216 
and trace the differences which exift be- 
tween philofophic experience and the phi- 
lofophic fpirit. ; 
Citizen FLeEuRIEU has read a new 
fragment of his relation of the voyage 
round the world, made in 1790, 1791, 
and 1792, by Captain STEPHEN Mar- 
CHAND, of Marteilles. 
This fragment offers a defcription of 
the ifland of Tinian, one of the Marian 
iflands, fuch as Commodore Anion found 
in 1742, compared with that which is 
given of it by voyagers who have touched 
there 22 years after the voyage of the 
former. A quarter of 2 century has fuf- 
ficed to transiorm an enchanting piece of 
f{cenery into a rude impracticable wild: 
fo true is the obfervation of the Pliny of 
France, that man enjoys more than he 
poflefies ; that he only keeps poffeffion of 
what he has by cares perpetually renewed, 
and that if thefe are difcontinued, every 
_ thing languifhes, every thing deteriorates, 
every thing falls back into the hand of 
nature, which re-affumes her rights, and 
effaces the works of man. 
Citizen GossELIn has read to the 
clafs fome difquifitions relative to the’ 
geographical fyftem of Polybius, and 
veined alfo a chart founded on the data 
of that hiftorian. This is the fifth geo- 
graphical fyftem of the ancients which 
Citizen GasseLtn has reftored. 
Citizen BOUCHAUD has read two me- 
moirs, the fubie& af which is the Roman 
Legiflation. One, which continues the 
feries of feven preceding memoirs pub- 
lifhed by him, is entitled, Hifforical and 
critical Refearches on the Edits of the 
Roman Magiftrates. In the other, which . 
WALP 
Walpoliana, No. Xt. 
f April 
has for its title, 42% Effay on the Numis- 
matic Hiffory of the Roman Legiflation, our 
colleague defcribes a medal ftruck in ho- 
notr of Marcus Porcius L&ca, a tribune 
of the people, whe, in {pite of the oppofi- 
tion ot ilte confuls, deprived them by a 
law of the right of fcourging a Roman 
citizen with rods; A viétory like this 
gained over arbitrary power, a victor 
which Cicero ¢elebrated with the enthuf- . 
afm which the exhilarating name of li« 
berty is calculated to infpire—this vic- 
tory was well worthy to attraét the no- 
tice of a member of the National Infti- 
tute; a vidtory like this deferved well to 
be engraved upon bronze. Why have 
not we alfo erected durable monuments to 
thofeof our legiflators, who, by the decrees 
which they have propofed, have fo power- 
fully contributed to make us re-conquer — 
ourrights? Why have we not alfo, like the 
Romans, diftinguifhed our laws by the 
names of the authors? Unqueltionably 
the reprefentatives of the French people 
have no occafion for fimilar inftitutions 
in order to make liberty loved and re- 
fpected, to labour to render the French 
nation as happy as it is great; but thefe 
inftitutions, could they only prevent one 
fingle difaftrous law, could they only 
give birth to one wife law, could they © 
only be one additional guarantee of our 
felicity and our glory, we ought to 
adopt. Let us lavifh encouragement 
on the men who are called either to 
govern us cr to give us laws; the career 
which they have to run through is im- 
menfe, and it is ftrewn with the greateft 
difficulties. v 

Paes 
PAN Ae 
—s 
OR, BONS MOTS, APOPHTHEGMS, OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND LITERAs 
TURE, WITH EXTRACTS FROM ORIGINAL LETTERS, OF THE LATE 
HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. 
NUMB 
PR UA. 
#,.* This Article is communicated by a Literary Gentleman, for many years in habits of intimacy 
with Mr. WALPOLE. 
It is partly drawn up from a colleétion of Bons-Mots, Se. in bis ows 
band-writing 5 partly front Anecdotes written down after leng Converfations with kim, in which 
be would, from four o’Clock in the Afternoon, till two in the Morning, difplay thofe treafures of 
Anecdote with which his Rank, Wit, and Opportunitics, had replenifhed bis Memory; and partly 
from Original Letters to the Compiler, on fubjecis of Tafte and Literature. 
CXLVIII. BOLINGBROKE SGRATITUDE. 
B OLINGBROKE, to thew his grati- 
tude tomy father for permitting him 
to return to Engiand, endeavoured to fup- 
plant the miniffer by means of the royal 
miftrefles—but George IL. was ruled by 
his queen, and not by his miftreffes. 
Queen Caroline, indeed, deferved the fa- 
vour fhe enjoyed. So attentive was fhe to 
her hufband, that he could not walk 
through the gardens, without her calling. 
for her cloak, and following him, even 
when fhe had a cold, or was otherwife in- 
difpofed. 
GCXLIX.. Swarr, 
Swift was a good writer, but had a bad 
heart. Even to the lait he was devoured 
by ambition, which he pretended to de- 
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