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Set, 2., Thie-Frépch Direory,——again finding, that their government, and the ſtate’of public airs in France, will not endure the malignant vigilance, ahd the fierce éxprobration of the PRESS, in that ſtate of moderate liberty in which it has been left,—have made a new proſcription of Tournaliíts, have again handcuffed their printers and gagged their authors, have reduced lite- rary communication, in France to a fate of reſtraint, in which, it may almoſt contemplate with envy that of Turkey.

Sept. 16. Covent-Garden Theatre is, this evening, opened for the ſeaſon 1799--1800. Tt has been newly painted. The play is Lough when you can, with Refina forthe after-piece.

Sept. 18. Opened the Theatre of Drary-Lane,- with the well-known pieces of the Cofile-Speére, and the Prize.«

‘The influence of bovkſkllers, in favour of their publications of deep ſpecula- tion,—of the chárch in favour of- its ſons and ſupporters—of goverument, in favour of all boóks and pamphlets, pleading its cauſe with the nation,---of oppolhition and democracy, for the protetion öf their literary ſpawn,---of‘the veligious fes and atheiſts in patronage, of books uſeful to their Opinions,---of thie brotherhood of Grub-fireet and Billing:igate authors, in favour of their own precious effnfons,---appear to have utterly aboliſhed critical juſtice, in the world of REVIEWS.---SCIENCE,-=--GENTUS,--TRUTE‘---go! hide yourſelves in the duſt!!!

KoTZEBUEF Ïs appointed Dire&oör of the Theatre ef Frankfort on the Maine, with a ſalary of 3,6co0 guilders.

On che Pariſian ſtage,‘the a&reſſes repreſenting wood-nymphs Have lately appeared in all'the naked beanty of Pve in Paradiſe!

The grand mettrical“Trigono ſurvey of England, is‘carried‘on with great diligence by Captain Mudge, aſſiſted by Mé. Gardner and Mr. Woolcut.

WILLIAM MEIKLEHAM, L.L. D. is appointed Profeſſor of PraQical

Aſtronomy, and-Obfervér in the Univerſity of Glaſow.

At préſent,‘there prevails, in the capital of DExMmaRxk, a political licen- tiouſneſs of the Preſs,—the moſt unfavourable to genuine literature,—the moſt injurious to true liberty,—becauſe it allows that‘œil order to‘be libelled, which has, alone, a juſt praétical relation to the cuſtoms, manners, Opinions, and‘eſtablifhments, which exiſting already in European Society, canot bé ſuddenly cradicated.'

A Congreſs of Aſtronomers aſſembled, not long hnce, at the Obſervatory of Leeberg near Gotha. La LANDE was, in that Aſlembly, the principal re- prefentative of ¡the Aſtronomers of France. He endeavoured to perſuade the Gérman Aſtronomers and Mathematicians, to adopt thé decimal ſyſtem for the meafßuement of diſtances, the diviſions of time, calculations in aſtronomy, and mathematicians, weights in commerce, money,&c. He was deſirous to Ppro- cure the adoption of the zzetre, the new French elementary meaſure of length, among the Germans. He found the German Philoſophers too tenacious of the practices and opinions of their own country, to liſten with implicit defe- vence, to what he adviſed. i;

ïÎn Germany, are now living one hundred and ſixty-nîne poets; of whom thirty-two are ladies. Clem, the eldeſt of theſe, 1s ſeventy-nine years of age. There-are'five older than Klopstock, the celebrated author of the Méſſtah— There are thirteen older than#icland. à

A new Univerhity is about to be eſtabliſhed, either at Dovpat or Mittau, for the education of the young nobility of Livonia and Courland. Such an infſti- tution 1s the more neceſſary,‘ſince the Emperor of Ruſſia has forbidden‘the youth of his dominions to ſtudy at Gottingen and other German Univerſitfes,

Muſic is, at preſent very ardently cultivated in the northern câpitals on the Cóntinént. At Stockholm, Mr. Vogler, maſter of the Chapel Royal, has juſt vubliſhed two-elewmentary mußical works, the firſt of which have appeared in thè

¿wediſh language.