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bitants; and as he paid a particular at- 
tention to all the old buildings, whether 
lay or religious, he was enabjed not only 
to exhibit an idea of the arts of the an- 
cient Gauls and the Romans, but allo 
thofe of the moderns, beginning with the 
tenth century. 
The defruction is here pathetically la- 
mented of the fhrines belonging to faints, 
the chalices adorned with paintings in 
enamel, the ftatues, the various ara- 
befgues, the old books, the ancient tapef- 
tries, adorned with party coloured dreffes 
in f{cenes, in which ingenious dreams 
were worked up, fimilar to the romances 
and the days of chivalry. We are affursd 
that thefe, as well as a number of other 
interefting materials for the hiftory of art 
and of ‘man, were deltroyed in 17933; but 
M. Cambri confoles his countrymen with 
the recolleStion, that feveral curious works 
have efcaped from the improyident fury 
of the reformers, more particularly thoie 
appertaining to the treafury of the cathe- 
dral. Thefe chiefly confift of tableis in 
ivory, different fculptures appertaining to 
ttalls, tained glafs from the church win- 
dows of Beauvais, &c. Among the frag- 
ments preferved in the facrifty of St. 
Stephen’s, are fome original heads in the 
very beft ftyle, if we except that they are 
rather overcharged ; nor ought it to be 
omitted, that they exhibit a great affinity 
to thofe painted on the cartoons of Leonar- 
do da Vinci. 
In vol. 1. we are alfo prefented with 
an account of all the celebrated men be- 
Jonging to this department. ‘The cata- 
logue is numerous, and along with the lift 
of individuals, proofs of their merit and 
talents are given by reference to the fe- 
veral branches of icience, &c. in which 
they have excelled. 
Immediately following this, we find 
notes and notices, 
1. Relative to the rivers, the ccurfe of 
which ought to ameliorated ; and alio con- 
c-rning fuch canals as might be opened 
tor the purpofes of commerce. 
2. Concerning the military eftablifh- 
ments that it might be neceflary to make 
£or lodging the troops. 
3. On the advantages that may be dé- 
rived from the breed of horfes. 
4. On the cuftoms of different balli- 
ages. 
s- On the ere&tion of an office for re- 
giitering the poor. 
6. On the Moreillettes de Beauwats, a 
fpecies of repafts which takes place after 
the celebration of marriage in. the church. 
72 On the Picard (la langue Picard), 
compofed of the Latin, the Celtic, and 
by 
a 
Retrofpedt of French Literaiure.— Poetry. 
that corrupt language which the Germang 
brought with them into Gaul. 
8. On the peculiarities of the foil 
of each commune. This article, which 
is particularly interefling, alfo contains 
details which are not a little calculated to 
contribute to the formation of a minera- 
logical defcription of France. . 
g- On the eftablifhment of the fociety 
of agriculture of Beauvais. 
10, On the manufacture of tapeftry, 
11. This article contains a number of 
inftructive anecdotes of a mifcellaneous 
nature; | 
And, 12. One memoir on the medals 
dug up, and another relative to the plants 
which grow in this department, a cata- 
logue of which is here exhibited. 
Thine fond of antiquities, even in this 
‘country, will perhaps be happy to hear 
that the Prefect has found at Beauvais, 
Beauvoir, and Beutufpance, feveral gold: 
medals in the. highef. pre(ervation, which 
he terms Gallic (Medailles Gauloifes)}: 
exceedingly well calculated, a3 we are told, 
to develope the ftate of the arts, the cuf~’ 
toms, and the drefles of a remote peciod. ' 
He alfo boafts that he is in pofleffion of 
a gold medal, tending to demonftrate, 
that all the declamations relative to the 
low ftate of the arts among the ancient’ 
Gauls, are abfolutely unfounded. He 
maintains, on the contrary, that this 
people not only were in poffeffion of a 
few of the common and neceflary arts, 
but of all the arts; and that they {cat-~ 
tered them by means of their conquelts 
throughout a great number of the tates 
of Europe. , 
This volume terminates with an ac- 
count of the adminittration of the de- 
partment; the topography, anc divifion 
of .its territory; the population of the 
principal towns and villages; a lift of 
the juftices of the peace ; an account 
of the public feminaries for education 5 
the ftate of the hofpitals, the orifons, 
the ftage-coaches, the poft-of.ce, the 
national domains, the revenues and ex- 
pences; the price of lands and of la- 
bour ; the quantity of corn produced 5 
the produce of the national woods; an 
account of the commodities and ma- 
nufactures ; a methodical nomencla~ 
ture of rivers, both navigable and un- 
navigable; lifts of tairs, markets, roads, 
mills, quarries, brick-kilns, &c. | 
We shall hereafter notice the fecond 
volume of this very valuable work. 
POETRY. 
«> Almanach des Mufes pour An 
12. =Almanack of the Mules for ue 
2th 
