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formation concerning it. Our opinion of 
the bufinefs is, that the American envoys 
were very incompetent to cope with the 
agents of the French government; the 
former managed their part of the nego- 
ciation with much clumiine({s and incapa- 
tity, whilft there is every reafon te be- 
fieve that the latter managed theirs with 
‘much mean artifice and fhuffling, The 
object of “© Az Explanation of the Condudé 
of the French Goverament in their late Ne- 
Pociation «with the American Commiffoners,” 
as to difclaim on the part of the former 
the agency of W.X. Y.Z. Mr. Hau- 
teval isthe author of the pamphlet; he 
appears to have acted merely as an inter- 
reter. The minifter of toreign affairs 
Limilf, M. Talleyrand, has thought 
it neceffary to exculpate, at leatt ta attempt 
an exculpation of himielf from the dif- 
graceful charges which are brought againft 
him in the bufinefs; with this view he 
has publifhed, ** Stricfures on the Amert- 
¢an State Papers, &c. including the official 
Correfpondence uth the American Envoys 
Gt Paris.” It appears even from this very 
pamphlet, that two out of the four in- 
friguers, namely Z. and-Y. (M. Hau- 
teval and Mr. Bellamy), were commif- 
honed by the minifer to negociate with 
the envoys. ‘* The whole of the official 
correfpondence’’ has alfo been publithed 
< between the Envoys of the American 
States, and M. Tall-yrand on the fubje@ of 
the Difpute between the two Countries.’” 
** The Speech’? which Mr. 
Harper delivered in the houie of Repre- 
fentatives of the United States, “* on the 
Foreign Intercourfe Bill,’ contains an ani- 
mated defence of America in its late con- 
du& with the French republic. 
GENEALOGY. 
ANDREW Stuart, efq. atineal de- 
fcendant from the ancient kings of Scot- 
land, has publithed ‘* 4 genealogical Hif- 
tory of the Stewarts, from the earliet Pe- 
riod of their authentic Hiftory to the prefent 
Times, &c. This mof dry and laborious 
compilation.is executed with great in- 
duftry and judgment. It will be read 
with avidity, perhaps, by the wide-fpread 
race of Stewarts; but to he literary 
‘world in general, it is furely a moft un- 
interefting work; its utility, however, 
to the hiltorian is unqueftionable. This 
circumftance ftamps a value on Mr. Be- 
THAM’S “ Genealogical Tables of the Sove- 
reigns of the World, from the carlieft to the 
prefent Period,’ &c. The tables, which 
in general are given from the beft autho- 
yities, and are drawn up with much accu- 
racy, are fo conftructed as to form a feries 
Goodloe 
of chronology. <« The Baronage of Scot- 
land” is an incipient work, which, if ju- 
dicioufly executed, may certainly be of 
national utility ; the fir velume only is 
yet publifhed, of which the greater part 
was long ago compiled and printed by Sir 
Robert Douglas: the completion gf this 
extenfive work has been referyed for edi- 
tors who feem more capable of doing it 
than the, baronet who begun it. The 
anonymous author of a pamphlet entitled 
“* Reflections on the Augmentation of ihe 
Engi Peerage,’ &c, ditplays muca hif 
torical and biographical learning. We 
protad to the more ufeful and interefting 
ubject of 
GEOGRAPHY. 
Few works have come before us on 
this {cience: Mr. RopertT HERON’s 
** New and Complete Syftem of Univerfal 
Geography,” Sc. contains a great deal of 
matter on collateral fubjects, hiftory, af 
tronomy, &c. which, although it reduces 
its value in the eyes of the proteffed fta- 
dent in geography, muft certainly be ac- 
knowledged to give it an additional in- 
tereft to the general reader. MoRSE’s 
American Geography, and GUTHRIE’s 
Geographical Grammar, with the works 
of many other refpectable writers have 
largely coytributed to Mr. H’s ufetul com- 
pilation ; a philofophical view of univerfal 
hiftory is added to it, which is the ori- 
ginal production of Mr. HERON. The 
name of Mr. CRUTTWELL is already 
known to the world from the * Gazet- 
teers’’ which he pubilthed fome time ago, 
of France and of the Netherlands ; he has 
now enlarged his plan, and publifhed a 
** New Univerfal Gaxettecr or Geographi- 
cal Diétionery: This work in point of 
general accuracy far exceeds any fimilar 
publication: it contains twenty-fix whole 
fheet maps, which have received fuch 
alterations and correcticns as recent dif- 
Goveries rendered neceffary ; and when. 
Mr. CRUTTWELL ftates that “ in every 
article, truth, accuracy, and impartiality 
-have been confidered as fundamental prin- 
ciples, and invariably purfued,” he claims 
no merit to which he is not honeftly en- 
titled. Mr. PERKINS’s “ Gengraphie An- 
tique Princifia’’ is aneat and uleful in- 
troduction to the knowledge of Ancient 
Geography. 
TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES. 
Mr. JoHN NicHots has publifhed the 
fecond part of the fecond volume of his 
“« Hiftory and Antiquities of the County of 
Letcefier :”’ this large volume contains a 
valt tund of matter, and, if poffible, in- 
creafes the reputation which its — 
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