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Retrofpe& of French Literature...Natural Hiffory. 
quainted with no other rule of govern. 
ment than that of terror. ‘ If Crom- 
well was a tyrant,’ fays he, ‘‘ what 
name hall we afiign to Robelpierre, to 
the convention and the directory ?”’ 
4th. The various attempts againft the 
rights of the people, and the liberty of 
the national reprefentation. The profcrip- 
tion of the Gironditts under Robefpierre ; 
the 18th Fruétidor, and the revolution 
produced by a re-aétion of the legiflative 
body againit the direétory: thele are 
memorable inftances of the audacity with 
which they fport with the rights of the 
people, and of the eftablifhed conftitution, 
in order to guarantee it. exercife. 
sth. The cunning and machtavelian 
conduét of thofe attached to a monarctiical 
government. 
according to him, were aétive in procur- 
ing the death of Charles I. while he 
feems to intimate that thofe of France 
were defirous that Louis XVI. fhould 
perihh ! 
6th. The oppreffion, difcontent, and 
evils, experienced in both countries. 
“© De la,Condition des Femmes dans les 
Republiques,” &c. Of the Condition of 
Women in Republics. By Citizen 
THEREMIN, Member of the Society of 
Sciences, Letters; and Arts, at Paris.; 
This new champion of the fair fex treads 
in the fteps of the author of *‘ the Rights 
of Woman,’ and is. extremely anxious 
that the French ladies fhould be invefted 
with political franchifes. He thinks that 
the female Parifians, in particular, might 
fit on juries, be employed in fecret ang 
confidential miffions by government, &c. 
&c. 
NaTURAL History. 
“ Hfiftoire Naturelle de Buffon, claffée 
par Ordres,” &c. Buffon’s Natural Hi- 
ftory; claffed after the Sy(tem of Linne- 
us, with the Generical Charaéters,. and 
the Linnzan Nomenclature. 
Rriewarp Caster, Author of the Poem 
of the Plants, and Profeffor ar the Pry- 
tanée Frangaife. This f{plendid editioa 
of the Nirural Hiftory of the great Bur- 
fon poficifes many advantages over the 
former. In the firit place, all the er- 
rors of the author are fuppreffed, while 
the new difcoveries, contained tn the fup- 
plements, are in‘erted in their proper 
places.- In addition ro thefe, upwards 
of twenty new plates are inferted; all 
of thefe are defigned by Defeve, to whom 
Buffon, a little before his death, commu- 
nicated the changes and corrections which 
he wifhed to introduce. 
The royalifts of England, ° 
By Rene | 
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The firft volume is adorned with a fine 
portrait of Buffon, executed by Gaucher; 
and all the plates are moft admirably en- 
graved, ) ; | 
“ Hiftoire des Infeétes des Environs 
de Paris,” &c. Hiftory of the Infeéts in 
the Neighbourhood of Paris; by Geor- 
FROY. .A new edition, confiderably 
augmented with a fupplement, in 2 vols. 
4to. ‘fhe figures of this edition are finely 
coloured after nature. 
“ Lettres fur |’Hiftoire Phyfique de la 
Terre,’ &c. Letters on the Natural 
Hiftory of the Earth, addreffed to M. 
Blumenbach; containing frefh Geologi- 
cal and Hiftorical Proofs of the Miffion cf 
Mofes: by DeLuc, 1 vol. 8v0. 530 pa 
7 fr. The preface to this work contains 
an intereftiny memoir on ‘the primitive 
and untverfal principle of moral obliga- 
tion, wheitce all the other dutics may be 
deduced. ; 
The firft letter treats of the phenomceza 
of the terrettial globe, and the origin of 
our continents. 
The 2d contains an analyfis of geolo- 
gical phenomena. 
The 3d and qth, the hiftory of the 
earth. ! 
The sth, of the continents. 
The 6th and laft are intended as a 
phyfical commentary on the eleven firit 
chapters of Genefis. 
“ Memoire fur un Fragment,” &c. 
A Memoir relative to a Fragment of 
Volcanic Balaltes, brought from Bor- 
ghetto, in the Roman Territory ; read 
before the Phyfico- Mathematical Aca- 
demy of Rome; by U. P. Saumon, a 
Phyfician of the Military Department, 
and Member of the fame Academy. In 
the formation of this {pecimen, the au- 
ther recognifes the fucceffive a€tion of 
two different: agents, fre and water, 
whence he deduces a new theory of the 
earth. 
“© Manuel pour fervir al’ Hiftoire Nou- 
velle,” &c. A Manual calculated for a 
New Hiftory of Birds, Infeéts, and 
- Plants, traniflated from the Latin of J. 
Reinhold Forfter; by J. B. F. Levert- 
LE, 8c. «2 vol This tranflation 
from the pen of a phyfician of the French 
capital is intended as a yuide to the dif- 
ferent claffes of natural bittory. The 
analyfis of the methods of the moft cele- 
brated men 1s here prefented to- the 
ftudent, who is‘al'fo gratined with ex- 
tracts from the works of Lacépede, Juf- 
fieu, Lamarck, Cuvier, &c. and a tranf- 
lation of a memoir, by Murray, on con- 
cholo y. 
fo Meee 
OVO. 
Borany. 
