1811.] 
©f Arles. The proprietors of the marsh 
of St. Remy have also been occupied in 
draining it during the two last years. 
M. Truchet, a proprietor of Arles, has 
succeeded in draining near three hun¬ 
dred hectares of marsh-land, by means of 
Archimedes’s screw, of which the w'ind is 
the moving power. 
The causeways have been lately re¬ 
paired in every direction, and canals of 
different dimensions are employed for the 
purpose of watering the meadows. But 
it is in the commune of Chateau Re- 
nard w'here irrigation has been carried 
to the highest degree of perfection, and 
which has fecundated, during the last 
twenty-two years, no fewer than 1,800 
hectares of a territory, silicious in its na¬ 
ture, and hitherto unfertile. In JSasse- 
Carnargue^ wdiere the waters of the 
Rhone are raised by the melting of the 
snow above the level of the fields, the 
system of watering is employed to more 
advantage than hitlierto. The flood¬ 
gates of all these canals are brought to a 
greater degree of perfection now than hi¬ 
therto, by being cast in iron. 
IT. Particular Meliorations and hiven- 
tions. —These consist: 
1. The introduction of a variety of 
new instruments. 
2. The use and extension of the arti* 
ficia! grasses. 
3. The employment of chalk or plaster 
as a manure. 
4. The almost total disuse of fal¬ 
lows. 
5. The banisliment of ancient preju¬ 
dices. 
6. The adoption of modern improve¬ 
ments. 
7. The abolition of the feudal laws. 
8. The almost total extirpation of the 
game. 
9. The countenance afforded to im¬ 
provements by the present government. 
And 10. Its credit and stability. 
M. Pastoret lately read a dissertation 
before the Institute, which has for its 
object, ** a knowledge of the revenues of 
France, from the commencement of the 
tiiird race until the time of Louis XI. 
M. Delisle de Sales on the same day 
pronounced a discourse on the nature 
and elements of the Eloge Public, or 
Public Eulogy, on the demise of great 
men. After a preliminary dissertation 
on the nature and limits of praise, as 
well as of truth, he declares it to be his 
settled opinion, that the eulogies of those 
men who have acted any conspicuous 
part in public life; ought not to be so 
many panegyrics; but, on the contrary# 
that historical truth should serve as th« 
basis. Among all the Greek and Latin 
authors, who have addicted themselves 
to this species of composition, he con~ 
siders Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch, and 
Tacitus, as alone furnishing an example 
worthy of being followed; and adds, that 
they have all suppressed the title of 
Eloge, in their writings. “ There ought 
to be a literary adds he, “ for the 
writer who leaves a great name behind 
him; an historical essa^ for the modest 
man who has composed but Iktie, and is 
ambitious rather of the esteem of his 
friends, than the praises of the world; 
and a history, properly so called, for the 
public man, who is placed by renown in 
the list of those who are truly great.” 
To prove that even blame may some¬ 
times enter into the plan of an eulogiura 
of this kind, he quotes passages that 
amount to sarcasm, extracted from the 
Eloges Academiques of former times; 
and, after treating of the question, whether 
it is permitted to tell the truth relative 
to ashes not yet cold, he declares for the 
affirmative: “if truth is any where pro¬ 
per upon earth, it is when only an in¬ 
animate piece of clay is interested; and 
if the burial place be accounted sacred 
ground, for that very reason it ought to 
hold out an asylum to merit, or, in other 
words, be considered as its inviolable 
sanctuary, 
NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABISH- 
MENT. 
The following Report from the National Vac¬ 
cine Establishment to the Secretary of 
State, signed by Sir Lucas Pepys, barorret* 
(President of the College of Physicians# 
and of the National Vaccine Establish¬ 
ment) was printed by order of the House 
of Commons. 
Tq the Principal Secretary of State for 
the Home Department, 
National Vaccine Kitablhbment^ 
MarchTth,\^X\. 
THE Board of the National Vaccine 
Establishment have the honour of sub¬ 
mitting to youy consideration a state¬ 
ment of their proceedings during the 
year 1810. 
They liave to report to you that the 
surgeons of the nine stations, established 
in London, have vaccinated during the 
last year 3108 persons, and that 23,362 
charges of vaccine lymph have been dis¬ 
tributed to various applicants froiii all 
parts of the kingdom: being an excess of 
neai ly one-third in the number of per¬ 
sons vaccinated, and in the number of 
chaiges 
Froceedings of Public Societies, 
