FRANCE, 
again and again contended with the power of Napoleon, 
tie oe always i sisal = aac ey in the arduous contetft. 
reduce her to fubjeétion, he thought up other meafures 
to effet his purpole. With this view, i with the hope 
wf obtaining an ie to his vaft dominions, he, in the month 
of December 1809, divorced himfelf from the emprefs 
Jefephine in the prefence of feveral of the crowned heads of 
Such has been the te of the emperor Napoleon 
Bonaparte, by birt oor Corfican, but a - fortune or 
s.he has pees ‘himfelf the firft ma 
orld. To attai 
has never {crupléd to refort to 
. 4 otic a when thofe were likely beft to anfwer his 
; but in no seis a has the tyrant fhewn itfelf more 
thas in one a his 
al or 
thele ftate prifoners might be condemned ' 
to capital punifhments, but that Ae confiderations 
ar me being. age as to ieee that feveral are men 
accu - crimes, but who annot be condemned by 
our cour, hough t es have ce certainty of their ir cups 
‘bility ; that fome Gia to different comnts igarae 
jana united to oie but that pel cannot be_ 
i rf ‘fri 
Playfair’s and Blair’s 
ogy e Gibbon’s Hiftory. 
Rabaut’s Hift. of the Revolution, &c. 
France is fituated within the eighth Beogtaphica” eee 
“The length of the longeft day at ta is ‘of fixteen hou. 
‘Its a is, generally {peaking, healthy ad ee. 
reful meteorological obfervations pa for the 
n 
therm 
"The greateft he eight © 
the leaft 27° 3' 3” 
are 164 rainy days. aca prevailing winds are the fouth- 
weft and page h 
orth of France the great teft heat is 23° 2', de 
3 greateft height of mercury in the iil ed 
28° 8! 3"5 the leaft 247° 1 There are 126 r 
"The prevailing wind: mab from’ - ieee alt. 
In the eaft of France t 
° ia ree 
are 145 rainy days. 
and: ee are the at a ae 
“In ‘the of France the greatelt heat j is 24°, and the 
leait -6’, pe arerage height. of waige A in the barometer is 
ri 
an eae ae perpetual bli ‘and sel 
f£ . Mar 
of ie Marne, - Ardennes, Aube, 
hay 
ried, be. 
‘thirty-two governments, viz. 
28° 3! 
prevailing w 
In the Touth-caft plac ieat nr Fl Sean heat is 28° 1', 
the leat 3° 7' the greateft hei eight mercury. in the b 
meter 28° 5! 3", the leaft 27° 5' 5" The quantity of rain 
27 8 ere are. 74 md days, and the north and north 
eaft are the prev 
At Marfeilles ae en ee ig ena of nine 
fucceffive | years give an average of 2 e greateft 
heat, and 3°1' for the al 
_There are 150 rainy days, and the north-eaft is the 
‘The quantity of rain is 21° are 57 rainy 
The prevailing winds blow from ae fouth-eaft and 
north: we 
The fo il of France varies ee much in different parts of 
that extenfive count ek ur Young, in his j journey 
through France in the apart ia 1789, and I 79 
obferved feven ved leinds of foil, 
a, a fat and rich foil, prevailing on efly i in the ao 
ments of Mont Tonnerre, of the Lys, the Scheldt (l’Efcaut), 
the Pas de Calais, the North, the Aifne, Seine and Marne, 
ea Seine and Oife, Eure an : 
» Somme, l’Oife, Lower Rhine, 
Upp Garonne, Hérault, Vendée 
Po; Marengo, Tanaro, aa Sefia. 
— haar and downs (landes), een in the depart- 
of the I'wo Nethes, the Roer, Lower Loire, Morbi- 
Aude, Tarn, 
» Two Sevres, Loiret, 
men 
han, Finiflerre Cétes du Nord, Ile et Vilaine, Mayenne 
d 
rne, Manche, Gironde, Dor- 
dogne, an i 
— Pyrenees Landes, Ger 
1 (Terres a craie), oe in the departments 
Upper Marne, Loire 
and Cher, In and Loire, Charente, Lower Charente, 
and Vien ie 
d. Gravel (Terres - eae Oe in the depart- 
ments of the Niévre, a 
e. A flinty foil Terres “rere, prevailing in the 
departments of the Sarre, the Foréts, Rhine and Mofelle, 
ee Vofges, Meurthe, Meufe, Une Rhine, Cote’ - 
d@’Or, Upper adne, Doubs, —— ae Loire, Jura, Ain, 
Youre; Rhéne, Loire, and Jem 
f- A rocky foil (Terres de ‘montagnes), prevailing in 
the departments of the Ourte, of the Sambre and Meufe, 
ae Meufe, Eaftern Pyrenees, Lozeére, cae Comte, ; 
mone Delo, Stura, a 
. A fandy foil, prevailing in t the fe of the oe 
Cher, Cane Upper Vienne, Sarthe, ayenne.: 
Or, taking the whole fuperficies of Pace nee, wi or ‘Genoa, 
’ Tufcany, and the former ae dominions: at oh, Pee - 
~ hectares, there may be rec 
. For arable lands - - 3332 1954377540 heétares. 7 
‘Vine lands. ~ ~ 2543453655 
Woods. - = 8,134,716,26. 
. Meadows - - 3930203 3,92. | 
Artificial meadow ‘=~ 357459303 ,84s. 
Heaths, downs, watte lands 
Rivers, ponds, marfhes, &c. 10,42 292 55000. 
Before the revolution of 1789, France was 3 divided nite - 
Picardy, Artois, Flandres, - 
Ifle de France, Champagne, Lorraine, Alface, 
ine, Anjou, Touraine, Orléanois, Berry, 
abana 
agne, Mai 
Noe, Bourgogie 3 Franche cia oun Ausis, 
‘ha 
