revived. At twelve o'clock a fresh concussion was experienced: and at a quarter past eleven the next morning a fourth, which was also preceded by the same deep and solemn rumbling. Before seven o'clock on the morning of the 25th, a fresh phenomen presented itself: a parhelion was distinctly observed north of the rising sun; but the earliness of its appearance prevent ed its being generally noticed, and added to the terrors of the people. The shocks were felt throughout all Provence, where no earthquake had been experienced for eleven years.

Letters from the Tyrol announce that the Glacier of Ortler in the vicinity of Chiavenha has increased this winter in a most extraordinary manner, notwithstanding the general mildness of the season. From the depths of the ice, incessant and tremendous roarings are heard. The Suldenbach stream, which formerly issued from this glacier, has been dried up ever since Michaelmas 1817, and great apprehensions are entertained for the neighbouring countries, should the heats of suminer re-open a passage to the waters which seem to have collected within the bosom of this immense mass of ice. Similar phenomena have been observed in the glacier of the valley of Naudersberg.

On Saturday the 7th of March, a waterspout burst at Stenbury, near Whitewell, in the Isle of Wight, which did considerable injury. It was preceded by a violently agitated atmosphere, the noise of which, for half an hour, resembled a roar the most dismal and appalling. When the cloud poured forth its contents, it seemed to the inhabitants of Stenbury farm as though the flood gates of the sea had broken, and their destruction was inevitable; the water rolled down the hill in such irresistible torrents, that it beat down a lofty wall, flooded all the lower apartments of the farm, and set the cattle loose among the streams-the affrighted inhabitants seeking shelter, with their children, in the upper rooms. The terror and painful feelings are indescribable.

COFFEE.

A new enemy of coffee has recently ap peared on the medical horizon. Doctor Michel Petoez, of Presburgh, has fulminated a large and erudite volume against the perfumed bean of Arabia.

Fontenelle's bon-mot respecting coffee is well known: and since his time much has been written both for and against a bever age, which some prescribe as salutary, and others declare to be the most pernicious that can possibly exist.

Dr. Petoez maintains his opinion with a degree of confidence which reminds us of the paradox of the advocate Linguet, who attempted to prove, with Hippocrates in his hand, that bread was neither more nor less than slow poison. He likewise bears some 4ittle resemblance to Dr. Hufeland, who, in

his Macrobialic, or the Art of living to an advanced age, declaims against the use of cheese, of which he himself eat a prodigious quantity every day of his life.

We may quote from the Austrian Chronicle, a short specimen of the declamation of this new enemy to coffee.

The series of disorders which ordinarily result from poison, become manifest, he says, sooner or later, in those individuals who accustom themselves to drinking coffee: vapours, palpitation of the heart, insomnium, hemorrhoides, hemoptysis, shivering fits, vertigo, and asthenia, are always observable in coffee-drinkers. An infinite list of chronic disorders, such as obstructions, carcinoma, gout, consumption, &c. prove how greatly the use of coffee tends to vitiate the humours in the human body.

According to Dr. Petoez, it is so evident that these diorders are all occasioned by coffee, that should a physician wish to caiculate the degree of duty he may have to perform among his patients, he must first ascertain whether they make a practice of drinking coffee; if so, he may be sure that his visits to them will be tolerably frequent.

Why does the plague prove so fatal to the inhabitants of the Levant? Because they drink coffee. The scrupulous observers of the Koran, who abstain from wine, and deny themselves the use of any agreeable drink, and consequently coffee, never suffer from that distemper.

The Arabs are the greatest coffee-drinkers in the universe. Consequently Arabia, though formerly the birth-place of philosophers and celebrated physicians, is now in a state of the profoundest ignorance. The heating properties of coffee have paralyzed the intellectual faculties of the Arab, and withered the flowers of his genius. Finally, coffee is the source of every disorder, and were it not an incoutestible fact, that Pandora emptied her box before the use of coffee became known, the doctor would probably assert, that that charming mischief-maker needed only to have employed it as the means of producing all human

miseries.

All this is excellent, and surely no one will attempt to deny the following convincing reasoning!

"Were 1," says the Hungarian physician, "to instance an unfortunate being who grew old in the abuse of coffee, I should point to the bust of Voltaire. Would you wish to know how this poisonous beverage directed his ideas, by means of exalting his imagination? Read his works!!!"

In the kingdom of Naples, in the very centre of Græcia-Magna, there is an ItaloGreek college, in which upwards of a hundred young men of Epirus and Albania are instructed, chiefly gratis, in the Greek language and philosophy. There is in Naples a vast number of establishments for premoting Latin and Greek literature.

