78 An Account of the 



4. The two kings grant a freedom of trade reciprocally to the 

 people of both nations. 



*^ Peace being thus eftabliflied, the two kings behaved very 

 friendly towards each other, fmoked tobacco together, con- 

 verfing on indifferent rubje6ls, and thought no more of the 

 unfortunate wretches who during this campaign had been 

 taken prifoners, and, of courfe, fent into flavery ; they re- 

 maining in the power of thofe by whom they had been cap- 

 tured. This war had coft on either fide about a thoufand 

 men, feveral villages and towns being laid wafte, and fomc 

 thoufands of inhabitants deprived of their habitations and 

 property. On the 20th of Auguft the treaty was ratified, and 

 •n the 28th we returned to the king in the capital. 



[To be continued.] 



IX. An Account of the Lfe and Writings of La v o I s I e r . 

 jB>' Jerome Lalande. 



Xanthony Laurence Lavoisier was born at Pari* 

 ©n the 26th of Auguft 1743, and enjoyed the advantage of a 

 good education, on which his father, a man of property, be- 

 Itowed great care. In the year 1764, the French government 

 having propofed as the fubjecSl of a prize of aooo livres the 

 beft method of lighting the fi;reets, the prize was divided 

 among three artifts who had made experiments on the fub- 

 je6i ; but Lavoifier, who had examined it as a philofopher 

 and man of letters, was rewarded in a different msfnner. The 

 paper which he wrote in anfwer to this queflion was publifiied 

 at the expence of tlie Academy of Sciences, and the King 

 caufed a gold medal to be prefented to him by the prefident 

 in a public fitting of the academy held on the 9th of April 

 1766. This paper, wliich contained a great many excellent 

 mathematical and philofophical obfervations, announced the 

 author's entrance in the career of fcience in which he after- 

 wards continued to dittinguifli himfelf. 



On the 1 8th of May 1768, he was chofen a member of the 

 academy, in the room of Baron ; and about the fame period 

 he publifi:icd feveral treatifes in different periodical publica- 

 tions. 



