612 Retrofpeet of French Literature—Natural Hi ‘fry and che ee 
~ troubles that occurred in the colonies, sie 
oath to obferve the Sake conftitution of the 
clergy, and the death of Mirabeau. “This 
article clofes with an account of the So- 
ciety of Jacobins towards the middle of 
the year 1790. 
In the fourth epoch, the author compre: 
hends the flight of the King, his arreft at 
Varennes, the revifion of the conftitution, 
the proceedings of the firft legiflative af- 
fembly, the laws againft emigration, and 
finally the declaration of war. 
In the fifth, he traces the events of the 
war, from the fanétion of the declaration 
of hoftilities, until the retreat of the Pruf- 
fian and Auftrian armies. He alfo details 
the fkirmifh near Mons; the cifmiffion of 
the Kins’s guard; the eftabiifiment of a 
camp of 20,000 men near the pro- 
ceedings of the 2oth of June, and hi roth 
ALHS.: 
; 
of | Auguf ; the decree of accufstion 
againft “La Fayette, and his depart Ie 5 
the nomination of Dumourter fo the cam- 
mand of the armies ; the mafacres of the 
2d and 3d of September; the invafion of 
the Germans ; the battle, or rather the 
kirmith, of Valmi, &c. finally, the re- 
treat of the combined forces. 
This work is accompanied by feveral 
fiate papers, which the French ufuaily term 
—Pitces juflificatives, 
*« Tableau Hiftorique, Topographique, 
et Moral,’ &c. tacos Topographi- 
ea and Moral Hiftory of all the Natio: ny 
nhabiting the four Quarters of the Gicbe, 
containing their Laws, Cufoms, a 
Ufages, by A. M. Sane, fen. Paris, 2 
vol. 8vo.9 Fr. _ 
A work of this kind of courfe requires 
immenfe labour, great difcernment, and 
no {mall portion of philofophy; few are, 
however, more neceflary, and none that 
ought to contain more matter within an 
. equal {pace. 
To do juftice to the author, if he has 
not executed his work in fuch a manner as 
to evince great talents, he has, & a sag ea 
exhibited no common fhare of inc dhs ry 
having laid the greater part of the hifto- 
rians, “and all the modern travellers, under 
contribution. The annals of Covina 
their religious fyftems, their laws, their 
manners, ‘their ufages, the productions of 
nature, and thofe executed by human 1n- 
duftry; are all clafled with method and 
precifion, in this ufeful compilation, 
Citizen Sané has divided his work into 
four parts. © From the’ Icelanders, he 
paffes on to the Greeks of the Archipe- 
lago, ; from the Tartars, to the Arabians ; 
from she Ezyptians, to the Algerines ; 
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“from the American Indians, to the natives 
of the Pelew Ifles, and the ashen ‘landers 
of the South Seas. {It mult be owned, 
however, that the compiler has exhibired 
but little of the fpirit of criticifm; and 
it were to have been wifhed, that, like the 
author of «* Anacharfis,” He. had pointed 
out, at the bottom of the page, the nu- 
merous fources whence he has extratted 
his materials. 
“© Hifloire de Piémont, et des autres 
Etats du Roi de Sardaigne,” Sec. | Ele 
Hiftory of Piedmont, and the other States 
of the King of Sardinia, by the Abhe. 
CHARLES DENriNa, Counfeilor-cf Lega- 
tion to the King of Pruffia, Member of 
the Academies of Sciences of Berlin, 
ome, Naples, Florence, Padua, &c, 
tranflated from the Italian by FREDERIC 
STRASS, 1 vol, 8vo. 
The Abbé Denina, whofe name is well 
known inthe annals of modern literature, 
has cnly publiflied an acconnt of the firft 
pericd of the biftory of Piedmont, the 
tranflation therefore co mes down no Jower 
than the dominion of the Lombards or 
Longobards. Whileemployed in draw- 
ing up thefe memoirs, the houle of Savoy 
received a violent feck from which it is 
not likely foon te recover; the continua- 
tion, however, will be interefiing, not 
cnly en account of the talents of the au- 
thor, but the fate of Piedmont itfelf, and 
the alterations. that have occurred im Italy, 
all,of which he intends hereafter to detail. 
NaruraL History ann Borany. 
«¢ Calendrier de Flore des Environs de 
Niort,” &c. A Calendar of the Flora in 
the neighbourhood of Niort; or, the 
Time of Flowering, &c. of near eleven 
hundred Plants, deicribed and claffed me- 
thedically, Month by. Month, according 
to the fexual Syffem of the celebrated 
Linnzus ; to which is prefixed, an Ele- 
mentary Abridgment of Botany, by Dr. J. 
L. M. Guittemeau, jun. Author of 
the Natural Hifiory of the Roe. &c. 5 
vol, 12mo. Paris. . 
Tits work is divided into two parts: 
in the firft, we are préfented with a gene- 
ral view of the univerfe; the elementary 
principles of botany; a differtation on 
the mode cf ufing the Calendar of the 
Flora of Niort, the climate of which is 
here defcribed ; the rules preferihed b 
Linnzus for making an herbal, and allo 
a jroral-clock for Niort. 
‘The fecond part contains the Calendar 
of Flora itfelf, divided into: twelve months, 
each month prefenting the feries of plants 
then in flower. The French writers ap- 
pear zealous to ftudy and to quete famous 
poets, and Dr, Guillemeau, in conformity 
with 
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