After we left Eriwan, the heat increased considerably, but the nights were insupportably cold, and occasioned every kind of sickness. On the 13th of May, we passed the celebrated river Araxes, which is now remarkable for nothing, except that, as they say, the plague never extends beyond it.

On the 15th we arrived at Meranda, where it is said that Noah's mother is buried. The good old lady, I fear, does not enjoy much rest in her grave, for there is a public school built upon it. On the 19th we arrived at Tauris, the residence of Abbas Mirza, Crown Prince of Persia. A mile from the town we were received by 1000 troops, besides artillery. It is well known that Persia, with the help of the English, has lately introduced regular troops. It is scarcely possible to refrain from laughing, on seeing the long-bearded awkward Persians, in half English costume, presenting arms, while "God save the king" is played. Some English officers followed our suite at a distance; among them was major Lindsey, a kind of war minister to Abbas Mirza. Fainting with the sultry heat, and suffocated by the dust, we arrived at Tauris, where the first minister had given up his house for our abode.

After the visits of ceremony, the Crown Prince gave a display of fire-works, in honour of the embassy, and also reviewed several thousand cavalry. One afternoon we drank tea in a newly-erected summerhouse, when he pointed out to us a small habitation, which projected into the garden, and disfigured it very much, but which the possessor would not sell on any terms, and Abbas Mirza would not take it from him by force. This indeed does him great honour. He is in general highly spoken of, for the good qualities both of his mind and heart, and it is to be hoped that he will one day make Persia happy.

Though we were allowed to walk freely about the city, yet the importunities of the beggars on one hand, and insults on the other, caused us to refrain from such indulgences. When, indeed, a fellow who had insulted us was taken, he was half beat to death; but this gave us no pleasure, and we therefore rather remained at home. We received from Teheran the unpleasant intelligence, that in consequence of the fast (of Ramasan), the Schach could not receive us till the expiration of two months; on the other hand, he would welcome us in Sultanie, which lies ten marches nearer to Tauris. As we longed for the fresh air, being, as it were, shut up in Tauris, Abbas Mirza offered us his own country house, for which we joyfully departed on the 26th, and took possession of our new habitation on the 28th.

Persia is altogether dreary and mountainous, and one rejoices like a child at seeing some green trees. It very seldom rains, but constant winds fill the air with clouds of dust. The villages and towns have a

melancholy appearance; the mode of building is miserable; the low houses are made of kneaded clay, and some chopped straw mixed up with the clay, that they may not fall to pieces in the first rain, or the wind blow away a whole village. After every rain, there is a general patching of houses throughout Persia. The country seat of Abbas Mirza is an exception, owing to its being built with the help of the English. The whole is very pretty, only the trees are yet small, and in this month the winds still too cold to inhabit it with pleasure. We however remained there till the 5th of June, and then went two marches farther, to the village of Sengilabat, where water fit for drinking, and shady trees, are found. Here, to our great joy, there arrived a convoy from Tiflis, which brought our own wine; for it is very difficult to get wine here, and yet it is indispensible, on account of the bad water. In Persia, a place which has good water, is famed far and wide.

The surrounding villages were soon cleared of provisions. We left Sengilabat on the 20th, made several short days journeys, and passed the town of Miana on the 24th, which is celebrated for its bugs, the bite of which proves mortal in a few hours, but is said not to affect the inhabitants. They only show themselves by night, are of an ash colour, quite flat, and have eight feet. They are not mentioned in any natural history. We have taken some of them with us in spirits. We quickly passed through this town of bugs, and did not stop till we reached a large and beautiful bridge, built by Schach Abbas, 5 wersts further.

The following day we passed over the Caplantic mountains, and enjoyed the beautiful prospects, among which I particularly remarked the Virgin's Castle, which was built by Artaxerxes, and is said to have received this name from a beautiful but haughty virgin, who was here imprisoned. Beyond the mountains we met with another handsome bridge over the river Kosilusan. Every thing worth seeing in respect to architecture, is from the time of Schach Abbas the Great. His successors have ruined much, but built nothing.

The country now became more desolate, the heat greater, and we thanked God when we arrived on the 30th in the town of Sangan, where Abdul Mirza, another son of the Schach's, governs. The people here seemed less shy than those in Tauris. We saw many women, though wrapt up in veils ; yet they knew how to throw them aside on occasion. But they would have done better to have let it alone, for then we should still have fancied them beautiful: we thought their large black eyes handsome, although they have more of a savage than a feeling expression. Their dress, especially their pantaloons, spoils their figure. Our habitation was close to that of the prince, whose women appeared every evening on a tower, to hear our evening music; but the tower was

so high, that we could see nothing but painted eye-brows.

