1807.} 
been fo improved on by Rabelais and 
Fontaine, is to be afcribed to Pulci, I 
know not. 
However, Orlando’s remonftrances had 
roufed him to a fenfe of honor and 
fhame, and he iffues forth to. the field 
with the following exclamation : 
My word is pafs’d, and I will keep the ground 
With lance in reft, and this good {word 
and fhield 5 
But how myfelf with my own weapons wound? 
How make my matter bow, my conqueror 
yield ? 
Orlando had now blown a blaft on his 
ivory horn, (the famethat was afterwards 
fplit in pieces at Roncetvalles) ; Anthea 
had arrived, and the encounter began. Its 
iffue wasfuch as might have been expeci- 
ed. Rinaldo, in the middle of the courte, 
threw his fhield behind him, and catt 
away his lance. Richardetto and Oliver 
fuccellively challenged the fair enflaver, 
were overthrown, and furrendered them- 
felves prifoners. Orlando, full of rage 
aud defpair, next encountered the vic- 
torious Amazon: Rinaldo, for the. firtt 
time forgetting his faith and his friend, 
was forced by his ill-fated paflion to pray 
for the fuccefs, or at leait the fatety, of. 
his miftrefs; and we know not what 
might have been the fucceis of his rene- 
gado orifons, had not.the fall of might 
{eparated the combatants, and faved the 
honor and life of one of them, 
Meanwhile Gano, who had been wan- 
dering over the world in purfuit of muf- 
chief and revenge, had arrived at the 
Soldan’s camp ; and perfuaded him that 
by recalling his army, with the prifoners 
whom his daughter had made, he would 
draw Orlando and Rinalde into a fnare : 
for they would certainly purfue him to 
attempt the refcue of their friends, and, 
when once in his city, might eatily be 
entrapped and difpatched. The advice 
of the traitor was adopted, and Anthea, 
with her army and her captives, return- 
ed to Babylou.—( To be continued.) ° 
For the Monthly }fogazine. 
QESERVATIONS On the WRITINGS of HIS- 
TORIANS of all aGEs and COUNTRIES, 
chiefly witha vinw to the ACCURACY 
of their MILITARY DESCRIPTIONS, ond 
their KNOWLEDGE of the aRTof WAR. 
By GENERAL ANDREOSSI. 
‘ [Continued fram p. 532 of col. 22.] 
[3 ea who was the aid-de- 
aa camp.of Field Marthal Saxe, wrote 
the Life ofthat great general, with {o 
auch ability, that Voltaire was loud ‘in 
Retrospective View of Hiftorscal Writers. 
'Pruttfia. 
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a 
his praife, and the public. voice confirm- 
ed the merit of the work. A volume of 
engravings ferve to exemplify the narra= 
tive, which we cannot read without ad« 
miring the intelligent officer in the ditlin- 
guifhed author. His Effay on War as 4 
Science, comprehending all its grandett 
objects, is fo critically compiled from 
the moft valuable authorities, both an- 
cient and modern, that his fyftem is 
complete. The dithdence of the author 
Broa ate 
would not permit him to make the flight~— 
eft deviations trom his text, which he 
cites literally, as in the original docu- 
ment, noting the volume and page; and, 
although he reafons as he proceeds, his 
obfervations are altogether detached 
from his borrowed materials. A fupple- 
ment is added to this. book, ** Qn the 
Reveries of Marifhal Saxe,” in which 
he itrives to reconcile the leading 
principles of that oilicer with thofe uf 
our fervice. : 
Raynat’s Hiftory elucidates the moft 
interelting period of modern gecurrences: 
I mean the European eitablifiments 
in the two Indies. A flowing ftyle, and 
ornamented periods, embeilith his pic- . 
ture of fituations the moft oppotite, and 
accounts the moit extravagant. War, 
as a {cience, formed no part of his plan; 
yet his details are initructive. The exploits 
of the Portuguete, under the Great Albu- 
GREENS are among the promment pat= 
ages of this work, and muit be read with 
pleafure, 
The Inftrudtions of Freperie THE 
Great include all the fundai ental prin- 
ciples of war; he expofes to his gencrals 
a ityftem founded en bis own experience ; 
and, by nobly pointing at his own mif- 
takes, he teaches them to avoid fimilar 
errors, Noris this work ({o worthy its 
ilnfirious author) his only claim on the 
gratitude of every military man: like 
Cafar in all things, he wrote the, narra- 
tive of his campsigns, entitled “ The 
Hiftory of my Tune.” Thefe cormmen- 
taries treat generally on the public 
events in Europe, from his accelfion to. 
his laft campaign in Bohemie. in 1778. 
Tins period, fo memorable in the Pruf 
fan aunals, occupied the. labours of 
Inany other valuable writers: among 
others, Luoyp, by birth an Englifhinan, 
but actively employed during the Seven 
Years’ War in the armies of Auttria and 
His works, forming an inexe, 
hauwiithle fource of moral, political, and, 
mailitary infarmation, conilt; 1%, ef his 
introduction to the Hittory of a Seven. 
Years’ Way, entitled “ Memoirs Mihtary 
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