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the French government to treat with them 
on the fubjeét of their miffion; and all 
their applications to Talleyrand and other 
official perfons were fruidefs. They were 
-fiaggered at this unufual treatment, and 
at a lofs how to act; when one of them 
received a vifit from a perfen, who ac- 
quainted him he did not come to commu- 
nicate with him officially, but he had au- 
thority to affure him and his colleagues, 
that as a preliminary to their being treated 
with by the French Government, §*é/ falloit 
de largeni—beaucoup d’argent’? in plain 
Englifh—they muft pay down a round 
fum of money! The envoys, who, fo 
far from being authorized. to give, were 
fent to require a compenfation, were 
amazed at this intelligence, and drew this 
unofficial agent (who figned _himfelf 
-X. Y.Z.) into an epiftolary correfpon- 
dence on the fubje&, which they tranf- 
mitted to their government, and defired 
infruftiens how to a& in this uncommon 
juncture. The American government, 
with becoming dignity, refented the in- 
fult, and ordered the envoys to return 
home immediately: Two of them, who 
conlulted the honor of their cowntry, did 
fo 3; the third, who was in the French in- 
tereft, remained, but could do nothing 
without his colleagues, as the commif- 
fion was a jointone. Talleyrand was 
thus, for a while, defeated of obtaining 
as a douceur the whole or a part of the 
money due on his American. contract ; 
but this modern political Proteus is fo 
profound an adept in the {cience of gain- 
ang his points “by hook or by crook,” 
that he feldom fails in fome thape or 
other. The late ceffion of Louifiana to 
the Americans (if fome well-formed 
perfons. among them ave to be credited) 
produced a private banus to the executive 
government of France, that is the Firft 
Conful, for the other two. are merely ex- 
pletives; and the provident Talleyrand 
has picked up from under Bonaparte’s 
table (after he and his relations had 
dined) a fufficiency of crumbs to rea- 
lize his American poflefious, and fecure 
himfeif an afyium, in cafe the wheel of 
fortune fhould again bring him to the 
ground. 
CEDIPUS. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ANALYSIS of J. C. FABRICIUS’S AC. 
COUNT of bis TRAVELS it NORWAY.=e 
Lately publifoed at Leipfics 
OHN Chrifian Fabricius, the famous 
entomologilt, isa native of the duchy 
~ 
Analyfis of F.C. Fabricius’s Travels in. Norway: { Dec. 1, 
of Slefwick. Hewas, in natural hiftorys 
a favourite diiciple of the famous Lin. 
nus. He was fome time profeflor of the 
{cience of General Economy, at Copen- 
hagen. In the year 1775 he was ap- 
pointed to the joint Profeflorfsips ef Ge- 
neral Economy and Natural Hiftory in 
the Univerfity of Kiel, where he has 
ever fince taught. He is the author of a 
variety of works, on fubjects of economy 
and of natural hiftort. .He is in the habit 
of vifiting France every year, at the end 
of his annual courfe of le&tures. His 
moft famous work is that in which he en- 
deavours to deduce from shofe organs, by 
which infects take their food, an arrange= 
‘ment of this divifion of animal exiftences, 
more elegantly {ciehtific, and more conve- 
nient, than that of his mafter Linneus. 
It was in the year 1778, that he per- 
formed the journey, of which an abridged 
account here follows. Though performed 
fo many years fince, it has hitherto re- 
mained unknown to the public in England. 
Nothing has, in the mean time, appeared 
among us, to anticipate the obfervations 
which it contains. We are, indeed, un- 
fortunate, in confining to works in the 
French language, too exclufively, our ge~ 
neral curiofity to regard to the information © 
which is to be derived from the literature 
of the continent. 
On the 7th of June, 1778, Mr. Fabri- 
cius, in company with profeflor Weber, 
began his journey; aad proceeded from 
Copenhagen to Helfingnoer. The day 
was fine: the blefioms on the trees were 
beginning to give place to fruits. Near 
Copenhagen was an encampment of be- 
tween thirteen and fourteen thoufand men, 
infantry and cavalry: every ons 
wore an air of gaiety and animation: and) 
the travellers conceived that they began 
their expedition under geod aufpices. 
Near the high roud, at about half a 
mile’s diftance from Copenhagen, they ree 
roarked the relidence of that Count Berns. 
torff, who gave freedem to his vaflais be- 
fore attached to the {cil, and even divided 
his lands among them, under certain con- 
ditions, The farm-houfes on the fur- 
rounding eftate, the tate of cultivation in 
which the lands appeared, and the abun- 
dance of their produce, bere witness emi- 
nently to che wifdom and utility of Count 
Bernitorff’s plan. ‘* His memory,” fays 
Mr. Fabricius, ‘will be ever iluftrious id 
the annals of the public economy of 
Denmark.” 
They came next to Lingbye, a large 
village, pleafantly fituate in the vicinity of 
a lake, and at the entrance into a. fine 
weeds 