On the 5th of July, we left Sangan, and encamped five miles further on, near the ruins of a village, where we had good water, and cool breezes. We were now ten wersts distant from Sultanie, and the ambassador determined to wait here for the Schach. The second minister came to compliment us. During our stay here, I took a ride to Sultanie, and found the palace miserable, the neighbourhood dreary and desolate, but covered with most magnificent ruins, such as are no where else to be found, except at Persepolis. I have myself counted the trees round the country seat: there are no more than fifteen.

On the 19th of July, the Schach came with 10,000 men, and two Englishmen, (Wilok and Campbell.) On the 26th we repaired to a great camp, half a werst from the palace. On the 31st we had the first audience, when the ambassador received an honour, which it is said was never before conferred in Persia, namely, a chair was placed for him, and we all appeared in boots. [Here the writer gives an account of the audience, in substance the same as that which has already appeared in the newspapers.]

The scene was in a great tent at the bottom of the mountain on which the palace stands: round about was an open space surrounded with curtains, on which were painted some thousand of Persian soldiers. From hence to the tent stood the persons of distinction, in two rows, broiled by a sun in 28° of heat. At the entrance of the tent stood a long-bearded fellow,with a thick silver staff. The form of the throne resembles our old arm chairs. At the right side of the Schach stood one of his sons, a child, by whose appearance it might be judged that his elegant dress was too heavy for him. Seventeen older sons had nothing particutar in their physiognomy.

When the ambassador was personally presented to the Schach, he paid us all the compliment of saying, that we were now as good as in his service, as eternal friendship was made with our monarch. To young count Samoiloff, he said, he was a handsome boy; and to our doctor, that he should now be his doctor. He always spoke in the third person; and to me he said, when he heard that I had sailed round the world, The Schach congratulates you, now you have seen every thing." He then mentioned, that as our emperor was a friend to travelling, he should expect him in Persia. "I will even go and meet him!" cried he repeatedly, very loud.

Among the presents, a large toilet glass pleased him so much, that he said, "If any body was to offer the Schach his choice beveen 500,000 (most likely pieces of gold,) d this looking-glass, he would choose the

A great saloon is to be built at Teheran, purposely for this glass, and the first who brings the welcome news of its safe arrival is to have a reward of 1000 Tuman, (2500 ducats.) But on the contrary, who ever breaks any of the presents, is to have his ears cut off. It is not yet settled when we shall return home. The Schach goes daily a hunting, and very often sends us game, which he has shot with his own royal hand. We made the whole journey on horseback, and have suffered very much from the heat. I endured the most from the astronomical watches, which I have in my care, and which will absolutely not bear the horse to go more than a walking pace.

THE GREEK CHURCH.

Although the following extract may not convey any novelty to a number of our readers, yet as it embraces, within a short compass, information of an useful kind for others, less conversant with such matters, we take the liberty of quoting, from the Bishop of Landaff's work, an account of the chief tenets of the Greek Church. It is contained in a letter to an English lady, whose conscience was tender, whatever her heart might be, on receiving a proposition of marriage from a Russian prince.

"The Russian Greck Church does not use in its public service what is commonly called the Apostles' Creed; nor what is improperly called the Athanasian Creed; but simply that which we use in our communion service, which is usually denominated the Nicene Creed; though it is not, in every point, precisely that which was composed at the Council of Nice, in Bithynia, in the year 325. I do not presume to blame the Russian Church for the exclusive use of the Nicene Creed in its public service, espe cially as it does not prohibit the private use of the other two. Nor do I blame it for differing from the Romish Church in one article of this creed, respecting the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father alone; though all the reformed churches agree with the Church of Rome in maintaining the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son, notwithstanding its being well known that the words-And the Son, were only added by a pope in the tenth century, without the authority of a council. The doctrine may be true; but not being a part of what was established at the Council of Nice, it is not admitted by the Greek Church.

"The Russian Church differs from the Romish Church, in not acknowledging a purgatory; in not denying the sacramental cup to the laity; in allowing their priests to marry; in explaining transubstantiation in a mystical manner; in not invocating saints

* The decision of the same Council, in regard to the reckoning of time, is also still adhered to in Russia, which has not adopted ever the Gregorian approximation to accuracy.

and the Virgin Mary as mediators; acknowledging Jesus Christ as the only mediator; and in many other points. In these, and in other particulars, the Greek Church seems to have a leaning to the principles of protestantism rather than of popery."

