~ 
690: 
to be found an account of the Concor- 
dat, &c. 
A fpecimen of this work will be found” 
in the following brief account of da 
Drome :— i 
«© This comprehends a confiderable 
portion of the cz devant Dauphiné, and 
takes its name from its -principal river, 
which has both its fource and its mouth 
there. The chief rivers in this depart- 
ment are— 
- 66 y, The Drome, which flows from the 
S. E. quarter, where it rufhes down from 
the Alps, near Valdrome ; it then winds 
towards the N. paffes Dil, turns to the 
W. waters Pontaix, Saillans, Aoufte, 
Creft, Allex, Loriol, and finally joins 
the Ritone. . 
«© And 2. The Ifere, which has been al- 
ready treated of in the department cf the 
fame name. 
‘¢ The principal towns are, &c. 
“The fuperficies amounts to about 
15324327 fquare acres, or 675,915 bedi. 
The population confifts of 231,188 louls. 
It is compofed of 364 communes, di- 
vided into four arrondiffemens, or circles. 
“This department is“fituate in the 
Archbifhopric of Valente, and appertains 
to the 7th military divifion,.the Command. 
ant of which refides at Grenoble, in the 
department of Ifere. It is alfo within 
the operation of the Tribunal of rippeal, 
fitting in the fame city, &c.” 
Le Guide, &c.”—The Guide to 
Hiftory, fer the Ufe of Youth, and 
fuch Perfons a3 wih to Read. with 
Profit, or Write with Succefs: an Ele- 
mentary Colleion, containing the fhort-. 
eft and beft treatifes. on the fudy and utt- 
lity of hiftory, chronology, the duties 
ard qualities of an hiftorian, and the me- 
rits of the principal hiftoriographers, &c. 
began by M. D.. Apvocart, author of 
the Hiftory of Shipwrecks; continued 
and publifhed by J. F. Nez pz ta Ro- 
CHELLE, formerly a bockteiler in Paris, 
3 vol. 8vo.” 
The Prefident Henault, is the only 
French hiferian who has treated of the 
affairs of his native country, as 2 philo- 
fopher and a ftatefman—at leait every time 
that he thoughthe was ableto do fo, with- 
Out injuring bis own immediate intereft. 
Anafonifhing number of imitators, moft 
of them very b2d ones, naturally arofe, and 
have followed the track, without equalling 
the career of this celebrated original. © 
The fir# volume of the prefent work, 
contains many interefting tracts. by the 
following authors + M. Court de Gebelin, 
Anfelme Treffol, Le Vaflor, Perrot 7’ Ab- 
lancourt, Voltaire, Paliffot, St. Keal, 
. z 
| Retrofpect of French Literature.—Dramac 
* ‘ 
% 
Mably, Henault, Father Griffet, &c-- 
In the fecond appears feveral fragments,o 
Buy de Mornas, Langlet Dufretnoy, Ber- 
raudier de Butaut, &ce and at the end Is 
to be found a fketch of modern univerfal 
hiftory, from the reignof Louis XVI. un- 
til the peace of Amiens in 1302; and the 
advancement of Bonaparte to the Conful- 
fhip for life. 
The third, which is not the leat impor= 
tant volume, contains a notice of the pria- 
cipal hiftorians, who have written in the. 
Greek and Latin languages, before the 
feventh century, by La Mothe Levayer; 
as well as critical opinions on feveral an-_ 
cient and modern hiftorians by Mabiy 5 
reflections on French hiftorians by M. 
d’Argenfon, extraéls of the Prefident He- 
nault’s Memoir on chronological Abridges. 
ments, and a chofen collefion of the belt 
books on hiftory, geography, chrenologyy. 
politics, and public law, either written in, 
French, or tranflated into that languages 
by J. F. Née, of Rochelle. : 
The laft part is by the editor, and al- 
though many omiffions may be difcovered, 
yet it proves him well acquainted wath, 
books of a particular defcription, and ca- 
pable of conducting a compilation of this 
kind. | 
DRAMA. 
«* Les Queftionneurs, Drame en un 
A&e.’—The Examiners, a Drama, in 
one Aét. ] 
The fame fubje&t, has. furnifhed Vol- 
tairé with the chara&ter of the zeterroga-. 
tive Bailli, in his Huron. Some gaiety- 
and {pirit are exhibited in the dialogue, 
but itis impoffible to obtain great fuccefs 
with fuch {canty materials. The appear- 
ance of the author was however demanded 
by the audience, at the Theatre Louwois, 
and his name proves to be Latreille. 
“Vincent de Paul, Drame en trois 
Actes, et en Vers.”"-—Vincent de Paul, a 
Drama, in three Acts, and in Verfe. : 
Vincent de Paul, fo much celebrated on 
account of the panegyric of the Abbe . 
Mauri, is one of thofe benefaétcrs of the 
humnan race, whofe virtues. and~ morals. 
will bear the ftri&eft examination. The 
author of, this little drama appears te 
poflefs the merit of not. only. being pene- 
trated with a laudable enthufiafm for 
his hero, but alfo of writing in verfle 
with an extraordinary degree of tafte and 
purity. 
The defcription of an unfortunate mo- 
ther, obliged to conceal the fruit of her 
love in an hofpital founded by Vincent de 
Paul, and devcting herlelf at the fame 
time tg the fervice of the foundation, 
merely 
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