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firuction eftablithed by it, ought to have 
ho conneétion with the various religious 
worfhip: MENTELLE has. given to 
this maxim, an expanfion which. was 
never lefs fuperfluous than in the cir- 
cumitances. under which he read his 
memoir. He requires that the infruc- 
tion be direéted, above all, towards fci- 
ence, duties, and manners: he defires 
that the public teachers become the 
guardians of morals, and that they per- 
form, even in the heart of the countries 
where they may reinde, fome of thofe 
Kind, fomerimes for the fulfilling of 
‘which; the*minifters of worship swere 
formerly called upon. Continuing to 
occupy himfelf about the central {chools, 
MENTELLE combats the project of et- 
fentially changing the fyftem of thefe 
new fchools. 
DELILLE DE SALLEs read a me- 
moir, entitled Zoe Tiree Kinds of 
Morality. Of man, confidered indiyi- 
dually ; confidered with relation to his 
country; and with his relation to all 
other countries; or, as may be faid, of 
the human fpecies, The three moral 
confiderations, amoug which bad politi- 
cz] inflitotions have often eftablifhed fa- 
tal oppofitions, tend (according to our 
author) to harmonize together, accord- 
ing as the facial /cience advances towards 
perfection. 
A lkoman law limited the power of 
devifing by will, and tended above all, to 
keep women out of fucceflion; this was 
called Foconia lex. The learned are not 
agreed about the extent of the difpo- 
fitions of this law, concerning which 
the eftablithment, or abrogation, muft 
neceflarily Have had fo confiderable an 
influence upon fociety, as to render 
it worthy of © examination. Bou- 
CHAUD, alter having made known the 
author, and the epoch of the Voconian 
Jaw, applied himfelf-to determine its 
chief principle, and to give its true fenfe. 
He has difcovered what was the punith- 
ment incurred by thofe who contravened 
this law; and has pointed out the di- 
vers modifications ‘it fuccefively under- 
went, until it was entirely abolifhed. 
A country filled) with great events, 
upon record, and which is: again become 
the objeé& of great expectation, Italy, 
has furnifhed ANQwETIL, with the 
fubject-matter of twO memoirs.. In the 
firft he has treated of the Hiftory and 
“Charaéter of the different Governments 
- of this heretofore fo diftinguithed part 
_ of Europe: He has corfidered the po- 
litical! interetts: of Italy. in: eneral, and 
MontTHiy Mac, XXVII. 
Proceedings of the National Inftitute. 
-pedition, 
57 
of each of the particular powers exiiting 
within her limits. The fecond memoir 
offers a pitture of the produ€tions of 
Italy, of her manufactures, of her com- 
merce, of the privileges and reftraints 
‘ which favour or fhackle it.- 
Freurrev read, during feveral fit- 
tings, various fragments of a relation 
of a Voyage round the world, made in 
1790,1791,and1792, byCaPYT.STEPHEN 
ARCHAND,commanding the fhipSolde, 
fitted out by the ‘houfe of Beaux, at 
-Marfeilles, to eftablith a tratiic in Peltry, 
on the north-weft coaft of America. In 
an introduction, which precedes the 
narration of, this Woyage, Fleurieu 
fketches out a brief hiftory of the difcos 
veries jn the north-wet. of America, 
fince FiRNaNnDdDo; CORTEZ, down: to 
Stephen Miarchand. ‘This period of two 
centuries and a half, includes the expe- 
ditions of Coronado, of Drake, of Fuca, 
of Adimiral Fuenti, thole of Cook and 
of Peyroufe, and in fhort, thofe of 
many other navigators, as well Raffian, 
Spanith, Englifh,.and Americans. In 
retracing fummarily the ancient difco- 
veries, of which fone were almoft for- 
gotten, and the modern navigators, which 
have extended the {phere ot commercial 
fpeculations, Fieurieu applies himlelf 
to reduce to a juft value, the hopes 
which the firft were capable of infpiring, 
and the fruits which have been gathered 
from the fecond : he feeks to unfold the 
motive which has determined each ex- 
and afcertain the fucceflive 
increafe to the ftock of human know- 
ledge which has refulted from them all ; 
and thus, through this introduétion, rhe 
hiftory of the difcoveries to the north- 
weft of America is blended, as it were, 
with the political and commercial hiftory 
of Europe. 
The voyage of Captain Marchand is 
the fecond voyage round the world, un- 
dertaken and accomplithed by the French ; 
until that time Bougainville had had in 
France neither a model nor an imitator. 
Fleurieu has compared this relation with 
a journal, kept by Chanel, fecond cap- 
tain of. the Solide, and who, in the 
courfe of the voyage was employed in 
raconnoitring the coalis, in elevating 
plans, and in aftronomical operations. 
Fleurien has farther made ufe of a 
journal of Roblet, firt furgeon of the 
fhip, but in working upon thefe various 
memoirs, the aathor has compared the 
recitals which they contain, with the ree 
Jations.. publifhed by the Spanifh and 
Englifh navigators. The work ineludes, 
I befides, 
