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the other from Barcelona to Carcaffounes 
in a country and circumftances fill more 
difficult, along a {pace of /rue bundved thou- 
fand toifes. 
This great operation, which requires an 
union of all the moft perfect geodeetical 
Means, and: as inconceivable number of 
aftronomizal obfervations, has been fome- 
times attacked, and fometimes fufpesded— 
But the law of the s8th Germinal, of the 
third year of the republic, has given freth 
{pirit to every part ef the undertaking. 
‘The different commiffioners charged with 
its execution are now bufily employed. 
Mechain is refuming his triangles at Per- 
Pignan; Delambre is fetting off to con- 
tinue his at Bourges and at Dun ;, and both 
hope to:return to Paris after having coin - 
pleted their honourable and. laborious 
tafk. J . ‘ 
A differtation was. read te-the clafe by 
Citizen "Fenon, upon the different de- 
grees-of increafe and decreafe of the hu- 
sman fkull, confidered particularly at, the 
four principal periods diffe ; at the birth, 
at the age of fix years, at the age of ma- 
_ tarity, and in the feafon of decrepitude. 
After indica? thefe different degrees, 
with a great deal of precifion, the author 
afferts that the Knowledge thence refulting 
will be of great ufe in the management tf 
the head, while growing, and when attack- 
_difeafes more or lefs ferious,. efpe-. 
de thar requi te impertant opera» 

tions. 
marking the connexion that exifts between 
the {ciences,. affirmed that.the greater num= 
Important Proceedings of the National Infiitution, 
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Citizen: du Pont de temours, after re- . 
[ Sept. 
metaphyfical, and fpeculative nature with 
ftill greater brevity and referve. 
Citizen Psony pronounced a panegyri¢c 
on citizen Piaeré, who died on the rath 
of Floreal laft.. One part preduced a great 
effeét upen the minds of the auditors : 
4 ings’ alaid.pe “ though upwards 
of eighty-four years er age, was not lefs 
affiduous atthe fittings of the National In- 
ftitute, but he came accompanied by mé~ 
lancho! y = bis eyes for ght therein vam tbat 
Sriendy that competitor, whofe pen. no lef 
' profound and eloquent than his own”? 2.6. « 
Ar, thefe wordsievery body prefent di- 
vined the name-of Bailly, and loud ap- 
plaufe interrupted the.orator. Jt tredou- 
bled when he named chat excellent man, fo: 
celebrated on ascount of his learning, and. 
{o.remarkable for his gourage, for his pro» 
bity, and fos the virtues he difplayed dur- 
ing the revolution. “Ehey were repeated 
a third time, and were mingled with tears, 
when Prony {poke of the tragieal end of 
Pingré’s refpeétable friend. 
After a moment of involuntary filence, 
occafioned by the idea of Bai/ly’s death and: 
of that of Pixgré, Baudin,of the Ardennes, 
»read a treatiie on the Spirit of Kadétion, in 
which he denied that am attempt to give 
freedom to all could be he fae= 
tious. Brutus, the firft copful, William 
Fell, and Wafhington, might have failed, 
as Marcus Brutus and Caffins did at. Phi- 
lippi,-and Barneveldt upon the feaffold. 
It is not fuscefs which diftinguifhes the. 
hero from the fa¢tious fpirit : it is the 
difference of the objeét they have in. view. 
Nor would he admit that the being @ 
ber of queftions of political.economy, efpe- Minority conftituted a. certain proef of 
cially thofe thac relate to the caufes and- 
effeéts of the prices of produétions and 
merchandize, could only be folved with 
perfect exacinefs by means of the moft 
tranfcendant geometry, without whih 
nothing better than a vague and uncertain 
refult can be obtained. He gave, as an ex- 
ample, the effeét of freedom reftored-to 
-eommerce, or of a tax taken off, any com- 
modity ; an effect which cannot be pro- 
perly exprefled, unlefs by two corre{pond- 
ing ferpentime and afympiole curves. Le 
called upon the Isarncd members ef the 
phyfical and mathematical clafs to turn 
their attention towards thefe political’ 
éurves;. which are perhaps innumerable. 
Maving thus givena fuccinét account of 
every thing of a peagtical aps phyfical 
nature that deferves notise mm the, Tranf- 
actions of the Infticute for the lafl three 
montis, we fhall mention the labours of 
the French Jiterati. in matters of a. moral, 
“fa&tion. Cato’s firmnefs, furviving in the 
midft of almoft univerfa! defpondency, did 
not make him a. faétious man+ fince alb 
the Romans would have wifhedsto be free 5 
but Cato was»almofty the only one who 
preferved fufficient courage to remain fo. 
But he who, under the preténce of fapport- 
ing rights, endeavours to diftolve the ftate 
itfelfy becomes a fa€sous Man ; “ and the 
epithet yeill doubtiefs apply talithe two 
Gracchi, againft whofe memory the very 
names of thofe who have taken them for 
models bear witnefs.”—(This paflage ex~ » 
cited the loudeft applaufe. ) + 
Baudim concluded, by {aying, that in 
monarchy factions are only formidable to 
the authority of the prinee; while in a 
republic they endanger general liberty, 
which is the property of all; and, confe- 
quently, that.in the latter they ought to be 
mere cdious to every one who poflefles pa- 
‘triotifm or virtues. 
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