portion of mankind peculiarly depends, cannot be questioned. Though they to be established in every great town; and the more minute and specific they are, the more fully do they answer their purpose-but that which increases their local value diminishes their general importance. In the present well-conceived and not ill-executed attempt to ascertain all the moral and natural causes which affect the health of the inhabitants of Paris, we find nothing to extract that appears very interesting to an English reader. The whole work, indeed, might be usefully consulted as a guide to any person who should engage in siniilar researches at the place of his own residence. It is divided into two parts; the first of which treats on the situation, soil, air, seasons, food, water, mode of living, and clothing, of Paris; the second, of its hospitals alone. ART. XXXIII. Révolution du 18 Fructidor; &c. i. e. The Revolution of the 4th September 1797: with a Detail of preceding and subsequent Events. By an Eye-witness. 8vo. PP. 27. IS. Dulau and Co. London. THI HIS narrative rather describes the outside phænomena than the inside springs of the recent revolution in France. The Directory, who ought to be passive instruments for executing the will of the majority of the representatives of the people, are themselves become the supreme authority. They cashier without forbearance, and banish without trial, those members of the legislature who express a wholesome jealousy of their authority; and they seem likely, under the pretext of endless conspiracies, to invade the only remaining fortress of freedom, to prolong beyond its legal term the power of their partisans, and to declare their parliament perpetual. It must be acknowleged, however, that this change has been occasioned by an absurdity of profligacy in the opposite party, which has rarely been equalled. P. 15. Confidence of victory was equal on both sides. All Paris, convinced that public opinion leaned towards the Councils, expected their success. Still, accounts were brought to different members of the precautions and projects of the Directory, which deterred several from sleeping at their own houses :-but they met in the house of legislation with confidence, from an idea that the inspectors of the hall, who superintend the police of its purlieus, would there be able to protect them from arrest. It was here resolved in a private committee, at which the Generals Pichegru and Willot assisted, to attack the triumvirs. Pastoret was ordered to draw up the act of accusation:-the division in the Directory, of which two members sided with the Councils, gave boldness to the assailants; and Thursday, 31st August, was fixed for voting the impeachment: -but the edifice gave way, when the breach was to be mounted. Trouçon du Coudray and Thibaudeau suggested a remark that the whole basis of accusation rested on the supposed unconstitutional arrival of troops, whereas there were no troops in Paris; so that it would be proper to dispatch members, in different directions, to inquire whether troops were really advancing, and to endeavour at adducing some evidence of their having passed the constitutional boundary. The advice was followed: but the delay was fatal. The secret got wind, and the Directory at once determined on the critical measures.' It would have been much better if the French Directory had consisted of three persons only; and if a new one had been nominated by the Council of Five Hundred immediately after the arrival of each fresh bevy of deputies. By these means, the Directorial majority must ever have coincided with the majority of the representative body. Pentarchies, we have experienced it in Hindostan, are the most inconvenient of sovereignties. ART. XXXIV. Des Emigrés Français, &c. i. e. On the French Emigrants, in reply to M. de Lally-Tollendal. By J. J. LEULIETE. 12mo. pp. 170. Hamburgh. 1797. Imported by De Boffe, London. OF F the original work of M. de Lally-Tollendal, we gave a sufficient account in our last Appendix, p. 508 Were we not inclined to favour the impression of his arguments, and of his rhetoric, we should attribute some weight to the reasons here adduced, and some value to the skill here displayed, in opposition to the validity of his humane suggestions:-but we lament to see a young and an eloquent man engaged in the ungenerous task of defending persevering animosity, and political intolerance. ART. XXXV. Nouveau Voyage autour de ma Chambre. New Travels round my Room. 12mo. Brunswick. 1797Imported by Dulau and Co. London. THE pp. 200. HE Voyage autour de ma Chambre of the Chevalier Ximenes, printed at Turin 1794, is well known in the world of polite literature, for the novelty, vivacity, and urbanity, which grace the composition. This imitation is of a very inferior stamp: equally desultory, but with less ingenuity; as full of reflections, but far less piquant; as trifling, but not so witty. Our new loco-motive animal fabricates the same form of shell, but knows not how to line it with pearl. 