x801.] 
we reviewed the period of the introduc- 
tion of fine arts and of tafte confidered as 
coeval withthem. At laft, we began to 
reafon on every thing. This was the 
order which I followed in the inftruétion 
of my pupil: I formed his tafte with mo- 
dels of the beautiful; his tafte being 
formed, I initiated him in the philofophi- 
cal notions. We commenced with the 
Lutrin, we read afterwards fome comedies 
of Moliere, fome tragedies of Racine, 
and we formed the. idea of a dramatic 
compofition, I did not delay to inftruct 
him in his religion, and I feleéted for the 
purpofe the Catechifm of Henry, and the 
Bible of Royaumont. I thought it better 
to put often before his eyes the hiftory of 
religion than to engrave its principles in his 
memory for a fingle time. When he had 
finifhed the courfe of fiudies I had written 
for him, he read the work.of Madame de 
Chatelet on Newton, the Treatife on the 
Sphere by Maupertuis, and the lecond 
part of the Newtonian Elements, by Vol- 
taire. M. de Keralio taught mathematics 
to my pupil, who pufhed his ftudies in 
algebra fo far as the equations of the fe- 
cond degree. Hereada Treatife on Conic 
Sections. He ftudied M. Traband’s book 
on movement and equilibrium. He ftu- 
died likewife’ hydroftatics, hydraulics, 
aftronomy, and geography. Military ar- 
chiteéture became then an eafy ftudy to 
him. Towards the clofe of his education, 
the fathers le Sueur and Jacquier were 
fent for to give a courfe of experimental 
phyfics to my pupil, who, withing to take 
advantage of the vifit of thefe learned men 
to cow, repeated with them all his 
pak ftudies in mathematics, and engaged 
as far as the aualy/fis of the infinite.” 
Tolluntur in altum, 
Ut Lapfu graviore ruant. 
Cannot better be applied than to the Duke 
of Parma! When we confider the foregoing 
pafiages of Condillac, and reflect that a 
child, from the 7th tc the 12th year of his 
age, fhould go through fo many interefting 
ftudies, with fuch affiftance, we are ftruck 
with awe and admiration; we cannot, 
however, help deploring the inequalities 
ot human nature, if we turn our view to- 
wards the changes in the mind of the once 
affiduous and ingenious Prince, whofe {ub- 
fequent conduct has by no means continued 
the {piendors with which it began. He 
became adaicted to falle devotion! The 
writer of this article had fome hints of the 
motives that obliged the Court of Parma 
to entruft the further education of the 
young Prince, to other perfons of different 
Memcirs of the Duke of Parma. 
415 
charaéter from Condillac. He was aware 
that a farcaftical fentence of Voltaire had 
been the remote caufe of the changes. 
‘* La philofophie,”’ {aid he, ** s°ef? montrée en 
Italie, mais la congregation del? index a 
profcrite!”? It was, therefore, fufpected, 
that Condillac had infufed into his pupil’s 
mind fome principles of that pernicious 
philofophy, fo much in vogue in the laft 
age; and the neceffity was felt of giving 
him other governors, who fhould infpire 
him with a due reverence to religious 
tenets. We are now obligedto the Abbé 
Barruel for a more correct and detailed 
account of this fact. This French cler- 
gyman, in the fir volume of his Memoirs 
againft Jacobinifm, has proved that the 
appointment of Condillac to the education 
ot the young Prince of Parma was the re~ 
fult of the Encyclopedic cabal inParis, who 
wifhed to get a footing in the courts of 
the fouthern Princes, as they had al- 
ready fucceeded in thofe of the north. He 
ftates, that the intriguing mathematician, 
d’Alembert, who had already become the 
leader of the feét, and the difpenfer of 
every favour among the candidates, had 
propofed Condillac, like him, a profeffed as 
theilt, and the Abbe del’Eyre, much inthe 
fame principles, known in the republic of 
letters, firit for his Azalpfis of Bacon, and 
many articles in the Encyclopedie, and af- 
terwards in the political world for a conven- 
tionift and a regicide. Voltaire had 
the effrontery to congratulate his friends 
upon thisevent. Macters went fo far as to 
make the Bourbon courts fenfible of the 
con{piracy againft them. Condillac was 
ignominionfly difmiffed, and a more reli- 
gious governor pu: in his place. The 
latter found that his predeceflor had really 
neglected this important part of his duty, 
and confequently prevailed on the young 
Prince to deftroy the greateft part of his 
former education. ‘The Prince, accords 
ing to M. Barruel’s ftatement, was fo 
deeply penetrated by the fenfe of his paft 
dangers, as to take an oath, before the 
image of the bleffed Virgin, to forget 
whatever he had acquired from fuch ime 
pure fources. Refpeéting thefe particu- 
lars, we muft refer to Abbé Barruel, who 
was at that time in Paris, and witaefled, 
of courfe, the whole feries of the Encyclo~ 
pedic intrigues. The writer is likewife 
convinced, that the Abbé de Condillae 
really was a materialift, and any di/cera- 
img reader may perceive the fpirit ot fuch 
a fyftem throughout his writings; it ap- 
pears, however, aftonifhing, that a pru- 
dent philofopher fhould openly teach his 
royal pupil thofe pernicioys principles 
3H2 which 
