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      scholars of the Institute * the distinctive traits of those three poets ; afterwards passing in review Italy , France , Spain , England , Germany , and lastly ,

      Holland , he offered a rapid yet admirable sketch of the dramatic literature of each of those countries . The applause which followed this effort of genius \ va 3 sincere and universal . With a talent so uncommon and so deserving of admiration , M . de Clereq

      has manners the most artless and gentle , and a mind imbued with noble and religious feeling ' s . The writer of this article , who has sometimes had the gratification of hearing M . de Clereq , appeals for

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      FOREIGN . FRANCE . The election of a Foreign Associate of the French Institute , in the room of the late Dr . Jenner , took place on

      Monday the 24 th ult . The following gentlemen were proposed : —Dr . Wollaston , Dr . Young , M . Olbers , M . S / emering , M . Von Buch , Mr . Lambton , Mr . Brown , Mr . Dalton and Mr . Ooestkd . The number of

      members who voted was 44 ; and the ballot was as follows , Dr . Wollaston , 38 ; Olbers , 6 - y Von Buch , 1 —It is highly honourable to the English nation , that out of nine persons proposed to the Institute , of all the learned and distinguished men of the civilized world , five should be Englishmen .

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      AUSTRIA . One of the most distinguished pOets of Italy , Picario , has been sentenced

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      the truth of his statement , to the testimony of all who have enjoyed the same advantage , —to Messrs . Wis ^ lius , Kinker , Bilderdyk , Pollens , &c . It is

      a great triumph for Holland , whose language is so little known , and so ill appreciated by strangers , to produce not only poets of the first rank , but also an Improvisatore of such extraordinary merit . *

      * We publish this article in the words of its author , a Dutchman eminent for his literary acquirements .

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      at the age of 28 , to fifteen years * solitary imprisonment in the fortress of Spitzberg . His crime Is that of being a Carbona .

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      300 Intelligence \—Foreign : France . Portugal . Austria . Russia .

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      PORTUGAL . The Government of Portugal has advertised for the best digest of a civil code for that kingdom , in the place of the old system . The reward for the most approved system is 30 , 000

      crusades of gold , or about j € 10 , 000 ; to be paid in several years . The successful candidates are to be rewarded according to their merits . The competition is open to persons of all countries .

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      RUSSIA . Extract of a Letter from Baitatzeck , in the Ukraine , dated Jan . 16 , 1823 : — " I had seen but a very imperfect account of the * • before I received

      your letter . The Morning Chronicle was , I believe , the only paper that gave a full history of it , ( as some of the papers say , ) and that is one of the newspapers , the entry of which into this country is forbidden . The same restrictions have prevented my seeing the works of Lord Byron , which you mention . I should like to have seen

      the whoie of what he says of Son they , and especially how The Edinburgh Review will treat him ; but this I shall not be able to do , as The Edinburgh Review is also forbidden . The affair of the Bishop is a very unfortunate matter for the clergy of England , which is so great an aid to the

      Government ; in other countries , as this , where the clergy have no influence whatever on the public , being of the lowest origin , and living like common peasants in cabins , their daughters tilling the ground and tending hogs and cattle , such an affair would have been of but little import , as the Government doe& not want the aid of any

      oth ^ r power . The Christian religion , too , is so intfetfwov $ » in the Eng lish Government , that the aeces&ioft of

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/44/