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them into classes, wherein many from 
different regiments perform evolutions 
altogether different, without hurting one 
another, and without confusion. <A brief 
extract will not afford a proper specimen 
of his manner, which imcludes falling 
into considerable depths without harm, 
by bending the lower extremities, and 
by a rebound; others, with ease and ra- 
pidity, pass inclined planes, ascending or 
descending, or climb, with the help of 
cords, ladders, poles of varying size and 
length. Others are exercised in feats of 
leaping, either on horse-back or a-foot, 
springing up on the saddle, crupper, or 
neck, or clearing the whole length of a 
wooden horse, &c. The class of aspi- 
rants ascend and descend an octagon 
pavilion four stories high, by means of 
instruments, a trapezium, a machine, &c., 
invented by M. Amoros. Some walk 
over tottering or trembling planks, reco- 
vering their equilibrium in case of slid- 
ing or falling. One pupil is exhibited 
walking several hundred feet suspended 
only by the arms. The Marshall Duke 
of Ragusa, who has served in the artil- 
lery, with many other officers, have 
avowed and clearly established the uti- 
lity of these inventions by ocular proofs 
and evidence. 
The conductors of the Revue Ency- 
clopédique propose to give prizes, at the 
end of every five years, for the best brief 
analysis of the works of science and 
literature during the said period. 
. Some recent instances indicate that 
the vaccine matter may be advantage- 
ously employed in other cases than the 
small-pox. M, Lassére, a physician of 
Domme, in Burgundy, visiting a child 
four years of age, whom his parents 
would not suffer to be inoculated, ob- 
served a swelling on the first phalanx of 
the child’s right hand middle finger. 
By his suggestion, the mother allowed 
the swelling to be vaccinated, as an ex- 
periment to bring it down. Two vacci- 
nal pustules appeared; and soon after, 
the inflammation subsided, and the 
volume of the finger-bone very sensibly 
lessened, so that in three weeks time, 
the finger had recovered its natural 
form, and the cure proved effectual. 
This complaint bears the name of Spina 
Ventosa; of the sort to which lymph- 
atic children are subject. It spread 
over the whole phalanx, but without 
reaching the articular extremities. En- 
couraged by this success, the physician 
tried the vaccine matter ona girl four- 
teen years of age, that had four scro- 
phulous swellings in her neck, for which 
a number of antiscorbutics had been 
Literary and. Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
(Serr. 1, 
used, but without success. Ten punc- 
tures of the vaccine were applied to one 
inch of the swellings; eight pimples 
soon appeared, and the tumours exhi- 
bited the characters of a sanguinary 
inflammation. By the repeated use of 
leeches, occasional purgatives, and an 
appropriate regimen, every symptom of 
the scrophula gradually disappeared. 
The desolate situation of prisoners in 
France, previous to trial, is such as 
humanity cannot help lamenting.- Com- 
plaints are made that their treatment is, 
in some respects, more severe than 
under the ancient regimen; being mo- 
delled by the laws and decrees of Napo- 
leon. Correctional offences are con- 
sidered as crimes, and faults that small 
fines would duly punish, through the de- 
fects of the law and misbehaviour of 
the judges, are visited with imprison- 
ment, prolonged too much by far. To 
extort confession, the term of confine- 
ment is often extended to five years. 
The same, previous to trial, is, some- 
times, more than a year; and, in. gene- 
ral, for several months. The vote of 
one judge that accuses, is more valid 
than those of all the others, No direct 
regular responsibility attaches to minis- 
terial agents that exercise the right of 
attestation, and this right is exerted, by 
a greater number of public function- 
naries than formerly. There is no dis- 
tinction of treatment, in prison, be- 
tween persons innocent and culpable. 
These remarks, by one of the most cele- 
brated French writers, Count Lanjui- 
nais, of the Institute, are not so pecu- 
liarly applicable to the French Police, 
but that, in their general character, they 
affect the legal regimen of another na- 
tion and people, justly accounted the 
most enlightened in Europe. 
In a French translation of Lucretius 
recently published, various fragments 
have been inserted, from a Discourse 
on Nature, by an ancient Greek philo- 
sopher, and discovered at Herculaneum. 
There are plates, which represent many 
of the fragments. The Greek writer’s 
name was Chrysippus, a classical author, 
sufficiently known in his day for initiat~ 
ing youth in philosophical. instruction. 
His literary productions were of that 
elevated rank, that they were generally 
considered as masterpieces, so as to 
impress even Cicero and Horace with 
admiration of his character and senti- 
ments. | ie 
Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore ea 
or. 
Te jam annum audientem Chrysippum.—Cicero to 
his son, tn the introduction to his Book of Offices. 
There 
