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This would perfect the geography of northern Africa.

A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption is printing by George Henning, M.D. of Bridgewater.

The City of Refuge, a Poem, in four Books, by Mr Thomas Quin, is in the press. Mr Beauford, M.A. of Dublin, is preparing for the press, a New Theory of Magnetism, especially the Phenomena which relate to the variation of the Magnetic Needle, deduced from observation, and demonstrated on true philosophical and mathematical principles. In the investigation, magnetism in general is ascribed to the effect of caloric on the globe of the earth. In magnetism, at least as far as it affects the needle (the author says), there are four magnetic poles near the terrestrial poles; which magnetic poles, in each class, have a rotation from east to west, proceeding from the effect of the perturbating powers of the sun and moon, in the difference between the centripetral and centrifugal forces. The revolution of the northern magnetic poles round

the earth's axis and poles is complete in 1073 years, and that of the southern in 864 years. The northern affirmative magnetic pole has this year (1817), at the time of the vernal equinox, lat. 71° 24' N., lon. 83° W.; the negative pole, lat. 82° 12′ N.; lon. 114° 19' E. The southern affirmative magnetic pole has lat. 65° 56′ S., lon. 156° 58' E.; the negative, lat. 76° 46′ S., lon. 264° 26' E. from Greenwich. And the places of the mean or operative pole derived from the effect of the four other poles, and to which the needle tends-northern lat. 73° 36' N., lon. 84° 54′ W.; southern lat. 68° 45′ S., lon. 145° 30′ E. From the effects and places of these mean operative poles proceed the various phenomena of the magnetic needle; as the variation, dip, position, nutation, rotation, and secular variation.

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MONTHLY REGISTER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

EUROPE.

RUSSIA.

Petersburgh, August 15.-Our Gazette contains an article dated Voronetz, July 9, which says, that in the environs of the city of Bobro an immense quantity of worms was discovered upon a sandy soil. These worms gnawed and destroyed all the vegetation upon the surface to an extent of nearly 200

acres.

Their number increased like locusts.

Every means was attempted to destroy them, but without success; at length a solemn procession was made, and holy water sprinkled. The next day a cloud of ravens and other birds arrived, who eat all the worms up in three days.

August 16.-The Emperor is to quit this capital on the 1st September. His absence will be from fifteen to sixteen months. His Majesty will first proceed to Witepsk, inspect the troops forming part of the corps d'armée of General Barclay de Tolly, and arrive at Moscow in November. Here he will remain till June, when he will proceed to visit the southern provinces of his empire. He will go to Astracan, to the Crimea, and inspect the troops of General Benningsen; then pass into Germany, to assist at the assembly fixed in 1815 by the Allied Sovereigns, and which will be held at Frankfort on the Mayne, or at Aix-la-Chapelle. After this he will visit Warsaw, and from thence return to Petersburgh.

August 29. Since the greatest part of Poland has formed a distinct kingdom under the rule of the Emperor, we cannot overlook the favourable changes which have been operated in that state. There have been established not only schools for sciences, but also a great number of elementary ones and seminaries, which are already on a very good footing. The method of Pestalozzi is followed in some parts of Poland, but that of Lancaster seems better suited to the country; and the Emperor has already sent for, in order to establish him at Warsaw, one of the young Russians who have been studying this method in England at the expense of the government.

GERMANY.

Vienna, August 28.-Several days ago news was received here, that as the reigning Prince of Stahremberg, who has been for some time at Efferding, his principal estate, situate below Lintz on the Danube, was standing in a balcony of his castle, which was under repair, and not completely finished, it gave way; besides many bruises, his legs were broken in several places.

It is said that a captain and an inkeeper

have just discovered another gold mine. It is near Brunnow in Moravia, on an estate belonging to Count D'Illeshazy. Report states it to be the richest mine that has hitherto been discovered.

The Ex-King of Rome is, it is now said, destined, when he becomes of age, to enter into holy orders, and to be appointed Archbishop Primate of Ratisbon, and ArchChancellor of the German empire. The reversion of his principality of Parma, it will be recollected, was lately settled upon the Ex-Queen of Etruria.

Frankfort (on the Oder), September 1.There have been successively published in Prussian Holland, ordinances of the greatest importance, relative to the commerce and agriculture of that kingdom. These ordinances tend, in particular, to afford a full and entire liberty for industry to develope itself. It is said also, that when the Em peror Alexander shall arrive at Warsaw to remain there several months, he intends to examine minutely every thing which may contribute to the amelioration of the Poles. The number of colonists has considerably augmented of late. Agriculture is becoming more and more flourishing.

HAMBURGH.