7 INDEX To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the A AGRIPPA, Henry Cornelius, some account of, and of his works, 509. Annales de Chimit revived, 501. Review considered as the Odyssey of Arabia,45. B Bailly, M. his address to his fellow- Banks, Sir Joseph, his description of a Benjoin, Mr. specimen of his new trans- Berkeley, his philosophy characterised Bianca Capello, an extraordinary charac- Born, Baron, curious account of, 173. Bouille, Marquis de, his account of his Brain, accidental injuries of, chirurgical observations on, 47. Bread excellent, made without yeast, in and using the ferment, ib. Great Bulkley, Rev. Charles, his respectable Buonaparte, ། Buonaparte, grand festival in honour of his capture of Milan, 579. Bürger, G. A. his death lamented, 516. Burgbley House, some descriptive sketches of, 235. Burns and scalds, Dr. Kentish's system relative to, 324. Remarkable case, 325. Butchers, in some foreign countries, their merciful manner of slaughtering cattle, 3, 4 с Canadian Scenery, poetically displayed, 210. Carter, Mr. his account of sepulchral monuments discovered in a field in Lincolnshire, 301. Çarye, Sir G, his life, written by himself, 392. Catharine, Empress of Russia, her ambitious and tyrannical government, 433, the note. Poetic invective against her, 459. Some good traits in her character, 536. Her misunderstanding with her son Paul Petrovitch, and fondness for bis son Constantine, 537. She ascends the throne on the sudden death of her husband, 540. Her extraordinary character, 547. Rules her empire by her paramours, ib. Her manner of ruling ber favorites, ib. Mode of chusing and initiating them, ib. Manner of dismissing her fa vorites when they ceased to please, 548. Lists of her successive favorites; with an account of their immense pecuniary gratifications, 549. Catullus, specimens of a new translation of, 275 Chapman, his translation of Homer, not destitute of merit, 428. His phrases, epithets, and rhymes, frequently adopted by Pope, ib. Chaptal, M. his process for making wool soap, 501. On the juices of certain vegetables, and on the circulation of carbone in vegetables, 504, Ол alum, 506. Charles 1. of England, a modern tragedy dedicated to, 53. Chedder Cliffs, 310-31T. China, Sir George Staunton's account of Lord Macartney's embassy to, 69. Arrival at Ten-choo-foo, and welcome reception from the Chinese, ib. Sketch of the country in the journey to Pekin, 122. No marks of vagrant beggary, 123. No state religion in China, ib. Pekin described, 126. Chrysolorus, Manuel, some account of, 508. Clubbe, Mr, his translations from Ho. race, 216. Coquetry, severely but justly censured, 364. Cornwall, mines of tin there, and of silver, 307-309. Remarks on the Cornish language, ib. Its affinity with the Welsh, 110. CORRESPONDENCE with the Reviewers, Clericus Bedfordensis, on the Greek middle verb, 120. Rusticus, on the projected Oxford edition of Strabo, ib. Cestriensis, on the "Anecdotes of the House of Bedford," ib. Goldsmith de.fended, in regard to his Ballad of 240 Edwin and Angelina,' 239. Milton not the first English writer of sonnets, A. B. in defence of Dr. Adam · Smith, on the Wealth of Nations, 360 Mr. Douce, respecting the Re viewer's account of his papers in the Archeologia, 479. Mr. Scott, on his answer to Paine's Age of Reason, 480. Cowper, Mr. his translation of Homer critically appreciated, 429. Cricklade, the famous election for that borough, in 1982, produces a happy instance of Parliamentary Reform, 385. Groonian Lectures, in which the morbid actions of the strait muscles and cornea of the eye are explained, &c. 3'3. Cruikshank, Mr. his experiments rela tive to animal impregnation, 3150 316. Denne, Mr. remarks on the whimsical D'Israeli, Mr. his miscellanies com- on Prefaces, ib. His sensible disqui- Divine, Christian, poetic eulogium on Donald Bane, an heroic poem, extract times, certain ornamental parts of de- Dropsy of the spine, observations re- Dyer, Mr. his free-mason's song, 473. E Earth, theory of, according to M. de la Education, female, plan of an academy for, recommended by Dr. Darwin, 13. Edwards, Bryan, Esq. epigram by, Electricity, animal, experiments relative Encyclopedists, song on, 496. F Fairies, dialogues of, in verse, 461. Family histories, from the German, 565. Fell, Rev. Mr. his excellent character, . previous to the revolution, 256, Se- G Gardens, near London, account of those Gay, John, characterized as a poet, 86. Gibson, Mr. his account of the most noted gardens near London, at the Gratitude, concisely defined, 426. 574. Greeks, antient, deficient in the science Gretry, M. his parentage and education, Haighten |