is only two days' journey distant from it by land.

The Assassins. A history of the Assassins, drawn from oriental sources, has appeared lately at Stuttgard. From this work we learn that the Assassins, a confederate people or society, which, in the time of the Crusades, for two centuries, acted an important part in Asiatic history, were originally a branch of the Ismaelites. The author, M. de Hammer, illustrates many of the events of the middle ages, and shews, at the same time, the advantageous use that might be made of oriental literature, if its cultivation were more generally attended to.

A number of convents having been suppressed in Poland, all their libraries have been removed to the University of Warsaw. In the same city, in the library of the Piarists, an Arabian astrolabe, made of copper, has been lately found. It is supposed to have been brought to Warsaw by some religious Piarists, who arrived thither from Spain in the year 1642. It pretty nearly resembles those which are in the cabinet of Kircher, at Rome, and in the observatory at Paris. M. Chiarmi, Professor of Oriental Languages in the University, rightly conceiving its importance for the history of letters, has made it the object of a dissertation presented to the Royal Institute of Sciences at Warsaw. Hipparchus, according to Pliny, was the inventor of the Astrolabe; Ptolemy and others, in succeeding ages, have laboured to bring it to perfec

tion.

Russia. The University of Moscow is now rebuilt on a better plan, and in a style of greater magnificence than before the conflagration. The Emperor, besides his other bounties, has consigned the sum of 400,000 roubles for the erection of an hospital close to the University, for the purposes of a Clinical school, wherein at present, at this charge,are 200 medical students, besides others intended for the Academy of Chirurgery. The new cabinet of natural history is progressively augmenting, under the assiduous direction of Professor Fischer. During the two last years, the collection has acquired a number of minerals, conchites, and birds, with the rich herbary of Dr Trinius.

Greece.-M. Koumas, first professor in the Great College at Smyrna, and distinguished by his learning among the Greeks, has just published, at Vienna, the two last volumes of his "Course of Philosophy." The whole work is a methodical abstract of all the best compositions of the German philosophers. Its object is to instruct the Greeks in modern philosophy, and its circulation is likely to be very considerable.

The printing-office established at Chios has commenced its operations, and is now in full activity. Its first production is an

excellent discourse of M. the Professor Bambas, read the year before last, at the opening of the course of the Great College of Chios. This discourse is so elegant in its typography that it might seem to come from the presses of Paris or London. This office will gradually spread, throughout Greece, a number of valuable works, that may contribute to the regeneration of this once classical land.

A college on a large scale is about to be founded at Zigori, in the province of Epirus. The voluntary donations for this establishment amount already to 60,000 francs. M. Neophytos Doucas, a learned Greek ecclesiastic, has contributed himself the sum of 10,000 francs.

Egypt. On the subject of subterranean researches for antiquities in Egypt, we learn from recent advices, that the objects disinterred hitherto are very inconsiderable, in comparison with what remain to be discovered. A rivalship exists between the Arab inhabitants and the Europeans, as to the art of successfully excavating the mountains of sand, wherein have been buried, for ages, the porticoes, buildings, and subterraneous galleries of every description. The Arabs have pierced into the earth to the depth of several fathoms, and are continually collecting vases, mummies, and other remains of antiquity; and, though ignorant enough in other matters, can now distinguish objects that are rare and in good preservation, from others of an ordinary sort. The Arabs of Gournon are zealously attached to this occupation; so much so, that, considering the address with which they execute these labours, it is thought the Europeans will have no occasion to undertake them, but for money may procure whatever the bowels of the earth shall disclose.

Chinese Literature.-Letters from Canton report the successful prosecution of Mr Morrison's labours in the printing of his Chinese Dictionary. The second part was begun in April 1811: this volume consists of a thousand printed pages, in 4to, and contains above 12,000 Chinese characters, the most in use, with numerous examples. In Feb. 1819, 600 pages, comprising near 8000 characters, were completed. The printing of all the volumes of this important work will occupy a space of hardly less than ten years.

It appears that an official gazette is pub lished in China, which is considered as the organ of government in every matter connected with the religion, laws, manners, and customs of the country. In its plan, it totally differs from the gazettes of Europe, wherein articles of a miscellaneous description are inserted for money. No article appears in the gazette of China, which has not first been submitted to the inspection of the emperor, and having received his ap

probation, not a syllable can be added to it. A deviation from this rule would incur a severe punishment.

Compressibility of Water.-Mr Perkins, the ingenious inventor of the siderographic process of engraving, appears to have ascertained that water is compressible in a much greater degree than it appeared to be from the experiments of Canton and Zimmerman. "Having filled a cylinder, three feet long and four inches diameter, with water, into which a rod or piston was passed through a stuffing box, and having a sliding ring upon the rod, the whole was lowered 500 fathoms into the sea, when it appeared, by the situation of the sliding ring, that the column of water which pressed upon the piston had sunk it so as to have compress

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MR CHARLES MILLS, author of the History of the Crusades, is engaged in preparing for publication, Travels in Europe, during the Pontificate of Leo the Tenth,--a work similar in plan, but different in subject, to the Abbé Barthelemi's Travels of Anacharsis.

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The author of the "Widow of Nain" intends shortly to publish a new poem, under the title of The Outlaw of Taurus-to which will be appended a few specimens of a free translation of the "Edipus Colonos" of Sophocles.

A translation is printing of Travels in England, Wales, and Scotland, in the year 1816, by Dr Spiker, Librarian to his Majesty the King of Prussia.

ed the water one hundredth part of its bulk The same apparatus was placed in a cannon filled with water, and secured very tight, when a pressure equal to 500 fathoms was forced in by means of the hydraulic press, and the same results as in the experiment in the ocean took place."Journal of Arts.

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A Biographical Class-Book is announced, on the plan of Blair's well known General Class-Book. It will consist of 365 lives of eminent men, from Homer to Grattan.

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