RetrofpeF of German Literature... Hiftory. 
Vertrauliche Briefe ueber Frankreich, &c. 
acc. Jo. fp. 358., 20.77, 392.) 2xu- 
rich, 17983; 8vo. Familiar Letters on 
France and Paris. The author of thefe 
letters obferved the progrefs of the great 
events which have taken place in France 
for feveral years, at firft on the frontiers 
of that country, and afterwards at the 
principal theatre itfelf. The letters are 
direéted to a female friend, and begin 
with pleafing pictures of the romantic en- 
virons of Geneva, the cuftoms and morals 
of the Swifs, and the difpofition of that 
unfortunate nation, who then were yet 
bleffed with internal and external peace ; 
and his letters on Paris and France form 
no unpleafing companion to thofe of Mifs 
WILLiams, which have been read with 
fo much avidity in this country. An Eng- 
lith tranflation of thefe Jetters being in 
hand, we fhall give our opinion of their me- 
rits and demerits at large on its firft appear- 
ance, obferving only that, notwithftanding 
its defeéts, it contains many anecdotes, 
which have not been generally known hi- 
therto, and many obfervations and re- 
marks, which are the refult of impartial 
reflexion. We were particularly pleafed 
with the interefting hiftory of Amelia, a 
French emigrant, which is told extremely 
well, and accompanied with obfervations 
that refleét honour on the author’s head 
and heart. . 
Protocoll der Reichsfriedens deputation xu 
Rafladt, &c.. &c. heraufgegeben; von H. 
M. von Bellingbaufen, No. I. II. II. IF. 
V. VT. 1798 3 4to. Protocol of the Con- 
grefs of Raftadt, together with all Supple- 
ments publifhed ; diligently compared 
with the originals, and accompanied with 
fome elucidating obfervations. No. I. 
contains the protocols of the firft, fecond, 
and third feffion, 1798; pp. 70. No. Il. 
contains the protocols of the fourth, fifth, 
and fixth feffion, 1798; pp. 7ce—132. 
No. III. contains the protocols of the 
{eventh to the thirteenth feifion, pp. 133— 
204. No IV. contains the protocols of the 
fourteenth to the twentieth feilion ; pp. 
205—288. No. V. twenty-firft tothe thir- 
tieth feflion; pp. 28g—430; and No. VI. 
thirty-firft to fortieth fetlion. The ma- 
terials from which this work is compofed 
are extremely defective, confifiing chiefly 
of mutilated documents, new!paper intelli- 
gence, pamphlets, whofe authors fhun the 
light, fiétitions cabinet-documents and 
sontroverfial writings, which evidently 
bear the ftamp of violent party-fpirit. 
Hiftorifche Ueberficht der Politic Englands 
und Frankreichs, &c. von Herbert 
Mar/b. Leipzig, 17993 pp. 6025 8vo. 
Monturiy Mac. XLVII. 
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55). 
Hiftorical Review of the Policy of Eng- 
land and France, from the Time of the 
Conference at Pilnitz to the Declaration 
of War againft England, founded upon 
authentic Documents. This excellent pub- 
lication, of which our nation has reafon to 
be proud, as Mr. Marsu is a native of 
England, has an undoubted claim to the 
applaufe of the impartial public, becaufe 
it inveftigates, with uncommon calmnefs 
and candour, one of the moft remarkable 
periods of the modern revolutionary hifto. 
ry, which has fo frequently been mifre- 
prefented by ignorant illuminators, and 
felf-created apoftles of liberty. The au- 
thor, who is honourably known to the 
Englith public by his theological writings, 
and has lived many years in Germany, 
proves, by indifputable. arguments, that 
Great Britain tried all potfible means, 
fince the year 1789, to live in friendfhip 
with France; that the ever-chang ng 
_ rulers of the new republic were convinced 
of this peaceable difpofition ; and that the 
Englifh government, after the declaration 
of war, ftrove, with unabated affiduity, 
to fettle all differences, and to rettore 
peace between the twocontending nations. 
Mr. Marfh founds his hiftorical- account » 
upon written negociations between the two 
powers, the journals of the national con- 
vention, and other authentic papers. The 
author proves, by the judicious obfervations 
which he makes upon the faéts colleéted 
by him with great diligence, how falla- 
cious the fophifms of Mr. ARCHEN- 
HOLZ, and his numerous imitators are, 
and examines the affertions of thofe writ- 
ers with critical acutenefs, felecting from 
their contradi€tions and exaggerations 
every authenticated intelligence that ferves 
to firengthen his.arguments. He treats 
in fourteen feétions, in a foreign language, 
which he writes with uncommon correét- 
nefs, and no fmall degree of elegance and’ 
fimplicity, on the relations of Great Bri- 
tain towards France to the year 17933 
and on the meafures which our govern- 
ment took, up to that period, to preferve 
peace, till France at laft declared a war, 
which already had been prepared, by ap- 
peals tothe people of England, by the re- 
cognition of a revolutionary fociety, exift- 
ing at that time tm our country, and by the 
fecret negociations into which fhe had en- 
tered. He has devoted a particular appen- 
dix to an exaét and impartial account of 
the repeated but fruitlefs endeavours of 
our government, to obtain peace by the 
facrifice of all our conguefts. He proves, 
in a moft incontrovertible manner, that 
England neither was the primary {pring 
pig of 