Gallant Exploit.-Hamburgh, August 14-A letter from the brave Captain Schaumann, of the Russian ship Industry, dated Lisbon, on the 17th ult. contains the following interesting details of the capture and recapture of his vessel :-" The Algerine pirate brig of 22 guns had hoisted the English flag: he summoned the captain, in good English, on the 3d of July, at noon, near Cape Finisterre, to come on board. The latter, not thinking it could be an Algerine cruiser, proceeded in his boat towards her; and it was only when he came very near that he saw the crew lying flat on the deck; all which he thought very strange. Having got on board, he exhibited his papers; but he was told they were of no use, unless he had a Turkish passport. His vessel and cargo were declared a fair prize; and eleven men, armed with muskets, pistols, and sabres, took possession of the ship, while five of her crew, including the pilot, two Russians, and the adopted son of the captain, were carried on board the pirate vessel. These persons are now in slavery. As soon as the pirates had taken the vessel and shut up the captain and remainder of the crew in the fore-hold, the hatch of which was guarded by one of them with a naked sabre, they steered for Algiers, and passed Oporto on the 4th of July. In the mean time, Captain Schaumann engaged his peo

ple to undertake, at the hazard of their lives, the recovery of their vessel. They accordingly forced their way up the hatchway on the 5th, and attacked the Turkish crew with the greatest intrepidity. After a battle, which lasted an hour, they succeeded in killing the whole eleven, and threw the bodies into the sea. In this unequal contest, Captain Schaumann was severely wounded on the head, in the back, and in the hand. His five sailors came off tolerably well. Scarcely had they congratulated each other on their victory, when another corsair hove in sight, but happily they escaped this new danger, and entered the harbour of Lisbon in safety on the 7th."

September 12.-Oluf Ocken, commanding the Hamburgh ship Leonora, who has made 40 voyages to Greenland, states, that he was this year on the coast of that country, at midnight, on the 4th of June, in latitude 79, and saw the estimated longitude of 2° 55′ W. from Greenwich. He observed the land farther to the N. and stretching from S. to N.E., there were two high mountains on it. The coast was nearly clear of ice, but a fog arising prevented his exploring it.

PRUSSIA.

Breslaw, August 26.-A part of the inhabitants here belonging to the first class of the landwehr, who were now to be enrolled in it, refused, from a mistaken view of the subject, to take the oath prescribed in the time appointed, and thus caused a delay in administering the oath to those who were willing to take it, which induced some of the ill-disposed to prevail on some of the willing to refuse the oath: a second time being appointed, the oath was taken by a small number, but refused by the greater part in consequence of these instigations; some who took the oath were even ill-treated by a number of those who refused the maintenance of the law of civil order; and the safety of the well-disposed made it necessary to remove those who had shown these evil dispositions, to prevent further mischievous effects. This circumstance was embraced by some hundred wretches on the morning of the 23d, to commit riotous excesses; though the tumult was soon quelled by the energetic measures of the military and civil authorities, the rioters, however, had time to commit excesses on several public edifices. Several of them have been arrested and delivered to the Supreme Council of Justice of the province, to be tried and punished. All the honest inhabitants have expressed their sense of the affair; the burgesses have pronounced, by the organ of their magistrates, and the city deputies as their representatives, their honourable sentiments, by declaring, "that they will immediately expel from among them (repaying the sum paid for the freedom of the city) all such as shall persist in refusing to obey the law respecting the landwehr."

The official notice respecting the arrest of Colonel Massenbach, stating that he had proposed to the Prussian Government to purchase MSS. for a large sum, threatening to publish them in case of refusal, gives the editor of our Gazette occasion to say, "that he has learned from authority, that Colonel Massenbach had entered into negotiations with a London bookseller for the sale of the manuscript in question, and that after the bookseller had offered him a considerable sum, he demanded the same sum of the Prussian Government." Whether Colonel Von Massenbach suffers innocently time will show. But he is unable to defend himself against the single accusation, that he offered to sell the suppression of certain MSS.; nothing can ever clear his name from this stain, and the list of upright, disinterested friends of their country, in whom our times were so rich, is poorer by one-" Vir integer vita scelerisque purus.”—Frankfort Gazette, Sept. 13.

SWITZERLAND.

Melting of the Snow on the Alps.-Those who sleep beneath the olive and the vine on the slope of Vesuvius or Etna, for a while may forget the furnaces that are boiling below; the calm of their delicious climate leads them to forget the past, and to think little of the future; but the period is fast coming round when their lovely dwellings are covered with the "blackness of darkness, and nothing is left them but despair." The interesting valleys that diverge from the Alps, after half a century has passed away, have been visited by misery in another shape. Although they daily see, as it were, destruction asleep upon their mountains, and they know not how soon he may be aroused, yet neither their traditions, nor the marks of former devastations, warn them to remove their dwellings from his fatal path; and the lapse of a few harmless seasons seems to render the glaciers as abiding as the granite on which they repose. The Tyrol and Switzerland have experienced, from a sudden increase of temperature, a calamity more dreadful than an eruption of fire. A warm south wind had continued to blow for three days (before the 27th ult.); the dismayed inhabitants witnessed the snows on their mountains vanishing; every succeeding morning they saw new signs of the coming desolation-spots of black in the hitherto perpetual white ;-strange rocks began to show their portentous visages, and throw their unknown shadows across the surrounding snow;-and new torrents, pouring down the green hollows of the mountains, startled the beholders, who thought, from their whiteness, the snow itself was descending.

In the Tyrol, the Inn and the Lyll suddenly rose higher than in 1769, sweeping away bridges, trees, and houses, in their

course.

It is asserted, in accounts from Lausanne,

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