1826.] 
and a stop was put, by an act of authority, 
to any further experiments of the kind, 
except under the express sanction of the 
College of Physicians. 
We hear of no more transfusions, after 
this, for a century; nor indeed till the 
question was taken up in our own times by 
Dr. Blundell, who instituted a series of 
experiments upon dogs, and established 
beyond all doubt the possibility not only of 
readily transfusing, but of rapidly resusci- 
tating an exhausted animal, by injecting a 
small quantity of the blood of one of its 
own species :—with the blood of another 
ar Jamb, or a calf, the animal usually 
ied. 
The experiment was yet to be made on 
the human frame with human blood ; and 
this has at last been recently accomplished 
by two medical men—one the author of the 
* Observations,’ surgeon to the City of 
London and Southwark Midwifery Institu- 
tion, and his colleague, Mr. Doubleday. 
‘The experiment was tried with two indi- 
viduals, in the autumn of last year, at the 
Institution under their superintendence, 
both suffering under hopeless exhaustion 
from puerpural hemorrhage. The cases 
are detailed at length by Mr. Waller, and 
are perfectly satisfactory. Whether the 
remedy be at all applicable to any case of 
disease remains, of course, a matter yet to be 
determined. The very sensible author of 
the ‘ Observations’ is, naturally enough, in- 
clined to argue favourably of a remedy, the 
credit of which, if it be further successful, 
must be all his own. 
_ The experiment has been again repeated 
(April 1826), we perceive by a report in the 
* Lancet,’ by the same gentlemen, ina simi- 
lar case, and with similar success. 
FOREIGN. 
Mémoires Autographes de M. le Prince de 
Montbarey, Ministre Secrétaire d Etat au 
Département dela Guerre sous Louis X VI. 
2 tom. 8v0.—These memoirs of the Prince 
de Montbarey are well worth the reading. 
Though professedly personal, they are mixed 
up with public events and public characters. 
‘Engaged in active service from a boy, and 
“in office in his maturer years this was in- 
“evitable, and indeed without them, the rest 
would be intolerable. The heavy details 
of family affairs are amply and agreeably 
relieved by matters of more general inte- 
‘rest. Every body of any notoriety is brought 
~before us from the middle of Madame Pom- 
~padour’s reign to the latter part of Mau- 
‘repas’ ministry—from about 1750 to 1780. 
Montbarey was born in 1732 and lived 
to the year 1796. “His memoirs, we be- 
period of his death. The label of the pre- 
sent volumes is topped with the words 
“Jere. Livraison ;”’ with the remainder, Mr. 
_ Colburn, who understands these matters, 
| Pe “lieve, are continued to within a very short 
will of course favour us, when he considers 
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the public ready to take off another volume 
or two. 
Montbarey is a loyalist of the most de-~ 
voted cast—a very honest one; but one, 
whom the horrors of the Revolution have 
driven to speak with severity and distrust 
of all, whose conduct, in his conceptions, 
contributed, designedly or undesignedly, to 
accelerate the march of that memorable 
event. 
In his twelfth year he had a commission 
of dragoons, and at that early age joined his 
regiment, under the eye of his father ; serv- 
ing in three or four campaigns before the 
peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, and afterwards in 
every campaign of the seven years’ war. 
For several years, he was one of the in- 
spectors-general, and occasionally employ- 
ed in confidential commissions by Choiseul. 
In the year 1775 he was introduced into 
the war-office, as a sort of coadjutor to 
Count de St. Germain, and shortly after- 
wards succeeded him at the head of that 
department. He appears to have possessed 
much of the King’s confidence, and had long 
lived in intimate friendship with Maurepas. 
Till he became secretary at war, he led a 
profligate life, at least with respect to wo- 
men; but never seems to have lost sight 
for a moment of the means of advancing 
himself and of aggrandizing his house; neg- 
lecting no opportunity of forwarding his in- 
terest by family influence,—and he must 
have been allied to half the noble families of 
France; but still pursuing them most zea- 
lously and effectively by discharging his pro- 
fessional duties. 
He married early a young lady of good 
family, who had\two children before she 
was fifteen. .The society of a child like this 
was not likely to attach him to domestic 
habits ; but the cool way in which he talks 
of his intrigues, and of the succession of his 
mistresses, and the frequency with which 
he recurs to the subject would be perfectly 
nauseating, were it not for the unconscious 
tone with which it is all told—indicating at 
once his own insensibility of wrong, and the 
manners of his class. As she grew up 
Madame de Montbarey proved of an im- 
perious temper, but very much attached to 
her husband, and the only mode of keeping 
her in tolerable subjection, he tells us, was 
holding a mistress in terrorem. He plumes 
himself a good deal in never insulting his 
wife by appearing in public with the lady. 
Once admitted within the precincts of 
office, he gave himself up completely to 
business, and was unwearied in qualifying. 
Not liking, however, to abandon his habits 
of “vagrant love,’’ he took, what must 
seem, we think, a most extraordinary step, 
to reconcile his pleasures and his security. 
He made a confidant of Le Noir, the po- 
lice minister, who very obligingly took upon 
himself to provide a lady, and to keep a sharp 
surveillance over her and her connexions. 
She was conducted to his apartments-by’a 
_gens-d’arme ; the scandal was thus. effec- 
