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of the Louvre, will be always diftinguithed 
for its extreme correctneis, and ior an ex- 
cellent tafte in the compofition cf the 
French, and of the leained languages. 
The feandalous debates which often di- 
vided the popes and the cther fovereigns of 
Europe, were no lefs fatal to the principles 
of religion, than oppofite to the rules of 
comnicn fenfe. We might further remark 
the notice given by Citizen Camus of many 
interefting manu'cripts which include the 
colleGion of falie decretals, the bafis of ail 
the extravagant pretenfions of the popes. 
Citizen Camus has completely unmafk- 
ed the impofture which gave birth te that 
ridiculous colleftion, and the ambition 
which did not bluth to profit by it to 
aggrandize its empire. Our colleague 
makes a comparifon of twelve diffrent 
manufcripts relative to the fame object. 
Tt will be always of importance to know 
well thefe details, as ambition never dies. 
f.t all times we fhail require arms to reject 
it ; at all times its pretenfions will furvive 
thefe defeats : it wili inceflanily flatter, it- 
felf with hopes of raifing fome new edifice 
on the moft ruinous foundations. et.us 
learn to difcern. its progrefs better, and to 
caufe it to enter into its limits, when it 
fhall attempt to exceed them. 
In turning over the volume, feveral very 
well engraved cuts were found. Thefe 
cuts, relative to two manufcript bibles at 
the end of the 15th century, give an idea 
of the ftate which the art of defign and'the 
art of painting were in at that epoch. 
They perfe&tly correfpond with the origi- 
nal defigns and paintings which are to be 
fecn in the two bibies, in the national 
library. Paintings of different authors 
have been chofen, to give fome knowledge 
of the different kinds. We will not poti- 
tively fay that all thefe pieces leave nothing 
to he defired ; but there are fome that will 
afonith the artifts and the amateurs. 
ST. Aupin has engraved the cut which 
reprefents the defign piaced at the head of 
one of thefe bibles. It is, as well as the 
defign itfelf, a chef d‘ceuvre of exprefiicn, 
a model of patience and of finifhed labour. 
Prizes decreed in the public fitting of tbe 
15th Mefidor, year 9 of t5e Repudlic.—In 
the pubiic fitting of the 15th Nivofe, year 
8, the cla‘s of moral and political fciences 
had propofed for the fubjeét of the prize, 
which it was to deeree in the public fitting 
of the 15th Mefhidor, year 9, the follow- 
ing queftion: ; 
Is Emulation a good Means of Education? 
The clafs has received fixteen memoirs, 
the greater part of which appeared to it 
National Inflitute. ve 
[May t, 
worthy of eulogiums. Tt has decreed the 
prize to the memoir enregiftered under the 
No. 15, bearing for epigraph, “La feule 
veritacle education eft celle qui forme des 
citoyens.” <¢ The only proper education 
is that which forms good citwzens..” The 
author is citizen Louis Fevitver, fub- 
iibrarian of tlie Inftitute. wa 
The clais has decreed that honourable 
mention fhould be made cf No. 10, which 
has for epigraph thefe words of Bacon : 
Invaluit tam apud parentes, quam padaga- 
£05 et famulos, mos quidem ineptus, emula- 
tiones inter fratres ferendi et alendi, duranté 
ecorum pueritia, qua fepenumero ia difcordias 
evadunt, et fanulias turbant. AN) 
Jt has likewife diftinguifhed No. 11, the 
motto of which is: Felix qui potuit rerum 
cognofcere caufas. Alfo No. 6, which bears. 
for epigraph thefe words of Cicero: Duo 
tla maximé nos moveut, fimilitudo et exem- 
plum. And No. 1. written m German, 
the motto of which is: Ila vitieja emula- 
tio rivalitati fimilis eft. at 
No piece fent to the cozcours fhould bear 
the name of the author, but only_a fen- 
tence or motto: the candidate may, if he 
chufes, fix a billet to it, feparate and feal- 
-ed; which will include, befides the fen- 
tence and motto, his own name and ad- 
drefS: this billet will not be opened by the 
Inftitute, unle!s the piece fhould have ob- 
tained the prize. 
Clafs of Mathematical and Phyfical Sciences. 
Prize of Mathematics. —To difcover the means 
how to diminifh as muchas poffible the deflec-. 
tion of a fhip of war, in oblique courfes, by — 
combining together, in a manner moft favour- 
able to that effe@t, the form of the keel, the 
draught of water, aud the pofition and flability 
of the theet cable, (maitre couple.) 5 
The Academy of Sciences, in 1793, had 
propoled this fubject for the prize ef 1795 5 
it was fuppreffed before any piece was {ent 
to the coxcours; but the Clais of phyfical. 
and mathematical Sciences, wihing to ful- 
fill the engagement contracted bytheAca~ 
demy, and confidcring befides, that this 
prize-fubjeét is very important for our mi- 
litary marine, has judged that it could 
not do better than propofe it ‘atrefh. 
The ciafs is too well acquainted with 
the difficulty of this problem, to demand 
aud to expect the foluiion of it by theory 
alone ; but without prefcribing, in that re- 
fpett, limits to the inveftigations of geome- 
ters, it invites men of nautical {kill to treat 
the queflion, principally by the way of 
obfervations, drawn either trom their pro- 
‘per fources, or from the journals in whit¢ 
the commanders of fhips give an accourt 
at 
