Retrofpec?. of German Literature....Politics....Belles Lettres. 
als innerlichen Krankheiten der Fagd-und 
anderer hunde, &c. &c. von C. G, K. 
1798 ; pp. 87; 8vo. A Treatife on the 
external and internal Difeafes of Hounds 
and Dogs, together with complete In- 
ftructions for curing them, and a fhort Ob- 
fervation on their Inftinét of Copulation, 
&c. &c. This is aconcife extract from 
feveral eminent works on the fame fub- 
ject, and will prove ufeful to all keepers 
of dogs and hounds, who wifh to preferve 
the health of thefe ufeful animals. 
POLITICS. 
Neuefie Staatenkunde, &c. &c. Latett 
Statiftic ; a Journal for Princes and Na- 
tions ; No. I. and II. pp. 275; 8vo. This 
is rather a political than a ftatiftical jour- 
nal. The unexpected events of our times 
proved how fhort-fighted was the policy 
of the Germans; how deficient and fu- 
perficial their Knowledge and calcolation 
of political power ; and how impenetra- 
ble futurity was to their view: This de- 
feét is to be removed by the prefent jour- 
nal; and it is Mr. CHARLEs JULIUS 
LANGE, Profeffor at Baireuth, who thus 
humanely commiferates the diftrefs of the 
poor German princes and their fub- 
jects. 
CHRISTOPHORI SAxI Oratio bonora- 
riain Legis Regie Patronos—babita Pub- 
dice—cum Magiftratu Academico quartum 
abdicaret, 1798; 12 Sheets, 4. Al- 
though we cannot fubfcribe to the princi- 
ples after which Mr. S. profeffor at 
Utrecht, condemns all monarchies, 27 foto, 
and are perfeétly convinced that his man- 
ner of arguing would equally ferve to 
prove, that all ariftocratical and democra~ 
tical forms of government ought to be re- 
jected; yet we cannot help confeffing, 
that the prefent oration diftinguithes itfelf 
eminently by a rich fund of erudition, ‘and 
an uncommon flow of’ manly eloquence. 
The author difplays a profound know- 
ledge of hiftory in the formation and exe- 
cution of his arguments, and we were af- 
tonifhed at the youthful enthufiafm with 
which here a man {peaks, who has com- 
pleted his eighty-fourth year. The great 
power and fullnefs of expreflion with 
which he delivers his fentiments, and the 
extenfive knowledge of the works of the 
ancient claflics which he difplays, indem- 
nifies the reader amply for the occafional 
obfcurities which arife from the frequent 
ufe of obfolete words, and the length of his 
periods._—He opens his fpeech by fhowing 
what the defenders and panegyrifts of royal. 
ifm mean by /ex regia, and then attempts to 
bring, their opinien before the tribunal of 
ves 
Say 
reafon and pragmatical hiftory, in order to 
prove not only its dangerous tendency, 
but alfo its being utterly inadmiffible. He 
finally applies the refults of thefe premifes 
to the new Batavian republic. As forthe 
firft part of his fpeech, in which he la- 
bours to prove that fuch a Jaw never was 
fanétioned by the general confent of a ~ 
whole nation, we have no room for re- 
futing here his arguments, and fhowing 
their fallacy. We muft content ourfelves 
with following only the courfe of his 
ideas. He admits, p. 7, and even proves 
by the hiftorical teftimonies of Ariftotle, 
Cicero, Tacitus, and Juftin, that the 
older nations had kings and fupreme rul- 
ers, but denies their having been fuffered 
to exercife a defpotic {way like thofe who 
ruled over Afia and Europe in later times, 
particularly during the exiftence of the 
Roman monarchy, and like the princes of 
our age; infifting thatthey had been men, 
who, eminent by their fuperiority of un- 
derfianding and humanity, furpaffed the 
reft of the people, adminiftered juftice in 
peace, and commanded the army in time 
of war. In vain (continues the venerable 
orator, p. 11.) do the royalifts (dol; regiz 
precones) affert in their defence, that the 
four principal nations of the eaft and the 
’ weft, either introduced the /ex regia by 
divine admonition, or that it was con- 
firmed by the general confent of the peo- 
ple. Heargues, with great ability, that 
neither the one nor the other can be 
proved by undoubted hiftorical faéts, con- 
tefting, with uncommon critical acutenefs, 
the authenticity of the famous ler regia 
Romanorum, and concludes the refults of 
his hiftorical inveftigations, p. 34, with 
thefe words: Lex regia, quam. exiftimo 
tum fuiffe, ortu fuit infidiatrix et lenis, pro- 
grefione rapax, fed ingeniofe lenta, event# 
tremens ét hominumcivitat: perniciofa. Duo- 
bus certe modis perlata fuit, vidlaque libertas 
in dominationem vertit: FRAUDE et V1.— 
he fpeech of the orator grows uncom- 
monly animated, where he declares him- 
felf againft all hereditary monarchies, the 
baneful confequences of which he paints 
with horrid colours. Although we differ 
as well in this as in many other points 
from the venerable orator, yet we muft 
confefs that we have perufed his fpeech 
with peculiar pleafure, asa moft elegant 
piece of profound erudition, and forcible 
eloquence, 
BELLES LETTRES, 
1. Almanach zur Beforderung des all 
gemeinen und bauflichen Gliks, &c. &c. 
3798; pp- 222. Almanac for the Pro- 
4C-z motion 
