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Terone 
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644 
ceived either on a white cloth, or the 
Upper garment of one of the priefts.— 
Having then defcended from the oak, he 
immolated the two bulls, and terminated 
the folemnity by a facrifice.”” : : 
«« Encyclopédie Méthodique, ou par 
Ordre de Matiéres; par une Société de 
Gens de Lettres, de Savans et d’Artiftes ; 
precedée d’un Vocabulaire Univer fel, Ser- 
want de Table pour tout l’Oavrage ; 
ornée des Portraits de MM. Diderot et 
d’Alembert, premiers Editeurs de l’En- 
cyclopédie. Art Militaire, tome IV. 
Paris.’"—The Methodical 
Encyclopedia, in the Order of the Sciences, 
e. 
This, which may be truly termed ana- 
tional work, was begun anterior to the 
Revolution, fufpended during the tune of 
terror, now refumed, and if no new con- 
vulfion fhould enfue, will be fpeedily com- 
pleted. i 
The prefent volume was firft under- | 
taken in 1789, by C. Ceffac Lacuée, then 
a Captain in the regiment of Dauphin in- 
fantry, and afterwards Prefident of the 
National Affembly, affifted by the Cheva- 
lier Servan. The latter, now a General 
of divifion, has lately engaged to com- 
plete and prepare the whole fou the prefs ; 
and it has at length made its appearance, 
after a delay of five years. 
The preface contains an appropriate dif- 
fertation for a volume entirely dedicated to 
the military art ; and notwithfanding it 
contains roco pages in 4to. the editor 
complains of the want of room fufficient 
for the treatment of fuch a fubjedt. 
_ Inthe article Ingénieur, Servan details 
his reafons fer preterring Montalembert to 
Vauban and Coéhorn, whom he does not 
appear to treat according to their merit ; 
while, on the other hand, he vaunts a 
fyftem which never had many admirers, 
and is {carcely mentioned at the prefent 
period. 
- The article Force Publique is given at 
great length, and thole of Colonne, Con- 
fiitution Militaire, Ecole & Education Mi- 
litaire, muft be allowed to deferve great 
praife. Nearly the whole of that enti- 
tled Fortification, is appropriated to the 
depreciation of the celebrated Marfhal de 
Vauban ; and in the courfe of this differ- 
tation, the Editor afferts, rather hatftily 
perhaps, that Mofes was the inventor of 
gunpowder! 
Although a military man, he appears 
to be no friend to war: ‘* It has been 
generally afferted (fays he) that war ruins 
nations ; and this affertion is not wrong ; 
But the exceffive expence, relative to 
Retrofpeét of French Literature Mifcellanies 
which fo many com plaints have been made, 
appears to me to be a happy circumftance — 
for the caufe of humanity. I think with 
Jofeph Prieftley, that until ‘Princes are 
_cured of that extravagant folly, it is not 
to be wifhed that they fhould havea fuper- 
fluity of riches at their command. As 
no nation is certain of having a fucceffion 
of wife governors, it ought to be content 
with being jult able to pay the intereft of 
its debts ; for to a certainty, a continu- 
ation of peace, and prefervation from de- 
ftruétion, are intimateiy connected with 
fuch a ftate of affairs. Yes, war is the 
game of kings, and they will never ceafe 
to play at it while they can afford to 
throw the dice.”’ 
‘© During the time of terror (obferves 
he in another place) while proving of ord- 
nance, a variety of experiments. were 
made on a new powder, and a new kind 
of ball, the effets of which were terrible, 
and certain to produce inevitable fuecefs. 
Has any ufe been made of this difcovery ? 
That I am ignorant of ; but in addition 
to our ordinary artillery, it would multi- - 
ply the advantages in dur favour, and 
doubtlefs infure victory, until our ene- 
mies had difcovered and adopted the in- 
vention. But the evils refulting from it 
would be fo numerous and terrible, that 
ftates would avoid war on purpofe to avoid 
the numerous evils which nations, become 
more enlightened and more free, would no 
longer expofe themfelves to.” 
Two well-engraved prints of Diderot 
and D’Alembert adorn this volume, which 
is terminated by alphabetical and analy~ 
tical tables, exprefsly calculated for thofe - 
who with either to ftudy or confult the 
four volumes on the military art. 
‘© Lettres a un Evéque, fur-divers Points 
de Morale et de Difcipline, concernant 
d’Epifcopat: par M. Le Franc Ds 
POMPIGNAN, Archevéque de Vienne ; 
Ouvrage Pofihume, précédé d’une No- 
tice de la Vie et'des Ecrits de ’ Auteur.” 
—Letters to a Bifhop on different Points 
of Morality and Dilcipline, &c. 
Thefe letters, which are allowed ‘to be 
genuine, come from the pen ef the . 
Archbifhop of Vienne, and are addreffed 
to M. de Heta de Sarre, Bifhap of Nantes, 
M. de Franc de Pompignan is allowed to 
have been a prelate equally refpedctable, 
on account of his talents and knowledge, 
as for his apoftolic virtues, which con- 
ferred upon him the appearance of fingu- 
larity ina luxurious age and a debauched 
court. Being well aware that the clergy 
ftood in need of. a falutary reform, he 
wae one of the Srft toallow the, pope , 
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