relates to the arts and to poetry. He married a Roman woman, and had one child, when he resolved on returning to his country. A want of pecuniary resources made this journey a very painful one. He embarked his books at Leghorn, which formed his whole treasure, and resolved himself to go on foot. It was in this manner he passed Mount St. Gothard, accompanied by his wife, and carrying the greater part of the time his child in his arms. He was seized with a fever in Switzerland, the effects of which he felt ever afterwards. A journey which he took in 1807 to Carlsbad heated his blood, and he was at last attacked with an aneurism, which prevented him from enjoying, during the last six months of his life, an hour of quiet sleep. The works of Scarpa which he had read pronounced his fate, and he waited its accomplishment with the most stoical firmness. In his last days he still laboured on his edition of Winckelman, though suffering the most tormenting pains.

This estimable man left two children, who had been before deprived of their mother. But his friends will not leave them without protection, and they count much upon that of the enlightened prince who by his ardour to discover and reward merit has made Weimar the asylum of so many distinguished writers.

We hope our readers will excuse us for having entered into so many details concerning a literary character little known in France, but who has deserved the esteem of every country, by his misfortunes, his talents, and his personal merits.

IBID.

The most distressing intelligence is received at Constantinople from the Holy Land. It is reported, that the Armenian inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem have quarrelled with the christians there, and proceeded to such extremity, that many persons have already lost their lives. It is added, that many disasters have happened in the holy city, and that several christian churches have been destroyed.

IBID.

The tribunal of appeals at Lausanne has condemned to five years imprisonment in irons, M. de Siguer, convicted of having killed in a duel, four or five years before, Mr. Crousaz, one of his best friends. To escape the rigour of this judgment, he fled in the night to Cobourg, to implore the protection of H. I. H. the grand dutchess Constantia, in whose service he has the honour to be employed.

IBID.

NAPLES, FEBRUARY 9, 1809.

The frequent and loud eruptions of Vesuvius, which have happened almost without cessation of late, made some naturalists think that this vulcano was about to be extinguished; but the new phaenomena we have observed prove it is not so. After a silence of several months, we saw for some weeks feeble explosions of burning matter, which, on the 28th of January, were followed by a greater eruption, so abundant, that, after filling the bottom of the crater and reaching the level of its mouth, the burning substance, taking the form and direction of lava, poured down in a southeast course towards the forest of Trecase. Soon after, on the east side, and at fifteen paces from the old mouth, a new one was opened, by which the vulcano threw up so large a quantity of stones, that it has formed a little mountain exactly like that which is seen on the other side of the old mouth. The phaenomena, that accompanied this explosion are in other respects the same which have been observed in the greatest eruptions.

IBID.

From Warsaw. Since the introduction of the Napoleon code into our grand Dutchy, 17783 suits have been terminated by the justices of the peace.

IBID.

New Publications in Paris.

An essay upon some of the most ancient monuments of geography, ter minated by proofs of the identity of the deluges of Yao, of Noah, of Ogyges, and of Atlantis; and a physical explanation of the deluge by Mr. Fortia d'Urban. 1 vol.

Picture of Literature in Europe, from the 16th to the close of the 18th century, and an examination of the political, moral, and religious causes which have had an influence on the genius of the writers, and the character of their productions; by J. Leuliette. 1 vol. 8vo.

The works of Shakespeare, selected from the edition of Johnson and Steevens, in six volumes 12mo. Published at Avignon.

Letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, written between the years 1773, and 1776; followed by two chapters in the style of Sterne's Sentimental Journey. 2 vols. 8vo.

An edition of Stuart's Athens is publishing at Paris.

They expect with eagerness in Germany a work of Madame de Staël, which will be in that country what her Corinna is in Italy. The most respectable booksellers have made the author the greatest offers. One, it is said, has offered her 16000 francs, payable on receipt of the manuscript, before reading it. Le Publiciste.

We are assured, that a German critick, who is employed at Rome in making researches among the libraries, has communicated to several Italian literati a note, in which he announces, that he hopes to prove, that the Treatise on the Sublime, considered the work of Longinus, is not the production of that author, but of Dyonisius of Halicarnassus. We must wait the result of his inquiries.

SIR,

To the Editor of the Publiciste.

IBID.

Permit me to inform the publick, through your journal, that having reacquired the property of my translation of the Eneid, I propose giving, very soon, a new edition of it; in which many passages have been carefully retouched, after the advice of persons the best qualified to judge of the beauties and faults of this kind of works.

I announce also, at the same time, that the remarks on the last eight books, such as they are printed, not being by me, I have replaced them by new ones. M. Fermin Didot has undertaken this new edition, and has promised to give it all the care and all the elegance that books published by him possess. I disavow beforehand all other editions.

I would also inform the publick, that a translation of the Bucolicks, in spite of my protest against it, has been falsely attributed to me. I have indeed been employed on a translation of the Bucolicks of Virgil, which will appear after several compositions that are still in my port-folio.

