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force of men’s ftrength, and drawn on 
dry land by the fame means. ‘The 
Interior or domeftic manners were 
fimple. Princes had only female fer- 
vants. in their palaces; their male 
domeftics were employed in rural occu- 
ations; a dog formed the whole of 
their guard; their princefles made the 
appare! of the family; their daughters 
often performed the office of wather- 
women and laundreffes ; and they them- 
felves had an eye to the cultivation of 
their grounds. 
ANQUETIL prefented three memoirs ; 
one of which related to the ancient 
Egyptians; the other, to the Helvetic 
nation; andthe third, to the ancient and 
prefent ftate of Peru. Inthe firft, after 
a defcription of Egypt, lis fituation, 
rivers, productions, animals, monuments, 
cities, pyramids, lake Moeris, labyrinth, 
ruins, &c. he enters into a detail of the 
manners and cuftoms of the innabitants— 
theirlaws, fuperftitions, and civil and re- 
ligious inftitutions : he then proceeds to 
confider the hiftory of Egypt, beginning 
with its fabulous times, pafiisg on to the 
heroic, and lafily noticing the true 
‘times, or the period wherein commences 
the feries of Egyptian kings, who ruled 
over Egypt for the {pace of three cen- 
turies. In the fecond memoir, ANQUE- 
TiuL difcufles the firt military enter- 
2 . . % . 
prifes of the Helvetians, in the time 
of Julius Ceefar; he reprefents them 
then as they are now, robuft, laborious, 
warlike, faithful to their engagements, 
chafte in matrimony, and {ober in their 
banquets. He proceeds to confider 
them under the government of their 
counts and barons, receiving protection 
at firft.againft thofe petty tyrants, from 
the emperors of Germany, who after- 
wards, in their turn, made repeated at- 
tempts to enflave them. The refult of 
thete efforts, was a refolution on the part 
of the people to unite their force againft 
the efforts of the Germans. He indi- 
cates the dates of thote feveral unions 
which compofed the Helvetic league, 
and defcribes the natural fingularities, 
the manners, and government of each 
canton, including the Grifon league, 
with that of the Valais and other afh- 
lhated. communities, In the third me- 
moir, he points out the military and 
political. means which the Spaniih ad- 
venturers had recourfe to, in order to 
effect the conqueft of Peru ; the divifions 
which broke out between the firft con- 
querors, who fell to defiroying one an- 
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other ; the addrefe difplayed by the cour’ 
of Spain, in getting poffeilion of the au- 
thority, and retaining it; the govern- 
ment of the viceroys, fometimes bene- 
ficent, fometimes fatal, to the natives 3 
the misfortunes,and tragical end of the 
laft yncas, and the prefent fituation of 
Peru and its inhabitants. 
DELISLE DE SALES recited a memoir 
relative to Bailly, which difeuffes his 
title to celebrity, as a philofopher and 
littérateur, referring to another invefti- 
gation the confiderstion of Bailly, as a 
citizen anda public man: That name, 
dear to letters and the fciences, is no 
lefs fo to a clafs of the inftitute, whofe 
prime object is to diffufe the progrefs 
of morality. Bailly, who raifed to the 
fummit of literary honours, ever dif- 
armed envy by his fimplicity! Who 
never boafted of loving liberty, yer 
always laboured for it! Who, at the 
head of a moft important adminiftration, 
incefiantly confulted the interefts of the 
people, without ever aiming at popu- 
larity! And, finally, who died without 
regret or complaint, and with that un- 
fheken fortitude, which may be looked 
up to as an exemplar, even amidit the 
numberlefs bright examples of intre- 
pidity, which fignalized the reign of. 
blood and tyranny | ‘ 
Ciass oF LITERATURE AND 
POLITE ARTS. 
The minifter of the interiur, havine, 
laf ygar, invited the artifts to concert 
pie fe 
projeéts or embellifhment for the prin- 
cipal {quares arid public places within 
the commune of Paris, which projects 
have been accordingly expoted in the 
Salle du Laocoon, since the commecement 
of the prefent year; the minifter Das 
invited the clafs of literature and polite 
arts to decide on the merits of the re- 
{fpective propofals, and has adopted its 
decihons. Although none of the projects 
were thought fit to be carried into exe- 
cution, many of them were judged to 
merit pecuniary encouragement, and 
particularly thofe of Balzac, Faivre, 
Stouf, Dardel, Levaffiur, Lemercier, and 
Tardieu. 
Guys, an affociate of the clafs of 
literature, has remitted from Ithacz 
(where he is now detained by his ardent 
paffion for every thing relative to 
Greece) an hiftorical eulogy of the late 
Dr. Sibthorp, an Englithman. This 
laborious botanift has already fpent a 
number of years in making colleétions 
of the plants of Greece and the Grecian 
Ran Chaka iflands. 
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