phulous Affections, Marsh Remittent Fever, &c. It contains a successful mode of treatment, experienced in the author's own person. A work on Vaccination, entitled The Vaccine Contest, for the use of unprofessional readers; by Mr. Blair. A volume of Miscellaneous Poetical Translations, and a Latin Prize Essay; by the Rev. Francis Howes. it will be comprised in 300 plates, con'taining such as have been already described, as well as those which will meet the public eye for the first time in this work. M. Perrin Dulac has published an Account of a Journey, made by him in 1801, 1803, in Louisiana, and among the Indian Nations on the Missouri, through the United States and neighbouring Dis Rev. Mr. Tooke's Translation of Zol- tricts. It contains an account of the likoffer's Sermons on Education. A second volume of Sermons, by the Rev. Mr. Cooper, of Hamstall Ridware. Mr. Preston's work, on the Practice of Conveyancing. An Almanac of Health; by Dr. Beddoes. A Treatise on Trigonometry; by Mr. Bonnycastle. A Letter, addressed to the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church o England, en Mr. Joseph Lancaster's Plan for the Education of the Lower Orders of the Community. FRANCE. M. A. M. F. J. Palisot de Beauvois, Corresponding Member of the National Institute, has commenced an elaborate work on the Entomology of Africa and America,consisting of Insects collected in the Kingdoms of Oware and Benin; in St. Domingo, and in the United States, from 1786 to 1797. The first number contains six plates, with descriptive letter-press, printed in the first stile of typographic elegance. The author, after noticing the imperfect knowledge presented by the earlier naturalists on this subject, and their total neglect of system, proceeds to enumerate the advantages which science and the arts derive from this study, such as are relative to the silkworm, bee, cantharides, and others: he notices their astonishing changes, their wonderful organization; the beauty, brilliancy, and variety of those colours, with which many are adorned. He then enters into an historical detail of the different classification adopted by the learned, beginning with Linnæus, and noticing Geoffrey, Fabricius, Sabreille, and Olivier he points out the imperfections of -each different arrangement, but avers, that the present state of our information does not afford us any promise of a satisfactory system. The present number contains the Coleopteres, Hemipteres, Orthopteres, Neuropteres, and Lepidopteres. M. C. A. Walkenaer, author of several scientific works, has published the first number of a Natural History of Spiders: manners, characters, customs, religious and civil, of the inhabitants of the districts visited by M. D. It is embellished by a print of the Manimoth, which is in the Museum at Philadelphia, and a correct chart of the Missouri. J. H. Becanys-Ferrand, General of Division, has published a detailed Account of the Siege of Valenciennes in 1793, It is curious and interesting, particularly to military men. Mr. C. L. Gillot, Captain of Engineers in the French service, obtained a prize which had been proposed by the Minister at War, for the best work on Fortification; he has published this Essay under the title of A Treatise on Subterraneous Fortification, or on Offensive and Defensive Mines. It includes both theory and practice, and is illustrated by 16 plates. 1 vol. 4to. M.M. Gamportz and Lebrun, Officers of the Corps of Miners, have published a Practical and Theoretical Treatise on Mines, 1 vol. 4to. 15 plates. "M. Camelly de Stukenfield, Colonel in the French army, has published a volume, entitled, Military Memoirs of the Last War between France and England. It commences with a Dissertation on Field Fortification. Guibert, author of the celebrated. Essay on Tactics, which deservedly excited so much attention at the period of its publication, wrote also a Tour in Germany, containing an excellent Memoir on the Military Frontier of the Austrian Dom!nions, some curious Observations on the Prussian Tactics, and interesting Anecdotes of Joseph II. and Frederic II. This was published after his death, and now another posthumous work of the same author has been presented to the literary world: it is entitled Travels in different Parts of France and Switzer land, in 1775, 1778, 1784, and 1785. It is published by his widow, and is well calculated to maintain the reputation of of its author. It contains accurate stric tures on the men and manners of the times, to which it relates. Messrs. Treuttell and Wurtz, Booksellers sellers at Paris, have paid great attention, for some time, to a collection of Memoirs and other Documents, relating to Louis XIV. and his Reign, which had been in the possession of the Mareschal Noailles: the Mareschal placed them in the Bibliotheque du Roi. This MS, they had in their possession, but believing the many other MSS. by Louis XIV. or relating to him, were in existence, they sought after them unremittingly, and have, in a very great degree, succeeded. This work, partly original, partly compiled, will form 3 large vols. 8vo. Its title, Historical Memoirs and Instructions of Louis XIV. for the Dan phin, his Son, Agenda, Political Notes, Letters to Individuals, and Poetry, by the same Monarch, with a collection of interesting Pieces, and others, but little known, with an Account of his Person and Reign. It will be published without delay. Madame Lavoisier has collected into two volumes, under the title of Memoirs of Chemistry, all that is left of a work, which her husband was printing, when France and the Sciences had the misfortune to lose him. Art. XXIV. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. We hope that no writer will take exception at the omission of his work in the following list, as information respecting it may not have reached us :— the insertion of any work should not be considered as a sanction of it; the list consisting of articles, which we have not examined. ANTIQUITIES. 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An (A) Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti, comprehending a view of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo, with its Ancient and Modern State. By Marcus Rainsford, Esquire, late Captain, Third West-India Regiment, &c. 4to. pp. 467. Price 21. 2s. Chapple, Pall-Mall, 1805. THE great events and desolating wars which have arisen out of the French Revolution, will be contemplated with wonder by succeeding ages; and, while they interest curiosity, will, almost stagger belief. The abolition of Royalty; the ruin of a numerous Nobility; the torrents of blood spilt by contending factions; the abrogation of Christianity; the enthusiastic rage. for the establishment of a fanciful and impracticable equality; the rapid and endless round of new constitutions; and, lastly, a stern and severe military despotism-all these objects, in their causes and consequences, will be calmly reviewed, and the evils they have occasioned will be fairly weighed against the good they have produced. Posterity will be better able than we can be, to decide on this important question. The happiness of mankind, upon the whole, has not yet received any increase from the French Revolution; nor, with the views of its present rulers, do we think it likely to be very soon augmented. But while we deplore the mischiefs which no human sagacity seems equal to prevent, we are confident that good may ultimately issue from this mass of evil. That All-powerful hand, which presides in political, as well as in physical convulsions, can, when it pleases, calm the waves on this turbulent ocean of conflicting passions, and bid them communicate prosperity, while they repose in peace. Amidst the astonishment excited by such tragical scenes, a new object strikes the sight, unparallelled in the annals of history, big with terror to the inhabitants of the Antilles, and the subject of just alarm to those countries of Europe, that are interested in their fate. A fertile Island in the centre of their sugar colonies, furnished with excellent harbours, and peopled by above half a million of blacks inured to arms, is suddenly become a free and independent state. Jamaica, situated at a VOL. II.. Dd small |