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    i vast superiority over the immoralities © £ Pagan worship , in whatever shape the inventions of men have exhibited it . JLutbefs ' Monument . —The society at Jt / fansfeld has already received sixteen thousand crowns subscription money .- ?* - The friends of the undertaking , it is said , have proposed so many protects for

    carrying the plan into execution , that some of them appear ridiculous . For instance , some have proposed the money should he employed in publishing a new and splendid edition of all his works ; others wish to establish a school in which his

    doctrine should be cultivated , ; but it is finally agreed upon to erect a monument to his memory , in brass or marble . The outlines of three plans oiFered to the society Have been published ; one of them came from an artist at Copenhagen ; another from an architect of Dresden , arid a third from a Catholic .

    2 > Museum Antique of Wieland , after having been suspended some time , has appeared with new eclat at the house of M . H . G-ssner , bookseller , at Zurich . The first number contains a dissertation upon the son of Euripides , and a translation in rhime of tlie Helena , of the same author . The second , a translation of

    four characters of Theophrastus , with instructive notes by M , Hattinger—with the Oedipus translated into verse by M , J acobs . The birds of Aristophanes , by M . Wieland , are promised in a future number . The author oE the £ xt raits des Jirchi'ves Litterdires , No . 24 , observes , that Wieland has been called the

    Voltaire of Germany ; an eulpgium which many people in France think exaggerated , ¦ w hile others on the contrary have made the comparison the subject of an outrageous censure upon M . Wieland . But the fact is , that with some traits of resemblance these two celebrated men have too much essential difference in their characters to admit of comparison .

    Translation is very actively pursued in Italy : at Venice , a new translation of Du Genie du Cbristianisme ^ the genius of Christianity is announced by G . B . Alainanni . —At Milan , the English Universal History is coming forward . — At

    Brescia , two volumes of a new translation of Titus JLivius have been published by JL . Mabril . — At Rome , IS Esprit de V' Histolre t written by M . Ferrand . -Medicine , Agriculture and Commerce , likewise occupy a number of pens . The Gazette of Mantua has also been renewed , which having previously existed

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    above a century , had experienced a com * plete iaterruptipri far " the ' iast ten years . ' A French translation of BIackstone T s Commentaries upon the Laws of Bng * land , with notes , has been propose'd at Paris ,- by 1 * . Goldsmith , to . be published by subscription .

    The celebrated Dr . ; Gall was lately at Munster , where his . Lectures are said tQ have Been attended by the principal military officers and persons of distinction ; among them the prince bishop , and several monks ; a number of ladies , and

    professional men of several classes . It is added , that medical men , and the clergy in particular , exert themselve > to the ut + most in contributing ; to the doctor's means of investigation . A German translation &f Gibbon ' s History of the ~ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ,- is ; announced in t * V > $ t of the continental literary journals of last month . This "work is recommended

    upon the consideration of the . strong resemblance between the political , evenjts of the present day , and some" of those described by that luminous historian .. A Charitable Institution has been lately opened at Paris y called the Asylum of Providence , for the maintenance of a certain number of the aged o £ both sexes ; andt to serve as a school of instruction for

    young females in indigent circumstances . The French journals say , that upwards of thirty of the Sizters of Chanty have fallen victims to their ^ eal in attending 1 some of the Russian Prisoners * sick and wounded . Y

    POr , IT * CO-RE * 4 GIQ * JS . JZximstitn of the Popedom * T-3-t , appears that the condition of the pope is about to be materially affected by tha , revolutions taking place on the Continent . It is said tha £ he is to be removed from Rome tQ Venice , of which place he is to be constituted Patriarch ! Preparations are there making to receive him . . By this meak he will to be Political k ? ince

    ure cease a prince . ure he will cease to be a political p f and will fall in tht same manner , and by the same gradation , that he rose . TJiis is the work of Providence . The day of ** the » Man of Sin ' is come to a close . Our readers will rejoice with us that " Balylon the Great is fallen "

    It seems that . * t . he Irish Catholics , encouraged by the present liberal admknV stration , are very much disposed to prefer their claims to government- We hope they . will not be . precipitate , nor endeavour to hurry their advocates * ui pQ / W ? er into a measure » f wich vast iiFpoft

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/54/