OCikionw Rt Cx Te RS, 
fame time he was appointed direc- 
tor of the falt-works at Bex and 
Aigle, with an annual falary of 
£500. During the term of this 
' appointment, which continued fix 
years, he refided at La Roche. 
On his return to Berne he was 
elected member of the chamber of 
appeal for the German diftrict, of - 
_ the council of finances, of the com- 
mittees for matrimonial affairs, and 
for improving the {mall livings in 
the French diftriét of the canton; 
he was alfo appointed perpetual af- 
feffor of the Council of Health, 
with.an annual falary of about 
£,. 100, as a token of his country’s 
gratitude for having declined fo 
many {plendid offers from foreign 
courts, and for preferring his na- 
tive place to the advancement of 
his fortune. 
In 1766, and the following years, 
this great man, who had hitherto 
enlightened fcience from his clofet, 
difplayed in the theatre of public 
life the more active and diftinguifhed 
parts of a patriot and politician. 
He re-eftablifhed the harmony and 
_ dettled the difputes between the Val- 
=~ 
lais and the canton of Berne by a 
fuccefsful negociation, in which he 
fixed the new boundaries of the two 
ftates; he was affociated with the 
moft enlightened characters of the 
_ repubiic in terminating the diffen- 
i 
tions of Geneva; he drew up the 
Principal difpatches to the court of 
Verfailles on the fubject of the 
_ changes which had been projected 
-at Verfoi, on which occafion he 
- 
held a perfonal conference with the 
French ambafiador; and was em- 
ployed to prepare the plan ofa 
treaty, which the canton of Berne 
contracted with the Elector of Ba- 
varia relating to the purchafe of 
fal. 
7 
He refumed his literary labours, 
which had been neceffarily inter- 
rupted amidit his other more impor- 
tant avocations. He publifhed, in 
1768, his hiltory of Swifs plants, 
mentioned above ; and, in 1771, 
the firft part of his Biéliotheca Me- 
dicing, or his Medical Library. 
Eight volumes of this work were 
publifhed during the author’s life- 
time, between the years 1771 and 
1778. The anatomical, including 
the phyfiology, the botanical, and ~ 
the chirurgical, were each com- 
prifed in two volumes, and bring 
down the refpective {ubjects nearly 
to the prefent time. ‘Two, on the 
practice of phyfic, were publifhed 
by Haller himfelf, a third after his 
deceafe by Dr. Tribolet, and a 
fourth by Dr. Brandis of Childen- 
fheim, from the manofcript of 
Haller, which the learned author 
has confiderably augmented. 
Haller alfo employed the latter 
period of his life in fending extras 
from eminent publications for the 
Bibliotheque _ Raifonnée; furnifhed 
many ahs articles for the fupple- 
ment to the Paris Encyclopédie, for 
the quarto improved edition of the 
fame work publifhed at Yverdun, 
and for the digtionary of natural 
hiftory printed at the fame place. 
He meditated alfo a new edition of 
his great phyfological work, of 
which he put forth the firft volume 
in 1777, only afew months before 
his death. 
His aétive imagination brooding 
on the civil and political affairs, in 
which he ‘had been lately engaged, 
produced, between 1771 and 1774, 
his three political romances, Utong, 
Alfred, and Fabius and Cato, which 
treat of the defpdtic, monarchical, 
and republican governments. In 
Ufong he tketches, with a mafterly 
B 4 band, 
