1797°] 
Le Miroir, Le Grondeur, Le Thé, L’ Inva- 
viable, Les Semaines Critiques, L’ Hiftorien, 
L’E+rope Politique, Sc. But the moft dif- 
tinguifhed of thofe who openly preach 
royali{m, catholicifm, and fanatici{m, are. 
the Yournal de Royou, called after its con- 
ductor, who isa nephew, or near rela- 
tion of the famous Abbé Royou formerly 
Editor of the Journal 4’ dan du Ro, and 
hanged ona lamp-poft by the Pavifidn 
mob, in 17913 the Memorial dircéted by 
the celebrated La Harpe, Vauxcelly, and 
Fostaney ; and the dunales Catholiques, 
in which Gregoire, a reprefentative of 
the people, and the conitirurional bifhop 
of Blois, takes, as is fuppofed, the moft 
active part. 
The following are fome of the politi- 
cal publications which appear to be the 
moft deferving of the attention of our 
readers : 
1. The "Effedts of Terror, by BENJAMIN 
Constant. ‘The author exhorts the French 
government to adopt fyftematic meafures in the 
preient crifis. 
2. On faut-il Sarréter, by M. La CRETELLE. 
The aim of this work is to procure fuch laws 
as may reconcile religion with philofophy. 
3. A poithumous work of M. pe Mare- 
SHERBES, containing {ome notes on the trial of 
Louis XVI. The hittorical part of it, relat- 
ing to the laf moments of thac monarch, is a 
valuable fragment of fenfibility. 
4. EffeGs of Goverrmests on Agricul- 
ture in Italy, by Mde. pe Rivarp, This 
female author is the wife of the famous 
CounT pe Rivarp, formerly conductor of 
the Nationa! ~-u al, publifhed under the name 
of M. Sabbathier, She attempts to prove, that 
the common people in Beals were pertectly happy 
without civil or pol.tical liberty ! for, the coups 
a’vtat, fays fhe, were very uncommon, and fell 
only upon the ambitious, intriguing and profii- 
gate part of the peop!e. 
5. Refutation of MM. Neckar’s Bock on the 
French Revolution, by L. Gixncuenr. The 
name of the author is a recommendation of this 
work. He afferts, that no man has proved bet- 
ter than M,. Neckar, how much the French 
ftood in need of a revolution, ani how far it was 
an event which could not be avoided. But he 
ftrongly oppofes that gentleman in regard to the 
bitter inveétives which he has pyblithea againtt 
the French affemblies. The work is dittinguith- 
ed for elegance, precifion, and clearnefs 5 it is, 
as the French critics fay, ‘¢ the exertion of an 
ambitious genius, who has fold his talents to the 
Spirit of a party.” 
_ 6. Le Pretendu Bref. This is an hiftoricaland 
theological difquifition on the forged Pope’s bull, 
relative to the oath of the clergy. The author 
proves that the piece was forged in Paris, and 
he has inferted, in proof, letters of the Cardinal 
Secretary of State in Rome, of Cardinal Maury, 
and of the Pope’s Nuncio at Lucerne, 
5 
ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND. 
Varities, Literary and Philofophical. 13g 
7. La France demandant fes Colonies, in-8v0, 
The French Journalifts fay, that among the va~ 
rious publications concerning the difafters of the 
colonies, from the revolution, none is better de- 
ferving the public curiofity than this. 
A bookfeller in Edinburgh, having 
obtained from the curious and valuable 
library of Mr. GEorGE Paton, a copy 
of the hitherto. unprinted Dra RY of 
BiRREL, a citizen of Leith, written in 
the end of. the fixteenth century, : is 
about to publish an elegant edition of it. 
The publication cannot fail to be ex- 
tremely acceptable tothe lovers of anti- 
quarian refearch, and to all who interett 
themfelves in the events of that impor- 
tant period of the Scottith hiftory, which 
Robertfon, Stuart, and Whitaker, shave 
confpired to exalt to extraordinary cele- 
brity. 
‘the patrictic Str JOHN SINCLAIR, 
jadecaieabie in thofe illuftrious purfuits 
to which he has dedicated his life, has at 
length nearly completed: the twentieth, 
and laft volume of his STATISTICAL 
This work 
will probably be publifhed, complete, in 
Lonpown, in the courfe of the enfuing 
winter. He has alfo made great progreis 
in procuring for the BOARD OF AGRI- 
CULTURE, the final tranfmiffion of the 
corrected aepquitaes! furveys of all the 
different Scottifh counties. 
The joda, for the extraction of w be 
from. common fea-falt, Lonp Dunno- 
NALD has lately been fortunate enough, 
to difcover cheap and eafy proceffes, has 
been made trial of and approved, by 
fome eminent bleachers and manufac- 
turers of glafs in Scotland. It is ex- 
pected, that the expence of the procefies 
of bleachi- g, and of the manufacture of 
glafs, may be confiderably diminifhed by 
the ufe of this cheap alkali. “Phe mar- 
ket value of fe/p from the Scottith coaft 
and ifles, will be lowered, if the pre- 
ference fhall be generally given to oda, 
extracted from common falt, 
Anew Dictionary of the French Lan- 
guage is now in the pre's at Hamburgh, 
under the diredtion of M. de Rx VARD, 
an emigrant nobleman, who refides in 
that city. The profpefius of this Dic- 
tionary was printed by Fauche, at Ham- 
burg, and fome fragments of the prelim - 
nary difcourje, have been inferted in the 
5 beat: ur du Nord. 
Pofthumeus honours have been ufually 
accounted a favourite object of the am- 
bition of genius. It may, therefore, be 
not unufefal to record, that, on Tuetday, 
the 24th of May laft during the fitting 
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