I have the honour to be, &c.
J. DELILLE.

THE CANAL OF LANGUEDOC.

WE have seen within a few days, at the Palais-Royal, a plan in relief of the Canal of Languedoc, made during the reign of Louis XIV. to unite the Mediterranean and the ocean. Its whole length, from its opening into the lake of Thaut, to the sluice of the Garonne, at Thoulouse, where it ends, is fifty-four leagues, of which twenty-five are a degree.

In its whole length, there are sixty-two sluices, and one hundred and one basons. The place where the waters divide is one hundred and one toises, three feet and nine inches above the lake of Thaut, and thirty-one toises, three feet and nine inches, above the level of the Garonne, at Thoulouse. The canal is crossed in different places, by ninety-two bridges, and passes itself over fifty-five aqueducts. These afford channels for so many torrents and rivers which flow under the canal.

The mass of water necessary for this canal, is supplied by many streams, some of which come from the Black Mountain, which unite near Revel, in the reservoir of St. Ferréol, an immense bason, formed, in part, by nature, The reservoir is of an irregular figure, a little resembling a triangle. Two mountains, united at one point, form the sides of th triangle; at the base, is a causeway of five hundred toises in length; the mean height of the triangle is eight hundred toises; the width of the causeway is sixty-one toises, and its height, twenty-five. The surface of this bason, when it is full, is more than one hundred and seventy-five thousand square toises. It is said to contain nine hundred thousand cubick toises of water, that is, more than the whole canal, of which the quantity of water, when full, is estimated only at seven hundred and forty-seven thousand cubick toises.

The canal is dug in many parts through rock, sometimes to the depth of eighteen feet. Between Béziers and Narbonne, it passes under the mountain of Malpas, a distance of ninety-two toises. This mountain is of a species of stone so soft, that it is necessary to support it in part by an arch of masonry. There is only the length of twenty-four toises, that is not arched.

It is left dry every year, in the months of August and September, at the time of the fairs of Beaucaire and Bordeaux, and during this time three or four thousand labourers are employed in cleaning and repairing all parts, which require it.

It is thought to have cost, in 1680, seventeen and a half millions, equal to thirty-three millions now. We are told that one hundred thousand crowns are annually expended in keeping it in repair, and that it produces double that sum, which proves its benefit to our commerce.

It is proved by the most authentick testimony, that the general plan of uniting the ocean to the Mediterranean was conceived even in the reign of Charlemagne; but we must doubt, whether it was through the southern provinces of France that he proposed to effect this junction.

The first plan of the canal of Languedoc, seems to have been formed under Francis I. The proposal then was, to make it only from Thoulouse, a canal of fourteen leagues, from which it would be necessary to enter the river Aude, and thus reach the Mediterranean. Under Charles IX. this communication between the two seas, by means of the canal, was proposed anew in the council. There is preserved in the records of the Abbey de Saint Tibere, the original sheet, presented by the deputies of Languedoc, to the assembly of the states general, holden at Paris, which proves that in that prince's reign, it was proposed to unite the two seas, by a canal through Languedoc.

Under the reign of Henry IV. and towards the end of 1598, the project was again brought forward. The constable, Montmorenci, governour of Languedoc, visited all the spots through which a canal could be made; but this project was interrupted by that of the canal of Briane, which more nearly interested the capital, and which was the first completed in France. In the time of Louis XIII. the publick was anew engaged with the junction of the two seas. The canal of Languedoc was proposed, as it had been conceived under Francis I. In 1632, cardinal Richelieu intended to make a journey thither; but the embarrassments of state, which intervened, prevented him. An order of council, of January 23, 1636, shews that a commission had passed to a certain person, for the making of this canal, but that he could not finish his undertaking.

It was in 1660, according to the Memoirs of Languedoc, that the matter was seriously examined, and they discussed the plans of Mr. Riquet, considered with justice the author of this grand and useful work. The first stone of the reservoir of Saint Ferréol was laid with the greatest pomp in the beginning of April, 1667, and fourteen years after, on the second of March, 1681, the royal commissioners went over it, to prove the works of the canal wholly finished.

The harbour of Cette was made in 1666, under the direction of Vauban. From this port they enter the canal across the lake of Thaut, which is three leagues long.

There are about two hundred and fifty boats, numbered and registered, that constantly navigate the canal. They are seventy-nine feet long, to fifteen, or seventeen wide. They carry one hundred tons, and draw but five feet of water. These boats are six or seven days, in going from Agde to Thoulouse with a single horse. They go six leagues a day, and do not work by night. Every day there sets out on the canal a post barge, which goes from Agde to Thoulouse in four days.

The breadth of the canal is almost every where sixty feet at the surface of the water, and thirty-two feet at the bottom. The depth of the water is at least six feet, almost every where. Le Publiciste. Feb. 1809.

CATALOGUE

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
FOR AUGUST, 1809.

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura. Mart.

NEW WORKS.

