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avoided the faté of his imprudent prede- 
ceffors, who were always beaten by en- 
gaging in the plain. . 
To reap all poffible advantage from 
fituation, or pefition, it is neceffary to 
poffefs what is termed the coup dail, 
which is the joint refult of the art of the 
tactician and the. engineer, and which 
cannot be acquired but by meditation 
and practice. The author indicates 
the means of attaining this art, and, 
according’ to him, it is only to be 
achieved by experience aided by theory. 
A table indicating every thing neceflary 
to be examined on this fubject, fuch as 
woods, forefts, caftles, canals, hedges, 
roads, defiles, lakes, marfhes, moun- 
tains, &c &c. is annexed. 
Upon the whole this appears to be an 
excellent manual for an officer, and we 
have dwelled longer on the article than 
ufual, from the idea that no complete 
{fyftem of military icience is to be met 
with in our own language. 
‘¢ Eifai fur }’ Application du Chapitre 
VII. du Prophete Daniel 4 la Revolu- 
tion Frangaife,” &c.—An Eilay on the 
Application of the VIIth. Chapter of 
the Prophet Daniel to the French Revo- 
lution ; or, a new Motive of Credibi- 
lity furnifhed by the French Revolu- 
tion to the Divinity of the Holy Scrip- 
tures 5; by Citizen Joun Baptist 
Boucqveav, an Advocate of Bruf- 
fels. 
The application of the prophetic vi- 
ions of Daniel to pafling events has en~ 
gaged the attention of religious men 
for the better part of the two laft cen- 
tuties, and it is not at all furprizing 
that fuch a wonderiul occurrence as the 
French Revolution fhould have given 
additional] teafons, as well as additional 
weight, to the references now made. 
The four heads and the ten horns, 
which have puzzled fo many former 
commentators, do not in the leaft em- 
barrafs the prefent one ; for he imme- 
diately declares the zew-boraz to be the 
French Republic, with all its principal 
circumftances and effential characters. 
No little addrefs is difplayed upon this 
occafion on the part of the learned ad- 
vocate Boucquéau to fupport his fup- 
pofitions, and he boldly gives the fol- 
lowing quotation from the Vulgate, as 
a defignation of the eloquence which 
was toretold to happen in the courfe 
of the late inteftine commotions. 
“* Et os loquens ingentia afpicie- 
bam propter fermonum grandium quos 
cornu illud loquebatur.”? 
Retrofpect of French Literature: —Mifcellaneousi . 
“ Here (fays he,) may be feen by arie ~ 
ticipation that exhibition of’ oratory> 
which was deftined to obtain the crea- 
tion of affignats, the requifition of. 
feven hundred thoufand men by a fin- 
gle decree, the levy in mafs, the mili= 
tary confcription, the revolutionary 
tribunals, the liberty of the univerfe, 
the equality of ranks and fortunes, the 
telegraphs, the unity of meafures 
grounded on the extent of a degree of 
the meridian, the maximum, the abo- 
lition of flavery, and all the other re- 
volutionary meafures which have ren- 
dered this new power (or new-born,) 
fo formidable,” 
<¢ Penfées & Maximes de Malefherbes, 
fuivies de Reflexions fur les Lettres de 
Cachet,” &c.—Thoughts and Maxims 
of Malefherbes, followed by Reflections 
on Lettres de Cachet, &c.; collected 
by E. L. 1 vol. 
M. de Maletherbes was one of the few 
virtuous Minifters employed during 
the latter period of the French Monar- 
chy, and the execution of aman like 
him, who was always attached to the 
caufe of virtue and liberty, affords oc- 
cafion for the moit ferious reflegtions as 
well as the beft-founded reproaches.—~ 
We fhall here tranflate a few of his 
Maxims, fome of which were written 
during the ftormy periods of the Revo- 
lution. 
“‘ x, There is in reality but one 
{pecies of equality which depends upon — 
man, and that is the poffeflion and prac- 
tice of virtue. 
«© 2. Thofe afford a dangerous proof 
of the ftrength of anew power who em» 
ploy it in the commiffion of injufies, 
‘¢ 3, Truth is fometimes the accom- 
plice of Calumny. 
‘¢ 4. Hatred not unfreauently cone 
demns itfelfto praife, on purpofe to ac- 
quire a better right to defame. | r 
«* 5. A man truly good beholds en 
vy, expects ingratitude, and follows 
the dictates of his confcience and his 
heart. : 
“© 6. The pleafure arifing from va- . . 
nity cannot exceed a quarter of an 
hour ; that which follows a good ac- © 
tion does not end fo quickly. | 
** 7, It appears to me that thofe whe 
fpeak in public ought to be fure of two 
things; firft their own good fenfe, and 
fecondly that of their auditory, => 
‘© 8. The ideas of genius become 
the property of the whole human race. 
‘© 9. A misfortune extremely difi- . 
cult to be obviated, is that epidemic 
- immorality © 
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