tranflation was made by the late Profeffor Colfon, of Cambridge; but the public are indebted to the liberal exertions of Mr. Baron Maferes for its being now brought to light.

Mr. Reeves's various, and truly valuable editions of the Bible and Common Prayer-Book, will be ready for publication fome time in the month of January.

ERRATA.

In our laft Number, p. 469, 1. 24, for former, 1. farmer.

P. 492, 1. 37, for da become, 1. do not become.