1824] 
sent the female world with a little 
work, entitled “ Domestic Duties,” con- 
veying instructions to young married 
ladies on the management of their 
household, and the regulation of their 
conduct in the various relations and 
duties of married life. 
Lasting Impressions, a novel, is in the 
press. 
FRANCE. 
Intellectual exertions, says the-Revue 
Encyclopédique, are at present happily 
directed to the great moral object of 
abolishing negro slavery.. What causes 
really exist for complaint, as to such a 
general conspiracy against one neglected 
race of human nature, are thus repre- 
sented by M. Coquerel. 
“In the English Colonies, more than 
800,000 negroes are the absolute property 
of their masters, too often brutal tyrants 
and unfeeling monsters. - Numbers of them 
are marked on the shoulder with a red hot 
iron, and the sure but dreadful scourge is 
the instrument of government. They have 
no wages; andin the season of the crops, 
working is prolonged to a late hour in the 
night. . Sundays.have hours of intermission, 
but their labours are then employed, and 
their remaining strength exhausted in su- 
perintending a spot of ground, to lengthen 
out a life of unceasing wretchedness. The 
masters have a discretionary power of chas- 
tisement, though of late restrained to a cer- 
tain number of lashes at one time. Women, 
as well as men, suffer these tortures, in 
violation of modesty and humanity. Like 
other moveable goods, slaves may be seized 
and sold for the debts of the owner. No 
legal marriage can be contracted by slaves, 
and if the benign influence of love be per- 
mitted to cheer their souls, the ties of family 
and friendship are liable to be burst by the 
master’s sordid avarice. From their situa- 
tion in society, they can derive no advan- 
tage from personal character in courts of 
law. What generous soul does not revolt 
at such ideas, detest such villainous pro- 
cedure, too often seconded by unworthy 
magistrates? -An appeal to the feelings, 
this, enough to rouse the proud apathy of 
the cruelest white man that ever was per- 
mitted to fill up the cup of misery to the 
wretched! With some slight modifica- 
tions, the like offences and infamy, long 
unpunished by law, are fully established in 
the European colonies. From the Colo- 
nial Governments ameliorations are not 
to be looked for. This very circumstance, 
as it holds out no hopes for the future, 
renders the interposition of the parent 
State necessary. - Without: delay, a na- 
tional sum should be devoted to the pur- 
poses of redemption, if not on a large 
scale, and in a great style, yet of sufficient 
magnitude to push forward a gradual growth 
towards emancipation.” 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
‘The powers 
157 
M. D’Agincourt has recently pub- 
lished an history of arts, as existing in 
its monuments, from the fourth century 
to the sixteenth. Winckleman termi- 
nated his history of ancient art with the 
reign of Constantine. Vasari and other 
authors have written the lives of mo- 
dern artists, bringing them down till to- 
wards the middle of the thirteenth cen- 
tury. Some few others, investigating 
both the monuments and writings, have 
embraced in one general plan the va- 
rious forms of art, scattered among dif- 
ferent people, over the long zone of 
ages, from Constantine to St. Louis. 
Architecture, sculpture, painting, glass- 
work, jewellery, casting of metals, ta- 
pestry, carpeting, &¢., nothing has 
escaped their attention, through the 
whole space vacant between Winckle- 
man and Vasari. Inspite of what the most 
celebrated writers have circulated, it is 
certain that France, Italy, Germany, and 
Greece, have, without intermission, pro- 
duced very great works of all kinds. 
Modern observers remark, what many 
have not seen before, that-in the 9th, 
10th, and 11th centuries, churches, 
cloisters, palaces, were decorated with 
paintings and sculptures, in a manner 
numberless, and often colossal. It is 
but just towards the ancients of those 
times to say, that they ingenuously 
praised their cotemporaries who pro- 
ceeded in this career, of men of genuine 
merit. Such as were reckoned deserv- 
ing poets did not experience ingratitude. 
Some ancient rules were even then ob- 
served and taught in the schools. This 
claim to a due tribute of honour has 
been advanced by Muratori, Heyne, 
Florillo, and now by M. D’Agincourt. 
of this last have been 
employed in a field of information not 
less extensive. Waving the lives of the 
artists, and the written proofs of their 
works, his contemplation has been fixed 
on the mcnuments themselves. His ob- 
ject is to impress them still more for- 
cibly by engravings of all most interest- 
ing in every age. The author has de- 
voted thirty years of his life, and part of 
a large fortune, to this undertaking. 
M. Amoros has instituted at Paris 
a Normal Gymnasium, the objects of 
which comprehend bodily exercises dif- 
ficult of execution, but likely to be of 
use in war. Besides a number of young 
pupils, detachments of different regi- 
ments have been successfully practising. 
his methods before the generals and su- 
perior officers of the guards. He forms 
them 
