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find plenty: but of his favourite French 
author, Seguy, whose works we have not 
had an opportunity of perusing, and tliere- 
fore cannot judge*. By the adoption 
of Locke we see the learned professor is 
not so fastidious as to reject a metaphiysi- 
cian, merely for being a Protestant and 
an Englishman. We beg leave torecom- 
snend to him Professor Reid, on the mo- 
ral and imtellectual powers: and wish 
much to bear of a rational system of 
ethics introduced into his class. His 
scholars will probably join us in depre- 
cating the labour and time spent in writ- 
ing his dictates. 
The authors used by the next profes- 
sors, are not yet forthcoming: “ our 
name is Legion, for we aremany.” And 
so are the sciences to be brought to light ;+ 
but come they must, and that in the 
course of ten short months: we cannot 
wish the learned gentleman more speedy 
delivery. Inthe last interesting science, 
we cannot heln thinking it 1s a French 
compliment paid us, when the professor 
passes by his own countrymen Chaptal, 
Lavoisier, Fourcroy. 
But absint Aumana, we are now caught 
wp into the empyreum of divinity. Far 
be from us the presumption to dictate 
pragimatically to a doctor of the Sor- 
bonne, who dictates dogmatically for the 
space of three years. But in pity to the 
trade, now that there is such a scarcity 
of paper and rags, we beg of the learned 
gentleman not to enhance the price of 
thatso necessary article, by warehousing 
paper equal to the demand ofa hundred 
scriveners continually scribbling for three 
years. Let himransack all the depots 
on the Continent, where the theologians 
“sare consigned to peaceful dust on the 
shelf: and we vouch for Bonaparte’ that 
he will grant them permission to export 
them duty-free. In mercy tothe doctors 
jn embryo who are in such haste to be 
divinified, we conjure him to spare them, 
the one half of their trme and three halves 
of their labour, by allowing them to per- 
use with himself any one of the authors 
already in print: a catalogue of whom 
he himself has furnished. The first on 
the list is Heck an Englishman (true 
Freuch politeness !) He was a Doctor of. 
the Serbonne, and published m 1774, a 
* We have been informed that Seguy is 
& very recent author of the first note. 
+ Natural and experimental philosophy ; 
different branches of elementary mathema- 
tics, algebra, geometry, conic sections, astro- 
nothy, mechanics, optics, hydraulics, &c. 
fee. &e. chemistry. 
as 
“Account of the Royal College of St. Patrick, 
[July t, 
work much esteemed in Paris, viz. Re- 
liguonis Naturalis et Revelate Principia. 
3 vols. 8vo. Bailly and Duvoisin we 
kuow not: the latter we believe to be a 
French emigrant of literary fame, formerly 
Censeur Royal, a Sorbonnist of course; 
he has written several esteemed essays 
smce the revolution; some political, 
some religious. One of his best is a de- 
fence of religion against modern infidelity: 
he had, however. to defend himself, being 
charged with taking some of the ques- 
tionable revolutionary oaths. He is_re- 
ported to be one of Bonaparte’s bishops 
de la nouvelle fabrique. Bailly, a name 
we find twice in the Doctor’slist, isa very — 
late theologian, much in vogue. Le Grand 
is another Doctor of the Sorbonne, a Sul- 
pician, who died in 1780. His works are 
remarked for their perspicuity and order. 
He lett us Theol. Lectures, 2 vols. De Deo, 
2 vols. de Incarnatione, and 1 de Ecclesia, 
Tournely a very voluminous writer, 
was protected by the Jesuits and their 
friends; and consequently a keen Anti- 
Jansenist. His Theology, one of the mest 
methodical, contains 16 vols. Notalis 
Alexander, another Sorbonnist of the or- 
der of St. Dominic, supported the Jan- 
senists so keenly that on that account he 
was exiled ; his Church History, though 
condemned by the . inquisition, he, - 
continued with spirit, and did not 
spare the abuses of the holy see. He has 
left us a System of Theology, dogmatical 
and moral, im 11 vols. Svo. He flou- 
rished about the year 1684. P. Collet, 
of the Congregation of the Mission, wrote 
his Moral Divinity, in 17 vols. 8vo. 1744. 
An abridgment for the use of seminaries 
contains only 7 vols. 12mo. This long 
list of authors do not suffice the learned 
Doctor, for he says, it is chéefly (not solely) 
from them he compiles his fectures. We ' 
cannot help regretting that,though profess- 
ing for thirty years this science, he has not 
been able to hit on the dogma, which ac-. 
cording to the golden rule of Catholic or- 
thodoxy, should be Qued semper, quod 
ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum, and that 
after hundreds of years writing, printing, 
and teaching, we should still hear of 
something so novel—Quod nunguam, 
quod nullidt,gued a nemine traditum fuit. 
‘Fhe professor of Morat Divinity or of 
casuistry, requires also three years for his 
course, and follows three authors; P., 
Collet, whom we have mentioned above, 
P. Antome, a Jesuit, author of a Dogm. 
Theolegy m7 vols..12mo. and of a Theol. 
Moral. im 4 vols. 12mo. In this work 
he hazarded some assertions which were. 
condemned by the Parliament of Paris 
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