uel 
and Political,” afterwards tranflated into 
French by an. otlicer named Saint-Me+ 
mon: 2dly, the Hittory, in two volumes ; 
the firft of which, containing the’ cam- 
paig igns of 1756-7, was partly trantlated 
y *Saint-Memon, and fully by Rouz- 
Fazillac; and the fecond, including the 
cainpaigns of 1758-9, has no avowed 
tranilator, although it is conjectured that 
a inanufcript tranilation has been made 
by G. Imbert: Sdly, his Memoir on the 
Jnvafion and Deténce of Great Britain, 
tranilated by Imbert. 
In the preface, Mr. Lloyd touches on 
the art of war generally ;- but with fuch 
exquilite fill, that we are prepared to 
expect the profound reatommmg and ex- 
tenlive knowledge which characterife his 
fubfequent difeuitions.. The remainder 
of his mtroduction is under tive heads : 
4. On the formation of armies, an- 
cient and modern: here he hazards fome 
opmions, more or lefs erudite, on the 
formation of an army; but the refult of 
his argument is, that it qualitres per- 
fect the propor HOmsOF a military body, viz 
aay activity, aud perp sctual motion, 
On the philofophy of war: he ana- 
ivze zes the Various faculties eflential to the 
guidance: of an army, and difcovers thofe 
operative fprings whole influence, more 
or lets; give energy to enterprife, and: 
infpire the troops. “Thefe ideas are per- 
fectly original, and worthy the genius of 
@ Plutarch ora Locke. 
3. On the connexion oxida bey een: 
diferent forms of government, and their 
various fyftems of warfare. 
4. Military taétics, exclufiv ely confi- 
dered. Tis difcufion on this fubject is 
at once profound and luminous.” The 
bafis of all offenfive and detentive opera-" 
tions he affirms to be, the art of always 
Keeping a good line. 
Lally, In itl the frontiers of 
France, aAufria, Hungary, Poland, Tur-’ 
key, and Ruflia, the genius of the author 
buriis upon’ his reader with increaiing 
briliiancy. His topographical is as in- 
fallitié as Ves : argumentative knowledge. 
His Elittory or the Seven, Years’ W ar, 
in plan and execution, prefents an inva- 
Juable modcl to otlier writers. 
tains general remarks on the art of war, 
according to the exifting fyttem; he 
traces a’ brief fketch of the rel: tive fitu- 
ations, ‘political and military, of the, 
Belligeront powers, “ahd developes the 
eperations of each Campaign. | He gives 
us a general'view of ‘the theatre of war, 
kut particularizes the Jeengs of thy: 
boc ae 
Retrospective View of Hiftorical - 
tt con- 
[¥eb. t, 
principal aétions ; all which he narrates. 
with a correctnefs and ability attribut- 
able folely to experience and pecan 
judgement. 
- tlie Memoir on the Invafion and Des 
fence of Great Britain is not candid} 
and would be devoid of intereit, if he 
did not refume his anilitary- retle¢tions in 
applying them to a project, the event of 
which, however, was altogether dlepen- 
dant on circumfiances. 
Mr. Lloyd died in the year 1783, at 
thé moment he had it in contemplation 
te compote a general hitory of the wars 
m Vianders, Germany, and Italy, for 
the two foregoing centuries. The world 
will, no doubt, long deplore the prema- 
tine lots of this othicer’ s Valuable exex 
tions. 
~Trempretnorr, a Prethan officer. of 
great merit, continued Lloyd’s Hittory of . 
the Seven Mears! War. Ile ferved. for. 
a leneth of time under Frederic, for 
Eins he appears to have pomecaomhnll a- 
more equal admiration than his prede- 
eellor exprefies, and gives a more: cir 
cumitantial account of the aétions: he 
records. “¢ His work is, in many re 
fpects, exemplary as a anilitary hittory,. 
and tull of local information, Every 
atiicer withing to underitand the princi- 
ples. of his proteflion, -is advifed to fiudy. 
this admirable treatifé on practical tac-. 
tics, which, in truth, bas uo compe= 
titor.” * 
Limanaetns, a Saxon colonel, procur-. 
ed a dutinguihed name among the Ger-.. 
mans, as ‘the author of a, work enutled. 
“ Memoirs. on Military Operations, and 
on the Seven Years’ War.” Such, praife. 
from a military. people is no. fmall proof: 
of an author’s merit. The Colonel con- 
fines: himfelf to a dittin¢ct narrative of 
the moft memorable actions during that 
period, to all of which he: bears per-» 
fonal ‘tefitimony. Each detail is, amit. 
felt, an independent hitiory. His faéts. 
are’ related with candour; he deyelopes : 
caniés and effects, and draws interences 
from the whole pregnant with infiruétion 
to all military men, particularly to thofes 
of the engineer and ttaft departments. 
The attack and defence of fortified 
potis and entrenched camps, with prac- 
tical, rules, occupy much curious and 
interefting difcufion. The four fieges 
fultained by the fortrefs of Schweidnitz, 
during the campaigns of 1757 to 1762, 
* Mirabeau, in his Pruffian Military Syf-~ 
tome “et 
i. veccupy~ 
