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3. Of the foil and climate moft conge- 
nial to them. 
4. Of the influence of thefe on the fuc- 
cefs of plantations. 
' g. Of the precautions required for the 
eftablifhment of forefts. 
6. Of the reftoration and melioration of 
the fame. ‘ 
7. Of the different {pecies of foreft- 
trees, fuch as the oak, the elm, &c. 
8. Of the utility of barking trees pre- 
vioufly to their being ufed. 
g. Of the preception of caufes that 
have contributed to the deftruction of the 
forefts. And, 
to. On the means of remedying this 
evil, 
The plan and ftyle of this work are far 
fuperior to the knowledge difplayed in it. 
" 6¢ Flore de Jeunes Perfonnes,”” &c. 
The Flora of Youth; or, Elementary 
Letters on Botany, 1 vol. 12mo.. 
The form of letters, in which this little 
work is drawn up, is calculated, perhaps, 
to give facility to the knowledge of bo- 
tany by the youth of both fexes. The 
twelve engravings, which accompany it, 
reprefent the plants and the flewers,&c. fo 
as to ferve for modéls to the ftudent. 
have fome reafon to fuppofe, that this is 
not an original work, but merely a tran{- 
lation from our own language. 
POLITICs. 
«© Politique de tous Jes Cabinets de 
PEurope,”’ &c. ‘The Politics of all the 
Cabinets of Europe during the Reigns of 
Louis XV. and Louis AVI. containing 
authentic Memoirs relative to the Secret 
Correfpondence of the Count de Broglio; a 
Work written for the exprefs Purpofe of 
exhibiting the Situation of the European 
Powers; drawn up under the Direétion 
of the Count, and executed by M. Fa- 
vIER. Doubts relative to the Treaty of 
3756, by the fame. Several Memoirs, by 
the Count de Vergennes, M. Turgot, 
&c. publifhed from Manufcripts found in 
the Cabinet of Louis XVI. fecond Edition, 
confiderably augmented, with Notes and 
Commentaries, and alfo a Memoir on the 
Family Compaét, by L. P: Secur the 
Elder, Ex-ambaflador, 3 vol. 8vo. Paris. 
itis well known that Louis XV. em- 
ployed the Count de Broglio to carry on 
a fecret correfpondence wholly unknown, 
or meant at leaft to be fo, to his minif- 
ters, and that Favier, 2 perfon of confi- 
derable talents, was employed to arrange 
the materials, Segur, now a man of let- 
ters, but invefted with a high diplomatic 
fituation during the exiftence of the mon- 
archy, has here publithed the memoirs 
ie sore 
ve 
Reirofpec? of French Literaturem—Politics. © — 
drawn up upon this cecafion, and added a 
commentary of his own, which was indeed 
become neceflary, in confequence of the 
important changes that Europe has fo re- 
cently experienced. The Ex-ambaffador 
contemplates nations, in refpeét to. each 
other, as fo many individuals fearcely 
emerged from a ftate of nature, poffeffing ° 
territorial property indeed, but governed 
by ufage rather than by laws. He very 
properly confiders petty fiates as thofe 
‘moft interetted in the maintenance of 
peace; their political aétivity, according 
to him, confifts in nothing more than the 
coniervation of their fragile exiftence; in- 
ftéad of difturbing the general order, 
they tremble at the leaft movement, and 
are attached to the powers moft defirous 
to maintain if. 
France being in poffeffion of thofe limits 
feemingly affigned to her by nature; M. 
Segur thinks fhe neither poffeffes, nor 
ought to pofiefs, any other ambition than 
that of obtaining tranquillity for herfelf 
and her allies. This pacific character, 
which it is the intereft of her government 
now to adopt, muft augment her confide- 
ration, and extend her influence to all the | 
the ftates of the fecond order, fuch as 
Sweden, Switzerland, and Portugal, whofe 
bufinefs it is, amidft the rivalfhip of great 
empires, to look 'totheir prefervation, rather 
than their increafe. This being allowed, 
he proceeds to affert, that France is to look 
to five powers only for her friends and her 
enemies. Adopting the fpecious theory of 
the Count d’ Aranda, according to which, 
the topographical pofition of  fiates 
points out the fyftem of alliances: France, 
according to him, ought to live on the 
moft friendly terms with Spain and Ruflia, 
as this combination alone can oppofe its 
united ftrength to the league of the only 
two Germanic fovereigns who could fup- 
port the efforts of the cabinet of St. 
jJames’s. . 
The editor has the infolence to af- 
fert, that, in confequence of the infulated 
fituation of this country, Great Britain 
ought only to be confidered as a fecondary 
power; ‘‘one, that. can never augment 
her influence, but by producing bloody 
wars on the Continent, and dividing the 
force of France, in order to prevent her 
from ferving as a counterpoife to her own 
power, &c. a barrier to her ambition.” 
He allows however that the Englifh, in 
confequence of their wifdom, ‘‘ have be- 
come models to the whole world, and that 
they would conneét all the people of the 
éarth by, means of their commerce, were 
they but to introduce that juftice in their 
political 
