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YORKE’S ANNALS OF PUBLIC ECONOMY.-=CASTLE OF THE TUILERIES. 
Voltaire, La Fontaine, J. B. Rousseau, 
Bruyere, and Buffon; the werks of 
whom are in every one’s hands. The 
editors would be doing a real service to 
the British public by filling a single, mo- 
derate sized volume with specimens of 
the very best manner of those French 
authors whose writings have as yet 
scarcely penetrated into this country. 
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Our objections to the mass before us are, 
that it is much too large, and entirely « 
superfluous to those who are in posses- 
sion of the classical authors of France: 
ina moral point of view it is, as far-as 
we have examined it, wholly unexcep- 
tionable: to all persons, therefore, it: 
will be ‘an innocent, and to many, a 
valuable possession. 
Art. XX. Annals of Public Economy: containing Reports on the State of Agricultures 
Commerce, and Manufactures, in the different Nations of Europe, for the Year 1802, 
Collected by Henry Repuyeap Yorker, £sg. 8vo. pp. 550. 
FROM the preface it appears, that 
the author, ina late visit to France, be- 
came acquainted with the. principal 
writers on agriculture, statistics, and 
public economy in Paris; and upon the 
strength of communications promised 
by them, began the work at present be- 
fore us. More than :three-fifths of ‘its. 
contents relate to France, and are but of 
trifling importance to foreigners; the 
editor characterizes these as “ import- 
ant documents, with which he has been 
. 
Arr. XXI. The Castle of the Teileries: or; 
favoured by the Agricultural Society of 
Paris, and several distinguished mem- 
bers of the National Institute of France ;”” 
if, however, he had, taken the trouble 
of inspecting the, dull quartos of Peu- 
chet ; the Journal,des Mines, and other 
monthly publications, in the French 
language, he would have procured al- 
most all these ‘* important documents,” 
without laying’ himself under any obli- 
gations to the “ distinguished members 
of the National Institute.” 
a Narrative of ail the Events which have 
taken place in the Interior of that Palace, from the Time ofiits Construction to the 18th 
Brumaire of the Year VIII. Translated 
8vo. Two vols. pp. about 800.) «' 
THE castle, or rather palace, of,the ” 
Tuileries, so called from its being situate 
in a tile-ground, was begun in 1564, 
by Catharine de Medici, widow of 
Henry II. of France, and regent of that 
country during the minority of her son, 
Charles IX. It was finished by Hen- 
ty IV., and adorned by Louis XIV., 
under whom Le Notre directed the plan- 
tation of those fine alleys of chesnut, 
elm, and lime trees, which constitute the 
favourite public walk of the Parisians. 
Many good statues were at that time 
placed in the garden ; but the best have 
been added since the campaigns of Bo- 
paparte. Louis XV. inhabited the pa- 
Jace during his mimority; and Louis 
XVI. after his captivity; it is now the 
residence of the First Consul. The ar- 
 chitecture of the building is rather la- 
boured than beautiful: the subordinate 
parts want magnitude; the whole wants 
simplicity. The columns are fluted and 
bandaged, the niches and statues are nu- 
merous, the orders of architecture are 
waried; but the profusion of minute or- 
Nament gives a gothic confusion to a 
structure on grecian principles. he 
pbuilding, however, is vast and imposing ; 
Ayn. Rey. Vou, Il. 
from. the Frenchy dy: Erancis ‘Laritom, 
; TO. Moss G. 
the three pavilions lifting” tg “the: skies 
4 Zo ane sn 4ik £9O8F 
their pyramidal” roofs, pnd. connected 
by wings reposing ©: eaige tore a 
grand outline and the ‘station, or im- 
placement, would confer niajesty even 
on an inferior edifice, © 
Contiguous to the terrace of the gar.” 
den is situate the riding-school, rendered, 
celebrated by having been fitted up to 
receive the National Assembly. Henge 
this spat has become the theatre of many 
prominent incidents of the Revolution, 
Of those connected by asséciation of” 
locality with ‘the Tuileries, M. Soulavie 
(such is said to be the name of the ori- 
ginal author) here undertakes 2 separate _ 
account. His power of interesting must 
. depend on thé merit of the anecdotes 
themselves; in which many amusing 
particulars occur, ‘that had ‘not before 
been compiled, or at least not evulgated 
here, and which réflect, if not a steady 
light, yet checkering gleams of illustra- 
tion, on the monstrous contour of the 
Revolution. ; . 
The author throws his remarks into 
the form of dialogue, and of dialogue 
with an imaginary Count Bedfort, whom 
he places at Parison the 10th of August, 
Yy apy 
