&c.—New Elements of Phyfiology, by 
AANTHELME RICHENaRD, Surgeon of 
the Hofpital of St. Louis, 2d ed. 2 vol. 
pre to ir. 
This work is the produ&ion of a man 
who, from his profeflional fituatien, is en- 
titled to credit in whatever refpeéts the 
practical part of his art. 
‘¢ Six Lettres:a S. L. Mercier, de 
PInflitut National de France, fur les fix 
‘Tomes de fon Novveau Paris; par un 
Francais. 
QuidRome faciam ? mentiri nefcio : librun:, 
Si malus eft, nequeo laudare. Juv. Sav. 3. 
Paris, in-12, prix 2 fr.-—Six Leiters to 
S. L. Mercier, of the National Inftitute 
of France, on the fix volumes of his work 
called Le Nouveau Paris, by a French- 
man. 
This is a bitter criticifm on the New 
Paris of Mercier, which neither poflefles 
nor deferves the fuccefs that followed his 
“© Tableau de Paris,’ publifhed fome 
years before the Revolution. — 
The original author, and his commen- 
tator, appear to agree in nothing. The 
former having exclaimed: ** Immertal 
¥8th Fruétidor (allading to the revolution 
of September) it is thy clemency which 
hath demonftrated thy power ! The 
latter on this, as almoft on every other 
occafion, differs entirely with him. ‘* Was 
itclemency (fays he) to profcribe almoft 
an hundred reprefentatives and journalifts ; 
te fend away in iron cages all thofe that 
could be arrefted, and to overwhelm them 
with outrages of every kind, before they 
were tranfported to a pernicions climate, 
where more than one half was deftined to 
penth by a punifnment a thoufand times 
more frightful than that which it is boaf- 
ed they were faved from in France ? What 
kind of clemency was it to pecple the de- 
ferts of Guiana with wretched men, who 
were never permitted to return to their 
native country? To have fuddenly expell- 
ed a multitude of Frenchmen, cften placed 
onthe lift of emigrants by the vengeance 
of anob{fcure enemy, or the bafenefs of an 
underling clerk, who might be gained by 
afew crowns? Behold the fruits of that 
unmorial day, the clemency of which hath 
engroffed your admiration |” 
Fhe author foon after defifts from his 
eriticifms on Mercier, on purpofe to praife 
Bonaparte. “ I fail firit confider him 
(fays he) as a military man.” His Italian 
campaigps have placed him in the firtt 
rank of Generals; thofe that followed only 
added a few gems to a crown already fo 
brijliant. - However, reckon as nothing 
the capture of Malta, aad pay but little 
642 Retrofpett of French Literature—Mufcellanies, 
attention to the victories gained over the 
Mamelukes, thofe hordes deftitute of dif- 
cipline, unable to refit European tactics, 
and fer the deftru€&tion of which it was 
unneceflary to tranfport the chofen legions 
of France. One time alone did Fortune 
appear to abandon Bonaparte ; the walls 
of St. John d’Acre beheld his firt, his 
folereverfe.. Ido not, however, partici- 
pate in the opinion of thefe who attribute 
his innumerable fucceffes to an extracrdi- 
nary degree of good fortune: a General 
whole talents did not rife above medio- 
crity, could not be always fortunate. 
Bonaparte (adds he) hath conquered all 
the French, fome by gratitude, others by 
hope . . . the peace which he hath jult 
given usis an ineftimable benefit.” 
** Le Retabliffement dela Marine Fran- 
caife,’’ &c.—The Re-eftablifhment of the 
French Marine, by means of Commerce, 
by the late M. LeEcRranp. 
__M. Legrand fpent the whole of his life, _ 
anterior to the epoch of the Revolution, 
in the Rudy of naval affairs ; and fuch was 
the celebrity he had acquired relative to 
fubjeéts conneéted with the French ma- 
rine, that many endeavours were made, 
although without fuccefs, to entice him 
into the fervice of the Government. __ 
Througheut the whole of the prefent 
pamphlet, which confifts of no more than 
twenty pages, the author infifts merely on 
this point, that Lent, and the two days of 
abftinence during each week, encourage 
the fifheries, that the fifheries form failors, 
and that without failors itis impoffible to 
become a naval power. 
it was his opinion, therefore, as well 
as that of the late M. de Sartines, that the 
ancient inftitutions relative to abftinence 
from fieth ought to become the law of > 
the land, even if it were to ceafe to be a 
cultom eftablithed’ by religion. 
‘© De Ja Servitude Temporaire des 
Noirs, et d’une-Colonifation de Militaires 
a8: Domingwe’ ; "par lea 2 e.leeeans 
Chef de la Primiére Divifion Politique aux 
Relations Extérieures.”"—-Of the tempo- 
rary Slavery of the Negroes, and the Efta- 
blithment of a Military Colony in St. Do- 
Iniro, doe." 
be author is of opinion that the Spa- 
nif part of St. Domingo may be inhabit- 
ed and cultivated by white men, and he 
ptopofes to portion out the lands among 
fuch of the foldiers as have. ferved in 
Egypt, or may have fucceeded in con- 
quering the ifland. It is confidered as 
impracticable either to permit flavery to 
fubfift in the unqualified degree praétifed 
before the Kevolution, cr to eftablifh an 
unlimited | 