On these grounds the Bishop sees no impediment to the marriage.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.

In a German Journal, called the Miscel Lanies from the newest productions of Foreign Literature, we find the following remarkable but not improbable account. "A merchant not only heard the name of Bonaparte in the deserts of Tartary, but also saw a biography of this tyrant in the Arabic tongue, which contained a great many falsehoods and exaggerations, and ended with his marriage in the year 1810. This biography was printed in Paris, and thence it was sent to Aleppo, to be circulated in the East. It may be presumed, that this was not done merely to spread the glory of the hero, but most probably to prepare the way for some great undertaking."

FRENCH TRANSLATION.

The French translator of Franklin's Cor respondence, has made a true French blunder. Franklin somewhere says: "People imagined that an American was a kind of Yahoo." Upon this the translator makes the following note: "Yahoo. It must be an animal. It is affirmed that it is the Opossum; but I have not been able to find the word Yahoo in any dictionary of Natural History"!!!-This reminds us of an anecdote also founded on one of Swift's admirable works. A gentleman saw a person poring over an atlas, and seemingly disconcerted by some want of success. "Can't you find what you want," said he, "or can I assist you?" "I don't know (was the reply) for I have been looking two hours through all latitudes and longitudes, and cannot discover this cursed Lilliput any where"¡!

GERMAN LITERATURE.

Several officers of the Prussian general staff have begun to publish an interesting

military Journal, in the first number of which there is a day-book of General Lanriston, which was found on the field of battle of the Katzebach, with several other papers. Though it is only a fragment, the rain having destroyed several leaves, it is still perfect enough to lead to some interesting observations.

The accounts of count Schulenberg, of his campaign in Poland and Saxony, in the years 1703-1706, acquire a particular literary value, from several inedited letters of Voltaire. Among other things, he writes to the count, "Have you never thought, marshal, 'how detestable, though it may be necessary, your profession is? I have been assured, for example, that general Renschild, after the battle of Fraustadt, had from 12 to 1800 Russians massacred in cold blood, who six hours after the battle begged for quarter on their knees. The historian Adlerfeld affirms, that there were only 600, and that they were killed immediately after the action. From you I expect to hear the truth, which is as dear to me as your glory." But Schulenberg did not answer.

There is at present published in the French language, at St. Petersburg, a periodical work entitled, Les Ephemerides Russes, Politiques et Literaires, by M. Spada. M. Pau! Swinni edits Le Description de Petersbourg, et de ses Environs, in Russian and French. There is, besides, another periodical French work published in that capital, entitled La Lanterne Magique.

Italy has lost her most celebrated professor of agriculture and botany, count M. Filipo Re, who died lately at Modena. Among the vast number of works which he has be queathed to posterity, we may distinguish his Elementi di Agricoltura, the only Italian production in which the most solid principles of chemistry are applied methodically and clearly to practical agriculture.

A continental journal states, that a fisherman of Philisberg, has found in the Rhine, the fore-foot and shoulder-blade of a mammoth, which have been deposited in the Cabinet of Nat. Hist. at Carlsruhe.

Report of Diseases treated at the Public Dispensary, New-York, during the month of April, 1818.

ACUTE DISEASES.

FEBRIS Intermittens, (Intermittent Fever,) 2; Febris Remittens, (Remittent Fever,) 7; Febris Continua, (Continued Fever,) 9; Febris Infantum Remittens, (Infantile Remittent Fever,) 4; Phlegmone, 2; Ophthalmia, (Inflammation of the Eyes,) 5; Otitis, (Inflammation of the Ear,) 1; Cynanche Ton

sillaris, (Inflammation of the Tonsils) 3; Cy. nanche Trachealis, (Hives or Croup,) 2; Catarrhus, (Catarrh,) 5; Bronchitis, (Inflammation of the Bronchiæ,) 4; Pneumonia, (Inflammation of the Chest,) 32; Pneumonia Typhodes, (Typhoid Pneumony,) 4; Pertussis, (Hooping Cough,) 2; Gastritis, (Inflammation of the Stomach,) 1; Enteritis, (Inflammation of the Intestines,) 2; Hepatitis, (Inflammation of the Liver,) 2; Rheumatismus, (Rheumatism,) 3; Hæmoptysis, (Spit