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the only fixed principle which all of them 
contain, does not possess any property 
relativQ to that satnracisji. 
If we are guided hy analogy, we might 
compare under this point ot view the 
animal acids with the vegetable acids, 
?ind the animal fats (if there are any 
which contain azote) witii the resihs and 
vegetable oils: consequently the hydro¬ 
gen-could not be in a sufficient quantity 
in the uric acid, for saturating the oxygen 
and azote which this acid contains, or ta 
form water and ammonia by combining 
with these two bodies, and the contrary 
would take place in the animal fats, A 
numerous train of consequences may cer¬ 
tainly be drawn from all the preceding 
results. 
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The Voyages of Discovery of Captain 
Flinders to the South Seas are about 
to be publish.ed, by order of the h.ords of 
the Admiralty, in a similar style to those 
6f Captains Cooke, Vancouver, &c. 
The merciless Assassin of the Tarrago- 
liese and Spaniards has condescended 
to allow an importation of French books 
into London, intended, perhaps, to daz¬ 
zle tiie English haroarians with these sa- 
crifices of art and genius at the bloody 
shrine of his vanity. Some months-ago, 
be licensed a Paris bookseller to Come to 
...London, and uegociate exchanges of 
English against French books. Tiie Eng¬ 
lish government having lil'erally partici¬ 
pated in the plan, the French books, 
amounting to fifty thousand volumes, are 
just arrived at the shops of Messrs. De- 
DOFFE, Dulau, and Deconchy. Among 
them are many valuable French classics. 
the production of the comparatively 
golden age of the Bourbons; a few good 
modern books on the har mless subjects of 
Chemistry and Natural History, and soma 
Bagatelles for the toilet;—but, the prin¬ 
cipal are those which are intended to 
emblazon the -^eeds of the inexorable 
Tyrant himself. That called a Description 
of Egypt, a country which lie covered 
with blood, is the most splendid collec¬ 
tion of ensravinvs that ever was con- 
nected with any work, and must have 
cost the annual revenue of several de¬ 
partments. The first of three parts is 
arrived; and, although the booksellers put 
the price of eighty guineas upon it, yet 
it is comparatively cheap ; and had the 
same number of engravings been executed 
as a;private adventure, the work could 
not have been sold at less than one hun¬ 
dred and fifty guineas. It affords a 
splendid proof how effectively literature 
and the arts may be made to sub.serve the 
glory of tyrants ; and it may be fortunate 
for tiie perfection of the arts, that one 
tyrant has discovered this use in them. 
Hitherto, despots have endeavoured to 
atone to mankind for crimes, by building 
hospitals, or have contented themselves 
by d.izzling their subjects with gor¬ 
geous temples and palaces; but these had 
oniy a partial or local influence, and it 
remained for the assassin of the Tarra- 
gonese to discover,, that, by prostituting 
the arts to give a false colouring to his 
bloody deeds, he might he able to erect 
lasting PAonuinents of matchless splendour 
in the Jibsaries of the great, all over 
the world. Such evidently was his po¬ 
licy, in licensing M. Wurt?, the Paris 
hoekseller, to send these productions to 
London ; but his purpose will be half 
defeated by its exposure. After ail, 
. though this great work smells so rankly 
of blood, it deserves the notice of our 
curious readers for its exact display of 
