68. 
Poslar fooring, he has not feen one. Many 
additional experiments have been made 
relative to this difcovery, and with com- 
plete fuccels. 
Count JosePpH TrRuUCHSES, (who 
pofieffes perhaps the mott valuable collec- 
jon of pictures of any individual in the 
world), has publifhed Propofals for the 
Eitablifhment of a Gallery of Paintings, 
in London, by removing this colle&ion of 
pictures, now at Vienna, to our metro- 
polis. The Count eflimates that this 
great national object may be accomplithed 
at'an expence of fixty thoufand guineas, 
at which fum he offers it for fale, and 
invites the Englifh nation, efpecially the 
opulent inhabitants cf London, to raife 
a fubfcription to this amount. The lofs 
of Lord Orford’s colleétion has been 
deemed irreparable to this country. . The 
prefent propofals appear from the moft 
undoubted teitimony, to offer more than 
@ reparation ; and it is to be hoped, that 
fome public-fpirited perfons will combine 
their efforts for the attainment of fuch a 
viational object. 
Mr. Dumont, of Geneva, has been 
printing at Paris, in French, from the 
mazufcripts of Mr. Bentham in Englith, 
in three volumes 8vo. two Treatifes, the 
One on Civil, the other on Penal Legifla- 
tion, preceeded by the Principles ot Le- 
giflation in general ; and followed by three 
Effays, viz.’ on the Panopticon, on the 
Promulgation of tle Laws, and of the 
reafons on which they are grounded, and 
of the influence of place and time in mat- 
ters of Legiflation ; inciuding the precau- 
tion to be obferved in tranfplanting laws 
from one country te another. The Pan- 
opticon, cr Infpection Houfe, is the fort 
of building applicable to all purpofes for 
which the faculty of fimultaneous and con- 
fiant infpection is defirable : but was con- 
trived principally for the purpofe of the 
Penitentiary efablifhment which Mr. 
Bentham is to fet on foot for government, 
and for the inftitution of which two Acts 
of Pariiament have been paffed, the ex- 
écuticn of which has been fo unaccounta- 
bly delayed. This work is the fame, 
extracts from which, by Mr. Dumont, 
were printed a few years ago in the Bibli- 
otbéque Britannique, and of which fuch 
particular notice was taken in that much 
avcredited Journal. The fheets, having 
pafied through different hands as they 
‘came out of the prefs, have excited cenfi- 
derable atrention in the political circle at 
Paris ; and are faic to have given occafion 
already to fome difcuffions between Mr. 
Dument on. the one part, and feveral 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
(Aug. 1, 
writers of eminence on the other ; in par-.. _ 
ticularthe Abbé Morellet, and M. Garnier, . 
author of the new and: improved tranfla- » 
tien of Smith’s Wealth of Nations. The 
f{pecimens given of the work, as above, are 
fuppofed to have contributed in a confi- 
derable degree to the notice lately taken 
of Mr. Bentham at Paris, by his. being 
nominated, without his knowledge, one of 
the three candidates for a place of Hono- 
rary Member of the National Inftitute. 
He was among ten or a dozen perfons, 
chiefly Englifh, conftituted French citi- 
zens by a decree of the fecond National - 
Affembly in 1793. 
‘¢ Rambles in the Country, during the 
fine Seafon; calculated to infpire young - 
Perfons with an Idea of the Happinets 
which may refult to Man from the Study 
of himfelf, and from the Contemplation 
of Nature ; by Louis Francois JAUF-~ 
FRET, perpetual Secretary of the Society 
of Obfzrwvateurs de l Homme.’’—He is alio 
the author of the Little Hermitage, and 
of the Vifits to the Botanical Garden ; 
both. of which works have appeared in’ 
Englith; and likewife of the Travels of 
Rolando thro’ all Countries on the Globe, 
a tranflation of which will fpeedily appear. 
—M, Jauffret has lately refumed his in- 
terefting excurfions, a circumftance which. 
all the friends of childhood and youth will 
learn with pleafure. The firft excurfion 
tock place on the 27th Floreal.—* We 
vilited,”’ fays he, in his Profpe&tus, ‘in our 
excurfions of the laft year, St. Cloud, — 
Meuden, Auteuil, and Belleyuee We 
fhali vifit this year fome rural] fcerery no 
le(s interefting. The gardens of Trianon, 
the woods of Romainville, of Ville 
d’Avray, of Vincennes, wiil receive uS& 
alternately in their hofpitable fhades. A 
frugal banquet, made on the {pot, will add; 
as lait year, to the entertainment of each 
of our tours. The young perfens who 
fhali defire to follow them, the parents, 
the inftructors, who with to participate 
in them, muft fubfcribe before hand, at 
the Rue de Seine, Fauxbourg St. Ger- 
main, Hotel de la Rochefoucault. To be 
admitted to a promenade, the fubfeription 
fhould be made at leatt three days im ad- 
vance. Without this, th¢ perfon ap- 
pointed to go two days before to the 
places, to order the fétes champetres, can- 
not know the number of the guefts. The 
fubfcribers will be informed by a circular’ 
card, of the day of each promenade, and 
of the hour fixed for departure. Tickets 
of admiffion will be diftributed. The ren- 
dezvous at the day and hour fixed, is Rue 
de Seine, Hotel dela Rochefoucault, in 
one 