Sacred Extracts from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, for the more convenient attainment of a knowledge of the inspired writers. For the use of schools and families. And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.' 2 Timothy, iii. 15. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co. The Civil Officer, or the whole duty of Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, and Collectors of Taxes. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co.

Cases of Organick Diseases of the Heart, &c. By J. C. Warren, M. D. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co.

Medical Papers communicated to the Medical Society. Vol. I. Part. I. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co.

A Digest and Compendium of the Laws of Massachusetts. Vol. I. Part II. By W. C. White. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co.

The Cypriad in two Cantos, with other Poems; and Translations. By H. C. Knight. Boston; J. Belcher.

The New York Medical Repository, No. 48, completing the second hexade. E. Cotton, agent, Boston, 1809.

An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, containing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most eminent persons in North America, from its first discovery to the present time, and a summary of the history of the several colonies, and of the United States. By William Allen, A. M. Cambridge, Hilliard & Metcalf, printers.

An Appendix to the New Testament. By James Winthrop, Esq. Cambridge, Hilliard & Metcalf, printers.

An Abridgement of Dr. Forbes' Scripture Catechism. Revised by an association of ministers, and designed for the children of their respective societies. Cambridge, Hillard & Metcalf, printers.

The Mystery of Godliness. A Sermon delivered at Thomaston, June 15th 1809, at the Installation of the Rev. John Lord. By Josiah Webster. Newburyport; Thomas and Whipple.

A Sermon preached before the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company in Boston, June 5th, 1809. By John Foster, A. M. Boston; Munroe, Francis and Parker.

A Circular Address from the Bible Society of Massachusetts, &c. Boston; J. Belcher.

A Report of the whole trial of general Michael Bright, and others; before Washington and Peters, in the circuit court of the United States, in and for

the district of Pennsylvania, and in the third circuit; on an indictment for obstructing, resisting, and opposing the execution of the writ of arrest, issued out of the district court of Pennsylvania; in the case of Gideon Olmsted and others, against the surviving executrices of David Rittenhouse deceased. By Thomas Lloyd. The arguments of counsel, and charge of the judge revised by each, respectively. Philadelphia; P. Byrne. 1809.

Reports of Cases argued and adjudged in the supreme court of the United States, in the years 1807, and 1808. Vol. 4. By William Cranch, chief judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. Flatbush, N. Y. I. Riley. 1809.

The Letters and Sermon of the Rev. William Romayn, M. A. to a friend on the most important religious subjects, during a correspondence of twenty years. New York; J. Shedden. 1809.

Letters supposed to have passed between St. Evremond and Waller. To which is prefixed a biographical sketch of St. Evremond, Waller, and se veral of their cotemporaries. By a gentleman of Baltimore; Cole and Thomas. 1809.

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Reports of Cases argued and determined in the supreme court of appeals of Virginia with select cases, relating chiefly to points of justice, decided by the supreme court of chancery for the Richmond district. The second edition, revised, and corrected by the authors. Vol. I. By W. W. Henning and William Munford. Flatbush, N. Y. I. Riley. 1809.

Proof of the Corruption of general James Wilkinson, and of his connexion with Aaron Burr, &c. By Daniel Clark. Philadelphia; Hall and Pierce. Svo. pp. 199.

Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, during second session, tenth congress. Washington; R. C. Weightman. 8vo. pp. 273. Extracts from the minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, A. D. 1809. Philadelphia; Jane Aitken.

NEW EDITIONS.

Practical Observations on the Management of Ruptures: in two parts. Part I. New Inventions and Directions for ruptured Persons. Part II. A familiar Account of the Nature of Ruptures in both Sexes. By William Halt Timbrel, Esq. To which are prefixed two recommendatory Letters, by William Blair, A. м. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons; Fellow of the Medical Societies of London, Paris, and Brussels; Surgeon of the Lock Hospital and Asylum, and of the Bloomsbury Dispensary, etc. From the last London edition. With Engravings. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co.

Sermons on Education; from the German of Zollikofer. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co.

Patriotick Sketches of Ireland. By Miss Owenson. Two vols. in one. Boston; O. C. Greenleaf.

Abaellino, the Bravo of Venice; a Romance, translated from the German. By M. G. Lewis. 18mo. pp. 299. Boston; O. C. Greenleaf.

Gertrude of Wyoming, a Pennsylvanian tale; and other poems. By Thomas Campbell. Boston; O. G. Greenleaf.

A Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Publick Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States. Boston, O. C. Greenleaf. pp. 56.

Correspondence of the late President Adams; originally published in the Boston Patriot. No. 1. Boston; Everett & Munroe.

Caution recommended in the application and use of scripture language, a sermon, preached July 15, 1777, in the Cathedral Church of Carlisle, at the visitation of the right reverend Edmund, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. By William Paley, A. M. late Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge, &c. &c. Cambridge, Hilliard & Metcalf, printers.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, during the time of Lord Redesdale. First volume. Containing